☢┃stalker-general

[smoky hawk]

you literally have 10000+ free roam mods for Stalker that have completely diff objectives and priorities, just look for them

[bitter plover]

yeah, it didnt make sense. But players wanted it

[still carbon]

for stalker 2 😳 ????

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/boot-throw-gif-22076255

[still carbon]

i assume thats a no :(

[edgy shell]

indeed a no

[fierce nexus]

Stalker 2: Heart of Peak

[edgy shell]

decades worth of mods to pick from

[fierce nexus]

Fix Zalissya mod when?

[still carbon]

i mean i like anomaly

[timid aurora]

Expedition mode just without the story?

[smoky hawk]

👟

[edgy shell]

i'm sure you'll find something that you'll enjoy just as much

[still carbon]

cmonnn its fun especially with your own mods

[visual mortar]

the toes

[vapid galleon]

yes absolutely fun a lot man

[smoky hawk]

Anomaly is one of the worst sandbox mods that I have ever played and people telling me about it has only ever made it worse

[urban grove]

I am still waiting for atleast the DLC and MP news

[edgy shell]

ngl I can't enjoy the sandbox mods, just doesn't hit right for me

[bitter plover]

[still carbon]

i mean i like it ive always wanted like a stalker where your your own person just living in the zone

[timid aurora]

Is Expedition mode just Stalker 2 without the story? How does it work? I can’t get on right now

[vapid galleon]

seems like skill issue bro, to be honest

[glad helm]

I guess they'll give us some news after the engine update

[still edge]

i hope they do introduce a sandbox mode where you can select a faction and do what ever you want with different starting locations and different side quest available

[smoky hawk]

get to Yantar in NLC7, then you are at my level

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-pathetic-principal-skinner-gif-13486077408184960752

[urban grove]

What i dont like about anomaly is the ammount of anomalies it has, i thin stalker IWP is better, too bad it doesnt have alot of mods for it

[still carbon]

agree

[glad helm]

So CoC, pretty much

[cyan sparrow]

Sounds / Critical hit: DISABLED

[bitter plover]

yeah, hella needed

[still carbon]

if there was like a better mod for stalker that had a gameloop where it was as if you were living in the zone better than anomaly id absolutely rather play that. would be NICER if it was for stalker 2 aswell 👀

[still carbon]

what is CoC is it like anomaly?

[coral shadow]

Nah they will not, that's not stalker, the modders always did it, why should GSC do something that the modders already plan to do? less money to spend, less time to consume
it would be great from GSC's part but i just doubt they will

[bitter plover]

[timid aurora]

Call of Chernobyl

[stark crescent]

Its official. Ubisoft has gone broke.

[coral shadow]

LES GO

[smoky hawk]

COC is what Anomaly is based on, it released on 2014 and Anomaly has not evolved in any way from that

[glad helm]

It's Anomaly's ancestor, per say. Same concept, but older and less bloated

[still edge]

how is it not stalker, to create a mode where you stalk around? hahahaha

[edgy shell]

basically any freeplay mod is just that. had COTZ recommended to me a while back

[timid aurora]

I hope they don’t stop Division 2 progress. I like where it’s going..

[still carbon]

i feel like a yougin reading these reactions

[cyan sparrow]

and the immersive mode it's a nice touch!

[smoky hawk]

Anomaly is a variation from a series of concepts made by much better mods

it comes from COM which is a junction of COC with Misery, after COM came Last Day which was a variation on COM, and Anomaly came from the cut down of Last Day

[strong hazel]

Is anybody else’s game crashing on Xbox when they try to start it and play it?

[elder obsidian]

No save in MASTER is crazy!! Just a Bug can kill u and thats all. Your progression is off

[still carbon]

i mean it is master difficulty 👀

[robust pendant]

lol NLC player

[smoky hawk]

COC in and of itself is an adaptation of SOC's Xiannis Freeplay mod into COP engine with modified engine optimizations

[elder obsidian]

i know but this game can kill you just to take the sun xDD

[smoky hawk]

I was on the TL team so

[still edge]

what about a hardcore mode where you get 1 save every 5 hours of game time, only for people without skill issues

[elder obsidian]

and no reward to do it so i prefer to wait to my second playthrogh

[robust pendant]

I know, thats why I said it

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/i-don't-know-idk-idk-about-that-gif-7336250873949261946

[elder obsidian]

i think is not about skills anymore

[smoky hawk]

Expedition mode sucks, I wish master was not required for you to play it

[elder obsidian]

i just die 3 times in the prologo xD

[smoky hawk]

it just turns the game into a very samey experience

[dreamy dagger]

COC but its Male Cock you're riding on the way to Cock Island!

[gentle citrus]

I got like 2 new bugs or 1 older but back again.
One crashed my Mouse for the whole PC. Needed restart and the other was Bloodsucker kicking me somehow down even when the standup animation was finished. Teleporting to the ground is not fun

[edgy shell]

damn so you still can't disable upscaling

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/what-in-the-actual-fuck-what-in-the-actual-fuck-johnny-cage-johnny-cage-mortal-kombat-1-mortal-kombat-1-mortal-kombat-1-johnny-cage-gif-16481823016735548355

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/fogel-gif-26556621

[bitter plover]

skill issue

[dreamy dagger]

Why aren't you playing?

[elder obsidian]

no skill brou sometimes you cannot about death

[smoky hawk]

They shouldve taken a page from Syaks book and copied NLC7
save at any campfire or candle, you can list campfires and candles with an expensive method
10 times better

[bitter plover]

wathing videos and replying to ppl i played it for 20-30 hours alread

[violet dune]

are glass/water reflections cooked? i get weird flickering

[dreamy dagger]

Its been out for like 3-4. YOUZA LIAR!

https://tenor.com/view/boo-boo-this-man-mad-angry-gif-16849857

[dim sphinx]

that prob won't be fixed entirely until HW lumen arrives

[elder obsidian]

i dont know what to do.. my first play on MASTER or VETERAN

[dreamy dagger]

Tlap caught in a dirty lie!

[violet dune]

i didnt had this in 1.6 atleast not on this lvl

[elder obsidian]

VETERAN i think is better to play the story

[dreamy dagger]

Uninstall A-Life and explore

[coral shadow]

master + expedition is easier than veteran

[bitter plover]

Yeah, campfire mod would not be good, bcs it would motivate player to just run from campfire to campfire on map. But if it would be somehow changed, that you can like save only after certain time or something, then yeah, that would be better

[elder obsidian]

you cannot turn of expedition on Master

[dim sphinx]

Veteran, for a first playthrough you want the autosaves you're gonna get in missions

[bitter plover]

my man, you know what im talking about

[coral shadow]

nah it's not much of a bother game is super easy

[elder obsidian]

i think is the best thanks

[smoky hawk]

it would be better than the expedition mode we have because, campfires can be found all throought the map, and if you could light them thru a equipment it would then make your saving a choice in the field
as it stands now, you do smth, you go back to base, repeat

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/departure-dexter-departure-motherfucka-gif-25093529

[smoky hawk]

you will always shirk away the ability to keep going in a expedition basically, you should have a resource that allows you to continue

its just, boring

[violet dune]

https://tenor.com/view/lost-grace-bonfire-elden-ring-fantasy-fantasy-game-gif-27178102

[bitter plover]

yeah, thats true

[bitter plover]

yeah, that i agree

[violet dune]

this takes a lot of work to do it.

[elder obsidian]

thats what im thinking about

[urban grove]

People dont like when they have limited save, i wish master would delete your save

[elder obsidian]

Nah i want to enjoy the Story ... Veteran for my first time.

[violet dune]

if you die, u back to herrman truck

[urban grove]

Hey bro no shame on it

[gentle citrus]

Who is going to play Master too?

[elder obsidian]

i dont want to die 100 times and repeat everything, i wish i could save on campfire or bed in a safe zone near but not now is posible

[urban grove]

My first playtrough was on veteran so

[violet dune]

maybe on DLC, def not now

[cyan sparrow]

On the way, only finishing my currect pt on vet

[smoky hawk]

yhea which is why it would be good
like I said, copy NLC7, if a campfire hasnt been used in x ammount of time it shuts off, you can buy matches to light it on fire again, if you are out and its raining you need multiple matches
it keeps the mechanic interesting and it also allows you to make further treks into the zone, it makes it a lot more dynamic than go to base as soon as you have done your objective and it forces you to prepare how many resources you need for a certain expedition

[urban grove]

Play veteran then...

