☢┃stalker-general

[crystal granite]

What's the Doctor and Scar? Also arguably Strelok is also bad, cause he's pretty much lost it all and gained nothing

[fiery ibex]

OK ill go get it just because idk what’s real and whats fake anymore

[worldly ingot]

Doctor is basically Skif goes into the C Con capsule and makes a ton of new zones around the world and doctor is revealed to be Faust, and Scar is basically Scar making every Spark member live the rest of their lives in an illusion of the shining zone - literally imagining other people too, I assume they all die of thirst/hunger in the illusion, but Strelok one is good in the grand picture way - I know it's not great for Skif himself

[fiery ibex]

A friend sounds good

[worldly ingot]

"In the Doctor ending (also known as the Kaymanov or Project Y ending), the protagonist Skif spares Dr. Kaymanov instead of killing him as Strelok demands, which leads to Kaymanov perishing during an Emission while Skif enters the control pod. Upon entering the pod, Skif cedes control to the Zone, triggering a worldwide expansion where new anomalous Zones begin appearing across the globe"

[crystal granite]

There ya go, a fluffy friend, that you might not enjoy for too long, cause of all the radiation you got while trying to get it. Hey, least your final moments will be happy

[worldly ingot]

Tons of new zones around the world basically

[crystal granite]

Who the hell came up with doctor ending, jeeez. The Scar one doesn't surprise me, old man living out his fantasy

[worldly ingot]

Also Scar during the ending missions stops believing in the shining zone - it's Skif that convinces him it still exists, so he kind of feels responsible to make their wishes come true, wish granter style 🙂 Doctor ending is just weird

[crystal granite]

Assuming the Monolith is still inside the Sarcophagus and we'll see it in Cost of Hope, they should add a 5th ending where Skif just goes for it Strelok style and wishes for the Zone to end or something similar. Good way to introduce NG+ as Monolith

[charred nova]

scar wakes up and skif just sends him right back into psychosis what a terrible guy

[worldly ingot]

Well the Wish Granter isn't in the Sarcophagus anymore, it will be really interesting to see what they come up with for that region 🙂

[charred nova]

im wondering if they will rewrite the lore regarding the CNPP being totally picked clean

[worldly ingot]

It would also probably not take that many resources to give us a way to play the Monolith and slaughter the other factions

[brittle charm]

Doctor ending, if what many believe, is basically the entire world “embracing” the Zone. Earth becomes anomalous.

[charred nova]

i feel like they kinda have to at this point

[brittle charm]

The rest of the ending is confusing, tho.

[worldly ingot]

Well it wasn't explicitly ever said some stalkers just said it was so for sure there will be something

[charred nova]

by the time of cop its said people rarely go there because there is nothing left to find

[worldly ingot]

Scar is my favourite zone schizo

[brittle charm]

Maybe the entire CNPP wasn’t fully explored, and some things were hidden from plain sight

[crystal granite]

Definitely, no way its all just an empty husk. They'll probably say its been just stalker campfire stories to discourage rookies from risking a deadly trip. So they said its empty

[charred nova]

so stalker 2 10 plus years after cop there should be nothing left what so ever

[worldly ingot]

Fair fair, well they will retconn it with something like "only the southern part of the CNPP was explored because of high monolith presence on the north" or something lol

[charred nova]

possible though in cop it seems fairly cut and dry people stole everything not nailed down

[worldly ingot]

Still kinda weird tho

[worldly ingot]

People even stole the brain scorcher parts in Malachite below the antenas lmao, that was nice attention to detail

[crystal granite]

Monolith remnants, mutants, other c con shit we haven't seen yet? Idk maybe something kept them away

[charred nova]

possible i hope they think of a better answer than just retconning a major part of the lore in cop

[worldly ingot]

but yeah they won't make the CNPP just a warzone

[brittle charm]

Kadaver will probably show up in CNPP. Monolith will def show up. I think there’s an X-Lab under CNPP.

[crystal granite]

Make the Reactor 3 into a fight ring 😂

[charred nova]

well tbf

i guess an easy way would be to say until some of the things sirrca was doing parts of the cnpp could not be explored

[worldly ingot]

They will give us the original Oblivion Lost monolith war lab ending

[charred nova]

due to heavy anomalous activity

[crystal granite]

At this point there's an X lab under each and every structure. Honestly im tired of going down to the labs each time there's a story point that needs explaining. Have something above ground for once. Like the Lymansk radio institute

[worldly ingot]

Are you ready for this - Lymansk X lab

[brittle charm]

Either Limansk Radio Institute or the Duga is gonna be important because we know that the death signal from Stories Untold is gonna pop up at some point

[crystal granite]

Lymansk is a huge spacial anomaly essentially, the hospital and institute will be interesting areas

[worldly ingot]

Shame limansk will only be a location in the DLC - the 2 regions will be iron forest and CNPP :3

[crystal granite]

Brain Scorcher Two? Zombie boogaloo?

[charred nova]

tbf it never was an area

[brittle charm]

“What, so some kind of…Brain Scorcher??” - Korshunov

[charred nova]

it was basically an urban warfware zone in cs

[crystal granite]

Technically yes, only 10x stronger

[worldly ingot]

Yeah but they could expand it like they did every other region lol, Lymansk could be a region with a slightly bigger city and the hospital attached to it

[crystal granite]

Mini Pripyat

[worldly ingot]

Ye, also Pripyat getting expanded itself in DLC 2 :9

[crystal granite]

Climable Duga

[brittle charm]

Wasn’t Limansk stated to have been overrun by mercs at the end of COP?

[charred nova]

from some googling technically they did

Chernobyl-2 is the actual place they based lymansk on

which was a soviet military base

the most iconic part of which is the duga

[crystal granite]

The most iconic part which the devs denied us any form of free access to

[worldly ingot]

Ye but for Stalker 2 - they could make it even bigger, like even more clumped up urban warfare on a larger scale

like more clumped up than pripyat*

[charred nova]

you can go to the duga there just isn't much to find or do there

[worldly ingot]

just make the whole thing a monolith dungeon f it f it all

[crystal granite]

Did an anomaly jump over the walls of the now partially collapsed Duga, just a bunch of invisible walls and walk-through textures

[worldly ingot]

there's this weird anomaly in the cooling towers that keeps one shotting me with weapons

[crystal granite]

Climb up top, to where we spoke with Faust. That's all I need from the Duga. Climp up top

[charred nova]

i mean true you can in pubg

[worldly ingot]

T bag faust... one.. last... time

[crystal granite]

Nah I wish we had more Faust content. Never been a fan of Strider, but I could listen to Faust for hours

[charred nova]

nah faust is a redditor

lets be honest

[worldly ingot]

They did Strider pretty well imo, but yes Faust was a character that wasn't explored enough, Degtyarev also

[worldly ingot]

You can just see on faust that he is a foot fetishist

theres something about him

[charred nova]

he would be debating people on r/atheism

[crystal granite]

All that work and they did Strider dirty with the way he died. First playthrough I was honestly expecting Deggy and the Corps to fight against the Ward now that we've started mowing down Monolith

[worldly ingot]

The dream of every 16 year old that gets into politics 🙏

[worldly ingot]

Yeah but I like the tragic character trope they did with him, Monolith was still a bigger threat than Ward tbh, did you see how many of those fuckers were in Pripyat

[golden gulch]

It's all way "next week", but problem is that "next week" never come because it always is the week after.

