☢┃stalker-general

[hoary crest]

Depends how many Monolithians you've been killing

[copper radish]

Ah yes the other came from the laundry ambush

[hoary crest]

There are I think 3(?) that are placed in the world, one is behind a puzzle though

Otherwise yeah, you just get them off the Monolith

[plucky jewel]

The one you find in Pripyat, being Item-62 is a regular Gauss Rifle

[copper radish]

I remember selling a whole bunch of mutant parts to pay for the repair of the one I got off the ded monolithista

That was before I realised how scarce its ammo is

[shell flax]

The description says it all, it’s a keepsake from Skif’s time in the military

[copper radish]

But I was like, what if I don't find another before the game ends?

[plucky jewel]

Then there is the Unique Gauss Rifle called the EM1 that can be found inside of a Bunker in the Red Forest. The EM1 is the Gauss Rifle that Scar uses in CS

[copper radish]

I was saving up the mutant parts in case I manage to get a relevant quest off Veronika, they were stinking up my stash chest 👀 worth it

[hoary crest]

Some traders have it in stock, but its not cheap

An its only in small quantities when it is avaliable

[copper radish]

bunker in Red Forest
Lots of zombies, door off a road that goes north-south?

[plucky jewel]

In the lore, all of the Gauss Rifles were non-lethal and were meant to be used to disable electronics, like a portable EMP rifle, it was Monolith that turned most of the Prototype Gauss Rifles into lethal weapons

[hoary crest]

Monolithians must have hella funding

[plucky jewel]

I looked it up and it just says that the EM1 is found in a bunker in Red Forest, it doesn't say which bunker its exactly in

[copper radish]

Didn't Deggy get the gauss from an X lab in CoP?

I remember some underground place with a huge version of the rifle

[hoary crest]

Afaik there are only two, one is the Monolith hospice

[plucky jewel]

There is the EM1 found in Red Forest, the Item-62 found in a stash in Pripyat, and ones carried by Monolith Exo Soldiers

[copper radish]

That's possible, I didn't really look around, I wss busy trying to satisfy the "don't kill anyone" goal

[faint prism]

besides that one is in Prypiat behind 8-digit code on the last floor of some building in the middle
and you can get one from Dvupalov after finishing his side quest

[hoary crest]

Nah, I meant bunkers. Aside from the EM-1, I think there are 3 P62's placed int world

[hoary crest]

Theres that one, the music school and Im pretty sure there is another in Pripyat but the location escapes me at the moment

[copper radish]

There's at least 2 guys in the ambush while you're looking for the coordinates in prypiat, who gave me a hard time shooting me with gauss from the apartment windows

[faint prism]

I saw one is in movie theater as well, but I am not 100% sure about that

[plucky jewel]

I know that there is a Monolith Soldier in the school building, where you can find the Diamond Exoskeleton, that carries a Gauss Rifle

[hoary crest]

That one is RNG world spawn

Can spawn a Monolithian anywhere they hang out in Pripyat with one

[plucky jewel]

I've had it spawn there on two different saves

[hoary crest]

Yeah, its common, but only because there is a large concentration of them there

You'll also see it regularly in the adjacent apartment complex which is stuffed with them

Last time I went through the school, before my save was ended by some tosser bandit with a shotgun, none of them had one, which was a bit rough as i needed the money lol

[plucky jewel]

I feel like Strider had one of the saddest deaths in the game because to me he was such a good and enjoyable character that I wish didn't turn bad

[copper radish]

The mono lad I took my gauss off of, I shot him at that place thats almost bang in the middle of the map, where a looong corridor goes exactly north-south, in the air, standing on stilts or columns or whatever, you know the one. There was a shootout already when I passed by, and I joined in 😆

[frigid hill]

wolf_658 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[copper radish]

So mono with gauss may be rare outside prypiat town, and I got lucky

[plucky jewel]

What I was trying to say was, Strider wouldn't have become a villain and Monolith wouldn't return if Dalin didn't screw with the Wish Granter

[hoary crest]

Quite lucky yeah, they have a small chance to spawn with one anywhere there are Monolithians, so if you got one off an A-life spawn, yeah, quite lucky

[copper radish]

Interesting, I don't remember opening any stashes with a gauss in them... all gauss I've ever seen were a-life. There's a huuuge lot of the game I haven't seen yet, and I'm at 101 hours as of now

But at this stage I just want to see the end 🙂 first playthrough

I'm not exactly spoiled with legendary artifacts either

[stark crescent]

Lets create a new discord program. Lets name it, staldord.

[copper radish]

care to provide any clues on why you want to name it that?

[cobalt fiber]

[copper radish]

I'm trying to come up with something to keep the conversation going, but can't think of anything

endgame weapons

as mentioned above, I'm quite happy with my current setup (sledgehammer + svu + maybe gauss), my only real worry is the reload time of the sledge may bite me in the ass

guess I'll do a new save slot before passing the no-return point and rethink my life choices if I'm horribly outmatched

[unkempt juniper]

dlc when?

[copper radish]

don't make me tap the sign

[unkempt juniper]

tap ahead

[copper radish]

" Tomorrow™ "

[marble gyro]

Morning

[carmine star]

When the season drys, the mountains round and the sun forever sets is when DLC will be released

Can I interest you in a unrelated announcement post?

[copper radish]

Sounds like a nuke 👀

[carmine star]

Shhhhh be still , let the nuclear heal your heart ❤️

[copper radish]

Blow the Universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest

[carmine star]

Guuuuys you generally blue ball announcement is out

[fervent summit]

PLEASE GSC

[thorny cairn]

Yo, whats the best gun in stalker 2?

[copper radish]

For what purpose? 🤣

[carmine star]

Three line rifle

[carmine star]

[shell flax]

We just got teased for the DLC with music
God I love it

[violet dune]

first few seconds i thought its reactor control room

[main jewel]

gangalang

[fossil jay]

radio reference???

[violet dune]

50cent, g-eazy

[unkempt juniper]

luv 🔥

[carmine star]

Yeah that's lol something alright

[copper radish]

I knew it! it's the music that zombifies people

[carmine star]

They gotta step up if they want people to spend some $$$$

Bikin Skiff for cover of first dlc

[copper radish]

it does look awfully like that, doesn't it? 🙂

[marble gyro]

[violet dune]

yes, it looks very similar, missing reactor rods plan and gauges

[main jewel]

it do I HOPE WE GET A FULLY EXPLORABLE CNPP NOT A DUNGEON CRAWLER AHHH

SOC ONE

I WANNA SEE THE CNPP ON THE INSIDE

THE OTHER BUILDINGS

[violet dune]

https://ibb.co/QF7MZp28

[copper radish]

that one zombie randomly meandering through the scene... 🤣

[main jewel]

INDONT WANT THE PRIPYAT TREATMENT

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1471502387377344712/1471649037248762030/attachment.gif

[hoary crest]

Goddamnit the DLC dick-tease

[main jewel]

gng what

[violet dune]

is molit still away?

[main jewel]

mol1t sleepin

let him sleep

[violet dune]

im in the same timezone with him

[copper radish]

I admire the username

K-DRT for paydirt!
🤣 🤣

[violet dune]

he aint sleepin

[main jewel]

hes sleepinfffff twinnn

[hoary crest]

"🇬🇧/🇺🇸

Even in the most remote corners, among rusty control panels and abandoned laboratories, music finds its audience. Radio is the voice of the Zone, which never falls silent. Its waves reach even those places where no living person has set foot for years.

On World Radio Day, we picked up a signal from a place that had been silent for a long time. Only the bravest stalkers will be ready to go there and explore new places where every door hides its secrets.

So keep your receiver tuned in — some new tracks from the upcoming expansion are already here. But here are not just tracks, if you ask me..."

[graceful dirge]

When the SDK allows for it, I'd love to see one of those mods similar to like https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4612 opening up more areas that are inaccessible

[main jewel]

well yeah but dick tease????

[marble gyro]

So I saw the movie The Menu.....and damn that cheeseburger looks good

[violet dune]

time to play reanimal

[hoary crest]

You've never heard that expression before?

[main jewel]

the weather looks good today

[marble gyro]

Lucky, it's snowing over here

[main jewel]

ive heard of tease bro

[copper radish]

should tell volumes that they needed a special effects team to build a good looking burger 🙁

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/squeak-yell-prairie-dog-gif-8723954077937677588

[ruby gale]

It actually kinda is, im taking tomorrow off and hoping its as nice out as today

[hoary crest]

So, no, you in fact have not heard it before, judging by your shock 😄

[sudden rapids]

dlc tomorrow

[marble gyro]

But they didn't, just good camera angles

[hoary crest]

It's pissing with rain here, because England

[ruby gale]

Think its because she doesn't have one, just a weird phrase to use as well

[copper radish]

any flooded underground parking garages in your area?