[smoky hawk]

it is the best way to balance this mechanic

[elder obsidian]

that why ... i want to enjoy

[smoky hawk]

dont copy the part where Matches can get wet and become unusable if not within a certain special container

that part SUCKED

DONT DO THAT

[fierce nexus]

[elder obsidian]

i like Master a lot but not to the play for the first time brou

[gentle citrus]

Yea going to wait till 1.8. Hoping that the game will be somewhat good to run and play

[violet dune]

i totally agree. this would be way more creative and interesting for exploration and not just run back to hub

[lost lava]

Lul why ya all want to make stalker 2 worse? Who needs that annoying gimmick with matches or limited saves

[river chasm]

Is master like a hardcore mode or is it even more bullet spongy veteran

[urban grove]

And... thats fine, it has multiple difficulty levels so most people can enjoy it xD, you arent less of a gamer for playing on a "easier" difficulty

[elder obsidian]

is super spongy men .. if you found a group on a open field ... your finish

[violet dune]

GSC game director needs to be more creative

[river chasm]

Lol. Well that settles that then for me

[azure spindle]

Has the A-life radius been increased from 100m yet?

[violet dune]

now putting too much basic, blant mechanics

[elder obsidian]

i like the feeling to die and loose everything .. i play Tarkov for about 8 years so

[smoky hawk]

check pins

[still edge]

broooo npc are kept alive across the map? we are so getting there DAMN!

[elder obsidian]

also no achivment to complete MASTER .. nah im going veteran.

[next lava]

so guys whens patch 1.8

[violet dune]

if they add 5.5.4 and not increase AI radius... oh good lord i will riot

[stuck seal]

Riot as in leave a mildly upset comment

[violet dune]

5.5.4. should give enough room for tanking AI performance

[outer gazelle]

Now.

[elder obsidian]

if Master have Save i take it for sure

[bitter plover]

No, but there were big changes. See it here
https://youtu.be/Kc1OTaj4V8k?si=h9mnivmuppuhwidZ

[still edge]

some games have received up to 40% performance boost when changing from 5.1 to 5.4 update . So at the very least we can expect huge fps boost

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/death-of-stalin-jollyposting-christmasposting-christmas-jolly-gif-3882277632458285802

[urban grove]

I hate artificial dificulty like that

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/neva-never-marc-homealone-youcantstopme-gif-9816521

[stuck seal]

Kinda funny that they block the description for expedition mode with the expedition mode text in the trailer

[elder obsidian]

yeah, you need to go to the head eyes xD

[smoky hawk]

if you check the pins you can see that the AI can go far, I would say, at least like the entire map? I did not experiment yet but while at Slag Heap the bottom of Cordon was kept in memory

[lost lava]

Lol it should be deadly not even more spongy, whats the point of master.

[violet dune]

u tested?

[dreamy dagger]

Press "." and skip a frame then you can read it

[elder obsidian]

yes .. for 1 hour

[next lava]

so whens patch 1.9

[outer gazelle]

Tommorow

[stuck seal]

Wait till you see how master was in the trilogy (some enemies were literally impossible to kill without cheesing)

[urban grove]

I tried running s2 on a RX7600 and it wanted to die

[lost lava]

February stalker 2 2.0 part 2

[violet dune]

lets put prices high, durability low, npc dmg +500%, hp +500%, your dmg -200% and call it master...

[urban grove]

And it kept crashing... i miss my 1060Ti

[violet dune]

we had master difficulty on launch

[lost lava]

I know, im the og enjoyer. Sponges r persistent problem of trash balance across all games

[unique locust]

I wonder what they plan on featuring in 1.8, and if it will be this year

[stuck seal]

Master was better in the trilogy though

[stuck seal]

I doubt the changes are that severe

[vernal lily]

Uninstall game, then go exploring outside

[elder obsidian]

for real !!!

[urban grove]

If i am not mistaken, in SoC easier difficulty would makr the game harder, becuse enemy health scaled with player health, so the player had more health it would make them stronger xD

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/the-wire-this-is-bullshit-walk-out-gif-12119187

[violet dune]

master should get me killed fast, i should die from everything and everything has to be on low resources, but as a player i have to counter back also with killing fast.. what the point to put 50 mags to bloodsucker and than farm for 5hr artifacts because i cant afford bullets. 😄

[dreamy dagger]

1.8 should feature "Let Krezzin refund" option

[stuck seal]

That’s why you use ammo that can easily be found?

[unique locust]

Your own damage output is unaffected. Ironically in the OGs your damage was reduced

[urban grove]

They need to optimize the game, alot more

[elder obsidian]

i just put it this way ... you have 3 saves per day. when you sleep you have 3 more save to spend

[stuck seal]

Yeah everyone has been saying that for a year, I think they know

[elder obsidian]

if you know you only have 1 save left you should go home and recover

[stuck seal]

So what is expedition mode

[urban grove]

The fact that their recomended requirements are on low with FSR and framr gen on and upscaling is fuckinh wild

[elder obsidian]

No savegame men

[violet dune]

saves idea i like, i just dont want to put myself into grinding fest there i must grind for 5hrs the same most efficient thing "artifacts" just to afford 30min action

than make a grind interesting

[stuck seal]

What does this mean

[arctic schooner]

"A-Life" this and "A-Life" that; you mfers need to get "A-Life"

[urban grove]

You cant manualy save, but quest autosaves are still on

[elder obsidian]

you cannot save the game only in the main base

[urban grove]

And you save by entering and leaving a hub

[violet dune]

game auto-saves. you cant save it. 1 save slot. if you die you go back to that slot. it could be saved 10min ago or 2hr

[stuck seal]

So you can’t save the game unless you’re in one of the bases?

[elder obsidian]

also i think if you quit the game instant the let you save the game let me try it

[stuck seal]

Ah

[elder obsidian]

yeah

[urban grove]

I wonder if mutant hunting is viable in this economy xD

[stuck seal]

That kinda makes sense, it’s called EXPEDITION so the game wants you to make short trips outside and come back

[violet dune]

tha guy who made better ballistic. hire this guy to make HC difficulty for us

[tardy rain]

I was thinking about a game mode where you buy some kinda save tokens

[elder obsidian]

also will be goood men

[urban grove]

Yeah, but it still has the autosaves built on the main story quests and other quests aswell

[tardy rain]

and they can also spawn in loot on rare occasions

[violet dune]

hire Oxide too

[elder obsidian]

like Resident Evil

[stuck seal]

Speaking of, I think enemy health being high on master would be mitigated by better ballistics right?

[frigid hill]

heichou has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quiet rock]

Is master difficulty sponge town?

[stuck seal]

Stalker is sponge town, the whole point of the game is getting better weapons and ammo to fight enemies with better armor

That’s how every game is

[arctic schooner]

Cool; didn't know a game rated M would give warnings for profanity in their discord....

[winter oar]

is this the 1.7 update ? (link cuz i dont have pic rights in general) #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[outer gazelle]

No that's bikini bottom.

[stuck seal]

So many people complaining about this, but you can just watch your profanity

[urban grove]

Bro wants to kill a fully kitted military dude with a short double barrel xD

[tardy rain]

NEW DIFFICULTY MODES
1 - Napkin
2 - Paper towel
3 - Sponge
4 - SCRUB DADDY

[trail pike]

Just use OXA prototype and problem solved.

[quiet rock]

Not really. 9x19 weapons deal with lots of threats quick and im playing veteran. But if i have to do 3 magnum shots on an unarmed for “master” its terrible

[violet dune]

they kinda fix sponge part. on launch it was horrible

[idle pumice]

How’s the new patch?

[stuck seal]

Maybe if you hit them in the head sure

[urban grove]

Also keep in my guys, exos will and should always be sponges

[violet dune]

on launch you didnt had enough bullets to kill pseudogiant in arena on veteran

[lofty creek]

not working at all, game crashes on start up

[idle pumice]

“Patch” my ass

[urban grove]

Imma try playing stalker 2 again

[molten cliff]

gotta fist them to death lolol

[idle pumice]

If y’all want A-Life then go outside and talk to people

[slender escarp]

Anyone know what type of mods will be broken by the patch? Literally started playing last night

[drifting bear]

If you shoot all the bullets into his head, you could kill him

[stuck seal]

I guess try removing all mods and seeing how it is

[violet dune]

kinda. i had to jump on the box and put all bullets in the head, otherwise it was not enought to kill it. even with this method i had maybe few bullets left

[quiet rock]

Weird question but are rare anomalies more common after SIRCA? I ve been doing a lot before that event and i only have common useless ones so far

[dull apex]

Online A-Life looks good so far. Havent encountered mutants yet.

