☢┃stalker-general

[violet dune]

in 9 days u will become a shadow of strider

[meager crag]

Truly a shadow of his former self, eh?

[violet dune]

kaymanov will have to take care of him

[serene barn]

hmmmmm no announcement for that thing

[robust pendant]

I wonnder why!

[tame dune]

Hm

[fickle hill]

The everyday public bathroom

[fickle hill]

The wasps when I remembered to bring a lighter and hair spray

[gentle citrus]

Funny guy

[tacit ingot]

Check Mosfilm. The entire first half (outside of the zone) is in monochrome. The Zone is the only thing in color for a reason. I found this: https://youtu.be/UPerb922QGM?si=wqFAJ9-AIXWsH5KR This version released 4 months ago is in 4k

[burnt bridge]

Oh true like an wizard of oz type thing yeah I’m watching from mosfilm atm thanks man

[burnt bridge]

Damn all I had to do was wait for like 5 minutes hahah

[tacit ingot]

Yep it doesn't take very long

[tacit ingot]

But people do say it is slow overall

[burnt bridge]

Ngl yeah it has been the scenes are very drawn out but the critics apparently love it so I’m giving it a good go

[mild bay]

Stalker 2 ALife?

[robust pendant]

yes

maybe

[atomic trout]

Public executions when ?!

[meager crag]

Yesterday, sorry to say you're late

[gentle citrus]

Tomortor 100:10

PM

[hushed flint]

gm

[kindred fable]

Two more weeks

[still edge]

can you still be stun locked by a group of bloodsuckers?

[ebon blade]

What is "stun locked"?

[robust pendant]

The moment where 4 bloodsuckers surround you and you can barely do anything because you are stunned

Smth like that.
Imagine Burer's attack in CoP (idk how they are in S2). They take your stamina away as well as your gun, so you are stun locked for 3 seconds

[still edge]

when i used to play stalker 2 , i remember encountering 2 or 3 bloodsuckers ,and because they do the pounce attack that puts you down, 3 bloodsuckers used to knock me down one after the other ,freezing me in place.

[robust pendant]

||skill issue xdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxd||

[still edge]

yea i can avoid it, by doing a weird jump , but its kinda annoying when that situation happens

[gleaming salmon]

Just got on and all my saves are gone??

[still edge]

lost to the zone

[gleaming salmon]

Fr 😔

[still edge]

maybe wrong account?

[gleaming salmon]

Na

Im on xbox tho

[empty hare]

Hey wait a minute how did i end up as StinkyPeanutsBurgercheese

[robust pendant]

Cause you are a stinky burger with cheese and peanut

[serene barn]

hmm, what armor has such a bright yellow

[serene barn]

right that one. don't think i ever wore it.

can't remember which of the 100s that felt like it was the best one. but i think i did pay to max them out when i played on one of my saves

[shell flax]

The Survey, thing is an exosuit by another name

[ebon blade]

The SSP-100M SIRCAA has three shielded artifact slots.
I think it's the best suit of the series and only Exos are better.

[thorn niche]

Thats the only armor i ever use

[ebon blade]

I was wearing the SSP-100I Survey for some time, until I got the SSP-100M in the Burnt Forest.

[shell flax]

Currently running a fully upgraded Bulat, though I might swap to the berill for looks

Honestly though, if they give the Convoy one more slot I think it would be perfect for a helmetless armor

[serene barn]

i know they fiddled with armor stats a while back, still after i stopped playing.

[ebon blade]

Did you get the Duty Recruit suit yet? It's free now.

[serene barn]

pretty much only remember using a 99, Falcon and Diamond Exo

[shell flax]

It’s good for early game

[empty hare]

SEVA-D has been my favorite so far, great env/psi protection and 2.5 of phys protection

[shell flax]

You’ll get butchered if you use it past Garbage though

[empty hare]

Gotta go buy the SSP-100 Survey soon though

[ebon blade]

The SEVA-V is superior to the SEVA-D.

[empty hare]

Gonna try and sneak into Pripyat early but i dont want to just grab an exo this early in the game, so im planning to stick with what i find/buy legitimately

[empty hare]

In terms of physical protection? I thought it was a lot lower. I have it in my stash iirc

[empty hare]

Hmmm, might have to swap out. That rad protection is really nice

[ebon blade]

The SEVA-D only has one shielded artifact slot, while the SEVA-V has two.

The SEVA-V Freedom compared to the SEVA-I Spark.

[ashen ridge]

For the love of god, can anybody, and I mean anyone help me figure out this UE-Stalker2 crash log! It crashes immediatly on startup and it was working last night with no issues!

I have a Exception_Access_Violation

I swear I've done so many work arounds and just nothing is working at all

[robust pendant]

I cant help but you can contact GSC directly: #s2-support

[echo nimbus]

is there a date/ time frame for the next update? hopefully a dlc comes out within a year because i can't wait to go back into the zone!

[ebon blade]

Do you have ANY Mods installed?

[vernal lily]

ruh oh

[ashen ridge]

I did, but I’ve disabled them and everything, and still it’s causing some issues. I went ahead and just sent in a support ticket

[tall hawk]

you gotta delete the whole mod folder son, everything in it

[ebon blade]

Be sure to tell them you only disabled your Mods and not completely removed them.
Also, if you continue to update with Patches, without removing your Mods, expect the same.

[wooden walrus]

listen to your dad, you gotta delete the entire mod folder

I'd even go as far as to recommend uninstalling the game and nuking the entire stalker2 folder before reinstalling

[ebon blade]

Good advice.

[tardy rain]

just clear appdata

wipe mods folder, make a backup of AppData\Local\Stalker2\ then delete that too

verify files, then launch - your saves will be missing but you'll be able to see if its working. Once that's done you can restore the AppData/Local/Stalker2/Saved/SaveGames folder

[valid oar]

Why the hell did I get shot by the Ward if I have the Ward Badge and I was able to enter their base without them attacking me? They randomly decided to start shooting me after I left and their sniper insta-killed me.

And then the game crashed. It's not looking good.

[exotic glacier]

There is some weirdness around friendly npc's since 1.6. It's extremely rare, but they bow attack you. Me and one other guy lost zalissya in this fashion, other guy lost garbage. Quite £@cking annoying.

[empty hare]

They all become hostile just out of the blue?

[valid oar]

I had to turn back from getting the Journalist's Stash in Burnt Forest after traveling all the way from Rostok because I lost all of my ammo to the horrible fight with the music-loving pseudogiant. I saw that the Chemical Plant was nearby and that it belonged to the Ward, and I thought that I was welcomed there because I had the Ward Badge and had cooperated with them so far in the story. Fortunately, I saved just before stepping into the base, but I guess now I have to make it all the way back to Rostok. This is annoying. Time to not play the game for another week.

[empty hare]

Oof, yeah i fought that psuedogiant as well. I ended up cheesing the fight a bit and standing on the roof of the blue lada and just dumping rounds into its head

His stomp attack was 1 hitting me on the ground but only taking half my health if i was on the car

[ebon blade]

It's best to go for that stash in the Burnt Forest, without taking any detours on the way.

[valid oar]

Despite being on the outer edges of the Zone, the blue truck there is more irradiated than the CNPP. For some reason, it's basically just a chunk of plutonium. I died in seconds because I thought it would be a good spot to cheese the giant. Nope. I had to use the scaffolding left on the house across the street from where the guy plays the guitar to climb onto its roof and shoot the giant. I went from having 50 shells of 12G to less than 18 in total. I went from 180 rounds of 9mm Makarov to 40. I went from 50 rounds of Mosin ammo to 25. 9 grenades to 0.

Keep in mind, I have a SEVA suit, but I might as well be naked and bathing in molten uranium if I stand on that truck.

[ebon blade]

One end of the truck is very radioactive, while the other end is not.

[empty hare]

Goddamn, i was able to kill it with ~70rnds of 5.45 out of the Grom S-15. Yeah the truck is hotter than raw plutonium for some reason, but the lada next to the house isnt. The pseudogiant can still hit you there but not as hard

[valid oar]

I take it the non-radioactive end is the actual cabin?

[empty hare]

I'd love a dosimiter mod where, even after using anti-rad meds you get to see your total "lifetime" dose you've accumulated over the course of the game

[lucid charm]

Any actual predictions for what will be added with 1.7? We got a new rifle, NVG’s and a new questline with 1.6

[lucid charm]

Oh god, pets

tamagotchi stalker series

[wooden walrus]

the griddy

[fickle hill]

What's in your pockets merc? Money

[lucid charm]

I want a TRS 300

[lucid charm]

Niiiioce

[fickle hill]

Stare into the eyes of a regular man living a regular life

[fickle hill]

When did sido turn into thomas the tank engine

[vernal lily]

I lobe Clear Sky

[fickle hill]

Or someone put his face in Gmod and just made slight adjustments

[hushed flint]

is that LR300 aisoft or you just made it?

[hushed flint]

bruh left handed

[vernal lily]

That's not Tejas

[hushed flint]

i remember some maker maybe G&G was producing one

it was A&K

[vernal lily]

Just realized the guy in the pic is indeed using left handed. I'm left handed but things like that and playing the violin I use it like I am right handed.

[ebon blade]

I don't know any details about the picture other than what you see.

[hushed flint]

i just let you know airsoft LR-300 are produced by G&G Armament and A&K

ez to get if you satisfy with airsoft

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-anomaly-pszeudo-kutya-lurker-gif-25686637

[hushed flint]

why is bro hand look like controler

[stark crescent]

"works for me"

[chrome jetty]

@hushed flint wait, you know Zorro

Based

[hushed flint]

who's zorro

[chrome jetty]

Check our mutual friends

[hushed flint]

oh yeah

he's mf since few days ago

i never had japanese friend since long time ago.

