☢┃stalker-general

[raven monolith]

That's why I wish the hazards of the zone were more diversified. Maybe so sometimes you can't tell if you're encountering a mob or an anomaly

[wooden walrus]

At least in 2 anomalies take some time to reload

[raven monolith]

I have yet to find the Mist arch anomaly, but I heard that one was interesting

[wooden walrus]

I think that was a very good move from gsc

[weary hedge]

You’ll find it in burnt forest.

It’s my favorite out of the bunch. Very cool concept of a puzzle.

Reminds me of the oasis in CoP

[raven monolith]

I like the concept of arch anomalies in general, just a shame they're kind of a one time puzzle that you have no reason to return to

[vernal lily]

Wondering if the kadavers or however you spell that mutant's name, is ever going to be in the game. It's shown in the artbook.

[wooden walrus]

yeah, most of them are fun

[weary hedge]

Brooo yes. They have very cool design.

[wooden walrus]

they are pretty, terrifying, and sometimes have something nice on them. I think they're pretty well done overall.

[shell flax]

Give them unique death animations in the future

Well, the lethal ones that aren’t the fire tornado

There’s one that does this in Burnt Forest too

[wooden walrus]

burnt forest in general is terrifying

[raven monolith]

Kept getting jumpscared by the lightning bolts

[wooden walrus]

well in general there's a few areas that actually feel tense as hell to go through

maybe it's 'cause I haven't gone through them a lot so I'm not yet used to it but

[raven monolith]

I like how tense some areas are to explore, it's just that they often lack the payoff

if there's a spooky location, I expect some interesting encounter, loot or at least a story behind them to discover

[wooden walrus]

I mean I'd agree, but on the locations that do have an interesting encounter or something more often than not is kinda lame and infuriating tbh

not always, there's some pretty cool fights on some of them.

[raven monolith]

also, needs more side quests

and not just the ones at hubs where you kill bandits, bring a package or find an artifact, but quests with actual story to them

[wooden walrus]

I do hope the sdk gets to the point where modders can vastly increase on the radiant system

I'll be honest, I like the story in 2, and I think some of the story setpieces are really impressive and well made, but it also suffers a bit of bethesda syndrome

in that a lot of it is scripted and massively hurts replayability

(also due to how the story is written, a whole chunk of side content becomes unavailable once you hit sircaa, which is extra-lame.)

like, I bet there's people who legit didn't know Warlock offers radiants

[ebon blade]

Start writing some. Send them in as a suggestion. More productive than whining.

[subtle spindle]

gsc has a team of professional writers im sure they can manage without our help

[vernal lily]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1238970017329189024/1302524795937755188/ezgif-7-5875e47d1e.gif

[weary hedge]

Where would one go to do this? I actually have some crazy good new faction ideas that I think would make for a great addition to a dlc.

[vernal lily]

My best guess is the support link, not sure where else suggestions would go other than the ask-gsc.

[weary hedge]

Ahhh okay. That’s what I figured.

[raven monolith]

Yea I don't think gsc really cares for suggestions

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

That’s fair. It’s their game after all. Still, wouldn’t hurt to share.

[hardy totem]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[vapid galleon]

[vernal lily]

[meager crag]

I personally haven't seen any of the suggestions implemented, so yeah, not really worth it

Seen how we used to have a suggestion channel which people actually voted for

[weary hedge]

Damn. Well I appreciate the honesty. I’ll save myself the time lol

[ebon blade]

I have. People complained about too many Bloodsuckers.
Now, with the 1.6 Patch, you never see them out in the wild anymore like before.
I'm not suggesting people asked for more Burers, but that's what replaced the Bloodsuckers.

[vernal lily]

So now people will ask for less burers. I kind of wanted to see them elsewhere other than the basement tho, just not as much as I have seen bloodsuckers.

[primal nimbus]

Less Burers more Snorks

[vernal lily]

gsc will now look at this one comment and assume everyone wants it.

[primal nimbus]

I’ll take that with pride

And laugh

[primal nimbus]

Since it was stupid idea that shouldn’t have been serious

[vernal lily]

spawns 50 snorks to your location

[primal nimbus]

Monolithians: “O Monolith-“

[ebon blade]

"Oh, so you think there are too many Bloodsuckers everywhere?
Well, take this BURERS, that can suck all your life out with a wave of their hands!"
(That literally happened to me as you can see in this screenshot)

[vernal lily]

I persnally thought bloodsuckers were easier to deal with, just not so funny when you see 7-9 of them at once.

[wooden walrus]

Who doesn't want more snorks

[vernal lily]

Mods, snipe this guy

[wooden walrus]

Noo I'm very sensitive to sniping 😫

[vernal lily]

kicked and banned, sentenced to 1000 hours of stalker steam forum

[raven monolith]

Where the hell are you walking around to run into burers in the open? All I get are bloodsuckers and snorks.

[meager crag]

Bro wasn't here for the OG suggestions channel

[vernal lily]

Every copy of a stalker game is a new anomaly, so they say

[meager crag]

Every game do B personalized

And that's a fact

[ebon blade]

I was in Garbage going from the Detention Center to Slag Heap (not for the first time)
and from the Gas Station to the Electric Field building, three different Burer attacks.

[meager crag]

Poor kittom

He's got a condition that makes him dance uncontrollably and his owner has to restrict him

[vernal lily]

such a sad thing

[ebon blade]

I've seen 18 years of suggestions for the various Stalker games. You'd be surprised what people ask for.

[meager crag]

Edible artifacts

[vernal lily]

They're already edible what do you mean

[ebon blade]

That's one of them.

[meager crag]

Yup

[ebon blade]

NPCs get to piss in Stalker 2. People have been asking for the Player to do that too.

[meager crag]

Already in the game

[grave heath]

Can you still travel quicker by using that invisible anomaly

[meager crag]

You can become piss drunk

[grave heath]

The one that you can jump huge distances is that still possible to do?

[vernal lily]

That's not a bug, so pretty sure you can still launch yourself in the air

[grave heath]

Is there a guide or video on how to do it

[vernal lily]

maybe

[grave heath]

Anyone can try and see if it still works tho

[shell flax]

It still works trust me

[vernal lily]

Sure thing, once my motivation to play this game comes back decades later

[shell flax]

Accidentally shot myself back into the red forest from Yaniv

Where I promptly died because I landed in a monolith patrol with low health

[vernal lily]

I think I will try and see how the nvgs are like, before I give up because my internet refuses to work whenever I use geforce now.

[grave heath]

bruh

[shell flax]

You don’t know fear until you drop in front of a monolith trooper with a Ram-2 with an ass hair of health

You also don’t know buckshot as intimately until a second after

[vapid galleon]

3rd nuclear is already ready my friend

[stark crescent]

Nukes?

[stark crescent]

Oh thats a nice one

[weary hedge]

What do this even mean

[vapid galleon]

there have been two nuclear explosions in the Zone. Now there will be a third (to destroy the snorks) numbers are not that high but it came to my mind and said

[weary hedge]

Ohhh you want to nuke the snorks. There are nuclear explosions in stalker 2?

[vapid galleon]

he don't know the lore

[vernal lily]

Silly tec

[weary hedge]

I’m sorry I don’t recall nukes being mentioned in stalker

[shell flax]

The nuclear bomb is Skif after his god awful diet in the Zone

[vernal lily]

Ngl I at first thought he meant irl based on current events

[weary hedge]

I’m so confused bruh

[vernal lily]

I am the silly one

[shell flax]

The Second Disaster wasn’t a nuclear explosion if that’s what he means

Or is my insomnia jumbling shit again

[weary hedge]

Well I don’t know if this is about stalker or real life

[vernal lily]

my 0 hours of sleep is already starting to have the monolith effect

[warm stone]

finally, the artbook is arriving before christmas, Yay 🙂

[vapid galleon]

1st is the explosion of the central, 2nd is Duty's attempt to destroy the zone

[weary hedge]

[shell flax]

??? When the Christ juggling shit did duty have nukes

[vapid galleon]

actually there was no faction Duty when they were trying to do this, Duty was founded after the second explosion

[weary hedge]

Real schizo talk

[vernal lily]

kerchoo

[vapid galleon]

they were soldiers of Ukrainian

[shell flax]

It wasn’t an explosion where are you getting this stuff

[vapid galleon]

maybe

[weary hedge]

The glowing rock has claimed another for the cause

[vernal lily]

This guy the Conqueror, he would know everything

[vapid galleon]

maybe the antennas have already started to fry my brain

[weary hedge]

It’s that damn phone 👴🏾

[vapid galleon]

[weary hedge]

[shell flax]

I think I could gather more useful info from hearing a Snork beat a man with a concrete paver

[weary hedge]

Very productive conversation I must say

[vapid galleon]

these guys are really unaware of the existence of the second explosion

[shell flax]

Now, I need to figure out what gloves look similar to a Bulat/Wolfhound suit IRL

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about-tim-robinson-i-think-you-should-leave-with-tim-robinson-what-are-you-saying-what-do-you-mean-gif-1936787145920797796

[vapid galleon]

did you play the trilogy?

