☢┃stalker-general

[empty hare]

Holding out hope GSC will push out a bunch of console mod updates when PS5 drops

[urban mortar]

stalkers just love me

[shell flax]

It does not work on console currently

[strong onyx]

Kazz says sometime next week for console.

[empty hare]

Yeah ive got a vanilla save i haven't touched in forever. Pretty sure im in red forest on it

[urban mortar]

It'll be good if Freedom is already green reputation when I get to Rostok, I need my traders and main repairman to give me discounts

[strong onyx]

Honestly I’m ditching my old save and making a new one lol, it’s from 1.5.

[empty hare]

My modded save is from 1.4 iirc

[shell flax]

Oh and Mewtwo, the double drum G36 mag is in game now

[hallow shadow]

I’ve played for like four hours since 1.6 dropped. Never bought it, and it’s not on Gamepass.

[hallow shadow]

I uhhh. I forget why that’s supposed to be significant to me..

[shell flax]

100 round drum that amnesia absolutely slobbered over

Truthfully I’m gonna go hunt down the grom drum

[urban mortar]

I feel like the prices for shit changed too unless I'm tripping and have been stuck playing the og trilogy too much

I just don't remember bullets being this cheap

[dull apex]

I FINALLY encountered the Reticle glare bug

I was going to kill The Shah and my red dots reticle on my Spitfire started acting up. Flashing Purple and stuff. Just got me killed.

[proper hornet]

game won’t even load on xbox

[dull apex]

You might just be cooked Stalker.

[proper hornet]

i think so

[dull apex]

You on Series X or S?

[shell flax]

Delete reserved space on your console then unsubscribe from everything

[proper hornet]

i’ll give it a go

[shrewd kindle]

Is Loners turning hostile whenever you loot a stash near them intentional or a bug?

[valid umbra]

ehat settings and upscaler is everyone usign to make it look so dam crisp

[primal nimbus]

This at the village near the swamp once you leave the Sultansk?

[shrewd kindle]

No it happened to me in the lesser zone, I did the jumping puzzle stash where you have to run through the whirly anomalies

Couple of loners were walking by and as soon as I looted it they lit me up

[shell flax]

There’s a stash in lesser zone where if you loot it the guys near it will cap you yes

[shrewd kindle]

Thing is when I died I ran back and they werent there anymore, looted it without any issue, so I dont think it was scripted

[primal nimbus]

Oh yeah that. Theres also the mf camping that one arty near Zali

[low bison]

i have an abusive relationship with the master difficulty i lost 2 hours of progress

[primal nimbus]

F

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/sisyphus-rock-mp4-transparent-color-gif-11114772717737196968

[low bison]

DEAD ASS IVE BEEN PLAYING FOR LIKE 10 HOURS AND ONLY HAVE LIKE 3 HOURS OF REAL PROGRESS

[cyan sparrow]

True stalker

[bright ether]

As one wise man said in different universe "Dogs? I hate dogs."

Especially those near Zali

[dull apex]

Master Diff do be doing that.

@main jewel I think OXA Core is working again bt dubs

Lemme check, @tardy rain Is it good to go?

I dont wanna sub to it and then...you know..

[burnt bridge]

So are these bugged optics is a gsc thing or a mod thing?

[lost fjord]

1.7 broke my like 3 mods i had installed dude </3

ts pmo icl but idk what i expected LOL

[tardy rain]

it's a mod thing - materials are temperamental and seems they need repackaging in the version of the SDK that matches the version of the game. I'm going to resubmit the current version of OXA Core so the next update will just be a fix rather than add anything new

[lost fjord]

oh alr alr :) that makes sense then, ty

[tardy rain]

OXA Prototype now has the new scopes, I've got about 400 attachment icons to sort out but I'm making progress and they just need a bit of colour correction now.

Once OXA Prototype v2.9 is complete, I'll port the changes to Standard and Core - most likely at the weekend

[lost fjord]

holyyyyyy thats a hell of a lot, respect dude ur awesome :D

[tardy rain]

yea thankfully I can do a lot of it with scripts (cropping, colour correction etc) but the original renders just come down to moving attachments around and clicking render over and over and over again - got that part finished today 🙂

[lost fjord]

god how do you have the patience for that it sounds so tedious 😭 thats amazing'

[urban mortar]

Okay I found a pretty funny bug actually with the new A-Life, I'm gonna call it a bug maybe just in my game but, Eastern Checkpoint in Zalyssia has turned into a bandit battle royale

[lost fjord]

i need to see this

cant wait for my shaders to compile 🔥

[tardy rain]

tbh this stuff all starts out as a fun idea and then I only realise the magnitude of it once I'm too invested to give up

[lost fjord]

sunk cost fallacy kinda thing

[frigid hill]

galaxydrift3r has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[urban mortar]

It might just be my game but I just got out of zalyssia via a new game, and decided to go to Rookie village instead of Garbage, mixing it up a little didn't wanna just do the same little treck the entire game and well, found out the eastern checkpoint's ISPF troops were getting overrun by squads of bandits who didn't stop spawning in

Or well they may not have been spawning in, but they were all coming to Eastern Checkpoint as if their lives depended on it

[turbid knot]

Hey is Stalker 2 worth buying while it's on sale? i see a lot of mixed reviews and not sure about the game

[lost fjord]

oh my lord 😭 thats hilarious

[primal nimbus]

[lost fjord]

its worth it if you can run it, its defo got its issues but its a good game under the rough, and gsc is slowly refining it, so yes i would say its worth it, and you can always requesty a refund if its not your jam

[primal nimbus]

One time, back in 1.5, 5 Mercs nearly wiped the Central Checkpoint

[lost fjord]

"back in nam"

[primal nimbus]

Real

[urban mortar]

Well all the Bandits wiped the guards out of Eastern Checkpoint and now they're no longer in charge cause I wiped them out, the circle of the zone

I've never seen bandits anywhere near Eastern so my guess the A-life update is definitely working

[primal nimbus]

I would’ve just watched the Bandits and see who else would come

Like its some National Geographic shit

[lost fjord]

zone food chain

random vortex anomaly you didnt notice > chimera > every other mutant > the factions > skif > bread

[urban mortar]

I was for a bit then they got bored and started patrolling before shooting at me so I had to make sure they didn't make my repair bill too high

[primal nimbus]

Understandable

[urban mortar]

The one thing worse than getting killed in the zone, getting the 50k repair bill

[primal nimbus]

As a Merc I felt that

[urban mortar]

1.0 exoskeleton repair bills still haunt me-

[vernal lily]

Can't wait for binoculars so I can watch stalkers from a distance trying to fight off a pseudogiant that I brought over.

[wicked magnet]

Did they remove Duty/Freedom squads from lesser zone?

[primal nimbus]

What?

[urban mortar]

Every repair man would make Sidorvich blush with their actions back then

[wicked magnet]

They're spawning in lesser zone before the last patch

[dull apex]

This'll be my first time using OXA Oxide. I'm hoping it'll be extremely clutch for Master Diff runs.

[floral elm]

Its from the misery fans

Review bombing the game

[brazen arch]

sometimes ago i remember mol1t said about they thinking some ways to make chest more rewarding, is it implemented yet or in future patches?

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/opening-chest-loot-box-treasure-treasure-chest-guns-gif-15068081

[vernal lily]

I saw what you did there

[floral elm]

insert doakes gif

[sleek cave]

Anyone know what mods are upto date on console

[dull apex]

I was trying to get a good photo of The CNPP during an Emission while at Slag Heap. I had to use the God Mode mod to make it happen but I fell off the crane and got one singular photo of the Emission.

I sent it too you, what do you think?

[brazen arch]

i dont get it bro

[weary hedge]

Chest

[vernal lily]

You got that pic while falling? That's pretty neat.

[vernal lily]

chest

[dull apex]

No, I had hit the ground already. I was basically in a radiation kill zone.

[vernal lily]

Regardless, looks cool with that fuzzy boarding the image

[main jewel]

WHAT OXA CORE GETTING NEW THINGS???

[lofty creek]

anyone else's artifacts have zero stats?

[urban mortar]

Okay so can we talk about how one of the Ward soldiers in the first cinematics showing the Ward when you plant the scanner has an unknown gun?

HEY WAIT A MINUTE WHO CHANGED MY NAME?

[cyan sparrow]

Hotfix today?

[lapis stone]

Yeah, the bars in their info are empty for me

[clever basin]

I need to contact the creator of Screen Space Shaders! What is the best way to reach him?
Please copy and paste the link for me, as I'm having a hard time navigating the discord.

[old fiber]

Morning stalkers, simple question: has anyone found out, if the level of unvisibility stacks with every tool you use for hide from enemy, like: encounter an enemy at night without NVG + hiding in the gras + sneaking + whatever... ?

[limpid cloak]

came back for 1.6
uninstalled after playing quite a while
1.7 drops

i'll never get away from this game won't i

[dull apex]

No you will not. Just stop Uninstalling it cuz The Zone will ALWAYS call you back.

Learned that the hard way 2 updates ago.

[limpid cloak]

original trilogy scared me to bits but stalker 2 has been my 2024/25 relaxing game somehow lol

[dull apex]

Just wait. Master Diff is ehm...

I'll put it like this... MY save is at 12 hours and I'm just getting to Scar.

[limpid cloak]

hmm i don't particularly want it to be more difficult. just enjoy seeing the world become more alive than it was at launch

[vernal lily]

Crap wait, master diff got no HUD? Damb I'm cooked wasn't ready for this.

[dull apex]

It feels like a Modern SoC now. Feels good while being painful.

I'd actually recommend it Noontider.

[limpid cloak]

will look into it!

[dull apex]

How long is the install for you?

[dull apex]

It has a HUD. Just no Compass.

[limpid cloak]

not long. it's been reinstalled for 1-2 days now. just gonna hop back in after work

[vernal lily]

Messed with that Immersive mode toggle, I guess that was it.

[dull apex]

Thats gonna be a good time. Id say get warmed up in ur old save. Get used to the combat then go get your Master Stalker Certification.

[dull apex]

That would do it. Careful in combat though, Compass aint there to tell you where they are.

[limpid cloak]

i wonder why they went with wider fov in immersive

[vernal lily]

[limpid cloak]

not that i don't like it, just curious about the creative choice

[dull apex]

It's for both. 110 and 110.

[limpid cloak]

hmm defaults were 90 for normal and 105 or 110 for immersive for me iirc

[dull apex]

Also cuz Immersive is usually used for Screenshots I believe.

[limpid cloak]

90 too narrow and 105/110 felt tiny bit too wide for me

[dull apex]

100 or 98 then

[limpid cloak]

yeah i'm at 100

[vernal lily]

It seems useful for me to grab scenes for edits I want to make. Kind of glad it's there.

