legends-of-the-zone

[lunar seal]

"bread" is the most iconic soc item

[muted talon]

16. Marked one in the Guardian of Freedom armor having the same model as in Wind of Freedom.
17. Modified merc suit not having additional armor as description indicates.
18. Wounded flesh running faster than healthy. Must be adrenaline rush kek.
19. Bugged bloodsucker val_sos_bs in DV not activating when needed, because simulation sends him elsewhere and it stays ofline all the time and sometimes breaks the quests at the Army Warehouses. I sent them screenshots of fixed functions from bardak's bugfix, hope it's enough for them to fix it.
20. Typos and mistakes in spawn_sections.ltx
21. Typos in the logic of Skinflint and arsenal guard in gulag_mil_freedom1.ltx.
22. Kruglov being afk after finishing the questline in the Yantar, sometimes blocking the way to Sakharov because of it.
23. Elite artifacts not appearing in npc inventory or dropping from wooden boxes.
24. Wrong name of npc logic section in gulag_radar.ltx.
25. One of Marked One's notes saying about npc from builds (Psycho), while this npc is absent in the main game. I advised them to retcon this note and add Barkeep instead of Psycho. Also there's a note that should apply after the meeting with Doctor, when Marked One finds out he's Strelok. I mean, he makes notes about less important things but completely ignores such an important event in his life, looks like this note should be there.
26. Missing part of the map of Wild territory.
27. Lights reflecting on the surfaces or under the legs of npcs during the daylight.
28. Wrong PDA icon of C-Con representative.

I haven't reported any bugs from all.spawn.

[zenith pendant]

Yeah good stuff. Re 25: there are about 50+ build/cut content remnants in SoC & CS. Lots of localization changes needed.

[zenith pendant]

@eager fossil what are the current estimates for EE 1.3 release? Been a while now.

[eager fossil]

hello, I do not have strict estimates yet, and don't wanna give rough estimates atm, could be misleading, once I have them I will try to share them via gsc-answers

[rocky plaza]

anyone elses game crashing when starting a new game

It might be coz i had outdated mods installed but we'll see

[zenith pendant]

New Game crash is 100% a faulty install.

[rocky plaza]

it was the mods

[molten dock]

Ay man, is the ship in zaton finally opened up

In relived i have a place to sleep and relax because i really hate zaton

[wicked fjord]

DAY 91 SINCE THE FLESHES HAD TO BE PUT TO A CONSOLE EXPE---TREATMENT WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

365 coming in soon, @strong wharf

[strong wharf]

Its coming fast!

[wicked fjord]

Y b wrong, we aren't at a 24 Hours Le Mans race, brodsmane

[idle forge]

Patch where

[valid pasture]

Three weeks ago was this week, so any time now! Or next week!.. Or a week after that...

[idle forge]

[golden ridge]

274

[wicked fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-disappointed-disappointed-face-itstommylove-stalker-gif-1549625139986254432

Y b ruining what has been a ruined day, Brothaman Rahmiman

[pseudo hill]

Is there any stalker mode where u mostly play in team?

[sullen saddle]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

And yes, there's like an dozens of MP Mods, since Trilogy story on MP until titles as BELARUS and NET Online that are one extraction shooter and one "MMORPG"?.

[idle forge]

XRMpe also. CoP and Soc Coop

[ruby birch]

so uhh… what's with the Anomaly release on GOG? that's just about the weirdest move GSC could've pulled in any timeline.

[ruby birch]

the implications are rather unnerving. it's obviously meant to drive sales for the EE of CoP, which won't happen because Anomaly was already a standalone release, but what's the point in the first place? I really hope it's just corporate greed, not desperation. and I hope they're not hyping up the next patch for nothing, otherwise there's going to be a huge backlash.

[zenith pendant]

I don’t think anything is gonna cause backlash at this point, people got tired of negativity

They just ignore EE’s existence and that’s it

For me personally the game is still gonna be meh for as long as there are forced censored textures&geometry and cringe AI upscales.

[ruby birch]

I meant the S2 patch

[zenith pendant]

Oh lol wrong chat then

I mean, nvgs are already confirmed

[ruby birch]

I know, and I'm at a loss as to why it's such a big deal.

[zenith pendant]

Any missing feature compared to trilogy is gonna be welcome

People made complaints about lack of them literally since the day of release

[ruby birch]

that's more because vanilla flashlight is useless in outdoor environments

come to think of it, I don't think I've ever used NVGs in the trilogy in any meaningful capacity.

it just made the game look ugly

[zenith pendant]

Then I guess that explains why it’s not a feature you miss

It’s still important for others, but again, as I said this whole topic is for another channel

[feral smelt]

They forgot about Stalker CoC😔

[idle forge]

[rocky plaza]

it would be cool to see it for the OGs

[zenith pendant]

@eager fossil any solid dates on EE 1.3 yet?

[eager fossil]

should be ready very soon

maybe even this week

[muted talon]

Finally, it's been awhile since the last patch

[molten nexus]

Right? Very much needed since consoles are forced to use EE

[cyan valve]

anrose0 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

maksimusdikus has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[north scaffold]

I was traveling from dark valley to yantar in CS.

When I load from dark valley to garbage, it triggers an emission. I run over to the bandit base and wait 5 minutes for the emission to end.

After it's done, I walk over to the loading zone to agroprom. After I load in, immediately a new emission. So now I'm waiting at the stalker camp in agroprom for another several minutes.

I just wanted to make a quick run to yantar to sell my artifacts

[zenith pendant]

Well two in a row is like 15% chance at happening

You got unlucky

[north scaffold]

Before I assumed it was a global timer with a bit of randomisation, but is it just a random chance every time you enter a new area?

[zenith pendant]

Yes, with an exception of when the storyline quests in that area haven’t been completed yet

And the chance goes up every time an emission does not happen, until it’s pretty much guaranteed

You will always get an emission if you go back and forth 9 times lol. No timer. Can spam them instantly.

Yeah it’s lame, it’s clearly an unfinished system. Proper emissions don’t appear til cop.

[north scaffold]

I can tell, I've been getting hammered with emissions now because I've been going back and forth satisfying my loot goblin tendencies

I guess they underestimated how much players would travel between areas

[muted talon]

Where patch

[native hazel]

How patch?

[valid pasture]

https://tenor.com/view/lost-gif-738426745720007006

[eager fossil]

patch in 1 hour

[native hazel]

[boreal agate]

happy to see the shoutout for the community fixes

I will have to go take a look at this new font

[autumn nacelle]

I own the original Trilogy for many years but I‘m thinking of purchasing „Legends of the Zone“ from Steam. Will the mods made for the original games work with LOTZ or are there new mods on Steam?

[marble otter]

Please Add ADS Toggle, Please Add ADS Toggle. 😢

[livid oxide]

If you bought the original trilogy you own EE for free

[round spire]

How are the EEs looking after this patch?

[muted talon]

Seems like a pretty good patch, but I have to test it first and unpack the files to see what's there

[muted talon]

Well they fixed bugged bloodsucker in dark valley, dead duty counter seems to be fixed too, but many things I reported weren't touched yet. Merc suit still doesn't have increased bullet protection, armor piercing bullets of some calibers still deal the same damage as standard bullets...

[zenith pendant]

Like 50% of the new bugs are fixed I’d say

[north scaffold]

Enabled binding for side mouse buttons.
Well that's odd, I was already using mouse side buttons in all 3 games since a week ago without issues

[zenith pendant]

They did not appear in controls properly.

[north scaffold]

They appeared as "mouse5" and such for me

Maybe it was mouse or keyboard layout dependant and mine just happened to work then

[zenith pendant]

@muted talon as I contributed to this patch I have the full(er) list of fan fixes in it.

GSC did their own changelog for some reason.