[hushed flint]

i thought you talking about zorro from anime character

[chrome jetty]

Oh, nah

[chrome jetty]

What happened

[hushed flint]

i met him in eft official.jp and be friend

thats it

[chrome jetty]

Oh okay

[meager crag]

That's one hell of a way to abbreviate "my friend"

[vernal lily]

'mf' is also used for 'my friend'?

[stark crescent]

To explain, mf is usually used for motherf....

[hushed flint]

i thought it used for my friend

[stark crescent]

And you use it for my friend is fine, but other people might think its the swear word

"context"

[hushed flint]

oea

[sharp gulch]

That's a very funny confusion

[cobalt fiber]

Good morning mfs

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-17483046603576387320

[dense sandal]

Isn’t s2 set in…2019

[proven hollow]

ancient times

[stark crescent]

Turn it into a sticker. I wanna use it

[stark crescent]

During the beginning cutscene when Skif is entering his kitchen he looks back slightly and you can see a calendar with the year being '2021'. So it is either set in 2021 or 2022.

[dense sandal]

Ahh sick never noticed that lol

[weary hedge]

It do almost be 2026, damn

[hardy totem]

I ain't got nitro

[exotic glacier]

Yes.

[vapid galleon]

[spring gust]

follows railway line
oh hey, a tunnel
enters tunnel
owo whats this...
BURER NOISES INTENSIFY!

[stark crescent]

What if. 2 burers. Were alone in a cave. Uwu.

No one asking the hard questions. What happened to all the female mutant experiments

[weary hedge]

What’s up all… so I got stalker 2 on series x on release last year, console players on here already know what performance is like… I recently bought an ASUS gaming laptop… RTX 4070 GPU, intel i9 processor and 32gb of ram… do I buy the game again to play on laptop for better performance or wait until the engine update for series x…

[vapid galleon]

who cares??? we are a f***ing Stalker in Zone.

[stark crescent]

You got stalker 2 on xbox gamepass or you own stalker 2 xbox version?

[gentle citrus]

Wait i would say

[stark crescent]

Even stalkers get lonely at night.

[gentle citrus]

For now the performance on PC aint good too anyway so waiting is the best bet

[stark crescent]

No good hardware?

[vapid galleon]

no GPUs?

[stark crescent]

You problem smh fr no cap

[gentle citrus]

What does that mean?

[vapid galleon]

you're right man. Optimization == Great Swamps

[weary hedge]

I own it, I got the ultimate edition

Yeah thinking of waiting, do you guys think the engine update will significantly improve series x performance?

[vapid galleon]

Rostok eats your Ram while you're setting your stash. I think it's because of the Freedomers. If it was Duty, there would be no such problem. So:

[gentle citrus]

Prob just if they optimize with the update more. Maybe 60 stable will be possible but we have no idea you need to ask GSC

[vapid galleon]

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

[gentle citrus]

[vapid galleon]

[proven hollow]

njet

[vapid galleon]

[gentle citrus]

He has hair

[vapid galleon]

[ United Nations International Scientific Group ]

[vapid galleon]

[weary hedge]

Okay cool I think I’ll just wait and bide my time for now

[dreamy dagger]

Good aftermoaning

[spring gust]

Some experiments I'm not sure I want to know aout lol

[dreamy dagger]

Whats kotting around? @meager crag

[rough lintel]

My friend, in SoC there were no offline battles and no saving of consequences (corpses) for non-quest/scripted events.
There was only the movement of NPCs/monsters in offline mode.

Battles/corpses appeared only with AMK, and later in CS.

Here, I recorded a video especially for you.
This is vanilla SoC + NPC marker in offline.
In the video, you can clearly see that non-story/scripted NPCs/mutants in offline mode do NOT engage in combat and do not leave corpses.

https://streamable.com/y45sd5

[mellow idol]

Whats the plan with stalker 2 updates currently?

[dreamy dagger]

Become the foundation for Stalker 2 remaster

[mellow idol]

Will i be discriminated against for having a misery tag aswell🥀😔

[sudden rapids]

Whats Misery?

[robust pendant]

Misery who?

[robust pendant]

Daaaaaaamn

Almost like the superhero "A-Life" is just a simulation created to makes us think that it's much more advanced than it really was!!!

Like it was meant to be in the first place!!!!!!!

Who would've thought of that?
Well, not A-Life defenders, that's for sure!!!!!!

[exotic glacier]

Keep plugging the upgrade scheme while putting the game on repeated, laughable sales to hoover up the game pass players.

[vapid galleon]

😯

[dreamy dagger]

Los Miserables

[opaque cipher]

Engine update when?

[vapid galleon]

[dreamy dagger]

On December 35, 2025

[gentle citrus]

12:99 PM

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-stalker-2-laugh-crazy-laughing-gif-16679674146624330170

[vapid galleon]

GSC interfere to other productions after sinking Stalker 2

(ragebait)

[dreamy dagger]

Ragebait fails, insert coin

Insert coin...

Insert coin...

[mellow idol]

What do yall think should be added to stalker?

[dreamy dagger]

A gay bar

[mellow idol]

I cant really speak on what should he added, im not well versed, but i do believe different sorts of foods, weapons and medical supplies should be introduced

[mellow idol]

Thats rostok buddy, nice try

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/you-know-weve-got-to-find-a-way-marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-song-we-need-to-find-some-way-we-need-to-find-a-solution-gif-21864986

[mellow idol]

Whens the multiplayer gunna be expected to release?

[dreamy dagger]

If ever

[mellow idol]

trve…

[dreamy dagger]

When STALKER isometric game.... by GSC... No microtransactions, no bottleroyale, no catches, PURE ATMOSPHERE BANGER!

[mellow idol]

When can i romance sidrovich

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

[mellow idol]

Whats the roadmap look like if anyone knows? Im currently away from pc

[tacit ingot]

Play station then engine upgrade

Basic multiplayer

[dreamy dagger]

Consoles over PC for a PC-first developer is HILARIOUS

[tacit ingot]

Its called microsoft

[rough lintel]

1. Simply disabling Nanites breaks objects and buildings (due to HLOD) and does NOT increase fps. I tested this in Prypiat.
   And no, with a large number of polygons, Nanite only increases performance.
2. Moving into an area with a large number of NPCs overloads the CPU. Wow, that's crazy. That's never happened before, right? Oh, no, it happens EVERYWHERE. In any game with a dense number of NPCs around.
   And no, it's not “rendering things we cannot even see”; the game uses geometry culling.
3. “Also the trees in game look really really sheety” — I agree. This is because the game uses default meshes with lods for them, not nanites.
   This creates an additional problem with shadows, because non-nanite objects use CSM instead of VSM. I don't think I need to explain what happens when the source processes CSM and VSM with a “two-pass” calculation.

Moving everything to Nanite+VSM will improve overall performance and image quality, and I hope they will do so in the future.

[dreamy dagger]

To an extent its called greed but in the meantime, you have to survive as a developer, so thats understandable

[tacit ingot]

The money from microsoft basically guaranteed S2 to release even in its state, so its a choice of "would we have the game release at all?"

[mellow idol]

Late release better than bug ridden release

[tacit ingot]

Apparently not

And we waited 6 years in total for a 3 year game

[dreamy dagger]

Your comments begs the question... how would GSC survive after they're done with STALKER... what IP would do they that has 2x the effect of STALKER to keep themselves afloat....

[tacit ingot]

Cossacks again

[mellow idol]

What even is that

[tacit ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/cossacks3-ukraine-sich-cossacks-cossacks-gif-3938980769843622185

[smoky hawk]

people dont know RTS unless its starcraft
GRIM

[tacit ingot]

Gif repost 🙏

[smoky hawk]

the absolute state of society

[smoky hawk]

i aint doing that shi

[rough lintel]

My dad's colleague, a family friend, once showed me the trailer before it was released. It was scary, but I liked it.
If my memory serves me right, it was 2005, a DX9 trailer.

[dreamy dagger]

Cossacks is done with after the disaster C3 was

[meager crag]

Nothing

[dreamy dagger]

Oh no mice huntin?

[meager crag]

Nothing

[robust pendant]

DX9 trailer?

You mean a trailer showing the capabilities of DX9?

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/gta-gta-sa-grand-theft-auto-grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-gta-one-liners-gif-17461694

[mellow idol]

What yall think about stalcraft?

[dreamy dagger]

Stale

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-laugh-gif-14028933419620573990

[mellow idol]

And gambling heavy for the northern zone*

[dreamy dagger]

Wachu think of Granma?

[mellow idol]

Idk, battle pass and extreme greed within the ownership, i believe gsc should genuinely do something about stalcraft

[still current]

Shit

Pure shit

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-gif-5831384

[robust pendant]

They cant do much really

They havent used assets or stuff copyrighted, afaik

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-andre-eric-gif-19835265

[tacit ingot]

Didn't it already have legal trouble way back but got resolved?

[mellow idol]

I get that, its more of a stalker ripoff than misery imo considering the areas, yet you cant really copyright Chernobyl

[dreamy dagger]

Wachu think of Grokma? @still current

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/braindead-cat-brain-damage-gif-583403308765934478

[robust pendant]

Not to my knowledge

[bitter plover]

Almost like Alife is simplified AI to "fake" us to think, that the world is living thing and that would immerse us in our gameplay, and not some actual godlike simulation of everything who would have guesses. Exactly as you said

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/snoring-snoring-aneurysm-brain-aneurysm-brain-aww-gif-25678781

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/shorty-brain-gif-14777802

@bitter plover Multiplayer вhen?!

[bitter plover]

[bitter plover]

What is multiplayer never heard of it

[dreamy dagger]

Multi layer of extra player

[bitter plover]

[still current]

Fake or not, what matters is what you feel when you play tbh. Alife itself has different definitions to most people who think they understand it whereas a very small number of fans know what it truly is.

[dreamy dagger]

Alife is broken, Kenny

[tacit ingot]

And what is it truly? Online and offline?