[dull apex]

I like 110 because its as close as Im gonna get to real human FOV. Which is basically at like...200 wide screen?

[limpid cloak]

for me anything wider than 100 makes things at the center feel uncannily small like mild tunnel vision

[dull apex]

Our eyes see the same way a curved monitor would. Thats my comparison.

[dull apex]

That is....oddly true. I have noticed that.

[limpid cloak]

it's subtle but kind of there and after a while i couldn't unsee lol

[dull apex]

But my counter? Shalashashka The Gauss Gun!

[vernal lily]

Our human vision is at 180 degrees so yeah very close. Although idk if that's how fov is calculated.

[dull apex]

We have 180 FOV? Dude that's PEAK

[vernal lily]

Yeah, although naturally we don't pay attention to our full 180 fov. It's tiring to pay attention to your peripheral vision all the time.

[dull apex]

I hate this rn. Thats the 2nd Burer I've found out in the wild.

[limpid cloak]

burers seem to show up much earlier since 1.6

[dull apex]

Nononono....He was out in the OPEN.

[vernal lily]

You used to see burgers only in basements but now they escaped after the updates

Burers 🥀

[limpid cloak]

yes i meant that too lol

[dull apex]

Scary stuff man. I swear.

[grand light]

same it feels so unnatural, like the eyes were zooming out

playing at such a high fov makes things seem far away even when you shove your face into them

[limpid cloak]

i saw one just out for a stroll in garbage the other day

[dull apex]

He yanked Shalashashka from my hands twice. But luckily some A-Life did its job and spawned Loners nearby..

[dull apex]

That was the first Burer. Out by the Depot in the lil village

[quiet elm]

am i geeking or did mutant sizes get buffed

[limpid cloak]

TIL he has always been there

[grand light]

playing on master difficulty makes stalker 2 very spooky

[quiet elm]

i got jumped by like 6 snorks 💔

[vernal lily]

Just realized my one issue playing on master difficulty, is when my internet snaps randomly. Relying on wifi because I'm on GeForce Now.

[dull apex]

Snorks were always that bad tho. Its usually more painful when its a pack of Blind Dogs.

[grand light]

i used to play everything on geforce now until i got my new pc last year

[dull apex]

And I dont know what them blind dogs are doing but they are reproducing QUICK. Its like back to back to back Blind Dog Packs.

[limpid cloak]

i'm on a 5yo setup that i never imagined would last this long untouched lol

[dull apex]

Nah nah. That Burer is usually in the Depot Basement with like...two or three other Burers. They've been escaping.

[grand light]

the setup i had before was outdated when i basically got it, and i had it for like 8 years

[quiet elm]

god the game runs so much smoother

[limpid cloak]

YES

[vernal lily]

Yeah, I'm using it for the games I can't play. Till i can upgrade my pc.

[grand light]

i wish they released stalker 2 as it is with the 1.7 update rn instead of a year ago

[limpid cloak]

i used to play on high to try to stay above 60 and now it's roughly there on epic with far fewer frame drops and stutters

[grand light]

as now it's actually playable and a better game

[quiet elm]

ik??? its amazing

[grand light]

i still feel like s2 lacks content since the first 2 maps have more side quests then all others combined

[dull apex]

Most people have said that. Honestly? I liked being here for the process.

Watching STALKER 2 take shape gave me an odd sens of pride.

[limpid cloak]

given what they've added over the past year and how happy i was already with the game in early 2025, i'm fine with waiting to see what they'll do

[grand light]

most people want a finished product for 60€ though, and not to be an unpaid tester

[dull apex]

But then again, I am on Console so...I had first dibs on better optimization.

[dull apex]

For others I suppose thats true. I didnt have to pay anything to play it at first so...I guess I got lucky in that regard

[grand light]

the pace at which they've made this game better is fine for sure
but it's below what was promised as a-life was meant to be a thing on release and not one year later, and ig ppl wanted nvg's and stable performance on release as well

[limpid cloak]

i tried this on game pass and was so impressed i ended up buying deluxe lol

[grand light]

and personally i'm most disappointed with the fact that "multiplayer will be added in a free update shortly after release" was sadly a lie as it's been a year too

[limpid cloak]

agreed on that but i came into this with no expectations and got out very happy even before the recent updates. side note that i wasn't very experienced with the og trilogy though

[dull apex]

I only bought the Deluxe Edition because The Wanderer Suit is Striders Scientific Monolith Suit form CoP

[grand light]

i pre ordered the physical edition because i wanted the freedom patch xd

[vernal lily]

Me who pre-ordered ultimate edition on Pc

[dull apex]

I'd absolutely buy that Monolith Patch off you

[grand light]

i'd absolutely sell it too xd

[limpid cloak]

i got deluxe just because i was mad impressed that they made this amidst a literal war, as half-assed some parts were at launch

[grand light]

and the duty one because those guys are miserable in this game

[dull apex]

What's the conversion rate for USD to Pounds?

[vernal lily]

I got a pretty high quality freedom patch for like around $10, looked much better than what GSC had.

[grand light]

well first, the game was set to release april 2022 which is just a month after the war started, so if the war being reason for a delay wasn't a lie (not 100% sure if they said it was the reason though) then they didn't make this game in a war
and also they didn't develop in the war, they relocated to czech republic to finish stalker 2

[grand light]

i paid 0€ for mine because it came with the game which i got for 60€ (same i'd pay digitally)

[limpid cloak]

at least parts of it were affected though and not everyone relocated afaik

[vernal lily]

I personally just didn't like how their patch looked

[limpid cloak]

they never directly attributed the delay to the war i think

[grand light]

uhh,, idk xd
i'm from germany, not the uk

[dull apex]

As far as the Story goes. After their office got destroyed, they found the entire game on a singular flashdrive.

[grand light]

why not? it's 100% accurate to s2's version of the freedom patch on their armours

[limpid cloak]

lol anomaly

[grand light]

which is different from the og trilogy's patch as the background is darker and the ukraine flag and symbol are missing

[quiet elm]

yo does anyone know why the game gets like super pixely everytime i change a setting

[dull apex]

True, their office got caught in an Anomaly.

[grand light]

that's kinda crazy lol

[dull apex]

You on PC or Console?

[quiet elm]

pc

ive had this issue since 1.5 n im not using ultra plus or any graphics mods

[dull apex]

I try to explain that to people but then they just say some bull like "Oh, they've been working on it for 15 plus years, they cant use that as an Excuse."

[limpid cloak]

is ultra plus good for this? i read description ages ago and it looked like it was adding things more than optimizing what was there

[quiet elm]

also why is there like a recent hate train for gamma 😭

[quiet elm]

i havent really kept up with it but when i used it it tends to help alot

[vernal lily]

It just didn't make sense to me those being removed. Because technically anarchists aren't against their own country, they're just against the government. But game is basing after the generic lawless anarchy so I guess I see why it was removed.

[grand light]

it absolutely makes sense for an anarchistic group called "freedom" that illegally tresspasses in their own country, and is at war with their own country's military to not have their country's flag in their faction patch

their ideology is about the zone, they fight for it to be free from their government's control, why would they use the flag of the same government

well not specifically their government but anyone trying to control it

[vernal lily]

You can absolutely be against your own country's military and such, but still proud of your own country's flag and all. But I don't think this conversation can continue any further.

[grand light]

that's true but ig with them being anarchists and all it doesn't really fit

[dull apex]

I would make Monolith a genuine religion in The Zone if I could. Allow Loners to embrace the Monolith on their own. No need for brainwashing, no need for fighting.

[grand light]

embracing the monolith is impossible without being brainwashed

[vernal lily]

I wish I can say more, but at last this server has no political talk rule.

[grand light]

well it's fictional politics of their game and the groups there xd

[vernal lily]

I didn't mean that, but let's talk about something else uh

I'm posting my patch in #📸┃screens_and_videos hopefully it goes there.

Looking to get monolith and/or merc patch next

[dull apex]

I did. You embrace the concept of Unity not only with the Monolith but in the Noosphere after death.

The concept is calming to me.

[grand light]

it's beautiful

[grand light]

like that i guess
but genuinely embracing the monolith is kind of something you don't come back from, unless you're strider after cop where the monolith was basically taken out by strelok

[dense sandal]

When s2 launches on ps5 will they have mod support straight away?

[dull apex]

Thats up to Sony, not GSC

[grand light]

monolith originally were a stalker clan like duty or freedom, but obsessed with the zone so they went north and returned as the fanatics they were since

[dense sandal]

Ah that sucks hope yall get it ^^ mod makes s2 even more fun

[dull apex]

I thought the story was that 40 stalkers pushed north and got Brain Scorched.

[grand light]

that's what they did yeah, idk where the 40 number is from though

[dull apex]

HoC, Korshunov and a couple others mention it I believe. I know I heard it in game somewhere.

Maybe it was the Doctor?

[grand light]

the original monolith started out as a faction before the brain scorching, their ranks just became that much larger as most stalkers in the zone end up going north sooner or later if they don't die or leave the zone

[dull apex]

So if we combine HoC and SoC here. That means the original Monolith was entirely made up of Granite Squad.

[grand light]

what i was talking about is lore from clear sky i think

since monolith is a very new faction at the time of that game

and nearly wiped out too, but the entire clear sky as well as countless other stalkers who go north end up "joining" monolith

and most of those are killed by strelok, idrk where they got the numbers in call of pripyat from

[slim wagon]

open boarders hippie fighters

[dull apex]

To be fair, I dont think that would've been the case. If Granite was there, if No stalkers went north, they would be guarding C-Conciousness in Secret lab to this day.

[grand light]

i also didn't quite get where 100's of monolithians show up from in stalker 2 after so many of them died in the previous 3 games

[dull apex]

Chalk it up to Faust being a controller.

[vernal lily]

cough stalker 2 isn't canon in my book cough

[dull apex]

Then you wouldn't be Canon Faust.

[grand light]

well after sircaa monolith has like 10x the numbers that noontide had

[dull apex]

You would cease to exist.

[dull apex]

Remember the Hospital at the edge of Yaniv?

[grand light]

i like the faust ending a lot though

that the zone finally becomes free

[vernal lily]

technically my name is a different Faust from a play by Goethe

[vernal lily]

same

[dull apex]

Leads straight to Stalker 3.

Hey wait a minute. Scar's beard is white now.

[grand light]

i just don't see how any of the other 3 endings would lead to stalker 3 or whatever game comes after

[tepid rain]

Bro the only problem with the update qstalker is trhe mods, i have 150h and i cant' play with no mods, i just have need to stay here during 1 eek after ther patch mods

[vernal lily]

[dull apex]

They fixed it! Scar looked WAAAAY too young initially.

[stark crescent]

Hello stalkers!

[dull apex]

Good Morning Warden!

[stark crescent]

Happy warden day!

Its the day before release day. I hereby announce it as warden day!

