☢┃stalker-general

[proven hollow]

thats up to your decisions in the game, they can even become your friends

[shell flax]

Aside from the blatant propaganda, no. Monolith kills anything not them on sight.

[violet dune]

this show noah pseudo dog also had puppies https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/b/b4/Pseudodog_pups.png/revision/latest?cb=20100725015100

[shell flax]

Ward you just pissed em off siding with Spark or Strelok lmao

[copper radish]

sure did 🙂

and I own that, no problems there

fair enough

[violet dune]

for me there is no good ending in s2

[maiden apex]

Spark pissed me off a little I thought they had more substance but it seems they just want to sabotage the Ward and have no real plan

[copper radish]

but the monolith, I don't remember pssing off the monolith...?

[shell flax]

They hate everyone by default

[maiden apex]

They’re always hostile

[copper radish]

aaahh OK

[maiden apex]

Hostile to every faction but their own

[shell flax]

Quite literally if you aren’t a monolithian, you’re their worst enemy by default

[copper radish]

I thought only the bandit faction was red by default, looks like there's 2 factions

[maiden apex]

I forget the name of the faction of bandits that were even outcasted by the bandits, they’re like more evil bandits

[copper radish]

inb4 yall tell me even the bandits can be befriended

[violet dune]

i wish bandits was like snakes who could be doing deals with anyone if they saw any opportunity

[proven hollow]

sin

[shell flax]

Every time someone mentions Sin I just hang my head at this point

[vapid galleon]

😏

[maiden apex]

No the ones in clear Sky

[vapid galleon]

Renegades

[maiden apex]

Yesss those guys

[proven hollow]

ooh the tutorial bandits

[shell flax]

Renegades were just reskinned bandits, I don’t think they had much lore

[vapid galleon]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[shell flax]

The ‘more evil bandits’ thing comes from mods as far as I recall

[violet dune]

yea its like bandits from all different factions

[vapid galleon]

yeah, what's the difference between'em

[proven hollow]

yeah, sin is all cut content re-introduced in mods

[maiden apex]

Oooohh yeah I was watching a video about Gamma factions and I assumed they held the same characteristics as the base games

[shell flax]

No not even remotely

[vagrant pewter]

Being "Less" Evil is very different from being "good"

[proven hollow]

evil and good is a spectrum, right? if you're on the far side of the "good" in the given spectrum, you're good

[vagrant pewter]

all depends upon what the spectrum means to you. everyone applies their personal spectrum to interpret the world thru their lens & filter.

[copper radish]

but if it's a spectrum, there must be a point where you flip over from 'good' to 'evil' -- and once you're evil, you're evil

[violet dune]

for someone killing others to benefit himself or benefit for the group could be good, it depends on morals

[ruby gale]

I know a few people on the spectrum that see the world through a different view

[copper radish]

not that kind of spectrum we're on about Monkey 😛

[proven hollow]

it's the spectrum he's most familiar with

[maiden apex]

Yeah red dead honor system 🤔

[ruby gale]

Go go gadget autism fingers

[maiden apex]

Once you’re less than halfway good you’re somewhat evil I suppose

[violet dune]

maybe neutral? you maybe wont kill him but you also wont help either

[ruby gale]

I like to think everyone that does handsigns in the ghettos and Naruto is just autistic

[maiden apex]

This is 100% science-backed good and evil determination

What if you’re evil and you do a good deed 🤔 you become less evil

[copper radish]

we are veering off track here, into the weeds of philosophy and morality

[proven hollow]

if only morality could be laid out on a numerical scale

[maiden apex]

We need to control the Noosphere

[ruby gale]

Who needs morals when that guy has something i want

[copper radish]

⬆️ bandit 😛

[proven hollow]

that's the spirit, F that guy

[maiden apex]

Me killing every stalker i come across to see what they have loool

[violet dune]

like those youtubers, feeds homeless man for 10$ and puts a video which brings 2-3k in revenue. seems like its nice and a good job, but its done to profit himself

in expense of homeless

[copper radish]

I should make a save and try to p1ss off the whole Zone... I mean everyone

[ruby gale]

Just stop giving homeless people money, give them food/shit to survive

[copper radish]

no bets how long I'd survive 😅

[ruby gale]

Bethesda games in a nutshell

[proven hollow]

Just stop homeless people, simple

[ruby gale]

With how selfish humans are? No way

[proven hollow]

Zone honestly has a huge homeless people problem

[maiden apex]

Just stop people 🤔

The whole Zone is homeless

[violet dune]

zone also have huge home problem

[maiden apex]

Skif: I’m. homeless

[proven hollow]

what? i didn't say stop people from being homeless, i said stop homeless people

[violet dune]

stomp homeless people... wow

there could be some beggers in the zone there you could give few coupons at the bar

[copper radish]

arm the homeless

[proven hollow]

are you mad? they'll come for the people with a home! i have a home!

[copper radish]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[copper radish]

they are armed in the Zone anyway 😛

[proven hollow]

Let's compromise, we'll leg the homeless

[proven hollow]

and look how that's working out for the few who do have a home in the zone!

[copper radish]

armed to the absolute teeth so they are

[copper radish]

and herein would I like to circle back to those fellows who wish for "base building" in the Zone 👀

ridiculous 😄

[proven hollow]

wouldn't stand a chance, too many homeless bums in the zone

[copper radish]

my Skif is the bummiest of them all

or... if you want to look at this from a different angle... he has a bed in every settlement!

he's like a rat, settles anywhere other humans do

[proven hollow]

of course he is, he only recently became homeless, he hasn't accepted it yet, problem is he keeps getting stuck in the "anger" part of the phases of acceptance...

[copper radish]

angry and armed... volatile combination
my Skif carries 3 different weapons, usage depending on how far away is the thing I want to stop existing

[ruby gale]

With the weapon in any slot mod he becomes a whole lot more dangerous

[marble gyro]

Fell asleep at work, got praised for somehow completing 2500 units

[copper radish]

used to be 4! I stashed the Kharod so my absolute baseline kit is around 50 kg

[oblique igloo]

because he wants his house back because of the area and therefore he can't accept that no one will blame him immediately after doing all the experiments often mention Caribbean experiment several times.

[marble gyro]

I honestly must have some crazy Sleepwalker ability or something

[ruby gale]

Imagine getting a chance to fall asleep at work

[copper radish]

I just hope they were not units of alcohol 👀

j/k I know they were 🤣

whoa 😲 what a conversation stopper...

[oblique igloo]

anyway hello robo how is it going with the new house has the work finished have you made a stalker style pc studio have you created the area in the house😅

[ruby gale]

Jobs are scary, makes everyone scatter

[oblique igloo]

#📸┃screens_and_videos messagefaust

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[marble gyro]

Nah, maybe 200 units of bulleit burboun

But majority the rest was jewelery and clothing

[copper radish]

sounds like you offloaded at a fence

[ruby gale]

Nothing to interesting today, just finished up a brake job on a dully and changed steel semi wheels over to shiny aluminum ones

And now one of the trucks a coworker worked on has reduced power, service esc, and surges under throttle after he changed the fuel pump

[copper radish]

that's less than ideal

[ruby gale]

Its a newer truck too, 2020 gmc Denali

Technically its a sierra but it has Denali badging

[hardy rune]

is the cafe story chat gbt guys

like fr

[spare canopy]

Then you can get armed and take it back 😄

Finally got a liquid rock

[cobalt fiber]

My nostalgia replays are still a thing

What a gem this was

[spare canopy]

What game was that?

[cobalt fiber]

Lost & Damned

I can’t be arsed replaying base GTA 4

But the DLCs were always a bit more fast paced

I’ve played base 4 way too many times to be able to enjoy a full replay again

[spare canopy]

Yeah, not a lover GTA games... Okay, murdering people with a minigun is fun for a bit, but I just never really got... RD2R on the other hand... I need to play that.