[marble gyro]

In behind the scenes that entire scene was filmed when the entire staff was just hungry, as no one ate during that day for filming, they all got Five guys afterwards tho so that's cool

[hoary crest]

Not that I know of, but I'm in the deep SW so we're not overly subject to flooding here. Few roads in between fields have become fords though

[hoary crest]

Relatively normal round these parts mate

[carmine star]

Would be funnny if the DLC was just music tracks

[unique locust]

Meow

[dusky pawn]

this the reactor 4 is the least interesting one with how its destroyed and also the construction of the sarcophagus necessitated just flooding some rooms with concrete so...

its literally the same as other blocks but there's less of it

[fossil jay]

guys i'm in agroprom underground in anomaly why does my screen keep going grayscale

I killed the sucker already but i'm scared to proceed

[ebon bear]

when new update

[carmine star]

Month or less, Did you not hear the MUSIC!@!!!

[ruby gale]

[carmine star]

Now

[marble gyro]

Mcdonald's quarter pounder it is

[frigid hill]

phoenixskies01 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fossil jay]

I SEE NO POLTERGEIST WHY ARE THINGS FLYING AROUND AAA

[marble gyro]

Burers

Or a aggroed polter

[tall hawk]

what are we chuds doin for valentines

[carmine star]

Arguing to my wife about stalker 2

[plush ruin]

Good question

[marble gyro]

I am taking someone out to Texas roadhouse

[fossil jay]

I am stupid

[ruby gale]

Squished meat

[marble gyro]

It's $5 drinks and half off steak

[fossil jay]

There are no Electros in Agroprom Underground, it was polters

[carmine star]

No, just a little challenged it's ok we all are

[marble gyro]

At least it's real

[tall hawk]

thats nice

[smoky hawk]

no he do be

[fossil jay]

lmao

[ruby gale]

Is it?

[marble gyro]

Only thing that is real in mcdonald's are the quarter pounders as they come from a local meat market, and the mc crispy chickens

[fossil jay]

I hadn't shot the polters enough apparently

[marble gyro]

Also if you all want fresh food, ask for no salt, they are forced to cook it fresh

[serene barn]

do we think 1.9 will happen before the dlc or?

[plush ruin]

Yeah, that happens sometimes

[carmine star]

Hard to say, they just teased dlc with music so who knows

Must be a chimp behind a typewriter ova there

We don't know the plan

[ebon bear]

mate who wants music

[carmine star]

No idea but the game masters must know

[smoky hawk]

I would listen to if I had time

if its music from the new DLC it could be cool\

[ruby gale]

With how many people have been complaining for an update or dlc I suppose anything will do

[marble gyro]

Let em cook

[carmine star]

any more and its gonna be burnt

[marble gyro]

I'll just be chilling on skyrim until then

[ebon bear]

vehicles in stalker 2 ???

[ruby gale]

Wouldn't care for it

[marble gyro]

And also KCD 1 next gen update came out today so I'll hop on that too

[ruby gale]

Im just grinding warframe and motorfest

[ebon bear]

they should add something like golf carts

[ebon bear]

https://tenor.com/view/epstein-epstein-files-epstein-island-jeffrey-epstein-trump-epstein-gif-147873707617354730

[carmine star]

Would be funny as a mod but to actually have in base game? Wouldn't care for it.

[marble gyro]

Watching game with Dave Videos are seemingly becoming not entertaining to me anymore

[ebon bear]

I’m too lazy to mod the game tbh

[ruby gale]

Papa meat

[carmine star]

not much for him to report tho

[ebon bear]

I love stalker but goddayum it’s so much walking mid game

[ruby gale]

Thats kinda the point

[fossil jay]

helicopter

[carmine star]

ok , now that would be tight

Sold

[marble gyro]

I agree, other than him repeating the same thing over and over in a different word structure there really isn't anything to put out

[fossil jay]

with rockets and guns

[serene barn]

still trying to figure out when would be a good time for me to return to the game lol

[fossil jay]

become the close air support

[slender aurora]

Hello, do you know when the multiplayer mode will be released ? 🥺

[carmine star]

Pretty much

[marble gyro]

Multiplayer never unless they fix the controller sensitivity

[ruby gale]

Apparently its either canceled or pushed back a couple years

[carmine star]

See its getting outa control already lol

[frigid hill]

phoenixskies01 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fossil jay]

i hate bloodsuckers

[marble gyro]

The moment multiplayer comes out, people are going to hate it, because of how competitive it will get

[slender aurora]

Yet they had said they were going to release one 😭

[fossil jay]

why do they always end up ruining my games

[marble gyro]

M&K vs slow sens controllers not an ideal thing

[carmine star]

Yeah that would be brutal

[marble gyro]

It would be, multiplayer would die the very same day and you'll see the same people over and over in each lobby

Unless they remove M&K support on consoles

[fossil jay]

a Rust style multiplayer would be kinda cool

where you can build stuff, make groups, etc

[marble gyro]

Hell to the no on that

[carmine star]

Would basically be a different game at that point with stalker paint

[marble gyro]

It would

[ruby gale]

Multiplayer just looks like some tdm and ctf type game modes

[marble gyro]

Don't forget Artifact hunter

That was a mode for clear sky

[fossil jay]

why are suckers so weak

they 2shot me in my sunrise suit but somehow dont hold up to half a mag of AKS-74U

[candid lion]

Can I access my chest in other towns? Like does the stuff I store there transfer to other towns/areas?

[fossil jay]

your backpack? your inventory? explain what you mean by chest

but no, there's no such thing as an ender chest equivalent in any of the stalker games

[candid lion]

Ok. So in the first town I’ve come across. I’ve done missions for people called solder, and some colonel. In the merchant guys little building there’s a chest I store shit it

[fossil jay]

ah, a personal stash

[candid lion]

I don’t like being heavy, but I guess I’ll have to carry the stuff I wanna bring with me

[fossil jay]

no that doesn't transfer from place to place

probably a lot of that stuff isn't going to be needed, for instance ammo for guns you no longer use

[candid lion]

It’s just a couple high end guns. I guess it won’t impact me too much

[broken stag]

im so glad we got another useless ping and not a bug fix announcement

[candid lion]

Yeah I agree. Lots of my weight comes from bread and sausages and shit lmao

[marble gyro]

Personal stashes do transfer from location to location, it's linked

[candid lion]

Oh wonderful

[serene barn]

there's a hub in almost all regions and in which there is a chest that is marked on your compass, that one is Your Personal Stash and is accessable in the hubs with one, any other chest will keep the stuff in them but can't be reached from elsewhere.

[candid lion]

Well the chest I’m talking about is the one in the building with the first merchant you come across in the first town you come across

So I assume that’s a hub. It’s a safe area.

[serene barn]

Zalyssia or something?

[marble gyro]

Don't make it so complicated, personal stashes transfer from location to location, that's all you need to know

[candid lion]

Ok

[marble gyro]

You can retrieve your gear at any personal stash

[serene barn]

any container you leave things in outside off the Personal Stash boxes, does mean you can come back for the items.

i think some people even make stashes for themselves around the regions with things to top off if they need stuff.

[weary hedge]

1.9 > UE5.5.4 > DLC

unreal engine version is leaked in latest video

[marble gyro]

Teased

[weary hedge]

yh

[harsh jungle]

trust

[unique locust]

Yes it does

[unique locust]

Stash any ammo you don't currently use

[lament pelican]

what makes you think it's 5.4?

[weary hedge]

u can see it

[lament pelican]

ok

[weary hedge]

5.5.4

[fossil jay]

didn't realize that, thanks

[proven hollow]

banger new announcement

[lament pelican]

gsc becomes a music label

[sudden rapids]

gsc is non profit NGO or something

[hoary crest]

DayZ like would work, Rust like, would not

An the reason for that is all you'd really need for the former, is randomised and respawning loot and persistent servers. People would make thier own fun within the map and need very little else

The latter would require a lot more and as stated, basically be a different game at that point

[fossil jay]

aren't they basically the same thing?

open world PVP with the ability to build?

[smoky hawk]

no nor are they anything like stalker

https://tenor.com/view/she-was-a-fairy-cat-silly-cat-dandelion-flower-gif-9530809526257624706

[candid lion]

Does a goldfish reduce radiation or increase it… cause it shows a red arrow which leads me to believe negative, but it’s also a down arrow

[smoky hawk]

are you sure its not radiation protection

[tall hawk]

what does a red light mean in traffic?

[candid lion]

stop.

[hoary crest]

Not really. Building in DayZ is very much an afterthought. The main focus isnt hording a base full of loot. You live as long as you can manage, have an adventure then die and lose everything, respawn and do it again

[marble gyro]

Red arrow down means bad, less, non existent

Green arrow up, means good, positive, beneficial

[hoary crest]

OXA improves this so damn much ngl

Actual bars with a displayed value, not just ambiguous arrows

[smoky hawk]

just give me numbers

bars? vague, descriptions? all inferior to just telling me -10

[marble gyro]

Stalker shadow of chernobyl had numbers, clear sky had numbers, COP had numbers....Why change the original formula when it worked??

[gloomy monolith]

I wish this stalker game had a coop mod

[hoary hazel]

Been waiting on the engine update, have we got it yet?

[marble gyro]

Yeah, update was today

[unique locust]

Meow

[violet dune]

cope mode

[rose trellis]

hi guys , any suggest mods for low vram? i've got lag spike so bad

[marble gyro]

Low Vram? Like usage or that's your cap?

