☢┃stalker-general

[main jewel]

the gif trending tab is just filled with towers

https://tenor.com/view/those-who-grow-grow-those-who-know-gif-14628111826263067934

[slow crypt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1190535053688713287/1306665710394544258/welaSILO.gif

[vapid galleon]

i have one of them

[opaque niche]

I hate gifs that flash lights in your face lol

[opaque niche]

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off my screen

[slow crypt]

Too cute time to sleep

[odd sky]

i have bunny

[vapid galleon]

dude wtf i want to wake up my bird and kiss it, stop posting

[vernal lily]

Post bnuuy

[charred nova]

okay

we should probably stop just mass off topic posting

[vapid galleon]

:] that cartoon...

[odd sky]

#🐺┃домашні-тварини message

[vernal lily]

But my bird isn't off topic, his name is Thunderberry

[charred nova]

fair play

[vernal lily]

Just bird shaped

[vernal lily]

Cute

[main jewel]

idgaf

im just kidding

i like burds

awee

this guy is awesome

[bold smelt]

.

[vapid galleon]

what does it mean

[main jewel]

i

dont

give

a

fuhhh

[charred nova]

ANYWAY GUYS

GSC NEEDS TO ADD THE 1895 TO STALKER 2

WE WILL BE PROTESTING OUTSIDE THIER OFFICE UNTIL WE ARE HEARD

[vapid galleon]

no

[vernal lily]

fuсk

[vapid galleon]

need to add dc, limansk and x labs

and 100 new side quest with cut regions

[odd sky]

Who?

[eternal trellis]

like the gun 🥺

[charred nova]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bWrpSgXLA&pp=ygUMMTg5NSBydXNzaWFu

[fickle hill]

Very feathered chicken

[eternal trellis]

i think No

[charred nova]

wdym no

[eternal trellis]

thats either a 1 tap gun or just dookie all together its also probally over 10,000 coupons 🥺

[charred nova]

it would need to be a unique reward weapon

[vapid galleon]

no

[bold smelt]

.

[eternal trellis]

for the shelf ✌️

[odd sky]

I don't like its name, so no

[vapid galleon]

👆

[charred nova]

they were contract rifles for the imperial russian army in ww1

they were not actually made in russia

they just fire 7.62x54r

[eternal trellis]

bro stop trying to defend the gun ✌️

[odd sky]

I don't think that old is something we need in modern days

[charred nova]

we got the mosin don't we

[native idol]

TRUE

I think a good ol lever action would be a nice change of pace for stalker Imo

[charred nova]

its way cooler than the mosin

[vapid galleon]

purple and dark blue is true

[charred nova]

should have been added instead

[odd sky]

Mosin is actually good, but only in early game

[main jewel]

fuck duck fcuk

[eternal trellis]

🤔

[main jewel]

the mosin is cool

fun to use

i wish it had a better unique

[bold smelt]

they should add tanegashima to stalker 2

[charred nova]

i feel like your just rage baiting

this take is just too retarded

[odd sky]

I have another question

Where is binoculars

I need it

[eternal trellis]

nah

[charred nova]

the mosin is like the most boring weapon to add

SOVIET SLOP

[charred nova]

true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7xIBQWIj3A

the 1895 is a work of art

[native idol]

All the mosin needs to be goated is a bayonet

[main jewel]

these are all mosins btw

[odd sky]

Then arquebus

[odd sky]

Cossacks often used these

[eternal trellis]

but like skif is a bum who wouldn't know how to use it 🥺

[charred nova]

[native idol]

Its a lever gun

[charred nova]

you open the lever put the bullets in

[eternal trellis]

ik skif is to much of a bum

[native idol]

You dont need a diploma to know its manual of arms

[charred nova]

cycle the lever to chamber the rounds

[main jewel]

do you like nothing unique or cool

[charred nova]

its pretty damn simple

[vernal lily]

- Gamma tag
- Opinion immediately discarded

[glacial escarp]

Hi all

[eternal trellis]

I don't know how to change it 🥺

[main jewel]

truest statement

[odd sky]

Crossbow

[glacial escarp]

super soldier

[odd sky]

Literally me

[native idol]

Who killed Captain Alex

[eternal trellis]

I figured it out ✌️

[glacial escarp]

You

[glacial escarp]

Hodog from the zone

[bold smelt]

.

[main jewel]

a winchester 1895 would be fire

[native idol]

Wisconsin doesn't exist

[main jewel]

mainly cause its not another ak or another ar 15 platform derivative or copy or something

[native idol]

a lever gun would feel so good in stalker fr fr

[main jewel]

yes

[charred nova]

there needs to be a hunter quest that rewards you with the 1895 for completing the whole quest chain

[native idol]

It'd be like playin slavic hunt showdown

[main jewel]

theres also this 9mm lever action

but seriously

if you dont want a lever action you might be a bum

[main jewel]

[native idol]

Imagine there was a quest to hunt certain amounts of the zones most dangerous creatures. Once completed you go to the quest giver and get a unique variant of it. Would be 🔥

[burnt bridge]

22lr in stalker

[charred nova]

that would be such a cool idea

[main jewel]

that would only be effective against human targets and like

zombies

[bold smelt]

they should add bb guns to stalker 2

[burnt bridge]

Those damn rats

[charred nova]

i mean they planned to have mutant variants

[main jewel]

trapper quest

honta gonta alreqdy has his for the scopeless mosin

[charred nova]

like legendary mutants

that would be unique in some way

[main jewel]

okay this aint rdr2

[marble gyro]

Enemies should have a percentage to drop artifacts and accessories

Common and rares for like the basic stalker, duty and monoliths should have a percentage to drop exalted and legendaries

[charred nova]

tbh i know im in some what minority here but if we have to pick guns for stalker 2

i'd rather we have more interesting options imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-grTPqgETk like l85 or this

[shell oak]

Meh I think resources would be better. Maybe with the gun too.

[shell oak]

I think you’re talking about becoming a bandit.

[native idol]

What, the zone doesn't give you enough resources?

[native idol]

Even on master Difficulty I'm practically bathing in food, meds, and ammo.

[burnt bridge]

Mods oh mods

[native idol]

eh

[visual mortar]

the .

[native idol]

mods are still basic atp

[burnt bridge]

Better then having 200 plus of everything

[native idol]

I try to not use mods to have a vanilla experience. And the vanilla loot lists need altered.

[vernal lily]

the

[burnt bridge]

I would say stuff but half the community would jump inside my throat and take a bath

[native idol]

Say it. I am not like others in the community.

I couldn't really care either way

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/yawn-boring-pelican-gif-23394211

[burnt bridge]

Vanilla in general is disgusting I’ll just leave it at that I’m sure the older games were much better base games

[vernal lily]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/675515128573198336/1299609887461998592/TONEcut.gif

[native idol]

To the first part of your statement, How so?

[burnt bridge]

Oh man I could write books and films

I really can’t be bothered 😕

[native idol]

Stalker 2 feels fine to me. Then again my first experience of the zone wasnt any modpacks like gamma or anomaly.

[burnt bridge]

There would be paragraphs

[main jewel]

@charred nova AL-2

trust

[charred nova]

goofy as hell

[vernal lily]

looks like a wahoo

[main jewel]

also have you seen the unbullpuped aug on twitter yet

[burnt bridge]

I base it off of other games in general I haven’t even played gamma sadly

[vernal lily]

what you mean sadly

[burnt bridge]

Nom nom nom

[vernal lily]

God bless this guy for having never played gamma. This guy is a saint.

[native idol]

What games are you comparing it to?

[burnt bridge]

I feel if I play gamma the world might explode

[main jewel]

@charred nova this is the only image we have of a KB-P 790

[robust pendant]

Sadly? Thats amazing!

[burnt bridge]

Bro like any other game With engaging and rememberable characters. The story telling. Progression. Some enemies and their abilities compared to older games I don’t wanna flame the whole game cause I still love it but I guess just for different reasons to the die hard vanilla fans no hate

[shell flax]

Desert tech SRS (used by a branch of the Ukrainian military too iirc)

[charred nova]

[burnt bridge]

Also the voiceovers will make you miss half the story anyways cause I ain’t listening to that britsh trash

[shell flax]

Then change to Ukrainian if it pisses you off so much

[native idol]

You don't use the UA dub?

