☢┃stalker-general

[vast frost]

naughy naughy

[cosmic fossil]

sorry

it won't happen again

[weary hedge]

How dare you.

[vast frost]

stalker 2 is so fun lol

[weary hedge]

I unironically actually love stalker 2

[vast frost]

one game i just wish i had 32gb ram for

[wooden walrus]

Still, in the end I went off the deep end with gamma and don't super regret it (for the most part)

[safe sapphire]

stalker is deep

[vast frost]

i play it fine on 16gb ram but LODs hate me lol

[cosmic fossil]

[weary hedge]

How deep we talkin?

[wooden walrus]

I do love stalker 2 but it sure needs some buffing still

[vast frost]

it needs A4 devs mwahahahaha

[shell flax]

Understood, monolithians now all have guard guns and 100% armor pen

Perfectly balanced

Adapt or die

[vast frost]

only old stalkers know about A4 and GSC beef

[weary hedge]

Playing metro gave me ptsd

[cosmic fossil]

Me too, and I'm playing it at 1080p upscaled from 840p at 30fps on a 55" 4k display on an xbox series s

[safe sapphire]

in the good sense of the word. I'm talking about writing, transcribing Tarkovsky's world, etc.

[weary hedge]

I needa start the metro series

[wooden walrus]

Don't think I'd see much difference from unlimited tbh lol

[vast frost]

2033 and last light were my childhood in 2015

[weary hedge]

Im trying to play metro exodus

Just easy to die

[weary hedge]

I agree. Stalker is a heart throb for me

[safe sapphire]

sorry, I'm reading the books right now my soul is sucked into this universe

[vast frost]

its a good looking game plays amazing with RTX on story is very romance driven and kinda fruity like freedom

[cosmic fossil]

best stalker game tbh

[lucid charm]

Ngl, kinda hate the corundum suit. I wish the monolithians stuck with their original fatigues for a little bit longer.

[vast frost]

i like exodus but i yearn for the metro not a train ride through hell

[wooden walrus]

I wish i liked metro. Great gun design, great firefights, I just hate the mutants and stealth and that's like 50% of each installment

[weary hedge]

Didn't they mention there were stalkers in metro?

[lucid charm]

That’s just what they call those who go above ground regularly

[weary hedge]

[lucid charm]

It’s a callout sure, but different type of stalker

[wooden walrus]

Without the dots

[safe sapphire]

Andrey my love

[wooden walrus]

Stalker vs S.T.A.L.K.E.R™

[vast frost]

bro 2033 beta and alpha used GSC assets as some of the devs worked on stalker and they had to remove it all before release to get out of a lawsuit

[weary hedge]

This explains the Ukraine/Russia war

[fervent island]

Some builds of 2033 used X-Ray Engine 1.0.

[vast frost]

correct

[lucid charm]

It’s because many of the devs that worked on metro used to be part of GSC, but they broke off and started working on their own game

[fervent island]

METRO 2033 still had stalker assets.

[safe sapphire]

50:50 stalker and S.T.A.L.K.E.R 😂

[weary hedge]

Both have controversial mentions of this

[vast frost]

i know but they had to remove the weapon models ahah

showcasing the old ak47/2 model lol

[fervent island]

Sergey Grigorovich said that he don't considered METRO as competence for make an denounce against 4A Games, he just don't care.

[lucid charm]

Witcher moment

[fervent island]

The competence of GSC according to sergey grigorovich was VALVE, because they are similar between em.

[vast frost]

that makes sense we have been messing with stalker assets for a long time now

same as garry making gmod and other mods that use valve assets

[safe sapphire]

Afterwards I agree that the game remains on a surface varnish compared to the work but they have transcribed the background and the atmosphere so well, they have even done more than that I think

[lost wigeon]

Has anyone else had the issue of permanent sway like your drunk after using vodka

[vast frost]

cough ppl should really deep dive into half life 2 story mods they are amazing and a lil janky with poor voice acting lol

[fervent island]

That's thingis from sergey grigorovich are from 2010-2011 tho, nothing current or new.

[weary hedge]

Ur skif must be an alcoholic

[safe sapphire]

love you

[lost wigeon]

Bro I've tried everything thing and it wont go away

[vast frost]

i wonder if stalker 2 assets will be open source like the trilogy

[weary hedge]

This is why I dont make assets anymore

[fervent island]

NO, HoC assets has rights of use, there's some stalkermods with HoC assets tho.

[lucid charm]

Do you have weird water equipped?

[cosmic fossil]

I think your skif got a lot of radiation

[lost wigeon]

Yes is that the problem

[lucid charm]

Yep, you’re over 50 in weight

[lost wigeon]

Thanks!

[vast frost]

yes ANTHOLOGY but they arent 100% ripped they are just mimicked in the monolithXray engine

[lucid charm]

Glad I could help

[weary hedge]

Lolz

[lucid charm]

Ngl I’ve only ever gotten the weird water artifact in one playthrough, and that’s just because it’s a hassle to locate

[weary hedge]

It’s kinda meh. The weird artifacts are cool tho. I like the arch anomalies

[vast frost]

water is the densest material on the planet

[fervent island]

There's a lot more but, ey.

[weary hedge]

No u are (jk)

[lost wigeon]

Im having trouble collecting all the artifacts atm for the achievement its a pain

[cosmic fossil]

the weird water is my most hated artifact in stalker 2, I hate it, I prefer go to pripyat and fight a quimera before to find that artifact

[lucid charm]

Funny, I thought your skull would have been up there but show’s what I know, I suppose

[vast frost]

only thing i dont like about S2 is drowning in knee deep water

[safe sapphire]

hard !

[weary hedge]

Whats with the Germans and wanting to kill mutants anyways? There wouldn't be mutants if nukes were never used.

[lucid charm]

Eh

[fervent island]

Nukes?

[weary hedge]

Its kinda there fault

[weary hedge]

Germans being Germans

[lucid charm]

Wait Germans?

[weary hedge]

Metro had a german faction

[lucid charm]

They’re not German, they just accepted the ideology and name

[vast frost]

bruh what its actually poor design on the reactor lol soviet engineering at its finest

[vast frost]

no they had a 4th Reich

[weary hedge]

dreckiger Mutantenabschaum!

Just saying. No nukes no mutants

[safe sapphire]

STALKER is the only game in my life that I don't try hard even after 150 hours and 8 saves without spoilers on any network, always something to discover

[lucid charm]

And the reason the Reich faction does that is because they’re obsessed with genetic purity or som BS (ignore the fact that they’re probably inbred as frakk

[vast frost]

we wouldnt have the stalker we have today if it wasnt for 1986

[weary hedge]

German moment

[safe sapphire]

he reconciled me with my player soul

[fervent island]

Idk, we would have some games based on Roadside Picnic and Stalker.

[vast frost]

inbreeding is common in every culture lol

[lucid charm]

Nah, in metro the Reich are Russians who accepted the ideologies and practices of 1940’s Germany

[fervent island]

There's JAVA games based on the Stalker-movie story.

[weary hedge]

Chernobylite

On steam

[weary hedge]

Ah makes sense either way

[vast frost]

no we would have the original aztec idea without the idea of putting ukrainian charm in it

[weary hedge]

Much more difficult stalker

[lucid charm]

I have it, but I’ve only played a few hours

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-bean-mr-bean-mr-bean-gifs-shocked-shock-gif-18472194

[fervent island]

Was not totally aztec

Like, has greek simbols and that.

[weary hedge]

jajaja

[vast frost]

it looked like a euro jank halo

jajaajajjaja

[safe sapphire]

azerty china n1

[vast frost]

du bist ein hodenkobold is exactly wht bloodsucker are jajajajaj

[weary hedge]

Germans are funny lads

I was born at Kaiser north Hollywood

[fervent island]

and the thingis planned for the game was not "mexico" world or smth, was more similar to bionicle or star trek.

[vast frost]

best insult i ever heard from a german was calling someone a testicular goblin

[graceful dirge]

like offbrand Halo in a Serious Sam map

[primal nimbus]

Russians with Neo-N* ideals

[safe sapphire]

Es ist so schön in Deutschland 😂

[lucid charm]

Think I’ll replay clear sky, then SOC, then Call of Pripyat. By then hopefully the first few patches for stalker 2 will be out and I’ll pick it back up again

[vast frost]

EURO jank games are the best

[fervent island]

Russians against russians omg

[safe sapphire]

euro junk or euro jank ?

for me euro junk

[fervent island]

Good question.