[sacred needle]

play on "Low"

[carmine star]

Download more Vram

[charred nova]

Multiplayer is cancelled you gotta wake up

[fickle hill]

Wake up it's just a dream

[rose trellis]

i dont really know but i play good frame a couple minuite then super lag

[rose trellis]

everything already low

[rose trellis]

usage i guess

[marble gyro]

Oh that's easy, get a better computer

[hoary hazel]

I dont see no update, bro capping

[marble gyro]

That's because you missed it

How can you see something, when you weren't there to witness it in the first place

[ancient cradle]

guys i have a problem my game looks like am about to enter heaven with how strong the lighting is to the point is unplayable how do i fix this ? (look in screens to see what am talking about)

[lament pelican]

i remember it felt junky even back then

so my expectations for s2 multiplayer are very low

[serene barn]

i wonder a little what the like, laws would be there given that they sold a version of the game where things was promised to be in but then isn't if it is cancelled.

[proven hollow]

sunglasses?

[ancient cradle]

i dont think thats gonna help in this case

atp am reinstall the entire game to see if it fixs since no graphic seting fixs it

[proven hollow]

any mods you're using?

[ancient cradle]

nope

it started to happen when you had to attack that big radar thingy with fuast

[proven hollow]

And do previous saves do the same?

[ancient cradle]

yes

[shell flax]

Is it only S2?

[proven hollow]

if reinstalling doesn't fix i'd just make a ticket

[ancient cradle]

ok i will

[charred nova]

Realistically they likely will deliver though it may be in the most dumbed down way possible

[serene barn]

it feels weird they could make the promise of the MP stuff but then it's not been added after a while but i guess it's not too different from promises about DLCs

[plain fiber]

We know the DLCs are coming though, multiplayer they've been pretty silent on.

[marble gyro]

How can MP be added in when the base game is not stable enough to meet their expectations to run with MP?

Like think for a second, really turn those gears

[floral elm]

Dlc's are coming 100% but yeah MP was always a weird move to me. IMO they shouldn't have gone for it

[cobalt fiber]

MP was always there in the franchise

[serene barn]

didn't steam make changes to their ToS or something in regards to selling versions of games with things that was promised but then didn't get added or took too long for it to be reasonable.

[floral elm]

They did change stuff mentioning a life 2.0 after release as far as I recall

[serene barn]

the store description thing was not a good look and it's no wonder a lot of people felt lied to or cheated when it was removed from it

[marble gyro]

Dunno why they would feel lied to? That's just dumb

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/alone-lonely-single-hurting-this-shit-again-gif-15291406

[serene barn]

we are aware that the game is still not in a really good state even after like longer than a year lmao.

[marble gyro]

If they researched, looked up, and or read about what they were getting into, they wouldn't have unrealistic expectations

Especially since they also have a unrealistic view on what A Life is since a mod made a permanent viewpoint to them

[serene barn]

you don't know why people who read the stores describe the game as having A Life and then later see that part being removed and paired with the sorry excuse that we got when it launched?

[cobalt fiber]

I think the argument of being lied to or cheated goes out of the window when the people complaining rack 30+ hours into the game

[marble gyro]

That's also a factor

[plain fiber]

That's why I'm surprised when people ask about it. There are two big problems I see with it:

1. Whatever the majority of people are expecting for multiplayer is probably not going to be what they want. I've always heard/seen rumors that it was only ever going to be a basic, old-school DM/TDM/CTF thing.

2. As you mentioned, the game at this moment is simply not stable enough to support multiplayer; why in God's name would you want them to do multiplayer when the base game still has so many issues?

[marble gyro]

Or people that have less than 10hrs make a review that other believe and put their thoughts on

[serene barn]

idk if i follow what you're saying here lol

[marble gyro]

EXACTLY THANK YOU TIM

[cobalt fiber]

That if someone racks that amount of hours into a game they enjoyed it

You don’t play something for that long and dislike it

[marble gyro]

You don't play something for 500+hrs and then say "yeah it was shit"

[serene barn]

Game advertised itself as having a thing from the old games, then that detail got removed from the store page afterwards and that the state of that feature was barely even existing in the game?

[cobalt fiber]

My heart bleeds

[marble gyro]

Like at that point you are just huffing on pure copium

[cobalt fiber]

Let’s forget the shareholder and Microsoft pressure

It’s all GSCs fault and theirs alone

https://tenor.com/view/sadcat-gif-6770984209275368356

[marble gyro]

Nobody reads between the lines anymore

[serene barn]

i don't think i agree with the idea that just because you put hours onto a game, it revokes your privilege to complain about anything in the game. ._.

[plain fiber]

not in a really good state

That's debatable in my opinion.

[cobalt fiber]

Lied and cheated to is an extremely woe is me take

That’s my point

[plain fiber]

GSC is privately owned so I don't know if shareholders are a factor here, but Microsoft is a very real possibility. There's also the war too; half the studio has remained in Kyiv and has been having to deal with the resulting power outages from the bombardment.

[marble gyro]

We or you? Didn't realize you represented a whole community

[cobalt fiber]

Do I think the game has and had its flaws? Yes

Do I think I was lied to or cheated when I got 50+ hours out of the money I spent?

[serene barn]

i mean it's still got issues but even when i did play it last time in like Dec 2024 or whenever it was. opn launch it was just terrible. performance, ram leaks, glitches.

[plain fiber]

Wait, you haven't played it since December 2024?

[hoary crest]

Im mixed on this ngl. Is the game in a better state than it was on release? Definately. Is it there yet? Not close thus far. An i dont think multiplayer is something GSC will even consider until the game is feature and content complete because of that

[ancient cradle]

@copper radish do i need to install the mod somehow or is it just there if i re open the game

[marble gyro]

Do I think I was lied to after putting 400hrs in fallout 4?

[eternal mountain]

stalker 2 at launch had its faults, but it wasn't cyberpunk 2077 levels of faulty, i played it through to the end while having fun with it. fast forward to today and the game is in so much better shape and i'd go so far as to say its feature full and i can't wait to see what they'll do with the dlc's

[serene barn]

i do when it's gotta be pointed out that we know the game isn't in a truly stable place.

[plain fiber]

It's not that you can't complain; you can, but I think it's best to be constructive when you do.

The issue is if you put hundreds or thousands of hours into it, only to then declare that the entire thing is shit. If it's shit, why did you put so much time into it? That's the contradiction people are pointing out.

[cobalt fiber]

If you haven’t played since Dec 2024 you don’t really have an argument on the games state

[serene barn]

no i did accidentally boot it up sometime last year but i think my 2nd playthrough is from 2024. i have been following updates and seen videos and it still sounds like they need to polish A Life to make it feel more natural and stop things from just popping in from nowhere.

[sharp sierra]

Guys if they added new mutants what kind of thing would you want to see? I'd quite like a bear

[cobalt fiber]

A Life was never natural in vanilla stalker let’s be real

[plain fiber]

Okay, if your most recent playthrough is from 2024, then I really don't think you have any grounds on the claim that the game is "not in a really good state".

[eternal mountain]

for real

[plain fiber]

*piles of NPCs spawning practically on top of you when loading into a new area in SoC be like:*

[serene barn]

if Artifacts still spawn under the map, how am i not allowed to talk about the that being an issue they need to sort out just because i haven't done a 3rd playthrough in recent times?

[eternal mountain]

in stalker 2 the AI and "A-life" is so far implemented real good

[marble gyro]

A Life was also busted in older titles, it's funny how people forget that as well

[plain fiber]

Eh...not sure I'd go so far as to say "real good", but they're way better than they were at launch or even a few months ago.

[eternal mountain]

not perfect but i had real fun and memorable moments with the 1.7 updated AI

[cobalt fiber]

Dunno about you guys but I feel lied to and cheated

[serene barn]

steam tells me i have 466 hours on the game but i will absolutely still shake my head at things if they feel off or if the game does glitches.

[plain fiber]

They fixed the artifacts spawning under the map from what I remember. Last time I played I wasn't seeing that anymore.

[marble gyro]

Bethesda lied and cheated to me personally when they said I could be whoever I want in fallout, my 400hrs says so

[serene barn]

it felt a lot more natural in the older titles when i played those before S2 came out and NPCs and monsters didn't spawn in, in a locaction i had just cleared out or right behind me when i was waddling through the forest

[cobalt fiber]

Are you joking?

[marble gyro]

Natural? Didn't realize when npcs would get stuck in running in circles was Natural to you

[charred nova]

Have you ever considered we have all suffered a case of mass psychosis in regards to a life

[serene barn]

i read the claim then following it read reports in here of it happening still and watched videos on youtube about the same and i haven't read since about it being fixed again.

[hardy totem]

what do you mean suffered? I enjoyed every minute of it

[plain fiber]

Re-read what I said:

It's not that you can't complain; you can, but I think it's best to be constructive when you do.

The issue is if you put hundreds or thousands of hours into it only to then declare that the whole thing is shit. If it's shit, why did you put so much time into it? That's the contradiction people are pointing out.

