☢┃stalker-general

[umbral lodge]

When you drop someone and turn around a new pack of people spawn in

[feral gust]

hate spawn bubble, it was crappy idea from the start but here we are

[ruby gale]

There is mods on console for stalker, just not as many as I would've hoped for by now, but thats mostly Microsofts fault

[cyan sparrow]

Typical Bethesda, throwing stones in a glass house

[umbral lodge]

@ruby gale I have yet to look into any of the mods

[dull gazelle]

nah cop at least had people fighting outside of like 300m from your circle lmfao, the primary example of alife would be from SoC tho

[sick berry]

Yeah

[ruby gale]

They've done it so much by now everyone's used to it so screw it, the upside is so big on this one its worth the risk

[sick berry]

Im fairly sure Bethesda is actively working against modders at this point

[ruby gale]

Nothing crazy, mostly world improvement mods, no weapon mods

[opaque cipher]

Is the zone literally snowy?

[ruby gale]

No

[opaque cipher]

Scam

[marble gyro]

Not soc, I would say clear sky

[cyan sparrow]

Me delulu, bought Starshiet with hopes.

Nope they’re done.

[umbral lodge]

I just wish to change the look of the 860

[ruby gale]

Starfield never had an animation kit released for it so nothing had custom animations

[cyan sparrow]

Against themselves

[umbral lodge]

A stockless variant of it would be nice

[opaque cipher]

Wasn't a bad game, just didn't live up to the expectations. Had some good mechanics and very good graphics/presentation

[marble gyro]

But clear sky was based around faction wars and multiplayer

[dull gazelle]

yeah maybe true because of the faction war stuff
but remember gsc had to nerf soc alife because it could finish the game before the player even hit cnpp lmfao

[ruby gale]

Wood finish would be nice

Anyways back to work i go, have nice day

[umbral lodge]

Honestly that and the 701 i want a wood finish for

[cyan sparrow]

You’re jesting right?

[marble gyro]

Lmao true

[opaque cipher]

We're talking about Starfield right? I bought it day one, found it kinda mediocre and also ran kinda weird, then a couple months (a year) ahead I reinstalled it and added a bunch of cool mods and had fun, I even finished the game

Same thing I hope to do with stalker 2

[bitter plover]

like there could be some secret behind the scenes changes, but i doubt, they wouldnt tell about it in patch notes. And i talked about the patch with Vatislavovitch and he doesnt know about any Alife changes either.

[vernal lily]

I just checked, he's definitely not surviving

[ruby gale]

Its not a terrible game, just gets boring pretty quick compared to fo4 and skyrim

[rose ocean]

Hello stalkers can someone help me to found this new quest about this new update

[cyan sparrow]

That’s why i send him a link to the channel in the first place, the way he greets

[vernal lily]

[cyan sparrow]

No compassion between Stalker2 and Starshiet xD

[opaque cipher]

I can understand that but I managed to finish it without forcing myself, I actually wanted to finish it

[bitter plover]

S2 alife is better than SoC now and CoP (apart for some details). Only CS is better.

[dry bough]

submit a bug report, this is a known issue ever since 1.7. you may need to provide your save data

[opaque cipher]

But I was kinda done after that. I had the dlc for free because I had deluxe and I didn't bother to play it

[ruby gale]

I've finished it a few times but I definitely take longer breaks between playing

[opaque cipher]

You've finished Starfield more than once?

[rose ocean]

??

[bitter plover]

False info. Boddies do appear based on offline alife fights. The only issue is bad radius of boddies spawn, so they spawn to close to each toher or pilled on each other

[marble gyro]

It has a chance to spawn as a pda message after you leave Zasslya region, more frequent in the burnt forest

[rose ocean]

Ok thanks you brother appreciate your help

[bitter plover]

CoP bubble was 150m for appearing and 180m for dissapearing (maybe other way around, idk now). Not 300m. And Alife there functioned only in the zone you were in, not in any of other ones, where you werent, which is worse than S2

[sick berry]

Now im curious, everyone. What mutant do you think is the leading cause of death for New Stalkers?

[cyan sparrow]

Themselves

[grim wharf]

Is there a way to just disable the auto aim I genuinely hate it lol

[marble gyro]

Yes

Under aim settings, there should be a slider and a function to turn it off completely

[hearty tendon]

Dogs

[marble gyro]

Flesh

[cyan sparrow]

Acknowledging instant 😲

[grim wharf]

Found it it's called aim assist

[hearty tendon]

Boars and Fleshes are plentiful but are scary enough that people would be freaked out and mostly stay away, but dogs are familiar, new stalkers would enter a fight with them with confidence

[grim wharf]

My upgraded joysticks are more sensitive and precise than analog so I don't need auto aim lol

[marble gyro]

Dogs are a menace when Grouped up, thank God they separate when you shoot them

[sick berry]

Id say its the cats.

[hearty tendon]

"I could take on a dog in hand to hand, and you're telling me these ones are blind too? Easy"

And then bam, they get swarmed

[cobalt fiber]

@shell flax

[sick berry]

Cats are deadly by themselves.

[shell flax]

Sweet

[marble gyro]

Oh have people found any jumping artifacts? Like ones that won't stay in the same place? I feel like the recent update might have messed that up because to me they don't jump anymore

[hearty tendon]

But cats are also quite rare

[sick berry]

That is also fair, and ive found a few jumping artifacts. Spring still jumps. As does crown.

[cobalt fiber]

Also not to brag but I’ve got an interview next week to become a CM for a game studio

Buzzing with that

[weary hedge]

W dev team

[hearty tendon]

I've encountered jumping artifacts, however they don't run away from me as often, I actually haven't had any run away from me lately

[sick berry]

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

[hearty tendon]

They just jump in place and move around a tiny bit

[sick berry]

Ah forgot. Can't do gifs. Kruglev approves.

[shell flax]

Good luck man

[cobalt fiber]

Thanks mate

Remote work too

[marble gyro]

Right? They don't actually jump from location to location in the anomaly field anymore, or roll

[balmy tendon]

Good luck

[cobalt fiber]

Laughing and loving life if I bag it

[marble gyro]

Like in the chemical area where you get the soul artifact for a mission, there are chemical field anomalies, and the artifact they spawn always jumped from location to location now it just sits there and not jump anymore

[eternal cosmos]

OXA was updated so you can download new version and play normaly 🙂

[wicked magnet]

Yes that was changed

[smoky ginkgo]

I like the new side missions, the new base thing is neat

[cyan sparrow]

Pretty cool right?

[marble gyro]

Wait changed why?

It gave the artifacts personality why would they change that?

[wicked magnet]

Too hardcore

[main jewel]

sugar daddy: i will spoil you
salt daddy: i will preserve you

[marble gyro]

Hardcore???? And yet the original retain the same mechanic

[main jewel]

i felt like it was unnecessary

in the trilogy they just fall to the ground

[main jewel]

also it isnt personality if every single artifact jumps around, they are just coping eachother

[marble gyro]

No? There are artifacts like in the fire anomalies for example would roll around and trigger the flame walls

[vernal lily]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1254039371955437570/1280437674766766091/attachment-3.gif

[marble gyro]

And not every single artifact jumped, they all had their own quirk, gravitational artifacts would jump and float in place, round ones roll, chemicals would teleport

[main jewel]

i believe they only rolled tho in call of pripyat then, i cant recall other games doing that unless the artifact fell on a uneven surface

[main jewel]

they all just jump around for me, and if they reach a surface that goes underground or in a unreachable area kinda they float

[marble gyro]

Clear sky and COP had artifacts that would roll

[main jewel]

i wish my artifacts teleported

[marble gyro]

So they never jumped from location to location leaving a trail line of artifact dust for you?

[main jewel]

well thats all they do

theres no teleport or roll they all just jump

[marble gyro]

Huh...interesting, I had artifacts roll around

[main jewel]

[marble gyro]

And do all sorts of stuff

[marble gyro]

Dw, I'm sure gsc will fix it

[honest fable]

Thanks for letting me know 😁 Though it's only prototype i think. I'll wait and see if there is one for standard 😅

[vernal lily]

Didn't the artifacts used to just sit and do nothing. Jumping ability added, and now apparently it got removed recently.

[marble gyro]

Artifacts used to be stuck in the ground you mean

[main jewel]

wheres my fun artifacts, also poltergeists interestingly kinda just throw items through walls and stuff still, and it seems like they just spawn in items to throw at you

[main jewel]

ive actually never had this happen

[vernal lily]

On release I remember the artifacts just sitting on the ground doing nothing.

[marble gyro]

You were one of the lucky ones, I had them spawn underground for me, it's good that gsc fixed that bug

[vernal lily]

Yeah, that was the recent bug that got patched. But I wasn't playing the game when it was happening.

[narrow olive]

Hello everyone

Merry Christmas

[marble gyro]

Also I thought I was the one Going crazy when a poltergeist spawned in and suddenly there was trash near him that he could launch at me on a barren road

[main jewel]

yeaaa in the dlc thing 1.8 the poltergeists just pick up random things out of nowhere and hover them directly to your player height and throw it at you

[marble gyro]

They've done that before 1.8 tho, it's been a thing since 1.7

It's a current bug that devs know about and are currently trying to fix

[grim wharf]

Poltergeist throwing your grenade back at you

[marble gyro]

Nah, sounds like more of a burer thing, poltergeists have like a time period before they launch something at you

And By the time they launch something that grenade would have gone off way before they thrown it

[main jewel]

they said they fixed it last patch..

what in the evilness

[main jewel]

thats normal i think

you should use underbarrel launchers

[vernal lily]

enemies are able to shoot through walls too, but you can do it also. According to someone here. I cannot confirm personally though.