[primal nimbus]

Warden day?

[stark crescent]

Warden day!

What are the events on warden day? Good question!

We fill the day with following the rules! Happy fun times!

[silent valve]

I dont get the idea of said day...

[stark crescent]

What part confuses you, comrade?

[silent valve]

What exactly do you mean with the day before release day? S2 is already online...

[proven hollow]

you're confused, it's 364 days after release

[stark crescent]

Yes. Tomorrow is the anniversary

So its a day before "release" day

The "birthday" of s2

[proven hollow]

ooh the anniversary of release day

[stark crescent]

Ping pong!

[silent valve]

Good lord....

[proven hollow]

yes?

[silent valve]

*slap.exe 😄

[vapid galleon]

⬆️

[proven hollow]

i don't even want to know whose dogshit opinion that is tbh

[stark crescent]

Dude. Stop spamming the chat

[silent valve]

Personally I dont think that we really have to celebrate the first anniversary of S2, but keep your passion dude

[vapid galleon]

spam? I shared an writing I participated in

[proven hollow]

post it somewhere where people care

like steam reviews

[vapid galleon]

this is the only place this should be shared. This is not a review, a opinions about the update

GSC's screwing up, 1.7 is a trash update

[proven hollow]

it literally states in the first sentence it is not a full review but few things from it...

[vapid galleon]

dude, if you don't wanna read, don't read okay?

freak lazy prefer writing some thing instead of reading

[vernal lily]

What's happening

[proven hollow]

don't post your dogshit opinion which doesn't come further than "they implemented something that was already partially in the game" here, like of course the basis for stuff was already there before it was implemented, it's like you're surprised by how game development works

[vernal lily]

I think I will step away for now..

[gloomy citrus]

The hell is happening.

[silent valve]

I havent played since game has updated yesterday so I dont have a valid opinion to this

[gloomy citrus]

Come on, be nice about it.

[proven hollow]

that was the polite version

Just read it, it's literal drivel

[gloomy citrus]

Don't make this any worse.

[strong shore]

Thank you. You saved me.

[vapid galleon]

I didn't do anything, this guy just started attacking me for no reason

[silent valve]

this came maybe from your quote from elsewhere^^

[vapid galleon]

can't I share? why does discord have this feature?

GSC advocates... as always

[silent valve]

Idc about your quote

he was upset

[lucid heart]

i have to say, as someone who love difficult settings expeditions just is downright dumb and doesnt work with this game. i would rather the campfire save setting of anomoly or the bed save setting of fallout

[silent valve]

meow

[vapid galleon]

dude, if you don't care, dont read. Don't say anything about it. There's Stalker chat and this is something I share about people who want to talk about if. Can't you understand that?

[vernal lily]

Bro was just telling you what he thinks why the other guy was hostile towards you. Why are you so mad at Dan.

[silent valve]

calm down man, i meant that i personally dont care, if someone quotes something from somewhere... that other guy was on fire, not me

[proven hollow]

mad cause bad

[vapid galleon]

I'm not mad to Dan

[silent valve]

Ty bro

[vapid galleon]

keep ragebaiting

[vernal lily]

Nice name

[serene barn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1327639061707620383/1373639593353809930/sipping.gif

aw

[floral elm]

thank you, its preferable alternative to stinkypinky

[silent valve]

xD

[karmic ice]

Lmao I just got a compass (Master difficulty) I love this game

[quiet elm]

yo..

did they add new visual effects for emissions

i just looked out n saw what looked like dust n embers in the wind

[silent valve]

anybody knows what the 2 new artifacts are capable to do?

[proven hollow]

There's new artifacts? 😮

[bitter plover]

what a load of bull sheit

[burnt bridge]

Get gud people

[silent valve]

reading various sizes of update 1.7, I got only 23GB...

[bitter plover]

bcs many ppl jumped in from when they lastly played and didnt update the game. So they have different sizes

[urban mortar]

Still am excited to see what's coming, I do want map expansions mostly, and I want to see what new weapons we can get

Give me an a 7.62 AK and my life will be yours GSC

[silent valve]

good point

woohoo, I just got wolf'ed to lvl17^^

[urban mortar]

I'm still confused on who changed my name tho

[hoary escarp]

is there really 2 new artifacts?

[urban mortar]

I was not FireDoge at the start of the day

[hoary escarp]

well u are now

[warm violet]

cool name anyways

[urban mortar]

I mean yeah tru

[hoary escarp]

embrace it

be the firedoge u were always meant to be

[silent valve]

Read somewhere about one called something with updriving waterdrops and another one which is called steam

[hoary escarp]

OH those are new ANOMALIES not artifact, Def easy to confuse though!

[silent valve]

Ah, then I was mistaken, ok

[proven hollow]

yeah, i think those were new graphical effects on anomalies

https://youtu.be/iJdwhpMdpuA?si=f062WIEeUaxlP9Pu&t=43

that part

[hoary escarp]

Well he is right that there are new anomalies in the zone! One is like drops of water floating up and the other is extremely hot steam. I currently havent ran into either in my current playthrough

[proven hollow]

i'll have to wait until i see them as well 😛

[bitter plover]

modderators

[hoary escarp]

Its good to see they are doing the real work out here, bless em every last one of em

[proven hollow]

i'm not actually Charon the illustrious leader of the Monolith i'm Robo but mods keep bullying me 🙁

[silent valve]

What are drops of water causing?

[hoary escarp]

ive been very vigilant lmao cant wait to run into them, little worried that it has to be a new save but i hope not

[hoary escarp]

the drops of water to my understanding are just a visual thing, the steam is boiling so i would assume it hurts lol

[silent valve]

ok

[quiet elm]

im s talkering it

[stark crescent]

But your trash review is writing about how this is not an update. But they did update things. It doesnt care what you call it. They add stuff. Change stuff. Balance stuff. Its an update.

You cant change the definition of an update juat because you dont like it

That is how the woke community tried to suppress the gaming community for so long. By keep saying they dont like it and for some fantastical reason developers listened to it for too long

[gloomy citrus]

Tbh there are two things I need to say about his opinion. First, is it really his? He's forwarding it from somewhere. Second, "I believe there will be a huge amount of users who will just abandon this game for good, along with modding community in general". Thats just not possible lmao.

[worn musk]

Is it only me on pc that cant play stalker 2 it just pops up a crash report

[exotic glacier]

So, my X7 elevator messed up, £@€ked up my entire run. I am allot less annoyed, because jogging is awesome.

[gloomy citrus]

Not sure, might want to report it. #s2-support message

[worn musk]

Ima try verifiering files on steam se if it fixes it

[exotic glacier]

Do you run mods?

[worn musk]

Yea

[vernal lily]

Maybe some of those mods aren't updated, causing the game to crash

[vapid galleon]

1 year after release, still add stuff, change stuff, balance stuff. The only thing they did for the 1st anniversary is ps5 release. GSC isn't enough and too slow. There's so much miss content and and they're still changing stuff, balancing stuff instead of adding new things and content. They just added night vision and marketed it as a major update. They are trying to present us with insufficient simple patches and call them major updates while the game's optimization and A-Life are still insufficient

[vapid galleon]

didn't say it's my opinion. That's why I didn't copy past and I used forward feature

[stark crescent]

If it seems to be a random crash report that ultimately says kernel32. Something about random memory. Thats mod incompatibility.

[dreamy dagger]

Day 364 of wish bantering and 24 hour-ish away from the 1-year Nothingversary. The worst wish is to be able to wish anything but you wish... nothing! What a wish wash!

[stark crescent]

Shared a writing you participated in. Dont say its your opinion but you share it and defend it. So it is also in your opinion

[dreamy dagger]

What is it you'd wish if you were able to wish anything, good fellas?

[stark crescent]

I wish for the AI bubble to burst

Let the world burn

[vapid galleon]

yes, it's my opinion, I used wrong concept. It's my opinion but it doesn't belong to me. @gloomy citrus said it as if I stole it

[dreamy dagger]

I wish I could do rallying in the Zone with Marshalls being Burers throwing rocks at me so I have to avoid 3 types of challenges, sudden emission, bad weather conditions and ENEMIES ON THE STAGE!

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-agree-omg-tremors-reba-gif-22330161

[dreamy dagger]

@bitter plover comment on dis

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-serious-saturday-night-live-time-to-be-serious-laughing-cant-laugh-gif-23378750

[vapid galleon]

@stark crescent did you get your answer? Because I felt like you were trying to avoid this...

[bitter plover]

[dreamy dagger]

You dont want to Lancia Integrale through Pripyat?

[gloomy citrus]

Well alright.

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/fine-neil-degrasse-tyson-big-think-no-problem-sure-gif-17030260

[bitter plover]

then go play something else this was great update and added a lot and moved the game to the right place. If you think its bad or not enough, its your own fault for your expectation git gud

[bitter plover]

nah, monolithians would shoot at that beaty. Btw, i would rather Lancia 037

[vapid galleon]

as always, the ultimate point eliminate the fans. "Play another game then"

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/837355769946046546/960685663504695317/1649115570183.gif

[bitter plover]

yes. Bcs you are not giving objective criticism, you are saiyng, that great update is mid update or not update at all. You are hater or brutaly burned out, so its better for you to go somewhere else

or give yourself pause and get back after some time

[vapid galleon]

the last words of an eliminated person; "take a break", "don't play"

I always like to see them in game communities.

[bitter plover]

Man. Thats just life. If you are burned out from something, that you are becoming toxic, you should give yourself pause for your own mind health and inner good. That applies to games but also everything else.

[vapid galleon]

toxic people call toxic others...

defending a company for nothing, although the game is mostly failed

[urban mortar]

The thing is you're pointing out a fully negative review for a game that's pretty consistently getting updates and calling it a dead game, there's still about 6-10k people playing HoC for example and plenty to enjoy and have fun with, but if you're getting burnt out try coming back after a while and see what's changed, a month or two, I mean I took a 6 month break between one of my play throughs just to keep it interesting and to come back to a completely different game and experience, I get you want more and you demand more now, you want expansions, massive game shattering impacts and 100 GB updates consistently, but remember GSC isn't a triple A or quadruple A gaming studio, they're a normal gaming studio and we don't know what's going on behind the scenes and probably never will till it's teased or shown and given to us, it's not that your opinion is invalid but there's a need for temperance with it and with an overly positive view of the game, is Stalker 2 perfect? No, but was this update pretty fun from me coming back after a month or two? Honestly yes, it's a different game again and I enjoy it, there's more life in the game now than there was at launch even and that's a success for all the major setbacks from before the game launched

[proven hollow]

mad cause bad tbh

[bitter plover]

sure im not the one spitting hatred around, bcs i dont like something. Im just giving you advice, to give yourself break, bcs you evidently need it

[dreamy dagger]

@bitter plover Call me CRAZZY but my idea is PEAK!