[cobalt fiber]

4 was good shit

Good dark story

[spare canopy]

Does eltro protection work in this game? I have like 3 bars and still instadeath

[cobalt fiber]

TLAD was also the best one for soundtrack

The rock station specifically

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper amongst others

[marble gyro]

Hell yeah, I got tomorrow off

[marble gyro]

3 bars only means, a boost in resistance, you would need a lot

[marble gyro]

Lol nah man, I'm a ICM

[twilit heath]

This Question has probably been asked and answered a thousand times over.
But does anyone know how i don't have the Return Mechanism Sleeve Tightener (Integral-A) unlocked, even though the corpse in Diodes workshop is empty? According to MapGenie, the Blueprint was supposed to be on it (also in SIRCAA, but since that's inaccessible it's out of the question).
I would really like my Achievement, but I don't feel like starting a new game and collecting all 77 Blueprints again.

[marble gyro]

Thinking about buying a steam deck

[spare canopy]

A friend got one, seems to like it.

[marble gyro]

Oh fr? I just want to play Final fantasy 13 without it crashing all the time

Like the unofficial patch just messes everything up

[main jewel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1315695093025472513/1336258239284772874/F86D0718-0DDA-4079-93A1-7337FAED6FAA.gif

[spare canopy]

What scopes fit on the 1911 scope mount?

[faint prism]

afaik only Collimator Sight, maybe some 2x scope as well, but that's unlikely

[main jewel]

pptth

[faint prism]

I've had literally the same problem, you will find this blueprint in SIRCAA, it is expected that the corpse doesn't have it

[spare canopy]

I will double check

The scope is nice

[hardy rune]

blep

[ruby gale]

[main jewel]

wait i just found a stash ive never seen before

it has a free svu

rpm

and another gun

and its like underground

and the fact its in yaniv means that you can get a full durability svu right as you leave the lesser zone

thats insane

OH MY FOD AND IT HAS THE SVU EXTENDED MAG AND SUPRESSOR IN IT

GOOD GOLLY

[marble gyro]

Thats crazy hype

[spare canopy]

Who the hell did you pay for that 😄

[shell flax]

Oh you found the Merc stash in Yaniv?

[main jewel]

yuhh

though i absolutely demolished the mercs with shahs mate

i was trying to do the little quest in that village

and then i did some exploring and then boom stash

i have every code for stashes and doors rhat are available in a notebook so

another code labeled

woohoo

[carmine sequoia]

[charred nova]

shahs mate got crazy buffed

[main jewel]

yeassss its amazing and with oxa OOOUGGHH

my whole screen is covered

[charred nova]

oh ?

[main jewel]

i ment what i said

[charred nova]

[hardy rune]

#📺┃media message where is this cafe? or is coming out in the update

[hardy rune]

[spare canopy]

You can walk around the whole of the cooliing tower now, that is cool, but they got rin of the little setup around the leap of faith, which I liked

[violet dune]

GSC expanded area or something?

[spare canopy]

not as far as I am aware, you can just walk around the whole of the cooling tower... but removed the nice little touch

[violet dune]

you could always do this, no?

near cooling towers i think merc base

in the farm to the east

[main jewel]

its in the game

i wish they wouldve talked about the pripyat bar

its out of bounds and cut so

[carmine sequoia]

gulp…

[main jewel]

gulp

[carmine sequoia]

Don’t copy me…

[main jewel]

🌩️

[carmine sequoia]

🌩️

Wut are levels forrr… got a dm from wolf saying that im level 2 now

[main jewel]

roles

lvl 50 gives u master

[carmine sequoia]

Woohoo

[main jewel]

you cam semd images at lvl 50

[marble gyro]

The power

[urban meadow]

guh

[empty hare]

tfw only level 19

[marble gyro]

So hyped to get my switch 2 tomorrow

I got the Monke game

[carmine sequoia]

THATS SO FAR AWAYYYYoouuugh

[visual mortar]

im melting your eyes with a heat lamp

[main jewel]

me next

[carmine sequoia]

[main jewel]

aint that far

[carmine sequoia]

That’s 48 levels away wdymmm

[kindred fable]

It basically means that you will never ever be able to send them pictures, lol

[carmine sequoia]

It’s so over

[kindred fable]

Just send them to #💬┃en_offtop and link them here

[carmine sequoia]

Woohoo

[hardy rune]

hell yeah!

[junior niche]

@dense kindle is a bot.
They joined the server 8 minutes ago and added me. I don't know them.

[pastel bolt]

Should I spend the time to download anomaly or what

[junior niche]

ye it's sick

[pastel bolt]

Bet

What’s the difference between anomaly and gamma though?

[junior niche]

I honestly can't remember, you should probably google it but they have a few things I think

[pastel bolt]

Which do you play or like better?

[junior niche]

They're honestly really good packs

[pastel bolt]

Okay Ima get anomaly

Thanks

[junior niche]

@pastel bolt according to this guy on Reddit:

Anomaly = Call of Chernobyl + Misery + 64bit OpenXray Engine, many many other changes and player options. Made by the Anomaly team, it's also a platform for various mods.

Gamma = Anomaly + various mods, tweaked to the liking of its creator.

Everybody has their own taste for what the zone should be like, hence there are modpacks like gamma, escape from pripyat, etc.

[pastel bolt]

Oh Okayy

[twilit heath]

So it's actually missable, damn the guide I was using. I guess my 100% Achievements will have to wait until a few updates have dropped and I feel like another playthrough.
Thank you!

[pastel bolt]

Because I heard efp was more shooting combat and I lowkey wanted that but didn’t know if it was apart of anomaly or what

[junior niche]

Also, the mods can be pretty performance heavy. I strongly recommend you have a good computer if you want the graphics to be up (because god damn do they make Stalker look beautiful with Ray tracing and other stuff, that's up to you though)

[slim oracle]

To counter the heavy performances, theres the ao engine mod that help a lot with the performances and to put it simply its a free FPS mod

[proven hollow]

Monolith is the greatest, all of you should bow down to their glory.

[marble gyro]

Nah

[slim oracle]

But what kind of monolthian are you ? Pre or post ccon death ?

[marble gyro]

If I wanted a psychosis trip and relive a fake fantasy, I would just hit the fent needle

So monolith can suck ma ballz

[proven hollow]

post, glory to Faust

[slender lion]

Hey, how to mount colimator on saiga? Theres no upgrade by Harpya, but i found colimator that says it could be mounted on that weapon

[marble gyro]

Colimator is like a compact red dot sight

You can put it on the three line rifle

Did you try upgrading the gun to put a rail mount?

[slender lion]

I have no rail mount upgrade in offer

[marble gyro]

It's under scope mount

[slender lion]

Ah, im blind af xdd

Thanks

[stuck grove]

Who is paying off mercs and where can I kill him.

50 cent? Elon Musk? Hasbro CEO?

[slim oracle]

Theres already a dovetail mount model available for the trophy, why do we get that abomination of dust cover with picatiny, i cant get the logic and im legit mad about it

[faint prism]

Oh, I thought you mean SIRCAA is not accessible yet
yeah, those guides are pretty outdated, that specific zubr and saiga blueprints are not missable anymore (I guess this Integral blueprint was also moved at some point)
You can write a request to support, maybe it was not an expected change (I don't see it in patch notes) and they will fix it

[ocean cliff]

Do you guys like stalker clear sky

[cobalt fiber]

No, i lobe clear sky

[oblique igloo]

the one I liked the most was Call of Prypiat, however the other two are also fantastic masterpieces of the time

[robust pendant]

Yes

It has many inconsistencies gameplay and story wise but its enjoyable

[charred nova]

clear sky is the best of the original trilogy

[robust pendant]

Where's the false alarm

I need the false statement alarm!!!