[rough lintel]

Well, jokes aside, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Online was planned a long time ago and was supposed to be an isometric game based on the Adobe Flash engine)

[dreamy dagger]

Alife is broken limb

[stark crescent]

Alife was supposed to change my own life! It should allow you to date other stalkers! Go out on adventures with smart npc's!

[dreamy dagger]

Oh helk yawk! Bringme joy!

[dreamy dagger]

Alife was supposed to cure me from my diagnosis, being Heart of Chornobyl

[robust pendant]

Of course what matters is what you feel. And people clearly have high regards for it

But I dont like the discussion of it being an entity so perfect when in fact is full of flaws

[dreamy dagger]

Alife was supposed to be one-time ingame payment

[rough lintel]

Yeah

[bitter plover]

this is true. And this is what my issue with S2 alife is. Not that its not some simulation or anything (bcs, the truth is, that most ppl crying about it wouldnt even know, that its not simulation, if ppl actualy testing it wouldnt tell them), but thats its immersion breaking bcs of its flaws. Once those flaws are fixed, it will be great, and its irelevant, if its simulation or not (it will be im sure )

[dreamy dagger]

Alife was a part of our own life

[robust pendant]

Not that they matter much when you play, but idk

[dreamy dagger]

Alife was just extra life so you wouldnt lose your progress

Alife was its own sort of living life

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-andre-eric-gif-19835265

How about Tlap releases Alife from captivity and we just move on

Done deal, man, done deal!

[bitter plover]

btw, this is also reason, why ppl are soooo well speaking about OGs Alife. Not bcs it was actualy great or something from simulation purposed, but bcs it make them believe. And thats all we need, make us believe

[tacit ingot]

What do you need to believe?

[robust pendant]

That its good

[bitter plover]

and i hate, that ppl so much focus on numbers or how it function instead of how they feel ingame

[tacit ingot]

How do you make it good?

[robust pendant]

Like in the og games

[bitter plover]

just let them cook, you will see

[still current]

A simulation system that has a set of probable outcomes set in randoms to work in online and offline settings, caught within a specific simulation bubble radius and based on smart terrains that has multiple modes of logic that varies from patrol, passing through walk, to guard. The thing that some people don't know is that most smarts are bound to a gulag restriction and most of what they see are roaming NPCs unbound to smarts but somewhat drawn to it for a set time before they roam again in a cycle that lacks the factor of predictability.

[tacit ingot]

Mfs never played warfare and it shows

[still current]

Yeah. I think what we miss in stalker 2 at this point is open patrol type of AI that are not bound to a bubble render

[rough lintel]

🎂 A-Life was a lie.

[tacit ingot]

Not quite, but it's a different engine

If it can hardly run in the first place without frame gen, good luck with AI

[bitter plover]

i think there are many details we miss, but what you said is most obvious one, yeah

[still current]

The scale of the game itself is not helping much since even if that's true, most won't notice and it's up to detail sensitive fans to capture

[bitter plover]

yeah

[rough lintel]

It was a lie since Oblivion Lost
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...

[tacit ingot]

Since the very beginning? I guess so, but they've always been ambitious

Sometimes too much for their own good

[rough lintel]

[bitter plover]

I would say, they were always too much ambitious.

same with S2

[still current]

Not really? Alife was always bound to specific restriction called gulags, but still had plenty of logic outcomes that made it as good as it is.

I think it can be achieved in stalker 2 if render stops being an obstacle

Shay is experimenting with it and results are pretty good.

[bitter plover]

Perfect example is KCD 1 compared to KCD 2. First one was too mch ambitious for their capability and its broken to this say. KCD 2 was lowered in some aspect, to be able to be done somehow well, shortly, they knew, that they are capable of doing it.

[vapid galleon]

[rough lintel]

This is generally the default situation for slavjank/eurojank games

[bitter plover]

it deffinitely can. And it will in future

[bitter plover]

yeah

[rough lintel]

Well, what can I say... waiting for Stalker 3

[robust pendant]

Every game tells lies, whether in mechanics, day and night cycles, AI, gunplay, items, etc

The mastery of game design is to apply 0s and 1s so they feel real and believeable

[bitter plover]

[tacit ingot]

2035 my beloved

[livid coral]

I heard you can skin mutants now... how?

[teal shadow]

pretty sure you just loot the mutant

[mellow idol]

Look at corpse, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt, the angle of needing to look at corpse is cooked aswell

[teal shadow]

yeah, you need to find the perfect angle to loot it

or else the prompt wouldnt appear

[mellow idol]

Shits stupid tbh

[teal shadow]

yeah, surely thats a bug

[mellow idol]

Hopefully

[teal shadow]

wait a sec, did you just join the monolith

[mellow idol]

Possibly..

[teal shadow]

hmmm

[mellow idol]

Im typically a dutier myself.. but monolith calls

[teal shadow]

the magic rock is calling

[sudden rapids]

Who pinged me 🥀

[mellow idol]

Me

[rough lintel]

kill mutant
look at his body
if u can loot him - press F and there will play cutting animation
??????
profit

[teal shadow]

it has a cutting animation?

[meager crag]

@sudden rapids

[rough lintel]

yeah

[teal shadow]

never noticed

probably because my game keeps crashing before i can encounter more mutants

[livid coral]

haven't been able to do this yet, no option pops up

also, anyone having a bug where sometimes after killing an enemy or group of enemies all their bodies will just vanish

[teal shadow]

something about not all mutants being lootable maybe

as in, a group of flesh may only have 1 lootable

[bitter plover]

which is skinning. You loot it and there is basic animation of skinning.

[teal shadow]

I was answerring their question

[bitter plover]

bcs there is low drop chance of mutant parts. Just look for the loot dot to appear on mutant. And then you can loot it (have skinning animation)

[bitter plover]

i know. But you said "just looting". But thats skinning

[teal shadow]

I was refferring to how you skin the mutant, same way you loot bodies/containers

[bitter plover]

oh i see, then yeah

[stark crescent]

I dunno. Im not gutting a loot container the same way im gutting a mutsnt

Also, looting mutants is finicky.

You need to stand precisely right over a mutant body to loot it

[robust pendant]

S2 stole Gamma frfrfr smhsmhsmh

[stark crescent]

Alife is a lie

[teal shadow]

gamma stole anomaly fr no joke smh

[robust pendant]

A-Life? More like A-Lie

[hardy totem]

Alife=cake confirmed

[gentle citrus]

More miss management to call it right.

[smoky hawk]

anomaly stole coc fr no yolk

[bitter plover]

agree. Its true, that if they would have better management and knew more from start to finish what to do when in theri development cycle, they woul achieve it (not all, but they would know, that the rest, they would add later trough free DCLs and expansions)

[gentle citrus]

Fact even that they wanted the map even bigger is crazy. Like management must know that they cant do it in that certain time right? Thats a hole team that could have said "hold on i dont think we can do it till then".

And so much scraped missions too what just shows that they need to get someone with realistic view of things to say what can and cant be done

[opaque cipher]

White girl music

[vapid galleon]

WE ARE COMING DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?

[bitter plover]

well, to be fair, they knew, that they cant make some things in time and expected them to come later, either via free DLCs or Expansions. BUt they didnt make in time much more, than they thought

[bitter plover]

well. Thats experience. In future, they will know better what the are capable of and what not. As i said higher, its same as with KCD 1 vs KCD 2. They knew much better what not to do, that they did in KCD 1, so they can deliver KCD 2 in good state

[plain fiber]

Good morning all. How are things?

[vapid galleon]

[still edge]

1.i meant Lumen, disabling Lumen increases the 40+ FPS, but the lighting becomes so sheety is not even worth it
2. it happens in most game to a lesser extent, in S2 the computer crashes and dies whenever you see 6 houses and a group of npcs.
3. the fact that the trees are so sheety and yet it impact the FPS so greatly that means is way way way unoptimized, i dont remember a game where 12 trees are the difference between having 10 more fps.

[robust pendant]

"I dont remember a game where 12 treed are the difference between 10 fps"

May I present you to Clear Sky grass system

[plain fiber]

How bad was the performance of the Red Forest in launch-day Clear Sky?

[plain fiber]

You can say shitty. For some reason, shit and all variations are fine by Wolf's standards.

[still edge]

have you tested the npc deletion in offline mode?

[still edge]

last time it got me wolfed

[bitter plover]

its normal thing that happened. CS was legendary for it. There are tons if videos about it

this video is outdated now. Things works differenty and they will work very differently in future

[still edge]

but alife wasnt modified since the first couple of patches, alife works exactly the same today as it did 9 month ago.
I hope they delete the 100mts spawner some day in the future, lets see how much it will take.

[plain fiber]

I saw some recent leaks that have me excited for the future of A-Life. Don't want to get in trouble so I'm not going to say anything further.

[bitter plover]

i would say to you, just wait and see

[plain fiber]

Do you have to be a content creator to be a tester?

[bitter plover]

no

[plain fiber]

Just checking.

Oh yeah, blue name, you're tester.

Whoops.

[bitter plover]

[still edge]

i hope so, this is one of my favorite sagas of all times, i really want it to be as perfect as it could

[plain fiber]

How could I get involved in testing? I've done/been doing it for two indie projects over the past year or so, and I'd love to do it for S2 as well, especially since I have a rig that can run the game properly now.

[bitter plover]

Honestly, i dont even know the exact process of how they choose who to add. I was recommeneded by testers, that were already in.

[plain fiber]

@waxen marten Hey Mol1t, if I wanted to get involved with testing, how would I do that?

[slim isle]

man, do i love stalker shadow of chernobyl...
got to the arena thing, cutscene played, then i ended up at cnpp without going through.
then, after a while and some skirmish and shooting a helicopter, it crashed.

oh this ain't the trilogy channel?

[plain fiber]

It's cold, windy, and snowy out today. I was so happy to find some Irish breakfast tea in the cupboard.