[graceful dirge]

Yes

[weary hedge]

Hell yeah

[vast frost]

austria is nicer

[safe sapphire]

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

[weary hedge]

Very

[weary hedge]

nein!

[safe sapphire]

your soo funny guys im like this chann

[vast frost]

jah

[lucid charm]

Biggest problem with clear sky, none of the faction wars crap actually matters in-game. You can’t wipe out the bandits b/c they respawn, you can’t wipe out freedom or duty again because they respawn, so what’s the point

[ebon blade]

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

[vast frost]

it wouldnt make sense if they didnt exist in SoC

[safe sapphire]

love you all biii......T...H

[vast frost]

bitch#]

[weary hedge]

Still. They didn’t need to make any of it canon

[lucid charm]

Sure but it’s like why bother engaging in the mechanic at all other than for money and rewards you might not even get

[vast frost]

very true i guess i wiped out all the mercs at there HQ in gamma and guess what

[weary hedge]

Biotch

[safe sapphire]

If this isn't love...

[vast frost]

berry true

[safe sapphire]

😂 🔥

[weary hedge]

Don’t make me kiss you funny man

Hip has a crush on me

[safe sapphire]

RELAX BABY

[weary hedge]

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/straight-up-g-gagster-gif-10815696

[weary hedge]

What’s crackin in the hood big dawg!

[vast frost]

love is a fiery thing..... I FelL iN tO a BuRniNG RiNg of Fyr

[safe sapphire]

fire or fyre or sify ?

[weary hedge]

Dogs cant eat chocolate

[vast frost]

fyr is old english lol

very anglo of me

[safe sapphire]

2 sec im watch that

my english is so deas

[vast frost]

well english is just german and celtic mixed into one

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/testing-new-deez-nuts-ha-teeth-gif-15758045

[vast frost]

i understand when people speak german slow but have no idea how to read it

[weary hedge]

All I know how to do is kill things

[wooden walrus]

it just occurred to me that using that soulslike mode in gamma would result in something close-ish to Outward
that doesn't sound awful honestly

[weary hedge]

Why?

[vast frost]

i prefer austrian dialect tho because they call tomatos paradise fruit how beautiful is that

[safe sapphire]

Why aren't GIFs used more? They're the best invention since the microwave.

[weary hedge]

We don’t have such rights. We are lower class members of society

[weary hedge]

Because I grew up in las vegas. Im corier 6. Ama

[vast frost]

because we are not combine administators

[weary hedge]

Kill not good tho

[safe sapphire]

I am the whole, the whole is me

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-blade-runner-2049-gif-21055622

[weary hedge]

There's no ryme or reason. It just is.

[weary hedge]

No i disagree

[weary hedge]

Elaborate

[vast frost]

bro what

[weary hedge]

Kill stem from reason whether you know it or not

Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

[vast frost]

government censorship

[frigid hill]

zevtec has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vast frost]

naughty naughty

[weary hedge]

Getting philosophical in this biotch

Here's a philosophical question. What happens when thr whole world starts to behave? No more cops?

[weary hedge]

What u mean by dis

[vast frost]

the admins govern this realm and censor

[safe sapphire]

the return of the balls for all

[weary hedge]

Hmmm everyone defines behavioral things differently tho 🤔

[lucid charm]

Governments stage events to validate their military authority

[weary hedge]

Both accurate

[safe sapphire]

the return of the balls for all "is sooo philisophical"

[weary hedge]

Balls

[vast frost]

castration administered to citizen

[weary hedge]

Im a sperms donor

[safe sapphire]

Well, it's not very fair for women, it's true, we'll say the return of common sense for everyone.

[vast frost]

castration administered

[weary hedge]

"I win"

[weary hedge]

Thanks for sharing Adam that’s wonderful

[vast frost]

100 sterilised credits administered

overwatch sees all

[weary hedge]

🤖

[safe sapphire]

no need, it's already on its way, the earth is flat, we've never been to the moon and right now I'm eating cashews

[weary hedge]

Cheeki breeki government

Good luck finding my kids now

[vast frost]

https://tenor.com/view/combine-half-life-gif-27555066

[safe sapphire]

breeeeeeeeekiiiiii

[vast frost]

californication

[safe sapphire]

Kevin David Mitnick in is channel

[weary hedge]

A nu, cheeki breeki i v damke!

[safe sapphire]

im call CIA

[weary hedge]

The cia is my bf

[safe sapphire]

me tooo

https://tenor.com/view/ray-liotta-laughing-happy-lol-gif-15802525

[weary hedge]

[vast frost]

Pomogi mne

[weary hedge]

The reason California advertises what they do means they have the means to do these things just not enough money

[vast frost]

i have an operators briefcase

[weary hedge]

I said come in! Don’t just stand there!

[weary hedge]

All I got to do is make a phone call and I'll have a berret in my hands

[safe sapphire]

you lost me brother, i'm joking, you're getting serious

[vast frost]

my favourite line i love annoying my friend with

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/аахахахаха-джек-николсон-gif-4674904747406914483

[weary hedge]

Stalker lines give me big smile

The entire internet wants me gone for some reason

[vast frost]

i dont need a phone to push the diet coke button "nuclear"

[safe sapphire]

CIA agent's gif after 6 months of contract

[vast frost]

did u know kim jung un plays CS2

[weary hedge]

Im starting to notice that men are getting pregnant

[weary hedge]

I’m preggers

[vast frost]

or is it the other way around they just look like butch men

i got preggers in mortal online once

[weary hedge]

China has them all over the place 😆

[safe sapphire]

Well my brothers, I'm leaving, I'm going to blow up the lands, I'm going to erase the stalker, I had a good laugh with you for a simple hello, in any case, strength to all, life is so short, let's enjoy it

[vast frost]

then i got locked in a cage and beat with a stick fabulous experience on a game that costs £30 per month to play

[weary hedge]

Love you bro. Godspeed

[safe sapphire]

🇫🇷 🫂 🔥

[vast frost]

yes nuke france please

[safe sapphire]

im 100 reset my load go 0

[safe sapphire]

nooo my country is sooo beautifull for that

https://tenor.com/view/fell-down-gif-13305091974866666072

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/cj-gta-san-andreas-san-andreas-explosion-bomba-nuclear-gif-27640220

[vast frost]

no the french are all prostitutes

[weary hedge]

French are mean 😆

[safe sapphire]

unfortunately I think that if there is one it will be for all of us 😂

[safe sapphire]

gouv yes people NO

[vast frost]

nah they just speak like a drowned rat its not there fault blame napoleon

[weary hedge]

Ou my lord 😭

[safe sapphire]

french people is good mentality is not gourvernement like most people in any country

[vast frost]

ee-dee nah hoo-ee

[safe sapphire]

yes @vast frost 😂 im go

kiss all good day

[weary hedge]

Oui oui

[vast frost]

only like the french that didnt surrender

[safe sapphire]

le peuples c'est la force l'amour une raison de continuer

[weary hedge]

🏳️

[weary hedge]

Oui my good sir

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/cup-of-tea-teapot-cuppa-hot-cup-of-tea-scalding-hot-gif-6676383859159164271

https://tenor.com/view/aishuu-mdr-lol-aishuu-mdr-aishuu-lol-aishuu-lul-mdr-gif-23222834

[vast frost]

i always think of female04s face when i read this

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/merica-america-murcia-usa-drink-gif-22422112

[safe sapphire]

but that's not the case oopssss I forgot my tampons

https://tenor.com/view/alpha-male-gif-10102011

[vast frost]

its only french women i can handle listening to

[safe sapphire]

Me I can't stand them anymore

[weary hedge]

Aren’t all French men jolly

[safe sapphire]

😂

[vast frost]

just hope they dont raise there arms

they dont shave

[weary hedge]

Not a fan of the hairy monster?

[safe sapphire]

There will be an internal coup before a commander lets it happen.

[vast frost]

fvck no

okay maybe a little

[safe sapphire]

My people are a chained people who have the keys

[weary hedge]

They are freaky deaky tho

[vast frost]

yeah and not in a good way

[weary hedge]

That’s what freaky deaky means 😆

[vast frost]

i had a french women once she drank alot of wine and became very volatile

[safe sapphire]

I'm just a private citizen, not Nostradamus.