[cobalt fiber]

Which ones should i go for?

Think I’m leaning towards #2

[smoky hawk]

looks uncomfortable asf

[cobalt fiber]

Nah TNs are comfy

I’ve got some Shox for daily use now but I’ve had them too long

Which is why I lean to the greys I think cos the red is very sameish

[smoky hawk]

daily use?

just get some boots

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah casual daily I tend to rock the trainers cos I wear a lot of sportswear

And got a couple pairs of timberlands for when in jeans

[smoky hawk]

timbs?

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah got a proper boot pair and a more casual type half boot half trainer

[faint prism]

#❔┃achievements-discussion message

[shell flax]

Orientation in half an hour, let’s see how this goes

[twilit heath]

NICE! Thanks for the heads up, is there a confirmed date for the patch yet?

[faint prism]

no, but I guess it should be released around February/March, along with the engine update

[charred nova]

bros got them womens shoes

[charred nova]

timbs are mid irsh setters are peak

[smoky hawk]

I just use Catterpillars tbh

[charred nova]

i thought you were joking but no

if im operating heavy machinery i gotta look the part

[smoky hawk]

Cat is good for Work Boots but their Everyday Offerings are literally the same as Timbs but at the actual reasonable price

[shell flax]

I’ve just got some steel toe sketchers I got as a gift

[flint prairie]

hey is anyone else's engine.ini tweaks suddenly not working on steam version?

[charred nova]

steel toe heelies

[charred nova]

how much

[smoky hawk]

I got mine for 100 bucks

[sharp turtle]

hello

[charred nova]

this is what peak performance looks like

consider your work flow optimized

[charred nova]

oh thats way less than i paid

[potent knot]

This is funnier than the military pogo sticks

[charred nova]

dude if those were a real thing i might buy them

imagine how fast i could move around the work area

i could damage so many custom cars and my self in record time

[lost needle]

Afaik there are 2 missable upgrades, you gotta do a loner playthru for em

[twin stratus]

Is it possible for snorks to spawn behind you when you get the unreachable stash? I’ve been tryna get over my fear of snorks and I wanna make sure they don’t suprise me

[cobalt fiber]

I like dewalt for work boots

Cat is good but I find dewalt has more comfort for me

[charred nova]

these are my daily drivers

except for when im driving

[cobalt fiber]

Unc shoes

[charred nova]

when im driving socks and sandals

[cobalt fiber]

what size are you jack

[charred nova]

9.5 double wide

which is why finding shoes is tuff

[cobalt fiber]

the angle of the pic makes them look so small haha

[charred nova]

most places don't make double wide

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I have to compromise cos I’m wide fit but the stuff I like is never wide

[charred nova]

i tried getting whites boots

i really wanted a pair

but they literally do not make them in my size

a size big enough to fit my feet is either too long or too narrow

like bro i had to get dress shoes for a funeral

i had to get a size 12.5

to find something wide enough to fit my feet

literally walking around the funeral in clown shoes

[flint prairie]

so back on topic has anyone figured out a way to get engine.ini tweaks working again

[charred nova]

does making the file read only not work

[flint prairie]

not that i could see

and the even weirder thing is shadow tweaks on engine.ini seem to work

and certain foliage quality ones

but like view distance/ lod/ foliage distance settings dont work anymore

the only thing that does work for this is mods like ultra + but then you get steam achievements disabled

[charred nova]

there is a mod to make them work again

[flint prairie]

ya i heard about them, just felt like i was still ruining my game save doing this. i guess i will try that out, though i do still think we should be given the options to change these settings past vanilla. i prefer unmodded games and im not even an achievment hunter

the big thing i worry about is if multiplayer truly does launch how items transfering over will be affected if a player is modded

like will modded players not be able to transfer items over to multiplayer

[charred nova]

i doubt single player and multiplayer will be connected in anyway

multiplayer will be some basic tdm mode

thats it

[flint prairie]

the thing is when you look at the items that come with ultimate edition it says "transferrable to multiplayer"

[charred nova]

who knows what that means

we are so far removed from what ever the original blueprints for this game may have been

that might end up meaning literally nothing

[feral sigil]

Hello

[flint prairie]

fair

honestly it would be wild if they made it like that

or even better a dayz type multiplayer mode. open world large player count servers

[charred nova]

its not anything like that

best you can hope for is a slightly expanded on version of the multiplayer in the original trilogy

[flint prairie]

how do you know? because my best guess was simple TDM too

[charred nova]

gsc said so

its not co op

its nothing that could be considered co op related

[flint prairie]

dayz isnt co-op lol

[charred nova]

it esentially is

[flint prairie]

ya no i would want straight up PVP survival experience in open world with many players if it was me

where you could co-op if you wanted but it was pvp too

[charred nova]

thats not what were getting

[robust pendant]

I would want a good game fr

[flint prairie]

what no it isnt at all. its KOS 99% of the time

[charred nova]

you can team up with other players hence co op

[flint prairie]

thats not what the definition of co-op is. co-op means strictly co-op no PVP.

[charred nova]

like at this rate we would be lucky to get multiplayer at all

[flint prairie]

DayZ is sandbox PVPVE survival

[charred nova]

thats not what we are gonna get bro

[flint prairie]

yes you can choose to play with others, doesnt mean its co-op

[charred nova]

look up footage of the original stalker multiplayer

thats what were getting

[flint prairie]

bruh i get it already lmao i was saying it would be cool jesus

[charred nova]

im sure someone will mod it though eventually

[flint prairie]

modding a DayZ like experience would most likely be unfeasible since it would require many players just to fill a server, and niche mods generally not only dont have the public interest required for this but i doubt most modders have the money to throw at upkeeping the servers

would be cool though if they did

[charred nova]

they gotta finish the game first

[visual mortar]

they should finish building my mile long compound so i can have friends over

[charred nova]

true how else are we gonna play split screen double dash

[visual mortar]

I'll have a warehouse on the grounds and in it I'll build my own data center

[charred nova]

bros gonna run grok on his own server

[potent knot]

Halo multiplayer but stalker

[charred nova]

so full of micro transactions and loot boxes

[smoky hawk]

CS Mult

[weary estuary]

just got the nonstop energy drinks from ukraine and they're actually pretty good

[charred nova]

was it worth the 30 bux a can

[weary estuary]

it was 7 bucks a can

i got 2 of each

my nickname makes me wish i had more very berry trollis 🙁

[weary estuary]

go to chernobyl.shop on ig

[charred nova]

i don't have instagram

but i also don't want non stop that badly

but im glad they can be had for reasonable money now bro i swear leading up to launch they were asking crazy money for those drinks over seas

[cobalt fiber]

Like that Prime energy phase

[charred nova]

i saw it in a random shop the other day for the first time in ages

[graceful dirge]

I wasn't as interested in trying them as I was in just having the cans lol so I had ordered some empty ones at much cheaper cost, though poked through emptied from the bottom instead of tab popped for display purposes

[charred nova]

bro drank it all out the bottom

he doesn't play by the rules

[dusky pawn]

I think I can buy em for like 1 dollar or smth

Pretty sure they just taste like redbull aka like every default taste of energy drink

[vapid galleon]

?

[tall hawk]

me and my friend were in Walmart once and they had this prime display, we were joking about how prime would give you AIDs and some kid put the prime he had back on the shelf 😭

we put that kid on the right path that day 🙏 it's like we prevented him from doing drugs

[visual mortar]

HELL YEAH!