[marble gyro]

Anomaly and gamma have become a plague and an unrealistic standard to everyone

[cobalt fiber]

Literally wanted to kill myself during every minute of playtime

But I still racked in 200+ hours

[serene barn]

i'm not saying the whole game sucks if it's that

[eternal mountain]

even anomaly and gamma didn't have "natural" npcs, everytime you loaded into an area, all the monsters and npcs had a predetermined spawn point, the faction randomness prolly made it feel natural

[marble gyro]

But even so, people became a cult in believing that, that is a a standard to how A life is supposed to be

They will die on that hill they created, is how they feel

[eternal mountain]

they have the opportunity to make an even better a-life system than people cherish the older one to be and so far they are taking the right steps

[plain fiber]

But that's what saying "It's shit." means. It's shit = it sucks = it's bad etc. etc. etc.

[plain fiber]

The A-Life system in Anomaly/GAMMA is just a community-polished version of what was in CS iirc.

What we have right now is more akin to a combination of CS and CoP; there's NPC lairs and lair capturing, but NPCs also have some basic daily routines right now.

[serene barn]

i dislike this one thing ( bugs, things behaving in ways they shouldn't etc )

[marble gyro]

Your whole argument started off with " I was lied and cheated" then posted multiple examples which led us to believe you think "Its shit" stop contradicting yourself

[serene barn]

i'm just, not listing the things i like lol.

[eternal mountain]

i have never seen those npc lair capturing events in my over 300 hours playing gamma, in fact i would belive the lairs to be a facade, cus entering and leaving an area seems to just refresh every lair randomly

[serene barn]

you drew the conclusion that there must not have been a single thing iin the whole game that i liked or enjoyed.

[eternal mountain]

but in stalker 2 you can actually find lairs being captured and defended, campsites having bodies from an earlier skirmish

[marble gyro]

Then saying "we believe" like who is we? It's just you

Unless we are dealing with some kind of D I D then my apologies

[serene barn]

what's a D I D

[plain fiber]

But saying "It's shit." doesn't clarify that. "It's shit." inherently implies that the whole product is bad, not just individual parts.

[serene barn]

did i say the game was shit?

[marble gyro]

Dissociative identity disorder

[violet dune]

radio teaser is control room after all

[serene barn]

the game had more issues on launch and stuff was fixed later but the game still has some things that feel off, like that video Sin posted in Screens n videos for example.

[sacred needle]

i know its prob not ideal, but i would love if Stalker 2 had co-op. wuold love to have a blast with a friend in the zone :D

[marble gyro]

That was just a thing that I want to be aware, as it exists in older games too, the piercing values are everywhere

[shell flax]

Ain’t happening, GSC shot that idea down on launch

[serene barn]

and now NPCs will also loot bodies they get near and spit out a line about how "you don't need it anymore" and use cover more often instead of standing in the middle of a road like a deer in headlights

[plain fiber]

Dissociative Identity Disorder. Used to be referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder.

[sacred needle]

yeah i know :( just a dream lol. it makes sense that it wouldnt really work with this kind of games story

[plain fiber]

My bad, I thought I read that you did. Sorry about that.

[serene barn]

love i put 466 hours on the game and only did 2 playthroughs, i took my sweet damn time with the game and vacuumed up EVERYTHING i could get my hands on lel.

wasn't a fan of things like the way they balanced guns when i did play like how Exo Monoliths could take like 14 shots to the head from an AK. but the gunplay is so much better than it was in the trilogy games. i hated that shooting in at least CS was off center on purpose lol.

[plain fiber]

Same, though I haven't reached that level of playtime yet. I'm at....226.7 hours. I scoured every inch of every region of the map. I passed the 100 hour mark before I went to the Clear Sky base.

If I remember correctly, I think 1.7 dropped right before I went to SIRCAA.

[marble gyro]

Disagree, Aim was on point in CS and COP, you just had to upgrade them, as well as exos took like a half mag from aksu

[serene barn]

i was upset about how bad the PKM felt but i hear they buffed it in some way so i hope it's better now, they also properly fed my baby too in 7.62x54 instead of starving it in x39

[marble gyro]

About the same damage value for headshot ratio

If you had crap weaponry, you did crap damage but if you had 5.56 it was gg for early game

[serene barn]

i played through SoC and CS 2 times and CoP once and i never felt like i needed that many shots to the head with a 74M even on Exos.

[marble gyro]

Mercenary exos on cop, took a almost a full magazine in the head, happened multiple times on master when I was streaming

And I only play on master difficulty

Game is too easy on lower difficulties

[serene barn]

one of the games at least also had a hard coded % chance of shots just, goes way off point of aim

[marble gyro]

That's not true at all lmao, like I said, you upgrade you don't miss whatsoever, recoil and bloom gets cut completely

[eternal mountain]

fully upgraded il 86 is the meta in cop

[marble gyro]

Even with no upgrades, semi auto is straight as can be

[serene barn]

i'm pretty sure it was as i remember seeing it listed in the difference between difficulties

[marble gyro]

Valentines chocolate is the best chocolate

[marble gyro]

Where do you see that?

[serene barn]

i also didn't like feeling like guns just were bad at the start because it felt like even when a gun was upgraded, it wasn't good just better than what felt like having a nerfed gun by default.

[plain fiber]

There's a post with a handy table linked on the subreddit; what you mention about shots disappearing/going wildly off target is simply not true and was always just an unsubstantiated rumor.

[marble gyro]

Definitely a skill issue, starting pistol was amazing in COP, the aksu and AKM were mint, viper imo sucked in cop

[serene barn]

i've seen plenty of clips over time and feeling the same thing when i did play so idk.

[marble gyro]

Viper iron sights were just bleh

[plain fiber]

You could turn the Viper into an absolute bullet hose in CoP. I tried it once and the only real downside was how quickly it wore out.

[marble gyro]

I liked the viper in CS but COP it felt off to me

[serene barn]

i didn't like in the trilogy how upgrades was either Path A or Path B

want a scope on that gun? gotta go path something

[marble gyro]

Well thats why they gave you a lot of guns of the same kind to experiment with

[serene barn]

GP25? gotta pick that path

[frigid hill]

2024_98_25_h has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quasi schooner]

when will those sh1tty developers fix the aimbot bug?

[marble gyro]

When you start getting gud

[quasi schooner]

Can they stop fing around with DLC and actually fix the damn game?

[serene barn]

oh, i found the video i remember watching about the weapon system in Clear Sky being weird lol.

[quasi schooner]

Do you know how the AI works in this game? they have the aim on you as long you can see them through a tiny little gap that the human eye would not be able to see

[plain fiber]

They can do both you know, they 500-ish employees split between Prague and Kyiv, though the team in Kyiv has been dealing with power and internet loss due to bombardment.

[quasi schooner]

the AI isn't dynamic it just pin points at the location where it was shot from then they follow your view.

[marble gyro]

Not necessarily, it's tied with their hearing, they will shoot where they hear the slightest crunch

[plain fiber]

Well we should be getting the engine upgrade soon, which I believe gave them the opportunity to rebuild a lot of systems from scratch.

[quasi schooner]

that's why running around like an idiot then turning with spray and pray will make them 100% accurate?

[plain fiber]

They're not 100% accurate, they've never been 100% accurate.

[quasi schooner]

more like skill issue devs.

[marble gyro]

The sight works fine and you can leave the "Last known area" and they'll investigate it

[marble gyro]

Skill issue on your part man

[quasi schooner]

nonsense, I have endless of compilations of them shooting through who god knows nowhere maybe the godamn sky

[marble gyro]

Show then

[eternal mountain]

would love to see the proof yeah

[quasi schooner]

with pleasure

[plain fiber]

If you're talking about them shooting at you through solid walls and objects, that's a known glitch that has nothing to do with accuracy.

[marble gyro]

I have my streams proving otherwise, but I would like to see what you see

[plain fiber]

I think their shots can penetrate through certain surfaces though, but yours can too.

[marble gyro]

Yeah, that's just the piercing value being out of wack, but cool thing is as well, you can do it too

[quasi schooner]

they are shooting through almost everything, and they run around like headless chicken as soon they stop they do full spray with 100% that's not realism that's idiotism.

[eternal mountain]

they gotta tinker with the bullet penetration values but AI do suppress fire at last known location and perhaps a wooden wall might not stop AP rounds

[quasi schooner]

This is mindseye level bad NPC.

[marble gyro]

Nah they can shoot through 25cm of brick

[serene barn]

imma rewatch this guy's video again lol. it's low key funny, i posted it in screens and videos so you can see what i mean about aiming not being right in that game

[plain fiber]

I first saw it when 1.7 dropped iirc, though I've had people tell me they've been encountering it since launch so idk.

[eternal mountain]

yeah thats why they gotta tinker with the values, but realistically speaking..

[plain fiber]

Also I don't think any NPCs use AP rounds. I only ever find basic rounds on their bodies.

[marble gyro]

You can find AP rounds on military

[plain fiber]

Hmm.

[marble gyro]

Rare as heck tho

[plain fiber]

Ah.

See, my point is that NPC rounds are visibly phasing through walls and objects to hit you. It's not penetration, they're literally acting like the wall/object isn't there in some cases.

[marble gyro]

Don't over exaggerate, it's not that bad at all

[quasi schooner]

Its not they are this bad, they function almost the same even how they move and react.

