☢┃stalker-general

[meager crag]

Made it even better

[stark crescent]

Ye but anti semitism was real even before the conflict. Especially on cod servers, alot of germans still yelling jude over voice

While i spawn kill them 5x over

[meager crag]

It B wat it B

Besides, not much you can do about it

Just thinking it's a bit obvious of a name

That's why I was asking you about it

You could

Ouch

Weird name

Your parents must really hate you

[weary hedge]

This entire planet can blow me

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/ccg-command-and-conquer-generals-fly-me-to-the-moon-gif-20374291

[stark crescent]

And i know the risks attached to it. But im sadistic. I enjoy humanity's depravity when it shows.

[meager crag]

Fair enough

Although I thought you were called JeruzalemisREAL, not sadistic?

[stark crescent]

Are you a dad, cause your jokes make me feel old

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-solid4-mgs4-solid-snake-old-snake-becoming-old-gif-24179307

[stark crescent]

Jeruzalemisold

[meager crag]

But no, I ain't no boomer

[weary hedge]

Boomers are assholes. They lied about everything

[meager crag]

True!

Just look at Krezzin

[weary hedge]

Fattest turd in the bowl

[meager crag]

You know it

[wild epoch]

kweezin inc

[meager crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1290386824639811676/420640ea-5038-4bc9-bfa9-bcc14c8718d2.gif

[weary hedge]

I hate everyone equally

[stark crescent]

Wish ya could switch between the upper and lower optic

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/alucard-hellsing-anime-i-hate-everyone-hate-gif-11749177

Based

[stark crescent]

No idea why gsc didnt implement thst

[meager crag]

Too much work

[weary hedge]

There is no ryme or reason. It just is.

[meager crag]

Real

[weary hedge]

Im turning brown because of them

[meager crag]

https://youtu.be/i0C3IhWcJH0?si=Rksy718OzRm5FV1v

I should rewatch Hellsing Ultimate Abridged fr

[weary hedge]

They all think id forget what they did

Im slowly getting my memories back

[weary hedge]

There really is a bunker under the vegas tower

But shhh NDA

[spring gust]

When you guys are exploring the zone, are you a "leave no stone unturned" kind of player, or do you gun the main missions, or basically only explore those areas en route to either a main or side mission?

[primal nimbus]

Yes.

[weary hedge]

I turned off story mode and work for no one and shoot on sight with no hud on screen

Reelizm

Im done helping people

Everyone can f off

[spring gust]

Hahaha

[weary hedge]

I use Ukrainians for target practice

[primal nimbus]

That escalated.

[spring gust]

Lol

OK so that was very unclear - I feel like I'm a mix of explore everything, but also run like hell when things kick off.

[keen terrace]

huh

Did I understand it right?

Cause maybe I misunderstood something

[spring gust]

He is basically just rampaging throughout the zone. A wild cannon.

There are no allies, no friends, everyone is just a little loot pinata waiting to explode with goodies.

[undone plaza]

I think that still one of form of hatespeach

[spring gust]

I think everyone should chill and not be so fragile. It's a game about virtual murder in the zone in Ukrane. If you read his statement and immediately thought he was being hateful that's on you.

[undone plaza]

Like dude
Its have context

[meager crag]

Sure, I read you, I was thinking the same, but why specifically point out they're Ukrainian?

[undone plaza]

Yeah

[spring gust]

Am I missing something or are the characters in the game not Ukranian?

[weary hedge]

Someone make a mod that causes confetti to pop out of there corpses

[spring gust]

Anyway, I don't care about this conversation - there is a gun in the game whose name I cannot type here, because Wolf will yell at me. However I like it - anyone else using it? It starts with Cluster...

[weary hedge]

Would love that

[meager crag]

Eh, screw Wolf, nobody likes that bot

[spring gust]

OK let me try, the gun's name is Clusterfuck

\o/ Wow... I'm surprised haha

[keen terrace]

I mean, I just didn't know the context

[meager crag]

Just ignore the whole swearing thing, we stopped enforcing that ages ago for some reason, but the bot never got changed

[meager crag]

Well, there's the IPSF as well

[spring gust]

But I can't ignore it - the bot removes my messages

[meager crag]

True

[keen terrace]

Kinda weird to say "I use ukrainians for target practice" when there is war out there

[spring gust]

But yeah this sniper rilfe is pretty lit.

[undone plaza]

You missing that who too use that linguistic formulas

Ans still points on that they use Ukrainian for target sound bad

[meager crag]

Why not "I use Stalker as target practice"?

So yeah, it just funky as heck

Besides, he's been baiting to get banned

It was honestly kinda pathetic lmfao

[spring gust]

Well anyway like I said, I don't care about that whole thing - and am drama adverse.

[meager crag]

Based

[spring gust]

OK question, is the main (only) way I can increase my carry limit by getting an exosuit?

[undone plaza]

Weird water

[spring gust]

I have Flytraps, is that Better? Or is that the one where you drink the SE energy drinks and get a permanent weight increase?

[undone plaza]

When u drink SE with weared pot it permanently up

If i remember right

[meager crag]

!tempmute @weary hedge 1w Just cool down for a bit and return in a week. Hatespeech is wack as heck

[frigid hill]

voidedbrain_13448 has been muted for 1 week

Reason: Just cool down for a bit and return in a week. Hatespeech is wack as heck

Muted until · Nov 16, 2025, 12:27 PM

[spring gust]

Yeee that's the one. I haven't found that yet. So, I guess artifacts + armour is my only recourse.

[undone plaza]

Yep

[cobalt fiber]

based

[floral elm]

Grtting wolfed

[spring gust]

I've found a lot of artifacts, this game and my previous playthrough and never once found that one lol

[wanton blaze]

How's it going Stalkers?

[primal nimbus]

Based

[vapid galleon]

when Stalkers trying to get through the brain scorcher:

[fickle tulip]

mood

[burnt bridge]

“I use stalkers for target practice”

[terse plume]

GSC back at it again being a horrible company

[still current]

[bitter plover]

[terse plume]

Taking down an indie game because it has a similar aesthetic is crazy

[bitter plover]

[terse plume]

nice argument

lick exec boots more

[bitter plover]

[robust pendant]

Its not because "similar aesthetic", otherwise every single game inspired on stalker would've get copyright, and that would've been stupid

Its, most likely, about stolen assets from the game

[terse plume]

For what is it for then? Seems like a very clear abuse of power, the game looks nothing alike what asset does it use?

[robust pendant]

But we cant fully know because neither the dev nor gsc have posted a properly length statement with full proof

[robust pendant]

From what I understand, building directly taken form the stalker games. Also songs.
I can't say if this is the official reason, because Im not them.

But idk, the misery dev havent posted a full length detail of the dmca strike. Just an email with not much information

[stone cipher]

I was honestly hoping for a full game like misery mod for call of pripyat but standalone when i saw the name.

[terse plume]

They posted screenshots comparing the "stolen" assets which are completely different looking

[robust pendant]

Very few games have been copyrighted before. Very very few. So its either a serious case of it of a false claim

[robust pendant]

They havent posted the full email, nor the details, which should be shown

[terse plume]

Yes but they did show example comparisons which made no sense

[robust pendant]

Yeah, those comparisions didnt make full sense. But what if they are others, and they arent showing them

Idk, Im not putting my hand on tbe fire. Not for the dev, and not for gsc

[frigid hill]

kalledolphin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[robust pendant]

Im just stating what I feel

[still current]

you didnt even hear the second side of the story yet tho. We may get an official statement tmrw and it would be wise to halt your judgement until you get the full picture yk? Isnt that the wise thin.g to do for anyone with a functional intellect?