[visual mortar]

but less illegal

[violet dune]

bought 20 games on steam, didnt started any of them x.x

[visual mortar]

i bought 40 games on steam but i hate video gamrs

[violet dune]

good purchase

i need to stop buying

[charred nova]

Grok please generate an image of Tampico sky jumping from the Empire State Building

[harsh jungle]

chat kinda dead

[charred nova]

Chat better start moving or I’m gonna over draft all y’all’s debit cards

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/diablo-4-necromancer-gif-8445608852674654361

[desert mauve]

Beat ya to it, already in the negatives

[hardy totem]

Rise, my dead chat members

[ruby gale]

I literally tried thinking of something to say to this, and for the first time in my life I got nothing, except a racial joke but thats a no no

[charred nova]

Yah I’m hear to collect my well and owed well fair money from your taxes

[ruby gale]

That and im busy changing 28 ambulance tires/rims around

[charred nova]

Bruh what

Every ambulance hit a curb at once

[ruby gale]

Company that preps chassis for ambulances sends the chassis for liquid springs instead of leafs and wheels to powder coat them black, this time they brought 14 gray steels to put on 14 black steels

[charred nova]

When are they gonna start ls swapping ambulances

[ruby gale]

Hopefully never, it normally takes a year or 3 to get one chassis fully converted

And half of that is waiting for a different chassis to get finished

[charred nova]

Bro how do we save any lives moving so slowly

[desert mauve]

Magic

[copper radish]

probably through the sheer determination of a few individuals

[charred nova]

True I mean I bet working for such a firm is a good paying job

[copper radish]

those individuals, who pretty much carry the world on their backs, are rarely, if ever, in even decision making positions, not to mention leadership positions

I doubt they are well paid

[ruby gale]

This is the world we live in, the guy that sits in the chair doing nothing makes $30k a minute while everyone one else barely makes that in a year

[charred nova]

I probably need to follow my mums friends advice and specialize once I get out into the field

She runs an automotive restoration shop

[vagrant pewter]

Find something many people want or need & you have a career

[ruby gale]

Shit if you can figure out and understand the whole electronic/wiring part of vehicles you're set, especially with everything getting pumped full of useless features now

[copper radish]

aren't we getting more and more locked out of our vehicles' electronics tho?

[charred nova]

Yes hence why people who are good at it

Are more and more valuable

[copper radish]

vehicle hacking 🤔 hmmm noble profession

[charred nova]

From I understand this is a very bad idea

The manufacture can like disable your vehicle I’m pretty sure if they think your trying to force enable paid features

[copper radish]

if the person doing the hacking is any good, they should start by disabling any kind of manufacturer remote control

[charred nova]

Like if you hack a Tesla

You lose fast charging

Forever

[ruby gale]

Tesla is gay and you deserve to be scammed if you buy one

[charred nova]

True

[copper radish]

how deep a "hack" we're talking here? force replace the background pic on the center tablet? or having root access to the system?

[charred nova]

I have no idea

But it’s probably pretty complicated

[copper radish]

it is very very complicated 🙁

but not impossible

[desert mauve]

Depends on the make and model

[copper radish]

anything made by people will have bugs/errors in it
I kinda hope they start vibe coding automotive features so they are easier to break apart

[ruby gale]

I specialize in tires/wheels so my job is pretty much secured, I just do a few other things on the side as well

[charred nova]

I wanna do rotaries

[copper radish]

sure the Rotary Club is hiring 👀

[ruby gale]

Eh, im not too sure how the rotary scene is doing, maybe some race/performance shops

Most rotaries are being swapped for 4 bangers and v6s anyway

[charred nova]

I’d argue they are more
Popular than ever

[charred nova]

Not really anymore

[ruby gale]

Yeah, ig they are becoming more beloved in the performance scene lately

[charred nova]

All piston swappers go to hell

God does not look down kindly on such folks

[ruby gale]

If i could pick one engine to specialize in/have access to itd be the w16 quad turbo, so many funny swap options

Like a malibu maxx

[charred nova]

Tri rotor in a ford f150

[ruby gale]

Better than a ecoturd

[charred nova]

People think rotaries got no torque but well

Some tri rotors I’ve seen pushing like 1400 foot pounds with 1600hp

[ruby gale]

Making it and putting it to the ground is 2 different things

[charred nova]

Well yah I mean in rwd numbers that big aren’t very useful

[ruby gale]

Ever seen the one video of that older z28 ripping its wheel off?

Had stupid oversized rims with rubber band tires

[charred nova]

I’ve seen a Supra do that

The guy drops the clutch and the entire rear axel just snaps

[ruby gale]

Let me guess, thin tires with oversized rims?

Or was it a drag set up that had just a little too much power

[charred nova]

It was a drag set up on one of those rubberized drag surfaces

[ruby gale]

The gypsy rose stuff is so cringy and hard to watch

[marble gyro]

Morning

[oblique igloo]

hi sin

#📸┃screens_and_videos message Let's play jumping jacks to avoid radioactivity

[ruby gale]

Half the time you cant even avoid them

[still current]

[hardy totem]

does anyone know what image the kuznetsov emote is based on?

[keen imp]

Yo any one on Xbox rn?

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah what’s up

[hardy totem]

found it

[keen imp]

I put a group post up on Xbox

[coral gyro]

yo is there any server where i can find any info on gamma or other stuff

[cobalt fiber]

There’s a gamma server

Check DMs @coral gyro

[coral gyro]

bet

[smoky hawk]

check pins in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

the gamma server invite is there

[coral gyro]

thnx alot again

[cobalt fiber]

No prob

[marble gyro]

Today's retro game is brought to you by the Letter R

[ruby gale]

Red alert?

[cobalt fiber]

Based

[marble gyro]

Yup

[ruby gale]

Knew it

[marble gyro]

Too bad the servers are taken down

[ruby gale]

Even on yuris revenge?

[marble gyro]

And tiberium wars is still functional

[marble gyro]

Yeah you have to join online via a unofficial 3rd program

C&C needs another game

[ruby gale]

Unfortunate

Im going on a deep dive of warframes history once off work, saw a little clip of it at lunch and now im curious

Mainly because ive been playing since its second year or so after launch if I remember correctly

[ruby gale]

Damn, has chat really been dead for an hour?

[marble gyro]

I just got my switch man, so imma be MIA for a solid min

Have to install all my games that I have

[ruby gale]

I still have 5 tires to change for the ambulances so ill be gone for an hour or so again

[kindred fable]

Sometimes it is like that...

[ruby gale]

I know but still, seems to be getting more and more quiet

[kindred fable]

Yeah, it's inevitable. People move on little by little, there's nothing to talk about, really

[ruby gale]

Fair enough

[cobalt fiber]

Mid week is always the same across every community

[marble gyro]

Damn, I need to buy a switch 2 case now

[proven hollow]

there's only so many snorks we can discuss

[vagrant pewter]

did someone have size envy when they made the GAUSS?

[copper radish]

no envy here, my issue with the gauss is that so far I have found a grand total of 16 bullets for it (10 of which was in the mag of the broken gauss I found) and I've fired 10 so only 6 left now

I may have taken it off a dead opponent, dunno

[proven hollow]

did you at least kill 10 enemies with those 10 bullets?

[copper radish]

uh... 2 😅

[proven hollow]

[copper radish]

I kept missing the cúnt in the guard tower he was jumping around with his sniper rifle

[proven hollow]

360 no scoping you for life

[copper radish]

not me, thankfully it was a fight between two groups that I stumbled upon

these days you need to be quick with the looting or others may get there before you 👀

[proven hollow]

no respect anymore smh

hello, main character here, loot belongs to me, like jeesh

[copper radish]

whats that place called where a loooong 'corridor' comes out of the compound on columns, directly towards the south? there were unhappy folks brawling it out there and I started the looting early

looted awesome gun... solidly in the red, durability wise, but hey, a gauss gun 😄 won't say no to that

had a full mag!! 🤯

shot 1 guy with it easy (I like to help those fellas who make my crosshair go green, I'm sentimental that way), then wasted a lot of bullets on another lad up in the guard tower... he kept getting attacked by 2 or 3 of my 'green' guys, so he was jumping around a lot

so now Robo, judging by your question, I don't think I'll find too many bullets ("batteries") for it... therefore I reckon it's not worth getting it fixed?

the Rostok tinkerer could repair it for about 45k I think...?