[muted talon]

I have no words, that's great

[zenith pendant]

I made sure Skinflint finally got the money he deserves. :))

[muted talon]

I see, you did a great job. Also the best part (CS) finally got proper attention. Time to replay again, I guess

[teal prawn]

Awesome timing for a patch I wanted to replay the series

[copper kiln]

The new patch is great

But the ads toggle command is still broken :(

[valid pasture]

Nice, but still needs to go all in on fixing fundamental issues, even if it comes at the cost of corrupting saves. It's a necessary evil but it's what holds EEs back compared to OGs + fix mods.

[pine sable]

I just wish it'd stopped flashing so many colors near faction bases

[zenith pendant]

Can you record a vid I’m really interested in how that looks

[muted talon]

I still have to play with campfire damage turned off because npcs stuck there and die. Hope they'll fix it one day, I save these mfs from bandits not because I want them to die in that stupid way

[zenith pendant]

I was told I might have a chance to send another bunch of fixes for a future patch. :)

ZRP fixes campfire deaths without NG requirement, I'll need to look into how NatVac fixed it

[muted talon]

That would be great. What I did is a lame fix to make sure NPCs won't die, but it's not a way these things should be fixed

Btw they did something with sawn-off bm-16 and now it's idle animation doesn't work at all. I mean, it usually moves slightly when Marked One breathes but now it's motionless like a statue

[cyan valve]

sir_whiterabbit has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[valid pasture]

Interesting, does anyone know what was the "mutants bug" that prompted the minor patch 1.3.1 fix?

[north scaffold]

It looked like it was badly translated and it was just meant to be a fun way to express that it was a general bug fix patch. Like not a bug related to mutants, but a bug "caused" by mutants.

[muted talon]

Is the NPC accuracy bug still present in EE? When NPCs had only 20% probability of hitting the player even at veteran and master difficulty levels

[zenith pendant]

The 100-rank accuracy cap has been fixed, I’m not sure the difficulty level hit probability being low is a bug…

Also where do you even get those numbers from?

[north scaffold]

Pretty sure it's distance based. Shotgun zombies were some of the more lethal enemies when I played through the whole trilogy in EE last week, simply because they hit like every single shot

I mean as in the difficulty might make them more accurate at longer distances, but at shorter ranges they were really accurate. I played on veteran.

[muted talon]

defines.ltx from SoC. At master difficulty probability that npc will hit you is 50, but due to a bug only the value from novice difficulty is used. At least it was like that in vanilla. But it feels like the bug is still present.

[nimble rose]

SoC remake when?

[valid pasture]

Jumped in today to check few things in EE SoC - WTF is with the blur when aiming???

The object I'm aiming at is clear, but others around it completely wash out and it switches as soon as you move to another nearby object... Gonna record the video later...

[north scaffold]

Turn off depth of field effects in the settings

I cant remember if it was just a single slider/toggle or if it had multiple settings

[rocky plaza]

already been done and its free on moddb

[rocky plaza]

its called DOF turn it off

[eager crane]

i was playing SoC yesterday and all my items disappeared

[cyan valve]

chris_98_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spare portal]

Enhanced always has some update going on

[cyan valve]

mrkymura has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[north scaffold]

Super important that every channel gets those notifications about warnings

[proud badge]

yep

[lament ruin]

I think mods need to take a look at this guy

[velvet sierra]

Hi, have you encountered a visual bug in Clear Sky EE (patch 1.3.1) that when you move, a lot of pink/blue/green lines appear on the screen, especially near the bases with many NPCs (but not limited to it)?
For me happens both on FSR and DLSS native resolution, but maybe it's not related to it specifically. Also, reloading the saves doesn't fix it.

I don't use any mods

[rocky plaza]

that sounds like an issue maybe with global illumination

@velvet sierra

i had a similar issue like this when i was playtesting the new skate

[velvet sierra]

Do you know of it can be fixed?

[rocky plaza]

Turn it off unless u wanna figure out how to patch it lol

[rocky plaza]

did it fix it

[velvet sierra]

Haven’t tried yet

[light igloo]

Hey, what are yours fav anecdote?

[obtuse jasper]

From playing the game or the ones you find on the pda

[light igloo]

Any. Also the ones which were cut from the game (like about 2 newbies and bloodsucker) count as well

[zenith pendant]

that word doesn’t mean in English what you think it means

[light igloo]

Then what's the meaning?

[zenith pendant]

Oxford Dictionary:

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay
• the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting

If you’re referring to campfire jokes (and I assume you do), those are not anecdotes.

[light igloo]

Ah, okay

So what's your fav campfire joke?

[torn sierra]

In the old ones it is “Artifact or Money”

[dusk wyvern]

Has the bullet spread been fixed in Clear Sky Enhanced?

[muted talon]

Yes

[obtuse jasper]

Has it really?

[dusk wyvern]

I hope so. I'm almost done with Shadow of Chernobyl, and the last time I finished, I wanted to try Clear Sky. It was such a bad start, though

[red timber]

Once you get out of the swamps I love clear sky

I think the only game which had an ending I enjoyed though was CoP

[obtuse jasper]

I would recommend 2 things: 1) try to destroy every box and stash you have, and find all of those that you get coordinates from bodies
2) whenever you complete a mission, go back to your base so you get the reward, get better equipment and upgrade the one you have

The start gets much easier with that. I wouldn't call it rough, but it is if you are only focused on capturing all the control points instead of capturing, going back, upgrade, explore and go back to fight again

I don't think the spread has been fixed, although I can't test that for sure, but you can of course improve weapon accuracy

[dusk wyvern]

it's all good, actually. The accuracy is actually okay, now!

now for the big problem ... How does one get past the machine gunner when first coming to the Cordon? Master difficulty

[obtuse jasper]

Master difficulty? Pray the lord you can actually pass (it's possible but really difficult)
For an easier option, just go back to the southern outpost in Swamps (go from Swamps, otherwise, I think you don't get the level transition), then go straight to the northern side of the map and go to Cordon through there

if you just want to pass through, start running to the left and keep on going while healing a lot

[dusk wyvern]

I actually did it ... Ran forward to the 3 large boulders, hid. Machine gunner stops shooting, I run. Run like hell, and heal the same lol

[obtuse jasper]

Nice

[dusk wyvern]

Only took me about 50 attempts before realising there's a hole in the fence to the left of the log that's to the left of the exit into Cordon lol

[obtuse jasper]

yeah it's hard to see at first

especially when you have focused gunfire

[dusk wyvern]

I must've tried to "vault" the log in panic, maybe 30 times, before carefully looking around lmao

[dusk wyvern]

Yup! 3 shots, maximum, until death, unless it's a headshot

[obtuse jasper]

have fun now, game should be much easier for a while

[dusk wyvern]

Yeah, the bullet spread is also manageable, now. I tried the original version, but couldn't get past the Swamp because of the damned spread

Akd I refuse to lower the difficulty lol. When it comes to Stalker and Metro, it's the hardest difficulty or nothing (except Metro Exodus)

[zenith pendant]

Huh?

There are no balancing changes in EE.

[zenith pendant]

What do you mean by that lol

[zenith pendant]

Did you upgrade your gun

The spread is the same as it always was.

[dusk wyvern]

I played the original version and the accuracy on the starting pistol and the shotgun was abysmal. Idk if I'm just better now than I was, but I'm having a much easier time actually hitting things

[zenith pendant]

You are just better, there were no updates to that. Or you upgraded your weapon and improved the accuracy.

[dusk wyvern]

Even without upgrades, it was easier. But yeah maybe I've just gotten better lol

Only problem now is that any shot, at all, with a pistol from a distance is not connecting whatsoever

Isn't doing damage, I mean

[zenith pendant]

There is a limit after which shots disappear. In SoC all pistols only shoot for 50m. I don’t remember the number off the top of my head in CS but it’s probably similar.