[terse plume]

Yes but using non infringing screenshots as "proof" is bs imo

crazy how saying the full version of bs is not allowed here in a chat about a pg18 game lol

[meager crag]

Eh, disregard Wolf, he's speshul

[terse plume]

I agree I didnt but from what I can tell based on the "evidence" of GSC its an abuse of power

[robust pendant]

Again, idk, Im not rooting for anybody until the statement is released

[meager crag]

Best way to look at it

[bitter plover]

" illustrations purposes only" and " doesnt encompase all infringing content". Anyones opinion absolutely dont matter, bcs they didnt see what the infringing content is

[robust pendant]

And I have a clear bias against gsc overall

[meager crag]

Same

[amber plover]

im curious how mods come out with gsc assets released for free and no claims but a indie dev does something in a completely different art style and gets claimed

[still current]

we dont even know if its really GSC tho. lmao, even so, getting the full picture is by all means what makes the difference.

[robust pendant]

Because the game made you pay money for it

Mods are mods, and can be used as long as they dont have a paywall

[vapid galleon]

The world fears Zone's expansion
Join Duty
And save the Innocent

[amber plover]

wouldnt anomoly be considered poiricy to an extent?

[coral shadow]

if you make profit from other people's work then it's obviously illegal, though all this situation is all confusing as of rn

[stone cipher]

Shut up. I like a good paycheck... oh wait. Mercinaries are no longer in the zone.

[robust pendant]

Uh, no?
Why would it be piracy? Its noting like the 3 games

[drifting bear]

#📰┃announcement message

[amber plover]

the more you know

[robust pendant]

Also this

[vapid galleon]

Mercinaries are no longer in the zone.
🤣 🤣 🤣

[amber plover]

wasnt aware of that

[robust pendant]

I mean, it wouldnt be piracy either way, because you are not getting any of the 3 games for free

Anomaly, and mods before anomaly, like call of chernobyl, just use the 3 games's maps and assets

[stone cipher]

Im still early into the game... maybe im not aware of it.

[vapid galleon]

that was a huge cap for Anomaly haters

[meager crag]

And are free

[robust pendant]

And its the BEST SURVIVAL GAME

[still current]

even if I dont agree to the whole shit mentioned in the announcement, I would agree to the fact that mods are non lucrative and that makes all the difference. It may be seen as a form of piracy, but its all solved by a small line of credit nobody even reads lol

[terse pecan]

Why is it bad to fly helicopters in the zone?

[amber plover]

i see it as a form of piracy but gsc is ok with it

[robust pendant]

Because anomalies

[coral shadow]

yes

[still current]

again, credit.

[robust pendant]

Its not, because you are not getting the game tho. You are getting a big modification

[still current]

and ofc, non lucrative projects are not really a problem

[vapid galleon]

"Haters gonna hate. Can't be touched, can't be stopped, can't be moved, can't be rocked can't be shook, we hot"

[terse pecan]

Can’t they just not fly into anomalies

[meager crag]

Play CoP and you'll know

[still current]

who are you? lol

[still current]

lol, the whole freaking plot explains that very question

[amber plover]

i could see people skipping over the original 3 games and jump into the free to play anomaly but i couldnt see people playing misery and getting their stalker fix if that makes sense lol but you make a good point that the mods are free and provide credit

[vapid galleon]

dude was didn't know who said this

[still current]

not sure if I could make sense of what you just said

[vapid galleon]

you can't understand man, you will never understand

[bitter plover]

What do you mean. Misery is mod

[still current]

probably for my own good too

[proven hollow]

why no 1.7 yet tho?

[still current]

Test phase

Im testing rn

lol

[meager crag]

Which funnily enough was the Anomaly before Anomaly existed in the sense that people played only Misery and never touched the TrilOG

[bitter plover]

🤝

[proven hollow]

pff, nonsense, testing it would mean there'd no need to make a hotfix right after, and that has never happened

[coral shadow]

me at 4 am in Wednesday 24th

[still current]

cant share anything withg you, but everything is under good care!

[vapid galleon]

The world fear Zone's expansion
Join Duty
And save the Innocent

[coral shadow]

can we expect medium or big new features

[bitter plover]

nah, testing is reason, why there is only just hotfix after release and not many of them

[still current]

stream or not?

[still current]

simple analogy

[proven hollow]

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.
Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith.

[still current]

[bitter plover]

too focused on gameplay

[vapid galleon]

[still current]

ah, youre in too

nice

hehe

[vapid galleon]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[proven hollow]

glorious, I want a Call of Chernobyl like mod asap so I can spread the holy light of the Monolith

[bitter plover]

[rough totem]

Never

[terse pecan]

Out of all the factions freedom has to be the smartest when it comes to using camo

[rough totem]

Ikr

[terse pecan]

Mercs wearing blue, Ukrainian military wearing some weird brown camo that makes no sense

Monolith isn’t trying to use tactics

Ward doesn’t even try

Freedom and duty need more content,

I feel like freedoms philosophy has evolved, and they’ve grown to be more than just weed smoking hippies

[rough totem]

They should make a stalker game with freedom stories and more

[spring gust]

I really love games like this where after ||an epic event, the whole world sort of changes and you get to re-explore||

[golden gulch]

If you mean sidequests that affect reputation and change how the main mission can go, then yeah.

[golden gulch]

Not much to explore or do after that, the thing that stalkers complain about the most after A life is definitely how lacking the content is from mid to end game.

[opaque cipher]

Engine update when?

[spring gust]

Dunno about that, I'm having a great time with explorng. Going back to old bases and seeing how they have changed - encountering ||the Monolith|| etc

[meager crag]

What was their original philosophy in the Trilogy?

[hardy totem]

varies a bit between the three games as well I'd say

[meager crag]

They're mostly the same

[hardy totem]

Same philosophy, but focus on different aspects. I'd say in SoC the focus is the anarchist part, CS focusses on the stoner part, CoP focuses on the scientific advancement part

But maybe I'm plitting hairs here

[stuck seal]

I don’t think they’re actually trying to use camo that way

[robust pendant]

When its ready

[stuck seal]

I think GSC just had someone blindfolded and throwing darts when it came to camo selection for the factions, which makes sense

If someone’s trying to blend in, they wouldn’t be wearing their faction uniform anyway

[meager crag]

All are about researching the Zone, especially during CS

[stuck seal]

It’s just a way for the factions to identify themselves

[terse pecan]

Smoke weed, have no limitations on the zone

Now freedom is a capitalist more American faction

[stuck seal]

No limitations yet in CS if you talk to many of the members and do their quests you’ll realize they have a lot of limitations within the faction

[meager crag]

Wait, I wrote it down once

• Fighting for free access to the Zone
• Sharing all information about the Zone with the rest of the world and challenging the state's monopoly over the Zone's secrets and wonders
• Freedom fights Duty, because they believe that Duty is offending the Zone
• Protecting mutant population from poachers
• Holding the Barrier
• Study the Zone for the betterment of mankind
• Attempts to co-exist with the Zone

[stuck seal]

You’ll realize that every faction is really just based in ambition and power, what they say they fight for is just for recruiting purposes

They fight duty not because of what duty does but because what they have, they want what they have and have gotten it quite a few times

And vice versa for duty

[meager crag]

Never mentioned in the games, so that's just speculation

[stuck seal]

What’s never mentioned in the games? There’s plenty of dialogue, I think from one of the freedom leaders even, about taking land to use for themselves

For trading routes and the like

[meager crag]

You mean the Duty warehouse in CoP which they're going to use for interrogating Dutyers?

[stuck seal]

Duty also has dialogue hinting at them trying to muscle their way into other factions areas

[meager crag]

I can only think of Yanov station

Unless you mean HoC

In which case

That ain't canon

[stuck seal]

I mean both the trilogy and stalker 2

I think CoP is one of the games with the dialogue

[meager crag]

Then no, unless you mean that group of Duty deserters in SoC

[stuck seal]

Also just rostok in its entirety, every faction leader was probably eyeing that place, but duty got there and dug in first so, they had all the advantages the place could offer. Just speculation about rostok but it makes sense

There’s really no good guys in the zone, maybe individuals but every group only really cares about themselves and how they can benefit from things. I mean, they had to break the law to even get there, and everything they do is against the law

[vague yew]

have they fixed the stutters?

