⭐┃trilogy-general

[ripe storm]

Depending your likeness

My best loadout is VSS,LR300 scope or non

[mighty turtle]

i always try to grab a shotgun to the labs as it performs crazy well in close quarters, chaser's good to go

[slim grotto]

Hmm I've lost access to mods I used for SoC. They were pretty vanillia just "fixes" and maybe some graphics things you guys know any mod(s) like that?

[torpid rapids]

ZRP

[ripe storm]

just play vanilla with full dynamic lighting

or old OGSR Engine with all lighting from R1 to R4

[torpid rapids]

Yes, Vanilla is good enough for me, i tried many mods but i didn't like the aesthetics change

[slim grotto]

Ye idk maybe I'm pro gamer now but been a while and I feel like game gotten easier (Maybe it's because I know most of what to do now)

[slim grotto]

Also could you send me the real ZRP mod link?

[dire willow]

I really want to enjoy SoC but I am like 2-4 hours into the game trying to do the whole battle between Stalkers and Military early on but holy moly I have had corrupted save file after corrupted save file, on top of the game freezing everytime I enter that battle... 😦

[slim grotto]

Strange. Never had that problem personally (even on vanilla)

[dire willow]

Same issue both on Vanilla and with ZRP installed

I was having a blast recording the game and then BOOM crash, Freeze crash, corrupted save file

[slim grotto]

Hmm I guess redownload game? Verify integrety of files?

[dire willow]

tried both those things

[slim grotto]

Hmm and problem still exist? Try a older save file

[dire willow]

Older save files are a mixed bag of working and not working

but as soon as I reach that one battle it instantly happens again and corrupts any of the recent save files I had

[slim grotto]

Hmm this is beyond my knowledge. Very strange though. Have you consulted steam forums and google in general?

[dire willow]

I have, this was my last resort to be honest..

[hallow gorge]

Is it normal for me to be thirsty hungry, have broken armor low health and no money?

💀

I just reached garbage and its terrible

[slim grotto]

In SoC?

[slim grotto]

Keep asking I'm sure there are people with more experience then me

[ripe storm]

Bit screwed up

[torpid rapids]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/starter-pack/downloads/zone-reclamation-project-107-r5rc

[slim grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-nicholson-tom-logan-tipping-hat-tip-your-cap-the-missouri-breaks-gif-25035647

[ripe storm]

I never use ZRP as much

[torpid rapids]

Always carry bread and 2 bottles of vodka, i had to restart my save because of that

[ripe storm]

I heard it broke the game

[hallow gorge]

Yeah

[hallow gorge]

My bread is radioactive

[ripe storm]

?

[torpid rapids]

Never runned in that issue, i killed the military with 2 grenades, a shotgun and lots os retries

[slim grotto]

Damn it does?

[hallow gorge]

Should i repair armor i can get some money by selling stuff

😭its hard without armor

[dire willow]

I dont even get the chance to kill them, my game just freezes up and crashes before I can even clear them out

[ripe storm]

Yep,they remove some of A-Life activities..

[hallow gorge]

Damn you fight with military? I am here dying to beggars

[ripe storm]

Are you playing Radiophobia? Because sorry i dont know about it

This why you should play original SoC first.

[torpid rapids]

It's easy early game loot

[ripe storm]

To know about game mechanics and other elements you need to know.

[hallow gorge]

It doesn't change anything base game lol

Its just ogsr, some graphics, some minor changes

[hallow gorge]

Its all like broken tho
Like 25-30 quality

[ripe storm]

No it wasnt.. Its more like Anomaly than original SoC.. If you wanna better graphics just use oldest OGSR Engine and set it Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting.

[dire willow]

I might just have to give up on this game tbh... this is insane at this point

[ripe storm]

Where are you now? I mean what main quest you follow?

[hallow gorge]

Still doesn't look close to good, i tried 💀

[torpid rapids]

Try Memories of The Zone or Old Good Stalker

[dire willow]

its really early on relativly like right after you reach Garbage and help some dude out he asks with help to defend against the military

[ripe storm]

Graphics are not much problem for games. Its about gameplay.. You should know basis instead skipping all of it.