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

[vapid galleon]

when we take a break to play and come back to the game, we see that it is still the same, that's the sad point. There's a difference between a game being fun and not getting enough updates. I like Stalker 2 and played 150 hours, and I had a lot of fun with it all the time. It doesn't mean I won't criticize the game. It doesn't mean the updates enough

[gloomy citrus]

I believe you're doing the same thing. What exactly do you gain from defending your own opinion? As others mentioned, the game is still being consistently updated and fixed.

[vapid galleon]

more than just staunchly defending a game company

[cyan sparrow]

Forwarded opinion summarized by gepete: #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[dreamy dagger]

Man no shit, do we have Death Rally - the OG STALKER rallying mod - or something similar to S2? @bitter plover

If we do I'll go against my word and update STALKER 2

[spring gust]

I like hearing that familiar metallic clunk of a grenade landing near me, and thinking - there is no way they threaded the needle between that gap in the fence.

Spoiler alert: ||they threaded the needle...||

[gloomy citrus]

Are we? I think people are just trying to straighten your opinion.

[urban mortar]

I've played probably 300 or more hours, trust me we've sunk a lot into it, and I can assure you, when I've taken good chunks of the year breaks from it, I've come back to a different experience almost every time, sure the NVG update wasn't the most impressive but it did show they're adding new things small or big, there's even a new gun and hopes for more and ofc we got an engine update coming up along with whatever 1.8 can bring us, then more, at least the game is alive and getting updates however small, yes 1.8 will probably be not worthwhile, I'll say that now, most of the update list they released for this quarter is already done so unless they surprise us with more it probably will just be binoculars and more A life updates which the Alife updates are always important and essential since that's the biggest thing people gripe and want to have more of

[proven hollow]

damn, easy arguing when you counter every argument with "you're just defending a company"

[spring gust]

What are we arguing about - I want in!

[cyan sparrow]

Stalker 2 is a great game, and personally i think devs doing all the best they can within resources! They had vision, and been delivered with phenomenal atmosphere!

[vernal lily]

dafuq did I come back to

[proven hollow]

snorks

[vapid galleon]

we'll see...

[spring gust]

Snorks are like people in the fandom who don't like Stalker 2.

[gloomy zodiac]

True dat. Every patch hypes me up and makes me redownload the game, but I never really play for long even tho the additions are cool.
I think GSC should really consider making an Anomaly-like Free Start mode where you just choose a faction and a set of equipment and go for a new save and enjoy the new content without having to go through the intro and Lower Zone or going back to your old finished save.

I think this is a game mode that would've served GSC even more if they had it first on game's release so each new patch and features would keep the players active.

[gloomy citrus]

Just someone being pessimistic about the game.

[urban mortar]

That's all we need, to see, the zone works in mysterious ways and we'll have to see what it has in store for us, but for now we can only wait and see

[spring gust]

It must be a day ending in "y".

I've made an important decision. I'm going to play both my saves in parallel. Becuse tbh I took such a radically different path with each of them, its very interesting.

[bitter plover]

Stalker Rally when

[proven hollow]

for me it's the opposite, I hope they quickly get new stories done and the zonekit to a point where people can create their own storymods, it's those free start mods that burn me out in like one or two days because there's just no goal in them beside the self made ones, i just don't have the time for that anymore these days

[spring gust]

In one of them, the Monolith has awoken and is currently making navigating the zone a risky endeavour, especially in immersive mode where by the time I ID them, they are firing at me.

The otherone I've literally explored the central zone areas like, broken. Every stash, rock, nook and cranny has been searched. In a way I'm better geared than in my other game.

[bitter plover]

its completely useles to make sandbox mod, when the alife isnt at its 100% strenght

[bitter plover]

yeah, same. Its fun for some time, but it get boring quickly without any quests, that would guide you further and motivate you to progress

[proven hollow]

I think story mods are also where the real meat is for the stalker series, sure, there's a thousand and one flavors of freeplay all tracing back to Call of Chernobyl, but that's cause the people that enjoy free play mods come in a lot of different tastes, but when you look at Lost Alpha, Priboi Story or even OGSE or Radiophobia who just expand on the existing story, those are some of the best mods out there imo

[urban mortar]

I've been so tempted to try Lost Alpha, ngl there is a story mode in Anomaly and I'm playing that rn cause it's more fun than I thought it would be

But I can see the flare and flavor in a free roam mode for HoC, I think the biggest thing for that rn though, is getting the modding scene to a good spot, if update 1.8 was just binoculars and a way to mod the game easier, I'd be happy cause then we'd see the modders go to work, and then we wouldn't even need GSC to make a free roam mode, mods will handle it and it'd be redundant for GSC to do it and that's probably the plan anyways is for modders to mod in a free roam

[proven hollow]

yeah, but again that storyline is just created from the expansion of DoctorX's storyline

[proven hollow]

if there was actual faction mechanics I'd maybe be interested in it, but currently it seems like wasted effort to me

[still edge]

that game has to be a stable state, it wouldnt help the modding scene to release the sdk fully and then GSC to drop a patch that broke every mod.
The base of the game is still changing, npc behaviors,weapon systems, stamina system, loot. Its still changing because GSC is trying to meet the expectations. So the modding tools needs to wait

[proven hollow]

and engine switch would definitely need to happen first too

[urban mortar]

True, but again if it was easier to mod the game, it'd be easier to update the mods with it, rn from what I've heard and been told from peeps, it's not easy to mod and the kit to do so isn't the easiest thing to even have on a PC to begin with, but that's all stuff to hope for with the next update todo list GSC releases

[urban mortar]

That's a big question as to when that'll happen

[proven hollow]

i think Q1 or Q2 2026

[stark crescent]

Im at work so sorry if i cant answer straight away. You are basically repeating what we say every. Other. Day.

[urban mortar]

Can't wait for that to really break the game for a week or two and then everything be fixed

[stark crescent]

Yes we know. Game released unfinished. And it had reasons. Are they slow? Sure.

Why are there still no binoculars? Why is alife such a mess. Where the hell is the dlc!

Its simply the new truth. Developers took over a business model of releasing games half finished.

[still edge]

modding has to come when the base game mechanics are final and GSC decides it doesnt need any fundamental change, GSC is still editing base mechanics. For example if GSC decides to add a new feature to guns, lets say alternative aiming, canned aim. To every gun, its very likely it will break every weapon mod. Same goes to everything else, GSC changes alife again (still needs lots of alife features) every alife mod and npc related mod can break , or every mod in general.
Even if they make modding easier, you would have modders and gsc both modifying the game at the same time , GSC would break mods, modders would complain, GSC maybe decides to stop updating the game in fear of not breaking the modding community. See the problem?

[proven hollow]

this started when they didn't have to release on physical disks anymore with far more effort needed to update them 😛

binoculars are on the roadmap for Q3-Q4 2025 though...

but so is the engine update...

[vapid galleon]

finally whe answer waiting for

[urban mortar]

I kinda hope with binoculars they bring in variable zooms for scopes and such with it that way we can go and really zoom in and out on scopes, but also give more for 1.8 cause RN they really don't have a lot to do for 1.8 looking at that roadmap

[still edge]

engine update will be BIG, that will facilitate bigger render bubble which will allow binoculars.

[stark crescent]

YOU LITERALLY GET THIS ANSWER OUT OF Everyone HERE EVERY OTHER DAY

[still edge]

and also fix performance

[stark crescent]

But after months of complaining, we already know it

[still edge]

same with baldur gates 3 right? game of the year and early access program. How that goes ?

[vapid galleon]

SOME PEOPLE STILL DON'T ACCEPT THIS

[proven hollow]

I have 0 knowledge about how the new version of the engine could make such a difference tbh

[stark crescent]

And its not your job to try to convince them. You watch them get disappointed and laugh in their face. Cause thats. Freaking. Life.

[still edge]

ive done research about it found many success cases of other games going from 5.1 to 5.5 and performance went up by 30% up to 50%

[urban mortar]

Engine update will break the game for a week then be fixed too, I'm hoping for either that first so we can rip the band-aid off with it or get 1.8 first so we can get Q1 roadmap going so something can be with a patch afterwards to mend the emotions of peeps

[proven hollow]

damn

[stark crescent]

How do you teach a kid that a hot plate is hot and painful to touch? Just let the freaking kid touch it. Thats not bad parenting. That great parenting. You are teaching your kid an important life lesson.

[vapid galleon]

you said well

[still edge]

thats the case for every game thats live updated and has big map and a complex ai system. Its bound to have hiccups, but its better than nothing

[still edge]

we found the sociopath, right here officer

he is the one

[urban mortar]

Oh yeah but I'm just saying, it's like every game that does an engine update will horrendously break no matter how much they prep and make it work beforehand, I'm only worried about what the community will say if the patch afterwards adds nothing new really and makes peeps think they're not cared for etc.

[gloomy zodiac]

Yeah I guess you're right their priority is to make a solidly featured base game/engine first.

It's just kinda frustrated that every new patch are a great steps forward but never changing the game THAT much to convince me to re-download 150Go, start a new save and speedrun the long-ass intro and see all over again the same landscape in the same order, or reload an old dusty save that I already sucked out all the lore and story juice from just to see what it does if I drink 3 Energy Drinks (I'm dramatizing, I know )

At least having an intro skip would be cool but I guess I just need to stop coming back to this game so often and wait for new things to accumulate more

[stark crescent]

The reason you need to redownload the game every time because gsc doesnt know how to update files inside paks individually, so they just force update the entire pak.

[proven hollow]

if you're expecting some full transformation of the entire game, that's not going to happen though

[urban mortar]

3 to 6 month break, highly recommend sometimes, if you're still playing now and feel bored, I'd say do a rerun of the originals and maybe some modded plays of them and others like Anomaly or Gamma if ya want a good challenge and go from there

[timber anchor]

@waxen marten can you answer my question please?

[urban mortar]

Damn you can tag Molt that's wild

[still edge]

engine update its not as messy as some may think, videogame engines that are commercially succesful as Unreal and also in programming culture, they dont make an update that will break everything, they take in consideration alot of money and businesses depends on the stability of the engine. I wouldnt call it disastrous until i see it, also there are many game if not all games who updated from 5.1 to 5.5 without any major break up

[urban mortar]

That's a relief to hear at least, so there's hope I won't see Sidorovich walking into the sun to cause a solar eclipse at least

[stark crescent]

Yea, but he doesnt like it. Mods also tell ya usually to piss off when doing it

[proven hollow]

you get away with pinging mol1t when the 1984-tier mods aren't online 😛

[timber anchor]

Guys you like my new pfp?