[dusk wyvern]

It seems to be less in CS, but that could just be my FOV and depth perception in the game

[brittle lotus]

Does anyone know how well (if at all) the trilogy runs on something like Bazzite?

[zenith pendant]

OXR has Linux builds, originals don’t run smoothly but iirc can be launched

[uneven temple]

It’s a Christian Minecraft server

[cyan valve]

servig has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stable star]

Hey guys I'm playing through Shadow of Chernobyl and having a hard time finding Night Star for my side jobs, Any suggestions?

Google's recommended has done nothing for me this far

[obtuse jasper]

Check this: #📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

It comes from the stalker wiki from fandom. Its not 100% correct all the time, but should do the job

Nvm, I didn't check sudno's messages on the channel below. Better follow his advice, knows a lot

[cyan valve]

mytz1927 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[molten nexus]

Im on my 1st playthrough on Stalker SoC (OG edition) and I just got to the bar and met up with kruglov, but ive realized now everyone doesnt speak russian anymore. Is there any reason why? Is it a bug? Is there a fix? It really ruins my immersion.

[obtuse jasper]

Have you checked if the language has been changed for some reason? Or if you hit something that may have triggered it?

The language changer should be on properties, if you right click the game on steam (if you are on steam)

[molten nexus]

I dont even have the option to change a audio or writing language in the game so no

[molten nexus]

the language on properties is at english. However that was always the case and npcs still spoke russian. Ive tried putting to russian and it just changes the written parts to russian

[obtuse jasper]

You on steam then, right? What if you use an addon/mod so it works properly?

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/russian-audio

This should work

[molten nexus]

how do I install?

[obtuse jasper]

Should be drag and drop over the game files (you can access them by the same properties tab on steam, but go to game files and browse)

If it says "gamedata" and you dont have one, just put it on the main folder

I dont think it should need new game

[molten nexus]

I have some gamedata files but no folder

do I have to extract them first?

[obtuse jasper]

Could you show me what the moddb download gives you and your main folder with screenshots? Ping me on a channel you can drop them.

Also, yes, extract them first

[zenith pendant]

Kruglov is just silent

Other NPCs should still have their audio

[charred ermine]

Hi guys ....does anyone know where stalker trilogy went from ps store?

[molten nexus]

sony is sueing GSC

[cyan valve]

davfis has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cobalt arrow]

Why tho?(I really don’t know please inform me)

[obtuse jasper]

Its a joke

[cobalt arrow]

Oh okay

[cyan valve]

xejljl_7_djoh has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred ermine]

I found it searchong through ps store but couldnt on ps app but thanks for reply

[molten nexus]

dude said one thing and dipped from the server

[zenith pendant]

May have been banned for rule 5

[native hazel]

6, actually

[zenith pendant]

Oh I didn’t notice the pfp

[native hazel]

(Profile, not specifically the question he asked)

[dusk wyvern]

are spoilers ok here?

[obtuse jasper]

Yeah, sure.
Maybe if you dont want to spoil anyone, just use || at the beginning and end of the sentence/text

||looks like this||

[dusk wyvern]

cool, thanks!

So I just completed SoC Enhanced Edition. As far as I remember, after ||destroying C-Consciousness||, I could just play the game from there and have the things in my inventory that I had up until that ending. Idk if that makes sense. This time, that wasn't the case. Am I remembering wrong?

[obtuse jasper]

Yes, you are remembering wrong. There was never a "freeplay" mode after finishing the game. The mod ZRP offered it, so if you used that, thats why you could

[dusk wyvern]

ah, that must be why!

I had that mod through the last part of the game, so that makes sense. Thanks!

[obtuse jasper]

You arent the first one to think that way lol, so dont worry

Its just that the mod never offered it as an optional thing, idk why, but it forces many changes on you

[dusk wyvern]

It does. In my limited experience, they've only been good changes, though. Any idea if it's being made for the Enhanced Edition, as well?

[obtuse jasper]

I have no idea, maybe someone will port it, maybe no one will

And dont get me wrong, its is a nice mod for fixing bugs and crashes, but for some reason it has the sleep system, changes to a few dialogues and some stash at garbage removed iirc

Which is like, why force that instead of make it optional

You can change the bed thing in the modifier.exe, but barely anyone looks at it

[dusk wyvern]

Yeah, if they brought it to SoC EE, it'd be nice to have those things be optional, for sure

[obtuse jasper]

For now, you can look for mods in the steam workshop, if you want a little more different experience

[dusk wyvern]

yup! Will do! Thanks for the clarification!

[cyan valve]

speciuletz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[obtuse jasper]

@ocean jay scam

[stable star]

Anyone got any tips for killing lukash after the snipers? The duty members keep getting slaughtered before the mission can complete

Shadow of Chernobyl*

[vague ridge]

kill freedom before they kill duty

[obtuse jasper]

Start the mission and start running through the base and kill everyone

Idk if you need to be close to the wall for it to explode, but just be fast, you cant do much about it

Actually, the wiki says that you dont need to keep Skull alive. Idk if another duty member will give you the reward or you automatically finish the mission if they get killed

[stable star]

Thanks alot ill just start going sicko mode then

[stable star]

Raid complete, Lukash dead. I had to hop off for a bit and was only able to try what you said now, are most missions with others similar to this and the car park where if you don't do most of the work the allies become liabilities ?

[obtuse jasper]

Yes

Imagine stalker like a John Wick movie, in the worst possible scenario, and with almost no similarity

The only similar thing is that you survive and do everything alone with the help of almost no one, even tho everyone said it was impossible, and even in game events show that

But you did it, and you managed through it

[cyan valve]

salezer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan valve]

robotix80 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stuck stag]

I'm a bit late but I would always accept Freedom's mission to take out Skull and his men, and then betray them when we got there, killing all of the Freedomers that came on the mission. Since they can't really return to the base now, there will be less resistance during the quest to kill Lukash.

[valid pasture]

Nah, siding with Freedom is much more interesting, especially the earlier you do it.

[native hazel]

-# I savescum till both sides are dead and I get most loot while receiving the lowest reputation penalty

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/544757291682103300/1367224622529122325/mood.gif

[stable star]

To those who assisted with things like artifacts, or Lukash. Thank you🙏 my first trip through SOC has been completed. Now we are onto clear sky where I plan to spend alot of time playing with the faction wars.

I sadly did succumb to the monolith on my first SOC ending, I had no idea the two paths were relevant and basically did all of the Strelok stuff just to succumb anyways💀💀💀💀 so on my second playthrough of SOC after the main trilogy. I will do all of streloks missions, and likely join freedom for flavour of gameplay once I've done everything before Rostok. Happy hunting, stalkers🙏

The zone did not dissapear, my marked one is now a monolith scum 😭

[obtuse jasper]

[cyan valve]

chingbillin420 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan valve]

redrickshuhart_stalker has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stable star]

Moved on to clear Clear sky and now that swamps are completed. Is there any reason to really go back ?

I found a way to avoid dealing with the army gunner on master until equipped to a more suitable standard. I went back through the swamps, through the north exit, then used the guide over at the Loner base to get to village center

[obtuse jasper]

Stashes and maybe side quests. That's about it

[obtuse jasper]

Yeah, thats actually a way to do it. I could even consider it a dev intended way to do it, because when you go through the other side, Sidorovich's message pops up too

[stable star]

Thank you 🙏

[rare ruin]

Hello, it's normal that the game is not dubbed in French while on the other games it is. This will be added in future DLCs?

[obtuse jasper]

Uh, you mean for S2?

[rare ruin]

@obtuse jasperYes or no, I just want to know if it will be possible because the first three were dubbed in French.