[burnt bridge]

I have

[main jewel]

the ua dub is fire

also

why is deggy british

[burnt bridge]

Nah I do

[fickle hill]

Because he had beans and toast on a Chewsday

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/key-and-peele-skit-you-will-never-be-troy-distraction-gif-14057568753463082760

[native idol]

To me the multi dubbing is simple. To those who speak Ukrainan they hear their languages like you or I would hearing your native tongue. It probably sounds no different to them than it would to me had I understood and been fluent in it. I like both the English and UA dubs. Both are good IMO.

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/takaba-megumi-reggie-hazenoki-fumihiko-gif-2083906960725172795

[burnt bridge]

Beans on 😎 Beans and

[burnt bridge]

Hahahhaha

[native idol]

But I can agree, hearing brits in the zone can be quite jarring at times.

[burnt bridge]

“Best of luck. Off ya fck” screamed 5 times in a row

[fickle hill]

The British spell eating beans and toast

[burnt bridge]

It’s just lousy voice acting not even the fact they are britsh

Slav accents would have be so much better

But hey what would I know gsc knows what the players like

Wowsers more reactions then a gsc answers

Okay lex

[main jewel]

erm

wdym

you have 2 reactions

[burnt bridge]

Your quick wid it

[shell flax]

I just don’t care enough to freak out over the voice acting

[burnt bridge]

Dude I’ve been yelling at the tv for 25 minutes now because of it

[shell flax]

I hope to god you’re joking

[shell flax]

Ok, because we’ve had a good chunk of people who have probably done that

[shell flax]

Like especially nowadays, I work six days a week in a scrap yard, when I get home I just want to game and relax lmao

[burnt bridge]

Yeah that’s fair I just don’t really accept the stalker 2 standard?? I guess

[shell flax]

I’ve seen Voice acting miles worse so I guess S2 doesn’t really hit the line for me

[burnt bridge]

Damn what games you been playing 😆

[shell flax]

Also judging by the DLC trailer with Voronin it looks like they might be going back over the voice acting

[burnt bridge]

Do we like skifs voice actor?

[shell flax]

I do, both of em

[burnt bridge]

Yeah he’s alright tbf sometimes a little fruity but it’s solid

[shell flax]

It helps English skif is a character in KCD2 which I enjoyed, and English Korshunov is in KCD1

[burnt bridge]

Oh true that’s cool

I wonder if they will have new lines for regular npcs

[shell flax]

Also the most blunt thing is I speak English, so I use English lmao

[burnt bridge]

Also I wonder how the new weapons will be distributed throughout the zone. Like will all stalkers around the zone have a chance to spawn with them or just in the dlc areas Bery interesting

[native idol]

Could be unique variants placed in the new areas, quest items, stalkers spawning with them, and or having them sold by traders.

[burnt bridge]

Im really dreading they might be unquies and not regular guns

[native idol]

Why dread?

new guns are new guns

[burnt bridge]

Ruins the gameplay loop if you have to go to one spot to find one gun that no other stalkers can use

But Like if they are regularly integrated into the loot pool that’s cool

[native idol]

Well there's obviously going to be regular variants of the guns, and Im sure theres going to be uniques of them aswell.

[burnt bridge]

I hope so

[native idol]

Just as the guns in base stalker 2

[burnt bridge]

Yeah true true

[river chasm]

I imagine they will show up as mid and late game weapons

[visual mortar]

the Fick

fick

fuck

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/az-az-mentioned-arizona-mentioned-meme-mentioned-gif-8105925068446731875

[visual mortar]

@marble gyrohey i was price checking and i think if found a good xbox for you

[fickle hill]

Brick

[charred nova]

don't forget the 40 percent payday loan mark up

[visual mortar]

65.45*36
2,356.2

[charred nova]

incredible deal!!!!!!!!

[frigid hill]

wojti_ttv has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[harsh wharf]

I bet the new weapons will be reserved to faction traders, quests, or to expert NPCs in factions

Me personally I can’t wait to have cagslop 416 build on my freedom veteran

I get to larp Arma with mutants

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/seal-concerned-look-around-sad-confused-gif-13135059842887918234

[shell oak]

That’s not accurate.

[main jewel]

https://klipy.com/gifs/kaguya-derp

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/laughingcat-cat-laughing-meme-cat-laughing-at-someone-cat-laughing-wheezing-cat-wheezing-gif-9998732734790196672

[main jewel]

kitty

[marble gyro]

Stalker 2, has the potential to become a really great game

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/takaba-megumi-reggie-hazenoki-fumihiko-gif-2083906960725172795

[elfin hedge]

grass is green my ass is blue

[main jewel]

why is it blue

[sterile radish]

he’s a smurf

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/cynthia-erivo-wicked-target-lime-lips-thats-my-lime-gif-764815107251776345

thats my lime 💚

[elfin hedge]

too much Gatorade

[marble gyro]

Stalker 2 dlc, has a lot of potential to be a really good dlc

Pre order today

[vernal lily]

Sin, blink twice if you need help

[marble gyro]

What do you all think, that stalker 2 should add in the future?

[vernal lily]

fishing

[elfin hedge]

dragons

[prime geyser]

U r lie

[shy nymph]

Stalker multiplayer, holy

[vernal lily]

my life is a lie, try to think of something else I don't know

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/675515128573198336/1299609887461998592/TONEcut.gif

[main jewel]

grr

[main jewel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1404628926164107336/1476080964089286768/IMG_7923.gif

[kindred fable]

I'll be pretty happy to see some random assassination quests with stalkers that are walking around the zone freely in an offline mode

[main jewel]

true

merc npc at rostok

gives you targets

they vary from easy to hard

to like

specific rookies

to groups of stalkers

even monolith

after sircaa

ofc

would be so cool

[cobalt ocean]

my stalker 2 screen sutter

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/key-and-peele-skit-you-will-never-be-troy-distraction-gif-14057568753463082760

[golden gulch]

So Copium of Hopium in summer?

[marble gyro]

In case of stuttering screen, please make sure that your drivers are updated

Thank you for playing stalker 2

[jade kraken]

Sea salt

[cobalt ocean]

my driver up to date already

[analog lintel]

“Thank you, STALKER 2.”

“STALKER 2?”

“Because you’re a stalker, too.”

“Oh, yeah.”

[forest zinc]

Is there anything I can do to force the free Stories untold DLC to appear? I've been trying to force myself through the burned forest and nothing.

[marble gyro]

Players have reported that to activate Free stories expansion, you would have to be in the burning forest and wait for a pda notification, or the alternative is finding the cave yourself

[still current]

Go to the red forest mine

[forest scarab]

Can anybody explain why they chose 5.5.4, regarding 5.8 is coming in JUNE ALREADY?

Like. Why. Why not 5.7 or at least 5.6

And I wonder if they are gonna switch to 5.8 n the future..

[astral otter]

5.7 wasn't announced when they started IIR

5.6 likely wasn't either. (we don't really know when they began testing, but likely before roadmap)
They've said they'd consider it, but only if its stable.

mol1t has stated in this thread:
"there is a chance we can have even 5.6. All will depend on testing, I just can not confirm the 5.6 as a 100% yes, the engine update is a very serious and tricky task"

chasing versions just means you're never getting a stable update ever.

[bitter plover]

Bcs its very long process and they were working on it before they even announced it. YOu cant just switch version by click and you can just switch version troughout updating process as well. It can be changed, but its not that easy and they will have to stick to one version.

Also, you want your game to be on stable version. 5.8 when it will release, will deffinitely not ba stable.

[golden gulch]

I wonder if canned aim without night vision will come before DLC.

[forest scarab]

Regions and locations are a lot more important. We need Jupiter, Oasis, Korogod, northern Pripyat, full Dead Valley e.t.c.

[golden gulch]

Does 5.7 and 5.8 have any advantages over 5.5.4 optimization wise?

[bitter plover]

i would assume it can come with UE update. SO it more like depends, if UE update will come before DLC or with it

[astral otter]

Yeah. But I don't think any are as big of a difference as 5.1 to 5.5.4

[opaque niche]

Unreal Engine 5.6/5.8 Optimization
Massive GPU/CPU Performance Gains: Tests show UE 5.6 is roughly 20-30% faster than 5.4 on top-tier GPUs (RTX 5080/4090).
Enhanced Lighting: 5.6 refined Lumen and MegaLights further, reducing light rendering costs by 1–4 milliseconds in complex scenarios.
Stable Frame Times: Improvements to Nanite and Lumen, providing more stable frame rates compared to the "pop-in" and shadow inconsistencies reported in 5.5.
Lowered CPU Load: CPU usage dropped by approximately 17% on average compared to earlier 5.x versions, mitigating bottlenecking in complex scenes.