[plain fiber]

I remember starting seeing it when 1.7 dropped and made the changes to stealth that allow grass/bushes/etc. to act as stealth objects. This was also the time I believe that Poltergeists and Burers could suddenly chuck shit at you through walls, so I think it's related.

[marble gyro]

Yup

[serene barn]

i do remember a long time ago that there was things that npcs in S2 would just, shoot you through as if they didn't see the item in the way. like whole aaa Tanker trucks

[marble gyro]

But yeah, sight works fine, it's the hearing that is out of wack

That's what gets them to track you

[ancient cradle]

mustve been a save problem its fine on a new save i just started but still cooked on the other

oh well ig am replaying stalker till that part

[marble gyro]

You can Flank around them and they will check the last known location, but the moment you get in their hearing range again and you make that blue bar rise to the very max, they'll automatically forget the last known location and go towards your new location

So that needs tweaking

[quasi schooner]

here's how they react

[marble gyro]

Go on

[serene barn]

there was bugs before where enemies would see you through objects, like walls even if you stood still.

[visual mortar]

HO LLYYYY SHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

[serene barn]

Sin please watch the video i posted lol, i wanna hear what you think of it

[marble gyro]

Kk I'll check it out

[eternal mountain]

yeah thats clearly a skill issue

[serene barn]

it's a little old, 5 years but it does point out some things.

[eternal mountain]

and you can also think that the military were trying to figure out why a loner would just appear out in the open

[kindred fable]

Man, I've just finished rdr2. I remember somebody from the chat was saying that it had some kind of alife like simulation but in the end it's just a gta-like game with a little bit better wanted system...

[visual mortar]

it does though

npcs in towns and cities follow routines and are somewhat persistent

[marble gyro]

After watching the video and analyzing the sight to reaction ratio, I conclude this with SKILL ISSUE
Case dismissed that will be 4000 koupons

[shell flax]

Am I going insane or does that guy type in a familiar way

[marble gyro]

In a very death way?

[shell flax]

Yes

[marble gyro]

Noticed as well

[quasi schooner]

Right despite leaving the argument in screens and videos lmao

[shell flax]

Right, time to run the tests

Deathguard is an old man with no life and an ego of glass

[visual mortar]

who guy

[shell flax]

The dude with the blank name

[visual mortar]

do you say feck instead of fuck

and are you British

[quasi schooner]

to bypass perhaps.

[visual mortar]

interesting

tell me more

[quasi schooner]

Where did I say feck tho lol

[serene barn]

right there

[quasi schooner]

Now where did I say it twice.

[serene barn]

dunno

[marble gyro]

@serene barn okay that is a pretty funny video

[visual mortar]

what are you opinions on stalker 2 coop

[quasi schooner]

I hate everything about it, I want the game to be fixed instead of moving onto new story content that will be ruined by these medlesome bugs.

[visual mortar]

alright you passed the test

i can conclude this is not deathguard

[quasi schooner]

who the hell is deathguard, Is that some sort of stalker character?

[visual mortar]

very inquisitive you are

why do you need to know

[marble gyro]

Interesting

[serene barn]

yeee, but i feel like it does feel like, how things work? like shooting at those plates and seeing some of the rounds just deviating a lot.

[shell flax]

An old man with an ego so fragile he calls people pedos for calling him an asshole

[quasi schooner]

lol

[serene barn]

or when he's point blank aiming at a bandit's mid torso and nails him in the head lol

[quasi schooner]

because I don't know a damn thing about stalker lore

[cobalt fiber]

If you didn’t guess yes he’s gay

[marble gyro]

Yeah, I can see the bloom is pretty crazy, I have not played Vanilla CS in a long time as EE currently fixed majority of those

[visual mortar]

thank you for censoring that word it makes me uncomfortable

[cobalt fiber]

It’s okay man I try to be inclusive

[marble gyro]

So when you mute someone, does that also mute their account to where they cannot interact with alts?

Back in my day we banned people

Sent them to the shadow realm

[plain fiber]

S2 doesn't have CO-OP though...

[marble gyro]

Did bro also forget that 1.9 is dedicated to bug fixes?

[plain fiber]

We don't actually know anything concrete about 1.9 atm.

[marble gyro]

I'm just going off of what Game with Dave says

[pallid breach]

What's the lines that one Sparker tells you when you ask him about Scar?

Something like; Why follow someone if you don't believe in them?

Or something like that? It was pretty good and liked it, but forgot

[marble gyro]

The #1 stalker update news outlet

[pallid breach]

It's when you meet with them in Zaton, I think Izumdroye or whatever it's called

[plain fiber]

There's some dialogue from Sparker NPCs that make it pretty clear that everyone in the faction outside of Scar's inner circle of sycophants is being kept out of the loop.

[plain fiber]

I prefer Vatislavovych tbh, though I do appreciate Dave if I only have time for a quick update.

[pallid breach]

Yeah I get it, I've played the Spark ending, it was my firdt ending. I still like that ending and plan to do it again. To believe is a nice thing, even knowing the ending

[marble gyro]

I watch Vat also

[pallid breach]

A very charismatic leader and very optimistic people I guess and a yearning for vengeance

[plain fiber]

charismatic

Uh....

[marble gyro]

I mean so was stalin

[plain fiber]

I was put off by Scar as soon as I met him. Even being a trilogy veteran, I did not trust him in S2. Lo and behold...

Like yeah, there's a charm there, but I could tell there was something off.

Then you get to his later cutscenes and the facade falls down hard.

Like "Oh, this dude is an actually insane cult leader.".

[serene barn]

it didn't feel like charisma to me lol, guy felt off his rocker from the time i met him in that X lab.

[pallid breach]

I don't get that from Scar

[plain fiber]

That's my point. Even as someone that despises the Ward, his glee towards the Warden's death is very off-putting. The meeting with him at the old mill is where he layers on the charm, but I was still wary.

[pallid breach]

He is messed up, basically an unknowing psyop, but he truly believes in what he does

I wanted to believe like him, I still do

I think it's like the boy who cried wolf, he is trying desperately to show everyone there is this shining zone, he believes it with all of him

[plain fiber]

Yeah...that doesn't make him any less insane. People suffering from actual psychological delusion can believe with all of their being that it's true, but that doesn't make it so.

Also we already know for sure that the Shining Zone is a lie.

[pallid breach]

Well, imma go with Gaben's logic

[serene barn]

unfortunately for me, that's the ending i am missing. i got the other 3 from my 2 playthroughs as i loaded a save from the 1st one after making the choices

[pallid breach]

It's a video game, doesn't need to make sense.
I want to love Scar, I love him. I loved Clear Sky (the game installment), I'm sticking to my guns

[kindred fable]

I mean, sure but when I think about A-Life I think about some sort of dynamic, unscripted simulation. Not "gothic/shenmue/radiant ai from bethesda games/etc" kind of routines

[marble gyro]

I dunno how Bethesda did....but they did it

They made fallout 4 even more buggier in the anniversary update

[pallid breach]

In real life, I was a believer. I wanted to believe the best in people.
I don't feel that way at all anymore and it feels awful, but there is no pity for anyone else. I couldn't care less anymore. All that matters is me and family. Everyone else is nothing.

With Scar, it's nice to believe—like seeing a dog versus owning one. I'll follow Scar in the game, I'll get the 'bad' ending and I'll do it again and again.

[harsh jungle]

it works just as Todd “Godd” Howard intended

[kindred fable]

Yeah, another good example of something having "routines" but almost 0 unscripted simulation

[marble gyro]

[quasi schooner]

Yet..

[marble gyro]

It never will have coop

[hardy totem]

https://klipy.com/gifs/todd-howard-bethesda

[quasi schooner]

Who knows what insanity they will bring, they are adding DLC it wouldn't be too far fetched adding CO-OP in their eyes

[shell flax]

GSC themselves said no to coop

[kindred fable]

They said that they don't even plan to implement it officially

[quasi schooner]

but they said Multiplayer 😭

[shell flax]

They’ve said no coop since SoC launched

[kindred fable]

But it may be added by modders

[proven hollow]

I will implement co-op, do not worry

[quasi schooner]

not happening neither considering how scuffed this game is.

[marble gyro]

Multiplayer as in, TDM, CTF, Artifact Hunting

[quasi schooner]

we'll be busy fixing it for 2-3 years like fallout 4

[kindred fable]

Nobody knows what it'll be. People suspect it'll be something like a shіtty team deathmatch or something like that

[quasi schooner]

Multiplayer is more demanding than CO-OP

[marble gyro]

Coop is a thing of the past

We need more competitive waves

[frigid hill]

robolord123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[kindred fable]

Eh, it depends... I mean, how do you even synchronize quests between players moving all over the world

[quasi schooner]

I don't care what its gonna be I just want them to fix the game, stop lying about A Life and actually make an AI system. it is obvious there is no Dynamic AI, they just use false and true (trigger) during on and off state.