[obtuse jasper]

It isnt right now, and I dont think it will happen, but that depends on gsc. Ask them #📜┃ask-gsc or check if they already got that question

[sullen saddle]

we don't know about more dubs than the ukranian or english one

[zenith pendant]

Yes (spoiler-ish)

[zenith pendant]

It’s absolutely not intended lol

[obtuse jasper]

oh

[zenith pendant]

The message checks distance from you to sid

[zenith pendant]

You get shot by loners on the bridge / in the tunnel that are supposed to guard the base, instead they’re guarding you from leaving it lol

[obtuse jasper]

I actually forgot that happened

thanks for reminding me, as always

maybe I thought that it was a bug or that I killed a loner before accidentally, so I forgot about it quickly

[stable star]

I personally (Canadian) just play with Ukrainian voice acting and throw English writing. Maybe see if you can do the same but with French writing?

[stable star]

My bad meant to reply to this

[cyan valve]

patnor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan valve]

notvrairhead has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan valve]

dameinu_mookon has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[astral dust]

playing cop, just staring, how am i supposed to get to the crashed helicopter in the area with all the toxic air?

[obtuse jasper]

You can use a pill aginst those chemicals

Either traders sell them, or stalkers corpses has them

Or stashes

[zenith pendant]

Your chemical resistance depends on your loadout and drugs taken as mentioned above

[neat ravine]

Ive been playing some CS lately, anyone know where some good artifacts are?

[zenith pendant]

if you just started, there is a map near Nimble where Clear Sky marked all the anomaly fields on Great Swamps that appeared after The Great Emission, you can use it to locate artifacts

[neat ravine]

Thanks

I know I can get good prices for artifacts in yantar right?

[zenith pendant]

Or Sidorovich but only after his storyline quest.

He says he's giving you a discount and also starts buying some stuff for better prices.

[neat ravine]

Ah. Yea I did that quest I believe

[nimble cedar]

If you don't mind SPOILERS:
||https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Anomalies_and_Artifacts_in_Clear_Sky_(Maps)||

[boreal agate]

The way artifacts repopulate in CS is a little weird but I pretty much just recommend searching anomaly fields on each map whenever you are in the area

[upper crane]

"A little weird" as in "downright atrocious" & "treated as an afterthought", which imo is a crime for STALKER game.

[boreal agate]

Potentially the worst part of the gameplay design tbh

[zenith pendant]

You have to remember in what hurry CS was made. Emissions were not a thing 5 months before release lmao.

[neat ravine]

I’m beating every stalker chronologically. so I have to start with CS

[native hazel]

I've thought artifacts didn't respawn in CS for a solid 15 years

[nimble cedar]

I've never had them respawn on my playthroughs. Perhaps if you spend a disproportionate amount of time in the game, you may find new ones.

[obtuse jasper]

I had them respawn after emissions iirc

[zenith pendant]

They don’t, they respawn exactly 48 in-game hours after being picked up

And time spent on other levels doesn’t count

[obtuse jasper]

Ah, shit

Maybe a bit of an arbitrary system but eh

[boreal agate]

Ive had it happen on Garbage for sure on my last playthrough, but yeah only maps you will spend significant time on

[native hazel]

I need to get that shit to work some time. Get more than 2 fireflies and laugh all the way to the bank

[zenith pendant]

There is also a bug where timer overflows or breaks in some way idk but I’ve seen them not respawn even after 5h

[native hazel]

no details on what break the timer?

[zenith pendant]

I’m yet to debug this.

Just know it happens, no idea why.

[native hazel]

I'll be curious to see what you find when you do

[zenith pendant]

Found so many cool bugs recently while working on EE 1.3.

Fixed many things nobody likely even knew about lol

[valid pasture]

A lot of stuff submitted after 1.3.1? Just curious for when 1.4 would be released, how many fixes would be in it!

[zenith pendant]

I sent a hotfix diff (1.3.2?) back in the beginning of november with just improvements for existing edits and fixes for regressions (like the one you pointed out with Tolik, a few more issues with monolithian quest in SoC, the skybox issue in CS, some texture stuff). Back then I've got a reply that it's going to be looked at "next week", I am yet to receive an update on that a month later. GSC did say pretty explicitly that they have plans for further support so I don't think that's it for EE, but still weird it's taking that long to get back.

I got like ~150 fixes ready to be sent for 1.4 but a lot of them are engine edits so it would require good testing to see if those even apply to the updated EE engine. They may not. A few fixes I prepared for 1.3 did not go through because engine is that different (e.g. I tried to fix loading bar behaviour in SoC and CS being borrowed from CoP, i.e. filling from left to right instead of simultaneously from both sides).

I really do hope they get back eventually because it would be very disappointing to leave EE in its current state.

[valid pasture]

Thanks for all the work and effort put in! I recall they were saying that it will be updated, but obviously it is a low priority compared to PS5 release, 1.7 bugs, DLC, engine update and further updates to s2 beta...

I wish the OG trilogy could be something I could recommend to people not familiar with the series and not feel bad about it...

@eager fossil sorry to bother, but are there any plans for the EE patch in the near future?

[eager fossil]

Hey, not sure about the time estimates atm

[valid pasture]

But generally there is a plan to have at least one down the line, correct?

[eager fossil]

we still have a team that works on EE, it will depend on how do we decide to do that

[valid pasture]

Thank you for the info! 👍

[quaint zealot]

mtb position out of memory...this issue ive only in stalker call of pripyat ee edition.Anyone see this issue?and i guess some quests dont go on normally after i get this error after some hours of playing.its somehow isnt gamebreaking bug so far coz only in zatom but as i write earlier some quests dont go on or finish like usual.

[zenith pendant]

Report it @ https://support.stalker-game.com/hc/en-us

Attach your save file, crash dump and log file (right after crashing; it will be overwritten by other data if you launch the game again AFTER the crash). All three can be found at C:/Users/USER/Saved Games/

Oh wait, there is no crash, in this case just log and save file should be enough

[cyan valve]

mehxo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tropic egret]

Just finished stalker SOC with another ending

[obtuse jasper]

Which

[tropic egret]

Strelok kill C-con, I know that it is the real ending for S2.

But when I played SOC for the first time I didn't went to doc and I directly went to Monolith X)

[obtuse jasper]

Welcome to thr only good ending, hope you enjoyed the monolith fight

[tropic egret]

Ah yes it was funny, more easy than the Radar one

Lol

[valid pasture]

Nah, TBF it is much easier than inside CNPP, just a few RPGs to watch out, but a lot easier! Also, surprisingly almost no radiation, even on the roof...

[empty cypress]

recently bought the bundle. really enjoying my first time playing these games

[valid pasture]

Are you playing Originals or EE?

[obtuse jasper]

you know those flickering error graphics you get when you card is dying? well, I'm getting this on EE with both FSR and DLSS. The closer I get to ultra performance, the more it happens, with ultra performance being the worst of this. And I don't think my card is dying tbh, doesn't happen in super heavy games either. Does anybody else has this issue? CS EE btw, max settings

[empty cypress]

EE as im just on console

[zenith pendant]

How in the world are you using both FSR and DLSS? those options are mutually exclusive

[obtuse jasper]

Sorry, I meant that I tested with both settings, and no matter which one I used, they both gave me the same results

Bad wording there

[zenith pendant]

Does it happen on native at all?

[obtuse jasper]

A lil bit

A single error in the sky thats barely noticeable

Closer I get to ultra performance, the more errors there are

Maybe Im just finding an excuse to not believe my card is dying
Might need to try other games properly

[obtuse jasper]

nvm, happens on every setting (high, low, dlss, fsr, etc), seems to be the game itself, nothing wrong on other games

nothing gamebreaking, I wasnt going to play it rn, but eh

[zenith pendant]

report to support

[valid pasture]

And how does it play? Got any minor/major bugs yet?