[weary hedge]

Perhaps

[vapid galleon]

played or not?

[weary hedge]

Maybe

[shell flax]

Are you drunk

[weary hedge]

No leave that to the bandits

[vapid galleon]

"The Second Explosion (2006)

This event takes place in Clear Sky and serves as its background story.

What happened?

Years after the 1986 disaster, the government decided to re-enter the Zone around 2006 to investigate, cleanse, and bring it under control.

A scientific and military operation was launched: new technologies were used to measure anomalies, and the “C-Consciousness” — the networked mind behind the Zone — began to be studied.

However, the structure of the Zone was unstable and reacted to human interference.

When the research and military teams got too close to the Center of the Zone, the Zone responded — triggering a second, far more mysterious explosion."

[weary hedge]

Okay yes but where do you find the information this was caused by a nuke?

[vapid galleon]

it was a word I used to make a joke at that moment

[weary hedge]

Buddy

[vapid galleon]

but there is such a thing as a second explosion

you need to look into the lore of the old games kid

[weary hedge]

Don’t give me attitude. Be nice

[stark crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-discord-heads-stealer-gif-10362683700736854746

[shell flax]

And you need to learn how to bloody read, we talked about the Second Disaster

[vapid galleon]

whats matter

[vapid galleon]

(i have no intention of any aggression)

[weary hedge]

I guess all disasters are considered explosions now

[stark crescent]

Emissions are explosions of mythical energy in a sense

[weary hedge]

Mayhaps but you need not be disrespectful conqueror

I simply asked a question

[stark crescent]

How dare you

[vapid galleon]

what's your question? you guys just said i was drunk and claimed there was no second explosion/disaster

[vernal lily]

come on guys, isn't this all nothing but funny banter

[vapid galleon]

no need to get some lore knowledge man

[weary hedge]

I did not. I was just curious what you were talking about when you said 2 nukes/explosions happened in the zone.

[vapid galleon]

it can't be the other way

[shell flax]

I was confused because you kept insisting on the nuke thing

[toxic river]

Goooood morning from murkoff how goes thy day

[wooden walrus]

I got my boss interested in roadside picnic when I told him I had gotten stalker 2, and he actually really liked the book

[weary hedge]

You are confusing things with the Noosphere

[wooden walrus]

however he was disappointed when I told him stalker is not just the videogame adaptation of RP

he actually raised a good question which was, why

[shell flax]

Deploying Chris walker

[vapid galleon]

I only said the nuke thing once and it was a pun I made. stop digging, play Clear Sky

[vernal lily]

[vapid galleon]

[weary hedge]

🫡

[wooden walrus]

I'm not sure if GSC just was concerned about intellectual property rights, or if they just wanted to mix in the whole Vernadsky angle to the story

[shell flax]

You know, for saying you don’t mean any aggression.

You’re being pretty aggressive.

[weary hedge]

I guess I’ve never played clear sky

[vernal lily]

He's the conqueror afterall

[weary hedge]

I’ve officially been conquered

[vapid galleon]

this is maybe caused to English not being my native language, sorry

[vapid galleon]

you sould play

[shell flax]

He has

[weary hedge]

[vapid galleon]

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/scar-stalker-pibb-xtra-clear-sky-gif-14605512341377138525

[vernal lily]

Thank god Al to the rescue

[weary hedge]

What is your favorite part about clear sky?

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/explaining-stalker-сталкер-флинт-сигма-gif-15010663227243103228

[hardy totem]

For me it's capturing the bandit base with the loners and having them occupy it

[weary hedge]

Teach me how such a thing can be achieved 🤩

[hardy totem]

Wil a 30 minute video do?

[shell flax]

Hey I found em

5.11 tactical hardtimes 2 gloves

[weary hedge]

If that actually exists. Yes 😆

[hardy totem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFwme_K7hC0

[vernal lily]

woah, Al voice reveal

[hardy totem]

-# /selfpromotion

[weary hedge]

Bro you made this video? Awesome sauce 😎

Thank you good sir

[hardy totem]

I should redo the audio, my mic setup was... suboptimal

[weary hedge]

You should make more trilogy content. I’ll subscribe

[hardy totem]

Somewhere down the line I'm planning on making a video on how to fully upgrade the SEVA suit you get from the loners for defeating the bandits

But

Got another project I wanna do first

[vapid galleon]

Gamma rework

[wooden walrus]

gamma harder

[weary hedge]

Well hell yeah. I’ve got notis turned on🤟

[vernal lily]

ruh oh molt is online

[weary hedge]

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/mouse-hamster-run-fast-speed-up-gif-21940488

[wooden walrus]

And?

We expecting something?

[shell flax]

Molt about to hit someone with a Lesnar F5 or something

[hardy totem]

He's gonna smash my kneecaps for posting my sh!t without content creator role

[vernal lily]

time for me to go back into the cupboards

[wooden walrus]

He's probably just going to post the announcement about gamma launching on steam guys dw

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/mouse-hamster-run-fast-speed-up-gif-21940488

[weary hedge]

Ban wave?

[floral elm]

MOOOLL11TT GIVE US MORE GSC ANSWERSS

[ebon blade]

You were specifically answering a question.

[hardy totem]

Cupboards are the best place to hide from an emission. Kruglov scientifically proved this accidentally when he was hiding from Sakharov for unrelated reasons

[shell flax]

I’m just picturing molt recreating the breakfast sticker rn wondering wtf we’re talking about

[hardy totem]

See? Perfectly safe from emissions and military stalkers with poor situational awareness!

[weary hedge]

We need more stickers fr

[wooden walrus]

Sure why not

[hardy totem]

#emojis-and-stickers-suggestions put your suggestions here

[wooden walrus]

Considering how consistent cover from an emission works over the series, this may as well be canon

[hardy totem]

I love how in CS agroprom underground is not emission safe

[weary hedge]

Someone already added one of mine which I’m still happy about

[wooden walrus]

Lol really

[weary hedge]

Could use some zoom tho lol

[shell flax]

God I wish we could do animated stickers

[hardy totem]

We can't?

[wooden walrus]

Meanwhile skif just crouching in the middle of a house with gaping holes in all 4 walls and no roof: perfectly safe

[shell flax]

Actually do we have any Korshunov stickers

I haven’t slept in over 24 hours, bear with my dumbass a bit lmao

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/korshunov-stalker-2-stalker-stalker2-ward-gif-4316907427003349762

We need this as sticker

[wooden walrus]

I think there are animated stickers but only for nitro suckers members

[weary hedge]

You need some non stop

[shell flax]

I just want a zoomed in image of one of Korshunov’s utterly disgusted expressions during one of Dalin’s rants

[hardy totem]

Sleep deprivation fueled ideas are the best ideas

[hardy totem]

If you can get me a nice screenshot of that I can cut it out if you want

[weary hedge]

We also need a sticker for every mutant. Maybe some more trilogy ones too

[shell flax]

I’ll try and get one later today, I’ve also got a screenshot of a monolithian in tier 3 NVGs just chilling at a table I might submit as well

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[hardy totem]

Oh that's a good one

"Live monolithian reaction"

[shell flax]

Perfect

[weary hedge]

I think s2 nimble is deserving of one so let me try and make a good one of heem

[shell flax]

The animation of him utterly slugging Skif

[hardy totem]

I do prefer SoC nimble

[weary hedge]

Me too but I think GSC is more lenient to stalker 2 stuff.

