☢┃stalker-general

[hallow shadow]

Has the cursor issue been fixed on console version of Craftable Zone?

[dull osprey]

nvgs and mods on xbox

[dull osprey]

nope!

[hallow shadow]

Ah shucks.

[dull osprey]

i need to get a mouse for my xbox soon anyway

[ornate arch]

so since im on pc, just nvg's...?
is there more coming? Multiplayer anytime soon...?

[dull osprey]

uuuuhh, new engine on november 20th

and AI are a little smarter with 1.6

[ornate arch]

woah what? a whole new engine??

[hallow shadow]

Mutants drop loot.
NPCs can take that loot.

[dull osprey]

pripyat and the diamond exoskeleton stash were patched

[ornate arch]

Thats good, and mutants have loot again? v pog

[dull osprey]

i think so, at least a update

[hallow shadow]

Not a whole new engine.

[ornate arch]

they fix the whole economy being shitty?

[dull osprey]

economy is still..

stupidly overpriced things

[hallow shadow]

They’re upgrading. The current version of what they’re using.
Going from UE5 to UE5.5.4

[ornate arch]

cause i remember to play well i had to use the day 1 bug of selling things for there worth

[ornate arch]

so a psudo new engine got it

[dull osprey]

and high end gear sells for about 23000

[hallow shadow]

Economy got a bit of a patch, a couple updates ago.

[ornate arch]

ehhh yikes, any new sidemissions or content at all? any word on new content or mp?

been waiting to play w/ my buds in the zone

[hallow shadow]

Multiplayer is only going to be TDM. At some other time.

[dull osprey]

each region has some side quests, and theres a newer character introduced

[hallow shadow]

There is no CoOp in Stalker.

[dull osprey]

er, old character

[ornate arch]

tdm with lvls or just a sandbox tdm? thats really dissapointing

[ornate arch]

ooo okay dont say who

[ornate arch]

well there is, in mods and spinoff games

[dull osprey]

he's somewhere between sultansk and skadovsk

[hallow shadow]

Is there a S2 CoOp mod?

[ornate arch]

its sad stalcraft is the best experience for it rn
id love an open world game with this engine or the older one

[weary hedge]

No, I play vanilla.

[ornate arch]

i shall watch for him

[dull osprey]

the guy's name starts with a h if you wanna guess

[ornate arch]

well, guess its time for another playthru! ill have to go check what endings i have

[ornate arch]

huh, cant say i have an idea as im shit with names, is he wandering or obvious?

[dull osprey]

not trying to spoil but... friend from CoP

[ornate arch]

hmm okay okay

well ty all, i may pick it up and do another playthru, real shame about mp, so few good shooters rn that dont require i give the relitive of a dictator money :/

[dull osprey]

yea..

[hallow shadow]

I’m couldn’t play Stalker CoOp. Not with you greedy Loot Goblins.
I’d waste away.

[shrewd needle]

Can see why. 😆

[hallow shadow]

That blew my mind, when I found out people could just take stuff from your pack, in Baldur’s Gate 3.

[dull osprey]

i love being a loot goblin >:3

[shrewd needle]

That could be solved with loot being individual (so each player gets their own loot without affecting others.)

[ornate arch]

i could see it working, espesaly if they lean into the runescape og pvp way of doing it

[ornate arch]

tru unless your in a particular zone for it otherwise

[hallow shadow]

Who thought that was mechanically sound? Give my lack of moral compass teammates unfettered access to my pockets?

[ornate arch]

like have the same items for pvp and pve, but you can get pvp items quicker. not make them better tho yknow?

[dull osprey]

give your teammates moral compass by... killing them.

[shrewd needle]

Still the same thing.

For example, if a stash has a VSS Vintorez, each player would get the same stash (meaning all of them get the VSS). No one infringes on someone else's stash because everyone has their own.

[dull osprey]

i have the sotnyk and PSZ9I falcon

[hallow shadow]

Is Sotnyk good?

[shrewd needle]

Same for an artifact field; each player would get their own instanced artifact, so if a Liquid Rock spawns, everyone gets one.

[ornate arch]

yeah just make them have different methods of obtaining them, but there the same items

[dull osprey]

it has all upgrades and a PEQ box.

of course it's good!

[ornate arch]

it could def work

[dull osprey]

plus, it's degtyarev's personal dnipro-

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but what I'm saying is, for example, if 3 players are in an anomaly field finding an artifact, they all find it in the same field an all get the same artifact; but since it's instanced, no one gets looted.

If the same squad of 3 players comes across a stash, they all get the same stash. Different methods would complicate things; just keep things instanced.

[hallow shadow]

I have Bartender Sells All.
Deciding on whether or not to blow 200k Koupons on the rifle.

[ornate arch]

Like immagine you can get the best stamina artifact from a pve quest or you can find it in the lawless zone aswell, both the same item but you can choose how to play

[dull osprey]

i got my sotnyk for 188000 in Rostok!

[shrewd needle]

Save game. Buy rifle. Test it. Reload save if not happy.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I don't mind that. As long as shit is instanced, it's all good.

[hallow shadow]

How does one get lower prices?

[dull osprey]

enough koupons left to buy a PSZ9I, and tons of ammo and gear!!!

[ornate arch]

right but its gotta be a lil complicated to make pvp a fun and enjoyable part of it but not a required investement

[hallow shadow]

I left the Lesser Zone with a Falcon.

Showed up to Detention Center with it.

[dull osprey]

of course..

[ornate arch]

you could make some high-stakes content non-instanced, but have a mechanic where people who steal the loot get a bad rap in the zone

[shrewd needle]

Easy mode. I had to go to Malachite to get the only Falcon available.

[hallow shadow]

The PvP is the only MP we get. It’s gonna be a TDM kinda thing.

[ornate arch]

and thats a huge shame

[hallow shadow]

Vicky actually sells Falcon.

[ornate arch]

immagine a good open MP

[dull osprey]

i did a new game debug start so i don't have to do main quests, and could roam the zone freely

[hallow shadow]

If you say so.

[hallow shadow]

Do you still have Bar missions and such?

[shrewd needle]

With instanced loot, there'd be nothing to steal.

Without instanced loot, anyone can steal and 'bad rep' doesn't really help, since people can still grief and even if traders are inaccessible, they can just kill others and loot their shit.

Best to disable stealing by instanced items.

[dull osprey]

yup!

[hallow shadow]

I might try it. Start in Yaniv for upgrades.

[dull osprey]

i went to rostok, got gear, went to prypiat via guide, encountered two fire poltergeists, cleared a monolith stash location, then left and went to yaniv after an emission

[hallow shadow]

I dunno. Stalker is a pretty niche kinda thing, to me.
Playing CoOp would render Player 2 at the whims of playing however Player 1 wants.
It wouldn’t be fun.

[shrewd needle]

How?

[hallow shadow]

The story would only follow player 1, and instanced loot is cool and smart. By the way.

But unless story progress carries over for P2, you’d still only ever be left to the decisions of Player 1.

You’d just be some sidekick. It wouldn’t be very engaging.

[shrewd needle]

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stop you from actually talking to the other player via Discord or voice chat and coming to a common ground?

[hallow shadow]

That’s a viable solution.

I’d rather just have some Companion NPC, honestly.

[shrewd needle]

That's fair.

[hallow shadow]

A Housecarl. Sworn to carry my burdens.

[shrewd needle]

Heh. Can imagine why.

[shrewd needle]

Nice PDA.

Man, I swear...SIRCAA is so rich. Clean, corporate, way too rich for the rest of the dilapidated Zone.

After crawling through sewer pipes with still wet waste, swamps that sink in, dirty and radio-active water, shit-filled attics and basements...honestly, SIRCAA is other-worldly.

[ebon blade]

Just realized the Scar trench totally cuts off that section of land, that touches the farthest north SIRCAA sentry building.

[shrewd needle]

Yep, that part is inaccessible; just like a few other areas. Pain, but I guess the SIRCAA wall is not complete (just like the border wall that just...ends).

[ebon blade]

You can't walk to the very end of the wall with the tower?

[shrewd needle]

Nope. The wall from Zaton goes into the water, and since Skif can't swim...

Nice, I reached a hard-lock.