[vagrant pewter]

the shop in Prypiat sells them I found.

[copper radish]

let's get to Prypiat first 👀 I'm going through Banzai's questline at the mo

main quest, "go to the hunters camp in red forest"

[vagrant pewter]

ram 2 baby pew pew ^ kharod

[copper radish]

does the ram 2 reload by magazine?

[vagrant pewter]

2 shells max per reload til full at 14 its slow

[copper radish]

I'm quite fond of the sledgehammer but the slow reload nearly killed me a few times

OK so not much of an improvement over the spsa family 🙂 ram 2 is less dmg and less range

found 2 or 3 on dead stalkers, didn't even take them, all red.....

[vagrant pewter]

i mean for close up i drop bloodsuckers in 1 shot usually so I just learn to live longer ;P

[copper radish]

I'm wasting so much ammo on the damm snorks 🙁 just can't seem to hit them right

[vagrant pewter]

i feel bad that i never stop using skif's pistol tho its only one the gnomes won't steal from me

[copper radish]

whoa good tip thanks!

[vagrant pewter]

but can drop gnomes with clip & half between shields

i highly recommend the extended mag & silencer for it

[copper radish]

I try to game those lads, when I hear the sound of them starting their jedi telekinesis trick I put the gun away 😅 sometimes it works

[copper radish]

found both, thanks 🙂

[vagrant pewter]

if im able i steal their guns before they shot me up

the later shops holy gun parts too! im loving what I find. I end up always buying 2 of each I find just to keep in stash

but, out of the 46 guns I have I normally use 3-4 of them most I aint touched.

[copper radish]

the last time I had to kill one, volhov SAM, there was such a ruckus on top of the hill over the bunker, 2 groups fighting each other and blind dogs, that the burer came out of the bunker and joined in 🤣 I really should start taking screenies

when Banzai sent me back in there for the transmitter or elektromodulator or wtf, I didn't have to fight it 😄 the place was full of mercs and later I found the burer in one of the corners, dead 😄

[copper radish]

just out of interest: why the kharod? simple preference? or the kharod is really better than the grom s-14 that I prefer?

[vagrant pewter]

I dont remember using the Grom at all. I think the guy whose Guide I have checked in on preferred it for weight perhaps, the ammo frequency & versatility & earlier parts being available?

might have also fit being modded easier

[copper radish]

to be honest, I'm not judging the kharod at its best, I haven't found anyone yet who could upgrade it for me -- maybe upgraded it's noticeably better?

[vagrant pewter]

u can also add a grenade launcher to it js >.>

[copper radish]

and the grom has it by default 😛

but yea --- there's a LOT more bullets to be found for the kharod

[vagrant pewter]

yar but i think different shells

not that i use grenades ferequently

[copper radish]

I sometimes have to buy 9x39 😮

the horror

[vagrant pewter]

i could prob use nearly any gun normally but gauss as my stash as nearly 500,000 assorted ammo rounds in it

i dont normally shop buy any ammo. i just loot stashes & aggro's

[copper radish]

TIL I can't shoot for sh1t 😅

[vagrant pewter]

yeah is why i practiced ALOT in the starter mode ;P

[copper radish]

I keep shooting away my ordnance

[vagrant pewter]

when i could leave it having not taken damage or wasted ammo I was happy 😄 i think i maxed out hauling stuff out of it too. glad I found a safe to hide it in

head shot practice paid off in spades.

got the 75 yards no scope achieve real quick

[copper radish]

fair enough 👍

[vagrant pewter]

but im using 100 inch tv as a gaming monitor >.> so I can SEE better ;P

[copper radish]

it's not that I can't see them, but I can't hit them... maybe gun is not very accurate

[lost needle]

Grom s14 is a fun gun

[vagrant pewter]

depending on range all bullets lose accuracy

[lost needle]

Not very good since the sights suck but its fun

[copper radish]

my preferred way of combat is literally running up to the lad and shotgunning him in the face 😐

[lost needle]

Grom s15 is horrible tho

One of the worst special weapons in the game imo

[copper radish]

never found one so I can't judge

[vagrant pewter]

thats not a bad combat method until 15 of them all fire at u same time & u lose 85% health for 1 kill

[copper radish]

yea 🙁

[lost needle]

You can only find one at the cooling towers and it does less damage than throwing bolts at your enemies

[vagrant pewter]

them brainwashed ballsacks suck liek that

[copper radish]

that misunderstanding in the volkhov sam room with skull's guys took a few tries to survive

[lost needle]

Misunderstanding?

They were hired to kill/stall skif

[copper radish]

altercation 👀 I didn't want to pay them

[vagrant pewter]

Grom is not as rare as u make it out to be ;P Im regularly finding it red or yellow on enemies. just depends on ur progression

[lost needle]

Yeah screw skull

[copper radish]

waaaait a sec --- was skull there in the room at all??? didn't Skif negotiate with him personally??

[vagrant pewter]

it has taken place of the viper 5 mostly

[lost needle]

Is this referring to me or the forgotten conspirator sry

[lost needle]

Nah, thats just skull thru an intercom or something

[vagrant pewter]

to clam 😄 if u wanna find it all repaired in wild, yeah most guns are 1-2 only

[lost needle]

You dont see him till the very end

[copper radish]

I made sure the first kill I did was the guy in the middle directly facing me --- I thought that was skull? then when I won I saw that he's like daniel mort or some sh1t 😅

[lost needle]

Im sorry but what does this mean? I gen dont understand

[lost needle]

Super cool quest tho love doing it

[copper radish]

I think he means it's rare to find 100% status guns in the wild

[vagrant pewter]

most guns u can find normals or specials either in stashes or as loot sitting open to find 1-2 copies of.

[lost needle]

Theres only one groza s15 in the game

But a lot of IPSF soldiers around malachite carry groza S14s

[vagrant pewter]

that is the unique variant but the Grom is the standard version

[lost needle]

Yeah

[copper radish]

about 80-90% of guns I find on dead enemies are red, the rest are yellow - never ever found a green gun on anyone ever

[lost needle]

All i said was that the groza s15 sucks

[vagrant pewter]

aye 😄

[lost needle]

Yeah, but some special stashes have brand new guns

[copper radish]

yes like Rascal's 😉

[vagrant pewter]

i found a RPG launcher 3 times - 2 0% I stole from gnomes & 1 100% I cfound hope I get to use it

[lost needle]

Like the place around yantar which has the nvg 3b and a new kharod

[copper radish]

ah where you need to jump down onto that padding anomaly?

[lost needle]

Yup

[copper radish]

yea I got that nvg

[lost needle]

Nice

[copper radish]

scoutmaster gifted me one but I think I'm gonna sell it

[lost needle]

Really? I thought scoutmaster gives gen 2 nvgs

[copper radish]

I'm at the point in that quest where I need to go to sleep before the Big Battle™

[copper radish]

yea it's a gen 2, I meant he gave me a nvg at all 🙂

[lost needle]

What gun did you ask rascal to get you

[lost needle]

Ahh mbmb

[copper radish]

uh... I have a shotty and the grom, so I asked for a long range

I was like, short and mid range covered....

[lost needle]

Pretty smart

[vagrant pewter]

for longest time i used Valik's gun as a sniper rifle.

[lost needle]

Wow

[copper radish]

also I chose to reinforce the 'weak zone' (northwest?), we'll see how it goes 😜 can't be that bad

[lost needle]

I usually run to the cement factory after the sircaa incident to help out duty so i can get an svu mk3 aka the best weapon in the game

[copper radish]

as long as I'm not responsible for keeping my team alive... not good at that -- if they can take care of themselves I'll win

[lost needle]

Theyre scripted to survive afaik

[copper radish]

svu? ah yes that half sniper half machinegun?