[hardy totem]

This is true

[shell flax]

#📸┃screens_and_videos another version

That’s the same monolithian btw, just earlier in that save

[hardy totem]

Handsome boi lol

[shell flax]

I physically watched him upgrade from the jacket all the way up to a diamond but he never left Yaniv

[hardy totem]

Bro really didn't wanna go through zircon

[shell flax]

He’s wearing a zircon under the jacket, just minus the chest pouches

I like to think that was his expression the entire time btw, just mild disgust

[vapid galleon]

Master

[shell flax]

Now for the sticker: should the background be cut out or would it be funnier to keep it

[hardy totem]

Yeah I'd like to customize my cosplay by putting a trenchcoat over it like that too, but trenchcoats that could pass for bandit/monolith tranchcoats are hard to.come by around here

[sharp sierra]

Oh weird question did anyone notice the X7 suits have no psi protection? I keep thinking this will be important later down the line in a future DLC.

[shell flax]

It’s an upgrade for the suit

[shell flax]

I’m hunting pieces down for a Merc kit

Substituting the fingerless gloves for the Wolfhound style gloves

[ebon blade]

Trenchcoats hard to come by? Really? Why?

[hardy totem]

Around here it's all fancy fashionable trenchcoats

[shell flax]

Think it’s that specific style rather then trench coats in general

[hardy totem]

It's awful

[shell flax]

I’m probably gonna get a softshell jacket to go under my vest for the Merc kit

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/fashion-roll-working-it-walk-this-way-ootd-gif-15834540

[shell flax]

Especially since it gets cold as shit here

[hardy totem]

Good environment for thick cosplays

Last time I walked around in gasmask it was 30 f-ing degrees celsius, not recommended...

[shell flax]

Originally I wanted to do Ward but I ain’t got the cash nor time to recreate the padded fatigues

Or stuff to sacrifice for practice

[shell flax]

I might need to cut the mask for now and go with a balaclava

Likely the one hole style from 2

Then I can grab a mask later on

[hardy totem]

Balaclava always works

You could put it on an exoskeleton and no one would bat an eye

[shell flax]

Considering the cloth neck cover in 2 they honestly might wear one under the helmet

Trying to find a good vest to add later on for the suit that won’t bankrupt me or be supreme dogshit in quality

[weary hedge]

Had a change of mind and decided to make a star and wolf one. I’ll probably make a nimble one tomorrow

[vapid galleon]

[vapid galleon]

Stalkers don't get sick easily

[nocturne hatch]

like in ETS 2 sleep system, you get random blackouts if you don't sleep xD

[primal nimbus]

Consumed a sleep aid pill as I read all this and its effects are working

[nocturne hatch]

in S2 sleep deprivation should be added penalties on stamina,aiming,and even mental effects like skif is seeing phantoms like in the areas with psy-effects

[primal nimbus]

Time for me to change this

[primal nimbus]

Yeah more of a struggle to remain awake

[vapid galleon]

wdym

[primal nimbus]

Dw about it

[nocturne hatch]

but sleep deprivation should be an a feature where you can have a toggle to disable or enable it

[vapid galleon]

wdym

[weary hedge]

I need this in real life

[coral shadow]

True, could be cool if we had customized diff

[primal nimbus]

As I said.

Dw about it

[primal nimbus]

Mods

[cyan sparrow]

Surprisingly the game runs far better now, comparing to my last sessions in January. Placebo?

[primal nimbus]

Its getting the No Man’s Sky treatment

[weary hedge]

GSC has been actively optimizing performance and continues to do so.

[cyan sparrow]

Fair.

[weary hedge]

Still some cracks in the mainframe for some but overall has come a long way.

[primal nimbus]

I was glad to be there when Bloodsuckers take 30-40 shotgun shells to kill

[weary hedge]

Me thinking that was normal

[cyan sparrow]

Music to my ears, are the softlocks eliminated in main story?

[floral elm]

Didint have any on 2 playthroughs

[primal nimbus]

Despite 2 being my 1st, I knew the tanky Bloodsuckers ain’t normal

[weary hedge]

Yes. Iffy i can’t guarantee that if you use mods tho.

[floral elm]

By the way do you think we will be getting more side quests in 1.7? I would really love to have more duty/ freedom/ the corps quests. Also some cut ones like Noah

[weary hedge]

I thought it was just GSCs way of making the game harder

[cyan sparrow]

So far i'm into next pt without any mods.

[primal nimbus]

Zulu coup

-# Enables Freedom Duty war, as a result.

[primal nimbus]

Us Mercs can feast on that.

[weary hedge]

You should be fine then. If you run into any issues feel free to report them here and me or someone else here can help you

[floral elm]

I feel like thats more of a DLC material for them to go with the enitre ,,faction war" (especially if you do a little digging). But more Zulu quests would be great

[primal nimbus]

I know but the Merc in me tingles whenever I hear the dialogue at each base

Sense I smell contracts. Contracts mean better gear and more bullets

More bullets to ensure who or what it’s for stays down.

[floral elm]

Same, same. Speaking of mercs, I really think it would be great idea for merc Hub in burnt forest. The area is quite desolate and far from other hubs like malachite and chemical plant (which can become hostile depending on choices)

[primal nimbus]

Once heard it was in Dead City for the Mercs

[floral elm]

Its in the anomaly but in OG trilogy they have no hubs (only small camps). I think burnt forest would be very fitting bonus points if they add new side quests

[primal nimbus]

Figures. The ‘best’ stalker

[weary hedge]

They basically controlled Pripyat and Limansk at one point

CoP

[primal nimbus]

Merc moment

[floral elm]

oh I'm replaying it right now, probably missed it being mentioned

and I wasnt to prypiat yet so thats probably why

[weary hedge]

Jackal was their leader. He definitely had a good thing going for the boys.

[primal nimbus]

Us Mercs need a comeback. A mad one

[stark crescent]

Soft locks?

[vapid galleon]

BE ADVISED

[stark crescent]

Ok

[vapid galleon]

enemy chopper in the area

[still current]

I honestly only had one during my second playthrough playing ward questline. There was a certain door that didn't wish to open, but weirdly enough, I managed to get it to open repeating the same quest from an earlier save once or twice.
First playthrough was flawless if you don't count the zalisiya defense mission.

[vernal lily]

same

[still current]

Where is it? I'll take it down for you

[weary hedge]

Knife it

[cyan sparrow]

Actually i was thinking explicitly about zalisiya, by mentioning softlocks. xD

[still current]

It wasn't an issue in my second playthrough hehe. Softlock is basically blocked story progression and zalysia defense is a side quest for that part.

doubt we can call it a true softlock, but yeah. Turns out it was a really nice quest for a change

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-ren-and-stimpy-sad-sick-insomnia-gif-26991066

[vernal lily]

If such features exist I wouldn't be up at 5 am right now

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-ren-and-stimpy-sad-sick-insomnia-gif-26991066

[weary hedge]

Humans need the no sleep requirement update. I’d be chill with that

[still current]

Run for master

[weary hedge]

Tis but a purple name

[still current]

Become yellow

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

Maybe in a few months

[still current]

How far?

[vernal lily]

Looks like I am finally at level 45, still so far away from piss yellow role.

[weary hedge]

I’m lvl 40

[vernal lily]

It took me I think 3-4 months to reach purple. I had a lot of images to send at that time, heard they worth more xp.

[weary hedge]

So close but so far. It be what it be tho. I’ll send my GIF links regardless 😂

[weary hedge]

I’ve seen someone say this. Not sure how true it is tho lol

[hoary crest]

Took me like a month, I guess I talk too much

No wonder I keep alerting those pesky Monolithians

[vernal lily]

I think I heard Tejas say it, but who knows. I do know usually being in voice chats unmuted gets you a lot of xp, not sure that's how the rank system works on this server tho.

Most of my yappin then came from trying to help people with the game, but now since I haven't played for so long I can only do so much.