[weary hedge]

Born this way

[vast frost]

true story too

[weary hedge]

😂

[vast frost]

never again i need a german woman who can put me in my place if i step over the line a brave woman with a heart of gold

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-valentines-day-friends-happy-valentines-day-funny-gif-11136369966651948752

[weary hedge]

Oh you like to be dominated I see

Mommy issue brit

[vast frost]

nah i like a correctional slap for speaking out of turn sometimes tho

[safe sapphire]

good night or good day depending on your lifestyle or time zone

[vast frost]

its a turn on fr makes me just wanna kiss em lol

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/hobo-gif-26862262

[weary hedge]

BIG SMOOCH FROM AMERICA 😘

[vast frost]

slava britania the falling empire

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/trump-donald-trump-thumbs-up-good-yes-gif-13303990716584415679

[weary hedge]

BROOOO😆

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/lolol-lmao-gif-22173456

[vast frost]

do u remember when the prawn got leaked

[safe sapphire]

gif for life

[weary hedge]

Prawn?

[weary hedge]

America lava you ❤️

[vast frost]

yuh the pic of trumps tiny shrimp

[weary hedge]

Hell no 😆

[vast frost]

2017 leak lol

[weary hedge]

That’s wild. Trump is a goofy man

[safe sapphire]

c'est gentils mes cheries moi aussi je vous aime vous m'avez bien fait rire je simplifie pour google trad

[kind zephyr]

anyone else crashes on the path to doctor?

[weary hedge]

If you can call him a man 😆

[vast frost]

i like him he has a certain kinda old spice look about him

[weary hedge]

He’s funny but that’s as much as I’ll say about him for political reasons

[kind zephyr]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I keep crashing in these exact areas like some sort of crash anomaly

[safe sapphire]

it's you my update 1.6 baby

[vast frost]

hes not a bad guy he s just iconic and thats why ppl like him

[weary hedge]

Another sporker? I thought we was extinct brother

[weary hedge]

Ehhhhhh

[kind zephyr]

im on 1.6 but save is pretty old tbf

or is it a new 1.6 issue?

[vast frost]

plus bombing a nuclear project is the funniest thing ive ever heard i ended up having a dream about nuclear monkeys

in the literal sense not the racial sense that would be messed up

it could be the next planet of the apes movie hey disney shout me

[weary hedge]

Wtf bro😂

[safe sapphire]

@kind zephyrYOU MANAGE TO PLAY WITHOUT PROBLEMS YOU CAN LOOT MUTANTS ETC....?

or you had a save corruption, sorry my english is bad

[kind zephyr]

YOU MANAGE TO PLAY ... YOU CAN LOOT MUTANTS ETC
Yes.
WITHOUT PROBLEMS
I have crash anomalies in multiple spots, one in X5, two in Zaton (one to the west of Sultansk, one to the north of burer tunnel from new quest), and now one in red forest on path to doctor. Usually I was able to go around them but this time Im stuck with no way out

Im playing my old save from I think 1.1/1.2

[vast frost]

the dream wild it was like i was in chernobyl or sumn and then i heard russeling in the trees and this little monkey came running out and then i looked behind him a massive white haired motherf*cker came at me with a big leap then charged me jumped and we mustve been flying like like 600m in the air i tried to let go but he gripped me so bad i ended up wrapping legs around him and as i was about to the hit the floor i woke up

[weary hedge]

Your dreams are fking insane 😆 how do you even think of this

[vast frost]

i didnt God gave it to me to watch the nuclear monkeys early lol

[weary hedge]

Such a gift. Truly beautiful 🥲

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-monkey-gif-21553825

Somtimes I think I’m monkey

Monkey is a lifestyle

[safe sapphire]

@kind zephyr I admit I reset all my stalker saves for 1.6. I think the game really delivers the best of itself now.

[vast frost]

i think nuclear monkeys should be a movie now

[kind zephyr]

for me rn it is more unstable than on release, but that can be attributed to old save

[weary hedge]

Hit up the big Disney man. You can be rich

[safe sapphire]

I'm sure it must be compiling several errors in the background reading

[vast frost]

idk how to do that lol i just love my dreams sometimes something about it was symbolic

[safe sapphire]

@kind zephyr just possible

[weary hedge]

Connections. It’s damn near impossible ima be honest with you but I think it’s a good idea

[safe sapphire]

I saw you in one of my dreams my love @vast frost

[vast frost]

lol someone who loves stalker will probably make it a thing

[weary hedge]

Freaky French Friday 🤪

[vast frost]

its saturday 8am

in france

[weary hedge]

Friday 10 pm for me

[vast frost]

west coast lol

[weary hedge]

You be in the future lad

[vast frost]

or the mojave

[weary hedge]

How is it

[frigid hill]

dipmynugget11 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[safe sapphire]

8.07

[vast frost]

shit just like yesterday

i dont get it i can say shit but if i put an e on the end its offensive makes 0 sense

[safe sapphire]

I AM ENJOYING MY UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE

😂

[vast frost]

shit e is a northen expression of shit

[weary hedge]

Get pregnated brit

[vast frost]

lick my balls eagle f*cker

[weary hedge]

🦅

I will dump your tea in the ocean

[vast frost]

u know a crazy american law is u cant pick up an eagle feather

[safe sapphire]

@vast frost stop joking, I'll end up believing your sinism

😂

[weary hedge]

Correct. You also can’t hunt them/kill them

[vast frost]

well that makes sense but picking up an old feather is insane

[weary hedge]

We love our eagles 🥰

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-and-ted-napoleon-bonaparte-no-nope-not-gif-6163726126223716674

😂

[vast frost]

we also have wildlife rules like far more than u guys's rules but a old feather is insane

[weary hedge]

We have alot of hunting grounds but yea I know what you mean

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/told-ya-saturday-night-live-rap-roundtable-im-the-best-its-lit-gif-19652152

woke +++ for my clear cv

[vast frost]

u see imagine having a nice cowboy hat with an eagle feather that would be so nice

[safe sapphire]

im CV for ubisoft

my

[weary hedge]

Straight to jail with ya

[kind zephyr]

has anyone got the console working for 1.6?

[vast frost]

the dog pound barks when i enter

[weary hedge]

What 😆

[vast frost]

idk thought it sounded pretty gangster

euro jank hehe

[weary hedge]

Take it outside the pub matey

[safe sapphire]

nanite is so shit

[vast frost]

nah round the corner in a dark alley

[vast frost]

u are a nanite u nanite

[weary hedge]

I’ll shank ya dry chap

[safe sapphire]

me ? im alcoolynite

[vast frost]

u wont do nout ya wet lettuce

[safe sapphire]

cocaynaniiite

[weary hedge]

We’ve got guns ya stinky pickle

[vast frost]

ur an alkyl nitrite

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/elon-musk-smoke-smoking-well-maybe-gif-12516944

[vast frost]

i have a musket for 1783

[weary hedge]

Elon musk 😆

[safe sapphire]

yes nitrite

bahahahaha love you

[weary hedge]

LOL

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/nouns-dao-nounish-dance-boy-dance-dance-boy-noggles-gif-26288623

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/george-washington-gif-13524277

[safe sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenLOHk8dtc&list=RDGMEMHDXYb1_DDSgDsobPsOFxpA&index=6

[vast frost]

i also have a rolling block rifle which i love

[safe sapphire]

just for you

https://tenor.com/view/napoleon-gif-25604421

[weary hedge]

George Washington better

[vast frost]

no adolf is the better one

[weary hedge]

Okay man😆

[vast frost]

he just executed his plans terribly

[weary hedge]

Do not go there you crazy chap

[vast frost]

all those amphetamines that the inside man hopped him up on hahaha

[safe sapphire]

Est-ce un cours sur le pénis ici ?

Is this a penis class here?

[weary hedge]

Penis class?

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/big-emma-engvid-huge-massive-gif-25786601

[weary hedge]

What is this meaning?

[vast frost]

i think he was evil but not much different from politicians of today

[safe sapphire]

😂 my penis is a anomaly you now

[weary hedge]

Political stuff just evil in general most the time man was unhinged tho

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/incredibly-long-fionafrills-fionafrills-vlogs-its-so-long-lengthy-gif-24834227

[weary hedge]

FREAKY FRENCH BOYO

[vast frost]

tu es une prostituée pour les libérateurs

[safe sapphire]

even she says it

😂

[vast frost]

i am just unhinged

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/frankie-grande-rainbow-lgbtq-makeup-rainbow-makeup-gif-19234514

[weary hedge]

They don’t call Paris the city of love for nothing yeah? 😏

[safe sapphire]

the visionary 😂

[vast frost]

if i became politician i'd liberate the world with nukes

[weary hedge]

Bad boy

Nuke bad

[safe sapphire]

no im just finish my party im litl......sooooo drunkEAD

[weary hedge]

Sipping upon the wine?