[hardy totem]

Technically no, but you're welcome to talk about the trilOG here as well

[plain fiber]

You can pretty much talk about whatever you want in this channel. The only time the mods clamp down on the whole "keep it on-topic for the channel" is when a S2-specific conversation is already going on.

Correct me if I'm wrong Tankovic.

[hardy totem]

In practice, true enough

[plain fiber]

Damn, needs a bit more honey.

Brb...

[robust pendant]

And then you'll complain about performance

Probably

[plain fiber]

I have faith that GSC can do it.

[still edge]

ehh performance can be sketchy , if i have alife im good

stalker games never had good performance but always had alife, thats the core fundamental feature

[bitter plover]

I love how everyone is tlaking about Alife as core feature, but before Anomaly YT creators came with tons of essay videos about Alife, tons of ppl didnt evne know, there is some Alife let alone knew, that it even affected their gameplay somehow

[last saddle]

kinda wish ppl didnt demand night vision. maybe we'd have some nice patches by now if they worked on something different

[still edge]

i knew there was a overarcing system since 2012 , without seeing any video, without watching any blog , without even knowing about programming as i do today.
The alife topic became much more a staple of the stalker games last couple of years, but most players back then knew there was a simulation system even through we didnt have a name for it

[plain fiber]

That's certainly an....interesting take.

[last saddle]

oh but on the bright side i can make my screen all green now 😄

[plain fiber]

It wasn't just night vision though.

[last saddle]

it could have waited is all im sayin...

[bitter plover]

i deffinitely wouldnt say most ppl. Hardcore fans deffinitely. And deffinitely ppl, that followed it from begining, bcs it was talking point torugh development, but there were tons of ppl, who didnt know anything. And to this day say i see ppl, that talk about Alife, while not even knowing what it is and how it actually worked (they only know how it works from Anomaly vidoes, bcs they saw video or read about it and now repeat it everywhere like parrots)

[plain fiber]

They have a process and apparently there's a lot of long-term stuff planned too. Night visions simply came when it did.

[still edge]

it was detection system , light and shadow and how it affected the visibility of the npcs too

[plain fiber]

Also a new NPC and related questline.

[rough lintel]

1. "40+ fps"... yeeeeaaah, right. Only in someone's dreams
   10+ fps at best https://streamable.com/1t9p4y
2. No, it happens everywhere in similar scenarios.
   I don't know what kind of PC you have, but on my laptop, HoC only crashed twice in total (493 hours) — once when I tried to soft-lock a quest character on purpose (version 1.0). The second time was when I was experimenting with cvar-s (version 1.4).
3. Firstly, sorry, but you are confusing performance and optimization.
   Secondly, you are mistaken, it is not “12 trees”. When the quality of vegetation changes, the rendering distance changes not only for trees, but also for general vegetation, grass, and its density.

[rough lintel]

Nope, not yet

[plain fiber]

So you see, night vision was simply a part of a larger piece that they were working on. If you're going to be improving and adjusting stealth, detection, etc. why not use that as an excuse to finally implement night vision? Especially when the new stealth/detection improvements also factor in whether or not NPCs have night vision.

[last saddle]

cause night vision isnt that serious. i mean dont get me wrong its a nice addition

id rather have some core elements before features

[bitter plover]

agree, but he is right. This detection system on itself is more important, than NVG. Ppl are soo much focused on NVG and ignring other things, that are more important. Its same with Binocs.

[still edge]

yes, its not as obvious system, the game didnt tell you about it. But the difference between any other game from back then to Stalker was very clear, player would say "game feels alive", "bandits travel around the map thats awesome" , "i see mutants roaming around the map", "oh that didnt happend before" Those are comments about alife from people how couldnt understand the system but yet they were affected by it and understand some things about it... game feels alive, npc travel around, random events can occur without the players actions. Most people back then didnt understood alife but understand some of the consequences, and thats the core feature that made the stalker game famous, the game is alive

[plain fiber]

Improved stealth and detection is a core feature though...

[last saddle]

lol i dont think youre getting what im saying

[plain fiber]

No I do. You think that GSC's time and resources could have been better spent on something that you deem as more important.

[last saddle]

tbh i was stealthing around on my first playthrough

[bitter plover]

thats the thing. If even basic spawner would work normaly and not spawn enemies in your face and worked in higher distance with basic memory of what was there, most ppl wouldnt care, that its not alife, bcs the spawner would do the same for them.

[last saddle]

this is my opinion yes

[bitter plover]

no, he meant, that the detection system is important. Not the NVGs

[last saddle]

game def needs help in a lot of other departments

[stark crescent]

Alife is a lie

[rough lintel]

A-Lie 2.0

[still edge]

mmmm no , its not just a spawner, and most people who played the original game will tell the game is alive because all npc are deleted all the time , and events that happend 5 minutes ago would disappear magically and be replaced by another group of NPC, people who think the S2 ai system is fine are the people who never played the original game and they dont expect any special ai system

[plain fiber]

And I'm saying that NVGs are merely a part of the detection system and related improvements. If all they did was just add the night vision and did nothing else, I'd understand where you're coming from, but they didn't do that. They further improved enemy detection, vision, and stealth, added a new NPC and questline, plus further optimizations and bug-fixes, etc.

It wasn't just night vision, GSC isn't ignorant to the fact that other aspects of the game need further work and improvement. There are processes and long-term planning that GSC is following for these, it's not all just fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Did you ever stop to think that maybe they did the night vision and related stuff simply because it was easier to implement and get out the door while they continue working on other, more important stuff?

[last saddle]

people influenced them to make nightviosion a priority is all i was trying to say.

it could have waited

[bitter plover]

You missunderstood what i said. I said, that if the game wouldnt have Alife, but just spawner with bubble and simple memory based on distance. (aka, not to break players immersion, that if player return to some close place after small time, ther would be something completely differnt) most ppl would be happy.

[plain fiber]

That's extremely debatable and impossible to prove one way or the other. Night vision was most likely always on the list of features to add given that it already existed in every single entry of the original trilogy.

[bitter plover]

i never talked about if S2 system is fine or not

[last saddle]

of course it was on te list already

[bitter plover]

exactly

[still edge]

most people who didnt play the original games? yes, most people who played the OG stalker, not likely

[stark crescent]

im sorry, but when a zalyssya bandit finds me in the dark of the night, no full moon, cloudy and is trying to snipe me with a freaking sawn off shotgun from 50 meters away, not even mentioning he was able to find me 50 meters away while i was sneak through high grass. excuse me, but then you failed with AI.

[plain fiber]

1.7 is supposed to improve the AI further, though they haven't gone into detail as to what exactly that means.

[last saddle]

the funny part is im sure most ppl still arent even using them

[rough lintel]

Did someone actually walk around the Zone and memorize the names of random bots lol

[bitter plover]

no, most ppl. The reason, why you know, how Alife works here is not, bcs it fundamently change your game, but bcs you tested it. If the spawner would work immersivly enough, you wouldnt care, until you would test it.

[waxen marten]

hey, dm me about details

[rough lintel]

Testing is lie 🎂

[bitter plover]

propaganda

[plain fiber]

I use NVGs all the time. Combined with the flashlight they're great for when you're exploring locations that are so dark that NVGs aren't usable on their own.

[rough lintel]

JOIN DUTY

[still edge]

because i played the original game and i have an idea of what Alife is, when i watched the Alife videos from recently years i didnt went "AHHHHH so thats what i played" i already knew there was a system just by playing it, so no , most people wouldnt be happy with just a spawner and bigger memory , the game would feel fake in a couple of hours

[plain fiber]

The people that simply played through the games and only ever went through the critical story path probably never knew about A-Life. You only really noticed it when you went and explored on your own.

[plain fiber]

Friend request is for DMs. I have them disabled to guard against spam and the like.

[last saddle]

im sure getting spawns pop in front of them was also an issue

[bitter plover]

my man. You are focused on not what im saying. How would you know, that the thing is not simmulated in offline, if you wouldnt test it? If the spawner would spawn NPCs well, ther would be encounters and even just random walking and running of mutants around. If it would memorise these NPC until some distance. Put some random items in their backpacs (as mutant parts, artifacts). It would be immerisce enough to make yuo deel like its alive. And you would have no absolute idea, that it doesnt actualy do some offline simulation, until you would test it, bcs for you gameplay, the experience would be exactly the same.

[still edge]

but there isnt a tunnel that leads to each main quest... you have to travel around through the world you are kinda forced to witness random events and npc traveling

[bitter plover]

this

[bitter plover]

it was. As i said, Clear Sky was legendary for it

[rough lintel]

I would also like to see random events in the Zone, like in Far Cry 3. For example, bandits who rob stalkers, mercenaries who escort scientists, scientists who explore anomalous/radioactive zones

[stark crescent]

so far, i have seen at random, ONE npc trying to navigate anomalies. it had a throwing animation. mind you, just the animation. it had no interaction with anomalies. it had its detector out. it had an animation to throw a bolt, but nothing happened.

so they are cooking on something, atleast

[bitter plover]

Agree. These would be nice. Btw, scientists or maybe just stalkers expoloring anomalies will deffinitey be in, bcs they created animation for it, its just not finished

[stark crescent]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[last saddle]

lets make this clear i love the game and am not bashing it. just think the nvgs and binocs could have been a dlc thinh

[bitter plover]

thats what im talking about with message above

[bitter plover]

nah, NVGs and Binocs should be part of game, not DLC

[lucid charm]

I’m late to the convo, why are we complaining about free shit?

[plain fiber]

Absolutely not. They've been basic, core mechanics of the base game since the trilogy and they shouldn't be locked off behind DLC in any way for S2.

[stark crescent]

fret is a fortniter. he wants to spend unneccesary money

[still edge]

because...