[weary hedge]

Really? I never see anyone in the voice chats

[weary hedge]

Real

I also just like talking about stalker so

[vernal lily]

If the voice chat xp system is true over here, wonder if I do actually have to say anything. I have a second mute button on my headset, could just leave discord unmuted and stream something.

[still current]

I'm 10 Levels away from legend I think

[vernal lily]

What's your level right now? The legend rank is at 70

[weary hedge]

Noice. How long does it take you for one level? A couple weeks?😂

[still current]

60 (almost 61)

[still current]

Yeah, I might need half a year or so haha

[weary hedge]

Sounds about right

[still current]

Never said it will be tmrw

Took vasim 3 years or more lmao

4+ *

To reach it

I'm still on record

I'm still top 30

Rank 29

Someone got my older rank (28)

[weary hedge]

That’s quite the grind/time for a role. It’s a cool little feature tho. Mainly just wanna share some gameplay and gifs here lolz

[hoary crest]

How does one check their level?

[vernal lily]

tis upon a time, you couldn't even send gifs everywhere on legend role

[still current]

It's not for the role vasim wasn't trying at all, and that's why it took that long.

[vernal lily]

But looks like that has changed now

[weary hedge]

So I’ve heard

[charred nova]

When you become high rollers like us takes a while

[still current]

Also, role reward was basically introduced few months ago, so before, it wasn't even a thing.

[charred nova]

Yup

Took a while to convince mol1t to give master and above image perms

[vernal lily]

silly molt

[still current]

! Rank(but without the space)

[weary hedge]

I rarely see him around these parts much anymore. But yeah that makes sense.

[charred nova]

Gonna have to try and convince him of the purge

[hoary crest]

Sadge, apparently not :/

[weary hedge]

It’s /

Not !

[still current]

Already a high roller. Highest one could be. Being red and all hehehe

[hoary crest]

Lel

[vernal lily]

[charred nova]

It’s been a long time coming

[still current]

I know my commands.
/ is app and ! Is bot. Both work

[charred nova]

I’m sure you know what I mean

I explained it to you when you were on staff

[vernal lily]

yes

[weary hedge]

Ah. I’ve never been able to get the ! To work

[charred nova]

Unfortunately some of the civil servants have not been meeting production quotas thus they must be sent away

[still current]

I suggested a change and we held a fair vote (not for the thing to be adopted but for conditions being either veteran+ or master +. Ofc the latter got the win)

[weary hedge]

As in mods?

[charred nova]

Perhaps

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

Awe.

[charred nova]

I got personal grudges to settle you’d have to be mod for me to explain

[still current]

Super determined

[charred nova]

I am

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

Well I hope not too many people have to go away. Especially you @ebon blade I like the convos you bring here and ur screenshots

[vernal lily]

[charred nova]

Nah not him

[vapid galleon]

hey guys how can I reach CNPP? also i want to be ric

[weary hedge]

Good

[vernal lily]

[still current]

Jack jacking around

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/you-don't-invincible-omni-man-jk-simmons-that's-the-neat-thing-gif-4390372980992221432

[still current]

[vapid galleon]

next bus in 12 minutes

will go there

[charred nova]

As second I command of en moderators gotta help drive the ship in the right direction

[still current]

You saying I'm first in command? (Ik you mean crimson lmao)

[sudden rapids]

I love all of your cat stickers ❤️

[still current]

[charred nova]

But in all seriousness we got people like tec that could be mod

Instead of random shitters who don’t do anything

[vapid galleon]

I love all Stalkers

[elfin niche]

Is honta good for selling mutant parts?

[charred nova]

And Tampico

And Faust

[still current]

It's not the place

[vernal lily]

[charred nova]

Perhaps not

[charred nova]

I mean I can’t even use my favorite remark

Or reply video here

[still current]

your chance is coming up. You know what I mean

[weary hedge]

Ive found Hamster and Eugene are best for selling to and Vicky in Malachite is best for contracts.

[weary hedge]

Ehh I don’t need a role to resolve problems and help people but I’m open to the offer

Also not sure what the rules are so

For being a mod that is

[charred nova]

Rage bait regularly and be based

[vernal lily]

Yes

bonus points if you bring the Rog out of someone during that said rage bait

[charred nova]

Then you can ban them

Total moderator victory

[weary hedge]

Until you make someone angry cough* cough*🤣

[vernal lily]

I never got the chance to ban anyone like that, nothing but scammers 🥀

[still current]

We call emm scambois nowadays

[elfin niche]

Does it matter where I sell my guns, I feel like I’m getting chump change for my weapons

[charred nova]

I’m so fucken dialed right now holy shit

[charred wind]

Can I ask spoiler questions in this channel?

[charred nova]

Addies and monster are hitting different today

[charred wind]

Okay, I fought Faust. I had the Suppressor upgrade on my SEVA suit, but I still had to fight Faust's illusions.

My SEVA suit was below 50% durability at that point, possibly, if that matters.

[weary hedge]

Sorry lol

[weary hedge]

Ragman will buy broken weapons off you. Every other trader works for anything else

[elfin niche]

Oh so it doesn’t really matter pretty much

[vernal lily]

Those red weapons can't be completely depleted tho, or even he won't buy them off of you. Unless that has changed after the updates.

[vernal lily]

This is the spoiler channel basically so you're safe

[weary hedge]

I like to run the contracts for an extra bang for my buck. Sell my artifacts to Vicky at malachite. Everything else I’ll just sell to the closest buyer.

[lucid charm]

Fausts illusions will show up regardless, you need to look for the light during the boss fight

[lucid charm]

That reminds me, don’t the corps vendors buy stuff for way higher prices or am I crazy

[charred wind]

Thanks, @lucid charm I have defeated Faust. Just wondered what was up. This is what Google A.I. says about it "In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the Suppressor upgrade does not stop Faust's illusions because the figures you fight are not illusions at all—they are real Monolith soldiers that Faust has psychically cloaked to look like himself. The Suppressor protects against non-physical, phantom-like enemies, not psychically disguised physical threats. "

[vernal lily]

Took me a little under 3 minutes during that boss fight only looking at those large lamps and the small one on his hip.

[weary hedge]

Oh lol the suppressor doesn’t negate all psi induced illusions.

[lucid charm]

Now if only it worked against Psi radiation illusions and paidogs

[weary hedge]

His clones are part of the fight

[vernal lily]

weapons or armor sellers sell for a lot, compared to those like bar keep.

[charred wind]

I felt bad for killing Faust in the end. Strange, because he was definitely trying to kill me.

[weary hedge]

He’s an interesting fellow. To each their own

[lucid charm]

Indoctrinated

[charred wind]

You mean I have been brainwashed by the Monolith?

[charred wind]

3A means "for the"?

[lucid charm]

Be monolith

[charred wind]

Ah. lol

[vernal lily]

za monolit basically, 'the monolith' as Luci said.

[weary hedge]

[charred wind]

Surprised only 27% of players on Steam have defeated Faust. I wonder if that means about 3 out of 4 players only give Stalker 2 a try and move on to another game?

[vernal lily]

lol

[lucid charm]

Unfortunately

[weary hedge]

Sheesh you’d be surprised.

[vernal lily]

They pissed themselves when they grabbed Faust's hand and he dropped them on their head

[weary hedge]

Some are still exploring. Others, well the game wasn’t very kind to them.

[vernal lily]

[charred wind]

lol, I trusted Faust, too. Had to resume from the Last Save.

[weary hedge]

He’s a philosopher

[vernal lily]

I still remember that night, it was also my first choice. Kinda pissed because it was when the game shat itself whenever I used the scope on my gun.

[lucid charm]

Faust needs skif to be more than just another monolithian, he needs skif to be someone who can operate independently

[charred wind]

Yeah, Sesame A.I.'s Maya told me that Faust referred to a German philosopher who wrote about reality and illusion?

[vernal lily]

I challenge him on a philosophy debate, I took several classes for my then major.

[weary hedge]

I only recently decided to take his hand for the first time (for research purposes) can’t say I was entirely surprised.

[charred wind]

Debates usually go to the better Sophist rather than the better thinker.

[vernal lily]

I just have fun with such debates on that topic, it's interesting how people think.