[dull apex]

Just gotta keep hitting them spots my guy.

Its randomized so either pray to The Monolith for luck or pray to RNGesus

[urban grove]

All of them

[dull apex]

Not all of them. Infinite Carry weight and Stamina still works.

[strong hazel]

What’s the master difficulty like? Is everything a bullet sponge?

[slender escarp]

damn

[violet dune]

atleast A-LIFE did big jump on patch 1.7. master difficulty GSC maybe will adjust or i wait for modders to implement their own difficulty

[idle pumice]

Once the dlc that adds a lot of content comes out and a-life becomes as good as og games then ill go back and play stalker 2

[quiet rock]

Did we ever find out what do you “lose” when ur armor is completely broken?

[urban grove]

Ok so, anomalies comr in field types, when you leaver sircaa you start heading deeper into the zone seeing more rare anomalies

[idle pumice]

Glad to see the game improving

[urban grove]

Cringe mods

[violet dune]

all stats of armor, all protection

[stuck seal]

Master doesn’t seem as bad as y’all make it out to be

[feral gust]

are there any mods that work on 1.7 or we have to wait

[dull apex]

I already got all the endings man. Im just out here enjoying myself rn.

[urban grove]

Ok fair

[quiet rock]

So like keep going go red forest and such? U can go there already the only place u cant go is prypiat without exploits

[wicked magnet]

Yeah, the master mod is being excessively punishing

[quiet rock]

So in running naked with broken armor?

[urban grove]

You will enter prypiat, just keep playing yhe story xD

[wicked magnet]

manual saves only is too much

[tardy rain]

I mean, it is master mode

[violet dune]

idk if its naked, but you lost major amount of stats from armor

[dull apex]

Correct. I dont think being skilled at jumps is nan exploit tho XD

[hoary hazel]

Is A life fixed now or not before I install again?

[dull apex]

Still testing.

[tardy rain]

I've heard good things so far

[dull apex]

Install tho. Everything looks really good so far.

[quiet rock]

I dont think u get my wuestion. I already finished the game and on my second run and i have gone everywhere and im avoiding SIRCA because i wanna see what else is there to see before it.

[quiet rock]

Ahh. Damn. My coupons….

[quiet rock]

Well is it intended?

[urban grove]

https://youtu.be/Kc1OTaj4V8k?si=fYhCIh9E1Zn-2BML

[elder obsidian]

The patch 1.7 is just amazing the game feels so smothhhhh

[dull apex]

Obviously not. But imo, its more realistic than radiation barriers.

[urban grove]

Oh ok, prypiat is the only placr i believe you cant enter

[bright ether]

The shaders are compiling, let's see the gains in Legion Go

[dull apex]

You can if you really wanted to. If you wanna follow the story however, dont do what I do.

[violet dune]

i got maybe 20+fps

[elder obsidian]

Love it so far but i dont recomend Master difficult for the first time. Playing on Veteran and lets finish the Gaame and then im Going Master for real.

[urban grove]

I bought a RX7600 at the begining of the year and i am regretting it alredy xD. Should have saved for a brtter card

[violet dune]

and rostok feels nice

[urban grove]

I meant without glitching and exploits

[dull apex]

I'm there right now actually. A-Life here is looking pretty good. Im seeing Freedom Stalkers walk paths I've never seen them walk before.

[quiet rock]

Also duga is closed right ? Before sirca that is

[dull apex]

Yup, its possible. Just gotta do some jumps.

[violet dune]

they still walk in lines 😄

[dull apex]

That will always be funny tho.

[violet dune]

true stalker experience

[dull apex]

As long as they arent getting stuck in doorways again.

You ever been trapped inside 100rad bar?

[violet dune]

they have this. start run in panic, stops for few sec, runs again

[dull apex]

Why do you ask? Eager to go north and return home Noontider?

[violet dune]

in yaniv multiple times

[wind thunder]

they should do something about the holo sights glitching with frame generation on

[arctic schooner]

Or we could just not be penalized for talking like adults in a discord server related to an adult-rated game? The games make copious use of curse words; this isn't a Roblox server

[dull apex]

So you know exactly how I feel.

[arctic schooner]

Actually, Roblox servers are probably even more sailor-mouthed

[dull apex]

Cursing in every other sentence is Teenager stuff man, not adult stuff

[hot root]

Did performance on pc improve with the update?

[wind thunder]

no there's just a lot of kids

[drifting bear]

This can be explained by the fact that the Zone is dangerous and it is better to follow the beaten path

[violet dune]

for me yes

[arctic schooner]

Except you don't get warned for cursing every other sentence; you get warned for doing it once

[astral vault]

yes i get 5000fps

[tardy rain]

lol

[dull apex]

Ur the only person here currently with a problem Loner. Either clean up your vocab or dont talk. Simple.

[slender escarp]

Would it be safe to unistall stalker unlimited 6hrs in

[tardy rain]

or get creative, you can say some absolutely obscene stuff if you want

[dull apex]

Or that too. I like the way you think Warden.

[hot root]

Hope its worth the reinstall I really love the game but performance was shit in my last 5h

[charred nova]

my least favorite form of difficulty

[wind thunder]

how much?

[charred nova]

make the game more annoying

[arctic schooner]

Ironically; it's much more juvenile to be pearl-clutching about curse words than it is to actually make use of them. Most adults use curse words. This is not a hill I'm about to die on, however, so oh well

[violet dune]

from 120+fps to 140+

[tardy rain]

they should've just made the enemies bigger

[smoky hawk]

yhea shit sucks

[hardy root]

Is the engine update coming next patch?

[smoky hawk]

anyway

[dull apex]

[tardy rain]

on master mode everyone's 9ft tall

[charred nova]

10 foot tall bandits

[violet dune]

https://tenor.com/view/2jz-2jznoshit-fast-and-furious-mad-scientist-gif-15091158

[tardy rain]

but their heads are very small

[charred nova]

[wind thunder]

what specs?

[violet dune]

9800x3d, 4090

[charred nova]

but in all seriousness i wish they would make the ai way more aggressive instead of just making them really hard to kill

[wind thunder]

damn bro

[untold timber]

1.7 is out?

[dull apex]

I found a duty member wandering in the back area of Rostok. I think he's about to get shredded.

[violet dune]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson-nodding-yes-nod-of-approval-gif-21066931

[dull apex]

YES Helldiver. Return to the Zone.

[wind thunder]

like in clear sky where they chuck the whole grenade arsenal at you?

[charred nova]

yes

i would rather be air striked by grenades

[nova zephyr]

I can't get steam to pick the update up no matter how many times I restart it

[charred nova]

then have to get multiple head shots to down a bandit

[deft coral]

Maybe you already got it without noticing it!!!!

[wind thunder]

like "oh look, its a new loner with nothing but a ptm and 10 bullets and we're 3 bandits with AKs and shotguns, better throw 10 million grenades at him"

[untold timber]

I'm legit waiting for my wife to give birth in the hospital i need something to turn my brain off, guess it's time to boot up stalker

[violet dune]

bandit with no helm takes 3 .308 bullets in the head!

[dull apex]

I cant help you with that. I'm on Console. Minute I turned my Xbox on it started updating.

[charred nova]

i would massively prefer this

[dull apex]

CONGRATULATIONS BRO

[acoustic lotus]

Anyone else having issues where a white box takes half the screen up

[arctic schooner]

Truly I don't know how you'd increase difficulty further in this game without making enemies more resistant. I guess you could make the economy rougher, meds heal slower, AI slightly more unfair, and make damage sources hurt more; but there's still a fine line to walk

[nova zephyr]

Nothing in my download history, Version update date is the 6th of October so definitely hasn't

[dull apex]

May The Monolith look over your newborn child and family brother. May His Will protect you guys. 🙂

[charred nova]

brother is watching live birth while typing in chat

[acoustic lotus]

Congrats!

[wind thunder]

you actually went and talked to a woman?

[charred nova]

he did it guys

HE WON

https://tenor.com/view/greasestain-woody-dap-up-dapping-toy-story-gif-16829324021208675735

[arctic schooner]

his prize? a child

[wind thunder]

fatherhood

[dull apex]

I told ya'll The Monolith provides to those who believe

[arctic schooner]

Hope the kid comes out good n healthy. My greatest fear would be my firstborn having serious health problems

[charred nova]

or he might come out like me

then he might end up as a discord moderator

the horror

[wind thunder]

I like monolith because they have very good gear that I can salvage and sell after I brutally shoot them with my DRUM MAG SAIGA 12

wait who changed my name

[arctic schooner]

oh, yeah; if my kid came out yelling "CHEEKI BREEKE IV DAMKE" we're gonna have problems

[dull apex]

Hey man. Those guys ur shooting? They're an actual cult unlike the original Monolith. So go ahead.