[lost needle]

Not really? The bullpup sniper

Better svdm2

[copper radish]

I think I remember it

2 sec let me start up the game

too bad there's no access to the stash where I am 🙁

yep, no stash 🙁

I defo have 2 or 3 snipers in there

[vagrant pewter]

i dunno if its all vendors in prypiat but i also had luck on spark shop with 30 gauss rounds

[pastel bolt]

This game is so fun with cheats ngl lmao

[smoky stump]

Does anyone know the name of the mission that unlocks the new hub area in the burnt forest?

[marsh iron]

it's a chain of quests starting from Dark as a Dungeon

[magic crypt]

So what's with the random friend request Cesar 🤨

I don't even see them when I do @

Found them

[tame plume]

Just had a glitch in stalker 2. A emission happened right after getting the bolt from richter.

Never seen that happen before

[main jewel]

im sure it can happen

maaaybei

i mean theres a shelter pretty close by so

[shell flax]

Emissions don’t kick off until the one after Sphere, that’s a hell of a glitch

[tame plume]

I do have a couple of mods installed so that probably explains it

[vagrant pewter]

Resolved 😄

[spare canopy]

This game is getting worse and worse... Trying the do the Pseudogiant with the colar. When you release the Pseudo giant, the bandits and the PSeudogiant ignore each other... and objects blasting through walls.... The million $$$ question is, will they fix this clusterfuck? Probably not

[marble gyro]

Yo so like, stalker cop on switch 2 is awesome

The fact you can use the joy con's as a mouse is nutty

And also too 256gb on storage, holy cow it's way better than the base 38gb on switch one

[spare canopy]

It's nuts that back in the day, you needed a decent setup getting it running nice... now its just a handheld

[hardy rune]

[marble gyro]

It's been on handheld, it's just the switch 1 version was ass

But switch 2 it runs like a dream

It is also the regular edition before EE

[spare canopy]

Are the graphics the same as the PC?

[marble gyro]

They are decent

720p on handheld 45-50fps only because gsc never made a enhanced Switch 2 patch or download or something

But it has no slow downs

[spare canopy]

Niiice, that is exactly what you want, just smooth experience

[marble gyro]

I mean....for a 500$ console...u better have a stable time

Otherwise, it would not be worth playing at all

[spare canopy]

How much?

[marble gyro]

$500 usd

Like 372 pounds I think?

[spare canopy]

for a Switch? Are they gold plated or something?

[marble gyro]

Switch 2

Switch 1 is like 299 right now

[spare canopy]

when did they become so expensive

[jolly osprey]

Could spend the same amount for a ps5 and play stalker 2 with fantastic graphics at 60fps, probably the same for series x too

And have the og trilogy as well

[spare canopy]

or for 2Mb of RAM.

[marble gyro]

I have a ps5

But I buy like, every console and platform

What if, I want to lay on the couch and run some games? I always have a handheld

[jolly osprey]

I wasnt suggesting you buy one I was making a comparison between the switch and the ps5, and the ps5 blows the switch out of the water

[marble gyro]

I dunno man, so far switch 2 and 5 are leaning on par with eachother

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/sunset-penguin-gif-21369096

[main jewel]

what is he doibg

[oak rose]

Hello everyone

https://tenor.com/view/dead-group-chat-waiting-cereal-eating-cereal-dead-gif-25969021

Whatever, I should go to bed anyways

Gn

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/call-of-the-night-yofukashi-no-uta-season-2-anime-anko-uguisu-gif-12716120324424206854

[elfin hedge]

hate this guy fr ong

[vernal lily]

Hello Chingus blaster 69

[elfin hedge]

[marble gyro]

[main jewel]

when skif beats strider with the fire hydrant and it breaks, why does he hold the broken handle like its some foreign object

[shell flax]

Because he’s shocked strider barely even flinches?

[main jewel]

well no strider gets hit and strider moves back quite the distance then looks back, but why does he look at the handle and when striders hand was stuck why didnt skif use the small amount of time to grab the gun on the flowr

[spare canopy]

Which moron that decided that auto climbing ladders should be a thing, needs to lose his job... Fecking ridiculous

So utterly fecking stupid

[main jewel]

without it, you cant jump down ladders fast

[shell flax]

In that enclosed space, by the time Skif had his Makarov in hand, strider would’ve already been on top of him

[main jewel]

degtyarev wouldve grabbed the gun trusttt

[spare canopy]

I dont care.... I dont want to auto grab, fecking ladder.... I just fecking died after killing the fire polti... because instead of moving away from the ladder that had a fire on it.... I climbed the ladder insterad...

[main jewel]

degtyarev wouldve destroyed strider trusssh

[spare canopy]

The sheer fecking stupidity the devs put into the game is astonishing

[main jewel]

why do you still play the game if all you do is get mad and hate

[vernal lily]

Haters love the game more than anyone else

[spare canopy]

Because its teh only game that this kind of felling.... and they just do so much stupid BS with it... Just so unnecessary 99% of the time.... Just coz I am walking past a fecking ladder, doesn't me I want to climb it.... I mean you have to press the key to use ladder when you are standing at the top... why not the bottom...

[vernal lily]

Maybe it's time to move onto a different game

[spare canopy]

nearly 200 deaths in the play through, and the vast majority, is just a few locals with stupid levels of BS

It's fecking insane

Maybe they should actually engage a few braincells and just fix the fecking thing...

[vernal lily]

ok

But you can also move onto something else while they 'engage their braincells'

[spare canopy]

I'm skiff, and I have been so well programmed I cant walk ovcer a 4 inch high log

[main jewel]

petition to put any instance of feck in the wolf automod

[spare canopy]

People are so weak and soft these day...

[vernal lily]

Fuсk

[modest notch]

i m getting shot behind the wall

[vernal lily]

Sounds scary without context

[spare canopy]

polties launch stuff through walls....

this game is just broken

[hardy rune]

anyone know if the steam frame will be able to run this game? on standalone obviously

[hardy rune]

what the flip dude

[cyan sparrow]

At this point, if isn’t fixed, then I assume it’s a feature

[spare canopy]

It's a scam game... lol!

[vernal lily]

https://imgur.com/2wvcDll

[marble gyro]

Bro HOW THE FFFF IS BONANZA SO GOOD???

It's like Hulk ultimate destruction and Donkey kong had a child

[cyan sparrow]

That’s actually a strong statement. It’s NOT pvp/mtx, so no scam ahead 😲

[stark crescent]

Poltergeists are psychic beings. Who is to say they cant throw objects through solid matter?

The flash can vibrate through solid objects.

Let them have their superpower. They will end up dead anyway.

[old bough]

Has someone experience with xrmpe multiplayer?

Is it safe to use and virus free?

Too many multiplayer scams over the years and I don't trust these now by default.😅

[stark crescent]

Xrmpe is a mod for the original stalker right?

Its safe.

I dunno about inside the game tho. Could have hackers in it

Its not really regulated.

[old bough]

Yes. Its a multiplayer mod that sais it's containing a sort of tower defence mode and coop campaign for CoP.

But it uses a proprietary launcher for download so no checking for malicious software beforehand^^

Hackers aint a problem as I would only play with friends

[cobalt fiber]

It’s fine

Absolute worst case scenario is someone gets hold of your IP

But people anywhere or on anything can do that

[old bough]

Great! Thx. I want to play it with a friend who is interested in stalker but never took the leap.

So baiting him with coop and after that gifting him the rest of the og trilogy is my current plan of action.

