☢┃stalker-general

[main jewel]

for why did you even try

[serene barn]

what were you even hoping to see r34 of from Stalker...

[proven hollow]

you don't get to talk with those sticker names

[sterile radish]

agreed

[main jewel]

yes i do

hi

[charred nova]

Hello chuds

[main jewel]

[floral elm]

[odd sky]

Hello 👋

[stable warren]

does duty want to destroy the zone or study it

im kinda confused now lowkey

[shell flax]

Voronin literally all but screams over the intercom repeatedly in the cement factory ‘We must destroy the Zone’ word for word

Duty doesn’t care about the energy that the Ward wants, they just want the zone and all its horror gone

[charred nova]

Duty wants to destroy the zone but it’s a total larp

They have never made any real steps in actually destroying the zone

Nor do they even know where to start in destroying it

[stable warren]

wait sorry i misstyped not duty i meant the ward

so sorry

[shell flax]

Ward wants to destroy the zone and harvest its energy

Which would give them infinite energy, the ability to generate artifacts pretty much infinitely and more

[stable warren]

if it destroys the zone what energy is there to harvest. js milk ts lowk

[shell flax]

Because the Zone it’s self is still a massive threat to humanity

[stable warren]

yeah but then like if there is no more zone what research can they do

gng lowk should i help dubny or nah both these teams psychoes

[shell flax]

I give up lmao

[stable warren]

mb unc

ig i should clarify then, by destroying the zone they mean no more zone, but then how r they gonna harvest the zones energy if theres no more zone

[shell flax]

Because the energy isn’t gone, just the Zone itself is

[stable warren]

but then the energy isnt infinite

[shell flax]

Except it is hammered in repeatedly throughout the Ward storyline that it is

[stable warren]

wait i think im confused by destroying the zone do they mean like quite literally patching it up, so like no more anomalies etc? or just lock it down so its js them

[shell flax]

Gone, done, no more anomalies

[charred nova]

It’s literally the ward ending

Where the ward destroys the zone and skif gets a new house

[stable warren]

but then once theres no more zone then what research can they do ):

i js dont understand how they can harness energy from the zone once they destroy it, cus the zone in itself is energy

[charred nova]

The zone is a result of a mistake

An experiment gone wrong

The energy was always there

When c con initially tried to tap into it the zone was created

[stable warren]

oh so they wanna use the studies from x labs but not the zone itself

[charred nova]

As is shown in the game the c con experiment was Sabotaged

Resulting in the creation of the zone

[stable warren]

sry i thought he meant like hook up a generator to anomalies or smth but without the zone there wouldve been no more anomalies so i got confused a lil

[charred nova]

There wouldn’t be

The anomalies and the zone are entirely a mistake

That were never wanted

[stable warren]

yeye. cleared it up, ty

[charred nova]

The fact the zone has magic rocks that can cure cancer and other such things

Is a happy accident

[shell flax]

One SIRCCA can already generate at will so now they just need the energy

[charred nova]

It sucks they changed the lore with artifacts though

[shell flax]

Eh

[charred nova]

It makes no sense they would be desired outside the zone as is implied in the original trilogy

If they almost instantly stop working when removed from the zone

As is directly stated in stalker 2

[shell flax]

Nowhere is this ever stated except Hermann saying a vague ass statement

We are never given a timeline

[charred nova]

It’s pretty direct

The way it’s described it doesn’t sound like it would last more than a week or so

[shell flax]

Hermann was also trying to steal the Alpha from Skif

[stable warren]

i mean then economy would make sense since ppl outside the zone would keep buying

[shell flax]

He’s not a reliable narrator in S2

[stable warren]

thats prolly why ppl go to the zone, cus trading artefact for artefact in the zone dont do much

[charred nova]

Why would he lie about that though

What reason would he have to lie about that specifically

[stable warren]

cus hermann lowkey a bum or smth

[charred nova]

Sure but why lie about something that doesn’t benefit you

[shell flax]

He lies to Skif repeatedly, conspires with Faust to kill him & everyone else involved with the Scanners

[stable warren]

so essentially they wanted to get alpha artefact first THEN destroy the zone?

[charred nova]

Telling skif that most artifacts don’t last outside the zone

Doesn’t serve any real purpose

[stable warren]

i mean i forgot but not lasting could mean like it got a month lifespan

[charred nova]

Unless we just assume he’s a pathological liar

[stable warren]

i mean in cop he was also kinda a bum so prolly

[shell flax]

Agatha says he ‘enjoys secrets more then discoveries’ so he honestly might be

[lost needle]

I never really understood what happened to hermann at the foundation for skif to ask him why he looks different or something

[charred nova]

Feels like too much of a Leap in logic

[stable warren]

if someone can tell me if this is right

[stable warren]

gng the entier game is abt a cool floaty zone w anomalies that cure cancer and also floating fire n stuff im not sure anything is a leap atp

from what ik, im new ash to stalker

[little beacon]

Is the next patch about A-life?

[charred nova]

I mean the story telling in stalker 2 is kinda all over the place

[shell flax]

It’s all over the place in the entire series

[lost needle]

Chalking up hermanns character to being a pathological liar seems a bit scummy to me

[charred nova]

The story we got is a patch work of the older more clearly thought out draft

Why characters like strelok seem kinda off

Cus he wasn’t originally strelok

According to the 4 Chan leaks anyway

[shell flax]

I still don’t buy a ‘leak’ like that

[lost needle]

What was he supposed to be?

[shell flax]

A fucking 4 Chan leak is your source?

[charred nova]

Apparently he was a Russian FSB agent

[charred nova]

That’s where the 2023 build got leaked

[lost needle]

Werent those like theories from the trailer

[charred nova]

Don’t forget

[lost needle]

Where long haired strelok is on the roof of the fortress

[charred nova]

Apparently that wasn’t a stand in originally

That was suppose to be a real character but he got cut due to changes in political situations as you can probably imagine

[shell flax]

Yeah no, now I know the ‘leak’ is full of shit lmfao

Like, a 4 Chan leak of a 2023 build while the devs country is being actively invaded?

[charred nova]

Makes sense

The trailer was from before the war remember

[charred nova]

Dude the 2023 build leak is completely real

[lost needle]

Pretty interesting stuff

[charred nova]

This isn’t a myth

Where do you think the Soviet asset mod came from

They imported all the removed Soviet assets from the leaked 2023 build

[stable warren]

in wishful thinking does helping dubny or betryaing him give me the easier playthru?

[shell flax]

Oh I buy the 2023 leak being real

I still think it’s full of shit though

[lost needle]

Siding with dunby leads to a more fun stalker 2 playthru imo

[stable warren]

aight then. ty

[charred nova]

A lot of the cut content we know about

[lost needle]

Plus you can side with the ward to get their ending like multiple times

[charred nova]

Is because of the 2023 build

[shell flax]

I still think using a pre release private build that was never meant to see the light of day to criticize a version that’s wildly different is strange

Cut content is understandable though

[charred nova]

I mean it’s pointless not to since it’s out there now imo

Like the fact the game got pretty heavily censored before launch

There use to be red stars and hammer and sickle everywhere

[shell flax]

You mean the removal of Soviet symbols, a requirement of Ukrainian law since 2015?