[neat ravine]

any way to get rid of these god damn schizo dogs. Tryna get me damn artifacts

[obtuse jasper]

If you mean common dogs, just shoot them, shotguns work best, or aim for the head with any gun really

If you mean those that multiply, you got to search the main dog. He usually backs up to summon more but sometimes he attacks

[neat ravine]

no the psi dogs in the yantar I think? I’m in clear sky

[obtuse jasper]

Follow my second advice then

[neat ravine]

Alright thanks

[obtuse jasper]

You got to find the real one

[valid pasture]

Ehhh, how I love the originals for the fact that you can kill dogs, snorks and bloodsuckers with a headshot... Such a great thing that's missing in S2

[solemn lagoon]

will more mods release for the legends of the zone trilogy on console?

[zenith pendant]

people are free to make them, there is just no interest in doing so

[restive token]

alright, boot up clear sky, about this faction war, are they continuous ? Cause I am initiating Operation Green Orge to press the bandit's presence all the way to zero

[obtuse jasper]

They are continuous and never-ending, so if you see someone asking for help because X faction is taking over for the 30th time and you dont care about it, then don't even bother if you dont want to

All factions respawn, so you wont press their presence to 0

And its possible that they take all the places you've taken again, or at least try to.
I would personally only do the faction wars for the rewards you get for "taking down the important place", or just because you like to shoot everything that moves

[restive token]

Ah cool, very well, thanks!

[restive token]

Hopefully trying to clear those npc side quests, need some moneh

[frozen acorn]

Has anyone else Major Performance issues and freezes with stalker 2 on series x?

[obtuse jasper]

For stalker 2 questions, go to #☢┃stalker-general or #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[dense sapphire]

My CS and SoC grt application error 6:0000000654321 how can i fix

[obtuse jasper]

You should send a report to GSC in the official stalker trilogy page too

They respond in a day or two. Give good details of the problem

[zenith pendant]

EE or OG? If EE, play OG instead

[dense sapphire]

OG

[zenith pendant]

Then the support likely wont help you

If you’re on steam try the beta branches of SoC

[cyan valve]

laivex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rose bane]

Hello how to make screenshots with demo_record1 how to hide HUD and the interface

[zenith pendant]

It should automatically hide HUD when you press F12. EE has that bugged since last patch where debug info is always shown

[rose bane]

Yeah, I too thought so but it doesn’t disappear and is there any way you know to hide debug?

[zenith pendant]

There isn’t. You can use demo_play to circumvent it.

[hasty summit]

Have there been any attempts to add VR support?

[obtuse jasper]

Don't think there will tbh

[olive current]

hey with the game on sale for $54 do you think its worth it with all the bugs? i see a lot of reviews about them

[obtuse jasper]

You checking the enhanced editions or the legends of the zone one?

[olive current]

just the basic

its $54 aud

[obtuse jasper]

If there is an option to buy the original, and for cheaper, yes, its worth it imo. It does include new bugs that arent on the original, but well, it is what it is.

For how much % is the discount?

[olive current]

damn tried posting a screenshot its 40%

[obtuse jasper]

Mmmmmmm, its a nice (and rare) one.
Do you like what you see in gameplays? The story is something that goes with you?

[olive current]

i like the look of it, it would be my first stalker game, i don't really know anything about the story but the way the combat looks it reminds me of tarkov

[olive current]

could i quickly send u a screenshot so you could recommend the best version i should buy?

[obtuse jasper]

Sure, but now that I think about it, idk if lotz or ee is better. Still, you can send it

[obtuse jasper]

Also, no, nothing really like tarkov. Its much more arcade-y

[zenith pendant]

There has been UE5 port of SoC which had VR but the dev stopped development after release of GSC’s modding guidelines which prohibited stalker mods on other engines

VorpX is also worth checking out

[zenith pendant]

I feel like the dude is talking about S2 and is just in the wrong channel

[hasty summit]

UE5 port is useless crap

[hasty summit]

Anything that doesn't have full headset support with controllers, but only headsets, is nothing more than a movie theater.

[zenith pendant]

It was pretty authentic. Close anyway.

It’s not a remake, it was literally SoC running on another engine

[hasty summit]

Considering the "convenient" development environment that encourages laziness, not quite. It works horribly and makes no sense when the original engine is rebuilt by the community

UEVR isn't even a full-fledged tool, but rather a strangely presented debugging tool.

[zenith pendant]

It does make sense. :) You clearly never worked with X/Ray SDK if you believe the development environment doesn’t matter

[hasty summit]

All I see is a parasitic devs on almost-free engine that requires rewriting the core tools so that it doesn't require too much for anything.

X-ray is more trustworthy, and at least it works for everyone.

Halo Combat Evolved VR looks like something unique in terms of bringing the flat screen experience into a fully immersive experience

[obtuse jasper]

we talked in dms and yeah lol, it was about S2

[sullen saddle]

Tho, the devs of "SoC UE5" was making a great work, new assets, ports of mechanics and new systems for the project.

Anyways, technically a X-Ray fork never would be comparable to UE5, i understand what u are saying but both thingis can exists without problems or being unnecesary.

[obtuse jasper]

I guess you dont understand the purpose of "SoC but on UE5"

They wanted to make SoC
But
On UE5
Because yes

[hasty summit]

Benefit? Zero. UE tools? Yes.

[hasty summit]

Where is my A-Life in Stalker 2 on ue5 bro

[sullen saddle]

in HoC.

[obtuse jasper]

Benefit? Doing it

Does more than doing nothing

[hasty summit]

I see the AI of the opponents as in the cheap indie Trepang 2

[sullen saddle]

A-Life isn't the same thingi than Combat-AI brat

A-Life is just a simulation of A LIFE for a NPC, the Combat-AI is that, AI for the combat

[obtuse jasper]

Yeah, totally different things 💀

[hasty summit]

A-Life is the AI ​​of all NPCs, lol. These are heaps of behavior algorithms, including combat ones.
The fact that NPCs in the game are just empty cardboard cutouts is a fact that ruins the game no less than other aspects.

[neat ravine]

I beat SoC today guys 🎉

now I just gotta do CoP and ive beaten legends of the zone

I didn’t get true ending tho 😔

[obtuse jasper]

Go get it

[zenith pendant]

But have you beaten the OG trilogy?

[hasty summit]

If it's not the original trilogy, it's not canon.

[rocky walrus]

Huh??

[zenith pendant]

OG > LOTZ > EE

Ok it might be a tie between LOTZ and EE because LOTZ has some issues that EE fixed

But OG is still the winner

[hasty summit]

EE is disgrace

How could they screw up the optimization in a 2007 game and not add anything lol

[neat ravine]

I’m on Xbox how am I supposed to do the og trilogy -_-

[neat ravine]

Say what u want I still have a fun time with it

[hasty summit]

Having fun in Anomaly FREE

[neat ravine]

what? Theres still anomalies fuggin everywhere

[zenith pendant]

rip

[rocky walrus]

That is strange. I get basically 177fps (which is my cap) the entire time I play. Smooth as silk.

I tried anomaly. Only played like maybe an hour or 2. Didn't like it too much. I'm gonna try gamma, though.

[hasty summit]

I couldn't play Gamma. Downloading it is like beating S2 on release hah

[zenith pendant]

You can compare OG CS and EE CS on same settings. On my 4090 i9 I get 400+ FPS in OG SoC and 190FPS in EE SoC on average.

And no, it's not because of fancy new graphical features, I made sure to disable everything to make them graphically the same.

[obtuse jasper]

And this is considering that EE has multithreadding (up to 8 threads, compared to at most 2 in the original) and it's on 64bit

[hasty summit]

It's weird how fans can do better than this.

[rocky walrus]

Pretty sure they say they redid the lighting completely or at least somewhat. So even lowest options are not going to be the same as the OG, obviously

I dont understand how you have such good specs but don't get that

[zenith pendant]

Obviously you're going to be comparing different DX versions, that's granted, but I'm talking about disabling all extra features (SSGI, SSS, DLSS/FSR) to get them on graphical parity. They use different tehcnology but look about the same.