• i saw npc that i never seen before in parts of the map that i visited already
• i saw different encounters of npc at random (dogs vs bandit, dogs vs pigs, pigs vs bandits)
• i saw npc traveling from one map to the other using the same gates i use, and then i saw those npc moving through to other map and doing things, and i noticed this isnt scripted because they were random npc with no importance
• i saw npc switching weapons and pick up stuff from corpses

All these happend in my first gameplay of SoC the first couple of hours

[last saddle]

i was simply stating that they could have used this time for more important issues. these are nice features to have in stalker. even neccessary sure. but theres amny other issues i think should have been priority

[rough lintel]

I hope the anomalies will react to the bolts 🚬

[hardy totem]

Fortnite skins in S2 when?

[last saddle]

fortniter? dude youre spewing bs now

[lucid charm]

Stalker battle pass

[stark crescent]

when i see a stalker do the harlem shake, im gonna commit a genoside

[plain fiber]

Wait wait, do you think that ALL of the studio was ONLY working on NVGs for 1.6? You know they have multiple teams that can work on more than one thing at a time right?

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/да-gif-6406101562211482948

[last saddle]

yeah i can tell

[plain fiber]

Just making sure.

[last saddle]

lol

[plain fiber]

You never know dude, a lot of people are ignorant to the way an office job works.

[rough lintel]

In SoC NPCs are unable to loot corpses)
Pick up weapons that are lying around - yes. Loot corpses - no.

[spare canopy]

OIffice jobs are a thing of the past... Prey to your AI overlords 😄

[plain fiber]

Yeah....no.

[still edge]

okey pick up weapons

[last saddle]

lol tbf im sure many companies are using it

[lucid charm]

And now they loot corpses while you are engaged in a firefight

[spare canopy]

Unfortunately it's true... Company's like Octopus in the UK, got lorded by Borris for taking the jobs of 600 staff 😄

[rough lintel]

I've seen this irl, so it's quite realistic

[alpine flint]

morning

[lucid charm]

Which I’d be fine with if friendly NPCs actually helped me…but they don’t

Like…lend a hand and I’ll split the loot…happily.

[plain fiber]

It's a bubble that will inevitably pop, and all of this investment and treating AI as a technological second coming of Christ is going to bite a lot of people in the ass.

[rough lintel]

hard life of loner

[spare canopy]

Sorry, bubble or not, AI will used to take peoples jobs, so investors can maximise their returns.

[bitter plover]

which is literally everything, that can be achieved trough good spawner thats what im tlaking about

[spare canopy]

Tried contacting customer services recently?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[last saddle]

press 5 for english

[plain fiber]

They're trying to have it take people's jobs, and in some cases it's working, but in many it's also failing miserably.

[serene barn]

there's definitely things i feel like AI would be fine for but there's also a lot where it's just really really terrible for because it doesn't understand a language well.

[plain fiber]

It doesn't really understand anything. It's a predictive text machine, it's not sentient/self-aware, it doesn't even truly think.

[spare canopy]

Current AI is just a glorified pattern recognition system...

[robust pendant]

Tester?
Nice

[serene barn]

any type of support is absolutely not a thing that AI should be used for at all. people need help, not to sit there being pissed off at the AI for not getting what they want.

[plain fiber]

Yep! Behold, for I am now blue.

[robust pendant]

Im guessing you are now getting paid

[last saddle]

hahahahah

[robust pendant]

Paid for being blue

[bitter plover]

[plain fiber]

Or worse, having the damn thing hallucinate a solution that doesn't work or suggests parameters that don't actually exist e.g. PowerShell, Linux Terminal, coding, etc.

[still edge]

it would be better than what we have today , but not what its expected of S2, and also has the same problem of looking fake because you would travel around the world 500 mts to one direction (point B) 500mts back to your initial direction (point A) and you would see the limitation of said system and how fake the spawner is

[plain fiber]

Lol, no.

Honestly I don't mind. I'm involved in the playtesting for two indie titles and I'm doing that for free as well. For me it's really more of a passion thing.

[robust pendant]

I mean, cool, but like, dont be like that lol

They are using your time at the end of the day, and time, for them, means money

[last saddle]

time is money friend

[robust pendant]

Money money money money money

Shark tank!!!!

[plain fiber]

My time which I willingly volunteered.

God, I can't type today.

[serene barn]

they don't even pay the moderators. why'd they pay the testers

[robust pendant]

For a company that earns money through it, yeah

[last saddle]

used to be a paid position

[vapid galleon]

WE ARE COMING DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?

[robust pendant]

I get more the moderators thing than testers

[vapid galleon]

[plain fiber]

The indie games I'm testing for earn money through their product, but they don't pay me either.

[robust pendant]

Same logic applies then

I mean, im just saying, do what you want of course. You clearly like it

[plain fiber]

I'm really not bothered by it.

In principle, yes I agree, but on a personal level I really don't mind.

[bitter plover]

thats why i said spawner system, that is working well and have some memory based on distance of player from given place. Again, if it would be done, you wouldnt notice. The system could despawn those NPCs, memorise them and let them memorised until you would cross threshold of distance, in which it wouldnt break immersion. But it wouldnt simulate what the do unspawned. And after that threshold, it would completely delete them.
As i said, good spawn system would cause, that ppl would not absolutely care about Alife, until there would be someone, who would test it and tell them.
And thats the core issue what im talking about. Tons ppl are mad about it, bcs someone told them, that its not working as it should. And they would be mad even when the overall gameplay experience would be rly great, just for bcs someone told them to.

[vapid galleon]

why do you testing their games for free? why you doing this? why?

[last saddle]

pretty sure this is what will be done in the end. im ok with it if it works well

[hardy totem]

@plain fiber gratz on making tester

[plain fiber]

Because I want to? Because I'm a creative and want to help passionate people achieve their artistic vision? Because I like making bulleted lists and writing reports?

[bitter plover]

It wont. Just wait and let them cook. What i was tlaking about was just generaly about ppl and their opinons. Not about what the future will bring us. ANd future is good.

[shell flax]

If I was offered money to test a game I’d likely say no, because that just taints the idea a bit for me

[last saddle]

i highly doubt that invisible radius thing will ever be removed. maybe expanded

[plain fiber]

The spawner might be removed down the line, but the original trilogy had the "online" bubble too. It's a part of the A-Life system.

[last saddle]

yeah i get that

[vapid galleon]

people earn money while doing job they love. You're doing a job, investing time and energy, but you're not taking any money

[plain fiber]

They kind of have to have the "online" bubble. I don't think A-Life would be possible without that separation between the "online" and the "offline" components.

[last saddle]

who needs money when you got kupons

[still edge]

the problem with that system you say "bigger memory" if what you mean bigger, it can hold information about the npc, even at distance, it has to have a limitation, how far can you move and keep the npc alive at distance? alife from og games saves in memory for all npcs across the whole map (with some limitations)
The spawner with bigger memory you talk about, will eventually look fake because the map is too big and you cant calculate where the player wants to go and what information from the npc is important and not important.
So players with your system will eventually notice fairly quickly the AI system is fake, therefor, alife is the correct solution

[plain fiber]

I don't earn any money from my hobbies either, yet I still invest my time and energy into them. Not everything needs to be monetized.

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/anchorman-fight-i-dont-believe-you-will-ferrell-gif-15334458

[shell flax]

Monetizing your hobbies is also a very quick way to start hating them for some people

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-andre-eric-gif-19835265

[bitter plover]

it wouldnt. Deffinitely not open world. You could do it somehow in Zones, where you would spawn whole zone and others would be like offline. But not in open world

[vapid galleon]

started "not everything is money" s*** again

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hue-huehue-huehuehue-duck-laugh-gif-4916860

[vapid galleon]

never. did you understand me bro? never.

[wicked magnet]

In the Trilogy, do NPCs always shoot in the chest?

[smoky hawk]

money isnt money until you start thinking its money

moeny can only be money if you are convinced of its status that its indeed money

[last saddle]

yeah, i mean it could be a salad

[bitter plover]

no, you are wrong. The system im tlaking about would work same as alife, it just wouldnt simulate anything. It would memorise it same way as Alife (just very simple information) and it would memorise their location and if you would get too far from that location, it would delete them. Thats all. YOu would notice it being bad only if you would test it.

[smoky hawk]

in short, money can not be money as long as you dont think its money

[vapid galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

[safe elm]

Hiya guys, i was wondering what does habar mean? The thing that sidorovich says

[smoky hawk]

this sucks

[vapid galleon]

(trying not to lose the tester)

[smoky hawk]

loot basically

[hardy totem]

Swag

[plain fiber]

That's true. I had something similar happen with volunteering for my church's worship team. For over 6 months I was the only drummer, and I got burnt out. It honestly made me hate drumming for a bit. Now I've been on hiatus from that and feel a lot better, but will be starting back up again this Christmas. I've talked to the leader and we've agreed to only having me do it once a month, which I'm okay with.

[last saddle]

i miss when sid looked like he blew bubbles on his off time

[wicked magnet]

Habar means news in some languages

[vapid galleon]

as they said

[plain fiber]

That's basically what they did with the original trilogy; every area/map was separated by a loading screen. However, you still had the "online" bubble around the player for whatever map they were loaded into.

[still edge]

so, saves every npc in place , no battle between npcs , no objectives, not going to cities to sell or refill, just npc saved in memory standing in place statically.
Thats even worst than what i gave you credit for it, it would be so fake that i prefer the current system than that.

[vapid galleon]

Cheeki Breeki everywhere!

[bitter plover]

it does i talked about it to say, that most ppl are mad bcs of Alife, but the reality is, that if spawner would be good enough, they would be completely happy until there would be someone to tell them trough testing, that its not alife.
Basicaly, most ppl are mad not bcs it affects their experience, but bfr they saw video and know the technical aspects of it, but if they wouldnt know, they wouldnt care. AKa, they are hypocrites, bcs they cry, that its bcs if gameplay eperience, but tis in reality, bcs someone told them to.

(and this is not about wheter S2 is good or not. Thats unrealted to what i said)

[bitter plover]

They would literaly do what you are saying, when they would be spawned

[still edge]

he thinks the current alife is too ambitious, 🤣

[smoky hawk]

the fact that the spawner exists is bad enuff for me

[bitter plover]

that i agree.