[kindred fable]

Meanwhile something like a simple deathmatch sounds way easier to implement

[marble gyro]

Unless they make it a GTA like thing, I don't see coop happening at all

[frigid hill]

robolord123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proven hollow]

oi, what word is even bad

[quasi schooner]

Who says it has to be Open World Co-Op could be Co-Op Arena Survival 🤣

[frigid hill]

robolord123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proven hollow]

that's racist

[quasi schooner]

Use youtube as a reference.

[shell flax]

‘It’s so obvious they lie!’

multiple content creators have videos up showing A-Life exists now

Sure thing my friend, sure thing

[kindred fable]

Usually people mean openworld coop when they ask for coop. Sorry to assume that you were one of these people

[proven hollow]

team deathmatch is the only god given mode of multiplayer, everything conceived after it is deluded nonsense made up by madman

[quasi schooner]

Showing A-Life exists by spectating them and observing their moves.

I'm sure A Life exists based on just observing the Ai Lmao

[proven hollow]

inb4 he finds out the entirety of what a computer does is based on a binary on/off system

[quasi schooner]

No one has Confirmed if A Life even exists the youtubers just assume because of the improvement yet they are almost as bad as before.

[kindred fable]

Check one of the pinned messages, it has a video by shytech which demonstrates that there's indeed something similar to A-Life from original games

Still, I hope it'll get better because currently it's lacking

[quasi schooner]

I am sure the previous stalker games had a profound system like A life lol

[proven hollow]

man, it's been a while since we've had one of those a-life deniers, it's almost like a extinct species

[marble gyro]

Bro just wants AI to do the programming

[shell flax]

it’s about S2, what does the trilogy have to do with this conversation

[kindred fable]

Honestly I'd like you to define what A-life is before I continue to listen to you because who knows what the fuсk do you even mean by it at this point

[marble gyro]

You are sure, you did not play those games when they first came out, A Life was buggy, non existent and took equivalent of a half year to fix

[quasi schooner]

It's a system that all stalkers games use, somehow they made it worse with S2 but they claimed there was a A Life system at launch so 🤷‍♂️

[proven hollow]

A-life is obviously the fully simulated life of a stalker down to nail growth and the exact dietary state of his feces

[quasi schooner]

then they were exposed by the fact there was no A Life and now they somewhat have A Life but is it really A Life or just some scuffed nonsense they put together at last.

[proven hollow]

i've never heard anyone describe A-life in a way that essentially described nothing, are you a politician by any chance?

[quasi schooner]

I am.

[kindred fable]

Yeah, stalker games use it but WHAT IS IT? I wanna know what you think it actually is. Because what we've got now is better almost in every way than what we had in SoC, for example

[proven hollow]

Nalartos, why even bother, just point and laugh, that's what jesters are for

[quasi schooner]

I'd argue its far worse than the previous one's.

[proven hollow]

the only reasonable response to anyone talking about A-life these days is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1OTaj4V8k

No discussion needed beyond that

[shell flax]

Vati coming in clutch

[kindred fable]

I'd like to hear at least one of your arguments then. Trust me, I know it has issues but I wonder if you understand what are you talking about...

[quasi schooner]

And if I don't how about you enlighten me?

[proven hollow]

my friend bait is for fishes

[marble gyro]

Village ||idiots|| are there too for that

[quasi schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zM3ePkYPo

The AI is like this except now they just take more cover and has lame shenanigans such as 100% pinpoint accuracy of a aimbot who can shoot through anything, apparently Admantium bullets is a lore thing in Stalker.

[kindred fable]

Only after you admit that you didn't know what you were talking about... (It's okay if you didn't, for real, nobody will really judge, many people think that A-Life is just combat AI, many people come up with some weird myths, etc)

[quasi schooner]

I didn't now enlighten me.

[marble gyro]

Find a video that is not a year old

[proven hollow]

the bait is painful to watch but to see someone fall for it is excruciating

[quasi schooner]

You still have not explained the video that I posted.

The NPC's are doing the same thing as they did a year ago. the improvement is insignificant.

[proven hollow]

this guy is great, i wish jack were here

[marble gyro]

You stood out in the open, and complained if it meant anything, I already said the Reaction time to spot time is good as it is

[marble gyro]

The new Death?

[quasi schooner]

10 Seconds to react to someone who is there unauthorized and then takes 2 steps to see if I am one of his?

Despite looking nothing like them?

[proven hollow]

death was at least capable of rational thought at times

[quasi schooner]

You said Metal Gear AI was difficult, you made all sort of excuses Sin

[marble gyro]

Where did I say that???

[shell flax]

https://tenor.com/view/tim-robinson-i-think-you-should-leave-you-sure-about-that-gif-22429959

[marble gyro]

I did not say Metal gear AI was difficult what???

[quasi schooner]

First you say the AI isn't bad now you're saying its bad on purpose cuz it would be too difficult, yet you brag about Skill issue

[proven hollow]

ok, the bait is getting a little hopeless now...

[marble gyro]

You completely misread anything I said

[quasi schooner]

If these AI had metal gear reaction timing even tho you also have plenty to get out of sight, the game would be literally unplayable as there are multiple enemy types that would spot you immediately and would all bum rush you

"AI had metal gear reaction timing"

[proven hollow]

sounds like a skill issue on your end tbh

[quasi schooner]

you're using metal gear as an example to why the reaction time is scuffed

because it would be too difficult? yet you brag about skill issue? when someone hits you through 12 ton of steel from 60 kilometers?

[obtuse veldt]

Wait until you deal with 20 vodka suckers at burnt forest

[proven hollow]

consider getting better at the game

[marble gyro]

"EVEN THOUGH YOU ALSO HAVE PLENTY TO GET OUT OF SIGHT" meaning in MGS you had time to move out of their sight Cones, if it were implemented in stalker they would shoot on sight and you would not have time to react fast enough to get out of their sight

[quasi schooner]

how please give me strats on how to get better oh please, I am sure you can prevent them from shooting through a whole building with 5 bricks walls in the way of the NPC

[marble gyro]

Again, misread what I said but its okay

[obtuse veldt]

Wall banging, you familiar with it?

[proven hollow]

don't stand behind the brick walls of course, bricks aren't made to stop bullets you silly goose

[quasi schooner]

Why wouldn't it be the same? if they cared about AI they would put the important detail where they let you get out of sight instant of instantly shooting you with a instant animation that is faster than the flash.

[marble gyro]

I'm slamming my gavel down again saying ORDER ORDER and sentencing thee with a cone of shame, how do you plead Mr. @quasi schooner

[quasi schooner]

Oh my bad ill stop standing behind buildings, goofy me ill stand behind the moon.

[hardy totem]

-# leave the gavel slams to the moderators : )

[proven hollow]

ooh, no, behind buildings is fine, just not brick walls

[quasi schooner]

lies.

[proven hollow]

and deceit? or just lies?

[dry wasp]

hi

[obtuse veldt]

I Wall bang...

A lot..

On master...

[proven hollow]

hi

[obtuse veldt]

Armor piercing boolets are more efficient at it

[marble gyro]

Hey its a rubber gavel and this coat, 100% nylon

[hardy totem]

https://klipy.com/gifs/tts-emperor-3

[proven hollow]

I just shoot enemies in the head before they have a chance to shoot me, saves me a lot of trouble

[hardy totem]

...

discord switched from tenor to klipy?

[quasi schooner]

both. show me a video of the 5.45
Soviet cartridge penetrating a concrete wall that a a anti material rifle struggles to penetrate.

[proven hollow]

now hold up we were talking about brick walls, what's next, metal walls?!

[quasi schooner]

And if you can't see them? what if he is hiding under the ground? do I shoot through the ground?

[proven hollow]

Hide better than them of course

[charred nova]

The gavel is a snap on 500 dollar hammer

Certified for professionals

[quasi schooner]

brick walls was just an example, any walls will do. they'll shoot through anything they desire.

[shell flax]

Need a whole forging power hammer at this point

[proven hollow]

then shoot back at them through it lmao

[quasi schooner]

My bullets are too weak 🙁

[proven hollow]

i swear some people need everything in life explained smh

[kindred fable]

A-life is just a system that repopulates the zone and makes NPCs go around and do stuff, including combat. Basically, A-Life isn't just a combat AI but also stuff outside of combat and even far away from the player, when NPCs aren't rendered in your visible bubble (which is pretty small in Stalker 2, just 100 meters).

When I say that it's better than in SoC what I mean is that it has a better simulation outside of that player bubble (Here we have some actual combat that can happen far away from the player and the NPCs can be simulated even on the opposite part of the map meanwhile that kind of simulation was very limited in SoC itself) + it has all the features that CoP has introduced like NPCs being able to heal each other, loot dead bodies and mutants, pick up guns. SoC didn't have anything like that, yeah. It also has some features that none of the previous games had like NPCs being able to separate from their initial squads and join other squads (not factions).

When we talk STRICTLY about some certain combat features – then yeah, I can agree that SoC might be better in a way. But yet again, A-life isn't just some combat AI...

[quasi schooner]

They won't go through the mosin nagant is useless! I can't shoot through the dirt they are hiding inside the earth

[proven hollow]

your shots too weak you walls too weak your stealth game too weak your aim game too weak, the only conclusion here is skill issue

[marble gyro]

I have a 2k karat gold plated gavel, it sits nicely on my shelf

[quasi schooner]

That's it? you thought I didn't know that A Life is not a combat system, I legit wanted some actual examples on how it functions by showing me the code itself.