[bitter plover]

they are absolutely not. Game has issues, MOstly gunplay needs love and other things too. If you just add locations and quest, you will still have those issue. So no, they are not more important

[still current]

Gunplay issues are relatively easy to fix tbh. What the game truly needs is alife amplification and regional activities. I personally would appreciate if certain regions got some love instead of whole new ones. Regardless of any of that, what's official is that new regions would be dlc areas, paid content to be precise.

So, dlc is another matter entirely

Base game should get love itself and it is so far.

[bitter plover]

they are not Rahmi. Gunplay need overhaul and that means also changin loot pools and thing. THats not easy.
But Alife getting ebtter is another issue, that i meant

[bitter plover]

this

[astral otter]

Yeah I still think the NPC combat would make a bigger difference vs things like spawn distance

If I see one more duty patrol calmly wander through the middle of a firefight I'm gonna lose it.

[bitter plover]

yeah. That is somehing they said, that they are looking into. So its not something that is ignored

[slow crypt]

They're working on a lot of things no one doubts that.

[astral otter]

Whats weird about combat is that a lot of the features seem to be there.
Sometimes it just feels really trash. Like sometimes NPCs use cover great and other times they just stand and fire out in the open at each other.

[slow crypt]

because they didn't make as much progress in artificial intelligence

[still current]

They are relatively easy to deal with, but it would require actual QA assistance based on tester feedback which is the only hard part.

[bitter plover]

to be fair, thats deffinitive Stalker behaviour
BUt seriously. The AI is often imo stuck in the loop, bcs if either code or something to do with UE engine and its ticks to calculate AI. Either way, this could be changed either via UE udpate or making the code better. Wish for the best

[bitter plover]

well, its not hard, but tedious. Yeah

[slow crypt]

For indie games like Into the Abyss to have better combat, there's definitely something missing

[still current]

Combat is good ish at this point, so what we actually need at this point is making it render in a larger radius. Necessary improvements would still be prioritized regardless, so yeah, I wouldn't mind the current combat quality if alife got expanded.

[bitter plover]

Funny thing is, that when i tested 1.7, i felt like the AI is rly great and then it released and it was...not as it was

[slow crypt]

optimization maybe?

[still current]

Exactly! So, what I know is that QA and devs wouldn't touch the precise parts without outsider assistance. Otherwise, game would still require gunplay improvements over and over again, cuz testers know more on the practical gameplay part while the other parties knows the technicalities more.

[bitter plover]

Well, the combat has still issues. Stealth isnt as good (as it was in testing). AI shooting from distance. The behaviour of neutral NPCs need to be fixed. IMO big fix also needs the mechanic, that Alife npc will shoot at themselves for eternity, until cou get close enough and etc.

Otherwise, if you fix the NPC being stuck, its okay imo too. Not great, but good enough i guess

[still current]

I don't mean they are in a blind spot, but having a different view point would definitely lead to the best outcomr

That's exactly what I mean

[bitter plover]

i dont think so. It was runing great with it. THere had to be some changes or something. Or maybe they were testing something, but it created tons of issues, so they reverted it and posposned it to future

[astral otter]

Just feels hit and miss.
There are some weird things like some trees completely blocking both player and npc fire and even line of sight.
So that could be the kind of thing that will make some firefights seem to work well, but others seem broken.

[still current]

Render related issues in short

Cuz if an NPC is stuck, it's absolutely render

That's why reloading sometimes fix it

[bitter plover]

yeah, i agree. But for the trees. You just cant make everything perfect in big open world map. That is just immposible imo

[still current]

[astral otter]

But like is it an asset issue?

[shell oak]

You should report those invisible wall.

[astral otter]

like is one asset making broken collision?

[shell oak]

Same issue. Sometimes reloading doesn’t work. I just wait until the npc realizes it stopped and keeps going.

[still current]

Yeah. I'm playing crimson desert and render in that game is fully broken. Sometimes it's beautiful and sharp, and most of the time it's super broken depending on daycycles and render zones. So yeah, render do be based on player or anchor center point.

[astral otter]

I haven't been so methodical about it, I just notice some firefights are jank.
There was a youtuber pointing out that some trees would make the player invisible, and not be able to be hit or shoot out of.

[still current]

Loading means you leave the render zone and reload. Not actually doing it in front of the miss rendered object

[slow crypt]

I swear, this game looks worse than Stalker 2 the graphics and rendering are crazy, with all those flashes

[still current]

Again, render radius

[shell oak]

Probably a bug. Some bushes and trees conceal you. But not be able to shoot back within that seems like a bug.

[still current]

Exactly, S2 is largely well optimized compared to it and that means insane work

[shell oak]

Haven’t tried that. I will do it later on if it happens again.

[opaque niche]

Crimson Desert doesn't flash for me at all

[slow crypt]

To be hones, it’s a proprietary engine; Stalker 2 uses Unreal

[still current]

Yeah, render issues require reloading off the zone radius to fully refresh it.

[shell oak]

Okay that makes more sense to me. Thanks for informing me.

[astral otter]

Unreal Engine 5 doesn't have a great track record for consistent optimisation.

Not yet anyway

[slow crypt]

That's more the developers' fault than the engine's

¿Arc Raiders?

body cam

[astral otter]

Doesn't use lumen or nanite, lol

[still current]

Same thing. If S2 was built on a self-made engine, I doubt it would be even released at this point and even if it was, we would be facing far graver issues than whatever we have rn. Having your own engine means insane funding and insane experience cuz without either or one, you end up with a junk engine (as if some highly funded game companies didn't end up making slop level product that makes you question modern taste)

[slow crypt]

well thats why is devs fault

[astral otter]

Right, using the flagship advertised features that UE5 pushes is the devs fault.

[slow crypt]

They're using a graphics engine designed for an MMO in a single-player game, so it's no surprise they're having problems. That said, they have no excuse for releasing the game unfinished.

[slow crypt]

In Stalker 2, they overused Nanite and Lumen because they had no other choice, but that doesn't make it any less of a mistake.

[still current]

I can only say that it's way more complicated than what it seems and either way, it doesn't change shit.

[astral otter]

No, those features just have big overheads.

Especially lumen

[opaque niche]

Lumen is a joke.

[slow crypt]

especially when you don't let people use rayreconstruction

I still don't understand why the mod stops working between updates

[astral otter]

Lumen is just undercooked. Or was.

[slow crypt]

is tooo heavy

[astral otter]

It can look really great though.

[still current]

I think, I just think the newer engine would make that a lot better. We will definitely see this summer and hopefully, most of our worries will cease to exist by then.

Copium true, but well

[opaque niche]

My experience with lumen are torches that tank your frame rate and don't light the room further than 2 steps ahead of you x.x

[slow crypt]

you could use ray reconstruction to improve the game's visuals at the cost of a little performance, but you can't anymore.

[astral otter]

Well you can download UE5.5.4 and compare software lumen to hardware lumen, and there is lots of potential there. So I wouldn't say it's an uninformed thing to say.

[astral otter]

Never noticed that issue. And I've played around with flashlight customisers.

[charred nova]

Lumen in stalker 2 doesn’t look great

It’s pretty noisy

[bitter plover]

i am 1000% sure, that ti would be canceled, if it would be on theri own engine. Even with UE, it almost was

[slow crypt]

It would actually look better and significantly improve the contrast between dark and light areas, not to mention visual artifacts, issues with rendering fog, etc...

[opaque niche]

It was really bad in Dune Awakening too

[bitter plover]

it rly was. Thats why UE update is must

[bitter plover]

you would, but its badly implemented in Stalker

[slow crypt]

It worked in version 1.3

It's true that it wasn't as much as in other games, but it really helped

[charred nova]

Sirrca still looks wack as hell

[bitter plover]

But it caused other issues. Its same with nvidia reflex. YOu turn on one thing, it broke other. Its badly implemented

[astral otter]

Still works

[still current]

That's why I said what I said, cuz what ik suggests a significant boost and if done correctly, I see no reason why it won't be a great improvement

[slow crypt]

how? the mod is from 22 nov 2024 and dont works

[still current]

Bingo. Cuz its not early 2000s anymore lol.

[bitter plover]

yeah. engines now are insanely complex, huge and needs tons of work and budget

[slow crypt]

I'm not even asking them to use their own engine; it would have been enough if they hadn't overused Lumen. In the end, what seemed cheap ended up costing them dearly in terms of optimization.