[stuck seal]

I think that’s the cool part about the factions, they’re all crooked but sometimes the light shines through the clouds and genuinely good people within the factions make real change

[vapid galleon]

🫡

[golden gulch]

3 new side quests with only 2 actually relate to the base, 3 new activities and they're not even at a base.
I just wish there were more, the map simply just too empty with not that much to do, some parts are just there to tank performance like Yaniv, Yantar, Red Forest, Burn Forest, Swamp, Zaton, Cooling towers, Jupiter, even Pripyat itself, heck I could say that to 99% of the map, lot of spots can be use for sidequests.

[vapid galleon]

The world fears Zone's expansion
Join Duty
And save the Innocent

[spring gust]

Maybe that's why I'm enjoying it - because I appreciate what is there and don't keep wishing for more. Only have 176 hours in it so far, perhaps if you have way more than that you are fatigued and basically just need a new game.

[gilded kayak]

my overstimulated mind cannot be replaced by monolith

[stuck seal]

I wonder if monolith take walk in applications

Actually no, considering what they do to people who want to join them

[coral shadow]

monolith are brainwashed stalkers against their own will that nothing to belive to other than the monolith even if they get freed from the brainwash

[blazing ingot]

Soon™

Rather wait for the engine update to be done right.

[coral shadow]

maybe Q1 or Q2 of 2026

[wicked magnet]

I think they're currently putting all their efforts into fixing bugs and optimizing the game for PS5

[cyan sparrow]

and the 1.7

[charred nova]

Next year

[stuck seal]

We know that

[atomic trout]

Is protecting mastiff a good decision

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-3287512186578866085

You dont protect a mastiff, a mastiff protects your stuff!

[primal nimbus]

I think I’ll let them deal with each other there, next time

[atomic trout]

Yeah I wasn't sure after I came back to lens to finish the mission

[primal nimbus]

I’ve dealt with Stalker long enough to know that killing for the money sometimes can land me in places I don’t wanna be. So, I’ll rather keep to the job I’ve been assigned to, get the pay, and then go elsewhere

Unless I feel like doing things like clearing Pripyat apartments or raiding the IPSF.

[bitter plover]

you save him by protectin monolithian. Yeah, lens will tell you something, that it seems like not good idea, but If you then get back to Lens after some time, Mastiff will be there and will thank you.

[coral shadow]

they don't take walk in any application then, why asking that if you already know the answer

[stuck seal]

(It’s satire)

[stuck seal]

Yeah it was originally a tough decision for me

Because I was thinking I may get bad rep with loners

But I don’t think you do, there’s no way to see your rep (which isn’t a totally bad thing) but I’ve always been green with loners

Overall many quests in stalker 2 don’t exactly give you a choice, the first to come to mind is the waste processing station, if you go through with the whole thing, you’ll have to fight the mercs, there’s no way to not kill them other than running away. Which I think running away from certain quests just glitches the game as I’ve seen a few times

[north thistle]

Damn, bro, are you radiation?
Because I feel my molecules disintegrating.
screams in pain and turns into a pile of goo

How’s my pick up line?

On a scale of 1-10

[charred nova]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/695870515092389948/1083771364818813088/caption.gif

[serene barn]

i was a bit annoyed that there wasn't a peaceful option for the sidequest back when i did that.

[fickle hill]

Psi after effects

[north thistle]

So it’s goated right?

[charred nova]

yah it is you should try it on your crush it will work for sure

[fickle hill]

I guess it's nothing more than air crack

[cobalt fiber]

Relentless levels of rizz

[prisma crag]

Only just heard of this retarded game after the dmca strike on misery. Absolute fatherless behavior by GSC, if only those devs would have just been drafted instead and died in some trench instead of making silly nonsense problems

[dreamy dagger]

Ass crack?
ASS CRACK?

[fickle hill]

Bro got the hank hill build

[dreamy dagger]

Woah what did that GIF violate...

[serene barn]

and what'll you say if it turns out the the DMCA was valid and the guy just stole things?

[fickle hill]

Well I mean the chops are there you can eat em until they resemble a raisin

[charred nova]

again clearly something happened given other similiar games have no issues being up on steam

you would think stalcraft a RUSSIAN game would be struck down too but it's not

[robust pendant]

Damn, another account that has joined today. I wonder why!

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/knows-what-i'm-talking-about-gif-13256067309693528553

[charred nova]

i think it would be really funny if gsc never says anything about this

[robust pendant]

Nah, it would be sad and stupid

[charred nova]

nah it would be based

rage bait the public

[robust pendant]

But from what I understand, there will be a statement tomorrow, right?

[charred nova]

thats the way

[robust pendant]

[charred nova]

no idea

[fickle hill]

Yes

[stuck seal]

Ace attorney but all the court cases are about stuff in the zone

[fickle hill]

One man one place only in Chernobyl

[charred nova]

they should make me in charge of pr for gsc

my strat would be to rage bait the public every time anything goes wrong

then when everyone is good and mad just say lmao you really thought we were gonna do that

[stuck seal]

Someone will prove they didn’t steal 100 vintars from the military and then you’ll hear “OBJECTION!”

Phoenix wright, stalker attorney

[charred nova]

instead they need to open a race track in the zone

[dreamy dagger]

Who is to say?

[stuck seal]

And they’re all racing with rusty bicycles

[dreamy dagger]

Lada Niva 4X4 Rally Championship

[charred nova]

you don't even need to pa to remove all the buildings

[lost needle]

Make a poll for the fandoms favorite ending and base the sequel on the least voted one

[charred nova]

no one lives in them so you can freely demolish all of them

[charred nova]

true

[serene barn]

i think it'd be hilarious if it turns out the DMCA was valid and was GSC and that the dev just stole things he obviously shouldn't have.

[charred nova]

im being told a stalker helicopter model is in the game

though im not sure how true that is

[serene barn]

so not only did he expose himself as a terrible person but he also gave his game negative publicity.

[timid siren]

@waxen marten, @charred nova, sorry for tagging. Wanted to ask a thing only GSC-related members could know (not NDA-related 🥹 ).

I noted an awesome destruction effects at buildings, landscape, environment. Cracks, debris and so on.
What was a workflow in general terms?

Where artist using mostly Chaos destruction physics and then baked result into static? Or was it mostly side-software based - like geometry nodes in Maya / Max etc? Or combined both approaches?

I am sorry, I understand that is too tech. in-details question. Maybe you at least heard of it or have a fellow 3d-artist to ask.

See, although I am a senior dev, but quite knew into modelling stuff. I know basics, and would love to understand where to dig to get such good destructions to my models in UE like Stalker possesses. Certainly, I quite understand how much effort it would take to learn. 😆

[serene barn]

so far i've seen people mention a guitar song, that framed gate ripped.

[charred nova]

i really though this guy was writing up an essay about the current drama

color me surprised

[charred nova]

im an unpaid intern i got literally no idea

[timid siren]

anyway, it was worth to give a try 😆

[serene barn]

intern is certainly one way to say Discord Mod.

[charred nova]

ive been gas lighted with the possibility of pay before

see if i got paid i would actually take this all way more seriously

[serene barn]

i do find it really questionable that the dev didn't just show the whole thing etc.

[timid siren]

Want to have a bargain? xdddddd

[charred nova]

what you got a job for me

[timid siren]

If only I had my own business to run. For now, only linear-type employee in network development

Game dev is something wanted to give a try

[charred nova]

well i can't code so i wont be much help

[timid siren]

I just noted that moderators answering in gsc-answers tab and suggested maybe they in direct contact with devs

[charred nova]

huh

mods can't answer question in that channel

only GSC can

[timid siren]

Ah, yeah, noted - "Answered by: @waxen marten"
Misswatched, he was not a modder

Sorry

[charred nova]

again we are just here to keep the peace

[serene barn]

wow someone really complained in there about having to start a new game when we get Master difficulty lmao.