[worldly ingot]

Back to doomposting

[charred nova]

noontide and faust are just very rushed

[crystal granite]

Drastically less after Skif arrived I always tell Strider Monolith is back. They did make that sequence tragic

[worldly ingot]

Noontide yes but strider himself was good

[crystal granite]

Noontide was just a throwaway they could use to bring back Monolith

[charred nova]

the way noontide is set up strongly feels as if the events of sirrca at the halfway point were originally not scripted and there was an alternative outcome

there really should have been

[charred nova]

monolith coming back is just boring

[worldly ingot]

Yeah but still a ton - you have to consider the fact that the C Con had psi fields all around the CNPP, not just the south that we explore, they have soldiers everywhere 🙂

[bold smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-timelapse-cat-waiting-cat-videogame-cat-play-gif-946782003036605499

[golden gulch]

There's could be a DLC for that

[charred nova]

hope so

[bold smelt]

stalker 2 still comes out next week

[charred nova]

dlc 2 may also include the dead city

[worldly ingot]

Nah DLC in games doesn't go back on previous choices besides sometimes the endgame like in fallout 3

Noontide had their reddit moment

[bold smelt]

i wish noontide wasnt just a throwaway faction

they were definitely my favorite

[snow basalt]

Does anyone here have any good stalker cinematic images and pfps related to the game that you can dm me?

[crystal granite]

Eh, gonna need to load up on more psi blocks and bullets

[worldly ingot]

I like the monolith as a faction idea besides the fact that they are the main big bad in 4 out of 4 games

And their gear looks cool af

[crystal granite]

I dream of a day I can walk the CNPP during an emission

Need the Monolith update

Faust and his followers walking out during an emission was cool

[bold smelt]

i love the monolith but i wish they wouldve kept going as just noontide instead of just being the same as theyve always been

[snow basalt]

Does anyone have any stalker pfps or cinematic images you can dm me?

[worldly ingot]

You can in Call of Chernobyl

[bold smelt]

i was hoping for the main plot to involve the other big factions with noontide being some wildcard faction that would come in out of nowhere to help you with big plays

[bold smelt]

which kind of happens in SIRCAA and never again

[crystal granite]

Hmm?

[worldly ingot]

You can start as the Monoshits and emissions don't affect you

[bold smelt]

CoC is boring though

[crystal granite]

It seems we're only getting something similar now, with Faction War and still it'll be tied to Monolith

[worldly ingot]

Yup I don't disagree, I believe that GAMMA is boring after 2 playthroughs too

[crystal granite]

Talk about starting strong

[bold smelt]

which is funny because unlike CoC or anomaly, GAMMA is supposed to be a complete package

CoC and anomaly are boring because they are blank slates to put addons into, but im ass at making my own experience

[worldly ingot]

Well no story in that game besides what CoC had + ecologist semi storyline and Operation Monolith Retribution, so all you really do the entire game is chase that feeling of being in the hobo phase and having to run from everything

[crystal granite]

Hobo phase

[worldly ingot]

My best feeling in these games was in EFP while the Monoshits chased me in the Red forest and I had to defend myself in a trailer from several groups, but I still consider real stalker to be superior overall

And Idk why it has 5x the population at least on discord compared to stalker tbh

[bold smelt]

because im pretty sure STOC is full of a lot of GAMMA and anomaly fans, so they join this server but then talk in their own

[worldly ingot]

Also don't need discord to play the OG stalkers/2 unlike GAMMA (besides GOG)

I am sure there are tons of unemployed 40 yo's still playing the original trilogy that don't know what discord is

[charred nova]

a more interesting way to do it would be to have the followers of faust break off from strider

and become hostile

like they hate you because you stopped them from re connecting with the monolith

and now unsurprisingly want to kill you

[worldly ingot]

Ig they just wanted to explain how monolith is once again (probably) the biggest faction in the STALKER 2 era :/

Considering this is full noontide instead of half

[crystal granite]

Or optional. While at Wild Island, Skif could sneak in and listen to Fausts sermons, eventually attending. While not ex Monolith, he still could prove useful to Faust's plans. Add a choice during that conversation where Faust and his followers leave and let us either stay with Strider, or turn the tables and leave with Faust to help him carry out his plan

[charred nova]

Like i think you can still technically have the monolith and noontide at the same time

[worldly ingot]

For sure yeah they just didn't go for it for some reason

[charred nova]

but why the fuck would skif ever want to help faust

unless its under the impression he is clueless of his true intentions

[worldly ingot]

Too much work for something almost noone will ever do, better focus on fixing the game first

[crystal granite]

The noontiders around the base complained about headaches after the sermons, so you could say there's some sort of controller ability Faust can use, slowly corrupting Skif, while other Noon just get a mild headache out of it

[charred nova]

see this just goes towards an early game over scenario

[worldly ingot]

Yeah but again too much work for this alternate storyline noone will do while the game wasn't even fully finished on release

[crystal granite]

Definitely fix the game, but fancy stuff like that, im up for it when the time is right

[worldly ingot]

Just let faust help you climb off the edge bro

[charred nova]

true

[worldly ingot]

Only man I will follow in this world is Sidorovich

[crystal granite]

While he's charging you for every step you take

Korshunov or Faust for me

[worldly ingot]

The path of God isn't always an easy one

[crystal granite]

Or a a cheap one

[worldly ingot]

I couldn't forgive myself for game ending strelok, it's him or ward for me

[strong pond]

[worldly ingot]

Scar is the worst one for sure

[crystal granite]

Strelok, similar to Scar, get introduced to the business end of my Gauss

[crystal granite]

[charred nova]

i was not aware scar comes to his scenes at the end

it's too bad you can't convince him or show him he's wrong earlier

[worldly ingot]

I agree but I overall don't like what they made out of his character either way

[charred nova]

though i guess then bro realizes he got so many people killed for nothing

[crystal granite]

Scar is like when you're violently awoken from a very deep sleep, and now everything is hella distorted while you're trying to get a grip on wtf is going on around you

[crystal granite]

A rambling lunatic, who breaks away from his conditioning, only to go down the crazy route even more, and die a rambling lunatic

[ember cradle]

I’m gonna mod in the old music

[crystal granite]

Pda radio, similar to fo4

[worldly ingot]

Yeah it's a shame too especially when you compare it to scar from CS, did you know how they retconned that and you can find the place in the swamps he was leading the scientists in the trailer at, and you can even find their PDAs close by where they say he was rambling about the shining zone back then too?

The intro*

[ember cradle]

Stay in the zone long enough you’ll go crazy

[crystal granite]

You sure some GSC devs didn't work at Games Workshop before? Cause they seem to like retcons even more than they do

[crystal granite]

Stare into an abyss long enough, eventually it will stare back

[worldly ingot]

I guess they needed some way to explain just how batshit scar went 🙂

Like there aint nothing in that head

He just says shit to say shit

[charred nova]

tbf they were kind of always like this to some degree

even in the original trilogy

[crystal granite]

Next time someone says Monolith is empty headed I'll point them to Crazy Scar

[charred nova]

I mean scar at least is capable of thinking

what he thinks of is just retarded though

[crystal granite]

If you can't think of anything proper, doesn't that just equal out with no thinking?

[charred nova]

no

[bold smelt]

like the world of tanks guys?

[crystal granite]

Kinda if you ain't got nothing smart to say just stay shut

[ember cradle]

This new side quests they added was pretty fun

[charred nova]

i really do hope gsc comes back and readds the cut expanded parts of some of the areas in the game

like the duga originally had a whole western part behind the proper duga complex

[ember cradle]

I kinda want sin to be put in

[worldly ingot]

Kazkovyi? Yeah, also adds a nice deer farming spot for free 116k per 6 clears

[crystal granite]

Ahh few shots too many tonight got my head mixed up. Meant warhammwr, games workshop. They always retcon lore

[charred nova]

sin was cut for a reason never happening

[crystal granite]

Sin?