[charred nova]

Why was it there then

Why make assets you can’t legally use

[shell flax]

Because it wasn’t a public build jack, it was an in house test

[charred nova]

Doesn’t answer the question of why make illegal assets in that case

Telling yah right now in another timeline with no war game probably would have come out with all that stuff in at least for the global release

Maybe would have been a German wolfenstien situation

Regardless it’s lame to remove it

It’s modeled after a real place and the real place is frozen in the year 1986

A monument to the failures of the Soviet system

[little beacon]

Failure in what way?

[charred nova]

Wdym in what way

[little beacon]

Lmao

Be specific I don't buy the American revisionism here.

[charred nova]

The Soviet system that allowed reactor 4 to explode in the first place

[calm ocean]

btw IRL zone is stated as an exception in that law because it's a 'natural/historical reserve' or something like that, I don't remember what exactly the guide said

[calm ocean]

Don't even start, not on this server

[charred nova]

No no let him

[little beacon]

That was a human error, I fail to see how that correlates with the Soviet economic model.

[charred nova]

The soviets were made aware of the failure point in the reactor over 20 years ago

And decided to redact the report

[little beacon]

All right how do explain Fukushima then?

[hoary crest]

What a thing to wake up to...

[charred nova]

A literal earth quake?

[hoary crest]

Earthquake, and poorly thought out place to build it

[charred nova]

That produced a disaster of not even remotely the same scale

[little beacon]

Exactlly was built on a major earthquake prone area.

[shell flax]

And what does that have to do with the Soviets being utter failures?

[hoary crest]

Well yeah, but the place is an island.. More that they built it on the coastline

[little beacon]

What remote scale? I was born in Kharkiv in 87 and I am still around, lmao

[hoary crest]

Mind you, we did the same thing in the UK and had one have an accident I think in the 70s

[little beacon]

You provably watched that HBO mini series

[charred nova]

That series isn’t very accurate but that doesn’t change the fact it was a completely preventable disaster

[frigid hill]

zola90 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

Due to Soviet bureaucracy corners were cut and thus the disaster was able to happen

[hoary crest]

Funny thing to note, we could have all switched to molten salt reactors 30 years ago and these disasters wouldnt happen, but alas, companies decided making the switch was too much of a financial investment

[charred nova]

It’s not companies it’s governments

It’s the same reason we never got nuclear cargo ships

[little beacon]

Cutting corners happens even in Capitalist systems, the only reason we have regulation on safety is because there would be public outrage if that wasn't done. There is no financial incentives in making your product safe, because it costs extra money to do so.

[charred nova]

And yet the west has never had such a nuclear disaster

[feral gust]

yes it did

[charred nova]

What 3 mile island

That one event in the 40s that killed 2 people

[hoary crest]

I would say half and half, at the end of the day a walk away safe reactor could have become the norm, but lack of investment shelved it, we'll probably see fusion before its revisited 😄

[feral gust]

they all are

[shell flax]

Truthfully I think the worst ones I’ve heard of is the amount of Broken Arrows we’ve had to call

[charred nova]

Mind you I’m talking about purely nuclear reactor related disasters

[hoary crest]

Well, not on the same scale, no

But there have been some

[charred nova]

Sure

But never to even a percent of a percent of the scale

[feral gust]

onm the scale like that no, only fukushima, but japanese were aware of problems with eartquakes, building something near the ocean etc, they just did not care

[hoary crest]

UK has had one, Japan (though eastern) has had one, and the US I think has had two? But yeah, not even remotely close to Chornobyl

[little beacon]

So what? We have forever chemicals and heavy metal pollution in the ground down to our food chain.

[charred nova]

Um okay I’m not sure what that has to do with what I’m saying though

[feral gust]

americans instead bomded the whole island and caused generations of natives to die out from radiation

[charred nova]

Again your missing the point

[keen terrace]

The hell are you even talking about in stalker general

[hoary crest]

Ahh yes.. the Bikini Atoll incidents...

[charred nova]

I said that Pripyat is a monument to the failure of the Soviet system

[keen terrace]

It kind of is, why not

[shell flax]

And Mirka got mad

[keen terrace]

But what I can see now in this chat, shouldn't be in this chat

[charred nova]

Dunno I’m being told it’s actually not the soviets fault apparently

[feral gust]

and they told them to get back to the island like it was safe, damn what a kek 😄

[keen terrace]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1238970017329189024/1302524795937755188/ezgif-7-5875e47d1e.gif

[smoky hawk]

it isnt the soviets fault that their own mismanaged, and badly built nuclear reactor went kaput?

[hoary crest]

Well they did try to clean it up first, they just did a poor job of it 😂 Yeah, bury it in a hole and slap a concrete dome over it... next to the sea... great job lads...

[charred nova]

The knowledge to build it safely existed but was ignored

[stable warren]

can grok summarise ts

[charred nova]

Have you ever heard of nuclear fracking

[hoary crest]

That... sounds like an absurdly idiotic idea

[little beacon]

I got mad because somehow everything is exagerated when it comes to Soviet Union. Surely it had it downsides, but see the hard the years of Perestroika were.

[smoky hawk]

very common

[charred nova]

In the 1950s upwards to the 1960s we tried fracking using nuclear bombs

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-one-eyebrow-raised-rock-staring-the-rock-gif-22113367

[hoary crest]

...That... is incredibly American

[shell flax]

https://tenor.com/view/deerseason-engaged-im-gif-19199737

[feral gust]

it was soviet's fault but not everything was completly awful then, there 😄

[charred nova]

Oh it wasn’t just us the soviets did it too

It technically worked amazingly well

Better than any other method ever tried

[halcyon goblet]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[stable warren]

ehh... debatable

[hoary crest]

Im sure it did, other than you know, the huge amount of radioactive muck that got flushed into the water table...

[keen terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/verycat-cateat-gif-7339469281817108398

[charred nova]

the problem was it would trinitate the gas

[stable warren]

u get the resources but in exchange everything else polluted ash

[charred nova]

Making it unusable

So it would need to be stored in a warehouse for 25 years before it could be safely used

[hoary crest]

Indeed... something something malfunctioning radar something something igniting the atmosphere something something (and a myriad of other things no doubt)

[charred nova]

The Soviets tried using it to pinch off oil wells that had there tops blow off

I forget the term

[hoary crest]

Absurd?

[charred nova]

Nah for a run away oil well

[hoary crest]

Lol

[charred nova]

It apparently did work

[shell flax]

Literally just runaway

[charred nova]

But twice its reported not working but in classic Soviet fashion the times it didn’t work have no further explanation

[shell flax]

It’s not very creative

[charred nova]

Oh

I thought it had a special term

Lmao

[shell flax]

Orphaned is the closest I can find from my deep dive of ten seconds

[stable warren]

lowk i still dont get what u mean by this. been thinking abt it

[shell flax]

Literally what it says on the tin, brother

[little beacon]

Funnilly enough each time I visit Ukraine I still see people living in Soviet Union housing stock and using Soviet era infrastucture. Some things are still around.