[wicked magnet]

Many people don't know that mutants/NPCs in the Trilogy spawn on a timer

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-training-day-gif-1541843900874599102

[smoky hawk]

hes not wrong, trying to make a short distance spawner trick the player into thinking its a Long Distance Simulation system is a lot harder to do than just, making the Long Distance Simulator

[bitter plover]

I dont. As i said, you completely misunderstood, what im talking about I think Alife in true form is deffinitely achievable

[rough lintel]

my online bubble get`s bigger
cause i'm a crazy ||stalker||

[still edge]

luckily some fans arent devs of S2, with all due respect

[dreamy dagger]

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

[smoky hawk]

if I was a developer for S2, I would ban all console versions

GSC

HIRE ME

[bitter plover]

did you finally played the game? forgot to do daily reminder

[last saddle]

hire this man ^

[still edge]

👆

[dreamy dagger]

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

[bitter plover]

thats not fair, you hate everything so from you, its not based, for you, tis normal to hate

[still edge]

1. try it , it can give you 30fps up to 50fps in some locations, i dont have it installed but i have tested back then
   r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow = 0 ; r.lumen.indirectdiffuse.allow= 0;
2. Im talking about other games compared to S2, other games obviously gets affected by the amount of npcs and buildings , but not to the extent S2 does, a couple of buildings can absolutely destroy the performance of the game and then you play any othe game and at worst you get -10fps , in S2 you get -30fps. I have a medium type build 3060ti
3. game is badly optimized therefor it has bad performance, i dont think this is very difficult to understand, its fairly well known S2 has bad performance.

[dreamy dagger]

I have been doing my reminder for a month without missing a day, you failed days after you started... Come on....

[smoky hawk]

yhea if I dont like it I dont like it and I say I dont like it
how it should be man, why would someone do smth thats bad?

[safe elm]

Many thanks

[bitter plover]

well man. You need to compensate for the hate, to make the hate more relevant. At least at some moments, say, that you like somehing, so the weight of hating something is higher

[last saddle]

at the end of the day im sure everyone still around wants things to improve

[smoky hawk]

I like stuff that arent bad, hows that?

[bitter plover]

so like. Nothing?

[smoky hawk]

well your mom for starters...

[empty hare]

I actually want things to get worse, to become horrible and unbearable even

[dreamy dagger]

If I was CEO of GSC I would first ban Max Krippa, then fire the whole PR management WITHOUT MOLIT, and hire TommyLove, AnomaloutDugout, Shay, Starion and couple other fellers to actually do real work.

[bitter plover]

you littled b...

[dreamy dagger]

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

[last saddle]

well youre in the right place

[bitter plover]

My man. How can you kick someone who owns you

[last saddle]

giggity

[dreamy dagger]

If I was the CEO, foo, do the reading!

[bitter plover]

My man. You cant kick someone, who owns you in the end, CEO is still only employee. Ownership is ownership

[dreamy dagger]

I would hire Tlap as the doorman so he guards the front entrance from Misery trolls

Banning isnt kicking, foo

[last saddle]

no?

[bitter plover]

well i work at Prague, so im almost there

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/lotr-man-flesh-orcs-lord-of-the-rings-gif-5414290

[stark crescent]

Bro is living the kingdom deliverance life

[dreamy dagger]

Tlap the Guardian, killer of Misery Trolls, defender of the Ancients

https://tenor.com/view/issou-risitas-risitas-issou-marrant-drole-gif-10391379893317752300

[bitter plover]

Well yeah. When i played KCD 2, i literaly knew whole map by memory, bcs i live near both places and i went there several times for trip

[plain fiber]

"Oh hey, I can see where my house would be from here!"

[stark crescent]

The game also risen tourism for countries like tjech republic

[plain fiber]

Did The Witcher do anything for Polish tourism?

[stark crescent]

Auswitz did more

[bitter plover]

yeah, especialy Trosky and Kutná Hora. They have insane increase in amount of ppl visiting them in year

[stark crescent]

Witcher isnt really set in poland or something.

Its too fantasy like. While kingdom deliverance is more historical

[plain fiber]

True.

Pretty sure I remember reading that the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games led to more Chornobyl tourism.

[stark crescent]

Well. Maybe if stalker 2 was released before rhe russians took over the chernobyl plant and risked so far 2 nuclear incidents

[plain fiber]

I mean before that. The original trilogy?

[stark crescent]

Well, sure.

[dreamy dagger]

STALKER is no more.Long live Misery!

[stark crescent]

But i think the chernobyl series did more than stalker

[plain fiber]

I keep forgetting that was a thing.

[stark crescent]

Very good acting.

[plain fiber]

I still need to watch it.

[stark crescent]

Its really good

[empty hare]

I just watched it a couple weeks ago, its pretty good. Some historical fudging for the sake of entertainment but otherwise quite well done

[plain fiber]

Alright, I need to get off and head to work. Gotta give myself a bit of a buffer to get the snow and ice off my car.

Yay...Winter is here....

[dreamy dagger]

Snow?

Haven't seen it in 10 years

[stark crescent]

i think each year in the netherlands, we get 1 day less snow

[hardy totem]

Plenty of years we get none

[shell flax]

Stuck in the middle of hoping December isn’t covered in snow this year and hoping there is snow at the same time

[dreamy dagger]

Good warming yall

[cobalt fiber]

It’s a shame you can’t do the tour anymore

I’ve been, it was very good

Very eerie

[last saddle]

id love to see it

[rough lintel]

my friend, I have already answered you
+10 fps, that's all folks

#☢┃stalker-general message

[last saddle]

bring home some rads. hell yeah

[still edge]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237
i had complete different results

[rough lintel]

🤷‍♂️

[spare canopy]

It needs too. There is still a lot wrong and missing from the game.

[last saddle]

itll get there one day

[harsh jungle]

i wanna bring home some rads

[last saddle]

nothin a little vodka*cant fix

[hallow shadow]

Whoever made that particular mod is a special kind of hero.
The one who made just having a drink possible.
Cause, I think… Aside from meeting Ganja. There’s no treating the bartender like a bartender.

[gentle citrus]

Every time it gets said. And we are already at one year anniversary

[last saddle]

holding onto hope. not many games out there like it

on the bright side we got nvgs and binocs

[dreamy dagger]

U got binocs?

Whats growin' on for chrissakes....

[last saddle]

i havnt played since last january lol

i do want to tho

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/we-aint-founbd-shit-talking-angry-gif-16340802

No binocs yet, don't fret, fred

[last saddle]

[dreamy dagger]

I have been waiting for survival mode for almost a year now and what they do? They console-ify the game more and more....

[last saddle]

🫰

think i did hear about a mod that offers that

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-dont-get-it-explain-this-to-me-like-im-five-michael-scott-gif-14068014

[last saddle]

yet to try it out myself just heard it was a thing

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-alonzo-training-day-staring-dejected-gif-999317202227243824

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-wtf-what-shock-shocked-gif-27464349

[cyan sparrow]

No update yet

[potent knot]

Consolification and its consequences has been a disaster for STALKER

[cobalt fiber]

From a players POV sure

From a business and profit perspective not so much

[last saddle]

all business need money for sure. but also part of the issue.

[foggy olive]

Can you show me a video of what it looks like? just like that guy did

[left quest]

Cant wait for stalker 2 to release

Just 8 more days

[last saddle]

is good, yes?

[wraith fractal]

i wonder what will be present in the update, besides master difficulty and the new inventory

hopefully 1.7 brings the minimal HUD they have in the roadmap as well, would be awesome

[golden surge]

crap game dont buy it

dev after year cant repair game xD

[dreamy dagger]

Trash game

[cyan sparrow]

Oh yes! Would be awesomely fun with the new difficulty!

[dreamy dagger]

dev after year cant even add low crouch

[wraith fractal]

truth nuke..

[wraith fractal]

i may sound like a shtter here but i wish the hud in 2 was similar to anomaly's. small icons for status effects, simple bars for health and stamina and psi health, a minimap and a small ammo counter, that's it

[vapid galleon]

WE ARE COMING DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?

[wraith fractal]

it's peak\

[vapid galleon]

[cyan sparrow]

Ohh i believe moders will grasp that idea someday.

[cyan sparrow]

Marcin ||przestań|| to be a grumpy kamrat.

[mystic coral]

Whenever I’m using the || Texan ||Shotgun I always have R Lee Ermey / Gunny Hartman playing in the back of my head.

[tall hawk]

tbh we dont need a minimap

[bitter plover]

its immersive mode and based on data mining, its probably more like photo mode or something (it was named photo mode but it was renamed to Immersive mode), so i guess something like photo mode, that will be able to be used while playing. Not exactly minimal HUD or something

[vapid galleon]

did you mean, we don't need a f***ing mini map right?

[tall hawk]

idk

[dreamy dagger]

I need my mini mart map

[wraith fractal]

just preference, i like the minimap better over the compass

[wraith fractal]

oh that sucks ; _ ;
i guess you can play only with the dot crosshair (very much needed for me to know who's an ally and who isn't..)

[still edge]

i dont have the game installed, in 1.7 i will record a video without lumen, but i warn you looks beyond bad, the game has no lighting and no shadows looks worse than bubsy 3d

[foggy olive]

you mean like this ?

[still edge]

yea haha

[frigid hill]

girlcapegeekboss has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[still edge]

also that guy has its resolution in 320px x 120px

[quiet elm]

stalker 2 on a out of date gpu

and it RUNS BAD WOAH GUYS

[still edge]

barely runs in recommended hardware, the guy tries to run in a 1030 gtx

[obsidian bronze]

Does the outright refusal of co-op not seem ridiculous?