[bitter plover]

if you want AAA game need to note

[still current]

We have an idea on that matter if we look at the x-ray that engine is a pure mess, but somehow was blessed to exceed its limits lol. That wouldn't happen often lol. It's a miracle that happens once in a lifetime

[slow crypt]

It's hard to find modders who have been modding an engine for two decades (doom maybe or bethesda shit)

[bitter plover]

well, it was cheap. There was no other option for them unfortunately. Baking would make the game even bigger, like a lot bigger. Luem saves time and size. But it has its issues. There was option of normal ray trqacing, but that needs implementation and HW. They basicaly had to go with Lumen for time and money reasons

[bitter plover]

deffinitely

[slow crypt]

People keep saying it's because of the war, but I think the pandemic was actually what caused the problem

[bitter plover]

it was a lot of things. Management of company itself also

[slow crypt]

grigor family...

I still haven't forgiven what happened in 2011

[dusky pawn]

Both obviously

Pandemic is a little easier to overcome honestly atleast for IT cause you arent at a risk of dying in your own house and if someone has to quarantine its like 2 weeks while getting drafted obviously lasts way longer

[astral otter]

Works with ultra+. I just checked

Using the DLSS overlay

[slow crypt]

It works worse than the previous mod

[astral otter]

Because you have to deal with Ultra Plus?

[slow crypt]

As someone from Romania, I think you underestimate how hard that crisis hit us in Eastern Europe; at the end of the day, all of GSC’s actions regarding cuts date back to before the war.

[slow crypt]

Actually, I don't really notice much of a difference compared to when “Enable Nvidia Ray Reconstruction” was a mod

[astral otter]

Really? I've found it works better. Especially with the glass bricks

[bitter plover]

this

[slow crypt]

I notice less improvement in the shadows and their artifacts, which is really the most annoying part

[dusky pawn]

It hit us hard in Poland too but the logistical challenges atleast were easier to overcome than war would be
Economical ones however...

[astral otter]

Tried enabling vsms?

[slow crypt]

vsms?

[astral otter]

Virtual shadow maps

[slow crypt]

Where in the mod is it located?

[astral otter]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\UltraPlusExtensions\scripts

CustomSettings.ini

r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable=1

[slow crypt]

I'll give it a try

[golden gulch]

Can we actually, fully disable Nanite and Lumen? In stalker 2 i mean

[astral otter]

if you don't have custom settings, you can just make one and chuck in whatever cvars

its basically an engine ini for U+

[slow crypt]

No, you can turn off the visual effects, but it's still active in the game.

[astral otter]

Lumen you sorta can, but it just removes lighting.

Nanite doesn't work, because there is no fallback other than maybe some really low Hlods

[slow crypt]

.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow is the comand

[golden gulch]

I wonder if 5.5.4 will allow us to?

[slow crypt]

I doubt it; it doesn't serve any purpose either it just looks worse.

[golden gulch]

I remember someone said this game wasn't made with optimization in mind.

[smoky hawk]

if you disable Lumen you will not get any lighting in the game

[bitter plover]

nope

[slow crypt]

Interestingly, in some places outside, the view is better

[bitter plover]

Lumen is only source or global lighting. You cant switch to another one, bcs its not there

so "turning it off" would just give you game without global lighting

[slow crypt]

The sun continues to serve as a source of light

[astral otter]

People say a lot of things.

[golden gulch]

So this game really was made with no optimization.

[sharp sierra]

I wonder if that AK74 is a new weapon or if they are letting us stick a picatanny rail on the ak. Honestly they should have a side rail picatany mount that you need to fit so you can fit picatany optics. Also seriously give us extra side rail optics instead of just the pso1

[astral otter]

No, it was made for Lumen

[golden gulch]

And what the f@#$ do you mean the game doesn't even have lighting on without some expensive graphic setting turned on?

[astral otter]

It's not a setting, it's a render pipeline.

[golden gulch]

Oh right reflection is now nonexist without RT. F@#$ this generation of developers.

[astral otter]

People complaining they're not updating to 5.8, people also complaining that they even used Lumen

Can't win, lol.

[golden gulch]

You can win big by optimize your game.
This one barely have any.

[astral otter]

Based on what?
They used a half baked version of Unreal that all develops seem to have issues with. Meanwhile since launch they've managed to improve performance on an average of 26% in cpu limited scenarios, and when that wasn't good enough they've decided to do a full engine update.

Rah rah rah, devs bad

[bitter plover]

its just the way game was made to have lighting. You either have some kind of ray tracing (which saves you time and size in game, but its more HW demanging) or you bake the lighting (but, for bakes lighting, you have to bake the lithing for each move of the sun, bcs the game has dynamic day/night cycle. Same with different weather, bcs that will change that too. Which means tons of different baked maps of lighting, which not only takes time, but also increase size of your game a big time). So for new games, its much better to go ray traying way, if you optimise the game enough for it, bcs its look good, its fully dynamic and it saves you time and size. The optimisation part is issue and in this game also issues bcs of uncooked version of lumen is issue

[smoky hawk]

the version of Lumen they were using, did not help, 5.1 was not mature at all to support any game

[bitter plover]

100%. It was hella uncooked and basicaly like early acces. That can be said about whole 5.1 version of UE

[bitter plover]

this is funny, when you consider, how big the game is and it actually almost lacks traversal stutter comapred to other UE open world titles. If only they wouldnt have those memory leaks and stuff like that, that cause FPS dips and stutters

[golden gulch]

Now thay you mention it, i dont think i had ever encountered traversal stutter since launch.

[astral otter]

Or compared to any other stalker game

Traversal stutter is pretty atrocious in CoP

[bitter plover]

they are there, but they are small, they are not huge, so you wont notice them basicaly, if you are not on low fps on average

[hollow nymph]

this just game needs a powerful cpu and a modern gpu from the current or last gen; i personally saw a massive improvement from upgrading my 3 gen old gpu on a ddr5 rig built in 2023

[bitter plover]

yeah, true

[golden gulch]

Ok maybe they did optimized their game after all, still a very very very extremely painly long way to go

[bitter plover]

it doesnt neccessarily. It needs UE update, bcs its brutaly CPU bottlenecked, due to early version of UE

So, even if you upgrade your GPU to brutal highs, you are still bottlenecked and even huge CPU wont help you much, bcs the bottleneck is engine itself

[old aurora]

God I'd kill for a VR S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

[river chasm]

This game is far from the only one to be RT-only. It was just handicapped by using an early version of Lumen as people have said

[old aurora]

RT-only?

[river chasm]

ray tracing only

[old aurora]

Ah ok tnx

[twilit dome]

does a cats meowing do something?

cuz i get an eye closing effect similar to a certain anomaly with red plants

(didnt want to spoil the anomaly)

[vapid galleon]

dlc's thumbnail is so good

[regal sinew]

Into the Radius would be up your street.

[old aurora]

Oh yeah I've been planning on getting it. Will pick it up when I have the money. It's on quest 3 correct?

[golden gulch]

It makes you more vulnerable to their attacks

[regal sinew]

No idea tbh. I just noticed it was a Stalker like game set in VR and looks dope.

[old aurora]

Alright thanks though.

[twilit dome]

its good

[old aurora]

How similar is it to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?

[dusky pawn]

It is good my friend praised it a lot
Its almost a carbon copy but diff lore

[twilit dome]

take the mutants and human enemies away and replace them with shadowy humanoid soldiers

[dusky pawn]

Same general idea as stalker but well stalker isnt an original idea anyway

[old aurora]

So there's no human enemies or mutants?

[twilit dome]

nah, but the soldiers which are basiclly humans

[dusky pawn]

No just shadowy creatures and weird anomaly like things

[twilit dome]

they got guns

[old aurora]

Alright. Btw do I need to play into the radius 1 before 2 or?

[dusky pawn]

I think there are different types

[dusky pawn]

I dont think its a plot heavy game

So probably whatever you like

[twilit dome]

not really. I got both and it wouldnt have mattered

[old aurora]

Alright. I'll check how much both of them are and see when I can pick 2 or both of them up.

[old aurora]

Alright thanks man.