[main jewel]

mutants cant throw those back at you

[grim wharf]

Until they change their timing

[main jewel]

no i cant and its not like i have literal aimbot

[sly ocean]

Doesn't it has something to do with penetration of the bullets?

[grim wharf]

I actually wanna see them just grab and throw lol

[eternal cosmos]

Yeah but you have updated localization, in the optional files.

[vernal lily]

Maybe, my 0 hours of sleep is trying to remember the strands of information it could grab while reading that chat during that explanation.

[grim wharf]

Can someone make this a console mod when poltergeists just throw anything back including your grenade and it's like a grab and throw

[vernal lily]

game of hot potatoes

[umbral lodge]

I just spotted a doubled rainbow

[sly ocean]

Well bullets can penetrate walls the thickness it can penetrate depends on the caliber and type of bullet

[grim wharf]

Earlier I forgot the games world doesn't stop while looking at the map and a little rat thing hit me

[vernal lily]

That was it, my memory is refreshing

[grim wharf]

It would be like the moclin version of hot potato from the Orville

[sly ocean]

Thats the reason why you and some enemys can shoot through walls and if you look on detail you can even see bulletholes in the walls or whatever you use as cover

[grim wharf]

I just remembered throwing the grenade back because in the original call of duty 3 you could throw a grenade at the enemy they would throw it back and if you were quick enough you could attempt to throw it back

[vernal lily]

I came back from Skyrim, and forgot about that for a minute. Scared the shit out of me.

[grim wharf]

I was like you lil mf go away

[sly ocean]

Damn you can throw grenades back?

[grim wharf]

Yes original Xbox call of duty 3 you could

I thought it was super cool

[sly ocean]

I meant the stalker 2 game XD

[grim wharf]

Although it sucked if they threw it back and you weren't expecting it lol

[sleek gulch]

is Veteran+ difficulty just Master difficulty but with manual saving?

[vernal lily]

perhaps

[sly ocean]

Btw does anyone know where i get more 7.62 ammo? Like a real heavy load of it because i found a gun named Wolverine and well it comes up to her namd:/

*name

[honest fable]

Oh I missed that 😅 Thanks

[grim wharf]

Great now I'm reminded of the movie the punisher where Frank got jumped by the Russian in his apartment and he throws a grenade and the Russian hits it like a baseball right back in the room so Frank had to use the bathtub as cover lol

[sly ocean]

So does anyone know?

[novel wave]

the one with the green packaging?

[sly ocean]

Yeaaa

[novel wave]

7.62x39?

[odd fractal]

Buying the game tomorrow im' so hyped!!

[sly ocean]

The wolverine LMG needs it

[grim wharf]

Posted what I was referencing in off topic

It's genuinely a funny backfire lol

[novel wave]

i'm pretty sure you still have to find it around the place

although i thought they removed that ammo type

[shell flax]

I’m sitting here wondering what in the blue hell the Wolverine is

Like, is it a gun mod? A different translation of something? A new gun GSC snuck in?

[weary hedge]

I actually almost had a heart attack. WTF GSC😭

[solar minnow]

I wish I could spawn 100 of them just to try fight them all lol

[cyan sparrow]

He wanna take last drink with u

[weary hedge]

He ran in so fking quick🤣 I must’ve killed one of his boys

[shell flax]

I needed that laugh, thank you

[vernal lily]

Bloodsucker probably got into someone's weed stash

[shell flax]

Babay tried to screw him over too

[valid solar]

Why does entering a room with traders cause my fps to drop below 10

[sly ocean]

The Wolverine is an LMG hidden in a Tunnel

[shell flax]

You mean Glutton? As far as I know there is no lmg in S2 named Wolverine

[sly ocean]

Well sorry it translates it from german

In german its called Vielfraß

[shell flax]

Nah I was just confused

[sly ocean]

Its a good gun but damn its hungry

[wide narwhal]

Real ammo or game?

[left violet]

how do i open the door with the stash in the mine right after the electrical switch

[wide narwhal]

Ohh nevermind.

[sly ocean]

Do you need some Mg42 ammo? My gramdfather left me some including the buzzsaw

[left violet]

yeah bro the black market sells some good BP variants

[vocal wave]

well I had fun with GP37V2 but it's time to go back to Kharod

[shell flax]

There’s a gun store near me that has boxes of 7.62x39

[wide narwhal]

How much for the mg42?

[sly ocean]

Oh well the Buzzsaw i really dont want to sell there are not many left in the world

[wide narwhal]

Ive got like 4 crates of the m62 7.62x39 back when it was cheap. Now people want 75c per bullet for corrosive ammo.

[left violet]

corrosive ammo? whats it lined with

[wide narwhal]

Its just the primer uses a salt that can mess up a barrel if you dont swab it after firing.

[violet dune]

i should buy 5090 for 2.7k and sell it next year for 5k

[sly ocean]

I got like a mountain of ammunition for the buzzsaw it is stored dry and secure its like idk 10k shots

[charred nova]

I should too honestly

[sly ocean]

Why do i hear constant cave noises in my game?

[vernal lily]

Minecraft moment

[violet dune]

rip pc master race

[charred nova]

Until the bubble bursts

Then pc master race will be so back

[violet dune]

they say 16-20months till they furfill their needs

[charred nova]

The bubble could burst before then though

Investors only got so many billions

Money is not infinite

When the well runs dry

[violet dune]

there is so much money involved and so much tech corpos... it wont burst easy, they will fake it to the max

[umbral lodge]

Todays been a day of good finds

[charred nova]

We will instantly enter a recession

2008 mk2 baby

[umbral lodge]

Just found my first 701

[charred nova]

[violet dune]

"Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung" lol

samsung new phones goes back to 4gb ram

[charred nova]

I’m buying 5 new ssds when the bubble bursts

[violet dune]

im buying everything

[charred nova]

Real

[violet dune]

imagine it burst in the end of the next year... micron wont be happy

[charred nova]

Who cares

Micron ddr5 was trash anyways

[violet dune]

micron provided memory to a lot of devices

not just crucial or ddr5

this is why a lot of crap will be expensive so much

nvidia selling chip without memory to manufacturers lol

[charred nova]

Oh I know

It’s why I think the cope about oh only pc will be effected is funny as hell

All devices with ddr5 will be more expensive

[violet dune]

pc just first one who gets hit, everything else also comes in

[charred nova]

Yup once the left over supply runs out

[feral sigil]

What happened to that steam machine they were ready to announce just before ram crisis

Never heard again from them LMFAO

[paper pawn]

guys

you telling me there is multiplayer now?

[vernal lily]

no

[paper pawn]

why do i see that then in a dlc

[vernal lily]

soon

[violet dune]

steam machine gonna cost 1.5k now LOL

[paper pawn]

ok thats epic

[feral sigil]

LOL word

The same applies for ps6 new xbox tho

[ruby gale]

Think they announced xbox at 1k

[violet dune]

i think Xbox president said something xbox gonna be hybrid premium high end bla bla

this could cost a lot

[ruby gale]

At that point just spend $700 more for a decent pc

[feral sigil]

Yea but xbox gonna be like.ahybrid pc now

[violet dune]

at this point im gonna buy board games

[feral sigil]

Ps6 is still a console and whos gonna buy a console at 1000+ price range

[ruby gale]

Gaming is in a weird place, I'll probably get a pc next gen, even if it costs more I'll have a bit more freedom

[feral sigil]

Sony has BIG problems

Xbox is officialy a publisher now

They are not trying to sell hardware

[cyan sparrow]

and nvidia want to cut gpus next year for consumers, gaming becoming luxury

[carmine star]

Gaming becoming extinct

[feral sigil]

I dont think they want that tho

[carmine star]

War is coming boys, who needs GPUs when you got the army

[feral sigil]

Gamers are 2 billion right now and while most of them are on mobiles pc and gaming is big money too

[cyan sparrow]

Hopefully not

[feral sigil]

You mean world war ?

[carmine star]

I hope not either but seems the wheels are turning and the next tech frontier is upon us

[cyan sparrow]

Wdym tech frontier?

[cinder socket]

Mod page down for anyone else other then me ?

[dull gazelle]

300 was just a random number i threw out there lol. still regardless, S2 sure seemed to go a whole lot of nowhere with making the entire map connected. whats the point if you, still, arent experiencing anything outside of your immediate radius and dont even have binocs to view long distances without a scope (which also has limited use)? just something i dont get

[carmine star]

I'm just being a nutter.

[shadow token]

hey what's that 6 gb update? is there any info somewhere?

[cyan sparrow]

Now?

[shadow token]

yeah

i'm downloading a 6gb patch and i'm alredy have been playing with the untold storyes update

[carmine star]

Did you just turn you PC on?

[shadow token]

Nein

[cyan sparrow]

Oh they’re reverting content specifically for you. No one informed you?

[shell flax]

No I just got it too mid session on Xbox

[shadow token]

take this you drop it

[carmine star]

Snow?????