[stark crescent]

No

[urban mortar]

Yeah I bet

[still edge]

haha it wouldnt go that far, it will have some hiccups im sure, but the game will not crash and burn. I feel like updating the game is much more likely to break the game than updating the engine. The people who made the unreal update (Epic programmers) knows what button to press without breaking everything up

[timber anchor]

😂

[urban mortar]

I've just seen a few game engine updates that brick everything on other games and make the devs have to go full nuclear to fix and it turns out to be a tiny miscalculated error they forgot to carry over etc. but yeah still good to hear 5.5 being more stable for unreal engine at least

[still edge]

which game? i want to research about it

i became a Veteran

[proven hollow]

i just hope they can actually stick to their roadmap and get it done before 2026

[still edge]

they are somewhat in line with the roadmap , unlike 99% of developers who made roadmap and completely forget about it

[proven hollow]

yeah i was just taking a look at it and honestly they've stayed quite on point with it so far

[urban mortar]

Iirc Arma 3 had a few issues with its engine updating, HLL I think had a few bugs that broke it but I forget if that was engine updates cause I think they did more while doing the engine update that broke everything, I know Bethesda broke multiple of their games when they kept messing with their engines, and I think there was like one or two more I saw I forget, but they always got fixed within like a week or two so it wasn't like they killed the game completely

[still edge]

yea, but arma 3 has a own propietary engine, and also bethesda, and bethesda is mess haha so they dont count , they would break the game just by connecting a floppy disk into a random pc of the office.

[median nymph]

is it just me or am I getting lasered through walls?

[urban mortar]

Man you right tho

[vapid galleon]

Bethesda mentioned...

[still edge]

i have my hopes but you are right to be suscipious about the engine update, maybe 1 week of some glitches and bugs here and then, if lucky maybe not too many bugs. but performance will go up most likely by alot

[vapid galleon]

will absolutely increase

we'll see some bugs, then fixes. And everything will better then UE5

[still edge]

a lot of multirendering mambo jambo and also cpu optimization stuff with the new ue5 updates.

[stark crescent]

Nope. You do receive damage through walls sometimes. New bug.

[charred nova]

The lead on v cache equipped Ryzen cpus will be made even bigger

[vapid galleon]

[cyan mulch]

How do you guys like the new update?

[median nymph]

a poltergeist was throwing things through walls at me, same with people shooting. master difficulty is gonna suck until this is fixed

[vapid galleon]

read above

[stark crescent]

Hate it. I had to lower texture quality from epic to high cause it tanked my fps for whatever reason

[charred nova]

Mfs be saying intel better in a world where they be losing by up to 30 percent in some games

[cyan mulch]

Intel fanboy here, intel cpus are not that great anymore

[charred nova]

The phrase to describe this mind set is unfortunately banned here

[cyan mulch]

But ill never touch a AMD Gcard

[proven hollow]

They're aware of it: #📜┃gsc-answers message

[charred nova]

Yah I said that too till I got one

Its pretty epic

[ebon belfry]

paying significantly more and using significantly more power for the pleasure of using DLSS is definitely a choice

[charred nova]

9070 xt is 600 dollars

Just saying

[frigid hill]

vanrick has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vapid galleon]

get wolf'd

[cyan mulch]

Thats not the point AMD does not make high end anymore

[still edge]

only reason is because Nvidia took the advantage with the AI bullsh#t of dlss and ai generated frames aka fake fps

[charred nova]

For now

[ebon belfry]

paying 1500 for a gpu is not high end, its insane, but you do you

[charred nova]

If amd came out with a mega Radeon

I’d buy it

[still edge]

also 5000 serie was an downgrade for many people , in some games you get better performance with older GPUs LOL

[cyan mulch]

When you got money to throw around its not a problem

[charred nova]

The 9070 xt is some what disappointing because it seems to have a hardware performance speed limit built in

It will not clock beyond 3.4ghz no matter what

[ebon belfry]

upscaling has obliterated high end, now you have mid range cards that turn into high end cards when using upscaling, or you have a 1500 gpu that lets you down and you still have to use upscaling, it is what it is

[charred nova]

Even if you crank the power limit to 1000 watts with a fully unlocked voltage

It won’t budge

[ebon belfry]

thats fair

[median nymph]

thank god because this is actually unplayable

[cyan mulch]

I plated ghost of yotei yesterday now i am sad.

[charred nova]

Like I’m still waiting for the true mega Radeon the likes we haven’t seen since 2012

[vapid galleon]

Dlss 4.5, Ultra Dlss, Ultra performance

get 400fps in Cyberpunk!

[ebon belfry]

it has become obvious NVIDIA is using their GPU processes and market to simply flaunt their technology around, its a marketing scheme, not a fair user product, anyone who thinks these GPUs are aimed towards regular users is clueless and probably should not be flaunting their opinions on this matter

[charred nova]

Not to mention the driver bugs

Some guy with a 5080 came here reporting they get 40ms of frame lag in stalker 2

With out frame gen

I get 4ms

[still edge]

damn i got 3060ti i ran in framegen + DLSS + 80fps constant at 8ms

[charred nova]

Radeon seems to have beat the broken driver allegations

[still edge]

i much rather buy an old gpu at a cheap price to play in 1080p than deal with high end gpus bulsh#t

[gloomy zodiac]

I don't see where I said I wanted a full transformation of the game

Right now if you buy the game you can enjoy the story, maybe multiple time, but then the main thing that makes you come back to take a look at it are new features with update, which would be way more enjoyable and simpler to enjoy if we could break the repetitiveness and linear progression, Story mode obliges to progress specifics way, through the same variations of scenarios, through the same activities to unlock the same bridges to be allow to go to the same places or variations etc...

A free mode with just simple side quests and random events where you choose where to start from depending on the faction isn't a transformation, especially with this game that already handle world and player progression very well and it would be more appealing to try out new features in different contexts or places on the map.

Or at least having a "Skip intro" choice

[charred nova]

Buy the Radeon brother it’s calling your name

[still edge]

i hope AMD gets to have a good generation of GPU in the future, AMD seems much more honest than nvidia

[charred nova]

Bro the 9070 xt is 600 at Newegg right now

[still edge]

maybe when i need an update someday i will very happy with my ryzen

[charred nova]

What you waiting for

[dusty girder]

None of them are good, nvidia just doesn't pretend to care about you

[still edge]

but its enough for me the 3060ti so far, its not getting old yet

[spare canopy]

That's shocking.

How far nVidia have fallen.

[proven hollow]

why care for 10% of your income share in consumer videocards when you can earn literal billions from equipping data centers for AI?

[vapid galleon]

Delusional SS - DLSS

[gloomy zodiac]

Yep, hard to not press the download button tho, really wanna try hardcore mode

[strong onyx]

aimbotting npcs are still an issue...

[vapid galleon]

did you mean "aimbotting + walbang npcs are still an issue..."?

[strong onyx]

i dunno i just woke up, me tired no undestando

[timber anchor]

Guys you think the price of stalker 2 is gonna be different than the pre order one tomorrow when it comes out?

On console

[spare canopy]

It's stupid and should have been fixed, yonks ago

[strong onyx]

theres no mod to fix this, either.

[vapid galleon]

NPCs have also wallbang feature

[charred nova]

You must be new here

[proven hollow]

i feel at this point any NPC aiming at you when shooting is called aimbotting these days...

[spare canopy]

Yup. It's frustrating alright.

[charred nova]

Need I remind you

[strong onyx]

there was one but its four months out of date now.

[charred nova]

Fast forward has been broken for an entire year

[ebon belfry]

true but that 10%(its probably even less than 10%) accounts for a lot of your marketing, its what made them, also gpu reveals are great for announcing and marketing your new technologies as well as showcasing them, dont take the numbers at face value. Also, all those GPUs are used to train their AI, might as well mask a few of them as user facing GPUs even tho they really aren't, they are still profitable

[timber anchor]

?????????

[proven hollow]

probably not, but might be a sale during black friday, who knows

[ebon belfry]

the GPUs are just crammed full of AI tech so they can train their models on them, hence why the 5000 series were such a letdown, they were technically never gaming GPUs to begin with

[charred nova]

Well no they design the product stack so the only objective upgrade is the 90 class card

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-greetings-alec-guinness-obi-wan-hello-gif-4813375

[limpid cloak]

isn't it better now? i've played a bit since 1.6/1.7 but haven't been into the tougher fights or areas

[vapid galleon]

Legend of the Zone

[weary hedge]

[vapid galleon]

[spare canopy]

Not played 1.7 yet, got no interest in it.

It's a nothing update

[limpid cloak]

1.7 running considerably better already makes it not nothing imo

even if that's pretty late for many of us

[unique locust]

the hater cope is unreal

dudes like you went from "the game is a scam they will abandon it and run away with their cash" on release to "erm this update actually didn't introduce anything whatsoever" now

[dreamy dagger]

Damn more Krezzins get to spawn @bitter plover

[still edge]

its amazing how polarized the opinion of people is, either the game is amazing or the game is pure cancer and a tragedy for human civilization

[bitter plover]

Best update they ever did

"Its a nothing update"

[unique locust]

it's not a 1:1 copy of gamma so unfortunately it's a plague on this earth 😔

[bitter plover]

[unique locust]

alife in the OG trilogy was so good the NPCs would come out of the screen and fuсk my wife. S2 doesn't have this unfortunately....

[spare canopy]

Performance was never an issue for me.

The world is bland, in the sense of there is very little to do in place like Rostok... The bars bland, can't play cards with other stalkers, etc etc.

The shops are garbage, a million Hercules on the shelves and none for sale.

Enemies still spawning in front of you.

Aim bot NPC's

Complete lack of side quests.

Minimalistic quest givers, like 1 a month.

An insane economy.

Food everywhere, when moat food at side of camps should be rotten.

Stupid sleep option, where you can't even set an alarm, the go buy breakfast at the bar.

Progression locked ballistics...

Nah, there is so much wrong with this game, and performance, for me, isn't one of them.

[bitter plover]

classic hyperbolic opinion

[unique locust]

progression locked ballistics
see this is why GSC can never win. one side moans about how the game is totally not like the originals while the other side complains about a mechanic from the originals

[bitter plover]

Proggression is basicaly copied from SoC and many ppl cry, that its not like SoC

tbf, i hate it

[spare canopy]

Why is it hyperbolic?

[unique locust]

Minimalistic quest givers, like 1 a month.
the quest at a specific quest giver resets after a day or two. if you are desperate you can sleep 4 times exactly to get a quest. not being able to sleep however much you want is silly, sure but not the end of the world lol

An insane economy.
you're shіt at the game i'm afraid

[spare canopy]

And?

Didn't like it then, don't like it now.

I was lucky I could stick with 5000k and complete the game.

[unique locust]

i do agree about the side quests tho

[still edge]

i think he just wants to outlash on to something, not to get to personal here, but he seems to attack something out of frustration for something not related to the game.