[ember cradle]

They’re just kinda funny

[worldly ingot]

God I love sin in gamma tanking shots to the head because of legit aura

[charred nova]

cut faction from soc that anomaly people simp over

[bold smelt]

i think monolith are the ultimate evolution of the sin concept

[worldly ingot]

Thats my favourite part of gamma when they tank everything and 1 shot you with PKMs, peak Grok design

[ember cradle]

Monolith are less edgy

[bold smelt]

cut faction that was basically a half-human half-mutant cult

[crystal granite]

So Monolith on steroids

Gonna need a bigger gun

[bold smelt]

basically monolith but instead of being drones of a hivemind they are just wholly evil

[crystal granite]

Gonna need an even bigger gun

[worldly ingot]

Yeah legit Greh originally, (Greh, "Grijeh"=Sin), half mutated half human concept who had some kind of protection against bullets for one reason or another, and it's a very "fun" concept added into gamma years later

[bold smelt]

the main faction that was cut that i wish actually got put in is the UN

[charred nova]

technically we got them

just under a different name

ipsf are basically the un

[ember cradle]

I guess you could say maybe the mercenaries work for western countries

[crystal granite]

They'd just gather in a hall and debate. Sending Monolith cease and deist letters

[bold smelt]

yeah but they are the unfun version

[charred nova]

true they are supposedly multi national but that is really never made clear in game

[bold smelt]

its alluded, but mercs working for outside countries has led to basically nothing, they never elaborated or explored the concept

[charred nova]

and are most so just stand in's for the military faction

[crystal granite]

Ah yes, magical unexplained protection. Beginning to see why they got axed

[ember cradle]

Didn’t you hear? It’s because of aura

[worldly ingot]

Legit aura

[bold smelt]

i think they were originally the main villains of SoC but got cut/evolved into the monolith

[charred nova]

yah its a really missed piece of world building to make it clear some of the mercs are actually from other countries like the united states for example

[ember cradle]

Thank god

[crystal granite]

This is Stalker not 40k waagh. Things don't just happen cause enough numbskulls believe in it

[worldly ingot]

Kind of cool in concept tho, originally very obscure made with trenchcoats covering their disfigured faces

[charred nova]

like imagine for example if you have the UA voice acting turned on some of the mercs will still yell at you in english when you fight them

[bold smelt]

when is the beta64 S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl video

[worldly ingot]

Sin=orcs confirmed

[charred nova]

that would be a really small change that would be huge for world building imo

[worldly ingot]

Cool by origin not by the random bullet protection*

[ember cradle]

Just a bunch of losers no one likes

[worldly ingot]

Damn they are just like me 🙂

[charred nova]

honestly true

[visual mortar]

when will stalker 2 add a romance option

[charred nova]

that would be a really cool video fro him to do

[crystal granite]

Reddit mods?

[visual mortar]

and no, you gross perverts not for dudes

[charred nova]

though it probably wont happen since its not really the type of game he would cover

[visual mortar]

i want sexy ladies in stalker 2

[worldly ingot]

When will I finally be able to romance Agatha, what a cruel world we live in

[bold smelt]

im in it

[crystal granite]

Rostok

[visual mortar]

I'd gouge my eyes out

[ember cradle]

Yeah pretty much, sin is what you’d get from me if you asked for edgy evil stalkers

[worldly ingot]

Agatha wants Skif did you hear how she talks about him in the ward ending

[visual mortar]

Bossman

[crystal granite]

That's me

[worldly ingot]

Original Oblivion Lost was edgy to the core, even the original ending had Strelok game end the entire world

[winged glen]

How is everybody today 😛

[crystal granite]

Now we got Kaymanov doing that

[ember cradle]

Stalker but with cyberpunk level sex scenes

[visual mortar]

what if your name was Bogman

[worldly ingot]

Same as always, wishing I was dead

[winged glen]

Oh!

[crystal granite]

I'd change the m to d cause bogman sounds weird

[worldly ingot]

[winged glen]

You got this twin

[visual mortar]

Bogdan?

[crystal granite]

Sounds better than bogman

[charred nova]

they got the fancy font in the bio

its so over

[visual mortar]

What about Pervman

[charred nova]

[crystal granite]

That would be this one here #☢┃stalker-general message

[visual mortar]

hm i see

[bold smelt]

that game has sex?

[ember cradle]

The real villain of stalker is the merchants who underpay me for my expensive things

[visual mortar]

users like you dont last long

[bold smelt]

now what does that mean

[ember cradle]

Yeah

[worldly ingot]

Good one

[visual mortar]

eeww what ....

[visual mortar]

wdym good one

[charred nova]

kinda

[visual mortar]

we kill people like him

[charred nova]

i wouldn't consider it anything crazy

[visual mortar]

and eat them

[charred nova]

barely even x rated

[worldly ingot]

That's snork tier no

[visual mortar]

hey jack did you get my haggis package

[ember cradle]

I mean you hear about how the media talked about mass effect when it came out

[charred nova]

no i was like 5

[visual mortar]

jack is 15

[bold smelt]

jack is 13

[worldly ingot]

Zoomer

[charred nova]

i wish

[crystal granite]

Go full boomer on em, "Sonny don't lowball me I know what I've got!"

*proceeds to hand in a red AK-74U with a missing handguard, bent front sight and rusted trigger mechanism

[charred nova]

i don't wanna be old

[visual mortar]

tell me about it

I should give up while I'm ahead

[river chasm]

2000s mainstream attitudes towards video games were still pretty crazy. totally different world now

[bold smelt]

tampico is laying in bed playing stalker mobile as we speak

[visual mortar]

yeah i decided I'll name you Buckman

[ember cradle]

The news was calling the Xbox sex-box because of it

[bold smelt]

its changed for the worse tbh, the worst complaint back then was that they "caused violence", now everyone just whinges about any new game that doesnt contain porn

[visual mortar]

imagine what would've happened if 2000s media got ahold of baldurs gate 3

[bold smelt]

it would have never released back then

[visual mortar]

porn is normalized so they gotta have it

[ember cradle]

Wish stalker was as popular in the west than it actually was

[river chasm]

The players can be more annoying but I am fine with people not trying to get video games banned constantly anymore

[visual mortar]

what

[bold smelt]

still mad that porn got normalized but public indecency hadn't been

[ember cradle]

In 2007

[visual mortar]

oh

[crystal granite]

Right, been spending too much time with Scar I see. The rambling is contagious

[bold smelt]

they just get boycotted and reviewbombed instead

[shell flax]

Curse of Arthritis

[bold smelt]

players are more volatile than lawmakers, a politician would campaign for a banning but they wouldnt dox the developers

[visual mortar]

its true

[ember cradle]

Gamers are more rabid than ever

[visual mortar]

players have gained an insane superiority complex

[bold smelt]

the internet in general has been increasingly worse with that

[crystal granite]

Or leak sensitive technical information

[worldly ingot]

I'm 21 I feel like a 40 year old on my deathbed

[charred nova]

real

[ember cradle]

A lot about what I hear from the stalker fans is about how great gamma and anomaly is and I want to unleash a bloodsucker in their house

[bold smelt]

i feel like if normal people willingly exposed themselves to the stuff that chronically online people have submerged themselves in, there would be a moral panic like no other

[shell flax]

Imma be real: if you doxx someone over a video game you’re a fucking bum

[ember cradle]

I remember when it happened to me on gta v

[bold smelt]

if you doxx someone over ANYTHING you are a bum

no matter the severity of what they did, vigilante justice is dumb and doesnt work

[worldly ingot]

UNLESS they are a freedomer

[shell flax]

that’s being an asshole
Being a bum is special breed of loser

[bold smelt]

TRUE

[crystal granite]

War Thunder players regularly drop secret technical documents just to win artugemts about in flight turn rate or armour penetration

[bold smelt]

yeah but thats just funny

[shell flax]

I’ve seen that. I guarantee the ones who do it in China got black bagged

[ember cradle]