[wind thunder]

he comes out fully geared with the bandit leather jacket, balaclava and ak74

[feral gust]

ahh yes, none of my saves work without mods now, crashes

[dull apex]

I would want my kid to be the next Strelok. Or at the very least a Richter.

[wind thunder]

I shot both, also the S2 monolith are basically real monolith

[naive remnant]

Still no controller ADS fix? There are so many controller adjacent fixes though 🙁

[wind thunder]

Stalker is to be played on mouse and keyboard

[dull apex]

The Original had a connection to C-Con. This one has a connection to Faust.

[charred nova]

gsc fully fix controller support challenge impossible!

[wind thunder]

but Faust is dead

[dull apex]

Is he?

[bitter plover]

easy, you make them more deadly.

[wind thunder]

idk, how far are you in the game?

[arctic schooner]

by.... dealing more damage and taking less?

[bitter plover]

no. Master is you both are deadly. Its fair fight

[wind thunder]

make them land shots more frequently

[gentle citrus]

So faster kill time but also faster die time?

[charred nova]

making the enemies more spongy is just not fun imbr

[violet dune]

glass/water reflection fixed. i just had to delete engine

[bitter plover]

yes

[gentle citrus]

100%

[charred nova]

its already NOT fun at veteran making it even worse is not a greater challenge

[wind thunder]

I love the Saiga because you can just spam it, all of the shots, the recoil is insane but it doesn't matter, if a bloodsucker decides do disrespect your personal space you can quickly remove him

[charred nova]

its a patience test

[bitter plover]

its not that way tho. Its quick for both sides

[charred nova]

its purely annoying

[gentle citrus]

I like if the Enemies are getting smarter if you up the Difficulty.

[stone vigil]

So is the best way to save your game on master just to quit? There's so much you can do before you even get to Zalissya for the first time. My game hasn't saved once since I hopped off the truck and I'm almost at the end of the prologue. This system is awful

[wind thunder]

some enemies eat regular 5.45 to the head like nothing, 5-6 shots and still alive

[dull apex]

I beat all 4 endings.

[wind thunder]

it saves when you enter certain buildings or when you get to certain parts

[bitter plover]

basicaly yeah. If you cant get to HUB, you can save by quiting into menu and back

[bitter plover]

first save is in Zallysia

[stone vigil]

Is there a limit to how often this can be done?

[bitter plover]

no

[stone vigil]

There's 100% gonna be a mod that removes this system from master difficulty...

[bitter plover]

its frustrating at first, but it gets good quickly. Without those saves, MAster would be too easy

[charred nova]

instead make the game like grinding a calamity mod infernum boss

[tardy rain]

yea it's called veteran difficulty

[charred nova]

where encounters take 100rds of tries to win

[dull apex]

The ending i thought was Canon is "I want the Zone to be free." In a nutshell.

[charred nova]

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL DIFFICULTY

[wind thunder]

I only got one ending, dont spoil

[dull apex]

Which one?

[wind thunder]

uh

kill strelok and

kill scar

[dull apex]

Just say a name. Games been out for a year bro.

[dull apex]

So you sided with The Ward or...

[wind thunder]

no

[bitter plover]

this is channel with spoilers, you can spoil here

[dull apex]

That's the ending I'm talkin' about.

[wind thunder]

yea

[charred nova]

you ever heard of spoilma

[wind thunder]

spoilma balls

[stone vigil]

I mean I could just go back to veteran with better ballistics and call it a day I guess. Is master the vanilla version of this damage model?

[dull apex]

Yeah, IMO that ending has to be the Canon one. It gives GSC the opportunity to continue the series if they really wanted to.

[tardy rain]

enemies are tankier than they are in veteran

[wind thunder]

I hope Stalker 2 multiplayer has events like Fallout 76, bringing many players together to fight and get a reward after all the enemies are dead

[tardy rain]

its like installing better ballistics, just not for the player

[valid umbra]

i hope multi actually comes lol

[dull apex]

I hope it has open-world so multiple people can explore the Zone at once. Even fight other players, join factions. Ya know. The works.

[tardy rain]

Stalker 2 multiplayer is gonna be round based FPS from around 2013 with Stalker 2 assets

[wind thunder]

no like having bounties put on some players and others have to kill him and stuff

[dull apex]

Raids in the open world. Like when the Iron Forest gets finished, Stalkers rush through and push the CNPP.

[stone vigil]

Yikes. I was expecting something like Metro's ranger hardcore experience. Guess that better ballistics is still the way to go if I want to get the same feeling...

[bitter plover]

it will probably just be MP maps, with PVP or PVEVP and anomalies. Not open world MP

[unique locust]

Vati said this is not the case and your damage output is the same. So which one is it?

[proven hollow]

i mean that was peak slav FPS experience, they don't know any better 😛

[bitter plover]

they are not

[wind thunder]

I would just equip all endurance artifacts, run towards others, blast them with the saiga then run away

[dull apex]

And...what happens if one of them has a Gauss Gun?

[wind thunder]

Metro is arcade

[wind thunder]

I dodge, saiga has 21 rounds I can spam

I have 2 saigas equipped

and Rhino with 12g mod

[dull apex]

So, hypothetically ur gonna kill like..10 Monos equipped with Gauss' and Diamond Exos? In an online open-world MP where people are likely to be sweaty?

[wind thunder]

I am also well equipped with diamond exo and good artifacts

[stone vigil]

So is STALKER 2. I don't see the point.

What I'm referring to is that what I expected master to be was that it would just remove all safeties so that both us and NPCs would die really quickly, like in Metro or more sim-like shooters. For now, I'll just go back to veteran with better ballistics to get that feeling

[spiral cobalt]

Holy crap GSC absolutely cooked with this update

[dull apex]

Then just JOIN MONOLITH at that point. You could just hunt everyone who comes Into Pripyat.

And thats gonna be a lot of people.

[wind thunder]

Stalker isn't arcade-y, Metro makes you go where it wants, Stalker lets you f around and find out

[wind thunder]

I hunt down everyone

[versed glacier]

Guys do i need to start a new game for 1.7

[dull apex]

Metro is Linear, thats what he means.

[wind thunder]

yea, like a rollercoaster

[dull apex]

Exodus had a linear story, even with all the big areas.

[stone vigil]

Yeah that's what I got after his last explanation. Still unrelated to my point tbf because I'm talking about damage models, not the linearity of the experience

[potent moss]

Game keeps crashing at the load screen anyone else have this issue?

[dull apex]

Ah, you mean gunplay?

[versed glacier]

Should i satrt s new game for 1.7

[wind thunder]

no

[dull apex]

Not needed, you could use an old file or new.

[charred nova]

people keep begging to play the most mid multiplayer we have seen in over 10 years

[tardy rain]

remember the last stalker multiplayer? yea no-one else does either

[versed glacier]

Hows the update guys, how do you like the a life

[violet dune]

under DLSS stalker have profile Ultra Quality.. this is new?

[dull apex]

So far so good.

[dull apex]

There was a Stalker Multiplayer?

[charred nova]

ultra performance with 10 percent resolution scale

[tardy rain]

honestly i really dont care, I'd rather it was awful because that effort is better spent on the actual game

[gentle citrus]

Does it?

[violet dune]

Ultra Quality, not performance

[stone vigil]

Yes. I was just expressing disappointment at the fact that master difficulty just turned out to be spongier enemies and more damage for us rather than more realistic damage models for both. This is when I mentioned Metro's difficulty scaling to draw a comparison. This is something that the better ballistics mod in veteran difficulty provides so I guess that I can just go back to that

[still edge]

honestly only good reason for online stalker 2 , would be coop based stalker 2, that would be peak for twitch, youtube content. And also more ways to play the same game

[violet dune]

its below DLAA and above Quality

[exotic glacier]

Honestly I feel deep rock galactic and Valheim is peak multiplayer. I can't see what S2 mp will do for you other then bullying npc's.

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1308034374473617459/1436451068287520798/True.mov?ex=691c2d0e&is=691adb8e&hm=1dc91a6fcdfa25d9315094bbe21684b2cfd75b60d412a1fc2538e0b97dd64dee&

[violet dune]

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthis-is-the-first-time-seeing-ultra-quality-on-dlss-modes-v0-8h1gdanusase1.png%3Fwidth%3D347%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0d2c5cbf4ec214efbd6ee283a74ac094033c78e9

[charred nova]

which is never happening

[dull apex]

Bullying Each other.