[spare canopy]

Shut up you muppet, you have no idea about how good I am, or not at the game.

More over that waffle, my finances are fine got 300k +

Still doesn't mean the economy isn't a joke and doesn't make sense 🤣

[unique locust]

you puppet
lel

[limpid cloak]

all entirely fair complaints but i bizarrely find S2 to be very relaxing to play

[still edge]

"economy too hard , this is not stalker"
GSC make economy easy
"Economy too easy, feels like a skyrim game with ukranian theme"
Some people can never be satisfied

[limpid cloak]

which granted isn't most people look for in a sci-fi survival horror thingy

[vapid galleon]

don't feed a troll and emoji spammer

[spare canopy]

Yeah, autocorrect on a mobile... Shit like your argument.

[unique locust]

keep seething lil bro

[proven hollow]

TIL lighting strikes are still a thing in master difficulty and do about 50% hp damage

[robust pendant]

Did someone say GAMMA?????

[spare canopy]

I'm not seething...

I'm laughing at you 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[still edge]

stalker always had moments of strange relaxation. I had a friend who would smoke a pot while traveling around the game.

[unique locust]

shouldn't they do more? a few testers have noted they do more

[proven hollow]

did about 50% for me and i only have that first armor after the leather jacket

[unique locust]

nothing says laughing like spending half an hour making silly observations in an infuriated tone lol

[vapid galleon]

delisional

[robust pendant]

Just like GAMMA!

[still edge]

cant imagine the feeling of being in a thunderstorm with low hp and knowing you are one lighting strike to lose 2 hours of progress

[proven hollow]

let deathguard fantasize about his little card games in stalker in peace you bullies

[limpid cloak]

i can see that, but imo S2 messed up the flow of the horror elements hard enough that it ended up not scaring me. the og trilogy i just gave up on because wuss

[vapid galleon]

delicious

[robust pendant]

Ew, no

[still edge]

what you mean?

[bitter plover]

bcs it is.

What you want to do in Rostok or any other city? YOu can do in Rostok exactly what in any other open world game. Thats not objective statement.
Only thing true is, that the open world isnt what it could be due to sitll not fully Alife and lack of side quests, taht were cut. ALl fo it can be fixed in future.

Shops are garbage,. bcs there are things you cant buy? Bro? have you ever play games? Its like like in 99% of them.

Enemies do still spawn like that, but its not often, its almost rare. Its still need some tweaks to spawner.

Aimbots are not true. This was fixed in this patch. And its much better as most of tester, including me, said this.

Lack of side quests agree. (finnaly somethign truly objective)

IDk what you mean by minimalistic quest givers.

Insane economy (insane is exact example of hyperbole )

Food everywhere? What is problem with that? play Master, you will be glad, that you can find enough food.

Sleep is broken on itself. There is no need to choose how long you sleep yet.

balistiscs is also my problem. But its good progression system,. its just bad gameplay one, bcs its confusing for most players.

Most of what you said are your subjective opinons, in which instead of you saing, this could be better, this needs fix you say something in words, that would mean like "this is shit or horrible or awful or this game is dead"

[unique locust]

did you find fear 1 scary too

[bitter plover]

thats example of hyperobolic opinon

[still edge]

too long to read

[spare canopy]

I like quiet before the storm, and the slow building of tension.

S2 just spams to much, mistakes of the time, the zone is busier that London Heathrow...

To me that's jarring....

[proven hollow]

you spend too much time arguing with people who shouldn't even be entitled to an opinion to begin with 😛

[limpid cloak]

little things like throwing a bloodsucker into the tutorial or unceremoniously walking into first snorks fighting blind dogs. SoC used to have a bit of handcrafted buildup before a new enemy is introduced and S2 has nothing to replace that for me (on top of already knowing the enemies beforehand)

[bitter plover]

clown behaviour of weak person

[limpid cloak]

yes but not to an unmanageable degree since it was very action-y

[vapid galleon]

we got the real hyperbolic opinion

[limpid cloak]

ironically in fear 1 if i was scared it meant i was safe since no combat during ghost encounters

[bitter plover]

true

[still edge]

oh yes, that is kinda off putting true, the tutorial is kinda weird in that sense, not lore breaking because Skif jumps the barrier in a very sketchy and secluded area of the map , where a bloodsucker and a poltergeist would hide. But gameplay wise would be better to hide them for later

[bitter plover]

if you think what i said is hyperbole, that you dont know definiton of that word

git gud

[robust pendant]

Ñ

[unique locust]

PoIs sometimes don't feature any NPCs
"wow dead game fake alife not real scam"
offline alife makes sure NPCs fight over lairs
"the zone is busier that London Heathrow.."

[vapid galleon]

hyber bobo defender

[limpid cloak]

and the enemies that got actual buildup or any presentational flair in S2 were already not scary in the first place - like chimera or pseudogiant. if anything these 2 were just largely annoying

[vapid galleon]

hyperbobolic defender

[bitter plover]

im just person that gives constructive feedback, instead of butthurt crying. Thats why i am tester and you guys are not

[unique locust]

actually how did you get tester

are you a modder or do you have QA experience in the field or

[robust pendant]

No need to be a modder to be a tester

Afaik its mostly doing repetitive tast, doing everything in every place with every time in any quest
And then give feedback about it

[still edge]

i think , in the future, stalker has still room for surprise but unlike in older game, it cannot be just reusing the monsters , but the surprise factor can come from sound system, difficulty , and mutant variation, maybe evolution of the already known mutants.

[vapid galleon]

that was good

[bitter plover]

neither, i was just recommended

[spare canopy]

About as constructive and useful as a chocolate tea pot 🤣

[unique locust]

✍️

[bitter plover]

boohoo

[unique locust]

are you a brit? just curious

[still edge]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[robust pendant]

A bri'ish?

In my argentinian chat?

[feral gust]

I find old games as messy as s2, hot mess, janky and I still love it somehow....only difference it maps are bigger now so we need more side quests to fill them...just my opinion

[spare canopy]

S2 has oodles of potential, I just don't think they have the capacity to realise it.

[vapid galleon]

✍️ 🔥

[unique locust]

they definitely can't satisfy everyone when people seemingly want diametrically opposed things

[spare canopy]

Yup, and Proud too.

[still edge]

thats interesting to know, i feel like this has more to do with your own frustration than with outside events. Would you like to expand on it? What happend to you lately?

https://tenor.com/view/cinegramm-therapy-couch-crazy-berlin-gif-13707899

[robust pendant]

Noodles of potential?

[unique locust]

tea related expressions could only come from a brit

[spare canopy]

It shouldn't be about pandering to gamers.

It should be about building a world, with mechanics that fit this world, that gamers fall in love with.

[robust pendant]

Can I marry a game now?

[still edge]

but no matter what they do you will hate the results, typical brit reaction

[unique locust]

pandering to gamers
Would them listening to your complaints about not being able to get a breakfast at a bar or play cards or whatever count as pandering to gamers

[vapid galleon]

"typical brit reaction" ???

[spare canopy]

Hate the results?

Because I think eating 40 sausages a day, and having 700+ in your stash is shit mechanic?

You really have no idea what you are talking about.

Just a brain rotted fool who accepts 2nd rate slop.

[still edge]

https://tenor.com/view/british-malding-opinion-gif-22999436

[unique locust]

What do you mean eat 40 sausages a day

[still edge]

i imagine this guy when you send a message, angry frustrated and bri´ish

[unique locust]

Are you stuck in a loop of chugging energy drinks, getting hungry and eating

[proven hollow]

i'm with deathguard, rotting mechanics of food will really enhance the gameplay of this storydriven RPG shooter game

[spare canopy]

You should know... you work street corners.

[unique locust]

My official employment is being a good boy

[vapid galleon]

I advise you not to continue with racist statements

[still edge]

but he will complain about making the game survival when the core of the original games arent survival. No matter what he will complain

[scenic tendon]

Baa

[proven hollow]

i was making fun of him tbh

[still edge]

i know

[unique locust]

fuсk rotting mechanics. introduce frotting mechanics

[spare canopy]

Fresh food, in closed x labs that haven't been opened for years, all that lovely fresh bread.

It just sloppy work

[proven hollow]

you've never had eastern european bread

[limpid cloak]

true, and imo especially the sound system. i very clearly remember being spooked like hell by background noises in a lab in SoC before getting jumped by snorks. not knowing if the noise is real or a dramatic effect was killer

[still edge]

i think he is kind of funny , this deathguard75 guy, i dont know why he is amusing, he sounds like one of caricaturist people who are angry all the time but somehow they are charismatic, its just how he is. Once you accept him for what he is, he is funny

[spare canopy]

🤣

[still edge]

yea and also sound system is absolutely horrendous in SoC, the step up from SoC to HoC in sound design is abysmal

[vapid galleon]

I really wonder psychology of people who talk about the person they are chatting with instead of the game

[limpid cloak]

i think stalker 2 sounds fine and is still atmospheric. the way it uses sound just is very different and it doesn't have the same effect on me

at least it meant i could actually play the game all the way though lol

og stalkers belong in the same category as things like system shock 2 for me - unplayable, can't handle tension

[frigid hill]

vanrick has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[still edge]

sound system should be praised more in S2, given how sh$tty it was back in 2007, SoC AKm´s gunshot still pierce my effing ears, the sound system was horrendous back then XD

[unique locust]

silly cat does not know how to avoid the filter

[vapid galleon]

get wolf'd

[still edge]

sh$tty is censored but shit is not . wtf?

[unique locust]

lol

that's quite shіtty of them!

[still edge]

what

[frigid hill]

vanrick has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[unique locust]

the black magic of knowing how to avoid the filter

[vapid galleon]

love it

[still edge]

shіtty

[spare canopy]

Funny thing is, I'm not angry.

I'm just think the game deserves better and there is so much more they could do.

To me, the world feels bland, and to fill it, they have a spawn simulator and respawn rate of minutes.

Like walking from Zalyssia to the poppy field, kill the fleshies at the barns on the way out, kill them again on the way back...

Then again when you walk back past them again.

For me it's immersion breaking, annoying, and boring.

That is not how to make the zone, feel like the zone.

[unique locust]

use ukrainian vowels in the middle of swear words so it doesn't count as a full english word

а е і о у are all in cyrillic

[still edge]

ahh i see it , the S is from the ukranian ASCI

[unique locust]

nah it's the і in shіtty

[still edge]

thats such an angry thing to say, why are you angry?

[proven hollow]

well, i just went there for the first time in my new game and, there weren't any fleshes, there was a ward patrol who was fighting bandits further down the road, now that i'm on my return journey there's some loners across the road and another ward patrol

[vapid galleon]

@spare canopy don't feed the trolls

[still edge]

im having fun tho

[vapid galleon]

you're nothing man, remeber that

[feral gust]

cyrillic is like using ancient runes 😄

[vapid galleon]

using ı instead of i

but you don't have ı in your keyboard

[spare canopy]

Had them fight there too...