[safe sapphire]

beer

[weary hedge]

What kind

[vast frost]

vote for lord renegade i will put an end to war with all the nukes in the world u may not survive but ur sacrifice will be noted in saving the planet join duty

[safe sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQp7nT5WiY&list=RDGMEMHDXYb1_DDSgDsobPsOFxpA&index=9

[weary hedge]

Jesus man😆

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/snoop-dogg-dancing-fun-funny-dance-dance-moves-gif-10051361099218732674

[weary hedge]

Snoop diggity dog 🐶

[vast frost]

this is the kinda stuff they been feeding us in rostok for 20 years

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-dog-cute-dog-gif-18342081590163558723

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/ice-spice-ass-ice-spice-ice-spice-twerking-ice-spice-body-icespice-gif-7975565804588835526

[safe sapphire]

im 33 years bro im eternal kid's in my heart

[weary hedge]

propaganda

[fickle halo]

this fight with ||granite squad|| blows real hard. (spoilers)

[vast frost]

https://youtu.be/Pc0CYn0xWVA?si=F-7vN678H27jAZBw

[safe sapphire]

life is too short to live on your knees

[fickle halo]

i am not having fun going into a room full of enemies with gauss rifles who all get the height advantage making all of my cover useless.

[lost wigeon]

Any thoughts on the best artifacts

[safe sapphire]

I like it here in a joking tone, of course, but there are intelligent people.

[weary hedge]

I did it on veteran

[safe sapphire]

sorry trad is not perfect

[fickle halo]

i'm on veteran, i'm 1000% sure they can actually survive getting hit with a gauss rifle.

[weary hedge]

Yes I agree

[fickle halo]

and there's like six of them on the railings above your head.

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-raccoon-gif-18000918

best artefact

[weary hedge]

Holy balls

Massive in size

[fickle halo]

yeah this is worse than the ||fight with faust|| when you ||first encounter him in the duga outpost.||

i have no clue what they were thinking with this

[weary hedge]

Torture maketh man

[vast frost]

https://youtu.be/lVMhhOTReM0?si=Z69M3avzecJu02V9

[safe sapphire]

Bon, j'arrête, je suis fatigué, grosse soirée, je vais bien dormir, je pense, je vous souhaite une bonne journée, n'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous voulez jouer mon steam id CezaarR

good days je vous laisse la traduction

[fickle halo]

what am i supposed to do here.

[weary hedge]

So true 😭

[fickle halo]

there's no cover. i cant heal before i get hit with three gauss rifle shots.

[vast frost]

the loner one had me in stitches

[weary hedge]

Have a good day 🙂

[frigid hill]

cezariiooo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

I have trouble translating this to English

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/i-love-you-love-heart-matrix-cyberpunk-gif-8382760630030046058

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/love-you-i-love-you-i-love-you-so-much-i-love-you-this-much-gif-6954355348785154121

[vast frost]

tu es un gobelin testiculaire

[safe sapphire]

im go bb

[vast frost]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-game-gn-chat-gn-good-morning-gif-15916286457191491792

[weary hedge]

passe une bonne journée sexy homme français

[safe sapphire]

Yes, I am a Neoderthalian Testicular Goblin

https://tenor.com/view/the-mirror-tarkovsky-film-gif-26763162

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aLnl-RvMU

[weary hedge]

au revoir !!!

[safe sapphire]

bye my brother

[vast frost]

i wonder how many times i can say testicular goblin before they black list it for me and only me

[weary hedge]

😆

[vast frost]

bye bb

[fickle halo]

i ended up shooting an RPG at the guys on the left side of the roof to clear them out right as they spawned, made it substantially easier

that was a ball buster.

[vast frost]

make sure u dream of me like how u dream about my bloodsucker collection Yo freedom holla best tapes on the market

[safe sapphire]

I was blacklisted for anti-terrorism, so I think even if you want to jerk off to Mia Kalifa, they know it.

[weary hedge]

je t'embrasse plus tard bébé

[weary hedge]

Hell yeah. Good stuff

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/모찌냥-gif-3199198135359664573

[vast frost]

S2 on PS5 yet>

[weary hedge]

What the hell bro bro 😆

[safe sapphire]

a long history of civic duties @weary hedge

🫡 🇫🇷 ❤️

[fickle halo]

oh my god the cutscene's audio bugged out.

i'm losing my mind

[weary hedge]

Damn.

[fickle halo]

i alt-f4d i'll reload the save

[safe sapphire]

This means I did what I had to do.

haa ok im see 😂 😂

hahahaha bad translate for the joke

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

[weary hedge]

Oh lol I thought that’s what you were referring too 😂

[safe sapphire]

my wife mia

[kind zephyr]

welp, seems i now cant play until either UETools are fixed or crash is fixed

[safe sapphire]

my fantasm maiwen lebesco french realisatrice

my bestt

[weary hedge]

Oui good taste

[weary hedge]

Johnny est-il toujours avec elle ?

[safe sapphire]

is not jonnhy is luc besson

not is old story

[weary hedge]

Ah

[safe sapphire]

Okay, I'll stop with my lame jokes, even I'm tired, kisses on your hairy hole

[weary hedge]

Me too xoxo sexy

[safe sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/xoxo-kiss-love-tv-man-gif-27338799

[fickle halo]

yeah

got to my ending

||watched the others, i think the skif ending is the best|| (heavy spoilers, dont unspoiler if you dont wanna be spoiled)

it's the most hopeful one IMO

[safe sapphire]

If you want to spoil the end of Titanic for us, we know it.

[fickle halo]

truth

[weary hedge]

Bro why did you spoil wtf

Next time give spoiler warning

[fickle halo]

i s'pose thats it then.

[weary hedge]

Was it fun while it lasted ?

[fickle halo]

worth it, despite having my balls crushed in a lot of the story fights

i hope the ending i got ends up being the canon one lol, but who knows?

[fickle hill]

We were discussing this what was it a day ago?

[weary hedge]

Very good😆 glad you enjoyed

[fickle hill]

They would have to pull a "false reality" of the zone or another country for a canon to start

[weary hedge]

Africa zone next confirmed

[fickle hill]

Oh no

[vapid galleon]

there's spoiler chat, if you want to avoid spoilers use the https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/504592685428899851

[weary hedge]

Instead of rat swarms it’s mosquitoes 😆

[weary hedge]

I was joking but thanks

[vapid galleon]

⬆️

[fickle hill]

Nay let's do this Australia style and everything has nuro toxin

[fickle halo]

Well with the ||Skif ending|| they can do just about anything

[weary hedge]

I wonder if there is even plans for another game

[fickle hill]

I would hope not since I am sure the engines would only get worse

They start from 5-6-7 and the numbers mason they don't end

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-they-mean-random-numbers-gif-10654449

[fickle hill]

Unfortunately I will be dead when Unrealest engine 100 comes out

By then we will have MegaSwaGer engine 1

[weary hedge]

You will be old man when next stalker releases

Almost dust

[fickle hill]

The Xborx/Ploystation/switon car manufactures

[weary hedge]

Guys I have a question: is the chemical plant off limits for me if I side with the Spark? Was it possible to go there for me before that quest (I didn't go there even once?)

[weary hedge]

Spark don’t get access to it

I see. Too bad. I'd like all side quests

Yeah you have to side with ward sadly

One more question: I am on subtle matter quest. Where to save to check all the endings latter?

[fickle hill]

When you start with going to the comms station

[weary hedge]

Ok. Thanks.

[fickle hill]

After strelok gives you the quest when you get to the comms station is when the choices matter

[weary hedge]

Big choices

[gusty hearth]

Anu cheeki Breeki iv Danki !!!!!

[fickle hill]

[gusty hearth]

Now give me that Cossack vodka and rub all of them

[weary hedge]

Your welcome

[raven monolith]

I think prior to that you could have entered it from the north? Idk, I discovered that accidentally only after the Ward was already hostile to me

[gusty hearth]

[weary hedge]

Any possibility to get a lost gun back after dropping it? I lost my modified GP37 (Piedolnik) it was red and I didn't look 😭

Reload previous safe

It was too late for that unfortunately

Ooof kiss it goodbye then

I thought that maybe there is a console commands in this game??

[weary hedge]

Idk

[gusty hearth]

That’s why do good Save

[fickle hill]

Unfortunately there is none for this version

Only Amnesia has his Poltergeist built g37

[weary hedge]

All his guns are see through 😆

I see. Too bad. My mistake. Next playthrough I will be more careful

[fickle hill]

There you go

[weary hedge]

Thanks 😘

Kill Strelok

[fickle hill]

I wanna hang the swamps

[weary hedge]

Huh??