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I wouldn’t worry about safety of it at all, it’s not bad

[old bough]

This was also my impression after researching it but... stalker is notorious for scam and fake multiplayer mods

[pseudo coral]

Someone woke up grumpy today huh 😄

[pseudo coral]

I think their work ambitions are higher then they can actually handle because releasing DLC while trying to fix the game with updates and everything else makes it so chaotic because these updates break other things it's a domino effect. Game will be good at some point

Actually the game already is good what am I saying, I mean it'needs some more polishing.

[oblique igloo]

This polishing is hopefully done with an engine update and hopefully they also fix the NPCs that get stuck or missions that are still bugged and you have to invent stereotypes to get them started like the three commanders that if you want to ally you have to throw a grenade near the house. These things need to be fixed.

[slim wagon]

i wish...for the bubble to disappear!

loads in the zone without any form of NPCs or mutants

[unique locust]

Meow

[proven hollow]

kot

[primal nimbus]

Got bored and doing lines rn on a fictional Merc sidequest. I like my lines so far. Kinda corny and banterish, I'll say, but might do

[oblique igloo]

brot

[proven hollow]

kotbrod

[sharp turtle]

hi guys

[sharp turtle]

[proven hollow]

Why did you pick such an evil faction 🙁

[sharp turtle]

idk i like their style of uniforms

[proven hollow]

fair, drip is king

[sharp turtle]

real

[proven hollow]

Join the Monolith though, we're the good guys

[sharp turtle]

rlly?

[proven hollow]

Yup, Faust told me so.

[sharp turtle]

ill think about it then

[fallen latch]

pfft
"trust me bro"

[sweet swan]

right so i just dine the side quest where you have to save jumper and bluish i went underground killed the zombies and controller got the stash with the given code then it says get back up to jumper and bluish im bk right in front of them tried speaking to them the quest wont complete ?

[tribal anchor]

hey is this game playbale on windows 7?

[proven hollow]

walk outside after talking to them

[sweet swan]

i have im right next to them they were already outside

[proven hollow]

huh? That's weird, they should be inside in the hallway leading from the ladder out of the underground

[sweet swan]

yh they outside alife mod maybe ?

[proven hollow]

perhaps, try reloading a save if you have one, are they standing outside of the little room where the underground leads you to or somewhere else entirely?

[sweet swan]

they standing with other noon just by the 2nd warehouse where the controller was underground

just to the left of the launch pad anomalys

[vernal lily]

totally

[proven hollow]

and you killed the controller below? also looted the stash?

[sweet swan]

yhyh

[proven hollow]

but when you opened the door to outside after leaving the underground did any mercs talk to you?

[sweet swan]

no

he only said over the radio bluiash is better

[proven hollow]

oof, seems really bugged, they are supposed to be in the hallway in the west where you ended up popping back up out of the underground, best bet is reloading a save if you have it

[sweet swan]

ahhh i fixed it im using a ledge grabbing mod so i went bk out a diff way now im doing the way u said the mercs spoke seems ok now thnaks for help

[proven hollow]

😂

[charred nova]

Odds are low

If your stuck on windows 7 I think your pc is likely too slow to run the game

[sweet swan]

other stalkers u should be ok though like the triliogy

[shell flax]

‘Low’

Jack the odds are so low they’re doing Limbo in hell

[charred nova]

Hey man I’ve never tried my self maybe it does work

[shell flax]

Also spam bot in #💬┃en_offtop

[hardy totem]

Already banned

No worries

[charred nova]

Yah I killed em already

[shell flax]

Adjusting my sleep schedule is beating my ass lmao, luckily I’ve got to Monday to get used to it

[charred nova]

I’ve shifted to waking up at 4:50

So I can get to school an hour and a half early to steal my self one of the coveted unlimited free parking spots

[shell flax]

I gotta get adjusted to waking up at 5:30 to do my morning routine and getting to work before 6:30

[charred nova]

Rookie numbers

Completely prepare your self in 20 minutes like a boss

[vapid galleon]

🤓

[shell flax]

Oh no the 5:30 thing is to give me a slight buffer in case my dumbass falls asleep again

[charred nova]

Fair

[shell flax]

I live barely ten minutes from my job and it’s a straight shot

[charred nova]

I forget most people aren’t use to waking up that early

I’ve been doing it for like 4 years now

I’m at a point where I will wake up before my alarm by like 10 minutes most days

[shell flax]

I used to but job pickings were ass last year

[charred nova]

Like right now I don’t have class till 10:30

[shell flax]

Either kill myself at an overnight warehouse job (Never again ) or barely five hours a week for some restaurant thirty miles away, no in between

[proven hollow]

I live upstairs from my job

[charred nova]

Soon I’ll get to slave away at the dealership

[vernal lily]

I either have to wake up early for work, or work late overnight. But this year taking an exam to get into med school, and that's probably going to mess up my sleep schedule more.

Don't know how messed up it's going to get though, given I am awake at a time like this (almost 6 am)

[proven hollow]

i go to bed at 23:00 and wake up at 7/8 as a normal person

[vapid galleon]

9 hours for sleeping?

[shell flax]

Back before I dropped out I took a night class for computer science

I could barely understand the guy behind a violently thick accent, the guy was doing his own master’s homework instead of teaching us & im pretty sure 90% of my class mates were utterly blitzed

[proven hollow]

23:00 to 7 is 8 hours eeh

[vapid galleon]

[proven hollow]

pay attention conquerer

[charred nova]

I go to the lounge

And some mf was watching fucken slop on the school tv

[proven hollow]

eww weebs

[charred nova]

worse a weeb with no taste

so much peak dropped this season and your watching that

[cyan sparrow]

You boys at school today?

[charred nova]

i got phyiscs and brakes today

i wont be home till like 7pm

oh and electrical

its like a 12 hour work day

like the good ol days

[proven hollow]

been a fair few years since i set foot in a school....

[cyan sparrow]

I see, i see

[charred nova]

some peak drama dropped on my drive over though gonna have something to listen to all day now at least

[golden gulch]

Almost 2000 years without a patch

[charred nova]

still no beta so

its likely a ways off still

guy is writing a whole essay at 8am

[spare canopy]

It's just not, unfortunately... It needs another three years to be honest. And I was very frustrated earlier, when there was no reason to be... It was an epic battle, of cunning, thinking outside the box, dodging flash bangs, fire columns (Fire poltie), flying objects (including dead mutants) and kill it, then die, because a fire column started at my feat (bottom of the ladder), and instead of moving away, the game decided of its own accord that climbing a ladder with fire column forming is exactly what I wanted to do... And there are so many simple things like this.

Why the feck do you stand up when you look in your bag, because during a gun fight, that is exactly what you want to do... stand up from behind cover, whilst you rummage for the thing you need.

Just insane design choices.

Got there in the end though...

[charred nova]

yah game was not realistically gonna be in a fully polished state till 2027

[spare canopy]

Looking forward to the engine upgrade... Really hoping that helps with the spawning issues and pushes them way out

fingers crossed

[charred nova]

i hope it means development can go full steam ahead to finishing the game

since from what i understand its been split

[spare canopy]

That as well.

[spare canopy]

care to elaborate, or can't you say much?

[dusky pawn]

Skill issue lowkey

[charred nova]

i don't know anything

thats just what ive heard

[spare canopy]

Fair enough, well, lets hope they can put it together again.

[spare canopy]

Have tyhey changed something so get stuck on every single bit of scenary? Trying to death cave, and I have done it a dozen times before, but now, you cant mopve more than a foot with getting stuck on something, having to jump overt stones... WTF are doing?

[charred nova]

stalker 2 is yesterdays news everyone is playing highguard now

[spare canopy]

Not heard of it

[charred nova]

im joking

highguard is concord 2

[spare canopy]

That cesspit

[charred nova]

it was the last game they showed at the game awards

that got an overwhelming negative reception

[spare canopy]

I dont follow a lot gaming anymore, most of it is the same repackaged garbage.