[foggy olive]

I'm not going to run it at 1030. if I wanted to play something like that I would launch a JAVA stalker from 2007

[still edge]

you could try to run in everything at max and lumen off , it will look kinda sketchy but at least its 30 to 40 more fps for you

[foggy olive]

For now, 140 fps is enough for me. I only have a few places where it's lower.

[shell flax]

No because it’s not a new refusal, GSC has been very hardline on the ‘No Coop’

[vapid galleon]

WE ARE COMING DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?

[foggy olive]

Personally, I'm in favor of everyone who has at least the minimum specifications being able to play at a stable 60 fps without all sorts of frame generators and dlss. I really don't like how the current gaming industry makes games where even a 5090-4090 can't run the game on the best settings without dlss or generators. These things were supposed to help weak cards and TVs, not become a replacement for the standard

[still edge]

new video from GameWithDave
https://youtu.be/tPz5RCUjI1s

[bitter plover]

thats now minimal HW requirements tho. Minimal are literaly minimum, that the game is playable, which 30 fps with upscalers is.

[robust pendant]

why would it?

since the beginning, even when developing shadow of chernobyl, they've always refused to do coop

[still edge]

4090 minimum requirement for stalker 2, while they recommend 3070 for 1080p 60fps, i dont get it

[robust pendant]

not everything has to be online pvp and/or with friends

[foggy olive]

well, 4090 can't pull rostok without dlss and a generator at a stable 60 frames

[bitter plover]

no, upscalers were not made to help weak cards. They were made for several things, uncluding for high end HW to be able to run Ray Tracing in real time

[foggy olive]

So what should someone who doesn't have the technology to generate staff do?

[bitter plover]

i played whole game on ultra setting on DLAA and deffinitely dont have 4090

[foggy olive]

Wasn't DLSS technology intended to allow games to run on large monitors?

[bitter plover]

uhh what? YOu want to tell me, that 4090 cant have 60 frames without DLSS and Frame gen?

[still edge]

DLAA its fine i take that, but framegen is a mess, the washed graphics is absurd, playing with framegen in 2025 compared to games from 2015 its a day and night difference, playing with framegen is like having astigmatism while not being able to find your glasses

[foggy olive]

rostok no, thats one place where i have 50-64

[still edge]

not only in rostok , there are many places where the game shits the bed

rostok is the worst offender

[foggy olive]

I'm talking about 4090 now, our situation is a bit different.

[bitter plover]

Upscales were made for what they are used. To be able to achieve higher FPS while needing lower usage of HW. It was for many purposes. It was made together with Ray Tracing, bcs in that time, you wouldnt be able to run it at all without upsalers. It was also marketed, as help for lower HW to be able to run higher settings/resolution, and aslo as you said, higher monitors (so as i said, resolutions).

[foggy olive]

and now you may have noticed that there are games where you can't turn it off. they made it standard

[bitter plover]

washed graphics? Like, S2 looks phenomenal with DLAA, i rly dont know what you are talking about. Its crisp AF. And i dont have issues here with FG being used, bcs the game has big input latency on its own and FG doesnt change it much. Its better, than not used FG and use DLSS (if you have to) bcs somehow, it feel worse, even when you have enough FPS

[still current]

Tlaptastic

[empty hare]

I want to explore Red Forest but instead I'm at work😭

So i can feed my family and not be homeless or whatever

[still current]

[foggy olive]

I suspect that in the 30th series and below the situation is even worse, because there is no frame generator.

[bitter plover]

yeah. They tend mostly to use dynamic resolutions and setting to achieve same FPS in every settings. IDK why they want to do that with PCs now, and not just consoles, but dont ask me for that

[rough glade]

Hello everyone

[bitter plover]

and what CPU you have?

[bitter plover]

it shits the bed everywhere, where they are tons of NPCs at one place. Rostok is worse for it

[rough glade]

Is stalker 2 worth getting?

[bitter plover]

i dont feel any change in Rostok, but thats bcs i have big overhead

[still current]

My game sometimes get the washed away graphics instances.

No idea why

[still edge]

im talking about frame gen, you can clearly see smearing of the graphics, textures being washed when contrasted to the background, when turning around it you can see grass and trees ghosting , its ugly to see in framegen unless if you accept it like some kind of graphical anomaly in classic stalker faction

[drifting bear]

Well, frame generation really helps)
I turn on Smooth Motion in old games and enjoy with higher FPS)

[foggy olive]

that's what I'm talking about I just want to run the game in native screen extension. and see everything it can do. that was until 2017. what happened next you all see

[still current]

Tho, my cou kinda works up to 17% most of the time whereas my gpu skyrockets

[last saddle]

if you can accept the fact that it has its issues its a great experience. still needs much work a year later tho

[still current]

Bottle necked ig

[bitter plover]

but thats not washed up graphics, thats just Frame gen not keeping it with movement and lighting. But its fastly out. I dont like that either, but its minor issue

[last saddle]

wrong person

[foggy olive]

Intel core i9 13900f, its not the best, but not worse

[still current]

It does fuck the distant objects, not the ones within your line of sight tho

[still edge]

its washed in the literal sense, not talking about the phrase "oh he is washed and old"

[bitter plover]

yeah, that is the issue there. Then i understand.

[drifting bear]

I would like to have such a problem

[bitter plover]

you mean the lines when you move that are in second gone?

[foggy olive]

honestly, the CPU usage is somewhere between 20 and 60 percent

[robust pendant]

-Do you like the trilogy? Which games specifically?
-What are your pc specs?
-What are you looking in S2?
-If you are asking the question in the first place, are you really sure?

[still edge]

if you stay still, frame gen looks perfect, you move around and looks like a edvard munch or kirsten harris painting

[foggy olive]

depends on your PC and expectations

[bitter plover]

thats bcs it doesnt do well multithread usage. Thats issue with UE itself. Thats why we need that update to higher UE versions. Bcs the engine doesnt use the CPU as whole.

[still edge]

everywhere, not lines, everything looks smeared and then you play a game without framegen and every looks crisp not a single pixel out of place

[foggy olive]

I know, I already checked this in GZW

[bitter plover]

not for me. I rly have just only issue with lines in specific locations, when i fastly look around. My game is crispy even with movemnt

[bitter plover]

yeah.

[still edge]

well for people with working eyes its pretty apparent , glad you dont have that problem

[foggy olive]

that's not quite right, I can show you the difference especially the horrible native screen mode

[still edge]

even better, more power to you

[foggy olive]

Discord will most likely crop the image, but if you upload it whole, it's very clearly visible.

[bitter plover]

sure buddy. This game cause to everybody different issues, but my eyes has to be bad, bcs i dont have them what a clever opinion

[still edge]

in all seriousness, glad you dont have that problem, maybe different config messes up the framegen

[robust pendant]

I dont play new games so I dont know that muddyness feel very well

But, I've played SoC: EE at release

And even today, I can feel that stupid AI

[foggy olive]

but it's not on the 30th series of cards or am I missing something?

[violet dune]

yo, i can smell patch

[last saddle]

thats your mousepad

[violet dune]

i dont have mousepad, i go raw

[last saddle]

savage

[foggy olive]

Do you have a minute of free time? I want to tell you something.

[robust pendant]

Not the nvidia one, but, I think fsr frame gen is supported

[foggy olive]

It's hard to say because I don't know if it's better than the frame generator.

[still edge]

patch about to drop, steamdb updated , lots of files moving around in S2

[bitter plover]

Could be cfg. SOmetimes just deleting shaders will help (if you will have big problems with lighting and etc after each update, this will helo a lot)

[still edge]

get ready people, clean up the disk

[robust pendant]

Fsr frame gen and upscaling has come a long way

[bitter plover]

sure

[robust pendant]

And at least for the 20th and 30th series, its all they have

[still edge]

will try

[robust pendant]

Who would've guessed that making stuff open source was good for everyone

[foggy olive]

ok waiting in voice

[drifting bear]

It is software-based fg fsr*, so it is available for all video cards.
Hardware FG is only available in Nvidia

[robust pendant]

That thing

[violet dune]

Kill / Marry / Fxck: margarita, pepperoni, prosciutto crudo.

[robust pendant]

Strelok, for all 3

[bitter plover]

oh, you mean in voice. Im at work and doesnt have headphones, so idk how would i helo you there. I can write or whatever tho

[obsidian bronze]

Giant industry demand for co-op "rpg" experiences comes to mind.

[robust pendant]

but they dont want to

shrimple ash 🦐

at least let them finish all the bug and content stuff first, I don't think it will be easy to implement a mode like that

but then again, they'll never cared for it, and I don't think they will for a long time

[obsidian bronze]

They are pretty worried about implementing multiplayer that nobody is wanting

Unless mp is something different than arena tdm I don't think it will be very popular lol

[cobalt fiber]

The more I think about it the more I think an extraction type mp mode would slap

It was briefly touched on the other day

I didn’t like the idea

But the more I think about it the more it does seem kinda based

Maybe it’s my newfound addiction to arc

[robust pendant]

They are not worried I'd say. At least it's not showing to be that

It will be a feature for a long future, as they clearly want to fix and add more stuff to the game first

[shell flax]

Scrap it entirely and redistribute the resources to a third DLC

[astral vault]

OR invasion mode, where some dude can invade your game, which is limited in one area like a compound or Bunker lab

[shell flax]

Actual cancer

[robust pendant]

Dark Souls but even worse

[shell flax]

Dark souls you can cheese your opponent with shit, a Stalker Onvadion would boil down to

‘I see you first

DIE ‘

[astral vault]

sniper elite 5 does this pretty well

[empty hare]

Hopefully we never get a Stalker MMO like ESO

I was so excited for "Online Skyrim" when it was first announced and was unbelievably disappointed by the actual product

[broken stag]

stupid thing we got any idea when 1.7 comes out?

[stark crescent]

Do we?

[robust pendant]

Either when PS5 launch, or later. No fixed date

[robust pendant]

For you to properly implement an online gamemode, you need to think about it from day 1, yeah

[frigid hill]

dr.slee has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[robust pendant]

Its just bad to do it later, very few have succeed

[broken stag]

are we not allowed to curse here????