[fickle hill]

I wanna see that whole region disappear

[weary hedge]

A bit much?

Swamps is bad but I wouldn’t hang it

[fickle hill]

I keep forgetting there's an RPG in the shack

[weary hedge]

Kinda pretty actually

[fickle hill]

Still a pain since you just break your back in the loot the swamps is like a plague that everyone wants to avoid

[weary hedge]

Ya kinda sad how many zombies are there

[fickle hill]

That's only for the main mission you do get bandits at the pumping station

[weary hedge]

Really? I’ve never ran into anything besides mutants and zombies

[fickle hill]

Before and after you can go to the pumping station and you will see bandits

Those are the only living souls in the swamps

[weary hedge]

Imagine they were renegades

Missed opportunity

[fickle hill]

I mean they could be you do get the bandits in the red forest with a renegade logo on one of the doors

[wraith fractal]

predictions for 1.7?
i'm guessing: immersive ui mode, master difficulty

either new quests (or recovered cut quests?) OR a-life stuff

[wicked magnet]

Yes

[cosmic fossil]

I would love the new difficulty (and an improvement or some way to make mods accept on consoles more efficiently)

[vast frost]

mods on console?

[graceful dirge]

At one point in time they spoke of the Xbox approval process ultimately being automated, I sure hope that's still in the cards

[cosmic fossil]

Since 1.6 came out at the end of September, I'd bet that 1.7 will come out in November with the PS5 and the UE update

[vast frost]

very missed indeed

its as if we arent a known affiliate not organized but ready to fight 60,000 soldiers now there aint but 20,000 clear sky in the zone! can you dig it! cannnn youuuu digg ittttt!

[cosmic fossil]

Me too, I was checking out the mods from the other channel and wow, I'm excited to try them all out. I need them to automate the mods. What does it matter if they add mods that aren't suitable for the community? The players themselves are going to reject them anyway (or so I think)

[vast frost]

https://tenor.com/view/can-you-dig-it-the-warriors-cyrus-bronx-gif-25741436

[weary hedge]

They should’ve made renegades a big faction in 2

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/can-you-dig-it-the-warriors-cyrus-bronx-gif-25741436

[cosmic fossil]

well, good night y'all, I haven't sleep for a whole day

[graceful dirge]

Likewise may we dream of the Shining Zone, hoping to wake up to miraculous weekend news of sudden entire mod.io catalog approval for Xbox maybe some new hints/step for the ARG, been loving that unfolding

[weary hedge]

Goodnight stalker. Take care

[vast frost]

well theyre more like war lords with no leader and if they ever had a leader he'd likely be killed on sight by whoever disagreed im sure if it were to be a thing half would go to the bandit faction and the rest would just be rogue loners seeking havoc in the name of greed which btw would just be bigger than most factions and less likelyhood of even know who they are as people meaning they arent a faction but a massive group of greedy loner bandits

very rushed explanation but basically the renegades shouldnt even have a patch and it should just be a deformed loner badge with Renegades written on it

[weary hedge]

Yeah I know. They only had a patch for gameplay reasons. (Every renegade is a bandit but every bandit isn’t a renegade) as in big faction I mean more of them in the zone.

[vast frost]

they live amongst us

plotting on the weak for their loot

[weary hedge]

😆

Silly guys

[vast frost]

tall shadow tiny tree

[still current]

That should be the aim. The newer version does in fact fixes some fair number of bugs. So, it's should be a win situation where we get good performance gain, and visual improvements as result, ofc if everything was done right. I also see some future potential if the gain was as I'm expecting it to be, and by that I mean many things.

[weary hedge]

I never looked into this but why does renegades dislike clear sky so much and why did they go to limansk/red forest?

[vast frost]

idk clear sky had alot of guns and armour they probably just wanted to be more technologically advanced but didnt have the resources since they are like tribesman

[weary hedge]

Ahh okay I see

Just seems like odd bandit behavior to me

[vast frost]

apes in the stone age barely able to handle the recoil of a boomstick

[weary hedge]

Then again i guess that’s what sets them apart

[vast frost]

https://tenor.com/view/boom-stick-army-of-darkness-bruce-campbell-gun-this-gif-17346017

[vast frost]

the Renegades fought Clear Sky to gain control of the Great Swamp, which became accessible after a major emission opened new routes. These newly arrived Renegade gangs, consisting primarily of bandits and other criminals, sought to claim the bounty and territories within the swamp, leading to a territorial conflict and a turf war with the resident Clear Sky faction this is the true reason i guess but mine is cooler

[weary hedge]

I remember when renegades didn’t even exist. Just bandits were in the swamp

[weary hedge]

Makes sense. Thanks for the information.

[vast frost]

they couldve gave better reasons ;ie what i said

but then again this was 2010

[weary hedge]

For real. I always thought they were just crazy bandits out for blood 😆

[vast frost]

yeah the way i see it they just have a cool name and thats about it i love the patch plus being a loner bandit is tough but also very fun

[weary hedge]

That’s cool. I respect that

[vast frost]

if u get a pc u must get dayz

apply for a stalker rp server u will not be disappointed

[weary hedge]

I have a pc and dayz lol I just need to go through the discord shit to get into one but I’m too lazy playing clear sky and stalker 2

(Travel alot for work so I only get to use my pc rarely)

[vast frost]

check DM's this is what its like fighting monolith in that server bruh

[weary hedge]

Damn it really just looks like normal dayz with re-textures

[vast frost]

yeah its a mix of stalker assets and dayz gameplay

[weary hedge]

Even the gun is one of the vanilla ones I swear i remember that sound😆

[vast frost]

yeah some are vanilla but alot of guns are added from all over the place u really have choice of guns once u make alot of money plus u can find stashes and hunt artis in anomaly fields rads are insane tho like misery rads u can walk into a 1000msv rad wall if u have the right protection but u only start with a gp5 that can only withstand 350msv

u do get a geiger counter that u have to watch and sometimes u gotta sprint and take anti rad

[weary hedge]

Ohhh I see so it’s got some hyper realism in there. How is artifact hunting go is it fun?

And does it have the stalker locations?

[fervent robin]

Put some mayo in the omlette then mix it

Holy shit, the best omlette in the world

[primal nimbus]

||Ah yes. Turning the whole world into the Zone's apartment is most hopeful.||

[vast frost]

artifact hunting is risky business ukno it sticks to how hard the loners at cordon make it out to be but i enjoy it once ive gotten a bear detector and decent shooter and the map is based on real life chernobyl

but only rookies can explore the CoP areas it takes balls alot of ammo, heals and high quality equipment to get close to red forest its tarks and chimeras and psuedogiant galore down there one guy made it to cordon and sid was selling everything on the server but it was all 7 to 9 figures but ukno its sid what do u expect

[weary hedge]

That sounds pretty rad ngl. I’ll hop in one of the servers as soon as I get a chance to get back to my pc again. Right after I try misery 🙏

[vast frost]

i sent u an invite to it

just have ur wits about u u must remember everyone is a player and u may be robbed but dont be scared to be robbed it always bites them in the ass eventually

i tend to tell ppl different names depending on who i work for

duty i am mikhail freedom im someone else and so on

u can build rep in all factions if u are smart

[weary hedge]

I’m a pretty chill playa. I don’t let the bad apples get to me. I’ll probably just artifact hunt and explore the lay of the land, build up enough gear if I can and venture the dangerous parts .

-# unless it’s ward

[weary hedge]

Does it have building?

[humble owl]

how do i spot a bloodsucker man

[dreamy dagger]

А-Life 0.2.3

[rancid kiln]

Magic.... But really just the slight shimmer/outline they give off

[floral elm]

I think engine upgrade before ps5 release

But I dunno

[gusty hearth]

Sky clear

[vast frost]

yes but doors are expensive

then u have to carry it all to a location which will take like 5 trips

[floral elm]

I love clear sky

[vast frost]

ill clear ur sky baybeh

shout me -God

[floral elm]

[shrewd needle]

Man, the brain-rot here sometimes...

[shrewd needle]

You might need to get yourself checked by Needle, NGL.