[charred nova]

we can't say anything about the game or the internal matters at gsc

[charred nova]

unlucky

[dreamy dagger]

I can say

I am a Lvl 50 Trueking

[charred nova]

your just a crazy drunkard bumbling around

you know far less than even i do

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up-serious-face-itstommylove-stalker-stalker-2-gif-10217618476561091871

[serene barn]

"why can't i just play the game on easy and rush through then set the difficulty to Master before finishing it? this is bullshi" is how i read that guy's question lmao.

[timid siren]

...they want to have me start the 5th walkthrough?)

[vernal lily]

woah level 50

[eternal mountain]

anybody got a fix for that horrible pc latency with stalker 2?

[vernal lily]

delete game

[eternal mountain]

around 50-70ms even with high fps is crazy work

[dreamy dagger]

I'm soon Lvl 100, folk!

[serene barn]

the new difficulty is meant to be harder, something you don't just p word out of doing and there shouldn't be a shortcut around playing the whole game with that on.

[stuck seal]

I mean that’s the players choice, if they want to do that, shouldn’t they be allowed to? They bought the game, they can play it the way they want to, like how you can change difficulties on the fly in the trilogy

[timid siren]

If only they finally add stalker guides roaming around the Zone. Like it was in CoP.

[stuck seal]

I hope master difficultly doesn’t just increase damage and lower the reward for everything

[eternal mountain]

kinda seems like it with one of molts answers

[stuck seal]

Yeah kinda disappointing, veteran already does that

[charred nova]

disable frame gen

[serene barn]

no something that gives virtual bragging rights shouldn't just a thing you can flip on at the very end lol

[eternal mountain]

50-70 is without framegen and vsync

[charred nova]

what is your gpu

[eternal mountain]

usually ue5 games tend to be around 40 max

[charred nova]

thats insane bruh lmao

[stuck seal]

What do you mean bragging rights? No one’s gonna be bouncing on your dih because you completed stalker 2 on master

[eternal mountain]

rtx 4080, framerate itself is acceptable, latency is just jarring

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/tyrael2-gif-24013833

[timid siren]

Especially assuming they have just fixed that annoying npc highly precise shooting from 500m at night while being around 5 bushes. Directly in your a... eye. With a shotgun.

[charred nova]

let me check what it is for me

[serene barn]

completing the game on the hardest difficulty on a game should be the challenge that a difficulty is supposed to be. not just a thing you turn on at the last 5min. it'll likely get an achievement too added to it.

[dreamy dagger]

@charred nova Can you fast forward me to Lvl 100, bossman of Murdor?

[timid siren]

3060 ti, and have awesome fps at high

[stuck seal]

Well for achievements sure that makes sense, you don’t get achievements in the trilogy for things like that so it makes sense you can swap on the fly

[eternal mountain]

yeah fps is also pretty good but latency bro, mouse movement is later than usual

[charred nova]

actually what cpu do you have

[serene barn]

just because no one's gonna bang you for doing a game on the hardest difficulty shouldn't mean that it should be bypassable like just changing it in the game like that.

[charred nova]

yah they will bro

[eternal mountain]

ryzen 7 7800x3d

[charred nova]

hmmmm

[vernal lily]

several people are typing

[serene barn]

if you weren't so easy, it wouldn't be an issue

[charred nova]

tbh ive not played the game in ages so we will see

[stuck seal]

Like I said, if there’s an achievement for it, it makes sense, but if there is none, that’s just an unnecessary barrier to me

[dreamy dagger]

@meager crag Let me be Lvl 100 Noosphereicritic

[charred nova]

maybe my radeon will do better

[stuck seal]

I played through CS on master, but I realized that I really didn’t have to be on master the whole time, it was my personal goal to do it, but I can change how I play anytime I wanted to

[charred nova]

perhaps.....

difficulty should make the game hard not annoying

this is a common mistake many games make

[timid siren]

ah, that thing...
No, it`s fine. It was made programmatically to simulate ammunition heaviness. And it was already lowered significantly.

When the game was just released, intesional movement latensy was just insane. Someone has copied Tarkov too much

[serene barn]

i just think the hardest difficulty should be commitment thing

[stuck seal]

Truth black hole explosion

[charred nova]

the mouse latency

is caused by mouse acceleration

[dreamy dagger]

Which hole?

[charred nova]

which you can disable with a config file

[stuck seal]

Most games just increase percentages the higher you go, and it just makes the game unfun rather than challenging

[vernal lily]

several

[eternal mountain]

idk it doesnt seem right to "simulate heaviness" in a first person shooter, where input feedback is crucial

[dreamy dagger]

Oh come on......... I died in the tavern and lost 48 levels... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUARK!

[charred nova]

nah thats total bull shit lmao

anything that makes the game feel clunky is a massive negative

[vernal lily]

better start grinding again

[eternal mountain]

alas nvidia inspector shows pretty high latency and hope they fix it

[charred nova]

waiting for my shaders to compile

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/i-dont-know-i-dont-get-it-omg-omg-really-frustrated-gif-22860880

[fierce nexus]

[bitter plover]

exactly what was i saying, lmao

[frosty lodge]

Is the drum magazine for the Saiga obtainable before the point of no return?

[charred nova]

with msi afterburner on right now im getting 92 fps at 13ms of delay

[eternal mountain]

damn lucky

[charred nova]

radeon is winning

it seems

[timid siren]

One more point to fix along with Burers being an unbalanced scheisse, chimeras going not too far from Burers, preudogigants exceeding them all.
And not to mention that flash anomaly yelling into your face someone from QA department took a really long vacation.

[bitter plover]

althought there is latency, on other hand, dont focus too much on nvidia insperctor, its not true measurement of input latency.

[opaque quiver]

we must destroy the caliphate of gsc

[atomic trout]

When is 1.7 expected to come out

[bitter plover]

its now. Wasnt before, but it is now

[serene barn]

i believe that some of the last few updates added in more locations or more attachments into stashes so make them more worth doing as well as giving players ways to get the best ones before that point

as well as added cut/unavailable attachments

[frosty lodge]

Would you happen to know where I can find it?
Never messed around with the Saiga boomstick before.

[main jewel]

theres a dock where a cafe is at the edge of pripyat in the northern area i think ill make a sticker to show you

[cursive knot]

I finally bought stalker 2 cause it was gonna be removed from game pass

[frosty lodge]

Ah I know where that is. Thanks!

[main jewel]

its gunna be by the hand of a dead body over there

[dreamy dagger]

@bitter plover Help, I've been promoted to Alcaholic1

[main jewel]

on the dock

[timid siren]

be prepared for kitty cat

[dreamy dagger]

I did the wrong brew

[main jewel]

i can usually just go around and avoid them

[timid siren]

this one will be hard to avoid 😋

[frosty lodge]

Cheers, fourth time in Pripyat now but first time where I did parkour to get there early.

So many spots to just jump the fence in 1.6

[main jewel]

yesss i have a way to get into pripyat 1.6 too eh eh eh, dont leak your secrets tho

[charred nova]

friendly reminder to always do the pripyat early glitch

[timid siren]

anyone else noted that in pripyat when walking at roads you hear steps as if you were walking ground?

[main jewel]

no matter how many patches gsc puts on pripyat stalkers will always find a way

[frosty lodge]

One thing that's still odd, you can get quests from Yaniv station to eliminate stalkers and groups that've made it across to Pripyat without Degtyarev's permission.
These stalkers are all in Pripyat, behind the railway carts.
So you have no way of completing these sidequests.

[eternal mountain]

still measuring more than other games, something aint right

[frosty lodge]

Would've been neat to obtain early access if you did a few quests for Degtyarev's Corps at Yaniv.
There are a ton of mutants in Pripyat and still a fair bit of Monolithians so it's not a walk in the park either.

[timid siren]

like said, that was intentional

[bitter plover]

should be mushroom eater instead.

[eternal mountain]

increased pc latency shouldnt be intentional

[main jewel]

yeaaa and exosuits are quite expensive to maintain and upgrade very early especially on veteran

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/gta-oh-no-gameplay-video-game-cj-gif-17762166

[charred nova]

me walking through pripyat looking at all the cut content

[bitter plover]

it has big latency input as i said. Early versions of UE 5 had these issues. Probably UE update will help with that. (S2 is actualy around average in input latency compared to other games on early UE versions)

[frosty lodge]

Duty exosuit is the best one you can obtain straight from the start.