[charred nova]

gsc has said they will never add co op since 2021

[wind thunder]

yes I think still is

[charred nova]

thats not changed since

[bitter plover]

its not spongy. Enemies are easier to kill. Same with Mutants.

[charred nova]

yah it's just pointless

[carmine star]

Modders might be able to bring a coop experience

[still edge]

and the dlc description still say "transferable to multiplayer"

[gentle citrus]

Bullying players

[charred nova]

what ever that means

[cobalt fiber]

Coop would be ass

[dull apex]

It's probably cuz they tried it already. Burned their server farm to the ground probs trying to run it.

[tardy rain]

yea I give it like 10% chance of happening, but doing it on UE would at least be more realistic than x-ray

[carmine star]

Fair

[gentle citrus]

Yea transfer my stalker dlc skins I guess

[wind thunder]

GSC will deploy the players on the ukraine front and give them the weapons they had in their inventory

[spark cypress]

Yes, Skif damage the same

[bitter plover]

which is what it is. In master, you die quickly, enemies also

[still edge]

wouldnt be the primary stalker experience thats for sure, but a really meme experience for lols

[exotic glacier]

Oh my christ, offcoarse... PvP...

[charred nova]

it would just take a ton of dev time

and so they don't see it as worth it

[gentle citrus]

Just give me the drone UI and let me fly it from home

[dull apex]

Think PvPvE

[charred nova]

a co op mode for stalker 2 would be about as impactful as one of those botw multiplayer mods

where they just make a single player game multiplayer

[wind thunder]

no remove all drones it aint fun

[charred nova]

its purely a novelty

[still edge]

stalker robots controlled by player to fight in the front lines

[charred nova]

its just like war thunder

except im killing people

[exotic glacier]

I don't play PvP, I live on the other side of the world and get queued with Europe. So excuse me for treating PvP as a non factor.

[charred nova]

THIS IS FUCKEN AWESOME

[unique locust]

Perhaps enemy HP has increased? Or why would the other tester be saying this?

[still edge]

pvp in stalker 2 would be cancer, i try it for 2 minutes and never again play that

[charred nova]

ight bruh lets not

[spark cypress]

I ask and test it and cant say what NPC are spongy at all

[gentle citrus]

Oh you think you can’t kill people. War thunder is the Russian side. Getting the stalinum drone to fly

[wicked magnet]

Do you know what is narrative tools?

[charred nova]

just wait till strelok gets deployed it will be all over

[dull apex]

In the ideal multi you wouldnt have to get into fights with players. You could play the game the way you wanted too. Just an open world game mode that allows the option to fight players, or join factions, or collect artifacts, etc..

[spark cypress]

Tlap in chat here above can approve it

And you can ask Spartan Mozi how he feel it too, Tommy

[unique locust]

I assume GSC doesn't given you any changelogs or exact config value changes when you guys are testing?

[bitter plover]

its not spongy. Its opposite. Their HP had to be decreased

[spark cypress]

We have patchnote, but without like numbers, but Skif dmg for sure not changed

[unique locust]

"had to be decreased" as in, from your testing, it feels like their health has gone down?

[bitter plover]

from every tester i talked to, including my feeling, all of us felt, that the enemies die faster

[spark cypress]

You can play on Master and try it, but from many experiences i can say what NPC not spongy

[unique locust]

very interesting. do you get this feeling only on master?

[weary hedge]

What’s changed in 1.7

[bitter plover]

Rahmi forexample said, that he needed 60% less ammo to kill CHimera on master

[gentle citrus]

The monolith gets used to get the enemy to desert.

[spark cypress]

On Master you have other problem with Skif feeding

[unique locust]

I really wanna try these last few patches but I also wanna upgrade my rig before I start a new playthru lol

[wind thunder]

they removed Skif

[unique locust]

Well I always ate all the time so it wouldn't be a problem

How long approximately does it take for you to die of hunger?

You mentioned the mechanic in the vid but didn't state the numbers

[weary hedge]

Do we play as skifs pistol instead

[spark cypress]

You have time window for eating

[wind thunder]

we play as random loner

[weary hedge]

Are you being serious or

How did they remove skif what does that even mean

[spark cypress]

Like your screen become more red and red in process

And sound from stomash

[faint crow]

i wish there was a sandbox mode where u could play random loner to join factions and do faction wars and so on

[unique locust]

Interesting

[spark cypress]

Its like very slow death process

[unique locust]

This is just what I was talking about in your TG chat a few days ago, that it's great to have dynamic indicators for statuses that are not listed on the HUD

Is the red screen a new feature?

[weary hedge]

100% on stalker steam you know ball my friend props to you

[unique locust]

Yea he's a tester and a youtuber

[bitter plover]

btw, most Anomalies will insta kill you

its horrible, but its great

[spark cypress]

More like taking dmg

[bitter plover]

And lightning from the sky also

[spark cypress]

Hello

[unique locust]

Once you get good enough you don't really get damaged by anomalies tbh

[unique locust]

Wait they also buffed the lightning damage? So now it oneshots you from full health?

[bitter plover]

on master, yeah

[weary hedge]

Big fan of the videos

[unique locust]

lmfao that's fuсking stupid lol, imagine losing an hour of progress from that

[bitter plover]

i dont remmember if exactly full health, but it does higher dmg

[unique locust]

before it was a relatively balanced mechanic because it never oneshot you from full health. you just had to keep your health full at all times during rain to counter it

[tardy rain]

RNG instadeath is kinda hilarious

[bitter plover]

as i said, i dont know if it does full health, but it does higher dmg. Some testers were laughing, that it is more deadly now and that it killed them

[tardy rain]

Would love to hear that meeting

"So how do we increase the difficulty?"
"Hmmm... how about every now and again the player just straight up dies"
"Amazing, ship it"

[proven hollow]

if you ain't good enough to dodge lighting anomolies you shouldn't be playing master 😛

[bitter plover]

i was talking about lighting from storm

[unique locust]

lumen is a lighting anomaly

[vocal wave]

any new items in 1.7?

[sharp gulch]

they basically removed one-shot protection in Master Mode

if you took a huge ammount of damage in a very short burst, it used to almost half it

[unique locust]

i don't remember that ever being a thing. snipers on towers would oneshot you

[bitter plover]

yeah, it couldnt kill you before, could it? bcs it lowered your health to minimal, but didnt kill you

[sharp gulch]

thats a game mechanic, they did like 1000 damage

[tardy rain]

they're different, basically an invisible wall mechanic

[unique locust]

aite

[charred nova]

this is why i was gas lighting you guys about this update

[pure jasper]

heck
90% of my mods shit the bed 😭

[charred nova]

everything in this update is great EXCEPT mastermode

[pure jasper]

whats wrong abt it ?

[bitter plover]

Master mode is goat

[bitter plover]

nothing, only skill issue

some could say, that saving is not good, but imo its needed part of it

[sharp gulch]

Master Mode is absolutly abysmal

[charred nova]

it just amplifies all of the worst parts of stalker 2

[bitter plover]

uhh, what?

[charred nova]

we can not agree but

[sharp gulch]

Just because the save system is so stupid. It should just be 2 save slots, and can only save in hubs. If you come back from exploring you need to walk and in walk out at the border of the hub to make a save when entering the hub, before spending 30 minutes selling and unloading before leaving.

[unique locust]

they should make a new chat where they only allow people who beat faust on their first try on release with 15 fps (like me 😎)

[charred nova]

alone the fact at least according to the patch notes the facts it makes the economy even worse is just 🥶

[bitter plover]

uhh? its still fine even on master?

[spark cypress]

thanks Stalker!
I really appreciate it

[pure jasper]

damn, you had all of that fps ?

[unique locust]

even worse

[bitter plover]

like i left Zallysia and had a lot of money and didnt evne finish everything

[unique locust]

🌚

[dull apex]

I just encountered a Corrundum Monolithian at the edge of Rostok..HOW?!?!?