[floral elm]

Nahh i need to check pyt HIS needle😝😝😝

[wanton blaze]

Ive wondered is how hard might it be to clean up one of the many abandoned houses and make it livable again. Probably need a Emission cellar

[vast frost]

what?

if thats brain rot u need to have a meeting with a psychologist

[shrewd needle]

Unfortunately, the psychologist got brain-rot too...ain't that right, @weary hedge? 😏

[silk oriole]

Stalker2_Win64_Shipping
Stalker2_Win64_Shipping
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kernel32
ntdll
Can anybody help me with this crash i get no matter what i do

[subtle spindle]

do you have mods installed?

if not verifying the install should help it seems like something has gone wrong with the files

[silk oriole]

Tried to uninstall everything, game also

Tried it allready, i can start up and run around 30 seconds and this happens - New game, saved games. The same no matter what. I read that you should delete UE5TOOLS but i dont know how

[subtle spindle]

if you have UETOOLS installed the game just wouldnt launch outright

its a mod that unlocks console commands

[silk oriole]

Is there a way to delete everything and start over? Beside just uninstalling the game from steam

[tough remnant]

Is it just me or does it seem a bit dangerous to post your epic login id and account id

[robust pendant]

[silk oriole]

( : (: (: ( :Thank you

[tough remnant]

[worldly breach]

Trying to search monster’s corpse, pressing F, nothing appears (but theres a sound), I am soft locked (cannot move). Rip.

[coral shadow]

peak stalker experience

that's good gameplay right there

[burnt bridge]

Why is it older stalker games have way better English voice actors then stalker 2 the difference would be huge

[wooden walrus]

stalker 2's english dub is particularly rancid and there's no good explanation for that from what we know

my personal hypotheses is that they outsourced the dub to an external company that just wasn't very good

'cause the direction is bad, the actors are bad, and the quality of the audio is bad imo

[gusty hearth]

[wooden walrus]

UETools wasn't working in 1.5

you had to use Simple Modloader https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/304

ofc I have no idea if it works in 1.6

[shrewd needle]

on old version and casually using UETools.

[keen lagoon]

You can also use ue4ss

[wooden walrus]

on new version and using something not obsolete, what's your point

[shrewd needle]

Not everything has a point, some things are just for humour.

And the fact that no updates = no problems. 😏

[cosmic fossil]

greetings stalkers!

[obtuse veldt]

Now that you mention about that...

Updates have been less consistent...

Usually its patches to correct errors but still...

WHERE IS MY SKIP CUTSCENE GSC?!

[wooden walrus]

it is kinda baffling that they still haven't put it back after almost a year of breaking it

here's hoping the engine upgrade restores it

[cosmic fossil]

YES, I DON'T WANT TO START A NEW GAME BCS I CAN'T SKIP THE CUTSCENES

[wooden walrus]

there's a mod that lets you skip the initial cutscenes

[obtuse veldt]

But generally so, we need scene skip/fast foward back

[wooden walrus]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/950
afaik still works

[exotic glacier]

Sad but true.

[cosmic fossil]

I hate xbox, I cant download the mods I want

[exotic glacier]

Like in cyberpunk.

[cosmic fossil]

Never make your children grow up using consoles

[wooden walrus]

cutscenes could be fast forwarded at launch

they just broke it in an early patch and didn't fix it (for most of them)

[shrewd needle]

TBF, I have trouble skipping cut-scenes as well.

That and other things they ruined with updates is why I haven't updated (along with my main issue: lack of space).

[wooden walrus]

some cutscenes can still be fast forwarded but most of them not, I don't think there's ever been an explanation for that

I mean, as someone who's played 300 hours of just the first half of the game, the only cutscene that annoys me is the faust spiel at shelter, and I usually will get up and do the dishes or something

but, it would certainly be nice to be able to skip it.

[cosmic fossil]

idk how many hours I have but more than 300 for sure and the only cutscene that I feel large is the bar cutscene in Zalissya

[exotic glacier]

Oh there is a explanation. Same reason the batman games combat is rubbish. Artistic visual. You will not merely skip my hard work!

[wooden walrus]

no no but you could at launch

you could fast forward any cutscene by pressing spacebar, and you can still do it with a few, I 100% for sure skipped one in 1.5.3

it's just most of them can't be skipped for some reason since... I think it was 1.2

[exotic glacier]

You can skip if you died.

[wooden walrus]

huh, really

if that was the case there should be a mod that bypassed that requirement then

[exotic glacier]

Memory leak, ran into a anomaly. Saw that ak being taken apart about 5 times.

[wooden walrus]

imo it probably borked some timings or something yeah, idk, here's hoping the engine upgrade helps

[silk oriole]

Clear skies mod or dynamic weather overhaul?

[wooden walrus]

clear sky mod all the way

I'd recommend the entire modpack (minus treetastic if your fps takes a hit from it)

[violet dune]

from screenshots looks like clear sky needs HDR

[wooden walrus]

idk, I've played it with HDR and it looks good

It just doesn't make the game look like fortnite that's all

[violet dune]

yea. these shaders are for hdr https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1606?tab=images&BH=0

[weary hedge]

Call it what you will. I think it’s just silly banter

[wooden walrus]

apparently he's... paywalling the HDR shaders behind a ko-fi?

"You can support my work, and Buy me a Coffee + you will have access to my HDR mod, with which the screenshots were taken :3"

[violet dune]

LOL

[wooden walrus]

hm, can't say I'm a fan of that. However I did run the clear sky mod on with HDR and it ran well at any rate

[violet dune]

you can find some cool shaders for HDR for free in nexus

[wooden walrus]

I like it specifically because it uses a more subdued color palette

[wooden walrus]

it's not a reshade at any rate so I guess you could run something else on top of that if you really wanted to

[violet dune]

idk, i use DWO or GSC

with new monitor i will try HDR

[wooden walrus]

I think the clear sky mod does weather much much better than DWO.

the only problem is that it sometimes goofs and some scripted weather transitions sometimes get stuck, like the emission when you get to clear sky, funnily enough

[shrewd needle]

I know, was just joking around.

[wooden walrus]

it eventually happened but it took a long ass time for the weather to change. I'm assuming it's because it has weathers on strict timers

but outside of these scripted sequences, I think it does storms and overcast weather better than dwo. It also doesn't use that icky grey-green overcast shit weather that makes everything look like pure ass that dwo is so fond of

[weary hedge]

Sorry I just woke up. It be hard reading emotions through text sometimes 😆

[shrewd needle]

All good; it happens. 👍

[weary hedge]

Anywho, how’s looting wild island going ?

[obtuse veldt]

BTW anyone have found the Kora extended mag?

[stark crescent]

still cant get over the fact they deleted harpy's entire identity

that mouth cover WAS harpy! she was a badass! now she looks like a freaking librarian

also, did they only change the faces of the 3 women inside this game, or did they add more women npc's?

[fickle hill]

There's 4

[stark crescent]

not after you did the 2 captains mission

[fickle hill]

Oh

[half atlas]

i was in here a year ago talking about how they can't add alife to this game and people were dogpiling me saying i'm a hater, did anything change?

[fickle hill]

Nope nothing changed

Just 2 new weapons and NVG that's it

[weary hedge]

Small a-life improvements have been made since then yeah

[fickle hill]

Unnoticeable

[half atlas]

i mean idk from what i saw online the system still doesn't exist

it's still just a spawn bubble but they made it bigger

[valid solar]

The mission dead frequency causes a crash to desktop upon going through the door for the underground "rescue team bravo" objective, any ideas

[weary hedge]

Essentially yeah. Basically just quality of life stuff

[half atlas]

tuff

at least i can rest assured modders will fix stalker 2 if GSC doesn't

they released the API and i'm so glad because otherwise i bet it would've gotten the cyberpunk treatment

[weary hedge]

Eventually maybe

[fickle hill]

Could be a bug since we did hit 1.6 not to long ago

[valid solar]

I cant find anything on it, im playing unmodded and I've previously beat the mission on older versions of the game

I can do anything else, but I just cannot go through this one doorway
The second I do, it's right back to the desktop

[weary hedge]

Think about it if a-life was thrown in rn most people pcs wouldn’t be able to run it. A lot struggle with the hubs let alone persistent NPCs across the zone so it’ll take time to optimize before implementing sadly. if it ever is

[valid solar]

In other words, I am completely softlocked

I get memory access violation which probably isnt that helpful as this could be really anything to be honest

[stark crescent]

they did add some more stuff linked to a-life. stalker and mutant groups now run into random directions until they find a hostile group they can shoot at. this is called intelligent AI.

stalkers can now gather stuff off dead stalkers and mutants.

thats about the most a-life there is in this game

[valid solar]

Idk if intelligent is the word for it

[half atlas]

eh that's better than nothing i guess

[half atlas]

i mean yeah they literally made the system for UE5 and then disabled it

[valid solar]

Anyways, any ideas on how to unsoftlock my game

[half atlas]

the solution was to... not use ue5. too late now

[stark crescent]

what do you mean with your game being softlocked?