[proven hollow]

he's right though there is a 5.2 gb patch on steam as well rn

[cyan sparrow]

Okay walking to pc to check

[native breach]

We getting snowy zone?

[proven hollow]

ooh, it's actually 7.3 GB when downloading

[carmine star]

Top minds are on it.

[proven hollow]

and so many community managers still being online right now is hella sus tbh

[shell flax]

I mean, if we ever do get a Snow update that just gives Ace and other weather/environment modders more toys to play with

[bitter plover]

Uhh. OGs had exact same bubble as S2 have, only bigger. ITs exactly the same only in smaller distance. There is normal offline Alife in S2 (its now only about battle for POIs and patrol, but that was same also in CS). And Binocs are now useles with small bubble and also not as good LODs (althought they are much better now)

[carmine star]

I expect modders to do it before GSC ever does tbh

[shell flax]

Already happened

[carmine star]

Yeah thought so lol

[cyan sparrow]

I got 5.2gb

[proven hollow]

@waxen marten please enlighten us what am i downloading a 7 GB patch for?

[ruby gale]

Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[bitter plover]

could be some silent quick hotfix or even some silent update for ARG purposes.

[carmine star]

Zone......zone never changed

[umbral lodge]

Bonzai saying 7500 coupons is scraps makes me chuckle

[carmine star]

Don't give me hope for a poltergeist and butter fix.... Stop it

[shell flax]

He gives you 13k on rookie if you want a bigger laugh

[bitter plover]

1.8 didnt fix geist throwing sheit trough walls?

[umbral lodge]

🤣

[cyan sparrow]

Don’t worry you still can enjoy!

[shell flax]

I’m playing BB redux though so more like Stalker difficulty lmao

[carmine star]

Nope, it's a super power now

[bitter plover]

it worked for me in testing, heh. At least i think

[carmine star]

If they fixed it, they would be patting themselves on the back for it

[cyan sparrow]

GSC overtime? Still on discord?

[bitter plover]

thats normal for them. Some of them are madmen for posting stuff even at times like 02:00 AM and etc

[cyan sparrow]

I see, understandable now

[proven hollow]

never saw that tbh

[bitter plover]

i did. Several times. Mostly on Twitter or socials

[cyan sparrow]

Fair, let them bake. Story untold was fun!

[carmine star]

Haven't got to it yet, away on vacation , but nice to see cut content added to the game finally

[proven hollow]

i bet the intern accidentally pressed the publish button

[umbral lodge]

Time for a long walk

[cyan sparrow]

Indeed! Based on the content they gave us now, i can imagine how much work theyll put into DLC, which is a good sign.

[leaden wadi]

evil stalker 2 be like: stories told

[bitter plover]

here we go

[charred nova]

fastest hot fix yet

[violet dune]

game is fixed!

[bitter plover]

THis is not cut content. Its entirely new

[coral dirge]

uncircumcised content

[leaden wadi]

we yes we are reinstalling 165 gigabytes worth of video game

[carmine star]

This "free" content is marketed it as such but come on

[proven hollow]

aww, no more bloodsucker invasions?

[violet dune]

they all say cut content, like they know what was cut

[tranquil mantle]

Glad to see I wasn't tripping about the overactive Bloodsucker spawns in the lesser zone, they're patching it already lol

[coral dirge]

Saiga was getting a workout lol

[carmine star]

It's what we paid for

[weary hedge]

Fookin amazing, ya love to see it

[proven hollow]

still no burer/poltergeist fix

[bitter plover]

its not cut content. Its new thing made after release basicaly from scratch, apart for some stuff, that were resused from cut content

[carmine star]

No

[broken hazel]

Patch 1.8.1.1

[tranquil mantle]

I had just started my new playthrough so more like the bloodsuckers were giving my legs a workout

[vernal lily]

If the 10+ bloodsucker spawn is patched, I hope that means the 10+ blind dog spawn is also patched

[cyan sparrow]

This was fun mini game to pop

[sick arch]

Would co op ever happen?

[vernal lily]

no

[coral dirge]

the bit where they knock you down and then start stepping on you repeatedly like hot goth women...not as fun as I thought it was gonna be

[cyan sparrow]

Long answer : ||…….no.||

[coral dirge]

there's Pioner for that, which is...uh...yeah, it exists

[leaden wadi]

even longer answer: ||it is not in the roadmap||

[carmine star]

Not in GSC vision for stalker

[sick arch]

Figured ide ask

[vernal lily]

even longer longer answer: ||the question has been asked a few times and each time it was a different variation of 'no'.||

[sick arch]

Why sensor lol

[coral dirge]

because it's funnier that way

[leaden wadi]

funny

[tranquil mantle]

Lmaoooo "step on me blood sucky" "wait stop stepping on me"

[sick arch]

A game?

[shrewd whale]

Timing on that hotfix and my game crashing is funny

[coral dirge]

yes, it is hot bootycheeks on a level I can't describe

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-cat-huh-small-cat-huh-what-gif-2593177363967991691

[coral dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/what-you-sure-you-sure-about-that-dog-watching-gif-26139783

[carmine star]

Listen they can say all that marketing crap all they want but content being added to the game before the first paid dlc I don't consider free, it's part of the base game and should of been in game on day one

[cobalt fiber]

But it’s literally free content

[sick arch]

Is it literally just a bad knock off? lol

[coral dirge]

thx for flexing your gif ability much appreciated

[cobalt fiber]

Not all heroes….

[tranquil mantle]

you said it first I just elaborated on it

[glass thunder]

how tf do i get into malachite in S2? currently playing the new missions and all the doors are locked.

[coral dirge]

you have to use a guide now

[cobalt fiber]

Progression

Or if post malachite mission it’s meant to be like that

[violet dune]

GSC should just be gone for 6 months and drop insane patch

[bitter plover]

thats completely different topic tho. Im not talking if its free or not or anything. Im saying, that this is not added cut content, that was intended to be there before release but wasnt made in time. This is new content made after release from scratch including planning. Yes, its filling areasy, that are empty and lack the content. But there was supposed to be different content back then. This is not cut content, this is new content

[coral dirge]

sorta, there's more to it but you can kinda tell how much they played STALKER lol

[glass thunder]

yeah played the mission last year, couldnt remember that part 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah bro you can get in via a guide but it’s meant to be locked off

[tranquil mantle]

You can use a guide OR use the secret entrance right below the front of Malachite in the washway, that stays open

[coral dirge]

sorta weird but they all have lines that reflect post-event stuff so it seems like the doors are supposed to open again at some point? not sure if that was retconned

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-old-school-hmmm-thinking-gif-12018084

[glass thunder]

that door is also closed for me

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah pretty sure post mission it is

Or it was when I checked months and months ago lol

[glass thunder]

hm currently doing the mission there where the scientist wants armor. is there any armor close by malachite?

[carmine star]

Fair

[cyan sparrow]

Sounds like a nice walk ahead

[coral dirge]

also, whichever intern thinks it's really funny to put 3-4 bloodsuckers or burers in a bunch of narrow hallways and corridors, I hope you step on at least 1 LEGO this week

[cobalt fiber]

[vocal wave]

guys there is an update on steam... what is it?

[modest dawn]

I just got an update for version 1.9

It's gigabytes so it's big

[vocal wave]

it's probably not 1.9 more like 1.8.1

I guess it's time for snow??

[modest dawn]

Yeah you know what I meant

[cobalt fiber]

It won’t be 1.9

[modest dawn]

They do that now

[cobalt fiber]

#📰┃announcement message

Announcement re. 1.8.1

[modest dawn]

@cobalt fiber I know I meant to put the end of it but you know what I mean

[vocal wave]

oh yeah jsut bug fix

[carmine star]

No more bloodsucker orgy in lesser zone, and artifact clipping underground fix , AI crash fix

[vocal wave]

weapons still go underground man

you kill someone and want his gun to sell well it's gone

[cyan sparrow]

We was lucky to get the new one

[vocal wave]

game had enough of me robbing it

[cyan sparrow]

Saying the guy who robbed halv of the zone

[modest dawn]

Well I wonder if it'll be snowy now with how big the update is

[cyan sparrow]

Why should be snowy?

[cobalt fiber]

It won’t be

[vocal wave]

I'm just launching the game but I also updated nvidia driver with the ones they released today so time to make a coffe while shaders compile lol

[coral dirge]

Is this a coke joke

[cobalt fiber]

Forget Cocaine Bear, it’s all about Cocaine Chimera

[coral dirge]

Noooo thx they're annoying enough already

[cyan sparrow]

Chimera always sus with two noses full of white crap

[plain star]

I was just playing, damn gsc should ask me If I'm playing before releasing an update

[sand magnet]

another fiix? heheh

[cyan sparrow]

Jumpscare?