Stalker 2 is something different... But its so fecking frustrating to play...

205 deaths on my master run, and 90% of down to fighting BS

[charred nova]

https://youtu.be/d-BDeU3R5ic?t=12113

i time stamped it

any chance this game ever had was instantly destroyed by making it the final trailer

[spare canopy]

Watching it

I want to go to dignitas... It's all over

[charred nova]

by the creators of apex legends and titan fall

we bring you the most generic looking hero shooter yet seen

[spare canopy]

designed by a ham sandwich

[charred nova]

if they instead made a spirtual sucessor to titan fall it would have been a massive hit

[spare canopy]

I got Titan Fall 2, never played it, but heard it was great game, that no one played

[spare canopy]

I have to admit, after watching the cesspit of a game... I tried watching a bit more... And I hate what gaming has become... It's just awful.

Please GCS pull the rabbit out the hat, and sort S2 right out...

[charred nova]

rabbit was born with only 2 legs

[spare canopy]

Launch it with a catapult... just get it out the hat 😄

[proven hollow]

when's the game leaving alpha?

[spare canopy]

Dont you mean entering? 😄

Just went to start CP77.... the realise that FSR4 is not in the game yet for Linux 😄

sigh!

Well, at least I am getting a new sofa in weeks, so I can spend my time watching all my favourite franchise being obliterated one by one, pandering to "the message" - Life's great 🤣

[charred nova]

why i don't really enjoy playing most games anymore

been playing planet crafters as of late its pretty cool for a 20 dollar survival game

[spare canopy]

I am playing Wtchfire, Kenna, Bridge of Spirits but the controls are jank, Darktide can be fun, as long as you have the right teame, Borderlands 2, with my mate, LMU, iRacing, and when I got a joypad, Octovate TRaveller 2

[charred nova]

some of my buddies in another server keep telling me to get sim racing stuff

and race with them

[spare canopy]

It's actually quite mental, especially in VR, closest I am going to get to driving a McLaren 720s Evo round Le Mans... Insane

[charred nova]

yah ive seen the vr stuff and it looks crazy fun

[robust pendant]

You go and play it right now

[charred nova]

can practice driving a car i wanna buy

like to me at least idc much for driving crazy rare hypercars or race cars

because ill never own or drive one so who cares imo

[robust pendant]

Literally one of the most refined, complex, flexible shooters of all time

[charred nova]

but driving cool cars i could own is something im interested in

[robust pendant]

And it has titans, what else do you need

[proven hollow]

tried VR at a friend once, was pretty fun, but the racing game just made me nauseous af

[spare canopy]

Yeah, Half-Life Alyx is insane, any race sime, Elite Dangerous is something special to flying, SCS world, and with UEVR most unreal engine 4 and 5 games also run in VR with a bit of tweaking

[charred nova]

because my biggest issue with playing a racing game with like a controller like

[spare canopy]

you need a consistent 90fps really, until you get used to it.

[charred nova]

i get it some people can drive cars with a controller like its a real car and to those people bravo

but trying to drift with a control feels super unintuitive to me

[spare canopy]

You can get a DD Moza R3 for about £300 quid... Fantastic at that price.

racing and controllers dont mix well

[charred nova]

ive probably spent like 5 hours total trying to teach my self how to drift with controller and idk i just can't get it

[spare canopy]

Yeah, not easy to do

used to do McRae's rally on keyboard... And Dirt 2 actually on Keyboard too.... Good for keeping the fingers nimble...

[charred nova]

problem with keyboards is they can't simulate travel

controller is better but even thats not perfect

brakes and especially the clutch NEEDS to have a full range of travel

[hardy totem]

Might buy a joystick myself soon™

[charred nova]

also rev matching with buttons is so wack to me

[spare canopy]

A tyranosaurus wrex?

[hardy totem]

Survey says: no...?

[charred nova]

i keep being reminded i need to get my subaru tuned

so that it works properly

the way its set up from the factory with a manual is for grandmas

it rev hangs super bad

not to mention the built in electric throttle input lag

[spare canopy]

how much will that set you back?

[charred nova]

i got no idea

in theory not much id imagine since your just reprogramming a computer

[vagrant pewter]

Just think, the longer you wait for a patch, the closer you get to Stalker 3 >.>

[charred nova]

if there ever is a stalker 3

[spare canopy]

But these people, do like to fleece people

[charred nova]

true they would probably think it strange i was bringing them a 2014 impreza sport with no turbo

[vagrant pewter]

Where there is radiation & Europe, there will be Stalker ;P

[charred nova]

my car is slightly faster than a miata at best

and honestly i think its slower

[spare canopy]

An MX5... great fun in iRacing them... throw them around the track

[charred nova]

like i'd want to be able to test drive a rx7

[harsh jungle]

vroom vroom

[charred nova]

before shelling out the big bux to buy one

[spare canopy]

RX78 weird looking things, not the sort of thing I like...

The car I always wanted was RS200, or audi quatro, coz I loved WRC growing up

[charred nova]

do not call the rx7 weird looking this slander will not be tolerated

rx8 that is acceptable

[spare canopy]

That RX8 is awful

looks like someone had a fit in design department

[smoky hawk]

contrarian

[oblique igloo]

macche rs2000 or audi quattro LANCIA DELTA INTEGRALE LANCIA STRATOS these are rally cars

[thorn niche]

Rx8 slander will not be tolerated😔

Now, we can all collectively slander the rotary engines they have, though

[charred nova]

that will be tolerated even less piston swappers get out

your kind is not welcome here

[proven hollow]

there are no cars in the zone you silly geese

[thorn niche]

"My kind" likes the rotary engines😭

[charred nova]

the rotary is awesome bro

[thorn niche]

Working on them isnt

[charred nova]

maybe on rx8 idk

rx7 there is almost nothing to them

[thorn niche]

I dont have the space to pull my engine out rn

Itll be cool to get it rebuilt tho

[charred nova]

well once you get it out the rebuild is not even a one day affair

[thorn niche]

I dont have the space

Also, knowing me, wverything takes days to a month to work on

I have so many other projects

[charred nova]

whats wrong with it

the coolant seals fail?

or does it just have low compression

[thorn niche]

I have no clue

My guess is that its seized

[charred nova]

doesn't turn over?

[thorn niche]

Its been sitting for years

[charred nova]

even with a wrench

[thorn niche]

Nah

[charred nova]

if its sat for too long its probably rusted out inside

[thorn niche]

Mhmm

[charred nova]

coolant seals fail and destroy them

[pastel bolt]

Does anyone know why it takes so long for mods to release on Xbox

[ruby gale]

They need to be approved by Microsoft

[thorn niche]

Yeah because its console and its harder to mod for them

[charred nova]

yah all the mods have to be manually approved

[cobalt fiber]

It’s not harder to mod for them it’s just more bullshit hoops for approval

[pastel bolt]

Oh Okayy

[cobalt fiber]

The process of modding itself is pre much the same

A PC mod can be directly ported

As seen with fallout and ES

[pastel bolt]

I saw how many mods were just up on mod io website that the ingame didn’t have

[charred nova]

pc stays winning

[ruby gale]

Idk, I would imagine theres a few more complications with console

[charred nova]

[pastel bolt]

Pc will never stop winning ngl

Till consoles get steam or something 😭

[copper radish]

Steam Deck lol

[charred nova]

its about to get even worse with steams new feature they are coming out with for mods

[smoky hawk]

just get a pc

at this point

[charred nova]

to allow games to work like minecraft basically

[smoky hawk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/174364630175449089/1263640134918869052/prayers.gif

[thorn niche]

Gabe cube incoming

[charred nova]

allowing you to select a version to play on compatible with the mods you wanna play

[smoky hawk]

1200 its so over

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-maytech-monolith-prayer-gif-16869366242639767810

[charred nova]

gabe cube wont be a huge hit