Phucking POS bug... 😡

[ebon blade]

Do you need to sleep? Is being unable to do so, stopping your game?

[shell flax]

He’s at a point he needs to sleep to continue yes

But he’s got the permanent psi bug so he’s SOL

[shrewd needle]

What Leaper said.

[ebon blade]

What location did you get the Psi bug at?

[shrewd needle]

This worked, but I'm guessing this removed psionic radiation for me (gameplay-wise) permanently.

[shrewd needle]

The Claw, Zaton. The entire Claw is inert before-hand, but once you're on the mission to find Lt. Shterev, the psionics come into force and apparently, that's where it became permanent.

[shrewd needle]

I slept using the above command, IDK if psionic radiation will work as normal after this.

[ebon blade]

Why didn't you go back to an earlier save before you got the Psi bug?
Or did you not realize it, until you had progressed so far and saw it at a sleep bed?

[shrewd needle]

Didn't realize it; like I said, the entire Claw is psionic in the tunnels. I thought it would end once I was out of the Claw, but it didn't.

The mission was already long as hell and I couldn't be assed to go back; I kept up so far by spawning psi-blockers and using them whenever I get the radiation again (every 60 seconds, since pills work that long).

Forgot I had to sleep at SIRCAA (and later at the Duga).

[shell flax]

I would’ve scrapped the save at five minutes at that point

[shrewd needle]

Well, I'd already spent weeks scrapping up every last bit of loot from the Zone, so...consider me greedy.

[shrewd needle]

Also, again...I didn't know the entire Claw would be psionic; it was just...overwhelming.

Snorks + psionics + Ward soldiers...

[ebon blade]

Is it broken for regular Players? Should it be avoided?

[shell flax]

He’s on 1.1.3 Tejas

[ebon blade]

So it's been fixed since? I have not gone to that location yet.

[ebon blade]

Where is this from?

[shell flax]

Yeah you’re good, I’ve only gotten a psi bug once in the last couple months and that was on a save that was already unstable as shit from me ripping out mods I really shouldn’t have

[shrewd needle]

No, it's a bug. I think they fixed the permanent psionic bug in later versions.

[weary hedge]

If you talk to zotov instead of gaffer you can speak to a bandit leader at hazard sign storage to get some information about squints location.

[ebon blade]

That happened to me long ago, when I first bumbled into the Red Forest.

[shrewd needle]

Damn, you say that as if I criminal for being on older version. 😆

[shell flax]

No, you just assume any risks from playing on outdated versions

[ebon blade]

Yeah, I did that. Got perm stuck with a Bandit PDA from that building.

[weary hedge]

Oh, I just paid the dude. Money is easy to make in the zone.

[shrewd needle]

Nah, I know. It is what it is, but this is potentially game-breaking, so just a bit frustrating. Still...let's find out how things go later.

[ebon blade]

I paid the money too. Then the Bandits got attacked there by IPSF.

[shrewd needle]

I swear, the SIRCAA elevator is the slowest I've ever seen.

[ebon blade]

So you applied that fix and game on?

[weary hedge]

Funny you say that, i actually killed a roaming squad of soldiers on their way there.

[ebon blade]

I take it you started a new game?

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I ran that command and the psionic radiation is gone.

But...my guess is it removes the psionics permanently, so I doubt I'll be affected by them again, unless something fixes it again.

[shrewd needle]

Very murder of you.

[weary hedge]

They shot me first.

[weary hedge]

Yeah, I’m checking out these stash changes.

[shrewd needle]

Oh, I know. Just had to. 😏

[weary hedge]

I don’t really get why IPSF is hostile in the lesser zone.

[ebon blade]

Go along the shore, north of Deaf Meadow and south of it.
On each side, you will find a dead body and some loot on them.

[ebon blade]

I didn't even know they were NOT hostile, until I got to STC Malachite and Yaniv Station.

[primal nimbus]

IPSF moment

[shrewd needle]

Different orders.

Border ones have to keep up the 'shooting quota'; Malachite and Yaniv are more neutral due to purpose and location.

Besides, IPSF is supposed to keep people out, not shoot the ones inside (except at the border), so the border check-point would be expected to be universally hostile except for the Ward/SIRCAA/Malachite/other authorized groups.

[ebon blade]

That's Merc behavior.

[shrewd needle]

Well, unfortunately...Mercenaries are universally hostile. 😔

[weary hedge]

Past where you can help yurko? Bet.

[ebon blade]

The ones at Polyissa were cool at first. Until I went in that one section of the building.

[weary hedge]

This makes sense.

[ebon blade]

I made the mistake of not helping him. I thought I could just return later,
and he would still be standing there. Came back later and they were both gone.

[shrewd needle]

Where is Polissya? I'm slightly confused.

[weary hedge]

If you bring him his buddies body, he offers to have a drink with you and says to call on him if skif needs anything. It was a nice side quest.

[shrewd needle]

Oh, those...yea, that happened to me; they're called 'psychotic Snork tamers' on MapGenie, and I left them alone the first time.

Next time I came back, they were hostile, so I just opened the cages and set the Snorks on 'em.

[hallow shadow]

Hell yeah.

Snork Bait, Ooh Ah Hah!

https://tenor.com/view/finding-nemo-shark-bait-ooh-haha-gif-5609151

[shrewd needle]

https://tenor.com/view/finding-nemo-shark-bait-ooh-haha-gif-5609151

[subtle spindle]

you got lucky i personally went there and had the pleasure of fighting 5 burers

[ebon blade]

We were attacked by three Burers. When I went in that open side of the long building,
someone (Mercs I guess) had let the Snorks out of their cages and they were feasting
on a Burer just inside the building. I shot the two Snorks and everything was cool, until
I walked forward to the cracked opening and that's when my Polissya Mercs went hostile.

[hallow shadow]

I went there to pick up a package for the Bartender in Cement Favtory.

I only had a pack of Flesh.

[ebon blade]

I had to fight 12 Burers here.

[subtle spindle]

wait the same thing happened to me

same area there were a total of like 15 burers?

[ebon blade]

Where I marked the Burer Coven were 6 more Burers I ran from.

[subtle spindle]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message same exact deal....

[ebon blade]

That would have been at least 18 total, but I ran out of 308 ammo after 12.

[subtle spindle]

once i checked out the farm i stopped shooting at them

its just not worth the effort

[shrewd needle]

Ah, damn...maybe they detected you, since they seem to go hostile the moment switch is tripped (though since they were hostile for me on my second trip (switch wasn't tripped)), I guess they're programmed to go hostile naturally eventually.

[ebon blade]

That's good to hear. I post about running into too many Burers, and several
malcontents have said I'm the only one talking about it, like I'm making it up.

[primal nimbus]

20 rubles is 20 rubles

[shrewd needle]

I can't even argue against that 'cause it's true!

[subtle spindle]

ive only experienced it in that part of the map and im too scared to go back there

[ebon blade]

I've been running into Burers everywhere since the 1.6 Patch,
That is out in the wild and not at specific marked locations.

[subtle spindle]

i dont doubt that you can meet them in most places but its never like in that corner of the map

[ebon blade]

It's usually just one at a time. However, one trip in Garbage, I ran into a Burer at the Gas Station,
then a second Burer as I was traveling north and then a third Burer just farther north of the 2nd.

[pastel anchor]

Hi yall, hopefully the people in this server are nice

[pastel anchor]

Ah hell nah

[ebon blade]

I'm joking. Welcome!

[pastel anchor]

Eyy

[primal nimbus]

Get out of here, Stalker, or you’ll be worm food.

[pastel anchor]

Za monolith

[dull osprey]

after extreme testing (fighting bandits and clearing rostok).. the sotnyk is worth it.

[primal nimbus]

Its out and about now?

[weary hedge]

Welcome, hope you enjoy ur stay

[dull osprey]

wuh?

its always been out.

[primal nimbus]

Where can I find it then

Always remembered getting it at the literal endgame

[dull osprey]

buy it using mods

[primal nimbus]

Oh. Yeah no

[dull osprey]

im using a debug game start so i don't have to do quests n stuff.. and bartenders sell all

i already finished the entire game soo-

[ebon blade]

@shrewd needle That was a trip, finding the dead Ecologist, wearing the SSP-100 Discovery.
That's not something that I have come across before, out in the middle of nowhere.