[sand magnet]

1.9 wil bee at end of this snake year and of shiting

[vocal wave]

I don't think we're getting 1.9 in 25

[coral dirge]

we're getting 2.0 tomorrow

[cobalt fiber]

Doubtful

[vocal wave]

so no snow unfortunately

[carmine star]

Nope

[carmine star]

They playing catch up , ain't got no time for frivolous things like snow

[vocal wave]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

both died... I missed the soft landing hah

[ruby gale]

Whatcha lookin at

[coral dirge]

what's with this snow thing now, was there some announcement of snow on the roadmap

[ruby gale]

Look at the last announcement

Well that second last one

[coral dirge]

oh, that? I didn't take that as anything other than the Steam sale notice lol

[ruby gale]

Yeah, it makes sense if it was just a figurative thing

[coral dirge]

only weather related thing I was hoping to one day see is wiping raindrops off the visor lol

[pseudo mural]

Is the Falcon armor as good people make it out to be? Im thinking if i wjould get it and for once invest into the upgrades when i have like 150 grand just siting unused

[ruby gale]

I dont remember the last time I used it tbh, and it wasnt anything memorable imo

[pseudo mural]

Cause obviously im not even close to getting the Exoskeleton armor lol

[sand magnet]

omg 40 min repackng fucki ng 5.2 gb?

[coral dirge]

the Spark SEVA thing is way better if you're around that point

[ruby gale]

I just rock the seva-I

[pseudo mural]

Is it? Yo mind dropping me a link where to grab that thing?

[coral dirge]

it's at Malachite vendor sometimes

[ruby gale]

Its free down in the bottom right corner of the map

[pseudo mural]

Ooh its an NPC selling?

[ruby gale]

Have to fight a burer with 20 guns though

[coral dirge]

I've also gotten one of a Spark dude I shot in Subtle Matter, but that's pretty late and you're probably already seeing Exos then

[pseudo mural]

Dude burers are the second most cancerous thing aside from Chimera i always ditch those

Chimera just jumps me i get knocked down and killed before Skif is even on feet

[ruby gale]

Blind dogs are my least favorite

[pseudo mural]

I don't mind them in Stalker 2 but holy shit in the trilogy i hated their guts

[ruby gale]

Theyre not hard, just annoying and everywhere I go

[coral dirge]

if you're already at Malachite and advanced enough in the storyline, Rostok will start selling the Liberty exo which is one of my fave armors in the game

[graceful dirge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1719

[vocal wave]

I don't do mods

[pseudo mural]

Im at the part where the lab got destroyed apart

[ruby gale]

Get the gambit?

[coral dirge]

which one, a lot of labs get destroyed

[shadow token]

Hey one question about the suits stats, does it have the same amount of physic damage reduction two suits that have the same bar number on that specific stat? I would say that the corindon take less damage from bullets than the orange suit from journalist stashes even with the same physic damage reduction bar numbers

[pseudo mural]

Well u know the part where Scar and Wanderer want u to get them inside of the complex?

And u have to choose which side u take

[coral dirge]

ohhh SIRCAA

[pseudo mural]

Yeah yeah i said screw Wanderer and Scar im joining mr baldie's side

Im just in that part of the game

[ruby gale]

Im not sure, one one hand it'd make sense, but im pretty sure all armor scales off the same bars

[ruby gale]

Ward nerd

[pseudo mural]

[coral dirge]

the Wanderer suit from the Journo Stash if you have that DLC is probably better, but yeah, now that you've outed yourself as a Wardy, I'm afraid there's no more help 4 u

[ruby gale]

[pseudo mural]

I do have the Ultimate edition of the game

[marble gyro]

Anyone know what the new update is that just went live now?

[pseudo mural]

The new update has been on since like yesterday

[marble gyro]

No, new one

A 4gb one

[pseudo mural]

Didnt heard about that one

[marble gyro]

1,9

If I had image perms I could show you

[pseudo mural]

Drop it into my DMS

[shadow token]

I would like to be sure about this , thinking about stats only a single suit with helm option will always be superior right i think it has to be specific advantages

[pseudo mural]

Yeah i had no idea there's 1.9 update

[marble gyro]

Right?

[pseudo mural]

I knew about the free DLC but 1.9 just shadow drops?

[native breach]

Check the announcement tab it's litteraly jsut a hotfix

[marble gyro]

4gb hotfix is wild

[pseudo mural]

Nowadays thats small

[sturdy nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/so-small-adam-engvid-tiny-small-scale-gif-3772031092480944732

[magic mortar]

Hello guyz, anyone know info about update?

[marble gyro]

Just a hotfix

Lowered bloodsucker spawns at the old mill...but wait...that doesn't make sense

Because 1.8 already did that, so what is this update actually?

[carmine star]

A fix for the fix

[marble gyro]

Burers should throw grenades back at you

[iron wind]

Is GSC out for holidays or will they patch like last year?

[iron wind]

5 damn gigas

[carmine star]

Got em locked in my basement right now, no holiday till first paid dlc is released 🔫 🔫

[iron wind]

damn u scary

[carmine star]

No bonus either, whipsNchainz

[sick arch]

Why do they keep specifying the area for the bloodsucker spawns? No fix for the rest of the map?

[carmine star]

That spot was easy fix , other spots probably not so easy

[graceful dirge]

I have 5.6 GB update on Xbox right now too

[sick arch]

How dare you make sense

[carmine star]

I'm sorry, it's a curse

Same with burers, poltergeist, artifacts in ground and AI shooting thru walls are probably all connected somehow

[main jewel]

bloodsucker spawns also were way way more too frequent than other spawns, usually for me one random poltergeist or one burer randomly spawns in now, for bloodsuckers it would be like 3 randomly spawning in

[main jewel]

funny thing i believe they said they were gunna fix this last patch

[feral sigil]

Damn bloodsuckers on cop are no joke

Or maybe my aim is sh@t

[carmine star]

Yes but ran into another roadblock

[main jewel]

bloodsuckers dont suck anymore

I WANT MY BLOODAUCKERS TO SUCK

NOT SWIPE AT ME

[feral sigil]

Suck me bloodsucker

[main jewel]

SUCK ME BRO, so sad how the cop ones

suck and the s2 ones are sad little swipers

[feral sigil]

Yea cop has the best bloodsuckers

[main jewel]

noone ever sucks me like they did, just non stop health drain

[marble gyro]

Bloodsucker no swiping

So, I'm off to find more anomalies, because usually hotfixes add more

[bronze rampart]

guys

i cant breath

[marble gyro]

Okay....

[ruby gale]

Have you tried breathing

[marble gyro]

Soooooooooooooo, new thing......stalkers now yell for help

[bronze rampart]

never in my life

[marble gyro]

I got a radio message, and it was a dude screaming in agony while fighting a bloodsucker

I thought it was scripted, but loading back in it didn't happen anymore

[empty hare]

Yeah bro didn't make it

You could've saved him, now his wife and kids are all alone

[marble gyro]

I'm dead too lmao

[ruby gale]

A wife and kids? Yeah right

[bronze rampart]

lets breath guys

[hard wave]

Is Corundum suit good?

[bronze rampart]

i wanna do it, but i cant

[marble gyro]

Bandit suit

[ruby gale]

Hawk suit

[marble gyro]

Wait....is this scripted???!!!

[bronze rampart]

everything is scripted))

[marble gyro]

I saved a dude named Kyro Zlich near dire thicket

[empty hare]

A-Life is actually just 45,000 if/then statements

[marble gyro]

And he gave me 600coupons(master)

Killed the most aggressive bloodsucker yet

[ruby gale]

My favorite thing is sitting in prypiat watching uncloaked bloodsuckers waddle around

[feral gust]

what is this 5gb update ?

[marble gyro]

Also I may be going crazy...but I think there are more trees now

[last bramble]

hi, is gsc going to brink back the option to disable upscaling? also anyone knows when is the engine update release date?

[marble gyro]

Why is everyone so concerned about the engine update?? The game itself is not getting a visual overhaul

[last bramble]

i need it for the performance gain not the visuals

[marble gyro]

But isn't performance fine on pc now?

[dry aspen]

So, does tiredness just not work?
Been up for days and i'm not even slightly tired.

Only time I get the effect is if it's a scripted one like the arena or i'm fighting cats

[marble gyro]

It says your character won't get sleepy until like several real time hours

But if you chug a energy drink at some point that resets

[untold timber]

is it just me or did they nerf mutant health?

[marble gyro]

Yup, they did

[untold timber]

finally

[boreal phoenix]

Anybody know why better ballistics redux is crashing the game? Been doing it for ages now, even when I have no other mods downloaded

[last bramble]

i'm getting 45 fps now, i mean it's playable but i prefer 60 fps

[foggy olive]

Just use native aa or dlaa

[last bramble]

it's blurry with native aa, i have a amd gpu so i can't use dlaa sadly

[flint jolt]

Welcome to TAA....it sucks

[foggy olive]

And no upscaling looks like so grainy

[feral gust]

well, u can try fsr, it is not the best but i can help with performance

[tranquil mantle]

man those exploding anomalys are so annoying at higher difficulty

[solar minnow]

Someone wanna party up in cord or Xbox talk crap while we play and enjoy the game

[foggy olive]

Most of the graphical bugs existed in this mode, the lighting was so buggy that if I were epileptic, I would have already died.

[sly ocean]

I am stuck and need help at the car graveyard there is a door with a keypad what is the code?

[marble gyro]

This game is just getting better and better with each uodate

[sly ocean]

I need help pls

[last bramble]

i played the game at release date and it was very rough, now i'm about to play again after 1 year, i'm excited asf

[tranquil mantle]

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/486183

[cobalt fiber]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=car+graveyard+keypad+code+stalker+2

[tranquil mantle]

All door and stash codes

[sly ocean]

Its not on there!