[eternal mountain]

heres hoping

[frosty lodge]

But you cannot sprint with it, ever
Duty my beloved

[main jewel]

me looking in pripyat seeing buildings i cant get into and half of pripyat inaccessible because the devs can go eat a shoe (they work real hard but come on)

[main jewel]

sprint with exosuit mod

[frosty lodge]

Also it's comical how at the Duty base in the cement factory, Duty mechanics cannot even install upgrades on their own exosuits.

[frosty lodge]

I have that exact mod downloaded! Love it.

[main jewel]

i wish the bulwark had a sprint

[charred nova]

3/4 of pripyat is cut content

[timid siren]

me looking at early s2 screens with a garbage bridge cut from release being on its own cut from release at 2002

[bitter plover]

DLC

[main jewel]

its sad that it shows and feels that its ment to be a late game area

so linear and sad

[charred nova]

nah its NOT suppose to be dlc

but who knows maybe that will change

[main jewel]

i dont want to wait for something that shouldve been here

i wonder when the cnpp dlc will come out…

[bitter plover]

They literaly said, that there will be more in DLCs in Pripyat at Gamescon Asia like year ago

[charred nova]

according to the texts found in the shinning zone dlc areas are all new not cut areas

[charred nova]

yes but also no

[floral meteor]

All gamepass owners and stalkers what stalker edition should I get ? I do love the idea and potential of stalker 2 just sad it’s going away from gamepass soo idk what to do

[main jewel]

ultimate edition is pretty worth it to me

you get a season pass

[charred nova]

i got a free pre order ultimate edition key

an extra

[floral meteor]

U get all the dlc don’t you as well

[main jewel]

i wish i had veteran and the other thing for the preorder

[main jewel]

thats rhe season pass

[charred nova]

pay me 300 bux right now

and ill give you the key

[floral meteor]

Wonder how that would work

[bitter plover]

i never said, that it was intensded this way, i only said, that it will come

[main jewel]

nvm vro a gun and a rust coat m9 lookin ahh suit aint worth it

[charred nova]

nah the cut parts of pripyat are different from the dlc

they are 2 different things

3/4 of the originally planned pripyat is cut

that is not including the dlc part

[bitter plover]

according to plan long ago, but we rly dont know what will come. THats all what i will say

[main jewel]

you can even see a docking crane in the background… and that one guy dancing in one of the trailers.. he got cut too.. HE LOOKED SO INTERESTING IM SO SAD HE GOT CUT

[oak junco]

I really wish they pulled a rockstar and delayed the game long enough for it to be complete on release

[charred nova]

if you use no clip and god mode

you can look at a lot of the partly finished cut content in pripyat

jupiter is there too

[main jewel]

gsc slicing pripyat up like a cake is gunna be one of my biggest hatreds

[charred nova]

i mean all the content in pripyat is cut

[main jewel]

yes and rhe bus station

[charred nova]

you likely noticed how there are a grand total of 0 side quests in pripyat

[vernal lily]

still a level 2 alcoholic, better get brewing

[bitter plover]

not everyone has insane capital behind them with fully knowing, that they will get it back, as Rockstar to be able to delay as they want

[charred nova]

like the truth is

this game would not have been DONE till 2027

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/alcohol-alec-baldwin-gif-11085224

[vapid galleon]

what UNISG stands for?

[dreamy dagger]

Unified Sosig Group

Sosig + Alkahol....

[vapid galleon]

sometimes you exaggerate the fact that you think you're funny

[dreamy dagger]

Look at your level, little man

[vapid galleon]

get krezzin'd

[floral meteor]

Why does stalker 2 gotta be one of my favourite feelings games .. the atmosphere makes me keep coming back

[dreamy dagger]

You creeping me out

[vernal lily]

Kwezzy

[vapid galleon]

you are the guys who's only creeping us xDDD

[dreamy dagger]

Let me eat my yogurt, for frog sakes!

Lactobacillus bulgaricus krezzinicus

[vapid galleon]

completely healthy brain

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/dungeons-and-dragons-monsters-undead-shocked-face-surprised-gif-17930918

[lavish abyss]

#JUSTICEFORMISERY

[vapid galleon]

another one...

[weary hedge]

Mf thinks it’s a movement

[dreamy dagger]

Los Miseryables

[lavish abyss]

Another one ? i was here first loser

[bitter plover]

jesus again

[vernal lily]

here goes another one

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/woah-steve-harvey-steve-on-watch-surprised-shocked-gif-16746958

[strong sand]

GSC actually is in the process of delivering justice for the misery

[lavish abyss]

They better be

[dreamy dagger]

GSC will kill Misery with 1 grenade

[charred nova]

🤨

[vernal lily]

Interesting name you got there

[oak junco]

I will save misery ong

[dreamy dagger]

Lololololololo

[lavish abyss]

id be mad too if a one dev game was better than my game but i dont think id go to the point of saying they copied me because we have similar buildings and guitars/campfires

[oak junco]

@strong sand it's still insane they let you rock that flag with it being banned in poland for the atrocities they committed to poles and jews lol

[weary hedge]

Misery is ass tho

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-squarepants-laugh-hardyharr-happy-gif-3480885

[charred nova]

we don't know the full truth unfortunately but ive bee hearing they had directly imported stalker assets in the game

[lavish abyss]

And stalker is heat right

[opaque cipher]

Engine update when?

[charred nova]

so we will have to wait for gsc to say something

[charred nova]

next year

[vernal lily]

never

[dreamy dagger]

Man either I drank too much alkahol or the server is swarming with green hearts

[opaque cipher]

Bruh that's like 2028

[lavish abyss]

Low level alcoholic right here

[weary hedge]

Keep coping bud

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-training-day-gif-16743259178450786472

[lavish abyss]

I was level 2 when i was 14

[oak junco]

I heard around 1st dlc release

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/risitas-laugh-cant-breathe-lol-gif-27515616

[opaque cipher]

Quick reminder that stalker 2 is currently also supposed to get multiplayer

[robust pendant]

What a stupid thing to say, honestly

[vernal lily]

nah

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/negan-twd-the-walking-dead-oh-you-you-better-be-joking-gif-15346378

[charred nova]

yah maybe in 2027

lmao

[oak junco]

I mean thats not really fair games being good or bad is subjective like look at stalker 2 for example still so much missing after about a year after release

[charred nova]

tbh gsc even saying the word multiplayer was a terrible idea

[lavish abyss]

well honestly that was gscs argument for how misery copied stalker

[charred nova]

its gonna be mid as fuck regardless

idk why they even thought it was needed

[robust pendant]

They gave no argument public yet.
And what the dev showed was a cut out screenshot

[weary hedge]

Realistically idgaf how bad either games are. The whole argument is pointless. The dudes just tryna fuel a fire

[robust pendant]

Like, support misery all you want, the guy may be right in the complain, idk. But saying it was because of a campfire its stupid

[chrome jetty]

Similar? You mean the same exact content

[robust pendant]

Like, it hurts the dev himself saying this shit

[lavish abyss]

cant forget the buildings that are also in day z and many other games

[charred nova]

need i remind you many other stalker like games exist

stalcraft for example

which is made by RUSSIANS

[stuck seal]

Ok one thing, for some reason so many enemies have shotguns in the end game, this doesn’t make things harder actually it makes things easier, I was helping duty defend a base against monolith and they were all just tickling me with buckshot as I sniped them, rather odd that so many enemies after SIRCAA use shotguns

[robust pendant]

Chernobylite too

[vernal lily]

Damn I really came back here at a wrong time

[fast temple]

GSC should sell a misery NFT

[robust pendant]

Into the radius ig

[oak junco]

❤️

[charred nova]

this guy gets it

[stuck seal]

Like why so many buckshot users in the zone????????