[half atlas]

no sorry, i quit playing it myself like a few weeks after release cause it broke for me too 😭

[weary hedge]

Yup which is why they should’ve stuck with UE4

[half atlas]

either that or they could've tried to upgrade the xray engine. i'm aware of what a monumental task that would've been though

[valid solar]

Entering through a specific doorway in the mission dead frequency (in the underground bunker) causes a CTD every time. I meet above the recommended requirements and I am playing unmodded.

[weary hedge]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice

[half atlas]

i wouldn't be surprised if GSC got the money they dearly needed to make the game directly from epic if they used UE5 honestly

[valid solar]

Or not unreal engine at all cuz it sucks ass

[weary hedge]

UE4 is good wdym. Same with 5.

[stark crescent]

yea, if you played atomic heart, they can make unreal engine 4 look as pretty as unreal 5. without the bugs.

[weary hedge]

I think you meant to say stalker isn’t optimized correctly on it

[frigid hill]

oimatejohnson has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[valid solar]

Unreal Engine 4 is okay
Both engines are graphically very capable, but they both suffer from some serious performance problems

[half atlas]

bruh i forgot this server forbids swearing despite characters in the games doing it constantly

[stark crescent]

i mean, just look at borderlands 4. it runs on unreal engine 5.3, and it runs even worse than stalker 2. so its both the engine thats more taxing on higher hardware, and bad optimizations.

[valid solar]

5 suffers alot more than 4 lmao

[weary hedge]

Not really. Just depends on ur system. What performance problems are you referring too?

[half atlas]

yes, ue5 seems like a garbage engine and there's way less games it works well with than games which both look and run terribly thanks to it

like seriously stalker 2 is a great example, it looks worse than games from 10 years ago because the ghosting and AI upscaling on everything covers up any potential advancements in graphics

[valid solar]

They're both much more difficult to optimize due to how the engines handle shaders and lighting

[weary hedge]

developer focus on high-end hardware and late-stage low-spec testing, shader compilation stuttering, and the inherent demands of UE5 features like virtual textures (Nanite and Lumen)

[valid solar]

And iirc both do not handle memory well

And UE4 loves to decide to compile an engine RIGHT BEFORE it uses it sometimes, leading to stutters

[half atlas]

how does this counter my argument at all lol

[weary hedge]

Wasn’t a counter but a further explanation

[half atlas]

okay i guess

[weary hedge]

Guys should I be upgrading weapons over max 5? Or it isn't adding anything?

[valid solar]

Unreal Engine 5's new graphical features come at the cost of serious hardware requirements, that outway the strength of the hardware that is available to your average player

[half atlas]

i'm not super tech literate so i don't really care about the tech improvements on paper, all i want is for games to either look measurably better than they did in the past or run well. UE5 doesn't do either of these things most of the time

[weary hedge]

Keep in mind it solely revolves around poor optimization by developers, rather than the engine itself most of the time😆

[half atlas]

seriously there's things like SCP 5K which use UE4 and are some of the prettiest games out there because there isn't smearing and pixelation on everything

[valid solar]

UE5 can look nicer, and is capable of nearly photorealistic rendering that comes at the cost of hardware upgrades

[valid solar]

Engines often are the biggest contributors to optimization issues as you have to work around the engine to fix it

[weary hedge]

Yep.

In this case it’s failure to pre-compile shaders before they are needed

[valid solar]

Not really the only issue

[subtle spindle]

at this point the way forward is with raytracing, but even implimentations that dont look that good (like stalker 2s) are very taxing on hardware

[weary hedge]

Nope but it’s the biggest contributor

[stuck seal]

Just saw some IPSF soldiers walk into bog poppers and instantly burn, genuinely took me by surprise, 10/10

[subtle spindle]

and implimenting both raytraced lighting effects and traditional methods takes too much time for developers

[half atlas]

why do you even need that though? just do whatever rocksteady did in 2015 to make arkham knight look as damn good as it does

stalker 2 doesn't have any environmental destruction so there's almost 0 need for procedurally generated lighting systems, which is one of the big strengths of UE5 afaik

[subtle spindle]

day night cycles

batman arkham knight doesnt have that

[stuck seal]

Can’t we just go back to 2005 graphics

[valid solar]

The main issue is the game has many memory leaks draining performance, shader compilation being very poorly executed, high amount of transparent objects which then get put through ai to go and upscale and end up coming out blurry and muddy

Its a combination of software advancing too quickly, and what's considered to be the standard for most peoples hardware advancing too slowly

[half atlas]

it doesn't that's true, other games from that period do though

like man even far cry 4 looks better. a texture might look a little rough here and there but the picture ends up being a lot clearer and sharper, even compared to stalker 2 on max settings

[subtle spindle]

and since raytraced GI isnt available some areas tend to look flat and poorly lit

[valid solar]

Realtime lighting is extremely performance costing but the main alternative is baked lighting which is extremely memory taxing
So either you have a good gpu or you have a ton of ram

[stark crescent]

stalker 2 1.6 update. fixed voiceover and subtitle discrepancies in dead frequency

[subtle spindle]

its not even memory thats the issue baking lights takes up a huge amount of time and increases map sizes

[valid solar]

When was this update because this has been happening to me as of like 30 mins ago

[stark crescent]

2 or 3 days ago. so, sounds to me, that your game might be updated the wrong way. which could cause the crashing.

you got it through steam?

[valid solar]

Well I was mainly referring to performance, but yes that is also very true

Yeah

[stark crescent]

ok, so first things first. right click on stalker 2 in your library, check properties.

under installed files, click on verify integrity of game files

[valid solar]

If you are making me verify integ, its doing that rn

[stark crescent]

ye, that

[valid solar]

Also the reason why console games dont have these huge performance issues despite having worse hardware is because usually they have all the shaders already compiled, removing the need to compile on thefly

[subtle spindle]

well games could just have the shaders compile on launch like stalker 2

its really a non issue, only a problem when developers refuse to add a shader precomp stage

[valid solar]

Not to mention texture and asset streaming, requiring highspeed hard drives, ue's weird tendency to run on a single thread, and then Nanite and Lumen. Unreal Engine 5's Nanite and Lumen technology are simply WAY TOO NEW. This is a huge issue with the engine. It was designed mainly for film making and for games in the future when the hardware catches up. Lumen isn't even considered to have been completed yet, and is meant for film making and cgi

[obtuse veldt]

I really wish repair kits were a thing on STALKER 2

[stark crescent]

bro. i play games, that compile shaders once. JUST ONCE. on first game startup. thats it. what stalker 2 does. EVERY time you start the game it needs to compile shaders? ye, thats not normal behavior.

[obtuse veldt]

Like im not saying 100% weapon repair, but lets say, up to 90% if lucky

[valid solar]

In other words, most of UE5s brand new technologies are intended for when the hardware gets there. But thats the problem. It takes a very long time for people to swap over to new and improved PC's that match the new capabilities of software, and I believe this is a major reason for why UE5 games are ultimately plagued by performance and bugs

[subtle spindle]

i think it just checks if the shaders are compiled correctly every time you launch

[stark crescent]

ye, again, not normal behavior. its not checking anything. its compiling. every time

[subtle spindle]

its a 30s loading screen vs the 3-5min one that happens when compiling shaders properly

[valid solar]

Tbf, most of the games do not compile every shader, they compile the most important such as foliage, transparent shaders, skin, clothing, etc, and then do the rest on the fly because that would require alot of ram+vram

[valid solar]

If you want to make sure it compiles everytime, clear your shader cache

[subtle spindle]

ye ik i can force that

[valid solar]

Games as in every game with shader compilation

[subtle spindle]

im just saying that it usually doesnt compile for no reason

[gentle citrus]

Thats any engine tho if you sett all to the max for cinematic

[valid solar]

Also iirc, Unity's shaders are alot less complex, and are compiled on the fly much more easily because usually they aren't NEARLY as complicated as UE's shaders, which often consist of distortion, procedural textures, dynamic materials, etc

[subtle spindle]

shaders are a whole another issue where developers use an excessive amount of them and they arent well optimized on their own

[valid solar]

Thats also another reason why older games especially source engine games run so well, as the shaders usually were installed with the game, cached when in the level that they're needed in, and simple as hell, making them extremely lightweight and performant

[weary hedge]

Tbh I woulda been happy if s2 looked like cop. The massive graphic jump is dope and all but not a necessity😆

[valid solar]

Yup
Optimization for shaders does and doesn't exist
It's hard to explain, but usually shaders are created via nodes and linking them together, whereas they used to be quite literally programmed like on Source

[subtle spindle]

id solved this issue mostly by reworking their workflow and only using a few shaders that can do a lot of things

[subtle spindle]

its just visual coding so its easier for artists to use isnt it?