[tranquil mantle]

Go look at license plates

[cobalt fiber]

The code is literally listed first result on Reddit when you google

Which is coincidentally a lot faster than asking here

[sly ocean]

No its not that one tried it and it didnt worked

[cobalt fiber]

It’s 5578

[sly ocean]

Its right at the entrance where the train tracks are in the brick building

There i put a screen in the screenshot chanel

[tranquil mantle]

That's a different area than I thought you were talking about

[carmine star]

Have to go underground there right ?

[marble gyro]

So new anomaly

Stalker backpack stashes are only holding 9x18 a sausage and bread

I've looted about 6 of them and all were the same result

Are the rng tables not working anymore?

[tranquil mantle]

Sounds like they were all common loot stashes, so it is possible to just get those things more than on time, I haven't had that issue

[marble gyro]

And the duffle bags? Sausage and 9x18

[boreal phoenix]

Is there a reason I can use better ballistics on its own and my game runs fine, but as soon as I use it with another mod aka weapon reposition project which it’s completely compatible with, it crashes as soon as I go in my inventory? Genuinely getting sick of this now.

Consistently one thing after another

[tranquil mantle]

Common loot stash spans backpacks and duffles but it is weird to be getting only those three things

[boreal phoenix]

Fixed everything but mods as well, and before you say it’s the creators, it’s not, at all, it’s their god awful new compatibility system that seems to think mods that are compatible with each other, aren’t

[marble gyro]

When the game came out on ps5, launch 1.7 I was getting like armor piercing,, radiation drugs, grenades, medkits and occasionally a gun

Now it's just 9x18 and a Sausage

Hell I don't see vodka as much anymore

[tranquil mantle]

I'm still getting all those things, but common loot stashes won't normally have those better items anyways

[marble gyro]

I know I'm on master difficulty, but man this is crazy

[hearty tendon]

Is Better Gunfights working with the new update? I don't think I've ever experienced more pinpoint accurate NPCs in my life and I have it installed

[tranquil mantle]

Go to the interactive stalker map, highlight stashes only, and go find stashes you have only gotten those 3 things in, see if any of them are supposed to contain other things

[mellow moss]

Guys anyone else locked from the camp building after dealing with the mutants?

[marble gyro]

Can't on master, that disables that function entirely

Oh wait

You mean like a guide?

[hard wave]

I’m looking a list of suits on the wiki and what point in the game do you start getting full body armour, those futuristic protective suits and Exoskeletons?

I’ve just done Sircaa.

[marble gyro]

Woah thatis so sick, I never knew they had a interactive map in this game, it's just like dayz!

[tranquil mantle]

The interactive map of stalker 2 online? Have you never used that?

The magpie map

[marble gyro]

Nope never knew it existed till now

[tranquil mantle]

Here I'll link it

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

Sorry it's called mapgenie idk why I called it magpie lol

[regal sinew]

Anyone else having issues downloading this latest patch? My downloads been sitting at 95% for over an hour and the download speed won’t go past 500kbs.

[cobalt fiber]

I don’t think there’s any game that doesn’t have an interactive map anymore tbh lmao

[tranquil mantle]

The stalker 2 one is quite helpful although I try not to use it too often

[marble gyro]

Yup its bugged

Blue chest, 9x18 and a sausage

[tranquil mantle]

Have you tried restarting? That's a a really random bug

[marble gyro]

I'll see If I can save scum it

I have a previous save luckily

[sly ocean]

Got it its 0183

[marble gyro]

9x18, sausage and buckshot

Guess I'm just having Terrible luck on a blue chest

[tranquil mantle]

Hey you're going up in the world, you got buck shot this time!

[marble gyro]

Can we have a stash rework? Like how the original games were where stashes respawn? They are randomly generated anyways, so it would be nice to have them respawn

Because having a one and done stash chance is kind of a bummer ngl

[tranquil mantle]

Tbf there is an insane amount of them

[mellow moss]

Is the stories untold questline bugged guys? I'm stuck after finding the tools :/

[hearty jay]

It's a double-edged sword, 'cause if they can respawn, that means they need to have multiple outcomes per playthrough instead of being seeded once, which means a lot of people will feel the incentive to cheese/savescum the stashes, instead of actually paying attention during their journey to find new stashes in odd places.

....In other words, their scarcity makes them precious, even if only some of them have pre-determined important loot.

If they can respawn freely, they instantly become less of a pleasant surprise and more of a mundane thing taken for granted.

....Or like in Generation Zero, they create a weird incentive to keep going back to locations just to beeline through stash locations over and over instead of actually exploring that immense map the devs put so much effort into.

[hearty jay]

...Basically, this.

The fact there's an insane amount of them is part of the incentive to keep exploring this absurdly huge map.

[grim wharf]

Can we make smoking an official thing in stalker 2

[grim wharf]

Me when I play Star Wars KOTOR 2

[marble gyro]

I mean we can still save scum them now, only difference is, it spawns as a one time deal

[marble gyro]

Yo yo, FOTOR

[grim wharf]

Kotor 2 is interesting items don't exist in shops until after you load into the area for the first time so if you didn't like what a vendor has the first time just reload the prior save before you loaded into said area

[ancient fractal]

Rise and shine sweet doto

[steel galleon]

Is the gonta quest related to snorks bugged?

[marble gyro]

I understand master difficulty has a economy problem....but why are 9x19 rounds 0 coupons?

Like sell them for 1 or 2 at least so we can have an incentive to making a bit more cash to meet with this unreasonable prices the zone offers

5.45x39 sells for 1 coupon

Buckshot is 3?

[weary hedge]

oh boy update time with does this update do?

[spare canopy]

Doesn't make sense... bug?

[marble gyro]

9x18 is 0 also

[spare canopy]

Wow!!

[marble gyro]

Prices are inflated like crazy

[hearty jay]

According to #📜┃gsc-answers message , the devs are aware and a fix is being worked on

[hearty jay]

There's a mod for that

[grim wharf]

I'm using the mod but would love something official

[marble gyro]

I understand the zone takes, but it should at least give in return

On master we struggle lol

[hearty jay]

Funny enough this might add complications to the game's rating in some regions, lol

'cause in some countries, booze is okay but tobacco depictions are severely restricted

And the audience for that feature is probably so small that leaving it to modders is probably the best course of action

[graceful dirge]

I was just going to say something along those lines, but then I found it curious that the actual ESRB rating is as follows:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB with Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, and Use of Alcohol and Tobacco. This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of a stalker investigating a mystery in a post-apocalyptic world. Players explore an open-world environment to complete objectives, interact with characters, and engage enemies (e.g., soldiers, mutated creatures) in frenetic firefights. Players use machine guns, rifles, and explosives to kill enemies that emit splatters of blood when shot. Some environments depict bloodstains on walls and large pools of blood underneath corpses. Anomalies in the environment can cause bodies and creatures to explode, resulting in chunks of flesh littering the ground; one sequence depicts decapitated heads on spikes. Players have the ability to kill civilians, though this can result in immediate retaliation from nearby characters; a cutscene depicts a bound man executed at close range. During the course of the game, players' character can consume alcohol, resulting in screen-blurring effects and the character swaying; one cutscene depicts players' character smoking a cigarette from a first-person perspective. The word “f**k” is heard in the game.

So we do already have some representation of tobacco being smoked mentioned in the rating, though it does specify that it's a single cutscene & certain important difference I guess between having it instead be a repeatable action

[tranquil mantle]

Man I love me some 3b NVG

[vale prairie]

Thanks Stalker 2 Team for the updates and hard work!!! We love u 😻

[feral sigil]

With all this time they spent fixing bugs they could probably have made stalker 3 by now lol

[hearty jay]

If you remember the first 3 games, the fact the game is this massive, this close to feature-complete, and with new extra content still being added is a miracle in itself

...Also always keep in mind that there were two pretty big things that happened during the middle of the development cycle that uhn.... kinda delayed this game a lot.

Plus a lot of these updates are for stuff we asked, such as NVGs, new difficulty mode, more stuff to explore, etc etc

[obtuse island]

ever since 1.8 i’ve found most npcs stuck running on the spot and i cant progress quests because they’re running so they can’t engage in dialogue

medulin is stuck and there’s no way around it

[marsh yacht]

Do enemies still shoot and detect you through walls ?