[charred nova]

though this is not gonna be a NFT level blunder

[opaque cipher]

Marketing

[charred nova]

well yah

90 percent of the people thought it was co op

which is the greatest irony of all

[fast temple]

multiplayer will get removed from the store advertising soon enough dw

[vernal lily]

But as long as you, Kwezzy and Sparrow are around I think I will be staying

[opaque cipher]

Not 90, but a significant amount

[frigid hill]

baseddlite has been banned

Reason: provocations, rule 6, 7

[vernal lily]

It's so snorkover now

[charred nova]

i thought we agreed to wait before doing that

[keen terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-wave-emoji-cat-wave-cat-wave-gif-17826137474354671565

[keen terrace]

We actually did agree to wait until he provocates again?

He did

He dead

[charred nova]

oh true

my bad

[vernal lily]

What a turn of events

[dreamy dagger]

?!?!?!?!

[charred nova]

you should have seen what he said about ukraine in c con lol

lmfao

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/hahaha-anime-gif-21672916

[dreamy dagger]

What jus happened?!

[dreamy dagger]

A moderator was banned?!

[vernal lily]

Does he want me bombed

[charred nova]

check dms see for your self

[dreamy dagger]

@oak junco How are you still here?!

[uncut hollow]

[keen terrace]

Don't

[chrome jetty]

It's a bug

[uncut hollow]

what "don't"

[charred nova]

no let me

[still current]

[shell eagle]

Oh, you back

[vernal lily]

Please guys let's just have tea or coffee or something

[dreamy dagger]

Why did you ban a fellow mod, bruh... WTH!

[shell flax]

[charred nova]

not the first time

[stuck seal]

Tea sounds nice

[chrome jetty]

Anyways, the story is over, just because someone was an ex helper doesn't make them immune to the rules

[shell eagle]

Glad to see you again

[uncut hollow]

I'm already having tea and it's 2 glasses

[chrome jetty]

Back to talking about stalker

[stuck seal]

Tea as a mid level energy restoration between water and non stop when????????????

[proven hollow]

Let's talk about snorks

[chrome jetty]

Agreed

[uncut hollow]

bruh

[chrome jetty]

We need more snork cosplayers

[stuck seal]

Wdym there’s snork cosplayers everywhere

[dreamy dagger]

Watch the rules before you get axed too

[stuck seal]

My neighbor was a snork for Halloween

But for some reason im still hearing screeches from their house……

[vernal lily]

I still have yet to make myself espresso

[shell flax]

I still stand by the statement if I see someone doing the Snork run, I’m going the opposite direction

[proven hollow]

well i mean they just kind of look like hunched over zombies with a gasmask

[chrome jetty]

At this time?

Isn't it late?

[shell flax]

Look up a Monster Americano

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-snork-snazzywazzy-gif-5122157748425071503

[still current]

!ban @chrome jetty snorking

[frigid hill]

🚫 You can't ban immunized @chrome jetty.

[vernal lily]

It's 12 pm over here, I am not in UA time atm

[still current]

[chrome jetty]

Snorkeling

[chrome jetty]

Ah okay

[frigid hill]

robolord123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proven hollow]

Literally 1984

[dreamy dagger]

Server is dying

[vapid galleon]

absolutely

[chrome jetty]

[chrome jetty]

Why

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-face-itstommylove-stalker-stalker-2-saddened-gif-11334835203921734786

[shell flax]

One guy gets banned

‘Server is dying!’

most active I’ve seen it in days

[proven hollow]

server died the moment mods started persecuting innocents

[still current]

He pressed too much in C-con and here. I really tried to keep him from this end but he resisted

[shell flax]

I didn’t know the guy so it doesn’t really effect me lol

[radiant plover]

kinda glad i don't ever pay attention to c-con anymore.

[shell flax]

Is C-Con a dumpster fire then

[weary hedge]

We don’t talk about that server

[robust pendant]

Not really, but there are crazy people there too

[shell flax]

Got it, hellhole

[robust pendant]

I like it because its the only place I can talk about niche mods, and theres really cool people there too

[radiant plover]

[weary hedge]

It’s good for stalker stuff and mods but yeah no bueno mi amigo

[shell eagle]

Server is dying
Why
Ugh don't yuo see?!

[uncut hollow]

both servers just fun tho

[vapid galleon]

[ United Nations International Scientific Group ]

[charred nova]

the void between c con and stoc grows wider all the time

[robust pendant]

I like it too because the development of Old World Addon 2 is being posted there

[chrome jetty]

No

[charred nova]

server has died before

[shell eagle]

That's the point

[charred nova]

it happens sometimes

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-2-anomaly-gif-10023077690413418613

[chrome jetty]

Also, is that kal'tsit in your pfp

[shell flax]

Servers around for longer then a year have shit like this happen all the time

[vapid galleon]

men after death after 100 messages written per minute:

[vapid galleon]

you steal that from me right? wait, did I or you did? can't really remeber

[shell eagle]

Aha! Arknights player spotted
No, that's not Kal'tsit

[weary hedge]

Who what where and why

[chrome jetty]

Not based

[vapid galleon]

I'm not gonna explain that, sentence is completely clear

[chrome jetty]

Was hoping for Kal

[radiant plover]

we just sit in the emptiness Jack

[charred nova]

perhaps

[weary hedge]

[charred nova]

sometimes i wish we go back

to the way things use to be

[keen terrace]

innocents my ass

[shell flax]

As clear as mandarin to someone blind and deaf

[charred nova]

server is not dead lol

kill 3 regular chatters 5 more will come to replace them

[dreamy dagger]

You better leave helpers before you get axed too, breddah

[shell eagle]

They don't know

[robust pendant]

Guys, server is dying, bring some fire so I can eat the meat

[fierce nexus]

Many times

But nothing is ever really dead in the zone

[dreamy dagger]

Server died years ago

Ask Crimson

[spark pond]

1.7 when? That's all I care about.

[vapid galleon]

[ United Nations International Scientific Group ]

[charred nova]

2021 was when this place peaked

[chrome jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/gulp-cat-gif-27257259

[shell eagle]

Ban all monolithians pls

[proven hollow]

can't you see we're mourning the death of this server here? have some respect

[fierce nexus]

I second this

[charred nova]

alright i can get on board for that

this is gonna be a long night

[shell eagle]

Thank you

[proven hollow]

Noontide thought they could ban the Monolith from their lives as well, guess how that ended up?

[charred nova]

they got owned by terrible writing

[vapid galleon]

[ United Nations International Scientific Group ]

[proven hollow]

i'll trust those words coming from the expert in that area

[spark pond]

Ladies and gentlemen, we gather not to mourn a fallen machine, but to acknowledge a drama queen of silicon. Its blinking lights testify: this is no grave, merely a stage.

[charred nova]

yah bring back monolith again because you couldn't think of a better idea is pretty shit writing

[proven hollow]

They simply recognised that The Monolith is the greatest faction in the game, the only one deserving of having more of in a new story

[charred nova]

they don't have a story

[stuck seal]

I mean they could have done the same plot point but differently to make it feel better

[charred nova]

they are just a bunch of robots

[strong sand]

The evilest which deserved to be destroyed once more!

[charred nova]

let me ask for the chatgpt lore real quick

monolith are just mindless bad guys

[proven hollow]

Yeah, that worked out great last time

[charred nova]

there is nothing to them

[strong sand]

Poor Noontide (

[stuck seal]

Looking at it, there was a point that CoP introduced but didn’t finish, and that is that although monolith aren’t brainwashed anymore, there’s still conflict between themselves and others, and that wasn’t built upon other than you shooting them all

[charred nova]

hope the dlc adds a new path to save noontide

would instantly make stalker 2 way more interesting

[stuck seal]

I mean stalker hasn’t been the premier of writing ever

[uncut hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-squarepants-wow-mindblown-gif-13169052

me using my mind to remember stalker lore

[stuck seal]

A lot of games have good concepts of stories but bad writing

[weary hedge]

You think they’d add any dlc conflicting with the current story?