[quasi schooner]

Yup Skill issue 100% Mindseye AI Is perfect.

[marble gyro]

I would show you the code, but it's all numbers

[quasi schooner]

Hopefully you're not implying its just numbers.

[proven hollow]

get gud my friend

[quasi schooner]

nah Im too bad for this game, I need to become a programmer first to beat master.

[marble gyro]

Numbers variables followed by This_guy%_is_goof7

[proven hollow]

also bro unironically asking for code from a 10+ year old game which had its entire engine leaked

[charred nova]

Isn’t 2k like super low grade

[kindred fable]

You admitted it yourself instead of providing any arguments so yeah, I didn't have to assume anything

[charred nova]

Or super low purity rather

[obtuse veldt]

[marble gyro]

Low purity yeah, I mean it is an award I got from highschool

You think they pay money for awards?

[charred nova]

Oh wow I’m surprised it’s not just plastic in that case

[marble gyro]

Lmao fr

[quasi schooner]

you already assumed that I didn't know what A Life is, I thought you meant how its coded and shit not what it is.

[obtuse veldt]

Kind of not regretting buying ultimate edition at a discount

[marble gyro]

My golf tourney award was plastic painted gold

[obtuse veldt]

The weapons and starter gear give you that needed boost for the hell ahead

[proven hollow]

only the Monolith knows what A-life is

[charred nova]

That’s how you know

Your winning

[proven hollow]

@charred nova help i'm having flashbacks to the a-life when days

[obtuse veldt]

But the fact to save only on camps it's ughh!!

[quasi schooner]

Kind of regretting it even buying it, I should have realized that fixes must be a part of the roadmap to actually fix the bug.

[obtuse veldt]

On master

[charred nova]

A life was never real

[proven hollow]

Truth

[charred nova]

It’s all mass psychosis

[proven hollow]

eeh, skill issue

[kindred fable]

No, I was asking you if you know what it is, you can clearly see that in the previous messages. I never asked you anything about the code and I don't understand where that came from, lol... Anyways, no matter. You asked what it is and I explained it on a very basic level, take it or leave it, as they say...

[quasi schooner]

Sorry man, I'm lazy I didn't bother fixing those bugs.

[proven hollow]

you're not forgiven get to it

[charred nova]

I’m down with the sickness

[quasi schooner]

I don't blame you I just took it in a different context.

[charred nova]

Life sucks

[kindred fable]

It's alright, yea

[proven hollow]

ooh get out of here

life is great

beats not living by a huge margin

[charred nova]

Sadly I can’t just snap my fingers and no longer be sick

Made it till I got home at least though

[proven hollow]

but you have a brain and the awareness that your sickness is temporary

[marble gyro]

I just got over my sickness

[charred nova]

True

[marble gyro]

No literally, today I felt 100%

[charred nova]

Today was a good day though

I came across a left over supply of blue edition Red Bull

[cobalt fiber]

Wdym blue edition

Original?

[charred nova]

No

Blue edition

[marble gyro]

Blue edition? Like the blueberry?

[charred nova]

It’s blue berry flavored

They got rid of it recently

[cobalt fiber]

Ive seen several colours but not the blue

[charred nova]

Which is such a shame

[marble gyro]

Ah

Wait why? It's still being sold over here

[charred nova]

Left over supply

[cobalt fiber]

Oh Jack

[charred nova]

It’s discontinued

[cobalt fiber]

My pc is ready

!!!!!!!

I will join Terraria soon TM

[charred nova]

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_1d7903b1-0d41-40eb-89e9-10ee97d03102

[charred nova]

We gotta restart

Probably

[marble gyro]

Yeah that one, it's still being sold over here

[charred nova]

lol

[cobalt fiber]

Well

I got my new setup finished today

[charred nova]

Only till supply runs out

[marble gyro]

My warehouse just got a new shipment today

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-gif-24341837

This is so unfair

Where do you live again?

[cobalt fiber]

It got discontinued here too

[marble gyro]

Interesting, it says discontinued and was supposed to be pulled off the shelves in January 18

[cobalt fiber]

Early 2026 they said they wanna focus on different flavours

[marble gyro]

But it's still being delivered here

I live in Nevada

[cobalt fiber]

Places will have stock for a while

To be delivered etc

But once it’s gone it’s gone

[charred nova]

Which makes no sense

It’s literally the best flavor

And it’s not close

[cobalt fiber]

Idk I always preferred original to the other flavours

[charred nova]

I hate the original flavor imbr

[cobalt fiber]

I also like original Lucozade tho

[charred nova]

Then again I don’t really like white monster

So I guess I’m perhaps in the minority

[cobalt fiber]

When I was a kid cherry lucozade or orange was the bomb

Now it’s original

[charred nova]

I’ll drink it but it’s not what I’d call pleasant to drink

[cobalt fiber]

But the orange one doesn’t taste the same as it used to

They fucked the formula somewhere down the line

[charred nova]

Took out all the lead

[marble gyro]

I drink the original flavor

[charred nova]

Apparently they dropped a peach flavored white monster

Need to find that

[marble gyro]

Eww monster

[charred nova]

Combine monster with adderall

For maximum performance

[kindred fable]

I don't know why but monster never worked for me as a source of energy. Redbull always affects me much better. Wonder if there's some kind of placebo effect or something, kinda weird

Considering I like almost any flavour I've tried

[marble gyro]

Energy drinks don't work on me

[charred nova]

Red Bull works a little

White monster works better though

[kindred fable]

Yeah, most people I know say the same thing

[marble gyro]

It gives me the opposite effect

[charred nova]

Gotta get the sugar free ones

They work best

[kindred fable]

Knew a guy who hated coffee because it always made him sleepy and shіt himself, nothing positive

[marble gyro]

Shot a raider with a pistol, combined with the bloody mess perk, he glitched into a wall then blew up

This game never ceases to amaze me

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/555431196884992000/1435660880263254087/1761537002418800.gif

[kindred fable]

Bloody mess perk in stalker 2 when

[charred nova]

Would be funny if you could blow people apart with explosives

Or maybe cool is a better word

[marble gyro]

I mean you could with anomalies

[charred nova]

Don’t wanna sound like a psycho

[shell flax]

There’s a mod on nexus for that now

[marble gyro]

But like, I have yet to see an npc get hit by an anomaly

[kindred fable]

Everybody loves violence in videogames...

[charred nova]

Post

[kindred fable]

Yeah, kinda wish GSC would add some kind of hidden trait like "clueless" to some random NPCs that would make them "ignore" the invisivle wall that is anomaly and go right through it

Currently all of them are basically experts at avoiding them anomalies while outside of the combat

[shell flax]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1948

It’s meant to be combined with Shay’s stuff

[marble gyro]

It essentially existed in the original games

Like during a fight they would randomly walk into an Anomaly

Even mutants would like run into em, you could kill a pack of dogs with a vortex anomaly

[shell flax]

Random question: Mol1t should be back next week right?

[marble gyro]

I believe so, why?

[shell flax]

Nah I’m just curious. Also I imagine that’s when GSC answers will pick up steam again

[marble gyro]

Reading all our pleas and wants, I would bet Mol1t will feel like he has a hangover with our dumbass questions

[kindred fable]

In SoC it felt like everybody had that trait

[marble gyro]

The mutants especially

[pallid breach]

don't underestimate modders
stalker together

[obtuse veldt]

More important....

When sex update?

Can't wait to see a freedomer sodomizing a bloodsucker.

[marble gyro]

....

[kindred fable]

#💬┃en_offtop message

Stalkers are just lucky that there aren't that many anomalies on the roads... Meanwhile mutants are spawned near anomalies at all times

[kindred fable]

People go to the zone because they hate sex so no sex update for you

[main jewel]

mmmmmnnn… :c

noooooo…

[foggy olive]

I have art duty and bloodsucker

[marble gyro]

There was a dude, back then that would always say this "Please add sex in state of decay " in every trailer and every post on Twitter about that game

[obtuse veldt]

Then what happened?

[marble gyro]

All 52 accounts of his got banned

[coral shadow]

lowkey true, gore in games is hella cool

[coral shadow]

Dam u still been an egg?

[main jewel]

yes

[marble gyro]

Interesting....dogmeat next to a gas station called Red Rocket

It feels like years since I played this game holy cow

[serene barn]

stop

[marble gyro]

Hey, it was Todd's idea

[lean stratus]

Found a monolithsquad on my way from malachite to save Blizzard
The dialogue suggests they are all around the zone but they arent?
That supposed to be this way?

[shell flax]

Double knee dropping you from the roof immediately

[serene barn]

i thought about resuming my first survival run i started in 2024 not long after the next gen versions came out but then i heard about the most recent update that caused a whole new slew of issues like NPCs missing their heads and i just don't wanna return to it to have to deal with that even if i'm not anywhere close in the story to trigger the Enclave from appearing.

[marble gyro]

Enclave remnants are actually disabled, as it crashes the game

As well as the flamer

[serene barn]

dude i was excited back then about the idea of running the Hellfire and Incinerator lol.