[charred nova]

Well yah most ex soviet countries have the commie blocks still up

Not exactly earth shattering stuff

[little beacon]

And all these years of Capitalist progression still makes Ukraine rank poorly in terms of metrics like GDP growth (even before war), corruption perception or HDI when compared to other western countries. Poland somehow managed to do it better than Ukraine.

[charred nova]

Not really crazy stuff that a building lasts this long my house I live in was built 300 years ago still standing just fine

[shell flax]

What the fuck are you on about

[little beacon]

Just stating that blaming Soviet Union for past mistakes won't help the development of country. Soviet Union is long gone and is time to move on.

You can be mad at me, but I am just stating facts.

[charred nova]

We are blaming them for a mistake they are directly responsible for

[calm ocean]

And I thought you're breaking rules 6 and 8 in the non-offtop channel

[charred nova]

[little beacon]

For instance I can tell you I lived in Portugal and had people from Brazil blaming the lack of progress of Brazil on Portugal due to Colonialism.

[charred nova]

Dude what are you talking about

[shell flax]

Brother
You are the one getting wound up over Jack blaming the soviets for being morons and causing the worst nuclear disaster in history

[little beacon]

Lmao, no people are still alive past the disaster.

[charred nova]

No really

Does the worst nuclear disaster in history have to result in millions dead to be the biggest?

[little beacon]

Yes

[charred nova]

No it really doesn’t

[little beacon]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki levels

[charred nova]

That’s not a nuclear disaster

That was a nuclear bombing

[little beacon]

What?

[charred nova]

Those were done completely on purpose

We meant for the bomb to explode

And flatten the city

That was the point of the bomb it was suppose to do that

Reactor 4 was not meant to explode or kill anyone

These aren’t even remotely comparable

[hoary crest]

Comparing nuclear bombs to plant meltdowns is just wild lmfao

[little beacon]

How does the failure of a nuclear station due to human error correlate to the economic system it was build under?

Do you see a lot of nuclear meltdowns in China that is ruled under a Communist system?

[charred nova]

Why should it even be possible for human error to cause a nuclear disaster

[little beacon]

Again how does it correlate with Soviet Union? Would more money solve this issue?

[charred nova]

It shouldn’t be nor was it suppose to be at Chernobyl

Again the fault that caused the reactor 4 explosion was known about

but due to the way the soviet system operated it was redacted

[little beacon]

How did it operate?

[charred nova]

covering up inconvient truthes many such cases

[carmine star]

MOrning fellow Stalker and Stalkerets

[charred nova]

i feel like the next thing your gonna tell me is that the soviet gulag system is western propaganda

[hoary crest]

Welcome to the sh*tfest, Kiff

[carmine star]

[little beacon]

Not really but I would ask you why did it take so long to release the Epstein files under the more freer and transparent US Democratic style system.

[hoary crest]

Not yet, but we're only a few years away from watching the world's biggest dam wash away half a province

[charred nova]

corruption but not releasing the files did not directly result in the largest nuclear disaster in history

[stable warren]

gng did mityay die or smth? i come back to zallysia and no more guy talm abt losing sme pendant ):

[little beacon]

You alluded to transparency in your previous comment.

[hoary crest]

The only transparent government on the planet is Costa-Rica's innit? 😄

[feral gust]

I bet none of this arguing would've happened if the 1.9 patch had been released 😄

[charred nova]

TRUE

[carmine star]

world peace woul dbe achieved

[hoary crest]

At least outside the zone, maybe Dalin was right 😄

[charred nova]

this is again not even the same thing

[little beacon]

You mentioned "the way soviet union operated it was redacted", how should I process that statement? I assumed you were referring to omitting facts.

[charred nova]

yah

[little beacon]

So?

[charred nova]

those omitted facts resulted in the largest nuclear disaster in history

[feral gust]

pls GSC, give us patch now

[charred nova]

only under the soviet system would such a thing come to pass

idk why you wanna suck up to a dead country so bad

[marble gyro]

Morning

[hoary crest]

Morning pal

[charred nova]

ight well mates out of here now

[harsh jungle]

Honse pic has been posted

[hoary crest]

I still share a server with him, unfortunately, i wonder if he'll continue his babbling over there 😂

[marble gyro]

Wait what's going on?

[hoary crest]

Don't worry about it Sin 😄

[shell flax]

Soviet apologist

Usual stupid shit

[harsh jungle]

I think we should eat the stupid

[marble gyro]

Hell to the no

[harsh jungle]

how bout the rich

[marble gyro]

I barely have one braincell surviving

[harsh jungle]

I have one on a good day

I do remember to post the Honse pics everyday or this server collapses ong

[hoary crest]

No thanks, stupidity is contagious and I dont want to catch it

[marble gyro]

Fr, honse pics are what tethers the whole server together

[hoary crest]

An here i thought it was a mutual enjoyment of Stalker, I must have been mistaken

[charred nova]

why did i get banned this is so unfair all i said was the soviets were actually not so bad guys

[hoary crest]

Oh you actually banned him? Wild lmao

[vapid field]

for programmers - SKALA Chernobyl reactor controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjk2B0SzXUU

[shell flax]

In a Ukrainian server to boot lmao

[harsh jungle]

that is my job in this server: to post Honse. the only responsibly i have

[charred nova]

bro comes to a UA server and spouts about how reactor 4 was entirely human error and the soviets were not at fault at all

[hoary crest]

Always gunna be a few

[marble gyro]

Wow, time is flying

I barely close my eyes and 15 mins past

[proven hollow]

Honses are secondary, the only thing keeping this server together is Ranjid wishing everyone a good day

[proven hollow]

why do you keep banning the fun people

[stable warren]

man i wish id done them side quests ): now everything in the zone affected by monolith

[marble gyro]

Could always reset your progress

[vapid field]

wow 😄 about what was that all about @charred nova ?

[vapid field]

fyi it is Soviet UNION not exactly a country

[charred nova]

that guy had an issue with me saying the soviet system was responsible for the reactor 4 disaster

[charred nova]

gotta do it man

[frigid hill]

papakiff has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[carmine star]

I saw that movie , I thought it was bullsh+t

[charred nova]

idk what you replied to

[charred nova]

what movie

you mean the HBO show?

[carmine star]

Whatevea happen there

[feral gust]

hbo show is not bad at all, maybe not all of it was good but I still find it pretty good 😄

[charred nova]

from what i understand it took some creative liberties with some of the characters

[marble gyro]

Times flying, gotta go get ready for work

[charred nova]

but the over all story is mostly accurate

like for example the women scientist character

[vapid field]

so? what's the issue here? Well that's debatable, but secrecy technically comes from Moscow not entirely from whole union

[charred nova]

is meant to be a stand in for the 100s of soviet scientists that helped with figuring out what went wrong

[charred nova]

well yah i know but it was that secrecy that enabled the disaster to happen by keeping the design fault hidden

[feral gust]

@charred nova yep, that is accurate, some characters were not real, some of then they did not act the way the show portrayed them to but overall I would agree, mostly accurate 😄

[charred nova]

kinda was a required evil to make the story even understandable

[proven hollow]

If it weren't for those soviets being so incompetent we would've had nuclear power throughout europe tbh

[charred nova]

there would have to be way too many characters otherwise

[charred nova]

this is hugely true tbh

the disaster scared most of the world away from nuclear power

and we have still not really come back from that

now we got germany which last year shut down there last nuclear power plant

[proven hollow]

allow the greens to hold any form of power once and your industry is on the brink of collapse, typical

[charred nova]

we want to save the environment so bad we are switching back to coal

coal is all natural don't you know

[proven hollow]

good old fashioned wood fired power plants

[hoary crest]

Record investment into fusion though, so its not all bad

Nothing like a bottled sun to keep the lights on

[feral gust]

I am all for nuclear power even tho it has it's cons as any other, I still find it better than craziness of millions of solar panels on green fields, scorching earth and making that land unusable for a long time.