I know let me enjoy SoC in peace, I know it’s old and janky I LIKE IT

[crystal granite]

Mhm, certainly. Others might get a few years behind bars but Chinese are never seen again

[bold smelt]

i wouldnt say the chinese ones were but the russian ones definitely were

[bold smelt]

china does prison most of the time but its lengthy

[shell flax]

The stalker fanbase as a collective oscillates between absolutely yoinking gamma as the greatest thing ever, suffering from dementia on actual trilogy features and being chill

[crystal granite]

Hell the Russians are just harvesting the leaks

[crystal granite]

Chinese prison vs western prisons tho

[bold smelt]

true

china is one of those countries where its actually a lot better in many aspects than people say, but in other aspects you wouldnt immediately think of, they are way worse

[crystal granite]

50 years ahead here, middle ages torture dungeon there

[bold smelt]

i read a wikipedia page about a chinese businessman iirc, where he got jailed for 12 years for possessing "reactionary literature"

a decade for owning books

[ember cradle]

Animal farm

[crystal granite]

They go hard on anything that goes against the party view

Also could've been a harsher sentence as a warning to others

[shell flax]

Aight y’all, getting a bit off topic here

#💬┃en_offtop

[crystal granite]

That's been on and off for the last like hour

[ember cradle]

Oh yeah err so this new dlc

[bold smelt]

i could move to china and join the CDL

[crystal granite]

I wonder if China is in it, and forbidden literature

[ember cradle]

Sshhhh

Like full ak47 would be cool right? Right?

[crystal granite]

Only if in full wooden furniture

[shell flax]

Depends on the variant because I know for a fact we aren’t seeing the AK-12 or its variants

[crystal granite]

Gimme the RPK-74 and it'll be grand

WITH bipod

[ember cradle]

And an m16 too

[crystal granite]

I got a whole list of guns I'd like to see added/modded in

[shell flax]

Honestly though like Vasim said a long time ago, more Ak variants just leads to bloat because they look the same and really don’t do anything unique from each other

[crystal granite]

RPK is essentially the hallway between AK and PKM

[shell flax]

Also let’s be honest: HK is always gonna be the dominant thing in 2, because once again GSC has expensive taste in guns

[ember cradle]

I wonder what the Ukrainians talk about in their chat

[shell flax]

Look if they give me a Tavor 7 or MDR in 308 I’m happy

[crystal granite]

They could go and add more old weapons, SKS, Tokarev pistol, PPS-43

[shell flax]

Runs into the problem that x39 had: too few guns use the ammo

It would be neat but I truly hope the PPSH never sees the light of day in 2

[crystal granite]

Why? Mowing down mutants with 71 rounds would be great

[shell flax]

Because the gun fucking sucks

Also its role is already filled by the Bizon

[crystal granite]

So does the Makarov but Skif still has it as his main pistol

[shell flax]

Skif’s Makarov has actual background established for it and acts as a glimpse to his past

[crystal granite]

With that way of thinking they don't need to add the supposed SKS from the trailer, cause we already got the SVD

[shell flax]

no not really

The PPSH would just function as a Bizon with 5 more rounds and a weird ammo type (which would likely get changed in game anyways )

[worldly ingot]

Doing everything in my power to not shittalk anomaly’s modpacks with 20 ak74 variants

[crystal granite]

Still hate the pos

[crystal granite]

insert TF2 gun is a gun

I'm open to seeing new guns arrive into the Zone, be it officially or by means of mods

[worldly ingot]

Im still waiting on modding tbh, gonna play through the OGs again for the next few days

[shell flax]

I just hope GSC doesn’t cave to the people wanting goofy weapon mechanics like fucking mag systems

[crystal granite]

After engine upgrade the modders should have better tools

[crystal granite]

A bayonet would be interesting but not required

[shell flax]

That just needs an animation change and a melee buff

I’m talking people who want full magazine systems like Tarkov or something

[crystal granite]

Oh no no no

Not carrying around 10 mags and wondering if the one I'm inserting has 30 or 6 rounds in it

Enough that I need to worry about it on Insurgency Sandstorm and Ready or Not

[shell flax]

If I have to reload in those games I just drop the mag lmao

[crystal granite]

Loosing ammo

Not so much on RoN but on IS I've been in situations where I've burned through all full mags and was running off of the half or less full ones just to finish the mission

[burnt bridge]

I find it pretty cool a gun that old still outperforms the bizon

[shell flax]

They both fucking suck irl

[crystal granite]

Getting the Vityaz would be fun, essentially a Russian MP5

[shell flax]

I doubt it’ll happen though

[crystal granite]

Same

[shell flax]

Hell I’m surprised we got the Bizon

I ain’t complaining though

[crystal granite]

DShK but you can only use it while wearing an exo

[shell flax]

Like, both their mags often jam and FTF to the point you’d honestly be better throwing it away after a certain point

Also: 60 plus rounds in a mag is heavy as fuck lmao

[crystal granite]

PPSH was a wartime construction for wartime needs. Plus the quantity of it was the quality. No excuses for the bison tho

[worldly ingot]

Ye also this

[shell flax]

Honestly I just think people just romanticize Soviet guns as much better then they actually were

[crystal granite]

I've always preferred the Com block guns over western ones

[shell flax]

Most com block guns look fucking ugly to me. I’m more a fan of stuff like the G3, tavor and stuff like that

[charred nova]

still bro aek

aek is fire as hell

[crystal granite]

Tavor? Nah, can't stand the bull pups

[crystal granite]

BF flashbacks

[shell flax]

Also if you put a Soviet or Nazi gun in front of me I’m going to make sure every symbol is scrapped. Fuck historical stuff lmao.

[charred nova]

i mean i agree no ww2 slop in stalker 2

[crystal granite]

Mosin?

[charred nova]

i heavily dislike it's inclusion

[shell flax]

Stalker 2 is definitely leaning more towards modern gear though

[crystal granite]

I'd take a TT-33 tho, since we got the 1911, and the PM sucks

Soviet and German weaponry are where my taste is. Both WW2 and modern

[charred nova]

gsc could have bee insanely based and added this instead of the mosin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bWrpSgXLA

fairly easy choice i would think

but gsc is not cool like that

[shell flax]

Which I remember people melting down over this as if half the trilogy’s guns weren’t modern ones

[charred nova]

can say ahhh it's russian but this is pre soviet era times even

[crystal granite]

Maybe they want something older alongside the new stuff

[charred nova]

before russia became mega evil and bad

[visual mortar]

people be adding "slop" to everything don't they

[shell flax]

No they straight up said modern gear didn’t belong in the zone

[charred nova]

people begging for the ppsh41 in stalker 2

its warranted

[visual mortar]

im begging for an elephant eidle

rifle

[charred nova]

thats way more valid

[shell flax]

700 nitro express double barrel

[crystal granite]

Okay that even I don't agree with. I'd just as happily pick up an MG-42 or a DP-28, the same way I'd pick up a PKM or a G3

[charred nova]

the price of a 700 nitro express rifle is a pure meme

a single round is 100 dollars

[crystal granite]

Pseudogiant 1 shot gun

[charred nova]

for a factory standard round

[shell flax]

It’s especially funny to me if they say this in S2: it’s set in 2021 and the Zone isn’t a secret anymore

[charred nova]

the gun it's self is over 100k usd

[shell flax]

I saw a fucking Barrett 50 for 7k

[charred nova]

thats what im saying

it makes no fucken sense

[shell flax]

I don’t care who you are, if you try to sell me a gun for six figures I’m going to laugh in your face

[charred nova]

in what universe does it cost even 1 percent of that cost to make what is effectively a basic double barrel

[crystal granite]

Hear me out, Brandon's AK-50

[river chasm]

made out of materials recovered from an alien world

[shell flax]

Hell there full custom builds for ARs and even Saigas in the fucking US that cost less

[charred nova]

it better be made of Damascus forged titanium harvested from a meteor

[crystal granite]

Tempered in solar radiation

[shell flax]

considering Brandon’s love for Russian gear I don’t think that’ll happen

[crystal granite]

Yeah he did say its a 1 off unfortunately

[charred nova]

like come on bruh

where does all the money go in making this

[shell flax]

Kentucky’s suppressed four bore unique when

[charred nova]

i'd love to know

[crystal granite]

Ofc its Scott

Cause the Serbu grenade was just the beginning

[shell flax]

It’ll always be funny to me that Kentucky, already a big motherfucker, got even god damn bigger after he recovered from the 50 incident

Like look at pictures before and after he nearly fucking doubled in size

[crystal granite]

How else do you think he'll dual wield 2 4 bore rifles?