[shrewd needle]

Interesting; I don't think I've seen a corpse with the SSP-100 before either.

Also, I realized that the Scar is actually in Wild Territory...which they moved from the CoP Zaton. I swear, I'm never getting used to the map changes.

[ebon blade]

It was in the Scar. Just north of the safe and the body with the artifact.

You can see the edge of SIRCAA to the far right, that the Scar prevents the Player from reaching.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, yea; I just have the CoP map in mind; like I said, not getting used to it soon.

The Preobrazhensky Bridge was also on another side and the Ranger Station could be reached using that...in S2, it's all jumbled.

[ebon blade]

There is the other Scar full of chemical anomalies, in Yantar too.

[shrewd needle]

Yep; that's the first time I got the permanent psionic emissions, in my other save (Ward run).

[ebon blade]

Just forget the trilogy games. They were in an alternate universe from Stalker 2.

[shrewd needle]

You say that as if it's that easy...the nostalgia...!

[visual mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/9dans-dans-9oyun-oyun-oynamak-gif-17742596816703452078

[ebon blade]

The only way to explain, all the locations being similar but in a different map,
is that GSC's Stalker 2 exists in an alternate universe from the other GSC trilogy games.

[visual mortar]

its in the GAMMA universe

[ebon blade]

Can I assume after finding the safe, body and artifact, you turned around and went back the way you came?

[shrewd needle]

No other way to go; you can get out of the Scar on either side, but since the other side of the chasm is inaccessible, it doesn't matter. You'll climb up on the north-west side anyways; south-east is the inaccessible SIRCAA wall.

[ebon blade]

What I am saying is I entered the Scar in the south and exited out the north.
It was north of the first body, I found the second body, the dead Ecologist.
Since I think I am hearing you didn't find him, I'm assuming you turned around.

[shrewd needle]

No, I did; he was just wearing a regular SSP-99 for me. Corpses spawn randomly.

[ebon blade]

Oh, okay. The orange suit. That's interesting. I wonder if it's implied that
a Scientist from SIRCAA, traveled west and fell to his death in the Scar?

[shrewd needle]

Could be, but since corpses are entirely random, it might as well be Bandits, Loners, Duty, Freedom...who knows?

But...since it's the Scar and we both found scientists, let's assume SIRCAA/Malachite.

[ebon blade]

I don't think in this case, it was totally random. I think it would have been some type of Ecologist there.

What I am disappointed with, is no PDA with a short story about what happened.

[shrewd needle]

Likely, but I'll be honest...this is the first time I actually found the Wild Territory Scar; I wasn't even aware it existed there till I ran into it by accident.

I guess I'll check out again in the next 2 runs (Strelok and Skif).

[shrewd needle]

Yep. And that one was funny.

If I went from Yantar to Red Forest, I got the permanent psionic bug. If I went from Red Forest to Yantar, everything remained normal.

[ebon blade]

Was that in two different games, where you were in normal game play and later in your debug game?

[shrewd needle]

No, same game (Ward run). I had to erase an entire hour from the game. But that's because I could (free roam, no strings).

The current run (Spark)...well, the Claw was a bit more complicated, so I couldn't go back (and I didn't realize).

[dull osprey]

buy a saiga D-12 and you'll never have permanent psionic emissions again!

[hallow shadow]

I wish Skif could name his guns.

[dull osprey]

but tbfr, im running as a sparker with a knack for hunting monolith and bandits

[hallow shadow]

Name my shotgun “Kurt Cobain’s Microphone”

[dull osprey]

gosh!

[shrewd needle]

Very unfunny.

[hallow shadow]

That’s what’s unfunny?

[dull osprey]

buy a saiga from myklukha.

[vernal lily]

[ebon blade]

I don't get the joke or reference.

[hallow shadow]

Constant Psi-Geists wouldn’t bother me so much, if they didn’t hurt so much. Or spawn so quickly.

[dull osprey]

the promise that buying from rostok traders fixes anything

[shrewd needle]

Now that's a hell of a superstition... 😆

[dull osprey]

isn't there a artifact ingame that if you sneak it into someone's gear, it gives them YOUR problems

[hallow shadow]

How diabolical

[shrewd needle]

Sounds like the superstitions from beneath that bridge in Garbage.

[dull osprey]

if only STALKER 2 had pickpocketing

[dull osprey]

the one where Boo is at?

[hallow shadow]

It needs viable stealth, first.

[dull osprey]

modding!

[shrewd needle]

IDK the name, but yea, there's a dead guy in the train carriage above, on the bridge. It's closest to the Iron Forest Gate.

[shell flax]

check #en-mods-general Oxide gave an update

You might be free of the 8x on Clusterfuck soon

[vernal lily]

I loved doing this in KCD, lmao

[hallow shadow]

Sweet. Whenever it gets approved.

I’d love to slap a Collimator or a 2x on it.

Is OXA compatible with BB?

[dull osprey]

smh the 8x is lit

[hallow shadow]

I almost never find myself in engagements where needing that kind of zoom power is needed. 4x, at most.

[shell flax]

Yep, only version that isn’t is Prototype, which is the whole game overhaul on nexus

[hallow shadow]

I’m not saying 8x sucks. But until there’s a way to actually have enemies that far away…

[hallow shadow]

Bet
.308 Cluster is the closest I’ll get to a Honey Badger, and I’m taking it and running.

[shrewd needle]

True.

[dull osprey]

try sniping a controller on a roof

speaking of, i saw a controller on a roof near Yaniv Station!!

degtyarev's corps are really lacking

[hallow shadow]

But. The .308 Cluster contends with Kharod/Dnipro numbers.

Extremely worth looking at, if swapping attachments becomes a thing.

You’d be rocking a suppressed 417, really.

At least, the UI says it does.

[weary hedge]

It holds up well. I used it for most of my ward playthrough.

[hallow shadow]

Upgraded, with some CQC optics, it could be a definite Monolith-Dropper

[dull osprey]

i lowk don't like the forced sight on the sotnyk, i love iron sights

[hallow shadow]

The .308 Cluster? I’ve never actually dedicated to it. But I definitely daydream about it.

What’s the sight, on Sotnyk?

[weary hedge]

It gets the job done without a problem late game if you’ve got a good chunk of special ammo.

[dull osprey]

looks to be a COMP M4 Red Dot Sight

red dots aren't my favoritest type of mainstream sight

[hallow shadow]

That’s my biggest anxiety. How rare is Match .308?

Comp M4? Looks like an M68 to me.

I prefer slimmer red dots. Like the Collimator.

I hate Holo sights. Too chunky.
I also cannot abide by excessive zoom. I glaze ACOG as superior optic.

I know Vicky sells .308 Match at Malachite.

I could probably score some at Yaniv, too.

Maybe even Sultansk.

I don’t like CQC optics. They’re weird, to me.

[dull osprey]

you might be right, tho i like holos, especially the EXPS3

i get why they didn't put the EXPS3 in the game tho..

[hallow shadow]

In-game, I’d bet that’s a 2x. Is Sotnyk a 2x?

[dull osprey]

1x i thinks..

[weary hedge]

You can find traders that constantly restock it in the mid game areas. I got most of mine off Vicky.

[hallow shadow]

Cause I’ll be using thevhell out of that gun.

[hallow shadow]

Beeeet.

[weary hedge]

Packs a punch for sure.

[hallow shadow]

I love Malachite. Favorite region.

I also wish I had Honey Badger.
.308 Cluster with a 2x will be how I achieve that.

[weary hedge]

If you don’t want to deal with the 8x the MK1 performs better and is more versatile.

[hallow shadow]

EMR?

[weary hedge]

Yeah

[shell flax]

SPEAKING OF, you’re getting a .300 BLK AR in BF6 once the first season kicks off

[hallow shadow]

I almost never ADS, now that offset exists.

[weary hedge]

Only downside is a smaller magazine.

[hallow shadow]

I almost exclusively rock the Honey Badger in Insurgency. So much fun.

[shell flax]

Meanwhile we get the DP-12/Ram-2 in the next weapon drop after that too

[hallow shadow]

Unless it’s a far enough shot that I can’t dome my target… I never ADS.