And in this case, EE will be losing by a lot.

[radiant summit]

Yo! Finished all achievements in SoC Pondering whether to go for CoP or CS next. Any achievements that are bugget at the moment with those games?

[neat ravine]

Hear me out. First play through of the stalker franchise. Start with Clear sky. Then SoC then CoP

[obtuse jasper]

No, start with soc, then cs, then cop. It was meant to me played that way, and it shows

[hasty summit]

They just trying port CS light engine on other games

[sullen saddle]

the Global Illumination is what u see on EE, is an option that it's since the OG Shadow of Chernobyl but disabled by default.
Direct X-12 is a new render but GI is more important.

[rocky walrus]

It looks fantastic for an old game imo really

[obtuse jasper]

Then again, the originals looks fairly similar, the same or even better with few mods

And IX-Ray for example proved you can make it look much more modern while also being light on performance, albeit with a big effort on engine changes

[neat ravine]

is the entire CoP story just go get helicopters and leave….

[sullen saddle]

the 80% of it yes

[neat ravine]

damn 😔

[obtuse jasper]

Welcome to CoP

[neat ravine]

well the side quests are kinda good atleast

[neat ravine]

welp too late since I did that and I’m already on CoP 😭

[sullen saddle]

the best sidequests are in Zaton, jupiter has good sidequests but shrimply zaton is better in anything.

Anyways, the best levels of CoP are Pripyat and Zaton.

[lime wraith]

I never really liked CoP, not sure why
Did another playthrough to grab all achievements, and still, there is something off in it, can’t put my finger on it

I vastly prefer CS, even if the achievements were a headache with all the bugs lol

[sullen saddle]

Same, i enjoy much more CS, Many aspects and moments of CoP have me thinking on:
This SUCKS

I would replay the game but shrimply there certain thingi that is a big nonono for me, the maps.

[zenith pendant]

I have two issues with CoP:

• it’s a game made entirely like it was a conceived a year before its release where game designers were told to follow the docs down to the last sentence, so just entire vision of two devs instead of creativity of every person touching the product, and it shows
• it’s a game about branching choices that is kinda meant for replays, but everything outside of quest system is very one dimensional and uninteresting on subsequent playthroughs, lack of radiant quests, predetermined stashes allowing you to cheat progression once you know where to go, and so on

[sullen saddle]

U are saying that ruslan didenko and the andrey ver smth just say:
OK MY PEOPLE, THE CRITICS WITH CHISTOYE NEBO.... hurt the heart of us and of our beloved bolshakov, THEN READ THE DESDOCS AND IMPLEMENT IT 1:1 IN-GAME PLEASE, WE DON'T WANT SUFFER BUTTHURT AGAIN, OK???

[obtuse jasper]

Yes

[sullen saddle]

Now i understand even more why the devs started to be bored with CoP, and don't had much energy to S2

[sullen saddle]

perhaps everything would be better if ruslan didenko and andrey verpakhovsky don't have been gave a "grey" gamedesign, i mean, then is purely his fault many of the fails of CoP?

Ruslan Didenko know how write and make plots but he did the desdocs on two weeks or what??????

[zenith pendant]

Stohe did a bunch of SoC docs and likely CS too (but we don’t have many of those)

[sullen saddle]

According to the thingis that im checking (CoP desdocs) the mainplot was done, like, in 2 seconds max

eee

Until the firsts desdocs of CoP until the one of Pripyat scenes map there like 4 months max

[sullen saddle]

Tell to evgeny griga to talk with verpakhovsky to check if still he have obscure CS-desdocs on a old hard-disk

[zenith pendant]

I’m certain new gsc still have the archives and everything

[sullen saddle]

IMAGINE, Evgeny Griga having every CS build

"Yeah brat, we know that this game is from almost 20 years ago but nonononono, we aren't going to release this builds made 600 years ago because... keep playing CoPe builds haha"

[dense wagon]

I heard if I buy an enhanced edition stalker game the original version is included is this true?

[zenith pendant]

On PC? Yes.

[dense wagon]

Da i use steam
Thank you

[dense wagon]

My SOC is in the english dub how do I make it not

[obtuse jasper]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/russian-audio

Paste it inside the gamedata folder

[dense wagon]

thanks

[neat ravine]

I’m at Pripyat in CoP. And uhhh I’m supposed to find information on the unidentified weapon and I don’t know where to go (I’ve explored EVERY area in Pripyat)

[obtuse jasper]

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

[neat ravine]

I have now beaten CS, SoC and CoP

[cyan valve]

attackgod has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dense wagon]

Is it an issue if skull dies when I destroy the freedome base in SOC
Cuz i tried many times he keeps getting slimed

[obtuse jasper]

No, its not needed for him to survive afaik

[dense wagon]

Thanks I was worried that he might be important

[dusty cobalt]

Just one of those days in the zone where in dark valley bandit camp, bandit spawn from thin air. Such is life in the zone.

[balmy cypress]

Question regarding clear sky enhanced edition off of steam. Does EE on steam fix its original bug issues or should I just get CS vanilla and download the necessary mods? Basically which one should I spend the $20 on?

[zenith pendant]

It fixes some of the issues and introduces some new ones.

It’s obviously nowhere near the level of fixes SRP provides, it’s maybe 10% of SRP.

[warm fractal]

Legends of the Zone - Rank the top 3 most difficult quests/POI where you died at least multiple times. Anomalies do not count unless you are forced to go through them -- Greedy Stalkers

[cyan valve]

arkelifer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[river nebula]

1. "Collect your Reward" and it's on the other side of the [#$@!]ing map

2. Abandoned Hospital from clear sky

3. Reinforcing clear sky's presence in the swamps

[lethal vigil]

Vova vista

[midnight fulcrum]

Good evening, please advise if there is any possibility to change the relationship with bandits when they are fully hostile in Clear Sky? Trying to get the quests for finding weapons from bandits to complete achievement “weapons baron”

[muted talon]

If you didn't join any faction and they are already hostile, there's no way to change that

[zenith pendant]

@valid pasture @muted talon новини з патчу - новин немає, чекаю відповіді вже місяць

Схоже таки забили, хоча плани випустити ще патч однозначно були :/

[tawdry gorge]

@eager fossil is this true? 😢

[zenith pendant]

whoops, wrong #legends-of-the-zone

[valid pasture]

@eager fossil please release at least the last patch with whatever fixes there were made... It is hard to promote or recommend the game when playing original is a must, but then you have to explain why you're recommending original games with fix modes instead of freshly released "enhanced"...

Especially with DLC coming soon - you'd want more people pulled into franchise, not turned away by never addressed bugs or stories of never applied fixes.

[light python]

I remember that when I was playing CS back in the day it was the buggiest part of the trilogy. Was this somehow addressed in LotZ version of the game or is it just enhanced graphics with some QoL? From the back of my head I was especially frustrated by freedom exo not working after full upgrade and waction wars bugged as hell.

[zenith pendant]

EE versions has some bugs fixed and some new bugs added. In general I would say it’s more stable (less CTDs) but more other smaller issues.

Freedom exo bleeding regen bug is fixed. Faction war bugs are not addressed.

[muted talon]

Armor upgrade for exos still not fixed, devs only fixed the description

[valid pasture]

Well, @eager fossil sometimes the silence says more than any answer.

[zenith pendant]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[valid pasture]

[primal orbit]

Number 3 is easy

[primal orbit]

1. The end of CoP

2. Road to pripyat

3. Epilogue of Clear sky

[primal orbit]

I think if you join freedom you will become neutral with bandits, I see you're a duty guy so I think you prefer restarting the game.

[obtuse jasper]

#⭐┃trilogy-general message
Does somebody know this?

[haughty fox]

Hello stalkers, SOC enhanced is crashing very often using DLSS. FSR is stable but doesn't look very good, any fix ?