[proven hollow]

curiously enough growing trees, then burning those trees and storing the co2 they emit underground is currently one of the most effecient ways of removing co2 from the environment

[charred nova]

the cons aren't as big as people think

the thing with spent nuclear fuel rods is there not really that dangerous anymore once there used up

once they are used up they are primarily only u238 which primarily only emits alpha particles

making it easy to contain

its why you can actually get your hands on spent nuclear fuel if you try hard enough

[feral gust]

I mean mostly it is about radioactive waste and where to storage it, at least that is how I see it, but I don't see any other options being better right now, so nuclear it is.

[umbral garnet]

The Chernobyl mini series on hbo is so peak

[proven hollow]

yeah, but it's ridiculous, like we've had a nuclear power plant operating here in The Netherlands since 73', never any issues, yet somehow some organisations still try to fearmonger about how dangerous it is

[charred nova]

just seal it in concrete and its basically safe

[charred nova]

yes like there have been zero major western nuclear disasters excluding japan

[proven hollow]

and in japan like 1 person died from a stress related heart attack during evacuation

[charred nova]

the most notable one if you wanna call it that happened in the us in 1949 i think it was where 2 people accidentally vaporized an entire nuclear fuel core and died instantly

but no one else died or was harmed

[golden gulch]

@waxen marten please don't Wolf me?
I just want to ask if we are getting another big performance boost with 1.9?

[charred nova]

reason this was even possible was because the control rods could get stuck in the reactor so you then had to manually pull them out and the thing was if you were not careful you could pull them all the way out which would cause the core to go super critical and thats exactly what happened

3 mile island was mostly fear mongering

[stable warren]

Does zalissya ever recover after the monolith shenanigans or does it remain that pitiful hut and never re expands

[proven hollow]

not really no

[charred nova]

it never re expands

it massively sucks because there is no replacement guide

so even if you save everyone

[stable warren]

Ah that’s a shame. Why did the monolith even want zalissya 😭 it’s like a small ahh village with rookies that pose no threat. Now there’s like 10 ppl and the moment I finished it like half of them just walked off

[charred nova]

there is just forever no fast travel point in zalissya past that point

[stable warren]

What other areas r affected?

Well noontide base but like other than that

[lament pelican]

the ward base in zaton I believe is also becomes inaccessible at some point

dont remember if it's related to monolith overun though

[charred nova]

it becomes over run with zombies

[stable warren]

Gng how r there so many monolith soldiers there was like a total of 3 people in noontide base 😭

[charred nova]

but its actually a good idea to go there

because the zombies have really good loot

so you can get a ton of coupons there

[lament pelican]

yeah ward zombies should drop some good loot

[stable warren]

Lowk strider pmo in one of the cutscenes his hair was glowing blue for me and that was cool so now I don’t like him cus like jealousy or smth idk

[stable warren]

Skadovsk and the schevchenko r still alright tho ?

[proven hollow]

we keep our soldiers stored in the CNPP

[stable warren]

Didn’t all monolith get like freed tho

[proven hollow]

pfff, we never asked to be freed, glorious Faust led us back to the truth!

[stable warren]

Lowk none of the monolith is canon imo cus I wouldn’t have let that happen fr

Put that one happy Superman panel

honestly i still dont rlly understand if ward is tryna study the zone or destroy it but like atp im too tired to figure anything out. Shi been exam after exam fr

[proven hollow]

they want to control it at the behest of the regulatory board

[stable warren]

so no destroying it and permanently removing it? Js to reconfirm

[proven hollow]

No

well, depends, they want to control the psi-energy and the noosphere, the zone itself they don't care for too much

[stable warren]

Aight ty. Earlier someone was saying they wanted to destroy the zone completely and harvest its infinite energy, got confused cus tf would u harvest from the zone if there is no more zone, so I’ll js assume ur explanation is right

Lowk yall acting like id let the zone pose any threat tho smh

[proven hollow]

well, they don't necessarily want to destroy the zone completely, but the zone is a symptom, they want the psi-energy, whether there is a zone or not is inconsequential to them, though the zone might very well prove a solid defensive barrier

[stable warren]

Isn’t the zone how they would harness the psi energy tho?

I lowk can’t rmbr anymore tf even is psi energy. Fried attention span I thought it’s the result of the noosphere going bonkers cus c con. If u patch it up, no more bonkers, no more psi energy

[proven hollow]

no, psi energy comes from the noosphere, it can be harnessed in different ways

[dusky pawn]

Duty wants to destroy it but because both are militaristic and duty in game is coping that ward is their 'ally' some people think ward wants to destroy the zone when it just wants to exploit it

Because of confusion

[proven hollow]

Voronin simply has a hard on for men in uniform and military discipline so he likes Ward

[waxen marten]

The focus of 1.9 isn't the performance

[hoary crest]

Is it... doors?

[stable warren]

Aigh, so they DONT wanna destroy zone, got it. Ty for clearing up

[visual mortar]

is the focus Tampico

[hoary crest]

https://youtu.be/H5dg0zmjkro Some of the best sound design out there, wicked track

[stuck seal]

Ward does whatever SIRCAA says, and SIRCAA wants to get to the generators so

They’re basically trying to make the outer zone as safe as possible so SIRCAA can do whatever they want

[visual mortar]

is this from the Tampico soundtrack

[hoary crest]

Idk what that is pal im afraid

[covert halo]

Doors unopened, added a new opening meachanic
Remember that one door on cordon that you could only unlock by throwing your weapon at it? Now ALL doors will need to be opened like this, no more just pressing F to open
This will cost you -5 fps and a few memory leaks

[visual mortar]

we HAVE to kill this guy

[hoary crest]

Its a Mexican city apparently

I don't know much about Mexico

[visual mortar]

dude

[hoary crest]

Hmm?

[proven hollow]

what is tamsnapple on about....

[stable warren]

How much story do I have left after the whole monolith incident? I’m tryna see if I should go back to before and do some side quests first

[proven hollow]

a decent chunk

[fervent robin]

Any news on upcoming updates?

[shell flax]

Testing next week, patch probably later in the month

[night cave]

I hope it adds/improves a decent ammount

Even tho 2.0 is coming afterwards if I’m not wrong

[kindred fable]

Nobody knows if it'll be 1.10 or 2.0

Many suspect it might be a 2.0 with an engine update and a dlc drop

Others suspect it'll be just your usual 1.10 update

[night cave]

I mean there’s supposed to be an engine update tho no?