Can't imagine how that would go with Faust tho, I probably would be brainwashed without knowing

[weary hedge]

There’s alot of factors behind philosophy. But yes thinking isn’t always the biggest factor. I’d like to say spiritual purpose plays a bigger factor.

[vernal lily]

yes. Said name based on his work, at least the one my current nick name is referring too (there's two authors). Dr Faust is a character from Goethe's play Faust part 1 & 2.

I think there's even a pda in game quoting his work

pda or note of some sort, I forgot

[raven monolith]

I think it might be related to Goethe's play about a man named Faust who made a deal with the devil. Faust makes various wishes that the devil fulfills in a monkey's paw way. When at the end Faust in frustration tells the devil he doesn't ever want to see him again, the devil takes away his sight.

[vernal lily]

One difference is Faust from Goethe's did ended up getting some sort of redemption. Meanwhile the one in Faust stalker 2 didn't. Sadge.

[weary hedge]

How do you think his redemption would pan out if he did get one in stalker 2?

[vernal lily]

No idea actually, haven't really thought of it lol.

I was thinking of writing it out a few months ago to spark my still existing writer's block. But forgot to do it.

[weary hedge]

That’s fair

[vernal lily]

Would probably need to refresh on the lore and all, because haven't really touched the game in a while.

[weary hedge]

I get that. There sure is a lot to it lol

[smoky lintel]

Has anyone gotten a fix for the crashing when loading saves? It IS NOT a mod thing. It happens with Vanilla version as well.

[misty salmon]

Game doesn’t like you apparently (I don’t know what it is)

[smoky lintel]

Yeah its trying to make me leave the Zone but I just can't

[vernal lily]

strelok moment

[weary hedge]

idi komne

[vernal lily]

Corrupted save 🤔

But I have no idea either

[smoky lintel]

Well the thing is I can load the save but it crashes on loading like half the time but I can play for hours with no crashes its only when loading saves

ands its not the same saves either

[weary hedge]

Gonna need to provide more deets. It’s also possible to find someone who stumbled across the same issue in #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[vernal lily]

Something funny going on for sure (I have no clue)

[smoky lintel]

Im going to try a fresh install again see if that works

[vernal lily]

I hope it works out

[weary hedge]

Verify your files before you commit to that.

[vernal lily]

yes

maybe a bad time to answer questions because I had a couple of shots few minutes ago

[weary hedge]

My boy livin

[charred nova]

You’re due for your adderall injection

[smoky lintel]

I did that yesterday. I have a few mods from months ago that aren't just in the mods folder so I'm just deleting all Stalker 2 files then going to reinstall ones my save may be dependent on

[weary hedge]

Which mods?

[weary hedge]

1.6 broke a lot of them^

[smoky lintel]

Yeah my issue is I uninstalled all mods and unsubscribed to my workshop ones. then started a new fresh save and still had the crashing when loading saves so it must be something in some directory somewhere for some older mod i'm thinking

If it still happens with the reinstall and wiping all of that then idk whats up with it

[brittle trout]

Seeing your mod list would help to figure out what's going on

[weary hedge]

Most likely. If it’s a mod that edits or replaces a lot of files you are going to run into that issue. Which is why I asked for specifics. There’s also people in #en-mods-general that understand more about these specific mods.

[brittle trout]

Can't think of mods that have released that could brick your install on all playthtoughs even when uninstalled but on the flip side unreal engine 5 is absolutely unstable

Read/write permissions in your save folder perhaps?

[weary hedge]

Run as administrator

[smoky lintel]

Yeah if I couldn't load saves at all or if it crashed during gameplay then it would make more sense to me but its just like 3/4 times it crashes trying to load a save. once it loads i can play for hours upon hours with no crashes its just loading saves when i press any key to continue. then it actually has a thing come up mentioning player camera or something.

let me type out my mods, Most i have switched to workshop.

[stark crescent]

To defeat faust, follow these easy steps.

1. Find an rpg-7
2. Load the rpg-7
3. When in the battle with faust, shoot the rpg-7
4. When downed, fire at his life less corpse again for good measure

[brittle trout]

Did that on my first playthrough, wholeheartedly agree

[stark crescent]

I killed faust with a 100% damaged rpg 7. It miss fired the first 2 times. But he didnt had the 3 times luck

[brittle trout]

Faustian roulette

[smoky lintel]

Workshop mods: (crashes were happening Prior to installing these)
No Headshot Sound
Real Longer Days - 2 hours
Better Vaulting + Better Stamina Usage
Shay's Impacts!!
Shay's: Bloodsplats!!
Dynamic Weather Overhaul - complete
No Anomaly Detection Sound
Alternative Eye Adaptation
Hairless Tushkan 35% Chance
Hairless Blind Dogs 35% Chance
Snork No Mask 25%
Bloodsucker Glowing Eyes
Shay's: Realistic Death Animations
Shay's Living Zone - Gold
Weapon Reposition Project- Vanilla Plus
Planks Retexture
Enhanced Combat VFX
Cinematic Bullet Impacts
More Realistic Forest
Bar Drinking Activity
Cozy Fire Places
Classic Trilogy Flashlight

Nexus:
Lower Consumables/ammo/grenades weight
No crouch Vignette
Player_Gestures - Downloaded after crashes

I was pretty much just accepting the crashes and kept playing since once I am loaded in I have no issues. just loading the saves is broken atm

[weary hedge]

That boy done installed the whole damn workshop

[vernal lily]

You don't even need an rpg to kill Faust. The tiniest pistol you can find would work even.

[floral elm]

Thats genius, I like to use RPG to one tap hornheads, especially oj that one side quest from hunters in red forest

[smoky lintel]

Yeah I had most of these on Nexus but saw them get moved to workshop

After finishing my first full playthrough I just mod to hell and hope for the best. But mostly its just aesthetic stuff

[vernal lily]

I should not be online right now, my pc monitor is starting to look wobbly 🥀

[smoky lintel]

Also I hate the stamina in this game

[brittle trout]

It's weird that your saves sometimes don't load if all of this is removed, only thing I can think of is if steam has a weird separate mod staging folder or if your ~mods folder is still there

[weary hedge]

Personally I can see a number of these causing problems. But I would copy and paste that in #en-mods-general to see what would be the cause of your crash.

[smoky lintel]

Oh i double check to clear it all out. I am thinking it is something from beginning of the year that is not in the normal modding folders possibly

[weary hedge]

Catch some ZzZzZzZzZ

[smoky lintel]

I have not done a clean install since release AND i finished the game on my first save in the first week so some of the mods may have been there awhile

[smoky hawk]

if a mod you have relies on changed items, the save that has tbose saved items will crash upon noticing those items gone

[brittle trout]

Interesting, say are you using reshade or anything that would be stuck in your root folder as well

[smoky lintel]

Aside from ones i regularly updated

[vernal lily]

the vodka is having an espresso effect on me . I am not smart.

[smoky lintel]

Yeah thats part of why I stopped using project itemization because I didn't want to constantly update it.

[weary hedge]

It is a stimulant after all

[brittle trout]

Indeed, but chucanator's save seems to be 100% vanilla, no mods. I'd personally blame unreal 5 and steam being as stable as Scar's sanity

[vernal lily]

meanwhile coffee puts me right to sleep

[smoky lintel]

I am not sure. I actually am already at 80% reinstall, The vanilla test is why I think i may have something broken OR something not in my normal mod folders that is causing it

[weary hedge]

I can never feel awake enough. Even with some coffee. I am in a constant mellow state🤣

[brittle trout]

Yeah honestly I think that's the most straightforward option

[smoky lintel]

I have fiber so the download is already done I am going to test it out now

[brittle trout]

Rpg-7 your old install in the same fashion you would faust

[smoky hawk]

stuff that appears like it doesnt add anything may add stuff due to how messy S2s backendjis

[smoky lintel]

Yeah UE5 is bad. My crash not directly says something about Playeritem camera so its not attaching the camera or something

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-sleeping-cat-falling-chi-neuvifuri-gif-11200787940666803033

[smoky hawk]

the problem is how S2 was made not with UE5 in particular

lotta strange stuff tied to the singleton which acts as the player instance
for some reason

[smoky lintel]

Yeah they updated part way through or something. Kinda like tarkov with Unity so its a jumbled garbage mess

[brittle trout]

Hopefully the engine update will clear some of the backend spaghetti too, can only hope

[smoky hawk]

only if they take the time to untangle it which
would slow down the port

[weary hedge]

Most have high hopes for the update. Time can only tell.