[charred nova]

no but they never did a total cop out in the originally trilogy and just deleted massive lore points for the sake of the plot

[proven hollow]

Stalker lore is simple, Monolith are the good guys, all the rest is trying to lick their rock

[stuck seal]

And that’s because I guess the company can’t pay for good devs or good writers at the same time so they hire mid of both

[charred nova]

maybe

[stuck seal]

If the dlc shows the “true” or real path then yeah it could conflict

Because the other paths are like non true paths

[charred nova]

i mean all the endings in the current game are just the end of stalker more or less

there isn't really room to make more stalker

unless you make a prequal or something

[stuck seal]

Which may point to every ending currently being a bad ending OR

it means that stalker 2 is the end of stalker which wouldn’t be a horrible idea

[languid surge]

I wanna post an image but no perms, in Stalker Clear Sky, there's a stash in a tall white tower thing, but I can't seem to climb up there, what should i do?

[stuck seal]

I mean, I wouldn’t want stalker to become a franchise that craps out a new game every two years

Or heck every year

[proven hollow]

A zone which is hedged in, a zone which is controlled by the Group, a zone that spreads around the world? So many possibilities

[charred nova]

considering it will likely take till 2030 for the game to be totally finished

we can worry about it then

[stuck seal]

It’s best to just enjoy what’s there, and to not care about what’s next until we get there

[charred nova]

all of the endings except ward ending are just bad endings realistically

the spark ending

everyone in the zone dies

the strelok ending

everyone in the zone starves to death

the skif ending the world is destroyed

[proven hollow]

the ward ending is unironically the worst one

[charred nova]

no its the only good ending lol

[stuck seal]

Strelok ending is just delaying the ward ending, as once people take the zone back, the ward will walk in and continue their progress

[charred nova]

ward ending skif wins

[stuck seal]

So maybe the Strelok ending is also a not so bad ending because it’s just the ward ending but later

[charred nova]

he gets a new house and gets to go home

so its the only good ending

even if he sold out to the deepstate to get that house

[proven hollow]

right, you just gave the power to kill everyone in the zone and destroy the world to the Group, whose literal goal was influencing the emotions of all of humanity

[charred nova]

at least he's happy

[stuck seal]

Dlc post ward ending where skif goes fishing

[charred nova]

yah

thats all i want tbh

i really hope gsc actually adds fishing

i really want fishing bro

[shell flax]

Add onto the fact the Ward is going to be mindblowingly pissed off once that happens, I imagine the job will go from ‘capture the X-7 lab’ to ‘Avenge Korshunov’

[charred nova]

im serious 😢

[stuck seal]

Maybe a fishing mini game that allows you to fight a mutant fish

[vapid galleon]

"Kill Strelok"

[still current]

I'm good. I advice people and if they put my advice in trash, they end up bad

[stuck seal]

Jokes aside, I do feel like stalker 2 is meant to be maybe the last stalker game, because they can continue the franchise by just adding dlcs to stalker 2, they don’t need to make a new game to continue the story like the trilogy, they can keep stalker 2 alive for a while and thus keep the franchise going

[proven hollow]

it's GSC gameworld, if there's money in a STALKER 3 they'll make it

[stuck seal]

That’s how I see it

[vernal lily]

The wise ol' Rahmi

[stuck seal]

IF theres money, maybe it would be cheaper to sell dlcs

I personally would prefer dlcs, the trilogy became so liked because that’s what we had for so long, I feel like the longer stalker 2 stays around (which it will stay around) the more memorable it may become

[charred nova]

its crazy to me that this game wont be done till im 27

[stuck seal]

This game won’t be done till I’m 53

[proven hollow]

damn, 15 years still?

[charred nova]

5

[stuck seal]

I’m gonna be on my death bed and my grand children are going to tell me that the last major update released for stalker 2

[robust pendant]

This is why you dont buy from release

[charred nova]

they will say it finally reached game of the year quality

after all this time

[robust pendant]

Except silksong. Always buy silksong

[stuck seal]

Stalker 2 GOTY edition

[proven hollow]

curiously enough STALKER 2 is one of the few games i absolutely do not regret buying at release

[stuck seal]

I don’t regret either, I enjoyed the game since release even with the problems

[shell flax]

Same

[stuck seal]

I understand the game isn’t finished, but I’m satisfied with what I have currently and am patient for what is to come

[proven hollow]

i know a lot of people had issues but I played through it quite smoothly tbh

[shell flax]

My only issue was gravity bubbles chucking me under the map at Mach Jesus and crashing the game occasionally

[stuck seal]

What I’m not patient for is Bob the foreigner side quest, they need to make that asap

[still current]

[proven hollow]

but i haven't really played since december last year, waiting for 1.7 for playthrough nr2

[charred nova]

like ive been waiting for almost 2 years

for the new calamity mod update

hopefully it will be worth the wait

like my issue is mostly

none of the updates have added anything i really care about

[vernal lily]

hm

[charred nova]

we are still missing so much iconic stalker content

[robust pendant]

I want bandits to call me the fword and the rword again and the game is complete

[charred nova]

so these tiny little itty bitty things that a vocal group cared about while im sure is great for them do little for me personally

[vernal lily]

Well, I hope all of you are doing well

[bitter plover]

nah, there are just several zones around whole world its not destroyed. It opens door to many possibilities in future

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/negan-twd-the-walking-dead-oh-you-you-better-be-joking-gif-15346378

Hey what if I want to become GSC mod....

...so I can de-mod myself!

[hardy totem]

A worthy cause

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/negan-twd-the-walking-dead-oh-you-you-better-be-joking-gif-15346378

[iron wind]

♿

[dreamy dagger]

Why are you replying to commends made 104 years ago?

[grand light]

stalcraft - uses artifacts (not anymore but used to, such as firefly, mama's beads, snowflake), locations (garbage, dark valley, agroprom, army warehouses) and mutants (snorks, fleshes, boars, pseudogiants, bloodsuckers, chimeras) that are identical copies from stalker
nothing happens in 11 years (it's a big company)

misery - makes up their own locations, setting (not in chernobyl unlike stalcraft), not a single artifact or mutant even close to anything seen in stalker
gets dmca'd in under a month (it's an independent dev)

[iron wind]

got it, 1 hour = 104 years ago

[dreamy dagger]

Also I am the alkaholic, differen tuser

[stuck seal]

That is true, but another truth is the devs do things in the order they want to, if they choose to do things in that order, that’s how they’re gonna do it unfortunately

There’s many things I’m looking forward to but I doubt they’ll come around soon

[frozen orchid]

my game crashes so frequently I'm not even sure what to do lol

[robust pendant]

Maybe send a crash log to #❔┃seeking-for-advice and in #s2-support

[chrome jetty]

https://youtu.be/QydY_gCYHOY?si=oaDN2s_D5tSBKeEq

[charred nova]

yikes

[chrome jetty]

https://youtu.be/iFgk_WVZDBg?si=D8jMqfitx8X8cc3K

It's literally the same

[charred nova]

i think all bro really has to do is just take out the stolen shit

and hes golden

[chrome jetty]

Depends

I honestly hope that GSC sues the shit out of him but he's Russian so nothing will prob happen

He deserves to pay up

Since he earned about 3 mil $

[charred nova]

thats pointless

[chrome jetty]

Out of someone else's content

[chrome jetty]

Why

[charred nova]

the law suit would never go through

unless bro literally left where he lives

he could just ignore it forever

why you think piracy sites are usually set up in russia

yah valve might give gsc the money

but any law suit would never get off the ground

its just a pointless waste of time

[grand light]

but stalcraft copying locations, artifacts and mutants (design and gameplay/mechanics wise) is fine?

[charred nova]

there not direct rips

[grand light]

this guitar track also sounds different to me, idk if the quality is just better but it doesn't sound exactly the same

[charred nova]

its clearly the same

the quality of the rip doesn't make it different

lol

by that logic i could download a song compress it then claim its a new song i made

and sell it

[chrome jetty]

It's up to the IP owner to decide who to DMCA

[chrome jetty]

Blud is deaf...