[carmine star]

Yes but that could be next year when that drops

[hybrid tangle]

idk what's that either

[wicked magnet]

Why are they very secretive? shouldn't the hard times be over?

[shell flax]

no, not even close

Bro like half the team is still in Kyiv wtf do you mean ‘shouldn’t the hard times be over’

[wicked magnet]

I mean the transition to 5.5.4 should be close to completion, as well as the development of the first DLC

[shell flax]

The DLC/Engine upgrade I imagine will release in the summer

[visual mortar]

computer

[violet dune]

any leakers can leak if testing started?

[marble gyro]

Testing starts next week

[charred nova]

Gas lighting the chatters are we

[visual mortar]

chat has been lit

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/house-burn-gif-15772947

[visual mortar]

jack are you ready

[ruby gale]

You 2 got a date today?

[charred nova]

I hear rumblings yes

[visual mortar]

stay ready man

[charred nova]

Some whisper are drifting into test

[visual mortar]

never know when they'll strike

anything can happen

[charred nova]

Well I know what did happen

My metric drill bits arrived

[visual mortar]

whatever that means

dont explain it

[charred nova]

It’s metric drill bits it’s fairly self explanatory

[visual mortar]

i got a new walley

wallet

[charred nova]

Is it a ridge wallet

[visual mortar]

hell no

[charred nova]

Damn

[ruby gale]

Ridge wallets do not look practical

[charred nova]

They really don’t

I really don’t get the appeal

[visual mortar]

they don't

i have like seven bazillion different types of cards to carry im not gonna flip through them like a card deck

[charred nova]

I mean I guess people don’t carry cash anymore

But I do

[visual mortar]

I do

i never use it

but its for emergency

also the ridge wallet has like a clip on the back for cash

but its so impractical

you have to take literally everything out to get to one thing

so pointless

[charred nova]

Like the idea of a wallet being large and inconvenient makes no sense to me

It goes in your pocket

[hoary crest]

An American with metric tools? Must be working on a foreign car 😂

[visual mortar]

well the ridge is small and compact

[charred nova]

As long as it fits in your pocket does the size really matter

[visual mortar]

thats the point of it

but its too compact

[charred nova]

All cars are metric now where you been

[hoary crest]

I still exist in the 90s half the time mate 😂

[visual mortar]

yew AMERICANS, amirite bruv

[visual mortar]

stinky millennial

[charred nova]

90s cars are just cooler

Wdym

[hoary crest]

Better a millenial than any of the other current generations tbh

[charred nova]

Though I’m not really an American car fan

But I’d own a corvette

[visual mortar]

yeah but they're only cool when you're not from that era

[charred nova]

Corvettes are cool

[heady yoke]

pontiac firebird forever

[charred nova]

C4 and c5 are both rad

[hoary crest]

Yesnt, they are very cool, but also some much older cars are cooler, though horrifically out of reach for your average person

[visual mortar]

no dude, gen alphas will save us all. your generation and mine ruined everything

[ruby gale]

[hoary crest]

Yeah, they totally wont make the same mistakes every other generation does as they age, not even a chance

[visual mortar]

they will see those mistakes and learn from us

[charred nova]

You’ll love rattlehead

He loves Pontiac’s

[hoary crest]

Yeah, we said that growing up, how well did that go 😂

[heady yoke]

I saw this car only one time in my life. That was enough to start loving it

[visual mortar]

just because you don't learn from mistakes doesn't mean they won't

[hoary crest]

Its cute you still have faith in humanity though Tam, because i sure as fck don't 😄

[visual mortar]

[visual mortar]

wow dude so cool and edgy

ughhh....

i hate people.... ughhh.... dobt talk to me....

millennials

[hoary crest]

I never said I hate people... how did you reach that conclusion 😄

[visual mortar]

uh okay

totally just didn't say it

[hoary crest]

I uhh, didn't lel

[visual mortar]

"lel"

dude

[hoary crest]

I said I don't have hope for the future of the species, thats a different thing entirely, but hey if you wanna read it differently, go right ahead, im not your dad

[charred nova]

Omg bro can’t believe this guy he’s cringe posting right now

Ugh

[visual mortar]

ugh society...m

ugh people suck ugh

[hoary crest]

Real

[visual mortar]

ugh i hate taxes and i dropped out if college

we get it dude

[hoary crest]

Taxation is theft 😄

[hoary crest]

Get back to me when the world isnt constantly at war with itself and building technology that borders on a suicide pact 😉

[hardy totem]

Guys, did you know

Stalker

Is a game

[visual mortar]

i. freaking. love. stalker

[hardy totem]

...We should be talking about here

[visual mortar]

hmmm that's gonna be... NEVER!

[carmine star]

Stalker good world bad

[hoary crest]

Indeed 😄

[charred nova]

There’s nothing to talk about

Gsc won’t update the game

[visual mortar]

and thats what makes humans awesome

[hoary crest]

Hey you have a Mercenaries badge, shush 😄

[visual mortar]

dude. you're a bandit

[hoary crest]

I can neither confirm or deny

[carmine star]

Give me money , I shoot da Stre

[hoary crest]

Tbh i hope mercs get a bigger part in the story at some point

[visual mortar]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DVb-EqukSIU/?igsh=MWc1NHg0eXpxNndxaA==

[charred nova]

Land disputes over corn stalks

[ruby gale]

Hey, thats our thing

[hoary crest]

Damn... https://youtu.be/In03aKNWXdY

[carmine star]

Bounty update when

[hoary crest]

That'd be pretty good to be fair

[obtuse veldt]

Makes me wonder, why mercs are constantly wanting to kill me, even when we met strelok, should the hit be off or we should be offing this mofo anyways...

cause its 100% Strelok the reason why mercs are hostile to the player

[hoary crest]

No takesies backsies type policy

[shell flax]

Not just Strelok, some freedomers tried to hire Moth to kill loners too

[obtuse veldt]

Thats why Strelok is a piece of shit

Richter suspected from him

[keen imp]

I could be because I raided all there stashes😏

[charred nova]

Yah cus we’re awesome

Fuck those loners bro

[proven hollow]

Freedom are just smelly anarchists

[sudden rapids]

S2 video creators are desperate rn. Every day some nothingburger video gets released coverig that one answer Mol1t answered on Discord 🤣

[charred nova]

Mol1t mentioned chicken in passing

Chicken confirmed for stalker 2

[sudden rapids]

thats great actually

i want racoons

[hoary crest]

But Sid' is always munching on chimken

[sudden rapids]

tushkano beef

[kindred fable]

Yea, it's kinda sad

[charred nova]

The most insane drama I’ve seen in a while just unfolded in ua chat

[sudden rapids]

whats going on over there

[shell flax]

Self admitted pedo

[kindred fable]

That's why I still think that some kind of biweekly blog about the development of the game where the developers share the problems they are having rn could work a little bit better for everybody... The players would have their share of news and cool factoids, the youtubers would have something to talk about and the developers could use it to let us know that everything is alright and they are actually cooking something good...