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-leaf-vibes-vibing-sleeping-cat-gif-17297041570420202318

[weary hedge]

Nature cat 🧙‍♂️

[smoky lintel]

well lets see if the fresh install helped

[worn drum]

anyone else noticing rendering issues with mutants?

like pseudo dogs and rodents

[smoky lintel]

SOOO 3 different save loads and no crashes so i guess i needed a fresh install. and thats with all the mods active

[weary hedge]

Beautiful.

[smoky lintel]

Yes its so nice to not have the game crash every other time I fall to my death

[weary hedge]

Are there things that got censored with the enhanced edition of classic games?

cause im like 3-4 hours into Stalker SoC enhanced and just learning abt this now

I want to have the original full experience without censors

[cyan sparrow]

Can you elaborate your research?

[primal nimbus]

Yeah. Soviet symbolism got censored.
-# For good reason.

[weary hedge]

is it like small things?

or is there a video thats showing the comparison?

[sudden rapids]

Yea small things tbh

You won't miss anything if you have not played the original games

[charred nova]

Ehhhhh

Still think it’s kinda cringe

[weary hedge]

But thats the theme of the game kinda

theres still soviet symbolism irl in eastern countries

[primal nimbus]

Is it really? I thought it was a picnic on the roadside.

[charred nova]

Uh no it’s Pripyat

[weary hedge]

I might just play the enhanced editions. And maybe replay the old ones then

[charred nova]

Which last time anyone lives there was a Soviet city

[sudden rapids]

I mean stuff they removed stuff that exists in the real zone but it's not like they removed content or anything

[weary hedge]

achoevements are also cool

[primal nimbus]

I interpreted the game as something else. Like an adventure in a world of its own

[charred nova]

Censoring art is dumb

Game was made the way it was made

Don’t change it

[weary hedge]

yeah I think I even saw some soviet paintings and art on buildings

is there a video showing the differences?

[primal nimbus]

Iirc there was a soviet star that got removed. (Been a while)

[charred nova]

Stalker 2 also had Soviet stars actually

They exist in the leaked 2023 build

[sudden rapids]

Also the hammer & sickle statue at flea market

[weary hedge]

I saw a hammer and sickle statue before the border of dutys barkeep

I don’t like the change of military and how the people act

theres a destroyed building with a stash

[charred nova]

Like I understand ua guys some don’t like the censoring some do but

I always thought Pripyat it’s self stood as a monument to the failure of the Soviet system

Which allowed such a disaster to happen

Doesn’t glorify the Soviet system or communism

Does the exact opposite

[primal nimbus]

Lies can get one only so far

[charred nova]

That’s just my 2 cents on the matter

[weary hedge]

A game about a soviet crisis shouldnt censor soviet art or symbolism

[charred nova]

It’s not really about it

It’s just a set piece

[weary hedge]

Big part tho

[charred nova]

For an entirely fantasy narrative

[weary hedge]

I get it. Might aswell keep politics out of the game

[charred nova]

Hardly politics

Soviets are dead and gone

[wicked magnet]

There are Soviet posters in Rostok hub and Duty's base

[charred nova]

There is just some larper parading the corpse around

[vernal lily]

Conversation is taking me back to a time in May

[weary hedge]

Indeed. There’s still people that carry that symbolism with them tho. Might aswell leave that sad story behind

[charred nova]

Yah those people are fat gay losers

https://tenor.com/view/1984-george-orwell-george-orwell-1984-1984-chips-1984-ruffles-gif-7144052804264359069

Tankies are the largest losers around

I can’t even accurately describe my distain for these people in this chat

Id need to break out the banned language book and start reading from the top

[weary hedge]

Me too. And fascists.

[charred nova]

Like to most functional members of society

Soviet symbols don’t invoke a feeling of support

Let’s just leave it at that

[tall hawk]

deadass there's no difference

[vapid galleon]

which movie/series/game is the original of this scene from?

[tall hawk]

I think a Mac advertisement from 1984 that parodied the book/movie

[weary hedge]

Racial supremacist ideology and class-based ideology are not the same.

[frigid hill]

gamrknight has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

I even got a problem with normal edition, The game stutters crazy if im near campfires

[vernal lily]

Some difference, but they both belong in the same group of slop

[tall hawk]

they both devolve into racist supremacy anyways

[weary hedge]

Agreed.

[weary hedge]

Obviously.

[vernal lily]

Wolf's logic: can say the word 'shit' but not if you attach the word 'bull' in front of it.

[sudden rapids]

My dear friend Wolf ❤️ I miss him sending me level up messages. Been a while

[shrewd needle]

Bulls deserve better than to be degraded like that.

Wolf looking out for fellow members of the animal kingdom.

[stark crescent]

shit

that word used to be censored.

[frigid hill]

jeruzalemisreal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stark crescent]

f word is still censored.

[hardy totem]

thank you for making sure

[robust pendant]

Maybe you should try again. It's the 3rd one that does it

[stark crescent]

im always glad to help out where ever i can

jeruzalemisreal has been warned
Reason: Bad word usage

[robust pendant]

I guess the 3rd one didn't do it

[stark crescent]

why dont i ahve image perms but i can make freaking polls

[vernal lily]

Oh damn we can make polls here lol

[drifting bear]

These changes will not affect your gameplay anyways and will not add a mysterious atmosphere

[stark crescent]

why is this not censored! is very grave polish swear!

[robust pendant]

They add to the story tho

[stark crescent]

what story? CCCP dissolved in stalker world, same as our world. the zone didnt exist until 1996, well after the dissolvement

[robust pendant]

It wasnt game changing for me, but you definitively notice the absence. And the whole plot is based around military doing wrong things and soviet politics stuff

[robust pendant]

They make up story for the events that happened

[gray relic]

11:11 make a wish

[robust pendant]

Imagine Half Life 2 without the authoritanisn posters and news of Breen

Thats basically what happened here

[crystal geyser]

does anyone know which technician installs the Tactical Laser for anything I am in the main city and still says the technician cant install this upgrade

[robust pendant]

You can ignore it? Yes (although there are dialogs referencing to them)
Not everyone cares? True
It only adds to the experience and story of the game? Absolutely

[crystal geyser]

or the NVG adaption

[gray relic]

Aint nobody tryna fish over here

[north thistle]

Im actually in school rn

But hey guys

[vernal lily]

Radiated catfish exists in real life Chornobyl, just imagine the creatures one would catch in the game.

[shell flax]

2006 but yeah still

[gray relic]

Id go fishing if I could shoot the fish

[robust pendant]

Oh, and even if organizations dissolved, the ideals and objectives were left there

[vernal lily]

Spear fishing

[stark crescent]

What? No im sure. 1996 c conciousness lost control and caused the zone.

[vernal lily]

Harpoons or something like that

[robust pendant]

It was 2006 when the zone was formed

[shell flax]

Nope, the zone was formed in 2006 after the second disaster

[gray relic]

Spear fishing on a boat

[stark crescent]

Bah. I hate it when my memories are wrong

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/The_Zone

I re read the history. I dont know why 1996 was the date in my head

[stark crescent]

people gonna be so confused when random polls finish this time tomorrow

[jagged zinc]

How often do mods get added to the game? I’m on xbox myself

[north thistle]

My mom just got dismissed me from school early

My mom goated fr fr

Texted her that I was tired and asked her to pick me up and she delivered

[coral shadow]

YOOOO THEY ADDED IT FINALLY UGH

Debug new game start for console(mod)

@stark crescent brother are you gonna try it?

[winter oar]

any1 know when i see richter agian after siding w ward in sirca

also whats difference of going to the sphere vs wild island after sirca when siding w ward

[plain vigil]

hi

new guy here

[vernal lily]

Hi

[hardy totem]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[coral shadow]

Sup

[stark crescent]

try what? what did htey add?

the battlemaid catgirls?

[coral shadow]

debug start game, no missions, no limited map, just you and 500k coupons and you survive in the zone

[stark crescent]

they added battle royale?