Canted aim slaps, in this game. It’s pretty accurate. At least. It was, with my Kharod and Saiga.

[dull osprey]

im scared of jupiter since i saw a controller on a rooftop :(

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/50cal-sniper-rifle-sniper-rifle-m82-gif-23208501

[shell flax]

It also helps the OXA Cluster has a unique model

[hallow shadow]

Really? Lemme see!

[dull osprey]

he was like, way above me tho, couldn't even notice me taking screenshots lol

[shell flax]

Don’t got a screenshot on quick draw but I’ll get one once I get my hands on it again on PC

[weary hedge]

Toss him a few explosive presents

[shell flax]

Lummox’s AK too, it’s got wood furniture in OXA

[hallow shadow]

Noice

[dull osprey]

i have screenshot quick draw since im using a xbox series x controller

[hallow shadow]

Are you using OXA?

[dull osprey]

nope!!

[shell flax]

Once OXA is on console I just need Kaimanov’s stuff to be ported over then my console runs are set for a while

And with Bartender sells all I can be even more set

[hallow shadow]

Bartender Sells All goes brrr

Me, leaving the Lesser Zone already wearing Falcon.

[shell flax]

Gonna slap on the duty armor or Berill, Clusterfuck and NVG

[hallow shadow]

Them NVGs are expensive
You’d be better off sprinting to Yantar.

[shell flax]

Shays QoL

[hallow shadow]

I still never make that much.

I don’t see how you guys get Bukoo Koupons.

I’m also a big baby, and have that 75% QoL.

[weary hedge]

Another reason we need co-op

[shell flax]

Shays QoL nukes repair costs but not Sell Costs

[wanton blaze]

Going back to this, my buddy pointed out most World of Darkness games start in 2006.

So the Zone could be canon to the game he's planning, or a significant events. Gifted him a copy of Stalker 2 and he grabbed the enchanced Trilogy

[hallow shadow]

I recently noticed that. I can repair an AK for a couple hundred bucks, and sell it for 2k.

[shell flax]

So now imagine selling off 20+ full durability MP5’s

[hallow shadow]

I made bank off the Sphere.

[shell flax]

Do side missions, do a thug hunt for Warlock or two, grab the AKs from the Poppy Field in Mityay’s quest, just grab EVERY gun you see

Makarovs especially, they add up quick

[hallow shadow]

Meh. I’d rather have console commands.

I’m weak.

[vapid galleon]

[hallow shadow]

But I’m currently farming Garbage. Just got here. Lots to do.

Make a quick jaunt east to Cement Factory, and down to Cordon for some extra filler loot and cash.
Bam. I should be able to afford my hearts desires in this weeks episode of Bartender Sells All.

[shell flax]

Picked up 24 hour real longer days, it lets me use my NVGs more often

[main jewel]

why is there no deggy corps in the faction choice..

[vernal lily]

There is

At the very end

[main jewel]

oh why is it not mentioned on the list..

[vernal lily]

I think it's because the faction was added in later. And the bot list hasn't been reworked.

Should still give you the role if you click on it

[main jewel]

yes it did

[primal nimbus]

Limansk moment

[dreamy dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1171602505382236231/1294365406135586897/itstommylove_gamescom_2024_reaction_staring_2_3.gif

[primal nimbus]

They most def should be fine over there

[dreamy dagger]

Say a word on the mother 🐸 gin radio for once, fellas...

What a missKOMMUNIKATION

[primal nimbus]

Nah my dude

[dreamy dagger]

c'Mow dude

[primal nimbus]

Mahhh me gud

[ebon blade]

Please explain to me, how you can't enjoy Stalker 2, without the Limansk level?
That's all you've been talking about, and I don't understand why that one
location is so important. I'm not even sure you are playing Stalker 2.

[dreamy dagger]

My folks at Leemannesk are in pain!

[primal nimbus]

Nah they fine full trust

[dreamy dagger]

I'm not playing it at all cuz its lacking a lot. Till they put A-Life in the right way and add CNPP interior, I'm not touching that (feel sad I paid for a complete game yet received a half-baked cake)

[sterile radish]

maybe dlcs will include cnpp hopefully

[dreamy dagger]

HoC was my 2nd preorder in my life

First preorder is GSC game too

Failed me miserably ^

[primal nimbus]

That corner in the red forest got me curious about Limansk

[dreamy dagger]

The Leemannesk jokes are building

https://tenor.com/view/deep-space-nine-deep-space-9-star-trek-jadzia-dax-dax-gif-16630763964359963534

There is an alternative route I'll get to enjoy S2

Shadowdrop a snowy area location DLC

I'm all in for that sheeikth!

[ebon blade]

Stalker 2 has way more new content you have never seen, that makes Limansk forgettable, for now,
until the later time comes when GSC gives it to us in a DLC. You're missing out on the whole game.

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/agree-applause-yes-tremors-burt-gummer-gif-22330703

[primal nimbus]

I need to get back into S2. However, got into Assassin’s Creed Unity, Wuwa, Umamusume, and Battlefield 6.

[vernal lily]

Hello Krezzin

[dreamy dagger]

*Help, help, I'm freezing. I don't feel me feet. My feet. I don't fee lthem no more. I'm cold. Heeeeeeelp"

[dreamy dagger]

Krezzin sidequest: save the man's toes, bring hot water for tea

[vernal lily]

Are you going to dump the hot tea on the man's toes

[hearty tendon]

Hopefully

I want to explore Limansk, the CNPP, and the surface of the generators

[dreamy dagger]

Thats the 2nd ending

You either bring hot water and make your day or save the man

[vernal lily]

If you just ignore the man and not bring anything, that could be a secret third ending

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/no-shit-found-shit-gif-9201138

[vernal lily]

4th ending would be you brought those things, tried saving the man, but he lost his toes anyways because the frostbite ran too deep.

[primal nimbus]

Funny thought:
Some Freedomer/Merc trying to fund his Umamusume pulls via Zone business 💀

[dreamy dagger]

5th ending has fkin branching lore: you are to deliver a freshly cut finger to someone over at Malachite

This is the Wrong Turn-like turn of events!

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-turn-hillbilly-gif-12008961

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-heck-is-going-on-here-confused-upset-whats-going-on-lost-gif-15028193

[vernal lily]

For prize possession? Or, if it's for someone needing a new set of fingers, 50/50 chance of the person's immune system rejecting the new fingers.

[dreamy dagger]

Man cmon man, we dont spoil the milk...

[frigid hill]

krezzin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hearty tendon]

Oooooooo

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/shaq-shaquille-oneal-nba-on-tnt-nba-unamused-gif-24010855

[hearty tendon]

Bro said a... bad word....

[vernal lily]

He did censored it, and it was not the F bomb

[dreamy dagger]

I added 1 more nail to my koffin

[dreamy dagger]

Imagine Discord getting AI for the profanity filter

[vernal lily]

Damn you shot Wolf, is he still alive

Poke him with a stick

[frigid hill]

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[vernal lily]

ruh oh

[dreamy dagger]

I'm using pitchfork on that mofrogger's ass!

[dreamy dagger]

Damm, my criminal record growing like veggie garden!

[ebon blade]

I don't know if I've seen anyone with more than 82.

[vernal lily]

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/taking-a-deep-breath-jake-training-day-deep-sigh-ethan-hawke-gif-2710234134019751599

[vernal lily]

I'm almost at level 46

[dreamy dagger]

The Killing of Wolf: Wolf has escaped, he turned on his cloak.

[dreamy dagger]

Soon you end up on 69 and its critical

[dreamy dagger]

@ebon blade man, livinglegendman, foreignerman, explorerman, how much horas in S2 yet?

[drifting bear]

Automod has existed in Discord’s server settings for quite a while now. There are several options to choose from, and among them is blocking profanity. You can even add specific words that aren’t allowed to be used

[dreamy dagger]

But I censored it with a *

Automod getting smarter than me by day

Stupidzzin on the run!

[vernal lily]

Probably was added knowing people will use it to bypass

[ebon blade]

Over 1200 hours and still on my first game.
This is where I paused the main mission.

[dreamy dagger]

1200 HOURS?

Hell to the naww. Not buying that milk!