[charred nova]

with end game gear the cost to repair things more than the amount of money you can realistically get for a given amount of durability

[bitter plover]

and gunplay is awesome on master

[bitter plover]

yeah, repair is brutal and i feel like the degradation of items shouldnt be that big, that i agree

[old forge]

True master mode is great

[charred nova]

like if you got a fully upgraded liberty exo on veteran repairing 20 percent of its durability even with a trader that you have befriended for the best possible price its like 25k

[old forge]

Imo mods can fix save thing if it’s that important

[deft coral]

Worse economy just makes me want to stay away from it

[stone vigil]

Can anyone on PC (Steam) confirm that Better Ballistics is still working fine? I installed it, started a new game in veteran and I can't save at all. Not sure if it's Better Ballistics that is causing it or not

[old forge]

It’s really not that bad

[charred nova]

they just need to increase the durability of some items

[spiral cobalt]

This is genuinely such a good update holy crap it fixes SO MUCH about this game that wasnt great already, master mode is actually terrifying with the limited saves S2 really needed that

[charred nova]

they just break wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy to quickly to justify the outrageous repair costs

[bitter plover]

didnt you turn on master mod or expedition mode?

[bitter plover]

yeah, the degradation should be slower

[stone vigil]

I did. Veteran difficulty with expedition mode turned off. It doesn't save when exiting the game anyways so something else has to be at play

[bitter plover]

hmm. Thats weird

[old forge]

Agreed but it makes game harder instead of using exo at all times u use it on certain occasions

[charred nova]

like most of the criticism of master mode id care less about if you were not so pressed with repairs like idk how it can be that a fricken exo suit can't even making to the end of the final mission on higher difficulties

[old forge]

I like it as a concept

[charred nova]

by the time i got to the scar fight my exo had like 10 percent durability

[slow lantern]

My game keeps crashing right before it hits the shader compilation screen, I did a clean install and it's still happening. Anyone found a fix yet?

[hollow pier]

Yo I haven’t been able to check but is the knife bug still in the game or did they fix it?

It happens when you vault with the knife in your hands like the knife stutters

[dreamy dagger]

Sounds like driver issue

[stone vigil]

Indeed. Not sure what is going on, but since I'm reading from so many testers here that enemies in master are, in fact, not even spongier I guess that I could give master a shot and just use the main menu button to work around the awful expedition save system

[tepid rain]

Hello ! All mods in nexus (1.6) are dead ?

[charred nova]

more or less yes

[tardy rain]

nah just some of em

[tepid rain]

And workshop toO ?

[tardy rain]

they're the same mods

[lunar bay]

does anyone can pick up bodies after 1.7? my prompt for that dissapeared xD

[bitter plover]

like better ballistic is still better imo than vanilla now. I dont think, there should be some bug causing you not be able to save, its weird

[stone vigil]

Yeah I just uninstalled Better Ballistics and started up a new game in master difficulty. My game autosaved like normal

[vocal wave]

any new weapons to try out in 1.7 guys?

[robust pendant]

Check if you still have some mods, just in case. If not, post the log on #❔┃seeking-for-advice or #s2-support

[charred nova]

no

[karmic ice]

Agreed. This is really not fun and say if my game crashes or there's a power cut in my area, I'm going to have to start all over again from the hub (or save scum by quitting the game to menu which honestly is tedious)

[vocal wave]

thanks, I'll skip this one then

[wicked magnet]

Npcs can hunt for artifacts when?

[bitter plover]

hopefully soon

[karmic ice]

Like why does Master difficulty have the expedition mode permanently on? Wouldn't it be better if it was optional?

[unreal gull]

i genuinely hope they change the save system, cuz its actually so dumb 💔

[acoustic orchid]

No new weapons in the patch sadly

[acoustic orchid]

Tweaks might come in 1.7.1 I lost 20 hours of testing master difficulty with the one save file

[idle pumice]

Npcs taking a piss and shitting allowing for a surprise attack when?

[unreal gull]

at LEAST make it optional

[frail rapids]

still no 5.5.4

[vocal wave]

thanks

[karmic ice]

Damn, I feel ya m8

[unreal gull]

exactly bro, you can lose so many hours of progress all for no good reason

its annoying, not engaging

[acoustic orchid]

looking like Feb 2026 onwards but not confirmed delayed from GSC yet so you never know

[vocal wave]

I do like the new UI tough, but I'm not sure I'm mentally ready for master difficulty haha

[frail rapids]

game is still poorly optimized why doesn't the engine upgrade is prioritized over new content?

[acoustic orchid]

Sadly most people do not have the time to lose hours of gameplay

[unreal gull]

the turned off compass is annoying, but its tolerable.. the save system is absolutely not

[idle pumice]

Because an engine upgrade obviously takes longer duh

[acoustic orchid]

The answer is PS5 players, there will be a huge boost to numbers Thursday and I can imagine this chat will go crazy

[frail rapids]

it shoul'dnt take 5 months duh

[bitter plover]

it is, it just takes time

[lunar bay]

tbh, 1.0 was freaking bad, but this 1.7 with some tweaks I did to engine.ini (and ultra.ini), damn, solid fps, no stutters, just goes down in hubs as usual due to 5.1 ue
also, porting a game, from one version of game engine to another takes a lot of time
Between versions, anything can break, ANYTHING.

[acoustic orchid]

To be fair I was expecting early to late 2026 for the engine upgrade a lot goes into it.

[frail rapids]

I trust gsc with my heart, but come on, aniveversary is coming EDIT: Bruh these spelling errors

[bitter plover]

Engine update is absolutely very long process. And even longer, when you have customly changed engine. You cant say, that it shouldnt take 5 months, thats dumb

[idle pumice]

5 months is not super long for an engine upgrade lol

[robust pendant]

"it shouldn't take 5 months" I hope you know how to develop a game this big so you can say this with confidence

[frail rapids]

Who knows when they started, the first news was in June

[robust pendant]

Cause uh, yes, it takes a lot

[bitter plover]

probably even before that, But that doesnt change anything.

[robust pendant]

And they have been pushing content to the game since too, its not their only priority

[dreamy dagger]

Consoles first cuz money man

[idle pumice]

And also we’ve been waiting for some a life shit since the game came out

[frail rapids]

I developed my game on UE 5.0 and it took me few weeks to make it into 5.6.4.
I know Stalker 2 is much more complicated than mine 😄

[dreamy dagger]

Greed Software Company Game World /jk!/

[unreal gull]

the devs use a heavily customized version of UE5, for them to update it they'd need to do a LOTTTT of testing, changes and fixes..

[acoustic orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-clapping-clap-applause-amazing-gif-16078907558888063471

[robust pendant]

Well, there you go

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/the-wire-dukie-gif-26095111

[frail rapids]

But for real, it should be a priority right?

[robust pendant]

It is one of them

[idle pumice]

It is

[dreamy dagger]

Never been

[unreal gull]

its prob a top 2 priority

[robust pendant]

It should've been more than the ps5 port, but well

[idle pumice]

But it’s not gonna be immediate

[vocal wave]

bro artefacts are still spawning below the map

[bitter plover]

it literaly is. Together with DLCs. Thats why updates are slow

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/the-ball-comedy-is-just-itstommylove-stalker-stalker-2-stunned-gif-14607557767138485169

[unique locust]

lmfao

[frail rapids]

In rostok the fps is horrible

[dreamy dagger]

Source? Your ass?

[idle pumice]

And even then an engine upgrade won’t make me come back to the game, i want more content

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-quintero-jesus-quintero-los-socos-de-cemento-risitas-gif-18238996613441764633

[frail rapids]

Fair point.

[dreamy dagger]

Krezzin, is this you?

[charred nova]

if only they knew

[frail rapids]

I miss my encyclopedia 🙁

[bitter plover]

[eternal mountain]

damn i lost around 1 hour of progress with the expedition mode, damn thing didnt save when i got back to the hub and completed a quest and left it again

[proven hollow]

I can assure you Mr Talapia's ass is a reliable source

[frail rapids]

Btw the game runs better on 1.7?

[still edge]

encyclopedia would be an easy W for them to include next patch, its just a bunch of text in your PDA

[eternal mountain]

marginally

[robust pendant]

Theres better cpu utilization from what I understand, so yeah

[frail rapids]

Thats good

[dreamy dagger]

Tlap didnt do enough betatesting

[dreamy dagger]

They will never add it

[charred nova]

time to crack open that wallet boy the 9950x3dx2 is about to drop and your gonna be buying it to get 5 more fps in stalke r2

[eternal mountain]

man i was having so much fun, but losing so much progress cus it apparently didnt save, thats ass

[proven hollow]

been about 10 months since i played and performance has definitely improved a lot, getting 60+fps in Zallasiyah most of the time

[still edge]

much less stutter than before, fps wise , in some areas better fps, overall barely marginally better. Engine update is the key player for performance boost

[dreamy dagger]

Wallah, dis true?