[marble gyro]

Yeah lmao

Hopefully they fix it, because I had the hellfire and enclave spawned in, but now....anniversary update just showed us the finger

[serene barn]

at least i don't have the AE lol, it sounds like it's got even more issues

[marble gyro]

You don't need it, it was a update that just came with issues

Bethesda at its finest which surprisingly it's not Todd's idea as some chick took over the dev cycle lf Fallout 4

Todd is currently working on ES6

[serene barn]

it took them like what, 3 months to fix people losing their paid DLCs?

[marble gyro]

Yup

Apparently fallout 76 is good now

[serene barn]

kinda

[marble gyro]

I just don't like the card perk system and locking every container behind a paywall

[coral shadow]

when will u become a chicken?

[serene barn]

everything is much more universal now. like half the perks in the game got changed to be new effects or just work for more things

[marble gyro]

On order for an egg to hatch, a mother hen would have to sit on it to keep it warm to continue the incubation cycle

[coral shadow]

someone needs to sit on lexa egg

[marble gyro]

Wait really?

I haven't played in a minute but I'm considering it

[serene barn]

it's really just locking some unlimited ones behind a paywall but yeah. you still have a stash but it's easy to fill the 1200 pounds of that up with junk and other things. i can't get myself to play without 1st because like, what's the point of not being able to keep a lot of the things i vacuum up from playing.

[marble gyro]

It's so dumb that containers have limits

[serene barn]

yeah they went away from the weapon type damage perks and made it more universal and made others just do new things. like the 3 for Heavy Gunners are now tied to a mechanic called Bullet Storm where you build stacks based on ammo spent and it reset ( by half if perk ) when you reload. and a handful of the Agility perks, previously pistol ones. are now for an Onslaught mechanic that builds stacks on hits but decay 1 stack a second.

[marble gyro]

Hmm

Think I'll check it out

[serene barn]

yeah i kind of don't buy the idea that they used to spin, about it being because it was affecting the game if they made stashes unlimited yet now there's an Ammo locker, aid box, scrap box that are unlimited but paid for by the subscription lol.

[marble gyro]

Nvm....that's 111gigs of bs

[serene barn]

a lot more of the stuff is also viable in combat now.

[marble gyro]

Do enemies still scale with you? And did they remove pvp

[cobalt fiber]

76 is still shit

[marble gyro]

Because last time I played I wanted to pvp and it was impossible

[marble gyro]

It is.....but I need something to play

[serene barn]

PvP is still in the game but only if you both don't have pasifist mode on and or is fighting over workshops. and enemies kinda do scale but only so far and frankly i think more enemies need to be the high level ones when you yourself is high level.

[marble gyro]

Hmm, because I remember killing a death claw at level 4 with a 44 magnum

Hehe 444

[serene barn]

PvP in 76 is dookie. it's literally only matches about who can spam items the fastest to abuse how the game works.

[marble gyro]

That's dumb

[serene barn]

it used to have a Battle Royale mode but they killed that.

[marble gyro]

Yeah, nuclear winter I remember that

That was fun actually

Should invest in gunslinger or rifleman or commando? I started a new game and this time I'm like down to use whatever, since I made a overpowered drug melee build last time

Fallout 4 btw

[serene barn]

it was weird because you had to pick perks beforehand and then if you didn't find those weapons you were just worse off.

[marble gyro]

Yeah, that was kind of a bummer

[serene barn]

idek lol. i wanted to do heavy guns on my run but just, it didn't feel practical when i got into starting the run. like those guns are heavy and on survival you can carry like 50 or more pounds less and everything almost has weight.

[marble gyro]

I would love to play survival mode, but....I like fast traveling

[serene barn]

i thought after dealing with disease and meters in 76 i was ready but man.

turns out 76 is all light snacks and mild colds.

[marble gyro]

Yup

[north thistle]

Yall like dark humor?

[marble gyro]

Within reason and tos

[north thistle]

Would you consider a joke about babies and chemicals under the sink within reason and TOS?

[kindred fable]

Looks like something that discord tos would handle with no issues

[visual mortar]

[kindred fable]

That's a very impressive emoji

[marble gyro]

Ai in shenmue are worse than Virtua fighter on max difficulty

[visual mortar]

[marble gyro]

You know what I like about fallout 4 the most?

The stupid minigames you get from holotapes

Atomic command is my favorite

When I was a kid my father lent me his atari and I played nothing but missile command

[obtuse veldt]

What's next?

STALKER Battle Royale?

[frigid hill]

tfosl125 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[obtuse veldt]

Damn I forgot about that filter

Was saying...

Would be a funny if some dude with an Adidas tracksuit and a boomstick kills someone with a EM-1 and a Monolith exoskeleton

[terse warren]

Wolf moment

[clever edge]

@meager monolith

[sturdy sparrow]

I’ve been wanting this game since forever, just now got it

[violet dune]

we need stalkermaxxing with low cortisol dlc

[marble gyro]

Preston Garvey is one of the worst companions in fallout history

[violet dune]

Mutt is one of the best

[serene barn]

I liked Curie. Her face was probably the single cutest looking one in the whole game

[marble gyro]

You mean when you transfer her to a human body?

I like piper

[serene barn]

Well yeah, the robot doesn’t have a face

[sturdy sparrow]

20 hours to go

[marble gyro]

20hrs????

[marble gyro]

You know what????!....fair enough

[sturdy sparrow]

Happy to wait

[obtuse veldt]

20?? What do you mean??

[sturdy sparrow]

Til the game is downloaded 🙂

[marble gyro]

Where are you from?

[sturdy sparrow]

[marble gyro]

Depending on your state or country I could reconsider you a network service that actually has good internet

For like whatever you are paying but you get more for less

[frigid hill]

eldiablo_5 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[marble gyro]

Because I am paying 50 dollars for 300mbps download and it installs stalker 2 in like 30mins

[sturdy sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/vodka-shot-drinking-gif-7412608

[marble gyro]

Ah well, cest la vie

[gritty helm]

stalker 2 really need a better game size compression

160 G for a singleplay game

[marble gyro]

Nah, for the size of it, and how many assets are in there, particles and multiple functions that's fine

Name another game that has this many particle effects, functions, weather, npcs, map size, animations, and it is less than 100gb

As well UE5

[gritty helm]

Helldiver did some amazing size compression

[shell flax]

Also reserving a shit load of space for mods

[marble gyro]

Helldivers 2 also was an unstable mess, still is, map sizes are about the equivalent to small scale hubs, each planet or location was a loading zone, stalker has zero loading zones everything is seamless and interconnected

All loads in one place, all assets and pixels

Helldivers just has fodder that takes up the screen

Helldivers is about as the equivalent size of an Earth defense force game

After all these years....I found the weakness to ghouls

[frigid hill]

cricketbeducking has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[burnt badge]

https://tenor.com/view/fuck-you-middle-finger-hey-look-gif-14812414

@prime geyser

CANT EVEN GIF LAME

[marble gyro]

Skill issue

Lmao dude left

[mystic temple]

Lmao

[shell flax]

He did this like three times btw

[fierce nexus]

Oi oi

What's going on

[shell flax]

Repeat dumbass joined in, tagged the same dude, got mad no gif perms & left

[fierce nexus]

The usual

They come in here wanting perms like:

[shell flax]

Rank 39

[stable warren]

bruh bandits jumped me in rostok, i killed em, then the duty ppl said i was a murderer and killed me 😭

what was i meant to do

had to load an old save and js run past them

[candid lion]

Is there a solution for just how annoying it is to carry stuff because of weight

Or are you limited by weight the whole game

[shell flax]

Weight limiting is a major mechanic yes, can’t just carry whole city armories. You can upgrade some suits & find some artifacts to increase it though.

[candid lion]

Awesome thanks

I just find myself obese after carrying like more than 1 weapon at not actively equipped

[shell flax]

Little tip, ignore guns that have a red icon if you’re trying to sell. Only one merchant in the entire game can buy them.

[candid lion]

I’m getting to the point where I want to ignore guns with yellow too. I spend more time turtleing around than anything else

That is also a consequence of my own greed however

[golden gulch]

UE 5.5.4 was teased

[cyan sparrow]

Ohh game industry goes with 5.6 as a upgrade target

[obtuse veldt]

You will want to keep the mutant parts though

Don't sell them to trades

[candid lion]

Good to know

[obtuse veldt]

Sell em to the special orders from Honta or the scientists

Also DO NOT use the limited edition drinks

Until you get a weird pot heheh

[marble gyro]

Remember as well, ammo weighs a ton

Also food items

[marble gyro]

Second this, there are only 8 in the game, and weird pot will allow you use them and get permanent weight increase

[main jewel]

theres actually 10

in total they give you 5.0 perm weight increase

[marble gyro]

Thank you sensei

[main jewel]

hehe

[charred nova]

[candid lion]

Wym?

[marble gyro]

Non stop Limited energy are yellow cans and as Lexa stated, are only 10 in the game, they act as regular non stop but if you pair it with the Altered artifact weird Pot, you can permanently increase your weight by 5 points

Someone give me a Norse female name that fits a Breton in skyrim