[vernal lily]

That milk probably a block of cheese at that point

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/i-like-your-styke-dude-stranger-the-dude-the-big-lebowski-beer-gif-11095845

[ebon blade]

This is where I just went.

[dreamy dagger]

What is the bro doing in the cemetery...

https://tenor.com/view/shaq-shaquille-o'neal-nba-basketball-tnt-gif-2291429436710376944

Running the skeletons?

[vernal lily]

You got to dump that milk somewhere, regular garbage disposal won't do it.

[dreamy dagger]

If the milk turns sour, I won't be the bandit to milk it!

[ebon blade]

I didn't even know it was a cemetery. All I knew is there was a purple
activated stash, at the edge of the map, at the far end of a peninsula.

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/russell-westbrook-westbrook-basketball-player-american-basketball-player-nba-gif-6454275910963113646

Early morning STALKER humor be like...

[dreamy dagger]

BLASPHEMY

Who flooded the cemetery. It ain't no frogs home there.

[weary hedge]

Did you end up finding anything here? Like a note

[dreamy dagger]

"Dead in the water"

[vapid galleon]

?

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/man-what-boy-if-you-dont-annoyed-gif-11441642

[vernal lily]

They are there, frogs can start flying around. Maybe they're in the skies with the birds.

[vapid galleon]

?!

[dreamy dagger]

Frog n Dog: Forever n Ever

[sterile radish]

when can we eat mutant catfish

[vapid galleon]

never

[ebon blade]

Was there a note? I just found a body, a weapon and a Bayun.

[vernal lily]

I have a tuna can, pspspspspsps

[vapid galleon]

#📰┃announcement message @ebon blade you said that Stalker 2 can only run on PC

[weary hedge]

No, I was genuinely curious lol but I looked it up. Just stashes.

[ebon blade]

I never said that.

[weary hedge]

Tho there is a pda near by I’ll have to check out.

[dreamy dagger]

Catstromming?

[vapid galleon]

sorry man, it was Handsome Jack who said this

[vernal lily]

Save the can and use it as an explosive. Works just as well.

[vapid galleon]

#📰┃announcement message you said that Stalker 2 can only run on PC

[vernal lily]

If Surströmming becomes popular in the Zone, disaster awaits

[ebon blade]

There was a dead Dutyer and a PDA here:

[vapid galleon]

do you mean ?

[vernal lily]

Some very fishy nuclear explosion

[weary hedge]

Sweet, that’s what I was looking at. Thank you

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/dude-abides-alrighty-then-gif-18505941

[vernal lily]

Fermented bloodsuckers will probably work just as well

[dreamy dagger]

Bloodsucker TINtacles

[ebon blade]

There's always the fear of not seeing a PDA, a note, a usb drive or something on the ground, hard to see.

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

I can relate. I feel like I’m still missing so much

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-my-man-denzel-my-man-hd-my-man4k-gif-23532550

[nocturne canyon]

me when i see the sun ong

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/aww-hell-nahh-aww-hell-aww-hell-nahh-gif-9659330954843262630

[ebon blade]

It's the hands that suck the blood, not the face tentacles.

[dreamy dagger]

Suddenly the bloodwankers mutant concept made real sense!

[vernal lily]

Can't ever trust where those hands went!

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-face-itstommylove-stalker-stalker-2-confused-gif-6817371216160116014

[dreamy dagger]

Man be like...

https://tenor.com/view/shaq-shaquile-oneal-shaq-raving-gif-22386002

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/shaq-nope-steel-man-of-steel-gif-4757682

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(1997_film)

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/the-sopranos-soprano-meadow-told-you-gif-22817194

[dreamy dagger]

Oh a dark stalker

[lucid charm]

Fr, who decided to give key items collision and force physics

[ebon blade]

That was a new item recently added to the game.

[dreamy dagger]

@ebon blade Have they fixed the trees collision? I seen people walk thru threes or sit in trees to use as bullet shield 😄

[lucid charm]

Oh I’m talking about in general. Like the way to get the duty medium armor, I’ve lost the keys to the geometry so many times for that location it’s wild

[vernal lily]

The trees still uproot themselves and start walking around

[lucid charm]

They did that in the original games too

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/what-huh-wat-wut-gif-16165693567743102551

[lucid charm]

The shrub people are real apparently

[vernal lily]

Finally, I am at 46

[ebon blade]

large and medium size trees are solid. Real skinny trees are sometimes not solid.

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/gandalf-lord-of-the-rings-gif-20648797

A DARK ONE!

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-lotr-grin-evil-demon-gif-17471835

[tough remnant]

Controllers are basically what the metro factions thought dark ones were

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/mouth-open-meme-funny-black-guy-mouth-open-meme-black-guy-mouth-meme-gif-14667232777531175562

[vernal lily]

What a cute fella

pspspspspspsps

[dreamy dagger]

Arent Bayuns meant to be found in closed areas, meaning no open spaces?

[vernal lily]

Baba yaga probably lets them out everywhere nowadays

[ebon blade]

Not always

[dreamy dagger]

The more I hear from you, the more I like your style

[dreamy dagger]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/335051631810838538/1119646594078363658/comment_LYS2YHTHxkIB7HiBSX4CTyawsftChvsu.gif

[ebon blade]

Yours is better.

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/gato-withrock-gif-27341353

[dull osprey]

one was in a ravine in red forest

by the pile driver...

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/what-are-you-looking-at-bird-angry-bird-gif-17043402

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/bird-red-bird-ntuni-stare-gif-22279645

https://tenor.com/view/birb-bird-gif-25954132

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-dead-parrot-deadparrot-gif-23210323

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/attack-crocodile-alligator-what-did-you-say-gif-3971550237677128625

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/bird-cute-poke-sweet-gif-16818145

[vernal lily]

birt violence

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/hopping-jumping-bird-parrot-funny-animal-gif-6344661016486622646

[primal nimbus]

True

[hardy totem]

I should mark it as graphic tbh

[dreamy dagger]

Graphical Content?

[dreamy dagger]

[hardy totem]

Graphic violence

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/scared-cat-running-funny-run-gif-23668419

[hardy totem]

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

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hello-cat-peek-cat-door-cat-peek-door-gif-13781011170195974291

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/close-the-door-okay-im-out-bye-now-see-ya-neatdad-gif-16767040

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/dogs-door-opens-penguin-costumes-gif-21412151

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

Man you can't deny the chat gets funnier with such gif spam 😄

[vernal lily]

Me with no gif perms 🥀

[hardy totem]

Gif spam is best spam

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-voting-day-celebrate-dog-silly-dog-gif-15479937

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/uncle-fatty-tayllicit-lettuce-fat-monkey-gif-21968461

[hardy totem]

You got the best stickers though

[hardy totem]

Wtf, did you hack my phone to steal my selfies?

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sheep-animal-fun-pet-pet-fun-gum-gif-23378127

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-everythingeverywhereallatonce-gif-25516405

[vapid galleon]

chat...

what the phuck that gifs

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/pieceofmani-dog-dog-turning-dog-staring-stan-twitter-gif-8285724215875164495

[vapid galleon]

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/old-georgian-man-dancing-dancing-georgian-dance-georgian-georgian-dancing-gif-11779079431863635099

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/he-man-fabulous-skeletor-excited-evil-gif-22461968

Chat we're overloading the core

[vernal lily]

Keep sending more till it explodes

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/i-said-hey-he-man-sparkles-gif-5207389

[vapid galleon]

if you find any artifact, give it to scientists immediately!

[vernal lily]

Never! It will be my meal in weeks!