[charred nova]

#📸┃скріншоти-та-відео message

Guy just came in and dropped a hydrogen bomb in chat

[sudden rapids]

i think that'd be fair as we're still not there yet and waiting for a complete product tbh

[sudden rapids]

that's unhinged insane

fbi should have a look at this weirdo

[charred nova]

Fr

[visual mortar]

ua chat don't play around

[sudden rapids]

wish I could read/write ukrainian

[visual mortar]

Google lens:

[jade kraken]

They fr better than ea chat

[visual mortar]

ea

not aware of this

[sudden rapids]

where's oi chat

[visual mortar]

Equatorial Guinea

[visual mortar]

British Indian Ocean Territory

[odd sky]

Hello 👋

[visual mortar]

ahhh Madame Annette, Bienvenue

[odd sky]

You can reach this

[visual mortar]

uhhh based monolinguals

[odd sky]

Bonsoir

[sudden rapids]

how?

[visual mortar]

learning?

wdym

[sudden rapids]

nah I need neurolink

[visual mortar]

gee how do i learn a skill

hmm

i wonder

[odd sky]

The way I learned English?

And German

[visual mortar]

trilingual

[odd sky]

And Japanese niw

Now*

[sudden rapids]

dudess chill. you're amazing

[odd sky]

Also I can understand Polish

[odd sky]

💅💅💅

[visual mortar]

quinquelingual

[sudden rapids]

Duos most favourite person

[visual mortar]

all of their funding comes from this guy alone

[odd sky]

But...
I hate learning languages

[visual mortar]

uhh i mean lady

[odd sky]

I love math

[sudden rapids]

I'm hiding in witness protection for two years since I've stopped learning spanish

[visual mortar]

the Spaniards are out to get you huh

[sudden rapids]

spanish Duo tryna get me 🦉

[odd sky]

Well, languages in Eastern Europe are a bit similar to each other

Dialects, manner of speaking...

[sudden rapids]

my great-grandpa was from Lwiw but it was Poland back then. Unfortunately he refused to teach anyone in the family polish

[odd sky]

Cool city

[sudden rapids]

want to visit someday

[odd sky]

A lot of great architecture

[turbid cliff]

After 2 years

The collectors edition finally got in the mail, and it’s definitely worth the wait

[odd sky]

A really old city and great history

[sudden rapids]

but big city with a lot population right?

[odd sky]

Okay, I'll tell you truth

I live in Lviv

Hahahaha

[sudden rapids]

hah you're biased

[odd sky]

Lviv is not a big city, we call it "big village", but overpopulated

And I hate walking in centre, too much people

But to reach my uni, I need walk only 4 km, or one hour walk

I love walking, especially in spring and summer

[dusky pawn]

it is a pretty big city tbh

[odd sky]

Depends what is big city

For we Kyiv is big city, like really big

[dusky pawn]

Above 500 thousand people to me is a big city

[sudden rapids]

sure is

over 100k for me I would consider a big city

[dusky pawn]

Kyiv is HUGE for europe standards like most large country capitals

Larger than rome pre war

[harsh jungle]

Honse

[dusky pawn]

Havent had positive interactions with those this week

Necropsy and rectal exam lmao

[sleek mist]

I just received the second copy of the stalker 2 pre order and it didn't come with a disc. Is anyone else having this issue?

[odd sky]

I love horses

[harsh jungle]

I post Horses every day in #🐺┃pets bc this server would collapse if I didn’t fr fr ong

[dapper cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/twitch-waving-smile-hi-gif-15927901782759822906

[odd sky]

YOU LIVE ON RANCHO????

[harsh jungle]

I volunteer with Horses once a week

[odd sky]

That is cool

[harsh jungle]

it’s good for the tism and I like horses a lot

[dusky pawn]

I live your dream and I hate it 😂

Not only do I have access to horses at campus there's also a large stable(s?) Nearby and my actual place of residency has a very fancy stable complex with competitions training and i think they even have a hotel attached

[main jewel]

umamusume

[dusky pawn]

And im also forced to interact with these creatures

Atleast today we had 3 rough collies run circles around us

[sudden rapids]

yes never stop

[graceful dirge]

Only the Xbox versions in the first wave came with a physical disc, code to download the game should have been emailed to you upon purchase

[uneven pivot]

You got it? I am still waiting about any info

[main jewel]

i will not give you my meat!

[uneven pivot]

[odd sky]

Some people in my village still have horses, and they are used as force usually

[main jewel]

prh

pth

look at your name

[uneven pivot]

I know.. that was the... eh what ever

[wicked magnet]

50 gb disc?

[hoary crest]

You aint gettin mine either, sorry pal

[iron wind]

guys, where 1.9

[hoary crest]

Still in the oven

[iron wind]

its been so long already

[untold timber]

gsc took the money and ran

[odd sky]

Like transport hay or agriculture, also ploughing fields

[graceful dirge]

I believe something like that, still had to download over 100 GB

[untold timber]

kinda ass how they said they'd give more detail but seemingly forgot lmao

[marble gyro]

It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum

[odd sky]

Sorry, it was really hard winter

[hoary crest]

Alright Duke, calm down 😂

[marble gyro]

https://tenor.com/view/duke-nukem-duke-nukem-forever-duke-nukem-meme-duke-nukem-not-reading-too-long-dont-read-gif-17171040675104568396

[odd sky]

Literally me

[iron wind]

I am sorry GSC, but its been hard for us too

[marble gyro]

Annete is part of GSC?

[odd sky]

No

[marble gyro]

YOOOOOO 1.9 WEN

[iron wind]

so we are kind of even uk

[odd sky]

Idk, soon maybe

[hoary crest]

Based gif

[carmine star]

After these messages

[hoary crest]

Duke Nukem was such a product of the times, no way that sh*t would fly nowdays 😂

[carmine star]

Peak 90s gaming

[hoary crest]

Legit

[dusky pawn]

People always say this about old games when we get absolutely unhinged games like disco elysium nowadays

[hoary crest]

I mean yes, but in this context its absolutely right lol

[dusky pawn]

It would absolutely fly probably even get some recognition for its insanity

[hoary crest]

I would expect it to piss a lot of people off ngl 😂

But it would be nice to get a (good) reboot

[odd sky]

I remembered one thing, a year ago i bought a new laptop. There was no ukr letters on keyboard. My hands memorized all leters and now I don't need to look at keyboard, what letter am I typing in Ukrainian

[visual mortar]

who else on they deck playing their lunchtime

[ruby gale]

Im suffering changing skid loader tires, and i forgot my wallet so I couldn't get lunch

[charred nova]

Rough

[bold smelt]

this dude sends this and DOESNT ping me

[cyan sparrow]

.
.
day 59, Wednesday, March 4th, still without motivation to play the Stalker 2

[odd sky]

what is wisconsin?

[bold smelt]

best state in the union

[odd sky]

noted

[ruby gale]

Fụckin cheeseheads

[forest herald]

is this game fixed now after all the updates?