[grand light]

yeah lets dmca the small indie dev and not the big company stealing our stuff

[charred nova]

mate your not helping

[mental bronze]

Hey are there any concrete details about the dmca against misery on steam? I saw a reddit thread but it had nothing concrete and what information was there didn't make sense

[grand light]

#☢┃stalker-general message
basically this

[charred nova]

nothing real so far

gsc wont likely say anything about it till tomorrow

[chrome jetty]

Again, it's up to the IP owner to decide, some can have permissions and Stalcraft has no direct ripoffs from STALKER.

If GSC wanted to they could also DMCA strike modders that use a modified stand-alone version of the xray engine or DMCA strike any modders that are making money out of donations, can they do that? Yes, but are they doing it? No.

GSC has always been very lenient with DMCA claims

[cobalt fiber]

can’t wait for official announcement tomorrow lol

[grand light]

you didn't have to go so in depth, i understood it the first time, explaining it more and more won't make favouritism sound or seem any better

[cobalt fiber]

the speculation is nuts

well

hopefully tomorrow

[stuck seal]

I’m convinced the zone itself is hiding SP-6 ammo from me, straight up cannot find it anymore, what’s a stalker gotta do to get some SP-6

[chrome jetty]

It's not favouritism, stalcraft doesn't have any direct ripoffs, and GSC owns and made the content and pays for the license so it's not up to you to decide on who has permission and who not

[grand light]

either they dmca ppl who steal their stuff or they don't, but picking the smallest dev as the weakest target is just petty af

[chrome jetty]

Said indie company has earned more than 3 mil$

[mental bronze]

Oof. Always hurts my brain that you can seem to issue a dmca request without a corresponding specific public request

[grand light]

not even a company it's one single dev lol

[cobalt fiber]

Have you been given details by both parties that nobody else is aware of and directly contradicts and point fingers?

[chrome jetty]

Still, don't steal stuff and make money out of it

It's easy

It's so easy

Just make your own content

[cobalt fiber]

No? Then you cannot try to separate fact from fiction and point fingers lol

All you’re doing is stressing yourself out dude just wait for official statements

[grand light]

10/10 people that know or have played stalker would more quickly find a resemblance to stalker playing stalcraft:x then when playing misery

[cobalt fiber]

So far the only “official statement” has been from Misery in which names were called and admissions about being a xenophobe were made - nothing concrete has been established

[mental bronze]

Not really, people frequently have an expansive idea of what is 'theirs' that I'm confident you wouldn't agree with.

[chrome jetty]

Having a similarity does not fit the legal rights for a DMCA strike

[grand light]

stressing out? i just called it out for what it is, i already own misery so i don't have to be worried about it being put off of steam

[cobalt fiber]

It isn’t what it is though cos you’re not working with facts

What it is = fact

[errant hemlock]

the audio used in this is a cover from Campfire stalker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDEeie8qpf0 so if they wanna go after misery for the music on technicality they would have to go after this guy too because of him not filing a cover license as he also made money off of GSC's assets

[stuck seal]

Am I dumb for thinking stalcraft was actually starcraft when I heard about it the first time

[cobalt fiber]

Speculation = fiction

There’s a very fine line my dude

We will hopefully know more tomorrow

[chrome jetty]

Again, it's the IP owner's choice to decide who to DMCA strike and who not

[mental bronze]

Yeah, this. Without information about specifics its nigh impossible to judge the situation

[cobalt fiber]

Until then there’s no sense in the endless game of “who’s the bad guy?”

[errant hemlock]

yes but since they are going at misery for using gsc asset it being the same asset without a cover liscense means it would also have to be taken down

[mental bronze]

Thanks for confirming there isn't updated info, sorry to have evidently stirred the hornet's nest

[grand light]

also, yes, there was an email posted which showed the claims of copying that are basically claiming copyright to campfires, guitars (not songs) and soviet architecture, which makes kuro's point meaningless as stalcraft is doing that exact thing where they're not ripping assets but basically recreating them 1 on 1 in their own game

[errant hemlock]

as whats used in misery is a cover of the stalker OST. it essentially is just GSC > -Campstalk > Misery-

[cobalt fiber]

The proof from the Misery dev was also incomplete and cropped

So

[errant hemlock]

and because again Campstalk didnt file a cover liscence he too would be added into this issue

[cobalt fiber]

Just wait for official statements dude

Answers will be provided soon

[grand light]

it doesn't have to be complete, what's there is there

[cobalt fiber]

It’s been the weekend. It’s bad timing

[mental bronze]

Can you link? I only saw a cropped image

[cobalt fiber]

Evidence that is incomplete is not permissible evidence

[errant hemlock]

facts and if I'm correct GSC does get a copy of the email too

[cobalt fiber]

If you present incomplete or edited evidence to somebody you’re not presenting admissible evidence

[grand light]

it's on the stalker reddit i think, just type something like "dmca mail sent to misery dev" into google/reddit

[errant hemlock]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1orxr0a/full_dmca_email_sent_by_gsc_to_the_misery/

[chrome jetty]

It's edited and cropped

This is not a full email

[errant hemlock]

well i did what someone else said this is all that showed up so

[chrome jetty]

It's a copy paste of what misery devs posted in their Steam page

[chrome jetty]

Ask Misery devs to get the full email

[lapis kiln]

Remembering y i stopped playing this game now. Cant see enemies bit they can see me plain as day an beam me

[errant hemlock]

ight

[mental bronze]

Ok yeah, that doesn't look great but it also doesn't make sense on the face of it. Interested in an update

[cobalt fiber]

One email also does not provide the full details, reasons, intent or extent

[chrome jetty]

What's up

[grand light]

if it really was about one silly guitar song like, whatever, but if what we saw is true gsc claims that everything about misery is copyrighted, which means they would have to (logically) dmca like 10~ other games on steam, and why stalcraft wouldn't have been dmca'd in 10 years,,

[chrome jetty]

Steam sends the full complaint including the reason and the material that was claimed under DMCA, it's mandated by law to include the claimed content in the complaint

[grand light]

most of which the game used 1 on 1 recreations of stalker's artifacts, even properties being shared

[chrome jetty]

Whataboutism...

[errant hemlock]

pretty sure steam by law has to include all reasons provided in that email as its essentially them serving you

[chrome jetty]

Yep

Ask MISERY devs to publish it

And ask them why they cropped it

[errant hemlock]

fellow admin jsut squashed that lol

[errant hemlock]

im currently asking them and ill send it here

[chrome jetty]

He probably didn't know that

[chrome jetty]

Some other people already attempted to ask them

They got nothing

[mental bronze]

Yeah, which I believe means we don't have the full story. The details we have don't make sense at this junction

[errant hemlock]

someone in my family is a lawyer so im asking if i can get it to have a lawyer look at it

[plain fiber]

So...we're talking about "The Thing" it looks like?

[weary hedge]

Unfortunately it will be the hot topic until GSC drops the ball

Which will most likely happen tomorrow

[mental bronze]

I guess the guys on the helicopter give the entire plot away in a different language, evidently they are shouting 'that isnt a dog' or the like

[errant hemlock]

??

[plain fiber]

"The Thing" in this context being the alleged DMCA takedown against MISERY. (Not the mod.)

[lapis kiln]

Getting annoyed by the sightlines of enemies being able to see me clear as day in the dark at 100m away

[errant hemlock]

ahhhhh

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/the-thing-ben-grimm-marvel-marvel-rivals-fantastic-gif-12886213036020997531

[chrome jetty]

You can't because you are a third party, it's not a public court case, you cannot look into the details even if you are a lawyer, unless you are working for MISERY dev, Steam or the IP owner that claimed the DMCA

[errant hemlock]

hence why im asking the misery dev

[chrome jetty]

The only option is to ask for more information and wait for it, they are not obliged in any way to publish anything about the case as it is private

[chrome jetty]

Yeah still, having a family member as a lawyer wouldn't change anything, especially considering that Steam operates under US laws

[mental bronze]

It would help you ask better questions for starters

[errant hemlock]

and if they decied to take legal advice from said lawyer?