[coral shadow]

nah

it seems more like a survival mode

[stark crescent]

hmm

a survival mode. not limited to the story

[coral shadow]

yup

map's mission limited gates should be all unlocked

[stark crescent]

will this be added later or through a mod?

[coral shadow]

bud

[stark crescent]

bud light?

[vernal lily]

[coral shadow]

go to screen and vids

[stark crescent]

sorry, but i just couldnt let it pass

[stark crescent]

yea i saw. a mod that simply removes story requirements

[coral shadow]

no, it disables story, story limited gates, and gives you 500k, it can be easily converted to a survival playthrough

[plain fiber]

No problemo! Watch out btw, there are some spots on the roof with no collision.

Y'know, instead of multiplayer maybe they can put that time and resources towards a high-quality, single-player, Anomaly/GAMMA-esque freeplay-hardcore-survival mode.

[stark crescent]

ye, but half the game is the story. without the story, you only have half a game. and not even much of a good one. not many side quests. unless you going the "another settlement needs our help" route

[coral shadow]

nah, lowkey i want an explore mode where there are no enemies, no anomalies, no emissions, you just explore prypriat

[shell flax]

That sounds boring as sin

[wooden walrus]

Did someone say gamma?

[coral shadow]

exploring the chernobyl's city that was involved in the chernobyl disaster doesn't seem that bad, though it can be boring if you want continuous dopamine stimulation

[wooden walrus]

I was alerted by the gamma shadow council

[shell flax]

you’re tearing out a huge chunk of the games identity so yes it’s boring

[coral shadow]

i aint saying that the devs need to make it

[shell flax]

I didn’t either I was just commenting that it’s a weird mod idea because at that point you aren’t playing Stalker

[coral shadow]

Stalker can be a lot of things

[wooden walrus]

I mean a big chunk of the game's identity is the exploration of dilapidated chornobyl, that much is true

[coral shadow]

like fortnite battle Royale with nicki minaj!!!

[wooden walrus]

However the only thing gsc can realistically do about it is hide stashes around the place

[coral shadow]

yup

[wooden walrus]

Or like maybe a puzzle for a combo lock

[vernal lily]

Like squirrels hiding nuts for the winter

[wooden walrus]

I love nuts

[coral shadow]

that's nuts

[vernal lily]

Cashews are my favorite

Actually it's pistachios, cashews second

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I fell off into the reactors...emptiness there.

Had to cheat to get out.

[shrewd needle]

||Ottomic: I love nuts. Person: Which ones? Me: Deez Nutz.
||

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/outstanding-move-chess-gif-13401529

[hallow shadow]

Debug start?

[wooden walrus]

taking advantage of the exploration is something I genuinely don't know how you could do right without it becoming either boring or showering the player in useless crap

[hallow shadow]

What’s happening to the Xbox mods? Why would I use a debug start?

That looks like a PC Mod Tester kinda thing.

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/omni-man-invincible-look-what-they-need-to-mimic-a-fraction-of-our-power-gif-25672186

[wooden walrus]

cutting about 2/3rds of the total stashes on new game wouldn't be a terrible idea

[charred nova]

TRUE

considering 90 percent of them contain less than 300 coupons worth of items

[wooden walrus]

and the fact that there's so many in each location, like you can find easily 3-4 of them right next to each other

[hallow shadow]

I wish they would release Console Commands,
So I can finally No Clip my way to the center. And see the Zone from the sky.

[wooden walrus]

it feels as if they wanted to make them randomized so they are in slightly different places every playthrough

[vernal lily]

I would mess around with a debug start if there's on for pc, but don't think modding is even possible yet for geforce now.

[charred nova]

and see the cut parts of pripyat

[elder field]

when will you patch the game? 🤣

[sudden rapids]

I just patched it

[jagged zinc]

How often are mods added to the game?

[shell flax]

Currently on console because of the backlog? Every day this week so far

[elder field]

Stalker 2 is

https://tenor.com/view/alert-scam-sheep-zombie-lies-gif-21519331

[shell flax]

Oh look, another shitter who like to throw around ‘scam’ like they just learned a shiny new word

[wooden walrus]

never

[elder field]

we'll see after time

[wooden walrus]

you can't be a bad scam dev and update your bad scam game, you gotta commit to the role

[stark crescent]

the dev needs to rebalance food

theres no way that sausage ingame has the same nutritional value as bred.

[hallow shadow]

What do I use debug for?

Some breads are breadier than others.

[wooden walrus]

it's a bread sausage

like one of those "real or cake" tiktoks but with sausage

[heavy ermine]

what is your typical way of handling burers? I don't like always using skif's pistol.

[hallow shadow]

Luring them into groups.

I remember being in Garbage, just finished checking Diode’s Lab. Burer spawn, and I ran straight to some place with a broken side mission.
Whoever this “Lex the Legend” guy is. I think he’s busted.

[wooden walrus]

I just hide, peek out, shoot a little, and then holster my weapon while the shield runs off

then again I haven't played vanilla in a hot minute

[shell flax]

Ram-2 to the forehead until it stops moving

[wooden walrus]

though I don't think there's a huge difference beside any ballistic overhaul making the guns that the burer levitates pretty much a one-tap

[frigid hill]

servig has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shell flax]

Ah, another dogshit crypto bot caught by wolf

[frigid hill]

servig has been banned

Reason: scammyboi

[wooden walrus]

"wolf is THINKING"?!

he THINKS now?!

[hardy totem]

He tries

[vernal lily]

He is starting to gain sentience now

[wooden walrus]

does wolf dream of electric pregmen

[hardy totem]

He's not very good still

But I'm sure one day he'll enslave humanity, starting here

[wooden walrus]

well frick

[hallow shadow]

Some of yall don’t say thank you to Siri, and it shows.

[wooden walrus]

huh, well look at the time

it's pretty much a month to ps5 launch

I would hope for dualsense integration but this is gsc we're talking about

I think I'm better off hoping for a dsx mod like cyberjank

[stark crescent]

do you understand my luck, boi

i had to find a key. it was in a room with a burer. i enter the room. and hte first thing that burer does, is lift the key, and jeets it out of the window behind me

[wooden walrus]

5d chess

[serene barn]

is there still that sniper in Rostok that you cannot get to annoyingly? did anyone ever find out if there's anything up there or why he's there?

[stark crescent]

its just a randomly placed sniper on top of a building you aint got access to

[serene barn]

i hate that sort of thingggg

[wild thistle]

Guys I'm stuck facing a really strong two-headed mutant in the Swamps. It's after I come out of some irradiated house and there's also a bunch of blind dogs around, plus there's about to be a blowout. How?

[wooden walrus]

you have to run to the clear sky base

it's scripted, you're supposed to just book it

[wild thistle]

I wanna try beating the mutant with my grenade launcher though

[wooden walrus]

okay

at least you now know what you're supposed to do and it's your decision whether to do it or not

[wild thistle]

Well, I probably died like 20 times already

[wooden walrus]

fwiw you'll find more chimeras later on

[wild thistle]

Its lunge attack is really annoying. It's very very hard to avoid, and it knocks you down, leaving me open to more attacks. A single hit pretty much means dead

[polar forge]

What the heck..I cant get into Malachite now

I just did the mission where I go to Troposphere station for Strelok but I ended up siding with Ward. I still have malachite pass. Is this a bug?

[nocturne hatch]

in PDA / Map section, head over Malachite base and see the reputation thing

[polar forge]

They are all white now

And ward is here outside

[nocturne hatch]

is ward friendly towards you or hostile ?

[polar forge]

Friendly. That is why I am confused

I have sided with ward in every possible choice

[weary hedge]

Ello govna

[nocturne hatch]

see the back door (the one from the nearby railway bridge) if its locked too ?