[charred nova]

like idk how expensive a .950 JDJ rifle is

but it can't be more than that retarded 700 nitro rifle

[shell flax]

It’s more

[charred nova]

bull shit

what's the price tag i can't find one

[shell flax]

The 950 JDJ is a retardedly rare gun

Genuine collectors piece

[frigid hill]

yo_bossman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/72/401/ssk-industries-950-jdj-gun-number-one-single-shot

according to here its like 40k

[shell flax]

Hell I guarantee Scott has to custom order his ammo for the 950

[charred nova]

he probably just makes it

according to the wiki its made from a 20mm vulcan case

[crystal granite]

I wouldn't be surprised if Scott stepped into the crazy side of things now that Demo is retiring and next thing you see is him wheeling in a siege cannon

[shell flax]

Scott has two 20 mm rifles

[charred nova]

bro couldn't hack it

i saw a video about how scott almost died apparently

when a 50cal exploded in his hands

[crystal granite]

Yeah, single shot Serbu 50cal

[shell flax]

Demo? No he retired because people were approaching his kids

[charred nova]

oh

[crystal granite]

Sheared the damn end cap right off

[charred nova]

alright fair

[shell flax]

Which come on. Stalking the kids of a well known gun tuber from Texas? You’ll be a range target before the days over

[crystal granite]

Leave it to the internet weirdos to spoil the fun

[charred nova]

me when i get my head blown off for harassing the children of a man well known for having guns

thats just natural selection tbh

[shell flax]

Yep, only saved himself because he rammed his shirt covered thumb into his gaping neck wound

[crystal granite]

Welcome back to Demolition Ranch! Pretty sure everyone here has heard of skeet shooting, so that's why we won't be doing it today.....we'll do creep shooting instead!

[charred nova]

crazier still bro is like damn i may have just died but lets keep making videos anyway

[crystal granite]

Wasn't it his father?

[hexed wagon]

hey is anyone else having issues in the basement of the dome with a sht load of white dots flickering everythwere

[shell flax]

No his dad drove him but Scott did the thumb thing

[charred nova]

likely just a visual bug stalker 2 got stuff like that

[crystal granite]

Ah I see, been a while since the incident, memory hazy

[hexed wagon]

its bad man lol

[charred nova]

driver version gpu etc

all can be factors in stuff like that

[hexed wagon]

4060 is up to date

[charred nova]

ask in #pc-specs

[charred nova]

i still can't believe the lynx AMR actually sucks

[crystal granite]

Think Brandon did a video on it. Another case of looks cool, but sucks

[charred nova]

indeed

and costs 40k dollars

40k dollars for the worst 50cal of all time

WHAT A DEAL

[crystal granite]

40k piece that had issues even in the promo footage the company released

[charred nova]

like if they just fixed it

it could be awesome

give it some kind of multi stage recoil comp system

look at the BARS system the russians used

try something likethat

[crystal granite]

I think that title can go to the Pauza P 50

[charred nova]

the who

[crystal granite]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xXIYyDpnSuE?is=jkmPl5yF5nYktJdA

[charred nova]

idk that looks kinda cool

[crystal granite]

How about OSV-96?

[charred nova]

what is bad about it

[crystal granite]

Nothing, just asking what you think

[charred nova]

kinda funny lookin i guess

looks like it would be a bolt action

but isn't

[crystal granite]

Bolt action 50, haven't seen many of those

Usually they all come in semi auto only

[charred nova]

too be fair im watching the scott video on the lynx

he had way more luck with it actually working

[crystal granite]

Good stuff, enjoy that im hopping off need sleep

[opal jay]

Hi guys

[main jewel]

grrrr

grrr

grr

i am evil and i do bad things to people

[north hatch]

If we buy the standard edition on console can we upgrade to the season pass or ultimate edition later on?

[main jewel]

yes

[north hatch]

How much is the season pass?

[main jewel]

well erm

you can’t just buy the season pass alone

you gotta buy the ult edition or upgrade

but it is worth it

[north hatch]

How much is the upgrade do yk?

[main jewel]

erm

what devife do you play on

[north hatch]

The thing is ik it is but its out of my budget rn unfortunately:/

I play on xbox series x

[main jewel]

ooougg

its like 54 bucks usd

i got it while it was on its first sale

[north hatch]

The upgrade ?

[main jewel]

yup

[north hatch]

Hmmmm

So you would say 76.99 for ultimate edition is a steal or?

[main jewel]

YEAH

DUDE

OF COURSE IT IS

THE STANDARD EDITION IS LIKE 70 BUCKS

60-70

off sale

with the upgrade you literally pay moee

more

[north hatch]

😭 it just hurts spending that much rn for me but ik it is good value thats why im conflicted lol

Im just trying justify that I wont regret the purchase lmaoo

[main jewel]

erm you wont

the engine update is right around the darn corner

also

so is the dlc

[old aurora]

So does playing on Master difficulty affect artifact economy?

[north hatch]

Trueeeee

😭😭 i hope im able to pay back some debts after lmao

[sleek hemlock]

The corner feels like it's years away

[main jewel]

it affects all prices

n stuff

[main jewel]

true

[cyan sparrow]

Some good sales skills here

[main jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/trickcal-trickcal-chibi-go-sleeping-sleep-comfy-gif-10506399281876395126

the dlc is most likely gunna be 25-30 usd btw

[cyan sparrow]

So we paying extra for the content that supposed to be on the launch?

Oh wait I did preorder ultimate on gog, so basically I will get it free

and I upgraded the steam version while back

[north hatch]

Nah fr lmao

[old aurora]

I meant like in anomalies am I less likely to get a good artifact on master difficulty vs smn like Stalker difficulty?

[cyan sparrow]

You can give her very mid product and she will do some turnover

[north hatch]

I just got ptsd because i tried the game on gamepass before they took it out and i felt like the npc's spawning right behind me after clearing a compound was jarring apart from the performance and blurriness

[cyan sparrow]

Rewards system should be better, therefore arti hunt is possible with good rewards

[north hatch]

But I am still intrigued by the games premise and idea so thats why i still been keeping my eye out and now that they got the deal going on and im debating if i should buy it

[old aurora]

In master or stalker?

There should be a joke artifact that is max radiation and max radiation resistance

[north hatch]

I hope they add a glock to the game tho :(((

[old aurora]

Most made hangun yet it isn't in the Zone for some reason

[north hatch]

And i want gore mods on console i was looking at mod.io and they dont have the visual combat overhaul mod like on pc

[cyan sparrow]

I meant to say price not stats.

[old aurora]

Ah

[north hatch]

Theres something sexy about a glock in my opinion

[old aurora]

It looks really nice. Especially with those specific sights. I can't remember the name of them or how to describe them

[north hatch]

I heard supposedly theres a mod for console that adds a gun pack that has a glock

[old aurora]

Not sure about console but there is one on PC

I saw it.