[feral sigil]

Bro i know all that it was just for the laugh, all the guys in this server know my love for GSC and how much i support them i already bought ultimate for ps5,standard edition for XBOX and OG trilogy on PS5 and PC

[hearty jay]

lol fair

[tranquil mantle]

Depending on what weapon and ammo the enemy is using wall penetration is still possible, but I haven't had any issues with enemy detection

[iron wind]

not really, but they do detect you through cracks

[hearty jay]

But really, I'm glad they're sticking to improving this game instead doing what a lot of dev teams do and just "welp, time to move to the next one, we'll tag this one as feature-complete, cheers"

[iron wind]

we are still waiting on MP and DLC, I'd say we are good with at least 3 years of patches from now

[feral sigil]

The game is near perfect now what are you talking about pepsi cola

[marble gyro]

Imo, mp is just okay

I mean in the original trilogy, it wasn't as good

[feral sigil]

People play on a 300$ PC and its GSC fault they cant run it well Lmfao

[marble gyro]

Yeah it would be fine here, but it's not really needed imo

[grim wharf]

True

[marble gyro]

Imo mp would be more so sweaty as call of duty(modern)

[feral sigil]

Call of duty is trash

Battelfield 6 the same

Arcade shooters with mid gunplay and realism

[marble gyro]

And nah man, we just got a dlc literally that other companies would charge right now, for free, 8 missions that adds 5+hrs of gameplay would easily be a $20 price tag on some other companies

[tranquil mantle]

I think it's safe to say COD has fallen much below mid realism atp

[marble gyro]

Battlefield is fun, cod is not

[feral sigil]

Very true

[unreal basin]

My internet is back so I can now update the game

[spiral cobalt]

Hey guys how do you actually start the stories untold quest? I've been in the burnt forest for like half an hour and havent gotten anything on the radio

[tranquil mantle]

Battlefield is definitely a lot more fun than COD but neither of them really intrigue me nowadays

[feral sigil]

Battlefield maybe fun but its still still an.arcade shooter with mid gunplay

[marble gyro]

Finish the first mission, then it should pop up as a pda message randomly

"Dynamically"

[graceful dirge]

Try visiting the locations circled here, I had mine pop up at southeastern-most one #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[feral sigil]

You want good gunplay you get either arma or tarkov

[hearty jay]

The last "fun" thing I've played from a CoD game was that Extraction PvE Zombies mode from a while ago, where they both embraced the absurd and put some incredible amount of gun customization available in the game.

....From there onwards it was all downhill

[spiral cobalt]

Alright thanks

[marble gyro]

I just got my cheeki breeki right now

[feral sigil]

Plain and simple

[marble gyro]

Flipping 10 of them flanked me

[tranquil mantle]

I used to play warzone competitively, but that was back during the pandemic. I've tried playing warzone a few times since then and just been so bored

[hearty jay]

Speaking of, I'd love to see a PvE extraction Stalker thing, it's one of my dream games

[marble gyro]

Pristine akm jammed on me

[hearty jay]

I'm not even talking about Warzone, I'm talking about that open-world PvE Modern Warfare zombies thing

[graceful dirge]

Not an extraction shooter but an expedition shooter lol

[hearty jay]

Yeah, something like that lol

Limited resources, gotta collaborate to grab supplies, guns and artifacts, etc etc

[marble gyro]

At that point it might as well be an extraction shooter, fighting for artifacts as a faction member

[feral sigil]

For single player games the best shooters are HALO,stalker,fear and Doom

[hearty jay]

Nope, that's the thing: no PvP, or PvP strictly optional.

We already have too many PvP extraction shooters, and the CoD one was basically the only PvE one, and right now it's basically dead

[feral sigil]

Those are the perfect 10s but there are lots of other good shooters too

Wolfenstein,metro titanfall as an example

[tranquil mantle]

Yeah I played that a bit too it also just seemed a little pointless

I think I've just out grown my interest in cod as a whole

[hearty jay]

As somebody who spends most of her time in Gunsmith Mode in any extraction shooter, I was in the Zombies mode for the guns and to test them around in wacky scenarios, lol

[hearty jay]

I think CoD grey-blob-ified itself out of most of its old fans' interest spheres as a whole.

[tranquil mantle]

If you like tinkering with guns have you played Delta Force?

[hearty jay]

Yes, and I left it because it's a cheating hellhole with terrible PvP design that incentivizes the existence of a hacker/cheater economy.

Like, to a baffling degree.

[digital pasture]

I don't get why we dont have vehicles in stalker 2. Almost all the roads are completely clear of both debris and anomalies, and are usable in Stalker lore. I mean, even the first scene has a truck in it 😭 Love the game but man the easily overencumbered running can be a pain

[marble gyro]

Now I, just cheeki their breeki

[hearty jay]

Arena Breakout is less so, but still far from perfect, and again, the fact it's mandatory PvP annoys me.

[tranquil mantle]

Yeah that's what I've heard, I literally never played it I just tinkered with their super indepth gun smith options and then deleted it for another game

[hushed imp]

its because when you enter the zone your driver's license doesnt count

[marble gyro]

Freaking play was massive, well placed grenade when they were flanking me, and shotgunned the last two that survived

[hearty jay]

Becaue that would require an entire vehicle physics simulation engine, and that's.... not trivial.

[marble gyro]

I dunno how you missed the springboard and vortex anomalies on the road

Because I've gotten caught off guard multiple times when in a gunfight

[hearty jay]

EA and Ubisoft can do it whenever they want because they have entire studios dedicated to driving stuff.

CDPR tried to do that with Cyberpunk and it took them until Phantom Liberty to finally nail the driving part of the game.

[digital pasture]

They were in Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, just cut them as they got rid of the chase scene in darkscape. Had to spawn em using debug. It aint a task they havent done already so its possible

[hearty jay]

SoC was a different era, different tech, different expectations.

[digital pasture]

Everywhere from Sirca and below, the roads are clear frfr

[digital pasture]

Im sure modders will make them a thing

with due time

[hearty jay]

You wouldn't want 2007-era driving physics on a modern game

[hushed imp]

Yes i do

The modded CoP are very fnny

[tranquil mantle]

I can't even imagine the bugs that could come from cars in the game

[digital pasture]

Fallout 4 and new vegas, modders made fully physic based vehicles and they work well. Stalker modding tools are just as abundant and the team keeps on adding more modding capability

[hearty jay]

Fallout is gamebryo-based, that's one of the most malleable game engines to have ever existed. If you pile enough scripts, you can do almost whatever you want in there (...and break the engine with a sneeze, but that's beside the point)

....Here? We're dealing with a custom version of Unreal 5, this thing is far less of a walk in the park.

Just ask the modders behind the bigger mods here.

[hushed imp]

What if i haked unreal 5 custom to add anything i want

[hearty jay]

I mean, if we're going by Calvinball rules...

[marble gyro]

We have that on dayZ

[hearty jay]

Yeah, the original DayZ was uhn... over a decade ago.

And the base engine already had vehicle physics, so... there was something to use underneath already

[marble gyro]

I'm talking about current dayZ standalone

[hearty jay]

Still made by Bohemia, so they already have the knowledge and codebase

[marble gyro]

Lmao, their game Arma has better Driving mechanics than dayZ

[marble gyro]

DayZ you are floating across the road, one turn would flip your vehicle if you don't hit the clutch before turning

[burnt bridge]

Not sure day z is exactly a modern game

[marble gyro]

Also Dogs in this are a huge menace, literally just saw a pack of them take down a burer

Bro did not stand a chance

[hearty jay]

"never underestimate a good Zerg rush"

[marble gyro]

What would win, a chimera or two pseudodogs?

And remember, pseudodogs have force fields

[tranquil mantle]

A chimera, it's much too fast for a Psuedo dog regardless of how many phantoms it has

It would eventually hit the right one and that would be lights out

[sick arch]

Pseudo dogs could be a tad more difficult. Out of all the AI brags that one felt undersold

[tranquil mantle]

They're smart forsure I just don't think it matters against a chimera, Psuedo dogs don't even hit very hard

[sick arch]

For sure. If they’re run and hide mechanic was better maybe 3-4?

[tranquil mantle]

Yeah that could be possible, I think in a fair fight it could take even more than that

[sick arch]

Yeah chimera is overpowering

[tranquil mantle]

Psuedo dog would probably wait for the chimera to sleep though then gang up

[lilac forum]

guys i have to admit something

[lilac forum]

im santa clause

[tranquil mantle]

What about a pack of 5 snorks vs a chimera?

[sick arch]

Ya I figured it would be more dogs to get the chimera to sleep tho

That one feels totally randomized lol like it could be either way multiple tests

[tranquil mantle]

I haven't really seen anyone or anything kill 5 snorks at once

[lilac forum]

would you rather fight 100 pseudo dog sized chimeras or 10 chimera sized pseudo dogs

[sick arch]

You still disappointed me realizing sombrero blood sucker was not real

[sick arch]

?? My first play through that was every other spawn

[tranquil mantle]

The former would literally be like hamsters on mega steroids screw that

[lilac forum]

what is that gun?

[hearty jay]

What about 3 controllers but with migraines, vs a burer that stubbed its toe?

[sick arch]

Real questions getting asked

[tranquil mantle]

Mine too, 5-6 and in certain areas they would spawn back to back

[lilac forum]

i would freak outr and ctrash out and die 39 times (both situations

[sick arch]

I’m a lil late but the raid mechanism was so bad lol ruined horror for me in stalker

[tranquil mantle]

I'd like to imagine controllers always have migraines but burers rarely stub their toe with their slow movement

[marble gyro]

Has anyone found any coupons in stashes lately?

[sick arch]

Burers are the mutant that I somewhat disagree with. Discount controller I feel. Out of all the mutants how did frog face boi come about

[lilac forum]

what dificulty do yall play on?