[polar forge]

Yeah all doors are locked :/ I heard there is a drain pipe that can get you in though? or maybe i could try going to another guide and see if they can fast travel me there

[nocturne hatch]

the one from drain pipe is locked by default (i played with spark until meeting doc / strelok)

[weary hedge]

Yoooo goated pfp @polar forge

[nocturne hatch]

i mean you cannot get inside the base through drain pipe

[polar forge]

Well, I have to get ready to go to work anyway. So I guess I will try later :/ thanks for the help anyway though

[polar forge]

Thanks

[weary hedge]

A fellow tarnished

[polar forge]

I put an unspeakable amount of hours into ER xD

[nocturne hatch]

try with a guide later 🙂 be aware that if its an real bug you can get soft locked inside the base

[polar forge]

I will make a save just before using the guide

[weary hedge]

Me too. The dlc sucked the life out of me

[polar forge]

I did rl1 and yeah never ever again

[weary hedge]

Sheeeesh. Didn’t know you were chill like that

[hallow shadow]

This game hates elevation.

Any time I go up a staircase that’s too high. Crash.

Had to do “For Science!” twice.
Now, I have to see how far back it put me from trying to sleep at Cement Factory.

Just going up some stairs. Waving to Voronin as I pass.

Yup.
Can’t go up there.
Take two, crash.

This whole corner of the map is troublesome, really.
If I go into Cooling Towers (specifically, to the top of the one with the Dnipro) I crash. Every time I teleport through the anomaly.

This game hates when you get high.

[wooden walrus]

and yet it gives rostok to freedom

the hypocrisy

[hallow shadow]

Rostok also makes my console blush.

I avoid both factions because the headache of being near them is not worth being near them.

[weary hedge]

If you haven’t, try clearing your cache & disabling quick resume.

[hallow shadow]

Disable quick resume? I never eve use it.

[hallow shadow]

But I’ll clear my shit, though. After a cigarette break.

[weary hedge]

unpluging your console for at least 2 mins has also helped.

I know you also use mods so there could be an unknown issue.

[hallow shadow]

I have a few.

BB, Shay’s QoL, Better Flashlight, Instant Aggression Fix, Weapon Reposition, DWO

English Zone might be doing it.
All those custom static meshes might be doing something.

[weary hedge]

Perhaps. I don’t know how much testing is actually done on the series S.

[hallow shadow]

I kinda like English Zone.
Helps getting around be a little cooler.

As far as I’m aware, most testing is done on PC. Console users can report issues. But we can’t test a mod until it comes out?

[wooden walrus]

english zone should be lk vanilla honestly

at least a translation should appear next to the reticle on mouse over

[hallow shadow]

But all I know is that my console hates Rostok and the whole Cement/Towers regions.

Even Central Elevator in Chemical Plant.

I wanted to help that guy, for a Malachite Pass.
Crashed before I got to the top of the stairs.

Reloaded the save, rushed the mission, and dipped to Malachite.

[wooden walrus]

I have no idea what's the status on 1.6 mods on console

but I guess if they stopped approvals pre 1.6 everything should more or less be compliant?

[hallow shadow]

Some mods have been approved to their 1.6 compatible versions. New mods have even been released.
GSC is at least trying.

Last week, and this week have been mid approvals, on console.

[wooden walrus]

at any rate I'll go out on a limb and guess xbox file structure is the same as pc, so I would advise staying away of any mods that don't specifically mention being up to 1.6

[hallow shadow]

My save might also be cooked.
I swapped mods at a few points.

Like I traded Ace’s Flashlight for the other new Flashlight.
I traded NPC Combat Overhaul for Instant Aggression Fix

[wooden walrus]

should be fine, neither of those go beyond just a few number tweaks

you'd have to worry if you swapped out something like alife found a way

or project itemization or smth

[hallow shadow]

No. I have no A Life mods. Not even Shay’s LZ

[wooden walrus]

that's probably a good idea considering how things have been after the patch lol

[hallow shadow]

For sure. Vanilla spawns, and combat have been intense.

The Instant Aggression Fix kinda helps.
I also have a cool “Slow Down Time” mod.

Ties into the “Hold Breath” mechanic. Makes dropping dudes, and Dogs, way easier.

[vapid galleon]

how many years in that f***ing Zone mate?

[wooden walrus]

yeah I kept seeing it in the gamewithdave videos and thought that might end up being a vanilla addition but no, it's a mod

I wanna give it a go and see how it plays out, don't want the game to be overly easy, but it's also true that I could have used slo-mo a bunch of times in the past.

would definitely help with story sections on ballistic overhauls, which are an incredible pain in the balls

[still current]

[worthy dagger]

My game just downloaded 4.5Gb any idea what this is_

[wooden walrus]

the bitcoin miner got an update I think

[floral elm]

Trojan update

[worthy dagger]

I don't understand

[wooden walrus]

we're being silly

[hallow shadow]

Honestly, it helps cut down on being cut down by Bayuns.
It helps dealing with how Dogs can read your aiming input.
It also helps with getting spotted through the brush.

It doesn’t make the game overly easy. Despite slowed time, it’s just like FO4 VATS. You can still get hit. I have.

[hallow shadow]

Better Ballistics sure does make Rostok Arena really spicy.

[wooden walrus]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

not sure how much a slo-mo would've helped there but it definitely will on other situations I'm sure

[north thistle]

The psi dog and blind dog one was the worst Arena match, and you can’t change my mind about that

Also in the last mission when you got to go against those Elite Monolithians, that controls room was a isolate Y impossible

[opaque niche]

I knew it.

My browser history didn't give me viruses, Stalker 2 did.

[near dew]

Anyone on here?

[wild thistle]

I swear, this game is a complete lagfest

[near dew]

Does s2 mods mean stalker 2?

[hallow shadow]

I hated the Psi Dog round of Arena.
Worst of them all.

[stark crescent]

yes

all the channels under s2 mods are for stalker 2 mods

though its very much possible, dont try to mix workshop mods with nexus mods. most mods are uploaded to both platforms. but it messes with the load order if steam has one and vortex has one

[near dew]

Where do I talk about original trilogy enhanced edition mods

[weary hedge]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[near dew]

Thanks

[burnt bridge]

HAVING A BLAST PLAYING STALKER 2 YEEEEEEEE

[main jewel]

rostoks arena needs to have infinitely generated battles to take part in after the quest

[weary hedge]

Maybe something like oblivions arena

Easy money

[main jewel]

fun money..

imagine you loss coupons if you die..

real risk and reward…

[opaque niche]

Every game with combat should have some sort of arena. It's such an easy missed opportunity not to.

[main jewel]

yursss

[opaque niche]

It was my biggest complaint about Dune Awakening tbh

[main jewel]

they should also expand pripyat

no swimming pool..

well no azure swimming pool..

also can you use the red dot on top of the 1.5 or 2 or 3x scope or whatever on the g36 btw

ive never used it but it would be cool to switch to the top sight

[north thistle]

I agree, I loved the Arena in Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

[main jewel]

the oxa prototype mod also better come to console its so cool

[north thistle]

OXA prototype mod??

What’s that?

[main jewel]

search it up

[north thistle]

Why can’t you just tell me?

[main jewel]

its an expanded armory, you can use all attachments on guns with no restrictions

theres some new guns j think like the g28

[north thistle]

Thx twin

[main jewel]

i dont know all the details thats why

blahh but it adds really cool things and i rlly wanna use that sight on sotnyk on all the other guns and the suppressor on the night stalker

[north thistle]

I think it might be cool if we could modify our grenades in Stalker 2

Like make them deal more damage, increase the area of effect, or just make it easier to throw them farther

[main jewel]

theres also a mod but im not sure if its oxa or not but it adds new attachments too like eotech vudu and all that

[coral shadow]

it would have more sense if you could craft them instead of customizing them

[main jewel]

^^^^^

[north thistle]

Why craft them?

[coral shadow]

why customizing something you will throw?

it's better to craft it like that from the beginning

[north thistle]

So that it does more to the ememy

Or just makes it like a pocket RPG

Oh wait

I understand the flaw in my logic now

[coral shadow]

it wouldn't have sense if skif could just apply a customization to a granade and all the grandest would be customized, and if not, it would be a pain and costy to customize each one

[north thistle]

There’s a lot of grenades so there no point in customising

Yeah I should have picked up on that sooner

[coral shadow]

Waiting it to come on console

[hallow shadow]

What do i do with Shah’s and Roosevelt’s PDAs?
They won’t remove from my Backpack.

Varan isn’t on his throne.

[fickle hill]

Like are you past his quests