[north hatch]

I would run a glock with suppresor height sights with front tritium and rear black serrated

[main jewel]

oh erm i dunno

[old aurora]

Oh yeah I'm talking about the other type of glock sights

Not height sights.

[cyan sparrow]

If I was Lexa then probably I would’ve say buy it. However I’m not, and clocking almost 300h, giving my money on two copies, artbook etc. I encourage to wait for the engine update, and some real talk.

We’re in April and still no promised roadmap yet

[north hatch]

The oem glock plastic sights?

[old aurora]

I think so

[sleek hemlock]

When do you think it'll arrive exactly? Since it's so close

[north hatch]

I dont mind them but i would get aftermarket ameriglos

Plus i want them to be metal sights not plastic

[old aurora]

I haven't shot a Glock (or any gun for that matter) but in VR the oem sights always felt better

Feels easier to line up

[north hatch]

They arent bad I think people give them a bad rep I just wish they made oem steel night sights with that design

[old aurora]

They aren't night already?

[north hatch]

Out of the factory no

Thats why i dont like them personally

[old aurora]

Oh ok

[north hatch]

Noone has any discount or promo code before I buy the game I just wanna make sure i save up as much as i can

[old aurora]

That's fair

[north hatch]

I seen supposedly that glock made factory steel night sights with the u notch design

But I think they discontinued it so the people that have them resell them but in scalped prices

So I'd just get ameriglo or trufision

Will the engine update for sure come out before the dlc?

[main jewel]

well i mean, summer of 2026, id say dlc mid summer

1.9 should release in 2-3 days

[north hatch]

1.9 doesnt have anything to do with the engine update right?

[sleek hemlock]

That is the cutest thing I've seen today thank you

[main jewel]

noppeee

[north hatch]

Truee and you just made me do a irresponsible financial decision 😔

[fickle hill]

Well look at the bright side we will soon get to Explore X18

[north hatch]

🤣💀💀

[sleek hemlock]

What was the very first artifact you all think was created like the very first

[north hatch]

I never played stalker so im new to the lore completely

And multiplayer isn't shelved right?

[fickle hill]

For a game like this I doubt that will come to light

[north hatch]

Multi?

[fickle hill]

Yeah it would just be a cod wannabe

[north hatch]

It can be so much more than that

[fickle hill]

Maybe a little mix of tarkov but that's just me

[north hatch]

Like a last of us factions concept of survival

But grand scale maybe?

Or maybe a coop idk

[main jewel]

multiplayer will probably come after all the main game updates take place and all the dlc is out

its gunna be a arena like mod

mode

like tdm

[north hatch]

Lexa is on fire with the q&a

[main jewel]

or domination

not coop

[fickle hill]

Go ahead Call in the Freedom special

[north hatch]

So like a arena shooter with mil sim esque qualities?

[main jewel]

mol1t says fhat apparently coop is not built for the zone in one of the gsc answers but i think that is absolutely total bullshit ngl

but erm i dont think the game can handle a coop thing

especially definitely especially rn

[north hatch]

I feel like coop would be fun with a friend

[north hatch]

A vr game called into the radius has coop

[sleek hemlock]

I just want a harder mode with added features honestly make skinning creatures more viable

[north hatch]

I imagine since it runs it even on quest standalone headsets maybe a console or pc with more computing horsepower and bandwidth could accomplish it

[main jewel]

mutant parts should sell for way more

[fickle hill]

What do you want to do wear them?

[north hatch]

And the dlc's arent part of skif's story and its like a seperate game huh?

[north hatch]

That would be kinda hard

[frigid hill]

_chinopr has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fickle hill]

No it wouldn't the scariest enemy is one that wears the enemy

[north hatch]

It would make other mutants think twice before they mess with you 💀

[fickle hill]

I wanna go up to a monolith soldier in a Chimera suit and just use the gold teethe bite and rip him to shreds

[golden gulch]

I imagine that it basically open up another route for Skiff story.

[sleek hemlock]

No I want to cook, pelt them, set up creature fights honestly and make money off it

[fickle hill]

Fair

[golden gulch]

I also imagine the DLC(and the next one) would change how base endings turn out, like you also decided who to put into the pod, just the circumstances are gonna be different.

[main jewel]

nah probably not

[fickle hill]

Man how it would be wonders to fight Voronin

[north hatch]

Whats the weapon pack mod on xbox called that has the glock?

I hope theres a a-life update soon too 🤧

Ooo I found it its called OXA core

[main jewel]

oxa is awesome

i like all its custom attachemnts

lemme see if i can show you my current hk416

[warm goblet]

Wats yall fav nvgs to use in base game

[forest tapir]

3A

[north hatch]

Im trynna find good gun mods for console if somebody can get me right 😔

Or not i think oxa is only for optics I couldnt find any guns on the notes

[forest tapir]

OXA and better ballistics

for fully new guns idk

[main jewel]

gen 2

[main jewel]

nope

it hasss

new mags

new suppressors

new optics

2 new handguns

[north hatch]

The OXA mod is only for attachments tho

[main jewel]

g28

[main jewel]

ur on xbox right

[north hatch]

Yes

[main jewel]

oxa core doesnt exist anymore

now its just standard

[north hatch]

What two handguns?

[main jewel]

pl30 i think it was and the glock

[north hatch]

For xbox on mod.io i can only see oxa core idk

[main jewel]

oh well it probably says that

why dont you just open the game with the mod tab

the in game one

[north hatch]

I need to cop the game rq 😳

[main jewel]

evil ass ak

[north hatch]

And put it to download but i gotchu imma just rip the bandaid and buy once and cry once lol

I just flat out wont buy a new game till gta 6 tho

I bought it 💀💀

[main jewel]

g28, and hk @north hatch

i had to change the contrast and the brightness on the first image on iphone cause the image was too dark

[north hatch]

Wheres the g28? And are you on pc?

[main jewel]

no

im on xbox series x

[north hatch]

Ooo truee

[main jewel]

it replaces the unique gun “cluster fuck”

[north hatch]

The g28 is the glock 28 right?

[main jewel]

rat killer is replaced by a modernized pp19 bizon

and the modernized ak is its own weapon

[main jewel]

no

[north hatch]

😮‍💨😮‍💨 ngl but I do feel some type of way spending that amount of money but ig it will be worth it for the huge dlc's

[main jewel]

have you never seen a g28

[north hatch]

Is that the m110 sass dmr?

[main jewel]

the dlc adds g3, hk433, fort 230, and a old soviet experimental sks

[main jewel]

no thats the g28

[north hatch]

I could be confusing it and be way off lol

[main jewel]

its the full power cartridge hk416 if you think of it that way

[north hatch]

I haven't before till now is it a h & k?

[main jewel]

yuh

[north hatch]

I have heard of the g3 and the 416

Do I get those guns from the deluxe?

[main jewel]

hk433

[main jewel]

noopoee they come in the dlc soon

in the summer

[north hatch]

Oooo word?? 👀👀👀🤤

[main jewel]

you get all dlc’s free with ult edition

[north hatch]

I do hope they add a glock to the base game tho ngl....

[main jewel]

and the fort 230 is a ukrainian mp7 kinda

[north hatch]

That's hype ngl

[main jewel]

kinda silly

amd the sks is gunna be one of these 3

[north hatch]

Its cool still tho

[fervent island]

1.4007 is the latest but 1.3003 is the intended experience

[main jewel]

the g3 shown in the dlc trailer is the unique one

[north hatch]

I thought sks's were magazine fed

[main jewel]

erm

no

i mean

you can make them mag fed

but thats not their original form

[north hatch]

I gotchuu

[main jewel]

the svs 53 is more of a svt

or a avs

[north hatch]

Do they have saiga 12's in the game?