[cyan sparrow]

[forest herald]

😔

[kindred fable]

nah

[oblique igloo]

and the beauty of stalker 2 is that it is so wonderfully imperfect, if they fixed everything no one would play it anymore

[iron wind]

it would be nice to have Stalker 2 multiplayer this year ^^

[charred nova]

yah i highly doubt that will happen

[iron wind]

I mean they sell skins promising that you can transfer those ^^

[charred nova]

what skins

[iron wind]

weapons skins (aka "special variants")

[visual mortar]

[charred nova]

that have never been pictured

[visual mortar]

literally mentioned in the digital preorder

but will they even happen at this point

[iron wind]

Rhino Revolver “Model Competitor” (transferable to multiplayer)

literally written on the store page buddy

[visual mortar]

GOD jack

[charred nova]

oh right

[visual mortar]

get a load of this guy

[iron wind]

oh yea

[charred nova]

multiplayer is such a meme at this point when the vast majority of people find out its not co op

and never will be

can't wait for that

[visual mortar]

jack when multiplayer releases we are going to 1v1 on shitty modded maps

[turbid cliff]

I still think PVP would be pretty fun if done right- even if it’s like the original trilogy

[visual mortar]

thats EXACTLY how i want it

[lost needle]

Cant wait to play stalker 2 on dust 2

[visual mortar]

but with matchmaking

[charred nova]

i hope they have clans if they do

so when we beta test multiplayer

we can create a clan before everyone else

and get the best clan name

[visual mortar]

the Goon Clan

[charred nova]

yes

i wonder if gsc will have game moderators

and if they will be paid

[visual mortar]

hey Jack new job opportunity

[vagrant pewter]

"Best Clan Name"

I win

[charred nova]

hell yah

[charred nova]

if i could do it as a side deal id take it on

[oblique igloo]

if you want to play pvp tomorrow marathon arc riders killer comes out they said that and pvp only pve and only side dish

[turbid cliff]

I’ve heard. I played Destiny 2 to the point of burning it out fully so I’m hesitant playing another Bungie game, but it does look really cool

[oblique igloo]

If you like that graphic style but I tell you that at the beginning it's a mess both for the menu to understand what to use and full of information and with that style it doesn't help you much but I don't know it's not bad it could also have its place in the extraction shooter

Let's hope that with this patch 1.9 they really do something good, stalker needs it, after 2 months of waiting I'm a bit hyped for the news

[vagrant pewter]

Except - the free play already killed most of their add-on audience. The server slam revealed the actual game & those on the fence saw reality & wont invest now. They also lost people who preordered it seeing reality. It will sell but it won't turn a profit.

[oblique igloo]

Unfortunately, it's a concern I have. If it doesn't generate marathon revenue, I'm afraid Bungie will end up like Bluepoint, and I really hope not. It would mean losing a historic name in the gaming world.

[vagrant pewter]

It won't be Concord 3 - it will be like Borderlands 4 - fans will carry it but it won't break out.

[oblique igloo]

I hope it can carve out a space for itself and sell to cover its costs, but it's true that there's a lot of disappointment, from the graphic style to the menu, all that mess inside, it's not easy, and a casual player who tries it will play for 30 minutes and then ask for a refund.

[oblique igloo]

yes I agree and it is more likely that it will go like this

[proven hollow]

i thiought borderlands 4 was pretty good

i like shooting and looting stuff in borderlands games and borderlands 4 does that

[vagrant pewter]

Arc Raiders has something most of them don't - a care to actually get it right when it is broke. It's why it's hung on as long as it has. Also in season 3 now so they will respike in playerbase

[oblique igloo]

dont shoot 😂

[hoary crest]

Idk, Marathon wasnt looking great when they first showed it and first impressions are super important

[violet dune]

marathon doa

[hoary crest]

Yeah.. I dont expect it to last longer than a month

[vagrant pewter]

depends on how large a company has a fanboi base & what they will consume blindly. they are all shrinking but still exist.

[proven hollow]

honestly you just need to make a good game, which can be offset to some degree by marketing budget

[hoary crest]

Maybe, but its probably gonna be yet another soulless game made by a soulless company

[violet dune]

marathon reminds me a bit of the The Cycle: Frontier

[hoary crest]

Seems like thats pretty hard to do these days 😂

[oblique igloo]

naah marathon will have its life it will last a year for me the players will remain stable I don't think it will fail

[proven hollow]

but releasing yet another pvpve extraction shooter in this market is... interesting to say the least

[violet dune]

br dead, extraction shooters almost dead

[proven hollow]

'cause developers don't decide what gets made any more market analysts and investors do

[hoary crest]

Yeah thats true enough

[oblique igloo]

@proven hollow patch 1.9 what do you tell me

[hoary crest]

The time of AAA giants is kinda over at this point, its mostly indie teams carrying the torch at this point

[proven hollow]

idk man i wish they'd smooth out the remaining few fundamental issues with the game before adding new content like unlocking locked doors

a-life needs work, that online bubble needs to be bigger, they need to add those binoculars they promised, and honestly imo get a encyclopedia in game as well

[oblique igloo]

Unlocking doors and bugged missions would already be a lot, we'll see, but I'm confident that in the last 2 months something will have been done well.

[violet dune]

big studios dont look for passion projects, they look for profits

[proven hollow]

i have absolutely zero faith they'll be able to deliver a big patch that won't require several hotfixes to function as intended tbh

[violet dune]

almost every big studio is owned by corpo people who never touched a game in their life

[hoary crest]

Ofc, big bidness and what not

[proven hollow]

they have not achieved it with a single patch so far, this one won't be any different

[oblique igloo]

yes I agree with you on all points and I would also add weapon control and new weapons or new attachments plus customization

[hoary crest]

At least they want to fix things tho and add more content, its got a lot more effort put into it than most games these days

An I can't harp on GSC too much what wit the war an such, its not exactly gonna be easy for them

[proven hollow]

you'd think they'd realise at some point that passion projects can bring in a hell of a lot more than yet another "safe" game that they can scrap in a year

[violet dune]

one takes effort, research, talent another takes spreadsheet

[proven hollow]

but investors and upper management have this tendency to just mess up everything

[violet dune]

this is i why i kinda like R*, they are corpos, but atleast they try to deliver the best they can

and companies like EA is just pure spreadsheet gamers

[proven hollow]

yeah, but they get more leeway from investors because of the absolute gold mine GTA-V online was

but you just know GTA-6 is gonna be milked for 10+ years at the very least

[violet dune]

this is why indie studios shine, because they cant pour 100M on marketing, they need to make a game actual good to profit

[proven hollow]

yup, downside is that it all depends on mouth to mouth, which means some gems could really go by unnoticed

but then again most indie studios are really bad at taking the popularity and turning that momentum into really improving the game or creating proper sequels

[violet dune]

but this is with all products. for example if you want to enter competitive market at first you need to deliver the best product, best quality. this way you attract customers and slowly build your way up and than brand is established and very well known you start cutting quality for profits

[oblique igloo]

crimson desert

the game of the year or mega flop

[proven hollow]

they also just start cutting quality due to simply being unable to manage customers, communities and more large scale game development

[violet dune]

indie studio Playdead released Inside and Limbo. both insanly successful games and they just gone. never seen anything else from them

[proven hollow]

game developers aplenty, real talent can be hard to find

[violet dune]

i think corpos just offered sweet salary for best talent and studio just disbanded

[proven hollow]

yup

Great example is also Terraria from re-logic

one hit game, released two more games that no one bothered to play, went back to developing terraria

[violet dune]

never played terraria, but a lot of ppl like this game

for me is a bit too much of everything

but i also dont like minecraft

[proven hollow]

ooh, so you just hate fun?