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/kamen-rider-555-mari-sonoda-paradise-regained-falling-gif-4151751417042024266

I sell the artifact to the gypsies

Don't let the flow go low

[dreamy dagger]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/908584370070241321/985515091413860362/giphy.gif.gif

You got me, @vernal lily

[vernal lily]

[dreamy dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1308034374473617459/1408885149575151626/Sidorovich_ould_you_pay_me_in_advance_crop1_final.gif

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/richter-being-confused-richter-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gif-10159057898551081763

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-like-nobody-is-watching-richter-dancing-richter-slag-heap-stalker-gif-12313168116865261724

[vernal lily]

omg Richter

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/richter-being-bored-skadovsk-richter-stalker-stalker-2-gif-4240652349306697108

Rizzler (@ at himself) vs Ruzzler (@stark crescent )

[vernal lily]

[vapid galleon]

BE ADVISED

enemy chopper in the area

[vapid galleon]

☝️ 🤓

[dreamy dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1171602505382236231/1272765295622230116/DANCE1.gif

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-soldier-you’re-next-menacing-look-intense-stare-gif-4198906090275810709

[dreamy dagger]

Good try

You musta join the Guards first

[vapid galleon]

what is Guards? I wanna join

[dull osprey]

[vapid galleon]

[dull osprey]

dalin the goat

[vapid galleon]

you are absolutely right

[dreamy dagger]

SDU, STOCtown Defense Unit

[stark crescent]

Why you tag me

[vapid galleon]

kind of faction?

[dreamy dagger]

You're Jeruz from Real, right?

[dull osprey]

i-...

[stark crescent]

No, im jeruz from is

[dreamy dagger]

Would you battle Rizzler in a Rizzler vs. Jeruzzler match?

[dull osprey]

i don't think thats a faction.

[dreamy dagger]

Oh you're Jeruz from Isreal?

[stark crescent]

Yes. Jeruz from real is my cousin

Im jeruz from is

[dull osprey]

[vapid galleon]

you will never be able to diminish the greatness of the Monolith

[dreamy dagger]

We found our target. Jeruz from Is located down at Real's very private Madrid.

[golden gulch]

Good news, I finally found the spot with a side activity where you rescue a Freedomer(previously I don't remember his faction) by giving him a medkit, and there's 2 corpses each carry a modded Viper and 1 of them have a pistol silencer(Viper5 and Integral A compatible).
Maybe GSC did something so now not only those 2 vipers spawn on the ground, but each has a silencer attached.

[tall depot]

Imagine siding with monolith

[vapid galleon]

we always???

[ebon blade]

What location is this?

[golden gulch]

||Northwest of Volkhov SAM, available after the Signal||
I'm surprised to see there's little information about a free pistol silencer(maybe people are usually confused it with the pistol suppressor?)

[ebon blade]

In the Red Forest or just south of it?

[golden gulch]

Still in Rostok, not in Red forest

[ebon blade]

Just in the fields or woods, or at an actual named location?

[wanton blaze]

Remember that marked off fence we talked about something like a week ago? North of Polissya farm and the massive Burer fight you had?

Went and looked, it hooks around north of Eastern Tunnel and Waste Processing Station into the water; has the same kill barrier as the Bridge of Death east of Yaniv Station.

[ebon blade]

I went back there and did the Scar and the Polissya Farm Collective. The Mercs were friendly at first, when 3 Burers attacked us.

[worthy dagger]

Sure.
My graphic card is a RX 6600 and i'm playing game on medium. I turn shadows and reflections to low but my game is quite unplayable now. I alwyas skip shader generation as well since it takes tons of time, up to 15-20 minutes and I have little time to play can't be always generating shaders everytime my game boots up

[worthy dagger]

So? Its clearly a bug game runs 80-90 FPS for hours and then for no reason at all suddently drops to 20-30 FPS and gets stuck there?

[ebon blade]

No idea what your CPU is, or the other things listed, besides you mentioning your video card.

[vapid galleon]

it doesn't mean anything, optimization is trash

[worthy dagger]

It's an AMD 5600X

[ebon blade]

People want to blame the game for their substandard hardware.

[worthy dagger]

Well my "substandard hardware" ran the game perfectly fine for two hours until the thing craps itself out and gets locked at 20-30 FPS. It feels like I'm playing it in slow-mo

Can't even be thermal throttling as the CPU doesn't even go beyond 70-80C

[ebon blade]

I never said your hardware was substandard. I'm talking about people complaining with hardware in the Low category.

[vapid galleon]

some people yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Stalker 2's optimization is like a brain scorched Stalker

or a Monolithian's brain idk

or a zombie's brain

I really can't decide

[ebon blade]

There are people with no problems and some with many. The game is the same, but their hardware, game settings and video cards settings are not.
There have been many people that fiddle around with the many different video card settings and magically they find the thing that fixes everything.

[vernal lily]

fight fight fight fight

[vapid galleon]

there is no fight poor bandit

[ebon blade]

Post your Mod thing.

[vapid galleon]

a nasa pc can already run a poorly optimized game (as we can see in Borderlands 4) while low end systems are insufficient to run next gen games well. Ultimately, what matters is how the game performs on average systems

[vernal lily]

The wha

[vapid galleon]

and it's not fluent even on 4060

[vernal lily]

[ebon blade]

Your list of Mods when people don't understand why their game is bugged.

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/say-the-line-bart-school-millhouse-classroom-gif-26683141

[vernal lily]

Who needs the treatment, Ariano or Conqueror?

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/everyone-angry-gary-oldman-gif-13877652

[austere pagoda]

intentional

[hardy totem]

-# the entire chat

[vernal lily]

Why 😭 is my 😔 game 🏓 crashing?
I did 🦎 a fresh 🌹🌅🌬️🌄 reinstall but 👉 it still crashes! It's all 💯 GSC's fault! 👿

• Did you have any Mods installed?
  -# (Player has to be asked this 1000000000000 times before they finally answer)

Oh, nothing that should be causing my game to crash, as far as I know, just:

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
Lower Consumables/ammo/grenades weight
No crouch Vignette
Player_Gestures - Downloaded after crashes
Bloodsuckers wearing sexy negligee
Chimera with DD breasts in crop top
Snorks in pink hot pants

[vapid galleon]

what about vanilla players :D?

[golden gulch]

Just a small no name location with a truck and a campfire

[vernal lily]

Get rid of that anomaly Stalker!

[austere pagoda]

damn this shay dude has some peak mods it seems

[ebon blade]

I don't know if I've done that or not. Some side-missions just appear when you walk in an area.

[vapid galleon]

when Dr Faust can't find an answer to say

[vernal lily]

-# delete game

[harsh plover]

sup stalkers

[vernal lily]

henlo Skifa

[versed reef]

I wonder if stalker 2 will gwt more than 20 fps on ps5

[vapid galleon]

We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will.

[ebon blade]

Don't take being immortalized here, as if any of your Mods are buggy.
The gist of it, is the person that originally posted this list, just had so many.
I'm more stupefied over the need for hairless tushkano and dogs, and the maskless Snork.

[harsh plover]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[vapid galleon]

@austere pagoda I like this Russian talkings #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[vernal lily]

Yeah, ikr. I wonder when he is going to fix that one bug for the Snorks in pink hot pants mod. The pants kept glitching away and flying off.

[vapid galleon]

even don't know Russian but it gives the atmosphere very well

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[harsh plover]

gr

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[vapid galleon]

one of my favorite gif

that's just so good man, can't explain with words

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker2-stalker-moonlight-gif-2397780957781461553

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker2-stalker-moonlight-gif-2397780957781461553

[harsh plover]

i wonder if gsc added a game mode that bandit or evey faction even mutants surrounding skif and skif had to clear them round by round until skif is dead

[golden gulch]

Ok so they add loner SEVA and SEVA-V into Birch's stocks, it random though.

[robust pendant]

Yeah, I honestly can't say what is it. Maybe turn textures to a lower preset? Maybe, if you have someone at home, tell them to open stalker 2 for you before you arrive home and test if it is the shader compilation problem or what

If you say that your ram starts being used a lot, it seems like a memory leak, but I honestly cant say why in this case, as its generally cause by vram

[worthy dagger]

Idk even looking at the floor game feels slowmotion. It's not your typical lag issues, game just becomes slow motion for no reason

[robust pendant]

But the ram uses spikes, right?

Cause if it is that case, then its just memory leak, sadly nothing too uncommon with unreal 5. Maybe just try that compilation thing once and see if the result is the same

[worthy dagger]

The ram spike happened when the game basically froze and it started using 23GB of ram. My computer as at 99% ram usage

I don't know is there some sort of caching the game has that I can clear?