[twilit dome]

np. good luck in the radius

[dusky pawn]

Road to vostok is also coming out very soon but thats more like tarkov

However the general vibe of 'lone man walking around creepy places with a gun' is there

And it is sp unlike tarkov

You also have the metro franchise if you somehow havent played it

But I realised you were looking for vr so nvm

[twilit dome]

metro is fine, but its linear and i dont like the games that much anymore after readying the books

[twilit dome]

well there is metro vr

[dusky pawn]

Exodus is semi linear

[dusky pawn]

Yeah true I forgot

But yeah the games are a lot 'dumber' than books except for the 1st one because its almost a copy of the book

The whole political and sociological aspect of the books is gone tho

They only left in very shallow spirituality and the games are mostly about survival which isnt an interesting theme

Also artyom is reduced to a semi mute terminator giga chad

[twilit dome]

indeed... but while the gameplay of the games isnt that interesting, i kinda hated the theme of book 2 and 3 .... so i find the "game" metros world better

[dusky pawn]

And has absolutely 0 depth of the artyom from the books

[dusky pawn]

I genuinely dont know what the theme of 2034 was supposed to be 😂
But I loved 2035 its a perfect metaphor of how glukhovsky felt in ru society

(Like a lunatic surrounded by comformist morons)

[twilit dome]

it all felt weirdly written

[old aurora]

Tnx

[dusky pawn]

2034 ? Yes 2035 no

I genuinely do not understand what the point of 2034 was
Artyom suffers and uhh there's a girl and hunter got resurrected the end

[twilit dome]

all of it. May have been due to the translation

[twilit dome]

2034 was there to introduce the girl ....

i think

[dusky pawn]

Yeah but like
There was nothing interesting about her 😂

And 2034 was completely inconsequential to 2035

[twilit dome]

well, she did kind of have an "important" role in 2035 ... or semi mportant. In the end, i find the girl weird, unnessecary and cant really understand her motives and intentions. And irriteted me. Like alot

[frigid hill]

kirylow has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dusky pawn]

Lmao even censored words are banned 😂

[bitter plover]

i wouldnt say its like Tarkov. If its simmilar to extraction shooters, it would be more to Grayzone, than Tarkov

[dusky pawn]

Whatever sasha was unimportant as hell and homer's backstory too

[bitter plover]

and SP

[bitter plover]

honestly same. I loved them, but i like them much less after reading books. Which is ironic

[dusky pawn]

Its very clearly inspired by tarkov and has a very similar vibe to old tarkov it also takes place right next to where tarkov is in universe

[bitter plover]

gameplaywise, its more simmiral to grayzone tho imo

and its clearly ispired also by Stalker, which he also said

[dusky pawn]

Maybe I havent touched the demo only glanced at gameplay and screenshots

[bitter plover]

i see

[dusky pawn]

Well tarkov is inspired by stalker too

[bitter plover]

yeah

[twilit dome]

well, i thought about getting tarkov, but i dislike mp

[bitter plover]

Grayzone is inspired by Stralker also, mostly by Roadside picins, bcs of closed zone and etc.

[dusky pawn]

Fck these greedy ass devs anyway

[bitter plover]

there is SP version. But imo Grayzone is better game for that. Bcs you can just play PVE version and its then basicaly like open world sandbox game, where you do quests, get better gear and etc. And its hardcore, but not too hardcore

and myself, i just dont like what they did to Tarkov.

[dusky pawn]

Isnt grayzone the trash tarkov knockoff that takes place in asia

[twilit dome]

and grayzone looked interesting too, but the (total) reviews are only mixed soooo

[smoky hawk]

it aint

[shell flax]

Once again Tarkov has nothing to do with Stalker, it’s part of Contract Wars

[foggy olive]

As far as I remember, there are no paranormal phenomena in Tarkov. The only thing that exists is developments from a laboratory, a certain company that escaped

[smoky hawk]

people like to attribute the very common phenomena of a certain space being closed of as some sort of Stalker inspiration which runs counter to the fact it is just the inversion of the trope of the paradise in the bubble

[bitter plover]

Its not trash. Imo its much better game than Tarkov. Its more like hardcore take on something like Ghost Recon or somehhing, rather than knockoff Tarkov. Its mostly PVE based with open world map and doing quests.

[foggy olive]

the only thing they have in common is old abandoned post-soviet buildings

[smoky hawk]

no, not really

you say it doesnt suck but its directly offshooting of Nu-GR

so which is it?

[foggy olive]

Gzw has a system of medicine and injuries many times better than the Tarkov ones

The Tarkov system is basically a reworked Fallout-style system where you have separate body parts: arms, legs, and torso. A headshot is almost always instant death. Arms and legs aren’t, but the torso usually is if its HP drops to 0.
On top of that, there’s an added mechanic: if a limb is destroyed, it loses its function and can even instantly kill you if it gets hit again during combat. Also, damage to a destroyed limb gets transferred to other parts of the body.
GZW has a much more unique organ-based system. If you get hit in the heart, liver, or both lungs, it’s guaranteed death. The body isn’t just a single hitbox — it has individual organs. Instead of traditional HP, it uses a blood system, which feels closer to Arma than Tarkov. That’s why I think GZW’s health system is much more advanced than Tarkov’s.

[dusky pawn]

This isnt the original tarkov system tho og tarkov had instant death if you got hit into any body part that was black aka lost all HP

So 3 shots to the leg were instant death from any gun

[smoky hawk]

damn so much work and GZW still sucks

[dusky pawn]

Which gzw copied but kept

[smoky hawk]

very sad

[dusky pawn]

While tarkov got rid of this because it was super frustrating against scavs

Also you couldnt heal blackened legs back then so basically if you had a leg with 0 hp that leg would be an instant kill for the rest of the raid

[dusky pawn]

Its very trash sadly all existing tarkov clones are because they lack what made old tarkov so cool (very mysterious and eerie setting and lore+insanely immersive gameplay)
Sadly this got eroded with time but tarkov clones fail to capture this gzw lacks any athmosphere and in fact it does feel like arma in how soulless it is

[smoky hawk]

arma>souless
fuck is this guy talking about

[dusky pawn]

Also people were super high on hopium when tarkov was in beta which created this amazing community

[dusky pawn]

The game itself is just a walking sim with stiff animations and nothing else
I do not consider community interactions part of a game

[smoky hawk]

yhea they aren't, which is why Arma has a large swathe of solo campaigns with more added by mods

[dusky pawn]

Just like any sim game its like a husk

[smoky hawk]

actual madness being spouted

I guess youd be someone to have an opinion this dogshit

[dusky pawn]

Most made by the community not the dev and the gameplay itself is still just as bland as squad or PR or any other war sim

Also because its all community made you have almost no immersion

[smoky hawk]

A2 has entire long campaigns that you can play and A3 has double if not triple that

[twilit dome]

is there a way to get rid of the scope on the GP37 ?

[dusky pawn]

Atleast thats how I feel

[foggy olive]

From what I remember, in Tarkov bullets are basically divided into two types:
low penetration / high damage and high penetration / low damage.
And all you really do is choose which ammo you’re going to use. Of course, they’ve tweaked this system a lot over time—changing stats, penetration values, and so on. But overall, rounds like RIP, which hit like peas and couldn’t penetrate armor, stayed that way.
I’ve personally put over 3000 hours into Tarkov, and I clearly remember that 3 shots to the leg didn’t always kill an enemy—it heavily depended on the caliber and the weapon. That’s exactly why weird builds appeared, like loading a full magazine with RIP rounds and aiming only for the legs, completely ignoring armor.
There were also situations where you could shoot at an enemy who practically didn’t care about your bullets because of high-tier armor. Only later did they introduce the “blocked damage” system—basically bruising from bullets that didn’t penetrate.

[smoky hawk]

some people are just, wrong in the head

[dusky pawn]

You did not play during alpha then back then a leg or arm with 0 hp behaved like a torso or head with 0 hp
Instant kill

3 mp5 pst shots were guaranteed death

To any limb

[dusky pawn]

Placeholder trash but ok

[smoky hawk]

sounds like objective shit

[dusky pawn]

Not even close to the level of dedication early tarkov had with fake newspaper articles being made specifically to expand the game's lore

Or the multiple arg's

It felt like an SP game without a plot but with MP gameplay if that makes sense

And then bsg just started chasing money and listening to streamers and well

[smoky hawk]

this makes me hate Tarkov

thats gay asf

wow they really did that shit?

[twilit dome]

...

[dusky pawn]

It was so cool to actually immerse yourself in an MP game and not rely on dumbass american teens singing war chants for entertainment (squad/arma)

[smoky hawk]

you say this as tho these things are the actual stories that Arma tells

[dusky pawn]

Now with voip and 0 direction from bsg its basically just another shooter

[dusky pawn]

Arma doesnt tell stories worth following

[smoky hawk]

lunatic take, I guess if its not in a browser outisde of the game for you to read it doesnt matter considering that, didnt tarkov add an actual story with their release?