[robust pendant]

I have an i9 laptop already, that horrible economic decision you talk about has already been made

[still edge]

true, they want to delete the game in 1.8 patch, finally the pain is over

[hollow pier]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[digital trail]

did gravity anomalies get an unintended buff? I am triggering them from further away and outside their visual range. and areas i had mapped out in my head for navigating them are now hitting me

[hollow pier]

The damn knife stutter bug is still in the f game 😭

[dreamy dagger]

Time to ask Molit about Encyclopedia again

[still edge]

just jump over it

[eternal mountain]

yeah they do hit from further away, caught me off guard

[charred nova]

but you could have almost 200mb of l3 cache

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-quintero-jesus-quintero-los-socos-de-cemento-risitas-gif-18238996613441764633

[bitter plover]

intel.

[hollow pier]

??? No look at the knife

[bitter plover]

yeah, they have higher hit range

[charred nova]

everyone knows v cache is king

[still edge]

just jump over , press space many times and you will get over it

[robust pendant]

So good

If only the laptop's heat protection could handle it........

[hollow pier]

Ima assume your just trolling 💀

[dreamy dagger]

When was that introduced, wasnt in 1.0

[robust pendant]

Its not that bad tbh. But you cna report it to gsc if you havent

[hollow pier]

It was 1.6

[robust pendant]

Look at the knife

[dreamy dagger]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[still edge]

didnt know knife bugged the jumping animation

[warm stone]

i mean alife this and that, okay but for me: it won't make the game more interesting. Yeah i see 3 dudes going from A to point B sure. First time it MIGHT be interesting. Random encounters would make the game more interersting like having 100 pre defined encounters and the game randomly throws these at you. Like someone who asks you to retrieve a nearby artifact, a person with an interesting story, a scientist hunting for an artifact etc...

[hollow pier]

Or 1.5 I think

[dreamy dagger]

Man this game is dead at this point

[hollow pier]

Nope wait 1.6

[charred nova]

im more so waiting for what every they do next

will be the biggest kahoona yet

[hollow pier]

No the knife is stuttering when you vault with it nothing wrong with the jump

[still edge]

the true alife is the multiplayer pvp mode with full loot access

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/fact-check-false-fact-check-false-keepstock-gif-17821176312366660180

[warm stone]

what does that mean?

[hollow pier]

Reported it twice when 1.6 dropped and even asked Dave and he said he would report it to Molit for me too

[still edge]

that means the true alife is the multipler pvp mode with full loot access

[warm stone]

ok cool story whoever you are

[still edge]

who are you?

[frail rapids]

mmo stalker imagine

[charred nova]

hes just coping

[tepid rain]

Bro, you have need, to unload your mod ?

[hollow pier]

Not in the slightest is it game breaking but the fact that I found that shit 15 seconds into testing 1.6 and reported twice and it’s still not f fixed is crazy lmao

[charred nova]

alreadye exists

its called stalcraft

[tepid rain]

For the 1.7...

[frail rapids]

Official one i mean

[charred nova]

oxide says some still work

[bitter plover]

probably not prioritised or just didnt find cause

[robust pendant]

Intel you mean? Nothing that I care about lol

[cyan sparrow]

Arc?

[charred nova]

no amd

[tepid rain]

i have à loot of mod, bru like 1 weeks for the workshop mods..

[still edge]

it just happens in that ledge? or in every ledge of the game

[hollow pier]

? The cause is vaulting with your knife in your hand. That’s when it happens

[slow crypt]

very nice update aplausos

[robust pendant]

But I got it at a great deal. Its an acer nitro v15, i9-13900h, 16gb ram and a 4060.
It was at like $2300, got it at $1300

[hollow pier]

Every just vaulting with it in hands in general

[cobalt fiber]

Arc is nothing like stalker lmao wym

[charred nova]

most miss matched system of all time lol

[dreamy dagger]

Dave lied?

[robust pendant]

Of course. But hey, I can run everything at 144fps

[frail rapids]

Or Molit forgor?

[tepid rain]

i have a ryzen 5 3600, 3060ti, and with the FSR 3, ultra dsll hight i'm at 80fps

[lusty shadow]

I wonder if, after further optimizations with the engine patch coming next year, we'll also get a graphics patch to make the game's atmosphere darker, just like it was at E3, where parts of the game are excessively "bright".

[hollow pier]

Wouldn’t peg him to do so maybe he truly did tell Molit but regardless it wasn’t fixed 🤷‍♂️

[bitter plover]

thats not cause tho. THats your action, but they have to find, whats the issue about. Is it code? is it something else. and etc

[dreamy dagger]

Molit doesnt forgor.

[charred nova]

it seems like an insanely low stakes fix

[dreamy dagger]

Aint gon trust David then

[charred nova]

hence why it likely was not fixed

[lusty shadow]

Even some of the atmospheric sounds at E3 were more "dark"/"natural."

[bitter plover]

yeah

just not priority

[cyan sparrow]

Hyhy wut happened to my name

[hollow pier]

??? How tf as I supposed to know that bruh I found the issue when I was running and vaulting with the knife and my hands then tested it to see if it happened when I vaulted things, check. And then I asked other guys to test it aswell and they ran into the same issue. It just simply a stuttering looking animation bug with the knife when you vault

[charred nova]

did they ever fix fastforward

[hollow pier]

Asking me like I should know why tf they broke some shit that worked previously????

[charred nova]

this is a minecraft bedrock paradox

[hollow pier]

💀

It’s not even f major it’s minor ash

[charred nova]

one bug is fixed and it unfixes 3 others

[hollow pier]

Lmao stg

[bitter plover]

jesus. Its not something for you, they have to find the issue. The only thing they know is, that it happened in the action you did. But the issue can be engine, animation issue that causes something with engine, or upscaler up to that or anything. They have to find issue in their game engine, that causes this stutter. If they found it, and it waasnt fixed, it just wasnt priority

[charred nova]

[still edge]

@hollow pier wait? so the bug just stutters the knife for 0.5 sec but doesnt lock your char in place or anything? bro thats one of the most inconsequential bugs i ever seen

[reef birch]

Is it out ?!??!

[still edge]

yes

[charred nova]

still should be fixed

but again bigger issues like

[bitter plover]

i didnt ask you tho. I said, that what you said is action, that is when it happened. its not the issue itself tho and they have to find it.

[charred nova]

the lack of working fast forward

its been broken for me since 1.1

[bitter plover]

you mean cutscenes?

[charred nova]

yes

[bitter plover]

yeah, im mad about it also

[candid stirrup]

Boys the game runs somewhat

[charred nova]

most people likely don't even know fast forward was a feature

[candid stirrup]

Not amazingly, but better. This is splendid

[hollow pier]

Ahh I see when you put the is it code? I thought you were asking me like wtf lmao

[bitter plover]

it has some CPU improvements

[bitter plover]

oh i see, sry for bad wording then

[hollow pier]

Lmao I remember when it was in the game then just stopped working 😂

[candid stirrup]

Simply splendid

[proven hollow]

i do seem to be losing health at random intervals all the time in my new game... zero radiation, but my health just gets chunked every few seconds...

[hollow pier]

I used it to test new saves real fast past the cutscenes

[charred nova]

like replying the game is such a slog

because you can't fricken skip any of the stupid cut scenes

[hollow pier]

But then it just disappeared 😭😂

[candid stirrup]

Did they remove it?

[charred nova]

its been broken

[hollow pier]

Nah likely just bugged

[charred nova]

since 1.1

[bitter plover]

yeah, replaying is tiresome bcs of that, mostly that first part.

[candid stirrup]

Oh I see

[charred nova]

it only worked in 1.0

[candid stirrup]

I remember that, I just happened to have not used it since then

[charred nova]

cus you can't

[candid stirrup]

Nah tbh I haven’t even tried to use it since then lol

But I guess it’s busted anyway

[charred nova]

like mf i feel like im playing mario sunshine

with all these damn unskippable cut scenes

[candid stirrup]

lol

[charred nova]

and some of them are just sooooooooooooooooo long it sucks

[candid stirrup]

It’s like Jedi fallen order. You can’t skip them so a replay is absolute torture

[reef birch]

Rip to the Mario creator he died 2 days ago

[charred nova]

bs

charles isn't dead

[candid stirrup]

Looks like he’ll never get his Mario sunshine cutscene patch

[reef birch]

The creator of the Super Mario Manga Series, Kazuki Motoyama, died at the age of 69 earlier this week. This information has been shared through a posting made on the Internet-based networking site Facebook by his sister, Lisa Motoyama.

[charred nova]

oh

[candid stirrup]

Damn really?