It ran well at first but it feels like the more I progress in the story the worse it gets

[robust pendant]

Thats a good question. Maybe ask in #❔┃seeking-for-advice surely someone can help

I don't play S2 btw, I just tried to leave out basic issues you could've had

[worthy dagger]

Alright thank you for your time

[vernal lily]

Does smell like a memory leak

[harsh plover]

the game need alot vram so vindow make ram into vram thas why more vram or ram more fps

the game prob need 18 vram so that why

[worthy dagger]

This GPU has 8Gb, textures are on medium its not like I'm playing it in high settings

[harsh plover]

idk

[worthy dagger]

It doesn't make sense that game begins using all my RAM as VRAM, should clear it

[stark crescent]

Unreal 5 engine

[harsh plover]

ooptimize is bad we need to wait unreal engine update,there is chance on console there will be no longer perfomace option for it cuz quality mode can and would go to 60 fps after the unreal engine update

which is good news and bads new is i am delusion so there is hope

[stark crescent]

Gpu ram and pc ram are 2 seperate things

[worthy dagger]

Everyone is speaking about this Unreal Engine update but is there evidence that the newer Unreal Engine versions would improve game performance

[stark crescent]

None at all. Its baseless hope

[vernal lily]

Better to hold onto that shiny rock than nothing at all

[harsh plover]

but is unstable thats why gsc choose 5.5.4 update cuz is stable

[worthy dagger]

If this is the "stable" version can't imagine how bad that new version was.

[harsh plover]

wait were on 5.5.4 update ?

[stark crescent]

Its 5.5.4 appearently

[robust pendant]

Well, no, the game doesnt need that much as a minimum

[harsh plover]

At launch, STALKER 2 used Unreal Engine 5.1. With the move to Unreal Engine 5.5. 4, STALKER 2 will benefit from the optimisations and enhancements that Epic Games has made to Unreal Engine.

[robust pendant]

The problems start appesring when you have 8gb and you use high or epic textures

[worthy dagger]

And im using it on medium so, shouldn't be an issue

[stark crescent]

The higher the settings, the more gpu ram it requires.

[stark crescent]

Half of it is down to optimizations.

[robust pendant]

Of course, but they use medium, so it should be a none issue, and it is, because the problem only starts at 2 hours

[worthy dagger]

i restarted the game twice and started doing it for no reason 10 mins in

[stark crescent]

Why can battlefield 6 do it, but not borderlands 4 or stalker 2? Partially, unreal 5 is to blame. But most of it is due to optimizations. Bf6 need to succeed, so they made sure it ran on a wide range of hardware

[worthy dagger]

Yeah my computer ran Battlefield 6 like it was nothing. I was so surprised of how good it was

But Battlefield uses Frostbite, and it was always good in optimization. It just feels like Unreal Engine 5 is plain garbage at this point

[harsh plover]

do they even need to pay the unreal engine to update?

[stark crescent]

It really is. I played atomic heart. I was suprised how well it ran. Mostly, how good it looked. I thought it was unreal 5 but no, its still on unreal 4. If unreal 4 games can still look extremely good, why are developers moving to unreal 5 when it performs so bad.

[robust pendant]

Of course

They already pay a license, so they are basically paying for everything

[robust pendant]

The new cool engine with nice shadows and lightning and investors like it

[stark crescent]

Frostbite did everything unreal 5 does now back in 2017

And better optimized as well

[robust pendant]

Oh, also, unreal 5 has a lot of stuff that makes it easier for the developers and its well documented

[stark crescent]

Thats the main thing. Unreal already has all the tools and assets available

[robust pendant]

And idk if frostbite has the same, nor if its free to be used by everybody

[stark crescent]

Frostbite is still too much of an in house engine

[robust pendant]

Thats the reason then

[stark crescent]

Unity tries to keep up

[charred nova]

I think you’re suffering from mass psychosis

[stark crescent]

Stalker 2 cant even run on pc

[vernal lily]

Almost as worse as I have it

[charred nova]

Everyone knows stalker is a pc game

These are simply the nature of things

[vapid galleon]

yes, but they are releasing it on ps5

[tall depot]

my M701 Cavalier doesnt spawn :(

[robust pendant]

PC? I'm sorry, I think you forgot that stalker is a mobile game
https://youtu.be/TZEMEkd3HUc?si=sYEAOkoqkadK6I_Y

[still current]

Yeah but it's still a PC game

[vapid galleon]

yes it is, he said Stalker 2 only work on PC but GSC says they will release it for PS5

[charred nova]

[still current]

That doesn't change anything

[vernal lily]

@hallow veldt You sneaky goose

[vapid galleon]

#📰┃announcement message ?

[charred nova]

Your falling victim to mass psychosis

[vapid galleon]

what are you talking about

[charred nova]

Gotta escape the matrix bro

[tall depot]

ok nvm there are 2 spots with planks to shoot

[vapid galleon]

you said Stalker 2 will only run on PC but GSC plans to release it on PS5, so the game will run on PS. I'm just wondering why you said Stalker 2 will only run on PC, of course it is a PC game

[charred nova]

I’m literally just rage baiting you bro

[coral shadow]

hes a pc master fan race, don't mind him

[coral shadow]

As always

[harsh plover]

[coral shadow]

yo skif

[harsh plover]

yo

[charred nova]

One day we will rule this earth like god intended

[charred nova]

We fixed the wifi at my house finally

Also bro I’m eyeing up a new tool holster

[vapid galleon]

just answer the question man, I'm still wondering. Also a senior moderator rage baiting a member 🤔

[vernal lily]

He just a funny man

[vapid galleon]

as i see

[charred nova]

Stalker 2 is playable on Xbox and ps5 this is indeed

https://tenor.com/view/deus-ex-unatco-fact-fact-checked-true-gif-26889068

[charred nova]

I’d think it would be incredible obvious you were getting rage baited considering a simple google search would show in fact the game could be played on Xbox

[vapid galleon]

I'm not asking S2 works on Xbox or not. I'm wondering why you said Staker 2 only works on PC

We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us. May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will.

[charred nova]

To rage bait you

No other reason

[vapid galleon]

you didn't say that today

[vernal lily]

Grr, Stalker 2 is a pc only game! Gsc and their ways of keeping that shiny rock squeaking clean catering to xbox and ps5 players!

[vapid galleon]

interesting two guy is trying to scorch my brain

a cat sticker spammer and rage baiter senior mod

[vernal lily]

What do you mean! My brain is already soup and I don't know where my marbles went!

[vernal lily]

That guy already left into the shining Zone (cat sticker spammer)

[vernal lily]

Lets crack a cold one for the one and only omg cat guy

[vapid galleon]

I'm leaving from chat with this legend line:

We thank you, oh Monolith,
for revealing the cunning plans of your enemies to us.
May your light shine down on the souls of the brave soldiers who gave their lives in service to your will.

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[vernal lily]

We love you brother

Damn, they know how to shoot now. And now they're friendly? Thought it was just the burers who can pick up anything and use their psychic powers to be trigger happy.

The Zone is cooked bro, if they are able to have the cognitive ability to listen to my yapping

[harsh plover]

make sense

[charred nova]

Unlucky

[vernal lily]

Got too hungry I had to eat the tire

[charred nova]

Real

Bro couldn’t steal the bike so he just stole one tire and called it a day

[vernal lily]

The metal parts of the bike just take too long to cook. Tires cook way faster.

[charred nova]

Trueeee

Wait they stole both wheels

I just realized

Lmao

[vernal lily]

Yeah, the one in the back made it look like the pink bike had some hope left.

[vocal wave]

Is the PS5 version already on newer unreal engine?