[foggy olive]

you forgot 3 books about the universe, although there were much more of them but under a different name

[dusky pawn]

Actually what insane copiumoidium are you on rn arma has some trash placeholder campaigns no one ever even talks about and you compare it with tarkov whose devs genuinely made a wholeass movie just to expand the lore 😂

[dusky pawn]

I did not forget them I even owned one

[smoky hawk]

sounds like complete copium that you just ignore the campaigns that Arma actually has with what Tarkov did

you just want to biggie up Tarkov

[dusky pawn]

This is why it was so succesful early on they went full in into lore creation and it genuinely felt immersive in the beginning

[smoky hawk]

but then dont actually even talk about its actual 1.0 story, I assume you dont like it considering you say the game is trash now

so I am left to assume you liked the story more when it was outside the game

aka ARGs and Books

[dusky pawn]

Placeholder campaign vs multiple args 3 books fake newspaper articles a movie short in universe videos and a ton of in game lore hints+in the beginning a multitude of lore related quests
What a comparison man 😂

SURVARIUM was more immersive than arma genuinely

[smoky hawk]

like I said, only you could have such a dogshit opinion as this ngl

[dusky pawn]

Its very clearly backed by a huge ammount of lore but I know you have a hardon for hating tarkov and gamma so i dont really care

Its just fun seeing someone coping about arma this hard

[smoky hawk]

the lore that is wholy outside the game and not even integrated into it

[dusky pawn]

Like of all the things arma actually has you try to claim it has extensive lore or immersion

[foggy olive]

Overall, I quit the game quite a long time ago for various reasons and don’t plan to return at all—I just occasionally watch as more nails get hammered into its coffin

[dusky pawn]

How can an ARG that literally lead to in game quests be unrelated ? How can raid that fully takes place on in game locations be unrelated ?

[twilit dome]

... what are u guys even fighting about? Everyone likes different games no? Where is the issue? Being right in a fight with a rando on a discord server?

[dusky pawn]

The issue is he hates tarkov and I hate arma

[foggy olive]

Just talking

[dusky pawn]

So we will never agree but its fun to argue

[twilit dome]

meant the other 2

[smoky hawk]

I dunno bro Arma also has paper clippings and whole TV commentary sections to lend credibility and believability to its world and its wars,

it has the same shit just that its incorporated into the game and Tarkov didnt do that

[dusky pawn]

Which is a fraction of what tarkov has

[smoky hawk]

to me it seems like you like Tarkovs story purely because it happened around you

you were there while they were assembling the car and therefore to you its a lot more magical

[dusky pawn]

The newspapers and raid literally foretold future features

[smoky hawk]

people cant discuss about shit unless its 100% in agreement with one another

[dusky pawn]

Its unfun without of some back and forth

Normalise arguing

[smoky hawk]

online conversations without some agreession is like a sandwich with no meat

[dusky pawn]

And criminalise being boring and agreeing

[dusky pawn]

Truth plutonium

[twilit dome]

🤷

[foggy olive]

You mean when it was being killed by cheaters and RMT?

[dusky pawn]

No no no spn

Do not absolve bsg of responsibility

[smoky hawk]

🤷‍♂️ I aint in with Tarkovs intricacies its just what it sounds to me

[foggy olive]

Oh Yes Yes Yes

[dusky pawn]

THEY created and failed to fix these issues

Its not 'cheaters' its bsg failing to create a good AC AND creating incentives to cheat

[smoky hawk]

it literally does sound like a our beautiful kingdom vs their odious conclave situation when Arma and Tarkov do very similar things with their universes just that Arma didnt do ARGs nor did they do lore while making a game in real time

[dusky pawn]

Its not RMT its BSG continously inflating the economy and limiting in game trading

[foggy olive]

Because it benefits them? It’s a vicious cycle: cheaters and RMT make money, then they get banned, buy a new account anyway (since they’re still in profit), and the company reports how they banned a cheater while also getting their cut from the new copy sold. Genius.

[twilit dome]

anyways, does anyone know where to get an attachment scope for the GP37 rifle?

[dusky pawn]

Bsg really went 'hmm we have an rmt issue lets add an item worth THIRTY MILLION that spawns in TWO PLACES'

[dusky pawn]

Yes greed

[dusky pawn]

And then they went hmm lets also create a map for that item that has more loot than any other place and has unforgiving AI everywhere this surely wont be a cheater cesspool

[harsh jungle]

i forgor what i was gonna do

[foggy olive]

God, it’s the only game I can remember where one map (Labs) was almost 100% filled with cheaters who didn’t even bother hiding it. Despite the bans, they still made profit—and could just buy a new copy of the game with that money and keep the whole circus going.

[smoky hawk]

you can purchase the upgrade for a scope mount and use either the Holo Sight or the 4x ACOG

[twilit dome]

where can i buy the ACOG

[dusky pawn]

Yup and I played pre labs I can assure you labs+twitch drops are responsible for 80% of tarkov cheaters in existence

And I didnt meet a single obvious one before labs

[smoky hawk]

you can find it in stock with traders further into the zone, Rostok sometimes has it but Taniv and Pripyat are surefire in stock
otherwise you can find one in the wild

[foggy olive]

Can you name any other game where at least 80% of the players on a map are cheaters at the same time? And sometimes it was literally 100%—cheaters vs. cheaters. I remember that video where a cheater on YouTube showed himself waving through a wall with wallhack to another cheater—and the other guy waved back.

[dusky pawn]

Nope but cheaters also killed their old game contract wars 😂

[foggy olive]

I still occasionally see sites selling various in-game things—accounts, etc.—for over $1000, where you can choose anything: quest completion, escort services, resource farming, and more. And they claim it’s all delivered safely without getting you banned.

[smoky hawk]

this is a game, what do you mean whatsapp channel

[still edge]

maybe he wants to hit on stalkers

[still edge]

big dog deleted the comment, its okey my dude, the body has necesities, dont worry about it

alife when?

[prime geyser]

Is not funny

[pseudo thunder]

Who's the Orange role i was talking about the DLC about
I was saying it was gonna add the CNPP and they said not yet
I was right
I wanna tell him to his face
Cus its funny
Also
I CAN FINALLY SIDE WITH FREEDOM :D

[bitter plover]

lmao

[bitter plover]

i completely agree

[bitter plover]

i completely disagree. Just bcs Tarkov is hardocre doesnt make every other ahrdcore game automaticaly its clone. GZW, while being "extraction shooter" cant be further from Tarkov in its style. Its doing almost eveyrhint completely different way.

[foggy olive]

Arena breakout chinese clone of tarkov:D

[bitter plover]

yeah, thats true

[foggy olive]

They copied absolutely everything and just added the features Tarkov players were asking for—then turned it into a free-to-play pay-to-win shooter 😄

[bitter plover]

thats exactly what eastern companies know how to do. How to squeeze every penny trough p2w and microtransactions

no wonder, that their games are one of most profitable

[foggy olive]

I hate them for that, because it killed the mobile game market. Basically, after the Java-era games that ran on Symbian and a brief period of Android titles, everything on phones now is just money-grabbing—energy bars, timers, paywalls. The only good games are ports from PC, and you can count the original, genuinely good ones on one hand 🙁

[harsh jungle]

hmm do i do diamond art or knitting

[proud tapir]

Diamond art wouldn't hurt at all

[harsh jungle]

then i work on the knitting after

[proud tapir]

Exactly thats how you do it

[marble gyro]

Do you all think, that there should be more ways to access for fast travel?

[regal sinew]

Tbh, I never use fast travel. I believe a true Stalker would never use a guide.

Was the same with the likes of Skyrim too though tbh as I always felt like I would missing out on random events and loot.

[bitter plover]

By more acces you mean another way of fast travel or more guides?

[bitter plover]

tbh, i think if they would make fast travel simmilar to KCD, it would be stellar. Just you seeing your icon move trough map with guide and there would be random chance of random encounter. Even possible to somehow tie it to Alife.

[fresh cloud]

It would be nice, would make walking from place to place less boring.

[vernal lily]

Not really, but if it's something like Tlap said, I think that would be interesting.

[dreamy dagger]

Delete Fast Travel entirely. Shift+DEL the entire codebase for that.

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/culihasa-dopa-jinja-elmascapito-rat-rata-gif-24915842

[eternal trellis]

random roaming guides 🥺

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-and-dumber-lloyd-christmas-jim-carrey-i-like-it-a-lot-smile-gif-15470677

Wassup anyway, geezers

[acoustic orchid]

Hope everyone had a great weekend?