[reef birch]

Yup

[candid stirrup]

Rip

[hollow pier]

Hunger now does damage I saw

So if your one of the absolute 0 hud users like me just make sure your eating

[candid stirrup]

You also have a seizure if you chug monsters now

[proven hollow]

yeah, when i reloaded suddenly the hunger icon was there

[charred nova]

they should add depleted uranium bullets that give you a debuff

[hollow pier]

The changes overall look great tho

[charred nova]

but you can't get them

only the enemies can

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitty-feline-meme-funny-gif-8764472215214951735

[candid stirrup]

I’m just surprised the game runs a bit better

[hollow pier]

After every major patch for me tbh it always has

[candid stirrup]

Banger idea

[tacit jay]

Did 1.7 fix the cutscenes skip

[charred nova]

im surprised most people are able to play the game

[candid stirrup]

Yeah, but this one (at least for me) felt especially significant

[charred nova]

no

[tacit jay]

Okay ty

[wind thunder]

I'm being trolleus

[candid stirrup]

Maybe the lack of cutscene skips are part of the lore. Skiff is replaying this in his head over and over while schizophrenically tweaking in a padded room. Like a time loop

[charred nova]

this guy is right they deleted skif in the latest update

[hollow pier]

Definitely though a nice step in the right direction I’m prob still gonna hold off playing it again tho but good to see it’s doing good. 1.5 came out and I put prob like 2 days into the game 😭 shit is bad I know lmao but yeah after now I’m just waiting tbh maybe till like 2.0 to play again didn’t even play 1.6 tbh either then some minor testing

[proven hollow]

i wish the time to kill between NPC's was lower though, was following this Ward patrol out of Zallisyjah, they got into three firefights and all of them took ages to resolve

[cobalt fiber]

Step in the right direction

[charred nova]

they also have the bethesda patented unkillable npcs

[hollow pier]

Games is gonna feel like a completely different thing when I hop back in it again hopefully

[charred nova]

which i hate

[hollow pier]

Unless I fkn die before then 💀

[charred nova]

if you try and storm the ward base for example

some of the guards have unlimited health

[candid stirrup]

Those are just Ukrainians

[hollow pier]

That’s why new Vegas did it best

[candid stirrup]

Yeah they had yes man as a fallback

[hollow pier]

Yeah lmao 😂

[charred nova]

i just wanted to get the drum mag for the hk416

the one on the train never spawned for me on my save

the only other one is in the ward base

but you can't

[hollow pier]

You starting a new master diff run?

[charred nova]

hell no

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-yes-man-gif-10726116415018508643

[hollow pier]

Why not lmao

Shit that’s the only mode ima play going forward

[charred nova]

can't bare to sit through the cut scenes again

[hollow pier]

Ohhh fair

[charred nova]

once they fix fast forward ill play again

and or drop the dlc

[hollow pier]

Lmao I would hope to god by the time the dlc does drop that shit is fixed 😭😂

[mortal marsh]

Hi everyone! I’ve noticed something curious in the latest patch (1.7) while playing on Veteran difficulty. I had already met Max Subota and helped him with a medkit, but later I accidentally found his corpse on the sunflower field near the combines — he wasn’t alone, there were 3 other NPCs nearby.

Is this just how the A-Life system works now with dynamic territory control, or could this be a bug? Has anyone else encountered NPCs dying off-screen like this?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

[charred nova]

this is the mythical a life the people speak about

[mortal marsh]

[charred nova]

you just saw it happen

ITS REAL

THE ONE LIFE

THE ONE LIFE IS REAL

[hollow pier]

F1 race this week yesssirrr

[frigid hill]

galaxydrift3r has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow pier]

Damn bro got Wolf’d

[charred nova]

i checked logs

bro wants a refund

[hollow pier]

Damn

[sharp lake]

yeah my game dosent even work

[drifting bear]

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION?)

[sharp lake]

all my items disappeared from my stash

[hollow pier]

💀

[sharp lake]

im not going to keep playing the game so it happens again

[vernal lily]

I ate all the stash sorry

[sharp lake]

oh well my bad ill be quiet

[charred nova]

some guy mentioned that before

[wind thunder]

I deleted him

[ebon blade]

I thought you got GSC to fix this problem?

[hollow pier]

That is unfortunate I’m ngl

[robust pendant]

Welcome to alife

[charred nova]

that there stash got blanked

even if they fixed it

[charred nova]

they unfortunately can't undo the bug sadly

[vernal lily]

hm

[charred nova]

even if it was fixed it would just mean it wont happen in the future

[wind thunder]

wait until more Romanians get into the zone, all stashes will be empty, duty and freedom will sign a ceasefire because they got all their equipment stolen

[vapid galleon]

get rookie village'd

[sharp lake]

dont worry about it guys. im just mad about 1.7 can im not going to be even play it

[valid crane]

Am I the only one whose game began crashing after the update

[charred nova]

me neither buddy

[hollow pier]

There’s new cards in stashes now too I saw that are pretty cool

[robust pendant]

Using mods?

[vernal lily]

no

[hollow pier]

They give coupons

[wind thunder]

Romania borders Ukraine, so not far from reality

[valid crane]

That's prob why lol

[robust pendant]

Uh, disable them then?

Like, yeah, of course it was going to break lol

[vapid galleon]

🫡

[wind thunder]

I'm telling you, you could be anywhere on earth, say something in Romanian and there will always be someone that understands it

[hollow pier]

Ight but Saftey yall ima head off

[limber kraken]

haha launched the game at 12h00, 1.6 work, launch at 1.7 3 crash in startup menu

[wind thunder]

there's already a few NPCs in S2 with Romanian/Moldavian names

[charred nova]

im just waiting for the new astroneer dlc to drop

extremely hyped for it

[vapid galleon]

Our conversation is short, the rules are simple. If you give up the loot, you live; if you don't... Welcome to the next world...
This part is very clear… you're nothing but a pawn and you'll remain a pawn until you play. The rules are clear: take what they give you, give away what you have to and the difference is yours. The question is how big is the difference.

[robust pendant]

Using mods?

[vapid galleon]

stop sending this, okay buddy?

[wind thunder]

there is no difference because we stole everything

[vernal lily]

why not

[wind thunder]

what are you gonna do? shoot me? with what gun? with what bullets?

[limber kraken]

no one, game from scratch

[wind thunder]

we are one step ahead

[vapid galleon]

theory - %100
practical - %0.01

[robust pendant]

Maybe ask for help in #❔┃seeking-for-advice , post the crash log too. And go to #s2-support too

[charred nova]

this is probably the typical first bugs with every new patch

has a problem on certain hardware configs

or just doesn't work at all on console

[limber kraken]

4 crash, ryzen 5 5600x 3080ti ....

[hardy totem]

He's very sensitive: )

[sharp lake]

they are going to fix it, it just didnt make it into this patch

which is what i was hoping

[wind thunder]

we stole your calculator

[vapid galleon]

theory - %100
practice - %0.01

[wind thunder]

wait until we steal your phone

[vapid galleon]

theory - %100
practice - %0.01

[jagged rapids]

[wind thunder]

broken record ahh dude

[idle pumice]

If they make stalker 3 do you think they will still use unreal?

[vapid galleon]

you are the one who's only broken record 🤣

[vapid galleon]

did you mean Stalker 5?

[weary hedge]

They will use LithTech Firebird

[vapid galleon]

they will use X-Ray Engine

[stoic coral]

Any performance improvements in the 1.7 patch ?

[hardy totem]

I'd guess they'd build on what they build S2 on and add to it

[jagged rapids]

Hopefully, they'll add snork fingers

[idle pumice]

No, stalker 5 already happened

[vocal wave]

Not that I've seen. It still compiles shaders while walking around.
This is cancer of PC gaming

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[charred nova]

the game compiles shaders before you start playing unless you skip it

[hot cypress]

How many updates till we can skip intro?

[gentle citrus]

I hope they do. Never seen that UE works since 3-4 and 5. It has always the worst AA bugs and performance.

[charred nova]

just go back in time

it worked in 1.0

[hot cypress]

[weary hedge]

When is stalker 3 coming out

[weary hedge]

[gentle citrus]

3? 3 Is stone old where is 4?

[cyan sparrow]

Pole dancing nuns in the Rostok bar when

[limber kraken]

memory leak again ...

[charred nova]

[vapid galleon]

[ L E A K E D ]

[dreamy dagger]

This game is GRIM

[serene barn]

Had to delete the game to get the update because of not having enough space lol.

[vapid galleon]

memory eater

[frail rapids]

Guys