[stark crescent]

Shit no

[robust pendant]

Only shit, and bs

[broken stag]

anyways 1.6 seems to be causing me to CTD so im hoping 1.7 fixes this

[stark crescent]

If 1.6 causes ctd, its not 1.6

[cobalt fiber]

Ah fuck…

[broken stag]

fresh install

[stark crescent]

Its something else.

[robust pendant]

MOOOOOOOOODS!!!!!!

[broken stag]

no mods worked fine on release im reinstalling now

[stark crescent]

Drivers, probably

[broken stag]

the one guy you meet on the way to first village talks then i crash

[robust pendant]

Also give the ctd report to #s2-support

[broken stag]

those were also updated hoping this works

[broken stag]

lol i did and got ignored so figured id ask for a timeline

nvm wrong channel i think

ima see if the reinstall fixes it first

[undone plaza]

Before 20 i think

[broken stag]

shiiiii

[undone plaza]

Like
Maybe few day before 20 for test patch before PS release

But maybe 20

[broken stag]

oh i thought you were messing with me thanks for a legit answer

[undone plaza]

Like, they start do spoilers, that i think we so close

[kindred fable]

No

[stark crescent]

No

[tacit ingot]

Wrong game for that

[stark crescent]

I mean. The game is quite the bare bones adventure on your own. Its a looter shooter, but you keep getting the same loot.

For a game like borderlands theres atleast always that "one more gun" thing going on

[stark crescent]

Do it. Mess him up.

[broken stag]

he wouldnt show you mercy.

[stark crescent]

In my next play through, im just gonna shoot everyone.

When the monolith arrive, they will freak out to find skif having done all their work.

[wild epoch]

gotta say, I'm not a big fan of how the a-life auto populates certain places once you've hit a certain distance

Just cleared out ||a monolithian stronghold in Pripyat||, went down the street to some apartments to clear those out, and as I made my way back, it was completely populated again.

[ebon blade]

I had opened all the safes but did not find what the key went to.
Then I realized the safe with the Buket S-2 I had already opened,
but did not realize it, because it was stacked high and not visible.
Once I had climbed up on top of the others, I could see it below.

[ebon blade]

Why are you complaining your brothers are just happy to see you each time you return?

[wild epoch]

Look man, I would not want anything more than be monolith and control all of ||Pripyat||, but the game is a story instead of a sandbox.

[ebon blade]

Did you try putting down your weapon and saying "Praise Monolith", to show them you were one of them?

[wild epoch]

brother man, I was on my hands and knees, belly-up, praising the everything we hold dear. I've even worn only monolith specific gear and used monolith special weapons as a sign of my devotion. Every time I'm hit with a barrage of bullets.

[steady solar]

Stuff like this is why I can't pick the game back up again. But really want a life better so I can

[wild epoch]

Its minor, the a-life has really improved though.

[robust pendant]

I HATE respawning enemies

Clear Sky made me hate mitosis

[wide timber]

how do we feel about GSC game world taking down misery?

[wild epoch]

go to #⭐┃nospoilers_general and scroll up to yesterday, a lot of opinions were given there, as well as here.

[tender lichen]

Welp that was a nice run, the contract for stalker gamepass expired

[ebon blade]

All conversations about that topic belong in en_offtop.

[ebon blade]

So why do you think it was designed this way? To give the Player more loot?
To make the area feel like a stronghold of the Monolith? Are you near end game?

[wild epoch]

To the last bit of that question, yes. Currently playing the last mission, within transit from the 2nd to last mission and back, the stronghold repopulated and thats what threw me off because I just cleared it no less than 5 minutes prior.

[stark crescent]

why cant i shoot richter!!!

i said i would shoot everyone i met this play through. i knew Alife was a scam! it doesnt allow player freedom!

[ebon blade]

There are a lot of people you can't shoot. Your gun either wont aim on them or just click without firing.

[broken stag]

bro for the life of me this game will not run right

[ebon blade]

It's not the game. It runs fine if you have the proper hardware and set software game settings.

[broken stag]

i meet the min settings and i have everything but textures set to low so game runs better i just keep getting crashes

[ebon blade]

You would be surprised at how changing various video card settings reduces crashes.

[broken stag]

i just had to do a fresh install bc some random npc was just crashing me over and over

[coral shadow]

im not expert about pcs but i heard in countless vids that Stalker 2's base requirements are too demanding? it's like the Crysis game Era

[stark crescent]

minimum requirements set up in early 2023

[fallen latch]

They are, luckily we're getting an engine upgrade relatively soon which should improve performance

[broken stag]

im tweaking this bug will not go away

[fallen latch]

Like look at this game then look at bf6, that game looks lovely and performs way better.

[coral shadow]

Nah the problem is not the engine, it's how the team optimized it and over used the performance settings, putting them as BASE settings

[fallen latch]

Maybe then the engine update means optimising the performance settings

[coral shadow]

theire 2 completely different engines

[ebon blade]

The most annoying things about people complaining is the lack of information.
Where are you? What level? What main-mission or side-mission? What NPC
are you trying to talk to? Be more helpful if you expect people to help you.

[broken stag]

im not asking for help im more just venting chief

the bug is half the screen goes blurry and the game gets smaller

[coral shadow]

maybe, but the main concern is not where the code is but how it is constructed

[fallen latch]

Kinda not really, they are different but its not like its comparing minecraft and call of duty. Both are modern, pretty fps games with a campaign

[coral shadow]

brother, Different game engines are different, if theire the same genre, it means nothing

[fallen latch]

Exactly, so thats what theyre working on and why it takes so damn long. They're rewriting the groundwork

[stark crescent]

hey rookie! come over here! we need to talk!

i talked with him. shot him in the head. yes. very nice talk. i think i lasted a good 2 seconds lol

[coral shadow]

the one at rookie village?

[ebon blade]

Many times, simply making a manual save and then reloading it, can fix things.
Doing a fresh install, not only is time consuming, but just increases your rage.

[stark crescent]

ye. after the gaffer scene

[broken stag]

the fresh install fixed the soft lock but i now got new bugs

[coral shadow]

That's just stalker affection for you

always giving you so much new bugs and glitches

wonderful gifts

[broken stag]

look at my newest one 💟

[stark crescent]

like what

[broken stag]

the second guy you meet in the zone in the house being attacked by 3 bandits the moment he talked my game would crash to desktop

[coral shadow]

67 staked snorks

[broken stag]

the new bug is the game is straight up having a seizure

[pure tendon]

gsc really keeps shooting themselves in the foot huh

[stark crescent]

Like how?

[broken stag]

may i dm you the clips?

[stark crescent]

Sure

Or post it here in screens. Has a bigger limit probably

[broken stag]

its fine they short clips from my phone

[stark crescent]

Lol..the stuff you show me is problems with dlss.

[broken stag]

ah turn it off?

[stark crescent]

Turn of dlss, that problem goes away.

[broken stag]

got it thx

[stark crescent]

The deeper issue is driver problems

[broken stag]

just updated yesterday or new drivers cause issues

[stark crescent]

Nah. Use DDU to properly uninstall the drivers. Then reinstall them.

[broken stag]

ight thx man

[stark crescent]

If you update corrupt drivers, it wont fix the corruption. Better to clean reinstall them.

[robust pendant]

About what

[ebon blade]

People make mindless complaints, with the same effort as farting, just because they like the sound of it.

[robust pendant]

I mean, true ig

But I know for a fact that GSC never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, so in a way its also true, so I wanna know what is it this time

[broken stag]

def misery

he is 100% gonna say that

[iron wind]

EE was a huge miss

[robust pendant]

See what I mean?

[still edge]

i heard it was more of a demake , it took features away , is that true?

[iron wind]

nah they restored parts of it, and then you have steam workshop to cover the rest

but on release, yeah, a regression

[still edge]

yea but mods dont count, they could have cut 90% of the game and then modders restore it back together , whats the point?

the only good thing about EE was to introduce people to the game before S2, but it could have been so much better, maybe work with some modders to do something similar to aurora autumn 2 and call it a day .

[iron wind]

I dunno, ask GSC

why the reliance on mods, etc

[still edge]

really doesnt matter now, it already happend

[still edge]

because modders can do wondrous things, modders could have made an official remake for the OG stalkers and sell that version of the games to console players

obviously with the management and supervision of GSC

[sharp stream]

NEED DLC BLIN

[still edge]

GSC: "okey lets look at what aurora autumn and OGSR did , lets do something in between those mods, modders go to work, every few days show us the assets you guys made"
booom... remake for stalker games
Anyways, GSC can learn from these experiences, everybody can make mistakes.

[solemn juniper]

Hey all - curious how the state of A-life is nowadays. Haven't played it yet and am waiting until community deems A life to be ayok

[fickle hill]

🗑️

[still edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPz5RCUjI1s short breakdown

[fickle hill]

It's fun and games until Jon Anderson kicks in

[wild epoch]

We've made it our first time around, time to get ||the other three endings||.

[full wigeon]

Which ending did ya get?

[wild epoch]

||I did the doctor's ending, letting the zone defend for itself by eliminating everyone. No strelok, no scar, no ward.||

[cyan mulch]

The one where the credtis roll

[full wigeon]

Nice I got the ||strelok|| ending, I'm going for that one next

[full wigeon]

Crazy

[cyan mulch]

Best ending ever

[fickle hill]

Reload to the docs choice and you will get streloks ending to save a whole nother game

[wild epoch]

I saved just at the point where you can choose between ||strelok or the doctor|| so I'm just going back and continuing from there.

I also saved when you can choose to ||betray scar|| and when you can decide to ||join the ward||, so I'll be collecting those endings very soon. No full playthrough needed.

[wild epoch]

and then there is this guy

[fickle hill]

It is I the party pooper