[dreamy dagger]

Weekend is over?

[opaque niche]

Hi thanks for your videos 🙂

10/10

[acoustic orchid]

Nearly for me 😂

[acoustic orchid]

Thank you for watching

[dire heart]

i have the ult edition for stalker 2 but the stashes arent appearing any ideas why?

[bitter plover]

you need to pass certain main quest to get the quest for stashes

[dire heart]

ah ok so i cant get them untill i get past a certain point in game?

[bitter plover]

yes. But its very early

[dire heart]

the full map hasnt opened up yet so im guessing after i raid the place solder is?

[bitter plover]

yes

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-youtuber-reaction-gif-5984842584058608024

[indigo stone]

When patch 1.9?

[vernal lily]

soon

[iron wind]

can I purchase the new DLC?

[vernal lily]

Not yet

[drifting bear]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[iron wind]

ngl 2026 has been really dry on patches

looks like most of the content is going to be paywalled this year

[indigo stone]

Good, thanks!

[drifting bear]

If you own the Ultimate Edition of the game, you don't have to buy the DLC separately - #📜┃gsc-answers message

[vernal lily]

Which is sort of making me want to check it out once it drops, since I am going to be getting it for free anyways

[marble gyro]

We have many free content available for you to try, Stories untold for example, adds a sprawling quest filled with many events, even a new hub for your stalker to rest!

[vernal lily]

Sin blink 3 times if you need help

[charred nova]

Do you think gsc delivered enough for you to stay with the game?

[fierce hinge]

Divorce leads children to the worst places (Duty)

[charred nova]

True

[main jewel]

true

but i like zulu

[vernal lily]

I need to watch the trailer, haven't yet

[main jewel]

any zulu likers

https://tenor.com/view/rabbit-bunny-gif-5377699542763594656

where is everyone

[vernal lily]

Playing a game

[main jewel]

slurp

i like noodles

[exotic marsh]

Noodles sound good right now

[main jewel]

yus

[opaque niche]

Sorry Lex

Rice is better than noodles, pineapple doesn't belong on pizza, and cats are better than dogs.

[main jewel]

uh

[opaque niche]

don't deny it

[main jewel]

but i agree on all of those

why did u say sorry

[vernal lily]

There's rice noodles. Noodles made out of rice flour

[opaque niche]

😄 I dunno I didn't realize you were a super mega genius.

[acoustic orchid]

Yeah I will always cover the game. I just know for this year a second game is needed because the updates are so much slower this year.

[main jewel]

i am the biggest genius

enough genius to know if gsc wanted to add back 7.62x39 they already wouldve

maybe a modder can add the rpd

[prime geyser]

Is bullet of ak47

[opaque niche]

Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era is being developed and entering early access soon if you're familiar with the franchise. #10 on Steam wishlists rn.

[charred nova]

Fair

[main jewel]

and sks, anddddd rpd, abnnnssssdd 37 other ak platforms

[bitter plover]

they are adding 7.62x51 tho, so why not 7.62x39 too

to be fair, there is 308 ammo in game, so its not entirely true

[main jewel]

well

uh

one thing the war, as erm the ru side mainly uses 7.62x39 but also

they lowkey abandoned it

[bitter plover]

It was already in game. They can easily add it back, bcs they will have to change loot pools anyway.

[main jewel]

well duhh but seeing as of now i dunno if itll come this dlc, never, or in a later dlc

and with the guns in this dlc that were shown i dont think its coming this dlc

really i think if they wanted to have 7.62x39 it would already be in tha game

[bitter plover]

They can easily put it back for Dnipro forexample

[main jewel]

well yeah

but i would think they wouldve done that already

cause erm

[bitter plover]

i dont

[main jewel]

that 7.62x54r aint hittin

for a dnipro

[bitter plover]

i think they didnt want to do a too much with loot pools, so they didnt mess with it until DLC

[main jewel]

maybe

but we just have to wait and see

[bitter plover]

yes

[main jewel]

i hate waiting

grrr

[bitter plover]

same same

[gleaming plume]

Where is multiplayer ?

[opaque niche]

Wrong answers only

[proud tapir]

I have no idea... honestly I think GSC will make it at some point but its probably not in their timeline for a while

[bitter plover]

your mom

[marble gyro]

Multiplayer is atm, To be announced

[bitter plover]

ngl. I bet they are now cursing themselves, that they ever said anynything about MP

[proud tapir]

If it doesn't happen im happy with the game either way

Though it would be cool to grab my friend and beat Ward and Spark ass

[prime geyser]

And u face?

Or is yor faces

[visual mortar]

Beaver

[main jewel]

when im in a fucking dumbass competition and my opponent is beaver420

https://tenor.com/view/takaba-megumi-reggie-hazenoki-fumihiko-gif-2083906960725172795

did my joke land guys

am i muted

am i muted

[marble gyro]

Stalker 2 cost of hope is going to add new regions, intense faction conflicts, join skiff and many returning characters to see which faction is the best in the zone

Wishlist now

[prime geyser]

You are in mute like rainbow siege bahahaha

[prime geyser]

Hello frend

[vernal lily]

Didn't know what that guy's deal was of knowing me so I blocked the guy

Too much schizo for my level

[vernal lily]

Sin, clap once if you need help

[ripe sinew]

Just bought stalker 2 i wanna know how deep does the exploration goes
Like if u had to put it on a scale of 1 to 10
Anything above 7 means imma be addicted

[stark crescent]

Because of problems with net coding due to russian hackers, multiplayer will have to wait, until the internet has recovered from all the bot farms.

[main jewel]

pretty deep, and it gets deeper with a explorable cnpp with the dlc

[marble gyro]

I apologize, I do not understand your vernacular, please feel free to use Google translate to help build speech speech skills and fix your speech impediment.

I use Rosetta stone, Rosetta Stone has helped me learn different languages to communicate effectively with many nationalities.
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[stark crescent]

There are many easter eggs hidden in the zone. And secret weapons to be found.

[prime geyser]

I am in Philippines

[main jewel]

who even wants multiplayer

that shi gunna be ass

[prime geyser]

I speak English language

[main jewel]

it aint even gunna be co op like people wnat

want

[stark crescent]

The people who are disappointed with call of duty and warthunder infantry.

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/seal-concerned-look-around-sad-confused-gif-13135059842887918234

[main jewel]

they are gunna be way more disappointed

[ripe sinew]

Well i'm pretty excited been exploring the lesser zone till now but when i saw the map i was like wtf

[main jewel]

gsc js pack up multiplayer we dont need it

[dusky pawn]

Who thought wt inf was gonna be good enlisted is barely decent and anything integrated into wt gets abandoned after 6 months

[prime geyser]

Shut yor ass Mr doctor I see you are here always

[dusky pawn]

Anyway id rather have survarium 2.0 than stalker mp

Atleast it had the gimmick of fighting using artifacts and actually good visual/art direction

[stark crescent]

I played the beta. From the first minute interacting with the map and walking around, it felt like battlefield.

The main difference is that vehicles dont have hp and are way too vulnerable, and they made drones way too OP.

[dusky pawn]

I mean vehicles do have HP its just compartmentalised

[stark crescent]

Eh. Even hell let loose allow some freedom in vehicle health

[dusky pawn]

And drones are op as hell yeah they tried to be realistic in this for no reason really esp since normally HEAT in WT sucks ass

But I guess you are top attacking

[dusky pawn]

I mean the health of vehicles in this Mode is just 1:1 with actual war thunder its not really their choice just laziness

[stark crescent]

Ukraine vids show drones dropping grenades in open compartments and the entire tank bursting in flames.

[dusky pawn]

Well yeah cause that will 100% ignite ammo

In a russian tank atleast

[stark crescent]

Ammo carousel under the gun is still protected by floor plates. Grenades are meant to disperse scrapnel, but that scrapnel wont penetrate steel plates. I think such situations are rare but apread alot for propaganda.

[dusky pawn]

Anyway the wt drones are effectively small HEAT shells flying about and in wt thats gonna be almost a guaranteed kill if it strikes a roof of a t72 or t90

[stark crescent]

Yup. So next step would be adding cage armor to protect against them. Or limit the availability of the drone kit.

[dusky pawn]

These floor plates are almost irrelevant the sheer fact an explosion like this increases the pressure and temperature inside is enough

[dusky pawn]

Yeah but that would require actual work 😂

And gaijin is allergic to that

Like lol you want new models and hitboxes ?! Naah copypaste

[dusky pawn]

Mashallah remove this moron from existence

Ohh lmao he is muted already why the hell does your mute not disable reactions 💀

[quick prawn]

Hi

[proud tapir]

I think that guy js angry

[dusky pawn]

You dont say

Philipino rage apparently

[proud tapir]

Mad for the love of the game apparently

Thank you for pointing out my sexuality

[marble gyro]

.....