[zenith pendant]

thats gods punishment for playing the inferior edition

[haughty fox]

I disabled Async compute and it seems good for now.

[haughty fox]

Nop still crashed

[obtuse jasper]

Just play the original version tbh

[zenith pendant]

Have you tried disabling quick slots

this is gonna sound weird but trust me on this

[haughty fox]

I'm going to try thanks, but too bad I liked this feature.

[eager fossil]

Hello, I see few pings here, I was on vacation so didnt see them, I gonna doublecheck on the state of the update

[valid pasture]

Please giff patch, especially if there are no further plans for EEs - release whatever fixes you guys have. It would be a shame to throw off so many community/player fixes and to leave the game in such unfinished state...

[limpid badger]

Hey guys, quick question. When I enter demo record mode in the Steam version of Call of Pripyat (Enhanced Editon) a full performance/debug overlay (FPS, VRAM, RenderGPU, LUA, etc.) appears on the screen. How can I remove it?

[zenith pendant]

In Enhanced Edition you can't.

[smoky cove]

best ways to play SoC?

[zenith pendant]

Original edition, no mods

[smoky cove]

Is it buggy?

[zenith pendant]

its fine

janky, but playable

[latent orchid]

Gng idk how to start call of Pripyat. Anyone got a good idea as to how to at least initially start the game till the main goals become more linear?

[obtuse jasper]

1st, when you spawn at the start of a new game, go straight forward and talk to the 2 dudes that are therez they will give you the mission to go to skadovsk

2nd, go to skadovsk, and you continue the game

It's that simple

[red oak]

Hello everyone I can’t seem to get answers on this so I’ll ask u guys I’m on Xbox and everytime I open my call of Pripyat my screen bugs out and only shows a small screen of gameplay in the corner it’s like I’m not in full screen mode but there’s no way to adjust that on Xbox I don’t think is anyone else having this problem or does anyone know a solution?

[zenith pendant]

You will have to write a message to tech support at https://support.stalker-game.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[red oak]

Thank you I couldn’t figure out where to do this👍

[valid pasture]

@eager fossil any news/updates on the patch?

[eager fossil]

the team is working on it but cant share details yet

this is what I have

[valid pasture]

You meant "can't", right? Otherwise, please do)

[eager fossil]

yeah

so it is not abandoned

[sullen saddle]

good news, atleast we know that the EE still keeps the way of enhance the enhanced edition

[twilit acorn]

Can anyone confirm whether NPC and mutant population density has been reduced in Call of Pripyat: Enhanced Edition? A friend is playing through Zaton on Xbox Series X and says the area feels much more empty than the original PC release. Is this an intentional change in the Enhanced Edition, or could something else be affecting the spawn rates?

[vague ridge]

@zenith pendant can you remind me the changes EE made to balancing to make the game easier to run?

[zenith pendant]

The “optimization changes” only apply to Switch version, not EE. They reduced the number of monolithians above Lab X8 and put a cap on the number of zombies during CS cooling station quest.

There aren’t any intentional changes to Zaton area, but it is possible there might be a bug that causes the same code to be executed differently (there are many bugs like that in EE due to differences in LuaJIT)

[twilit acorn]

Any recommendations then?

[zenith pendant]

As in? We don’t even know if your friend is actually experiencing something different or he just had poor RNG.

[twilit acorn]

He’s restarted the game about half a dozen times and played a fair chunk each time, yet he says it’s consistently sparse.

[zenith pendant]

Can he start the original too to compare if he's just remembering wrong? :) I play both regularly and haven't noticed much difference.

[twilit acorn]

Sadly not. I did show him some nine‑year‑old footage from the original, and it really wasn’t much different. He may simply be misremembering. He’s a senior, so it’s understandable. 😉

[zenith pendant]

I think it is the case of false memories then. When EE first released people “spotted” many “differences” that weren’t actually any different.

Some claimed the new bugs (that were over a decade old), others praised the quality of environmental textures even though those stayed unchanged. You get the idea.

[twilit acorn]

Appreciate your input.

[valid pasture]

Hey @eager fossil, a patch would've been nice to celebrate the anniversary. Any updates on that? Thanks! #📰┃announcement message

[eager fossil]

is in work

but cant share more details

happy SoC birthday, veterans

[modern hearth]

question, what should I purchaise next after buying the standard version of the game in order to get more story related content ( I am not reffering to guns or stuff, just making the game longer)

[obtuse jasper]

if you are talking about stalker 2, this is not the channel for it: #☢┃stalker-general

[modern hearth]

sorry

[obtuse jasper]

no problem

[narrow light]

When will the Switch 2 update release?
-# ⓘ Signed • 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓘𝓷 𝓐 𝓓𝓻𝓪𝔀𝓮𝓻 👑⁨

[zenith pendant]

Who careeeees

EE has far more pressing issues

[narrow light]

I care.
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[ivory spindle]

ee still has some problems that need ironing out for sure, but also i bought a switch 2 a couple of weeks ago and would love an excuse to triple dip on buying the trilogy

[rotund knot]

Just got the japanese Switch-cart. Would be awesome with a 60 fps update/patch for Switch 2 👀

[coral spire]

Hello, i was wondering if theres a way to steal the box from the military outpost during the day without killing every soldier?

[obtuse jasper]

I think you must do it at night. It might (?) be possible but between the military patrolling a lot and the janky and almost inexistent stealth system, you'll reload a save so much thag it'll be night by then

[coral spire]

Its possible to make it to the box, however i pick up the box and everyone notices (????)

Is there another way to do this without getting cordon raided? Its 10am its going to take far too long for it to turn night

[obtuse jasper]

Do you really need that quest? It doesnt do much afaik and it doesnt give you much money afaik

But it might be either bugged or its just classic jvnk

[coral spire]

Yeah i might just ignore the damn thing. I wanted to do a "completionist" playthrough with best possible outcomes but im just not patient enough for this

[stuck stag]

Is it weird that I think some of the glitches in the EE are actually super cool? I mean, the enhanced edition downgrades the game in a lot of ways, (a lot of ways, I mean, it’s actually pretty horrible in many aspects) but some of the glitches are actually kinda awesome. Like Twig and Leshiy being at the Barrier, it makes them play a more important role rather than just being random goons that do nothing, and gives extra support during the barrier mission. Especially Leshiy, because Leshiy is way cool. It also means you don’t have to fight all of Freedom at their base when you take the mission to kill Twig for Petrenko. Or Clumsy and Vampire going to Rookie Village, it makes the starting area more unique, allows for help during starting quests (while doing the quest for Wolf where he has you take out the pigs at the farm, Clumsy will likely assist) and Clumsy arriving first and Vampire following him after is kinda entertaining for some reason. It populates Rookie Village with actual characters and makes the later mission from Barkeep with Vampire cooler. I also thought Nimble returning the Car Park with Petruha was pretty cool before they patched it.

wow that is a wall of text my bad

[zenith pendant]

… which ones lol

[stuck stag]

just the ones I mentioned. I don’t like many of the things about the enhanced edition but I think they should make those glitches features

[zenith pendant]

Nimble was returning to literally sit where he was involuntarily taken, and it’s not EE glitch but vanilla glitch

[stuck stag]

wait was it always like that

[zenith pendant]

Yes

Also vampire being at rookie village means you are more likely to miss his murder quest because he dies in electra tunnel on the way, and if he doesn’t, you’ll have to anger entire village

Makes a lot more sense when he is a part of the squad that is already getting hostile to you

[stuck stag]

only clumsy cares when you kill vampire

and I’ve strangely never seen an NPC go through that tunnel ever. They always try to go through Kuznetsov, and if you’re not in the area they’ll just make it through with no explanation

and it’s mainly because I like seeing Clumsy actually do something as he was an actual bum in the original release

[obtuse jasper]

"is it weird that I think some glitches are cool?"
Yes. Yes it is

[zenith pendant]

I prefer the idea of unique named guards at freedom base instead of randos, and I prefer having to kill Vampire at dark valley

Though the latter is also not really intended, he actually spawns on garbage and just goes wherever he can fit

[stuck stag]

I mean, having named guards is cool, but Leshiy and Twig serve pretty much no purpose besides to fight and die. Having them participate during the barrier mission just makes more sense to me

and the exoskeleton guy at the front is already cool enough

[ripe wigeon]

Sup

[valid pasture]

Not much, in fact, nothing at all. Waiting for patch... one day.