[main jewel]

yeas

with the ult edition you get a cool tactical one

[north hatch]

Ok goodd hopefully they also got a benelli m4/ m2 or beretta a300 ultima patrol

[fervent island]

Id wish to see some proper modded Limansks

[north hatch]

Ayyy

[main jewel]

the ult edition gives you access to many uniques

and unique armors

[north hatch]

So im basically gonna eat good with the ultimate edition?

[main jewel]

mhm

with mods too

there is a winter mod also

tho the winter mod does drop down fps quite some bit

[north hatch]

Thats sad hopefully with future optimization and engine update it will run better

[main jewel]

true

heres the cut rpd

im sad its not in the game anymo

it may come back in the future

[north hatch]

So for better feedback get shay's mods and the better ballistics?

[main jewel]

eh i dont use shays mods so i wouldnt know

but better ballistics is a must

[north hatch]

They need to bring a rpk also

[main jewel]

i will say though

if your new to stalker

play your first playthrough without mods

grrr

[north hatch]

Okk bett

And the game has a lot of replayability?

[main jewel]

well i have over 1000 hours

across 6+ playthroughs

but some people quit after one

it just depends on you ngl

https://tenor.com/view/trickcal-trickcal-chibi-go-sleeping-sleep-comfy-gif-10506399281876395126

[strong pond]

[north hatch]

I gotchuu

[main jewel]

exclusive oxa pl30 handgun gameplay trust

🌩️

this game plays the best with a keyboard and mouse btw

[north hatch]

Damnn late disclaimer jk

[main jewel]

i just advertised stalker 2 in a stalker server and advertised many mods

[north hatch]

I hope its good enough for controller tho 💀

[main jewel]

well its good with controller

loke its completely fine

[north hatch]

Ah okokk

[main jewel]

its just on pc cause theres more keys you dont have to use the weapon wheel

so you can switch ammo types with a click of a button

or use nade launchers without having to go to the weapon wheel

underbarrel ones

i am evil i eat people for fun

[marble gyro]

Nah, nah, play with mods, download anomaly

[main jewel]

i will beat you

[marble gyro]

Do it

[main jewel]

will it work?

[golden gulch]

The Kora can one shot a doggo, something none of these guns can do

[north hatch]

Yeah I should definitely consider playing mouse and key someday when i can

[marble gyro]

I mean should be able to, she can bend water

Oh wait you are talking about the gun not avatar lmao

Also why use a Kora for a dog when you can use skifs pistol?

[stark crescent]

why use a pistol if you can harness the power of a nuke through an rpg?

[marble gyro]

Because RPG sucks

[stark crescent]

how do you know an rpg sucks? did you try it?

[marble gyro]

In game yeah, IRL don't have enough cash for that one

Battlefield vegas is expensive

I mean their counter strike package, alone is 849$

[golden gulch]

Because Skiff pistol take 3 shots to kill one meaning if you miss a shot they'll chew you out
Less shot to kill one = less headache

[marble gyro]

Aim for the head trust

[fiery ibex]

So I finished the game…..and damn it was fun

I helped strelok through out everything, even by taking out scar, and he kept his word by keeping the zone closed off, no one can enter and no one can leave, couldn’t have been a more of a perfect ending, separating monstrosity (the zone) from humanity (earth)

Anyways I’ll go back to my save before no return, imma enjoy and hunt mutants and monolithians

[fiery ibex]

Indeed you are great since you think like me

[proven hollow]

based evil zone acknowledger

[gilded forge]

btw if your screen shows you have max physical protection and equip compass does it do anything or only when your armor gets damaged

[proven hollow]

afaik it doesn't stack beyond the five bars

[dusky pawn]

^yup

[rough bloom]

Hey guys we get new roles by leveling right?

[bitter plover]

yes

but only some specific

[rough bloom]

Like novice and experienced?

[bitter plover]

Yes. Novice, Experienced, Veteran, Legend and Master

[rough bloom]

Alright thx

[bitter plover]

or maybe legend and master are other way around, dont remember

There are also some specific roles from participating in events (like habar guys), or forexample being tester (such as me) will give you specific role

[sterile radish]

yeah i believe its the other way around

[bitter plover]

yeah, i think so too

[golden gulch]

Game have some weird input delay that would give one problem try doing so

[frigid axle]

i warn you, endgame content is very thin, and side quests are almost Unexistent the more you get far from zalyssa

[fiery ibex]

Who said anything about quests? I am going to hunt every mutant and monolithian down and show them my fully upgraded diamond exo

[marble gyro]

Mess with your deadzones

[shell flax]

We need to blow up the Skadosk

[fiery ibex]

And thanks to my weird water artifact and including my diamond exo, am now able to bring thousands of shot gun slugs for my saiga :).

[crystal granite]

Careful you don't get mistaken for one, wearing that exo

[fiery ibex]

Wait…the ward have the operator exo right?

[crystal granite]

Think so yeah

That and the PSZ 20 iirc

[fiery ibex]

The monolith is the diamond and it’s other inferior variants

wtf do stalkers get?

Oh and the bandits have their own to….how come the stalker don’t have one?

[crystal granite]

Late game ive seen stalkers run around in Exoskeleton

[fiery ibex]

Yes, but it’s the monoliths one

They stole it

[crystal granite]

Nope, Monolith uses Ruby and Diamond. Stalkers use Exoskeleton, Mercs use Brummbar and Ward uses Operator

[fiery ibex]

._. But the exoskeleton is a copy paste of diamond……

Does look cool though

[crystal granite]

Man each exo looks similar, maybe with the exclusion of Bulwark and Operator, those two look similar to each other tho

[fiery ibex]

They are ward, monolith have thier gas mask unique one then the bandits basically have the falcon set but red and with titanium servos

._. WHERE IS MY STALKER EXO

[crystal granite]

See the Stalkers and bandits are exactly that, Stalkers and bandits. Scavs, looters, they use whatever they can get their hands on. Other factions have purpose made stuff from the mainland. No company is gonna start making exos with the purpose of selling them to Stalkers and bandits

That's like a company today deciding they'll make guns and body armour exclusively for bank robbers

[fiery ibex]

Oh. That makes sense, but we are the stalker program….shouldn’t we at-least get some exclusive from the C-consciousness????

[shell flax]

We are Not the Stalker program

[fiery ibex]

I USED TO BE UNTIL I MET STRELOK

[crystal granite]

C Con agents were stalkers converted into agents, and released into the wild as undercover agents. You won't have each undercover cia runnign around with a cia patch on his jacket, right? Same for C Con, they were infiltrators

[crystal granite]

Amen

[shell flax]

Also the entire point of the STALKER program was covert operations, you can’t be covert if you suddenly appear with crazy ass blow your shit smooth off giga gear

[fiery ibex]

Damn….the more I think, the more I understand and yet question my reality

[crystal granite]

Commme to meee

[fiery ibex]

STRELOK GOT IN THE POD ._. Mb bruh but the monolith is done

[fiery ibex]

._. Closed off, maidenless, stuck in the zone. And monolithless.

[crystal granite]

Luckily Monolith came back

[fiery ibex]

Huh?

[crystal granite]

At Siirca, before you had to destroy it again and ruin our fun

[fiery ibex]

._. Am confused

[crystal granite]

What did you do in the game? Siirca brought monolith back, and then you shut it down

[fiery ibex]

:). indeed so no monolith

:). almost got incinerated by the psi it radiated but I managed

[crystal granite]

Gonna play with this on loop https://youtu.be/OJ5UmUOcoWA?is=wbJu-ZLn3szXy3wc

[fiery ibex]

monolith soldier when you set him free from the artifact and take away his restraints

[fiery ibex]

Monolith coping is something I NEVER saw coming

[crystal granite]

For the blue rock! Intensifies

[fiery ibex]

._.