[proud tapir]

Man your an angry fella you need yourself a coke

Or a nap that usually helps

[burnt bridge]

Bruh this is sad

[vernal lily]

Damb

[proud tapir]

Enjoying myself a dr pepper blackberry today

Its my second favorite flavor before dr pepper cherry but finding that drink is like finding the compass

[little cave]

What difficulty do yall play on? And what difficulty settings are best?

[meager crag]

Ayo those exist?

Sounds based, ngl

Ayo has Beaver been doing this for forever? So many reacts lmfao

[proud tapir]

Its really good you gotta try it

[meager crag]

I doubt it's even available here tbh

What country did you get it from?

[proud tapir]

I play on stalker difficulty so I get a challenge but still an enjoyable experience

[proud tapir]

Its in the US in the state of Texas where it originated

[meager crag]

Well heck

[vernal lily]

I feel like I rarely see them tho and I am in Texas

[meager crag]

Guess that's never gonna happen

[proud tapir]

Im telling you finding a cherry is almost damn near impossible but when you find gas stations that sell it its really good

[hollow nymph]

those make your car smell pretty good when you forget you left it inside in 100f+ temps and it explodes

[meager crag]

Dr Pepper Cherry is honestly pretty goated. Sad it's no longer around here

Same with Cherry Vanilla

I'm loving the new Pepsi Strawberry and Cream ngl

[marble gyro]

Stalker 2 has shown me that life in the zone is not always as simple as it seems, join skif in the new dlc and continue his adventure of solving the mystery of the zone in two new Regions!
Delve deep into CNPP unlock new doors, build your arsenal and take the Fight to duty and Hail Monolith!

Wishlist now

[opaque niche]

Adding different flavors to Dr. Pepper is heresy.

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/writing-too-fire-fire-writing-writing-fire-friendcord-gif-7801118907023267493

[normal sail]

I hope it makes a return

[proud tapir]

Okay buddy dr pepper is delicious and deserves more flavors

[normal sail]

Dr Pepper Blackberry was pretty good

[proud tapir]

Drinking one right now

[opaque niche]

Nah bro Dr. Pepper is perfect and trying to fix it with other flavors always makes it worse than perfection.

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[opaque niche]

I'm choosing to die on this hill.

[proud tapir]

You can die on the hill im just chilling on the other hill

[meager crag]

With a Dr Pepper in hand

[opaque niche]

Have fun on the less good hill 🤣

[opaque niche]

At least no one here is defending diet Dr. Pepper

[normal sail]

I wish Coca Cola had kept the lime flavor around instead of making it limited time

[meager crag]

I think Pepsi still has lime over here

[normal sail]

Never seen Pepsi Lime, would be nice to have tho

[meager crag]

Never seen it and I want to keep it that way

[normal sail]

I've had it

[meager crag]

And you're still alive?

Tell me your secret

[opaque niche]

He's one of the infected now

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-true-kramer-seinfeld-gif-6564373007119861775

[normal sail]

I prefer the zero sugar variation over it

[meager crag]

Never seen that one either, but anything zero or light always tastes like dog water

[normal sail]

Only thing I can drink safely

cause pancreas is dead

[opaque niche]

Ok fine if you're diabetic or something you get a pass.

[normal sail]

type 1

[meager crag]

Aye, that sucks

[opaque niche]

But if you ever meet someone who isn't diabetic or something that talks like that you send them here 🙂

[bitter plover]

Coca Cola? Dr Pepper? Pepsi? Nah...

We have s tier nectar of gods called KOFOLA

[meager crag]

In what way is it different compared to the big three?

Taste-wise

If that can even be described kek

[bitter plover]

Its from herbs. Not tons of sugar. Its very different taste wise.

[meager crag]

Oh, so kinda like a stevia flavor?

[bitter plover]

but somehow still simmilar

[bitter plover]

cant say. Idk how that taste

[meager crag]

Hmm

Ever had Pepsi Next or Coca Cola Life?

[opaque niche]

I've never heard of any of those

[meager crag]

They were a trend ages ago

[bitter plover]

I think its more simmilar to Dr Pepper, than Coca Cola, but more herby. It has lecourice inside, which add very herby flavour

[meager crag]

At least over here

[meager crag]

Ayo fr?

[vernal lily]

I like Mug

[meager crag]

I've got to try that if it's even available here kek

[charred nova]

Friendly reminder

[meager crag]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/65c25d820483234984d9a275/0fceaf4b-596c-4bdd-a7f5-fcff5adc0e83/HAT+ICON+OPTIMIZED.gif?content-type=image%2Fgif

[bitter plover]

Doubt that its available. ITs basicaly only around central Europe. And even that, Kofola is very very sensitive for transport, bcs loosing even small percent of bubbles, so loosing zest, and also not having ti cooled leads to not good taste. So even when you find playstic bottle somewhere far away, its not good. So its best to find fresh source on tap

[meager crag]

@vernal lily
Deleted that GIF because it's a form of animal abuse. No hard feelings I hope

[ripe sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/goon-gojo-anime-jjk-gojoedit-gif-14620067965573893258

[meager crag]

Guess not

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/slender-slenderman-cute-slendrina-cute-cat-gif-956440826781817693

[dusky pawn]

Its herbal stevia is just a sweetener really

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-gif-16508948274886257497

[dusky pawn]

Kofola is pretty good but baikal is even cooler sadly it comes from the undesirable country
Flavored with hops btw

[vernal lily]

At least I know the easiest way to get muted now

[charred nova]

I will build a home out of dead fish compressed into bricks in honor of chatter silly

[meager crag]

Sadge

[charred nova]

Bro why you actually muting for that

[meager crag]

Tough love for Faust

Seen how we wanted Faust back as mod

Guess not any longer

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1169126320618344489/1449175145246756894/GLXYlInl.gif

[dusky pawn]

Is that dude even still here

The one that complained about le fishè

[jagged rapids]

[meager crag]

@vernal lily
Fair tbh, being a mod is pretty cringe tbh

You've got to be mean to people and it sucks to be fat and maidenless now

It happened as soon as I got the position

[marble gyro]

It's true, I gained a single lb

[jagged rapids]

But you got endless supply of snork fingers?

[meager crag]

Damn, dat's tuff bro 🫂

[meager crag]

No, better

Snork feet

[jagged rapids]

[stark crescent]

I heard that eating the liver of a burer cures erectile dysfunction

[meager crag]

[jagged rapids]

meh, keep it to snork and nothing goes wrong

[vapid galleon]

snorkel

[charred nova]

Yes

[harsh jungle]

pancreas also a lil dead

[main jewel]

thats just discord

[main jewel]

eeeeeeww

[main jewel]

hohoho but i am a maiden myself so i beat it at its own game

[opaque niche]

I'm right and you know it.

[main jewel]

this was so fire

[bold smelt]

doctor pepper strawberry is great

[opaque niche]

Sure but it's inferior to original.

[main jewel]

if you dont like any other dr pepper flavors your a fake and fraud

not a real dr pepper lover

[meager crag]

Forever single ong

[opaque niche]

You can't improve perfection.

[main jewel]

only real dr pepper lovers can learn to adapt to drink other good flavors

you probably like mr pibb

mr pibb is good though

but still

[opaque niche]

Well whatever at least you're not defending diet dr. pepper

[main jewel]

i can get any guy i want trust but all i want is my cats

my cats are my only friends

and i will love my cats forever and ever

[terse ravine]

is cost of hope 1 of 2 DLCs for the ultimate edition, or is it it's own thing?

[main jewel]

i love this guy

[pseudo leaf]

It’s included in ultimate edition.

[main jewel]

cost of hope is dlc 1 and its free if you have ult edition

if not

then

yall shoulda invested in the ult edition

[dire heart]

is the duga area locked off untill some part of the story?

[proven hollow]

yup

[meager crag]

Cat lady moment

[terse ravine]

i already have ult edition its just that a saw a reddit post saying its a dlc separate from ult edition so i was jst askin

[dusky anchor]

play stalker at night without girlfriend >>

[marble gyro]

Mistake #1 is believing reddit

[meager crag]

Mistake #2 is not playing the Trilogy instead

[dusky anchor]

stalker 2 is so superior to gamma