[hearty jay]

My first playthrough when going through the path to that Ward base, it was snorks galore

[digital pasture]

DayZ driving would be good if their server desync issues werent so bad

[tranquil mantle]

I'm on veteran this play through

[hearty jay]

Stalker difficulty. I'm here for the fun, not for frustration

[digital pasture]

Arma reforger driving is great

[marble gyro]

I'm on master(Veteran+)

[sick arch]

Just started a veteran kinda a stalker noob

[sick arch]

Lies

[lilac forum]

damn really? i only at uh Stalker mode lol

[digital pasture]

its 100x better than arma 3

[tranquil mantle]

Stalker was way way to easy from early mid game on, veteran is much more fun imo

[lilac forum]

imo stalker mode is almost too hard </3 ( i really suck )

[sick arch]

I think I let the horror aspect drive the gameplay in a good way. After getting jumped by multiple groups of blood suckers and snorks though? Killed the vibe

[marble gyro]

It's fun, since it allows you to save whenever you want instead of having to save only after leaving a trader hub

[digital pasture]

No longer do you die from a bush in arma going 10mph 😂 I do think vehicles would benefit stalker 2 though, even if its as basic as a bicycle or a minibike

[marble gyro]

Only downside is.....money is more rare than artifacts

[tranquil mantle]

Yeah idk I've still had a pretty easy time on veteran although certain areas are difficult. I really enjoy how much harder it is to make money and that you have to eat a lot more

[marble gyro]

I'm getting 7 days to die vibes from that sentence

[sick arch]

Don’t even

[digital pasture]

Im playing on veteran rn and theres been some crazy deaths. It has its challenge no doubt

[lilac forum]

i think veiccals should be not in the game normally or at least untill end game because it would make the game feel smaller with its massive sized map

[sick arch]

Let that title die to hopefully be rebought and reborn

[lilac forum]

is it bad i have 583 hours in 7dtd in the past 5 years

[weary hedge]

again

[ebon blade]

Ram 2 shotgun

[marble gyro]

It's really good tho, not the blood moon standalone game

[tranquil mantle]

Those exploding anomalys are quite annoying on veteran and above, they one shot you and a lot of the time you can't react quick enough

[lilac forum]

i will have to check it out, im personaly rocking the Spas and a GP37

[hearty jay]

Reminds me of Shadow of Chornobyl, when the first big jumpscare I had was during my first encounter with a Bloodsucker (I heard its snarly breathing from far away and thought it was a dog, then it was right in front of me and I insta-died).

....The second jumpscare, FAR more intense, was.... a Poltergheist. Because I saw a couple boxes floating near a ceiling vent in a way that looked like broken game physics ... then they flew towards me, headshot, insta-death. I jumped from my chair.

[sick arch]

I have a lot hours in it. Just wish there was some sort of progression in development

[marble gyro]

I mean they added jars back, and now there are storms that can kill you

[digital pasture]

I can understand that, though most of the map is open space of forest and fields to be honest. I mean, even giving us a way to permanently increase stamina would make me happy. The endurance artifacts help make the running simulator less a pain but it still be a pain when havin to run over a km

[lilac forum]

i would say its like the 2 week minecraft phase type game, very grindy, and its recipe system has been ass since they changed it to magazine based

[tranquil mantle]

I'm doing shot gun AR this run, did sniper AR last run. Surprised I didn't really mess with shot guns because they smack

[lilac forum]

i usually just watch Joe Bartalotzi while walking 1km, and i like to take in the places and kill some of the enimes along the way.

[sick arch]

It’s been fun for those random jump scares won’t lie. Going into one of the first basements in full darkness with the staircase in the middle. Looked around to see the flashlight not covering shit and realized idk if I could handle stalker lol not a typical horror player

[lilac forum]

shotguns smack but omg they are mostly only good with NVG because of the better aiming (i dont like the holosights

[hearty jay]

Yeah, I think people vastly underestimate how much stuff like vehicles and fast travel make a game's world feel a lot smaller.

[digital pasture]

Im weird, I dont like multitasking when playing a game or watching a show. I like to stay invested

[marble gyro]

Just chug 10 non stop energy drinks and watch skif have a heart attack

[digital pasture]

Thus im glued to the screen 😂

[sick arch]

Ide prefer some console optimization. Storms are discount emissions imo.

[tranquil mantle]

I rock minimal hud including no crosshairs, so I like the challenge of hip firing them

[lilac forum]

i only turn off my video when a cutscene plays because i have a low attention span and stuff and i just need noise 24/7

[digital pasture]

energy drinks dont make the run sim less of a pain :/ (well not enough at least for me)

[hearty jay]

Unless the world was made with that vehicle traversal in mind, like Far Cry 6 or Ghost Recon Wildlands

[lilac forum]

how do i do that?

[tranquil mantle]

Go to UI in the settings and you can turn whatever UI you want off

[lilac forum]

energy drinks increased regen + hercules = speed

[digital pasture]

ahh yea, im the opposite. I have high attention span lol

[lilac forum]

thats so cool!

[marble gyro]

I mean recent update is pretty good, I'm on ps5 and they are soon adding a mission list rehaul plus a new trader

[lilac forum]

im loving stalker 2 so much

[tranquil mantle]

I only run health bar and compass, I like not having an ammo counter because it makes fire fights more fun

[digital pasture]

Even then, it still takes like 10-15 mins to run a km, and thats without running into any obstacles

[marble gyro]

I play master difficulty, what's a Hud?

[sick arch]

That’s good news honestly. Heard Jan was getting a visual change.

[marble gyro]

She is

[hearty jay]

I run my compass with that mod that adds inter-cardinals and changes the fonts a bit, huge quality-of-life improvement

[digital pasture]

I have been enjoying my time with stalker 2 though. I preordered and played on release, and stopped playing at the swamps as game was buggy and swamps was terrible. Just came back, and made it past the swamps and been havin a blast

[marble gyro]

Oh yeah they brought wasps back

[sick arch]

I need pc to enjoy 7dtd i feel. I spend too much time base building for the nonsense of their heat map. Tone down the screamers late game ffs

[tranquil mantle]

Definitely wishing I could mod, I'm on ps5

[sick arch]

Bees?…I hope you mean bees lol

[digital pasture]

Modded 7 days to die is peak. the Tarkov gunplay overhaul mod is best

[tranquil mantle]

Might go back to PC gaming soon just for this game

[sick arch]

I hate you. Also appreciate letting me know this exists…one day

[marble gyro]

Swarms of them lol, but they only spawn in stumps when you get a honey drop

[digital pasture]

7 days to die with PiP scopes is so satisfying

😭🙏

[sick arch]

It’s a great idea I just feel bad for the company that bought it

Something they can’t really work on

[lilac forum]

i find it fun mapping out a path to get to places and i like the walking

[hearty jay]

Yeah, specially in that old engine when there was no such thing as moonlight or indirect lighting, it was your flashlight or NOTHING

[digital pasture]

Yea game is a crapshow now vanilla, but thats why modding scene been carrying it since Alpha 16 lol

[sick arch]

Ugh I need a pc. Ide spend another decade of gaming replaying modded titles lol

[digital pasture]

I played thousands of hours of dayz 2 mod, arma 3 exile, and dayz standalone, so running sims I've grown to hate 😂

[sick arch]

Like people asking for fallout remaster. I thought that’s been done a hundred times over by the mod community. Why not just buy content from them

[digital pasture]

I cant enjoy just running around in a game unless I got some sort of advanced movement like parkour, such as dying light

[lilac forum]

cause buying mods is kinda illegal i thought

[hearty jay]

heck, there's Fallout London

a fully featured game made by modders

[sick arch]

Which is on the previous 4 version no?

[marble gyro]

Yup

[digital pasture]

I just downloaded 4 to play that last night 😎

[sick arch]

Because of their newest “remaster”

[tranquil mantle]

Wdym?

[digital pasture]

The remaster for 4 was free on PC though no?

[hearty jay]

it's based on Fallout 4, but the engine is... basically still gamebryo

[marble gyro]

The remaster of fallout 4 is more broken than the game at launch

[lilac forum]

i thought it was illegbal to buy mods because games have a tos against it

[hearty jay]

wait, there's a "remaster" of Fallout 4?

[digital pasture]

No? Its basically just DLC

[tranquil mantle]

I think it depends on if you get permission or if the company is litigious in general

[lilac forum]

stalker 2 has made me feel so guilty >:

[digital pasture]

Anniversary Upgrade, like how skyrim did it

[sick arch]

I hate that I seen the trailer probably 5-6 years ago and still have never played lol the Bethesda musical was right. Why fix our games when the fans fix them for us?

[hearty jay]

Ah, the one that broke mod compatibility for a metric butt-ton of stuff

[ebon blade]

I don't know what you mean by this.

[digital pasture]

Now there are certain games that don't allow the selling of player-made content, and can be taken legal action against by the company if wanting to

[lilac forum]

guys i have a crazy theory, at the monothith part in stalker 2 where you see visions of the ward betraying you and you get into a firefight and then you "wake up" but your ammo is still lost, does this means its real?

[lilac forum]

i think Minecraft does that

[digital pasture]

No they dont, only some servers

There are servers on Minecraft where you can buy in-game content

Such as buying OP kits for say a bedwars server. Now Arma Reforger doesnt allow it

You cant sell player made content on Arma reforger, that goes for anything. Selling mods is prohibited and selling ingame content such as server packs are prohibited

[hearty jay]

Really, first time I opened Skyrim Anniversary Edition I was like "great, 70% of my mods don't work anymore, and the ones that do need a lot of work"

[sick arch]

You replied finally! Sorry your name along with a picture you posted. I looked at the picture buzzed for about 3 seconds thinking that the bloodsucker in the photo had a sombrero.

I randomly was excited about blood sucker sombrero mod being a thing until I realized it was your compass and hud making a similar shape.