[violet dune]

i wont lie, in recent years its very difficult for me to start playing new game. i have like 30 new games in lib and just too lazy to start

the last game that was peak for me is KCD2

[proven hollow]

i feel ya, i just have a fraction of the time i used to have for games, and then i'd rather hop on with some friends to play the games i know than pour the few hours i have into a new one

[raw jasper]

So I'm supposed to kill Strelok AND Scar on Master difficulty without any save points between ????? When Scar can one shot me ?!!

[mild haven]

Unfortunately, correct!

[raw jasper]

😩😭

Fine

But I'm getting cookies and a blankie after this ...

[lost needle]

Dont forget how horribly accurate scar is on master

Out of my 100ish deaths per master run about 50 of them are to scar, always

[main jewel]

hell nar

its mine

[raw jasper]

Ah man ....

[ruby gale]

Be nice, evil woman

[visual mortar]

can someone click this for me, i dont trust it

also imagine even getting into crypto

[mystic temple]

Real

[hoary crest]

No thanks

[inner girder]

my physical preoreder items finally arrived! :D

the backpack has already been selected as my daily use backpack. the statuette and lamp are really cool as well

[forest herald]

yea but it runs like shit

without mods

[violet dune]

after 87 years

[burnt bridge]

What a Wack ass statement

[main jewel]

augh

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077416739798782001/1454421883507179613/twitter_2004833027789361245.gif

where are people

[still current]

Hiding under your bed

[hazy haven]

When you die, loading of your last save sometimes takes even more than 2 minutes

Is it only me or everyone have that?

that's insane long

[still current]

Something isn't right then

It may be related to shader cache

Clear it out and let it load clean again

[main jewel]

.. people dont wanna be under MY ber..

bed

they wont like whats under there

[still current]

Socks?

[main jewel]

noo

[still current]

Skif then

[main jewel]

but i do have some long ass socks down there

im too lazy to grab them

erm

lean in real close

-# controller…

[still current]

Hmm a controller.. console player thing yeah

[main jewel]

[still current]

Still, wouldn't scare off console players, so maybe it's an attractive place for some people after all

[main jewel]

today on stalker 2 leaks
i hope a movement is made to bring back the rpd

that mag is lowkey fat

[still current]

That's not leaks tho

The gun was already planned, but also got modded, so it's likely a mod picture

Otherwise, I would've deleted it

[main jewel]

yeah

i know

its a jokey

[still current]

Yeah

[main jewel]

also thats not a mod pic

it was there

[still current]

But it might come this patch for real

[main jewel]

got removed in uh

1.3

like all the others

[still current]

Yeah

[main jewel]

though the rpd mod is pretty kewl

[still current]

All were removed including the Mosin

But it ended up coming to the actual arsenal

[main jewel]

but the mosin came back so there is hope

[charred nova]

Yah something big is brewing

[main jewel]

rpd mag

[still current]

I'm pretty sure we will be getting more guns with patches

Including that and some other stuff

Hopefully ones we missed from trilogy

[main jewel]

maybe they will decide to not scrap the l85a1 cause it was bugged to shit

ive heard many camp fire stories

[still current]

We don't know anything yet, but I can see that anything is possible, so I hope we get the max out of it

I really think we might get new content this or the next patch

I doubt it's only bug fixes

So maybe new guns and missions

[main jewel]

oh btw even though this looks burnt to shit a isreal gun museum thing has a 5.56 rpd

aint that pretty kewl

[still current]

Not quite

I don't have eyes on other than our beloved og guns we missed

[hazy haven]

Do you have any advice on how to do that? I thought that shaders are loading whenever you launch a game. I never have issues with lagging or something while playing. Maybe sometimes in Zalyssia, especially in that bar, FPS are going really down from some reason. Just loading the game back on after I die takes ages almost every time 😭

[main jewel]

i hope mol1ts door is uh new guns

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077416739798782001/1454421883507179613/twitter_2004833027789361245.gif

scissord

[still current]

You can watch a tutorial based on your gpu. It's not complicated, you just have to either use the panel or disk utility, so it's best if you simply search that up and follow it.

Once done, you load the game and let it do a new shader compilation which might fix the problem

Loading issues are likely to be related to shader issues

[still current]

Yeah, I also had something similar back after an update but loading did not take as much as you mentioned, so I cleared shader and allowed it to load again and it was gone afterwards

[still current]

Mol1t will kill us nerve by nerve

He'll shower us with micro details until it's almost time for release

[main jewel]

aye bro mol1t said he qould pay me in cans so

he can pinch all my nerves or eat them or pull them or stab them or something

[still current]

Well, fortunately enough, I won't be suffering with you all and I'll be already playing and getting well versed with the new stuff

[main jewel]

oh yeah

you t**************r

i hate discords formatting

WHATTT

IT JUST STAYS THE SAME

[still current]

Thor, yes I'm thor

[main jewel]

YOU STUPID TESTER

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/thor-thor-infinity-war-gif-25139201

[main jewel]

you got me right tho

tell me something exciting

you got me right

you got

me

[marble gyro]

So

[main jewel]

?

[still current]

Test is not live yet tho

[main jewel]

im console so i cant test

[still current]

I'm still waiting

[main jewel]

kuro actually recruited me

[marble gyro]

Like I saw a emulator console

[main jewel]

but erm

i couldnt

[main jewel]

it comes out like mext week

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077416739798782001/1454421883507179613/twitter_2004833027789361245.gif

[marble gyro]

And it's supposedly to have 16000 games, ranging from ps2 to Wii

[still current]

And lucky for you, you're a staff member, so you'll get exclusive stuff in mod chat

Not for share tho

[main jewel]

oh yeah

i wouldnt share anything like that

[marble gyro]

Too good to be true....but man....$370 price point is crazy

[main jewel]

im not a stupid leaker

[main jewel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077416739798782001/1454421883507179613/twitter_2004833027789361245.gif

[still current]

I am a leaker

[main jewel]

i leak sometimes

[still current]

Yeah

Samewise

[main jewel]

watch me leak

😢

[still current]

Joking hehe

[main jewel]

😢

[still current]

Gotcha

[main jewel]

eeuuh

[still current]

[main jewel]

euuhh

😢

[marble gyro]

OOOOO GODZILLA IS ON

[main jewel]

eeuhh shut yor bitchass up troy

😢

[marble gyro]

Make me

[main jewel]

why is the server just a mod hangout now question mark

[still current]

Well, you can ambiguously give hints

[main jewel]

if you keep this apple in your mouth ill be happy

[main jewel]

hell mah

[still current]

Sleepy chatters

[main jewel]

noone is getting anything

THEY CAN STARVE

[still current]

I'll shower you with juicy info when time is right