[valid nebula]

Seriously, is there going to be a fix for the fps drops when around npcs? My game is buttery smooth on ultra, until I talk to some npc and then the game craps itselfs and runs under 15fps.
This makes the game a pain to play, which is a shame

[charred nova]

Apparently maybe not

[robust pendant]

We can't say, but be sure that it isn't

[charred nova]

Which is super disappointing

[robust pendant]

The trailer already shows fps drops on the fire anomaly

[charred nova]

Common console L

[vocal wave]

I'm not sure why people buy consoles these days anyway.
It made sense when they were $300 bucks and you could use pirated games on it.
These days they cost as much as a decent PC and you can't pirate stuff

Subscription to save games in the cloud. Subscriptions to play online 🤦

Get outta here with that idea

[vernal lily]

Subscription to be able to touch virtual grass

[charred nova]

Plus you gotta pay for online

Like bitch I’m already paying Comcast

Why the fuck am I suppose to pay you

[vocal wave]

😭

But also the PSN exclusives end up on PC anyway.
So there is literally no reason to buy a console in my head anymore

[vernal lily]

Me casually waiting for Death Stranding 2 to come out for pc

[charred nova]

Fr unless you wanna play Nintendo games

But everything else comes to pc

Just gotta wait sometimes

[vocal wave]

I don't want to support Nintendo no 😂
They go and sue everyone. Screw them

Nintendo has a special place as the most hated company in my life

[charred nova]

I can’t live with out splatoon

[misty salmon]

I second this

[vocal wave]

What's your first lol

[misty salmon]

Nintendo

Second is Xbox but I can’t say much about it because I currently am paying for gamepass (I’m gonna downgrade soon) just for stalker

[charred nova]

Imagine not buying games

What a loser

You just gotta think about it logically

How many games you really gonna play per year

Most of us aren’t even gonna be playing 360 dollars worth of games

[misty salmon]

I’ve finished about 150 games already

[charred nova]

We got a real power user over here

[misty salmon]

I love my games dude

What’s your beef with me man?

[charred nova]

Gotta hate on game pass

[robust pendant]

Tbf, the first gameplay pc trailer had a scene with like 45 fps or so

[charred nova]

It’s company policy

[charred nova]

Oh it dropped to like 15 in some of the trailer footage

[robust pendant]

[charred nova]

wish this damn game came out in 2026

we were so impatient to play a game

we never stopped to wonder of its quality

[misty salmon]

That I can agree with

[charred nova]

truly unfortunate

[lament pelican]

consoles are still cheaper. ps5 is ~500 bucks, a similar PC would probably be closer to 1k. plus games are optimized well so you get a predictable performance

a smaller form factor is also great

[robust pendant]

But, consoles have integrated upscaling for almost every game

So if you are not into that, and some games do look bad with it, then its a no-no

[charred nova]

Until you factor in all the services attached to them you also gotta pay for

[robust pendant]

You dont have to pay for many, unless you do a lot of multiplayer

And well, steam offers don't exist

[charred nova]

who remembers when you could buy the entire borderlands game series complete with all dlc for 5 bux on steam

[lament pelican]

it's five bucks per month if you need mp

[charred nova]

60 bux a year on pc you pay 0

[lament pelican]

windows OS probably cost smth as well

[charred nova]

no one pays for windows you kidding

if you get tired of the activate windows water mark you can run a free program off github to remove it

[lament pelican]

nah, I cant support that as a dev myself

[charred nova]

oh no is microsoft gonna cry

[smoky hawk]

what a sad state of affairs

[charred nova]

oh no they didn't get my 50 dollars

[smoky hawk]

[charred nova]

the trillion dollar company gonna go broke boo hoo

[smoky hawk]

well anyway

[charred nova]

not that it matters anyway

since microsoft lets you use their os forever for free

you just have to deal with the water mark

[vocal wave]

I think you need to check current PS5 price bro. It was 500 but not anymore

[charred nova]

go find some old dell from like 2018 or so

probably can be found for next to nothing

install more ram and 9070 xt

and your balling harder than any console out there

[robust pendant]

No one pays for windows btw

And theres also Linux

[charred nova]

It’s like win rar

Please please buy our 40 dollar license

[robust pendant]

Win dows
Win rar
🤔

[charred nova]

silence brand

[harsh jungle]

I’m not paying for win rar

[charred nova]

It’s not even the best compression application anymore

Apparently 7 zip achieved a higher over all level of file compression

[harsh jungle]

pirating win rar is always morally correct

[robust pendant]

It is, yeah

I've never had a problem on 7zip. With winrar I had very few, but were problems either way

[charred nova]

You don’t even have to

It just lets you

[robust pendant]

Winrar just has a fancier look

[dull osprey]

hello gang

[hardy totem]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[vocal wave]

I just use 7zip. It supports rar and it's open source

[vapid galleon]

whassup man

[hardy totem]

Doing janitor stuff, the usual^^

[coral shadow]

sup

how are yall stalks

[vapid galleon]

[hardy totem]

[vapid galleon]

quite Zoner'ing

[coral shadow]

Man, if you could establish a different main objective in the game than the Main story, what would it be?

i was thinking about, oh wait, i can do different objectives than only one

[vapid galleon]

I would like to play the mission where soldiers parachute into CNPP before Duty is established

[hardy totem]

Having the scientist obliterate all other factions and conquer the entire zone

[coral shadow]

good idea

[boreal badge]

Guys, I think we need more LGBT representation for the mutants. The devs are so small minded 🙄🙄🙄

[coral shadow]

So exterminate every Human being in every camp Excluding the scientists, that's a good objective, i could add something more to it

[boreal badge]

Where are my transgender Blood Sucker queens 👸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[raw tide]

they could instantly start sueing people who dont buy the license tho afaik

[vapid galleon]

you can do this in Anomaly/Gamma

[charred nova]

Right

Microsoft is gonna start a law suit against millions of people

While they them selves let people use the os for free

[ocean epoch]

Hello my brothers and sisters of the zone. Hope you guys have a awesome day

[hardy totem]

InB4 GSC implements capturing mutants and having them fight and then receiving an C&D-ICBM from Nintendo's lawyers

[charred nova]

So true

[raw tide]

talking about winrar

[vernal lily]

Welcome back

[wooden walrus]

I think that would be somehow even less plausible

[wooden walrus]

(btw I did buy my windows 10 key but 11 was free so I guess one way or the other it's true nobody's paying for it these days 🤷‍♂️ )

not that you can't readily get a key for single digit money

[charred nova]

I don’t think win rar is gonna do that

[hardy totem]

Ever heard about the entire world being a bazzilion in debt? It's all debt to winrar

[raw tide]

idkc, but they could and its not unlikely if they ever go bankrupt bc of us xd

just use 7zip anyway

[charred nova]

From what I understand win rar is like 5 guys in an office lol

[hardy totem]

Just like VLC

[lucid charm]

Winraar pop ups can basically be boiled down to “Please, we’ve been doing this for decades, we need the money, you’re going to pay for our service right? Guys? GUYS? PLEASE I NEED TO FEED MY FAMILY”

[charred nova]

Literally this

[vernal lily]

-# “Please, we’ve been doing this for 4️⃣ decades, we need the money, you’re going 🏃🏿🖤 to pay 💰 for our 🥰 service 📣 right? ↗️ Guys? GUYS? PLEASE 🥺👉👈 I 🙈💁 NEED 😋 TO FEED 🍴 MY 🎤 FAMILY”

[wooden walrus]

7zip supremacy tbh

[raw tide]

^

[frigid hill]

davfis has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/tts-40k-warhammer40k-prohibition-hammer-alfabusa-gif-27259088

[dreamy dagger]

Wheezeup

[wanton blaze]

I desperately hope we get those 3 in Hunter the Parenting

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/tts-custodes-pillar-men-gif-15519847

They are so gloriously ridiculous

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/hey-squidward-spongebob-annoy-annoying-gif-19574310

[vernal lily]

My shit internet showing me the wrong emotes are going to be the death of me

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sheeeeet-shit-gotcho-ass-got-yo-ass-the-wire-gif-4468918116432953589

[vernal lily]

[steep maple]

What else was moved ?

[steep maple]

Nevermind, found new route into pripyat

[cosmic crystal]

Blunderbuss

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/stitch-lilo-and-ohana-hi-gif-1354856903718586695

[charred nova]

Class is over

[harsh jungle]

hi chat

[charred nova]

Sup

[harsh jungle]

it’s loud upstairs rn

the non autists are being loud with their percussion instruments

played a song I’m not a big fan of surprisingly

[harsh jungle]

a majority of the people I’m with are surprisingly normal lol

[charred nova]

I ordered another tool holster today I’m not normal

[harsh jungle]

I’m not normal either

weirdest kid we got is someone who runs the length of the room and puts zip ties in his mouth

nobody’s told him anything and if he chokes it’s not my problem

[charred nova]

What da hell

[harsh jungle]

he screamed at someone a couple weeks ago bc they stole “his” stars in Mario Party

I can hold convos with everyone else but him