Idk how many lone star stalkers lurk here lol

[lilac forum]

o

[digital pasture]

Think that was everyones reaction 😂😂😂 I'm unsure of how it went for fallout 4. I heard console players had it rough as they had to rebuy the game for the upgrade lol. Pretty sure PC got the update/upgrade for free 😂😂😂

[tranquil mantle]

Any AR416 enjoyers in chat? I have legit never used it, always find a better gun before I have enough 5.56 for it

[lilac forum]

i havnt found one so, no.

[hearty jay]

I don't use 5.56 guns at all, lol

[sick arch]

Clusterfluck only pretty much

[hearty jay]

Malyuk my beloved

[digital pasture]

GP37 🙏🙏🙏

[lilac forum]

gp37 my main gujn!!!

[sick arch]

What am I missing with the gp37?

[digital pasture]

It do be fire

[hearty jay]

...I find it very difficult to use the "fantasy" names of the guns, being a gun nut myself lol

[digital pasture]

Barely any recoil, high dmg 5.56, and good range with a preinstalled mid-long range scope

[sick arch]

Ah makes sense put like that

[hearty jay]

but yeah, G36 was my gun of choice for most of the very first Stalker game, and would've been in Stalker 2 if it wasn't for the fact you can get a Malyuk really early nowadays

And even though I love the G36, I'm a sucker for bullpups

[digital pasture]

it do be like that but it is what it is 😂 They didnt wanna pay out companies for the real counterpart names which I dont blame. Rockstar paid MILLIONS just to have some songs put in their games, to where they wouldnt even use real car names lmao

[tranquil mantle]

None of their variations do enough damage for me to want to use them, but aesthetically all I want to do is carry a full modded ar416/ SOFMOD

[sick arch]

Yeah hard to argue with the shape and overall aesthetic of a fully upgrade AR16

[digital pasture]

Thoughts on the m14 EBR?

[sick arch]

Wish it was more useful ngl

[digital pasture]

I picked one up and been debating on repairing it as I use a lynx as my secondary. Im rockin saiga lynx rn, and swapping my lynx out with combatant at times of need

[tranquil mantle]

The SOFMOD looks so dang beautiful man but it's damage is dookie

[sick arch]

Hehe yaaaaa

Don’t drink and stalker kids

[tranquil mantle]

I already hit the stash with a Kharod and NVG 3B too lol. Haven't even finished with garbage

[digital pasture]

the combatant is such a good gun 😭🙏

[sick arch]

Yeah I’ve seen the debacle about weapon vs ammo damage in the game. Can’t say I’ve played enough to chime in

[tranquil mantle]

Anyone defeated the Master in The Arena on veteran or harder?

[digital pasture]

Found it at like beginning of the game and it still shreds after reaching Sirca

[lilac forum]

how did you get it?

[sick arch]

No but with the AK there’s a cheese spot on his spawn podium I found by accident

[hearty jay]

Actually at this point a lot of it is mostly legacy reasons; like, there's a lot of guns in this game where the companies involved don't even exist anymore, or other games do manage to feature them with simpler names with no problem.

...But for people who have been here since Shadow of Chornobyl days... "GP37" or "Viper-5" (...with the straight mag and mirrored receiver just like the original) have a certain "affective memory" aspect to it

[digital pasture]

I think its the one you get from the Sgt at the ward if you side with him and show him the Monolithic PDA

[tranquil mantle]

Personally I'd definitely prefer ammo damage like I believe tarkov has over gun damage, it doesn't make sense that a Dnipro does so much more damage than an AK94 when they use the same ammo

[lilac forum]

lwokey i prolly sold it or smth ore just got rid of it

[digital pasture]

You prob didnt get it tbh. I think you have to have another prerequisite as well from choosing to side with Richter on a side quest

[lilac forum]

ive always alliged myself to the ward

they havnt hurt me yet

[digital pasture]

Odd, he shouldve put it on the table for you, maybe you didnt pick it up 😂 May still be there

[sick arch]

First time playing it was confusing late game trying to pick a weapon. I looked at the sofmod too thinking I could go back to it. Game feels weirdly balanced late game but what doesn’t ig

[golden gulch]

So it really is 1.8
When 1.8.2 then? Super Burers and super Poltergeists fix when?

[lilac forum]

i keep thinking burers is burgers

[lilac forum]

prolly, i dotn pay attention to things.

[sick arch]

Burger toes anyone?

[digital pasture]

I just been using the weapons with the most damage and range ngl 😂

[tranquil mantle]

For how easy it is to get a Dnipro or Kharod it's suprising that they're the very top of the ARs

[digital pasture]

that and if they have an integral suppressor 🙏 I need to try the vss still

[sick arch]

This is why the ebr felt more or less useless lol

[digital pasture]

that makes sense 😂

[tranquil mantle]

Vss is fine imo but not steady enough for a sniper

[sick arch]

Mid game item you pass over so easily

[lilac forum]

fora:

[sick arch]

That scope for it not being able to go on the assault rifle variants is criminal

[tranquil mantle]

Fora is good but it's definitely a step below the Dnipro by a lot

[lilac forum]

i just cant stand its scope that it comes with

[tranquil mantle]

Which one?

[digital pasture]

I'll never understand why its considered a sniper when its a close-mid range weapon 😭

[sick arch]

Is damage for under barrel grenade launchers worth it? I wanted to consider it for late game rifles but why? Grenades grow on trees?

[lilac forum]

holosight, the box one.

[digital pasture]

I use VSS for close combat

[hearty jay]

in fairness, early on the Malyuk was far harder to get, because the arena exploit wasn't a thing yet

[tranquil mantle]

For the Kharod?

[hearty jay]

you had to trek up until the cooling towers to get an early Malyuk back in the early days

[sick arch]

I did the arena and idk if I got it

[lilac forum]

the Fora-221, every single one ive seen has a box holo scope and i cant stand it

[tranquil mantle]

Well the scoped model is definitely a mid range sniper, the Lavina that doesn't have a scope is more short mid

[tranquil mantle]

You can remove any attachments

[lilac forum]

im afraid that hasnt came to mind, im dumb.

[tranquil mantle]

I prefer the red dot but I like the holographic as well

[tranquil mantle]

Yeah you can remove the attachments on any guns except some of the unique weapons

[hearty jay]

the Chimera fight will give you either a Malyuk or an HK416, and you can use that exploit to toss the gun on the floor and take it with you after the fight

....but early on the arena was bugged, so that choice didn't exist lol

so the Malyuk was only obtainable in two spots: in the cooling towers, or (as was later discovered) in the Red Forest

[lilac forum]

i find it really hard to aim and the ghosting on the holographic is annoying

[lilac forum]

is there a unique version of the gp37?

[tender ginkgo]

Did you do thing where you throw the guns and armour through both of the doors you have to go through in order exit the arena

[tranquil mantle]

I haven't experienced any ghosting

[digital pasture]

Yea, though it also has full auto capability. I'd consider it a Battle Rifle more than a sniper

[hearty jay]

it was added in 1.8

[lilac forum]

only on the holographic sight is there ghosting for me.

[sick arch]

To both of yas no lol I wasn’t aware at all I was just finishing side missions. I’ll keep track of it this playthrough

[tranquil mantle]

They just added the GP37V2 which is a version that comes with a suppressor and a different scope, along with only being able to fire single and burst

[hearty jay]

it comes with a suppressor and the 2x sight you see on the Vector

[tender ginkgo]

I'm just after finishing the arena quest and I got given a kharod instead of a 416 when fighting the chimera

[lilac forum]

where do i find this

[tranquil mantle]

You have to complete the new quest line

[lilac forum]

is ti possible to do after the monolith turns back on

[tranquil mantle]

No idea, the quest just dropped and I haven't done it yet. Go hang around the Burnt Forest and see if you get the signal/ quest prompt

[tender ginkgo]

How do you start the new quests?

[lilac forum]

at my current point im super far away from the burnt forest

[hearty jay]

yeah, the other option was the Carmel, not the HK416, my bad (...I think, maybe the 3 are in the random pool)

[lilac forum]

also guys am i dumb for selling my Lynx rifle?

[hearty jay]

I mean, considering you have an infinite stash, I wouldn't sell any unique guns

Lynx was the SVD or the SVU? I forgot

[tender ginkgo]

Unless its changed since the PS5 release i reloaded my save before the chimera fight a couple of times to see what I would get given and it was always either a kharod or a dnipro

[tender ginkgo]

SVD you get from noontide

[lilac forum]

i didnt know the stache was lik ean ender chest so i just sold everything i couldnt afford to carry

[hearty jay]

oh, yeah, then I mistook the Carmel (Kharod) option for the HK416

[tranquil mantle]

Just take a guide to rostok or malachite and you'll only be like 1 km away

@lilac forum is this your first playthrough

[lilac forum]

i think im right next to malachite </3

[lilac forum]

yes

[tranquil mantle]

Well you're pretty close then

[tender ginkgo]

Do you know of any other arena fights where you can get given different weapons each time you do it other than the final arena fight?

[tranquil mantle]

My advice would be don't rush the main story and really enjoy the world and side content

[lilac forum]

can i just take a guide to zalazia from like malachite

[hearty jay]

I'm really not sure; I guess the sniper fight can have different sidearms? I got a USP and a M700 in mine

[modest dawn]

Ya know I just found a blood sucker orgy at old mill