[zenith pendant]

There has been no big announcement but a small patch released today for SoC and CS, with only a couple most important fixes, but still, it’s the first update since September last year.

[valid pasture]

Yeah, saw that as well, just got it to post the same! Is this all the fixes you've submitted?)

@eager fossil better than nothing I suppose, it's been a while since September. But is there a real patch in the works? 1.4? Thanks!

[zenith pendant]

It’s not. :( They did not get a chance to test my hotfix diff (was about 20 fixes total across the series) so I asked to at least have the two most important ones in.

Bleeding reversal and CS quest soft lock, the other fixes are by GSC

Either way don’t worry, this isn’t end of the road though, what wasn’t fixed now should be incorporated into later patches.

[tawdry gorge]

This long gap between updates seems to be related to the fact that the Enhanced Edition support team has changed. Just one hotfix in nearly six months... That's strange.

[eager fossil]

Hello, yeah, we are still working on the game

[valid pasture]

Are you making an assumption that the "team was changed", or where was that info?

[tawdry gorge]

Yes, those are my assumptions

[valid pasture]

Then please don't use constructions like "seems to be related to the fact" - it's not a fact. Cuz that's how silly rumors are spread...

I think it's just a super low priority and probably it's not a dedicated team, but some devs occasionally pulled to make some changes.

[zenith pendant]

If you believe that prior to that point all of the work was done only by outsourcing teams, you are incorrect.

We know GSC has been involved with the development of enhanced editions even back when patches were more common.

[tawdry gorge]

Oh, right. I did phrase that incorrectly, thanks for pointing it out.

[valid pasture]

So was there a new push? Are there signs of renewed action on the EE project?

[boreal agate]

Mol1t has said they are not done updating EE but not when to expect more

GSC has a lot of irons in the fire currently so I wouldn't hold my breath for too soon but more fixes will happen

[zenith pendant]

Well it’s the first time we got any sort of progress since September so evidently yes

[valid pasture]

Hope they get a decent patch out before DLC so it's not an embarrassment to recommend people play EE for lore and story.

[primal orbit]

@zenith pendant yo is it possible that strider and his squad dies? I wanna do the prypyat underground mission

[zenith pendant]

Yes you do not have to assemble everyone to go to Prypiat

[primal orbit]

ik i just want him to come, if they leave yaniv will they return?

[zenith pendant]

Strider? If he comes to you to prypiat he disappears from the game soon after that.

[novel warren]

Hey guys, what difficulty you usually play on?

[obtuse jasper]

Stalker if first time, veteran if 2nd, master if 3rd

[novel warren]

Okay never mind I am gonna play the difficulty as I wish then
just can't keep freaking "master" out of my mind

The STALKER franchise killed the sense of difficulty for me (not meaning challenge)

[obtuse jasper]

Do what you want of course, thats part of the magic

[novel warren]

That's how I see it personally

[obsidian acorn]

Play however you want to play, games are meant to be enjoyed :D joymaxxing

https://tenor.com/view/propeller-hat-dog-meme-gif-15462646254099430081

[obtuse jasper]

To shit to joymaxxing, 1v1, master difficulty, starting pistol, wild territory map. Fight me

😈

[novel warren]

Nah

[lethal vigil]

Omg is the myth about bullet sponges on novice finally gone

[obtuse jasper]

Not entirely but I dont think people believe it much compared to before

[boreal agate]

Yeah not 100% but it's definitely less ever-present

[gray tide]

Honestly I fell for the "master difficulty is the only way" stuff when I first got into it, but honestly I am glad I did, because I love it. I feel more immersed in the zone that wants to kill me

[novel warren]

I play on Veteran so I only make sure I am aware all the time

And not underestimate anything
But also enjoy the game

[shrewd zealot]

i think master at least in ShoC and CoP are really good difficulties and you get used to it quite fast, yes you might need a bit more prep but it's not frustrating...now CS is a different story, it can become quite frustrating but so long as you enjoy the gameplay go with any difficulty you wish

[gray tide]

Clear sky was rough at first for me on master, it's largely because of the change in how bullets work I believe. I replayed CoP on master last year and it felt so easy 😭

[shrewd zealot]

that is one of the roughest changes...and that everyone later becomes addicted to grenades haha

[karmic tartan]

Its sad that there is almost no modding community for these games.

[obtuse jasper]

When the time comes and the money arrives, a pc is what you have to buy
But yeah, sadly the modding capabilities of consoles is limited

[valid pasture]

It should've been a GSC from the get go - a lot of people expected EE to be fixed, at least the basic stuff... Not to mention maybe adding some things, e.g. being able to join Duty in SoC, maybe some new side quests... But no.

[boreal agate]

I dunno that anyone reasonably expected new content but having it be an upgrade instead of a downgrade should have been the least we could expect

[valid pasture]

I didn't expect it, but it was a good opportunity to do so. I would've paid for it without problems. But "it was almost for free" is the main excuse...

[graceful nexus]

So I'm play CoP enhanced and got to pripyat and just wiped out the monolith at the bookstore. After you return to the laundromat isn't Garry supposed to tell you about some mercs? After returning to the laundromat he doesn't say anything to me. Is this a bug and should I try reloading an earlier save?

[coarse forge]

Is there any way, or a mod to bring back to SoC the old FPP viewmodel?

[rough lotus]

playing SoC again and god

forgot how scary the snorks were

[obtuse jasper]

Wdym as "the old FPP"

[coarse forge]

Compare how guns look like in OG SoC and EE.

[zenith pendant]

Do you mean fov hud? Ai upscales? The subdivision?

[coarse forge]

Nah, just the position of fpp model. I would like to show you some examples but I can't

#💬┃en_offtop message Here, look

[zenith pendant]

Try playing around with hud_fov console command, I think this is what you really want

The position has not changed. But HUD FoV affects the position

[coarse forge]

What's the syntax? hud_fov (value)?

[zenith pendant]

Yep, range of 0 to 1 I think.

Be aware that changing base fov in settings overwrites hud fov and you need to repeat the process

[coarse forge]

I see. Will try it, thanks

Oh, it's good enough!

[obtuse jasper]

Bumping this cause I really dont know the answer

[zenith pendant]

Garry dialogue happens after completing Item 62 quest, not after bookstore

[graceful nexus]

Thanks, I just realized that last night while playing so I guess I was misremembering! Was able to beat the game.

[rancid mango]

Hello everyone, I was playing Stalker on the Xbox console, and I was playing with mods, I didn't get much further, and in short, all the mods crashed (although the mod io showed that they were all installed), and from time to time, when I click on the mod io, it shows error 2048, what should I do?

[muted talon]

Hey @zenith pendant, do you know anything about the bug of original SoC that caused NPCs to have an equally low chance of hitting the player on any difficulty level? Was it fixed in EE? Because it feels like it wasn't.

[zenith pendant]

EE engine is a black box, it's not been leaked and nobody knows how it implements things. Even I do not have access to it - I've had a chance to ask for specific files of engine code to be able to generate diffs for fixes properly, but it's like asking a single page from a book. So I do not have a way of finding out other than just observing it in gameplay the same way you do.

That said, I know there are config files that aren't read by the engine, but I am not sure if it's a bug. Many things were intentionally disabled, one would have to look through the repo to see if it ever worked correctly or not.