[crystal granite]

We are a special breed

[fiery ibex]

*Bread

Bread was the true monolith

With out bread we starve, die, and no hamburger

Bread is truly the monolith of all time

[worldly lion]

ok i am downloading stalker 2 and it say 3 mins till its done

what should i watch out for when playing

[crystal granite]

Everything

[worldly lion]

well yeah thats general awareness to my sorrounding, thats a given with the STALKER franchise.
are there any OTHER things?

[fiery ibex]

Errrrrm take it from me, WATCH EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING you’ll get a lot of loot :).

[worldly lion]

alright

[fiery ibex]

Finish the tutorial mission on the lesser zone

[crystal granite]

I meant what I siad. Early game you are pretty low in the food chain. Avoid Bloodsuckers and the ship poltergeist if you can

[worldly lion]

alright, i also got the DLC so there will be these clear sky themed guns?

i know theres a 416 in the lesser zone village

[fiery ibex]

It’ll take hours lmao so just make sure you finish it then you’ll have access to a big chunk of the zone but the rest have a radiation barrier that will kill you

[fiery ibex]

Ohhhh what edition did you get???

[crystal granite]

Do some jobs for the Zalissya bartender. Earn coupons, and if you do either 5 or 6 can't remember he'll turn green. Green traders means better prices. Also it'll help you get the grasp of things in a relatively safe environment

[worldly lion]

ultimate

[fiery ibex]

OH YOU’RE GONNA GET OP STUFF EARLY LMAO

[crystal granite]

If you have the ultimate edition do the journalist stashes, it'll show up in your stash after some playtime. It'll be a usb you can start it with

The gear is Monolith themed not Clear Sky

[charred nova]

Most of the dlc weapons are not that great

But there are some winners

[proven hollow]

green traders don't actually give better prices, it's just cheaper repairs and guides

[crystal granite]

Still something at least

[worldly ingot]

All are useable tho, riemann is for example good for wien you get it along with margarch and hunter

[tame gazelle]

i got 144fps but it feels like 40fps - does anyone else notice this at times or is something broken on my end (no fg)

[worldly ingot]

My 90 feels like 50 but I got used to it tbh

[vapid galleon]

doesn't worth

[tame gazelle]

i see i see, its so weird because the fps can be the same but feel different at times, very much so also

[river chasm]

I liked the riemann and the lullaby but they certainly more like "Here's a cool extra thing" rather than a reason to get the edition upgrades

[worldly ingot]

Yeah very true, weird to say the least

[tame gazelle]

144fps at lets say garage feels fine but then i enter a poi and its the same but literally feels like i got input lag and lower fps even tho it says 144

[charred nova]

The pre order tourist armor is probably the best piece of dlc gear

Is a super good armor you can get less than an hour into the game

[bitter plover]

high latency/input lag (althought its pretty average comapred to other early UE 5 titles), but mostly bcs low FPS 1%lows, which causes, that even if FPS be high on average, but the lows are so low, that it feels slower

[tame gazelle]

thats why i put my fps cap on the lowest 1% im hopes to remedy the issue but yeah feels the same

[bitter plover]

You cant help it until we get that UE upgrade

[tame gazelle]

aight lets pray

[charred nova]

I don’t seem to have this issue for some reason I get like 3ms of frame delay

[hexed wagon]

im still trying to fix all the weird white dots that show up in dark spots in the game.

[charred nova]

Radeon bros stay winning until stalker 2 locks up your entire pc when you tab out

Testing the latest update that happened like 3 times in less than 4 hours

I really hope gsc fixes that

[tame gazelle]

surely they will fix it now and not in 8 months 🌚

[charred nova]

I wouldn’t hold your breath

[tame gazelle]

[craggy raven]

The wiki is telling me that the coupled AK magazines is an attachment for the spitfire, but that's just false.

O wait it's the fandom wiki. Not trustworthy

[charred nova]

The wiki for this game is generally a very mixed bag in terms of accuracy

Tons of stuff is missing detailed explanations or missing pages entirely

[craggy raven]

That's basically all fandom wiki pages. I'm pretty sure someone set up AI to make those.

[charred nova]

Or the explanation is now wrong since some items have been moved around

Or nerfed or buffed

[marble gyro]

Your best bet is listening to Lexa for all your gaming stalker questions

She is like a mixture of Fandom wiki and a factual encyclopedia for stalker

[crystal granite]

Tourist armor?

[charred nova]

Yah

[crystal granite]

I didn't pre order, first I hear of it. I did get the ult edition tho

[charred nova]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Tourist_suit

[crystal granite]

X7 suit vibes

[charred nova]

It’s really ugly but considering how early you can get it

It’s one of the best suits you can get pre exo easily

In terms of general utility

[worldly ingot]

Not sure which one that is, ik the SSP SIRCAA suit is very good too, and late game you can stack compases on it with the insane anomaly protection

I still used most of the dlc guns until yellow durability cuz they were fun

[crystal granite]

Just like in RPG games in early stage, mismatched armor looking like you just escaped the freak show, but stats matter haha

[worldly ingot]

Too ugly I forgot all about it tbh

[crystal granite]

Need Altyn helmet

Gimme those Tachanka vibes

[charred nova]

It’s ugly sure but it has 40 percent physical resistance

[shell flax]

The Piss Suit

[charred nova]

And you can get it super early on

[worldly ingot]

I think I used one of those ward suits earlier on, the psz convoy

[worldly ingot]

Unless this is the suit in the stash in Zalissya then I used this until I got convoy

[charred nova]

It’s basically this games version of the cs-1 armor

[charred nova]

You can get it like 1 hour into the game

Probably even sooner if you speed run to get it as fast as possible

[worldly ingot]

Nah its in garbage I am sure I used it a bit tho, early game I rotated tons of suits but mostly stuck to the shahs mate and drowned

Drowned was such a cool AK early on shame it is a pile of shit vs anything armored

[shell flax]

Did you preorder

[charred nova]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/CS-1_body_armor

[worldly ingot]

Ah its a preorder bonus then nvm I didnt get that one

[charred nova]

Like the unique vss isn’t that good

[worldly ingot]

Makes sense that I dont remember it tbh, I used the UE armor you find in Zalissya early

[shell flax]

Yeah, the tourist suit and the Veteran VSS are preorder

[charred nova]

It’s a different skin for the Merc

Which you get in game regardless of dlc

[worldly ingot]

Wish I had them tho I hoard uniques

[charred nova]

PayPal me 300 bux and we can make a deal

I so happen to have a spare stalker 2 ultimate edition pre order key

[worldly ingot]

Still Margarch is goated as its the only unique saiga

[craggy raven]

I horde everything. I've come to hate the storage box.

[worldly ingot]

With the drum mag from the docks it slaps anyone

[charred nova]

True

[frigid hill]

thelastcenturion. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worldly ingot]

I hate that the scroll bar on it is so fing small

[craggy raven]

Yep

And that you can't sort stuff by caliber.

[worldly ingot]

300 bucks for 2 in game skins sounds like you are just the right fit for EA games lmao

[worldly ingot]

It sorts artifact by rarity but not weapons by caliber is interesting

Does it sort weapons by price

[charred nova]

There is no way to get them I can charge what ever I want

[worldly ingot]

They can too they charge 160 euros for a single weapon skin

[charred nova]

Apparently a few resellers are selling but

[hexed wagon]

anyone know where to go to try and fix an issue in the game ?

[charred nova]

They want you to buy the game too

And it’s not even the ultimate edition

[crystal granite]

This is baby level, have a look at what players spend on Eve or Star Citizen

New home down-payment tends to be less than some ppls inventory value

[worldly ingot]

Same for CS2 except you can at least sell those on 3rd party markets

Hell I sold my old league chall account for 800 bucks lmao