[feral gust]

али имам моћ да користим ћирилицу 😂

[vapid galleon]

[proven hollow]

i'm just emptying my inventory right now, i'll go back past it again towards poppy fields and tell you what i encounter then so you can move the goalpost again and say you also had that, okay?

[unique locust]

they have a spawn simulator and respawn rate of minutes.

Alife as of 1.7 is pretty much what it was in CS and CoP, with the only caveat being that the online bubble is 100m instead of 150m. The current alife actually features something new that was never in the OGs, like squads being able to split and regroup as individuals choose to have differing tasks. Of course you wouldn't know any of this nor would you know how alife worked in the OGs 😺

[spare canopy]

Move the goal posts mwahahahaha.

Too funny.

[vapid galleon]

A-Life defender detected, protocol starting

[mint sail]

ok so i think scar's eyes are busted

bro can't seem to look my character dead in the eyes

[spare canopy]

Proper fan boi mentality.

[feral gust]

https://tenor.com/view/buster-keaton-tea-gif-11399815

[proven hollow]

there were two boars fighting two loners this time!

[serene barn]

i saw a video that talked about how the AIs just, can ignore other enemies while they're moving in offline and that is able to get them into places they shouldn't be because they lived too long.

[hard pebble]

Ppl still hating on the game even though they still improved smh… lol

[serene barn]

i mean

this should have worked on launch.

[spare canopy]

Had different stuff spawn there.

But there have been times, like I said, fleshies have spawned everytime I have walked past.

[hard pebble]

Ppl rather complain than stop playing it.

[serene barn]

not be fixed bit by bit over a year

[proven hollow]

of course they have

[bitter plover]

Well yeha and no. World isnt filled with NPCs at the start, but only after you visit locations. Once you visit then, everything is normaly simulated in Offline.
The second thing is, that NPCs doesnt have their overarching goal, they just fight for lairs, which create someting like lite version of warfare.
Once these two things are in, its better than CS for sure

[golden gulch]

Stalker 2 is nowhere a bad game, yes it's not where supposed to, but for what you see and play with the game, it's not bad, very good actually, you run around the world do quests, fighting enemies, hoarding loots from enemies and stashes, explore(if it your first playthrough), return to base to complete quests, stash your loots, fix your gears If you need to, then get out and do all of that again, plus the vibe, sound designs and I say even soundtracks are very good, those are what make you in love with the game since launch.

However the game suffered massive issues:

1. 7 big and 30 or so small patches later and the game still needs to be improved and things still need to be added.
2. The map is way too big for the amount of sidequests the game provides.

I think they need to start with filling the entire Zone with side quests first.

[spare canopy]

Well yeah, that's why I said it.

[bitter plover]

thats true

[feral gust]

I do agree, snail place improvements were issues for me, but I just had to play something else and wait I guess....also, yes, zone needs to be more filled with side quests and it will make make it much better but it is not a bad game for me at all, I finished it once and I am playing it from time to time, always drawn to the world and atmosphere. It is different that old games but still feels good to me 😄

[still edge]

i think if they add more PDA content like encyclopedia , ranking and many many lore text with images (good ol´s pda) that would be awesome, i really love to read text of dialogue or scientific document while being in a hub area, its really cool, its like reading some secret leaked info that shouldnt be read.

[serene barn]

yeah it's disappointing how few side quests there is in the game i feel.

[bitter plover]

like half of them were cut. Its brutal

[still edge]

to be fair all games have cut content , the original games had half of the game cut entirely , system cuts, npcs , lore , quest, etc

they should add more quest tho

[unique locust]

think the number is 80 while current side quest amount is about 20

[bitter plover]

yeah, but many of games have it feelable a lot. Witcher 3 has same issues. Parts of map are much worse, bcs there were supposed to be big side content and tis missing

[spare canopy]

Exactly what I am doing.

You don't put 200+ hours into a game that isn't good.

Outside of the main quest, there is not much else to do....

It feels like a game that was released way to early.

You compare the number of side quests in the lesson zone, and maybe slag heap to the rest of the zone, your lucky if you get 2.

[bitter plover]

yeah, but i dont remmember, if repeatable quests were incuded in the original number or not. I dont even remmember the original number. I just know, that tons of stuff is not there and you can deffintiely feel that while playing

[unique locust]

aye

[wicked magnet]

If I visit all the locations, will offline Alife be enabled throughout the entire Zone?

[unique locust]

really hope they'll restore them after being done with the engine update

[bitter plover]

there is limit now to simulated actors on map. So it depends. Shay is making mod to increase that number by a lot

but if there wouldnt be limit, than yeah. Whole map

[feral gust]

yea, game keeps the pace in lesser zone, garbage, even wild island, after that it starts to drop a bit, zaton was cool but there are many areas that are still missing more things to do, hopefully that will be the future focus once they finish improving the gameplay and engine 🙂

[slow crypt]

There are people with 5k hours in Tarkov

[bitter plover]

i think Zaton is still okay. Malachite, Duga, Red Forrest, Jupiter and Prypiat has feelable lack of cut content

[bitter plover]

i have almost 300 hours in MaB Bannerlord, and that game is just not good without mods.

[still edge]

https://tcrf.net/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
and i think it still has alot of cut content missing in this wiki, its insane how much cut content there was in the SoC tho

[spare canopy]

Then there is the lack of faction interaction, and consequences of working for factions etc etc

Just nothing apart from, markers go green...

[wicked magnet]

Can they migrate to other locations?

[bitter plover]

yes

but its rare

[spare canopy]

That's because of poor management.

SoC required someone coming in to save it, as the project was so poorly run.

[wicked magnet]

That's interesting. Did you meet stalkers who have a lot of loot?

[slow crypt]

nop

[turbid trench]

Tomorrow is the anniversary of this wonderful game. Thank you, developers. The new patch 1.7 is very good. Greetings from Ukraine 😎💪

[feral gust]

yea, but right now I think it is better for them to focus on engine and improving the game feel, if they do those things better up to 2.0 and dlc, then adding quests should be easier part of the job 😄

[still edge]

what makes me hopeful is , the system is advancing a lot , and even if the director Alife is not managing the npc map wide its just a matter of adding another module to the system that allows map wide management of npc, this can also decrease the amount of npc in render distance to move those npc further away. If its implemented correctly then the ranking system can be added since it needs all npc to exist at all time first.

[spare canopy]

And every NPC has 700k

[spare canopy]

That is why I am waiting for them to do the upgrade, and see what's what.

[bitter plover]

yeah, RN, ranking system is basicaly faked trough progression. It needs what you said to be normal

[still edge]

adding quest should be quite easy since its not tied to any other system, its just static npc or roaming npc dedicated to quests, its not problematic at all , its just not priority for development most likely.

[feral gust]

yea, that is what i meant, it is not priority right now and for good reason, but in the future it should be easy to do it 😄

[unique locust]

same

only gonna start another playthru after the engine upgrade

[bitter plover]

well not entirely. Its probably not that easy to create quest, bcs you also have to tie it somehow to Alife. And the more complex Alife will be, the harder it gets.

[spare canopy]

Makes sense.

Also gives the time to address the other stuff too.

All good things to those who wait.

[bitter plover]

honestly, if you wati for UE update, i would advice to wait for patch after, bcs i think most features bound by UE update will arrive after it, not with it. But maybe they will suprise us

[still edge]

not really, npc related to quest usually are rendered outside the alife system. Hence why you see always the npc related to quest every single time regardless of the state of the alife system.
Unless they actually want to create alife related system where the game creates quest based on the state of the world.

[bitter plover]

yeah, but i meant it in a way, that you have to be sure, that the quest isnt affected too much by alife, for it to be basicaly broken.

mostly like NPCs and etc.

[unique locust]

whenever people ask me about stalker 2 i just tell them to wait until the first dlc drops. like sure, the game at its current state is enjoyable for the average person, but it's going to be even better in a matter of months

[unique locust]

that is true. however i think a huge performance boost would be enough for me to play the game again. i am on an ancient shіtrig and my performance is even worse than that of the average person 😺

[still edge]

worst thing that can happen is a quest getting cancelled by alife related consequences (alife npc killing your target or alife npc taking the artifact related to a quest.) But even if that happen its the expected outcome, thats what happen in older games, npc do quest for you from far away

[unique locust]

worst thing that can happen is a quest getting cancelled by alife related consequences
welcome back SoC sniper side quest

[still edge]

when that start to happen in HoC that mean we reached peak alife, i think its already happening for some players

[limpid cloak]

are we expecting that level of changes? like features held back and not possible on current engine version?

[bitter plover]

damm, unlucky i guess

[rustic ravine]

Did the mods get fixed on Xbox yet

[bitter plover]

well no, you have to be sure, that the Quest givining NPC wont die, before you can even get quest and stuff like that. Then, depends what the quest is about, you have to be sure, that you can spawn quest objective, without having issues and etc. Its deffinitely complicated, not easy

[bitter plover]

not entirely feature, but upgrade to them. Many things are deffinitely held back by perfomance issues

[still edge]

with UE update it comes the performance boost, and the spawn render distance its just a integer value , it can be modify within 3 seconds if they want to. We had access to that value back in 1.0
The biggest thing people are waiting for the ue update is performance and render distance, those two will come next patch based on what GSC said

ue5.4 is priority , i heard in the ask-gsc discussion

[unique locust]

I wonder what their online radius of choice will be after the engine update

I don't think there's a point to having an online radius of 500m

[bitter plover]

yeah, exactly

[bitter plover]

probably 150-200. I dont think anything higher would give you better gameplay for the hit in perfomance and it can also cause some negative gameplay things

[still edge]

nah thats way way way too much , i tried 250mts radius back in 1.0 with a mod , and the game look AMAZING , seeing npc walking around from afar and starting fights in the distance was amazing even with the unexistent alife from back then it looks really good, with current alife + 250mts thats gonna be a game changer

the performance hit wasnt that bad with 250mts radius

i think they are keeping the 100mts more to test the offline mode more than anything

[unique locust]

i think the online bubble needs to be just big enough for long range sniping to feel comfortable. after that there's not much point

[bitter plover]

althouth, map is different to Ogs, so 200-250 maybe. I dont think more

[bitter plover]

exactly

you have to also consduer, taht too much big bubble will cause, that you will just not see anything. You will just hear gunshot and always see dead ppl

and aftermath of the battle

which is not good gameplay

[unique locust]

it's really funny that people rightfully complained that sniper rifles are dead in this game due to the 100m bubble. i mained sniper rifles throughout most of the game because i couldn't control full auto recoil at 30fps 😺

[proven hollow]

i suppose that's also the reasoning behind NPC's fighting take so long to kill eachother

[gloomy citrus]

Im waiting for someone insane enough to make stalker 2 on old xray engine.