[valid solar]

Yup pretty much

[subtle spindle]

yeah thats what i heard as well

[valid solar]

I use it all the time, every software does it a bit differently but UE4+5's is more meant for filmmaking and graphical fidelity above performance and gaming

[subtle spindle]

they do it that way so programmers dont need to write shaders every time an artist wants to do something

[valid solar]

Yup

[subtle spindle]

but it causes its own issues, where duplicate shaders may be used, and the shaders that are made are not very performant

[valid solar]

that's also why Source 2 games run really well (for the most part minus a few issues) and look so nice

It's because it takes the best practices of the Source engine and implements it with more recent technology

[subtle spindle]

i mean to be fair they dont have very advanced graphical effects

[valid solar]

I think most people forget that UE4+5 is also used for filmmaking, and CGI, not just games

[valid solar]

I was mainly referring to the new lighting capabilities of the engine

[subtle spindle]

isnt it just the higher quality baked lighting?

[valid solar]

Yes and no, it's complicated

[subtle spindle]

ofc the dynamic lights are also better but its nothing groundbreaking

and ig there are some insane shaders like the liquid one in hla

[rapid topaz]

Please add battle pass

[valid solar]

S2 uses IBL, and cascaded shadow maps, indirect lighting, and then older tech like light probes and light maps of course

indirect lighting isnt super new but source 2 handles it very well

[subtle spindle]

but its still baked?

[gentle citrus]

💀

[subtle spindle]

maybe not in hla i havent noticed it when i played it

[valid solar]

It can be, but it has realtime lighting too

[rapid topaz]

It’s a joke calm down

[valid solar]

like I said, realtime indirect lighting and dynamic IBL + cascaded shadow maps are pretty huge to advancing realistic lighting for games specifically

Unity allows you to prebake indirect lighting, and allows you to use it sparingly in realtime but it's not exactly performant

[subtle spindle]

its not like there are many unity games trying to push the engine to its limits

[valid solar]

More people should to be honest, same with Godot, as they're very very capable engines

[subtle spindle]

well theres tarkov and that is having its own legion of issues due to unity's limitations and the old spaghetti code the game is built on

[valid solar]

@stark crescent "All 1543 files successfully validated"

[valid solar]

Keep in mind though, Tarkovs issues aren't really at the fault of Unity, moreso poor game design and also running an older version of the engine

[stark crescent]

so its not an issue with the install

that complicates things

[subtle spindle]

isnt it on unity 2021 by now or smth its not that old

[valid solar]

I couldve sworn it was on Unity 2016, maybe not

[subtle spindle]

its definately either 2021 or newer

[valid solar]

2022 according to google, and they apparently heavily modified it which isnt a great sign

@stark crescent yup it still ctd

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[subtle spindle]

still not a good sign for unity if its one of the most up-to-date looking games on the engine

[valid solar]

Honestly it's not the engines fault

[subtle spindle]

it is partially because their strategy doesnt attract AA companies to push what the engine can do

[valid solar]

I mean, I guess that could be said, but I do not really think that is the engines fault mainly because thats an issue that every engine is going to have as you upgrade your game to newer versions

[gentle citrus]

I mean they have good running games but non of them push it. Genshin and Sons of the FOrest are the only other games that are new

We also need to see a AAA Studio work with that Engine what we still didnt see

[subtle spindle]

sons of the forest looks up to date i guess yeah

[drifting bear]

Did you have mods?

[valid solar]

nope

see #❔┃seeking-for-advice, I uploaded some logs as well

[weary hedge]

Might be a thing when multiplayer drops 😟

[valid solar]

lowk hope they include coop of some form
I know it probably wont, but a coop game mode seperate from the story with pvp elements sounds seriously fun

[weary hedge]

They’ve already confirmed there’s no plans for it which is a damn shame they chose the pvp route instead 😆

[valid solar]

I mean, I dont mind too much, and assuming the modding tools are advanced as they advertise them to be, we may have something created by the players that is similar

[gentle citrus]

I mean they dont want to do Coop or in a way a open world Multiplayer mode. Its just prob gonna be like the older games with a Arena shooter

[valid solar]

That's what I assumed, but whatever, I'll take it lol

[weary hedge]

Yeah it has the potential to be fun. Still I think a majority of the people would prefer co-op so it doesn’t make sense to me

[gentle citrus]

For that i would rather want a extra DLC not some MP that nobody playes on

[weary hedge]

It’ll die so fast😂

Unless they make it more than an arena shooter but idek what the foundation is here tbh

[gentle citrus]

Hopefully we see a Mod in Dayz style as MP That would be fun

[jagged carbon]

Cant believe I wasted money on tarkov

[gentle citrus]

The game is also large enough to have MP

[jagged carbon]

I didnt even end up liking it that much

[weary hedge]

The game is overly time consuming and boring tbh

Also toxic as all hell

[gentle citrus]

Thats why i still didnt buy it. It looks hyped but i also saw many of the cheaters in game. That made me wait if the game ever gonna be Done

[jagged carbon]

Most of my gameplay experience was screwing around shooting scavs thinking they were pmcs, being paranoid and then losing everything by a tryhard with a sniper at the other side of the map

[weary hedge]

That about sums it up😭

The builds people have in that game I swear. Not to mention the amount of ratting going on

[valid solar]

the whole point of the game is to be a rat

but the problem is everyone tries to be a rat with 8000 hours and no life

[jagged carbon]

At least the game is kinda pretty but the performace kills the immersion a bit

Spt on the other hand is much more enjoyable

[valid solar]

Found some stuff that may be pointing towards why my game is crashing

The stack shows lots of offsets (+2ca0667, +52eedc5) which usually means an actor is loading or something is streaming incorrectly

LogPakFile: Display: Mounting pak file ../../../Stalker2/Content/Paks/pakchunk20-Windows.pak
LogPakFile: Display: Mounting pak file ../../../Stalker2/Content/Paks/pakchunk19-Windows.pak
...

this shows us that the game is loading new level chunks, which appears to be what happens upon going through the doorway I mentioned earlier. So it's a game issue, as it's trying to stream either assets or actors and it's coming out invalid.

[icy idol]

Does anyone that plays stalker on Xbox is having issues to play using mods?

[shell flax]

Mods haven’t been updated on console yet

[icy idol]

Oh so that's why

Any idea how long it would take to update them?

[valid solar]

Id say a week

[shell flax]

Some mod makers I’ve seen comment next week so maybe then

[icy idol]

One of them was Shay?

[shell flax]

no idea, i read the messages at like 2am lmao

[icy idol]

Oh damn, well, I don't have any problem in waiting so, I'll just wait

[knotty flame]

just found out, wishgranter is true

[fickle hill]

He was probably farming clips off of you

[valid solar]

Happiness for everybody, free, and no one will go away unsatisfied!!!

[weary hedge]

idi ko mne

[valid solar]

If stalker 2 were to get a DLC, what would you want it to be?

[jagged carbon]

Maybe one where we play as scar after the clear sky ending and we get to see what happened after

Or one where we play as strider when he was still part of the og monolith

Im really curious how monolithians canonically interact with each other and make their strategies

[valid solar]

it can be really anything btw

like not just story stuff, it could be new guns, content, etc

[valid solar]

spoilers btw

[jagged carbon]

i NEED an ak 12

[valid solar]

lol

I feel like that would be update content
I want more hunting style features, more guns, more gun customization

in anomaly and gamma, when you finally get that kitted out gun that you wanted, it feels incredibly rewarding because you earned it, and its unique towards you
You got the parts, the attachments, etc
In stalker 2 its just "rifle suppressor" and "holosight"

no variation

[jagged carbon]

Yea agree

[valid solar]

I was just killed by a THING wtf was that

[jagged carbon]

Maybe a crafting system like some mods or like anomaly where you have a workbench and can make your own upgrades

[jagged carbon]

What thing

[valid solar]

idk but it was huge

dont tell me what it is

[jagged carbon]

You mean your mom ?

[valid solar]

I just watched it kill a bloodsucker like it was a fly

it pinned me down and killed me

genuinely what is this thing

I HAVE to kill it

[supple mirage]

revolver reloading has 1 in chamber feature when you swap ammo type, I think it's not supposed to happen since you eject all bullets with a reload

[valid solar]

yikes

I cant even attack this thing, it just pins me down and immediately kills me

ok how tf do I kill this