What am I saying, please ignore this statement.

[still edge]

thats a good thing there will be dominating npc and if mutant become stealthier , we can have the best of both worlds, constant combant at the distance but enough survivability for NPC in order to keep some alive around the npc radius

[bitter plover]

Sniper rifles are brutal even now. I use them a lot, bcs they do brutal dmg and have good penetration. I use them instead of shotguns. They are deffinitely not dead. Ppl just want to live in fantasy of snipers, which is not doable now

[bitter plover]

yeah, i think same

[bitter plover]

nah. There is reason why you choose radius. You want radius, that will make the world alive, not spawning, while giving you some activity. too small radius doestn give you the first, while too big radius doestn give you the later. You need something inbetween. And also of course, perfomance reasons

[still edge]

from my testing back in 1.0 the npc fighting at the distance would not produce mass murders since they werent efficient enough to kill eachother fast enough. So i had always time to reach the encounter and intervene , also mutant now have escaping tactics and stalker will ahve too , so even if fight broke out , unless an npc have sniper it will take a couple of minutes for the aftermath to happen

[bitter plover]

well thats bcs the AI is written, that they basicaly cant kill themselfs, until you get close enough. Or it was back then. Thats why even too big bubble was okay.

[still edge]

hearing gun shots at the distance was so AMAZING, to hear it and knowing something is happening made the game so alive, also the mistery of not knowing exactly who is fighting is also so cool

[waxen vine]

is anyone else finding a burer every 5 minutes in the lesser zone on this patch

[proven hollow]

havent encountered a single one yet in several hours in the lesser zone, you have mods?

[waxen vine]

just one, the most installed optimisation mod

[unique locust]

this is true, i haven't thought of this

[still edge]

you just started the game or you have quite a bit of hours in that playthrough?

[bitter plover]

well, that is happening even now

[waxen vine]

like 5 hours

[unique locust]

i also think that hearing faraway gunshots would be awesome for the sake of atmosphere, and it can be an indicator that a fight is happening offline

so it doesn't have to be an actual rendered fight

[waxen vine]

as im typing i just had 2 more burers and a poltergeist in a random field in garbage

[bitter plover]

it is happening even now. Even just in lesser zone, you can run and hear gunshots and not know, what is even happening there.

[still edge]

true but at 250mts + the sound is insane even if GSC havent configured the sound system at long range scenarios, UE5 seems to modulate the sound of gunshot at the distance quite wall, sounds muzzled and every few mts you hear it differently, its an amazing sensation

[bitter plover]

yeah. But dont expect 250m +. That will not happen

[unique locust]

real. i really like how different the gunshots sound depending on the distance

[still edge]

at 200mts that could happen , the graphics of UE5 is quite insane, and i didnt have much of problem to render at 250mts , the performance hit wasnt that big at all really.

[unique locust]

reminds me of them doing this in half life 2. to optimize it, they basically had 2 different sounds in one file, with close-range gunshots being in one ear and long-range gunshots being in the other ear. and then the game just adjusts the L/R volume levels depending on how far you are

[still edge]

and the map being that big, if the render distance is not at least 200mts , the map looks empty watching it from afar, needs minimum of 200mts

[main jewel]

sparker..

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/coach-l4d2-left4dead2-coach-l4d2-gangnam-style-gif-25086541

Oh boy that was me!!

[bitter plover]

imo 200-250 is good. But we will see

[dreamy dagger]

You wont see soon that far, Mr. Talapiwomania

[unique locust]

i chose the role when playing the game for the first time and am too lazy to take it off

and i also like light blue as a color soooooooooooo

[still edge]

peak stalker there

[spare canopy]

Makes a change from the bloodsuckers 😄

[shell flax]

Burers are easier then getting mauled by the average bath salts abuser

Especially away from their stashes of guns

[main jewel]

okay.. i believe you

[still edge]

getting attack by stunlocker bloodsuckers is pure cancer, i prefer a group of burers

[shell flax]

It also helps blood suckers don’t spawn in pack of like six anymore

[unique locust]

meow

[still edge]

oh thank god , that was horrible! since when? which patch

[shell flax]

1.6 I think?

Oh also

They don’t always scream to announce themselves anymore

[still edge]

OHHH yes! that bother me too

[spare canopy]

That was insane... like, who thought that was a good idea...

Worst thing was, it happened in the lessor zone, all to often along the road south of Zalyssia...

[spare canopy]

I love that, they are supposed to me hunters by stealth... It's when they spawn behind you, through an area you know is clear.

It's the same rubbish they pull in DT, just to screw you over.

[violet dune]

i seen some post about custom difficulty coming or whatever. this could be sick

[dreamy dagger]

Krezzinverse: all enemies are Krezzined Stalkers and you are only given PMm to fight them.

https://tenor.com/view/coach-l4d-l4d2-iixluminatixii-gif-12314475

[polar forge]

What faction do you guys dislike the most

[spare canopy]

Monolith, because they have been overused, and become so incredibly boring.

[dreamy dagger]

My own

[polar forge]

Yeah I have never even played any of the old stalker games and i still cannot stand Monolith lol

well, i played some Anomaly and gamma

[dreamy dagger]

Have you heard S2 lacks Encyclopedia, discarding a lot of mutant/environment/enemy lore

[polar forge]

As in not included in this game or they changed things so the old lore was overwritten?

[violet dune]

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-out-of-your-mind-msf-mobile-gamer-marvel-strike-force-crazy-gif-25572021

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-laugh-laughing-homelander-laughing-kataman-gif-10975171266381486696

Hey imagine for one weird moment something

What if the Encyclopedia is held hostage within the depths of CNPP and nobody has seen the inside of CNPP yet!!

What if we're only let inside the bildin' if we pay subscription?

Kitchenware and Car manufacturers are already doing it anyway, why not here...

[tall hawk]

What a jolly man! I wonder what he's laughing about, it must be very funny!!

[dreamy dagger]

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

[cyan sparrow]

No hotfix day 2

[dreamy dagger]

Less than 24 hours till Nothing Nothings.

[dreamy dagger]

TFW its Xbox announcement of STALKER 2 tech upgrade

[cyan sparrow]

Wut

[dull apex]

-# I woke up from a Stalker dream. My Skif had a custom SEVA similar to an X7 Suit. It was called The Staryard Suit, the only thing I noticed was the Chestpiece. Had this iridescent dark Galactic blue chest rig.

[limpid cloak]

announcement heart attack

just ps5 port

[charred nova]

Not now mol1t today is half life day

[stark marsh]

Stalker got banned on white red and blue country

[slim trench]

Have they said anything about multiplayer?

[rain cape]

Mod dispo on ps5 ?

[slow crypt]

we dont have the finished game and you want the online?

[proper dome]

Can't wait to jump into Stalker on my PS5 Pro tomorrow seen a few snippets of gameplay and the graphics and performance seems to be night and day on the pro

Compared to the other console ports

[slender lion]

Still no info about mouse + keyboard on ps5?

[slim trench]

Its been over a year now its fair that I can ask this

[lyric locust]

How can I stop getting alerts about S2 on PlayStation, I don't care 😭

[slow crypt]

Well, you can keep asking

[slim trench]

And you don't have to answer

[slow crypt]

there is no answer either

[slim trench]

You are still answering

[viscid shale]

Hi (sorry for my bad english)

[proper dome]

It's out tomorrow so you won't be getting anymore after then anyway

[rain cape]

Mod dispo on ps5 ?

[slender lion]

Wilkommen (idk what's english)

[slow crypt]

Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, keep waiting for the online crack

[low bison]

Why the hell is my name this

Devs why must you curse me

[plain fiber]

IF that is actually coming this year, it'll probably be announced at TGA.

[viscid shale]

💀💀💀

[limpid cloak]

...the devs cursed you with big boobs?

[visual mortar]

[slim trench]

I don't remember asking you about an online crack

[low bison]

I DIDNT CHOSE THIS 💔

[visual mortar]

is that really a curse

[plain fiber]

I think you underestimate the complexity of adding a multiplayer mode.

[slim trench]

Mood

[viscid shale]

Jarvis, give this man big boobs

[slow crypt]

are you still crying?

[visual mortar]

i just wanna run TDM with the gang

[slim trench]

Dude I simply asked for an update.

[low bison]

Yes

[visual mortar]

or if they add party gamemodes then gun game

[plain fiber]

I'd rather have CO-OP than PvP tbh.

[limpid cloak]

only if too big or singular big

[visual mortar]

or custom gsmes

[low bison]

Fuckass devs

[slim trench]

Why are you still replying to me?

[slim trench]

Same

[slow crypt]

I find it funny to mess with you

[plain fiber]

I promise you, it'd be all over the subreddit and this server if there had been any news about multiplayer.

[visual mortar]

singular big? like only one is big?

[slim trench]

Peak unemployment behavior

[viscid shale]

Whoever sends a message now is gay (2020 ahh trend)

[slow crypt]

poor man's phrase

[viscid shale]

Never saw you guys send a message so quick before

[slow crypt]

guys there is still online 🥹

[visual mortar]

Tim there's a parasite attached to your spine sucking on your nervous system

[violet dune]

what is this new pregnant emoji thing?

[limpid cloak]

yes lol

[low bison]

Why the hell does this guy get a cool name

[viscid shale]

Bro bro bro broo, how to get that avatar decoration????

[low bison]

Bullshit💔

[slim trench]

This is a very rare occasion for me to check this server. I'm not active here

[visual mortar]

horrifying mutation

[limpid cloak]

can whimsical chaplain master rename self to big boob chaplain master so jerald feels less alone

[visual mortar]

do a little dance

[queen temple]

At what time will stalker2 launch on ps5

[low bison]

MY NAME ISNT EVEN JERALD ITS JONATHAN 💔

maybe the devs just hate Canada

[visual mortar]

i would

GOD!

[slim trench]

Blame Canada

[limpid cloak]

noted bigboobjonathan

[viscid shale]

https://tenor.com/view/catshakira-cat-dance-catdance-catdancing-gif-22503034

[slim trench]

Que musical

[rapid topaz]

Is ps5 things coming to everyone eventually?

[viscid shale]

No gif perks 💔🥀

[rapid topaz]

The extra pre order things ?

[queen temple]

...

[low bison]

Justin Trudeau nuke this guy

[dreamy dagger]

New announcement, PS based!

[low bison]

NO IM NOT IM BLAMING THESE FUCKASS DEVS

[visual mortar]

any news on the psp port

[rapid topaz]

Be nice everyone got what they announced for the deluxe edition down the road ?

Did Xbox and pc launch with the same content ? When u pre ordered

[lost needle]

Stalker 2 Wii when?

[slim trench]

Sorta save for the multiplayer

[dreamy dagger]

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