[torpid rapids]

I like the vanilla graphics, kinda like project reality(Battlefield 2)

[hallow gorge]

Wait...it says it doesn't change anything base game....and i played the base game before and i didn't notice any changes...
Am i missing smth?

[dire willow]

do those come with bug fixes and keep the same story/gameplay?

[hallow gorge]

In fact i got better loot/rewards than base game

[torpid rapids]

Yes, it's basically the vanilla game with quality of life mods and better graphics

[ripe storm]

How many ammo you got? Health kits? Bandage? And other useful thing? Because if you dont had that you basically screwed.. I recommended do some side quest and looting in the Cordon or Garbage.. Mostly Stash and hidden boxes.

[dire willow]

I have more than enough stuff that isnt really my issue, my issue is the game constnatly crashing

[ripe storm]

PC or Console?

[dire willow]

PC

[hallow gorge]

💀does it come after the bandit defending? I am done for

[dire willow]

Yes so I do the bandit defence and then after that I run into a train hanger thingy and help some dudes out before leaving that zone and entering a new area where I help the stalkers against the military

[ripe storm]

Steam i supposed because Steam is bit jagged off i think.. I play on GoG version and safe to say no crash or issue for my game

[dire willow]

and then BOOM game starts freezing, corrupting my save files and more

[hallow gorge]

😭old game man, they really pushed the engine with this game

[ripe storm]

Heck,i play for 4 hours and the game dosent crash for me, for real.

[hallow gorge]

I've had like 4 crashed in a hour with vanilla

[slim grotto]

Something weird happened with his files. I play steam and have not had these corrupted files problem

[dire willow]

I was fine for 4 hours as well and now I can't do shit... Like ZERO ability to progress

[ripe storm]

Yep,either steam cloud saves broken it or some else..

[hallow gorge]

Why don't you try ogsr or zrp?
Maybe those help?

[ripe storm]

It does not help..

[dire willow]

ZRP tested, didnt help

[ripe storm]

Mods cant fixed some main engine issue

[torpid rapids]

Ogsr will work guarantee 100%

[hallow gorge]

Real

[torpid rapids]

Or memories of the zone

[hallow gorge]

Ogsr replaces the engine

[ripe storm]

Althought OGSR Engine may fix it..

[torpid rapids]

This game is so easy, the ai is so dumb

[hallow gorge]

So how do yall get armor early on
Do yall use the low durability armor and live with it?

[ripe storm]

But i recommended use oldest OGSR Engine

[ripe storm]

How so? What difficulty?

[torpid rapids]

You can search some stashes, but i usually just follow the main mission with what i have

[slim grotto]

Try OGSR

[hallow gorge]

Real, sadly its been fixed in radiophobia
I have to sneak around or die

[hallow gorge]

My health won't recover for some reason is it cos i am hungry?

[torpid rapids]

Just need ammo, medkits and a good gun(better with sights)

[torpid rapids]

Yes

[hallow gorge]

😭time to find food

[ripe storm]

Because playing on Master feels like you got shoot by real bullets.

[hallow gorge]

The stashes i searched were empty so far

[torpid rapids]

You need to loot the bodies for the loot appear

[ripe storm]

Stashes only found on dead bodies of stalker you killed in battle.

[torpid rapids]

Otherwise it will be empty

[hallow gorge]

Bodies have loot but its all low durability

[ripe storm]

Did your PDA beeping?

[dire willow]

how much does OGSR change?

[ripe storm]

Only engine changes and graphical stuff

[dire willow]

like is it close enough to vanilla to still feel like the original version, or is it drastically different to the point where the experience is massivly different?

[hallow gorge]

Uhhh....idk it was noisy

I was looting mid battle

[torpid rapids]

No, i mean when you open the inventory of a dead enemy, the stash will show into your pda, then all the items in the stash will appear

[torpid rapids]

It's vanilla with better graphics and bugfixes

[ripe storm]

I can send you the oldest OGSR that had original stalker lighting

But with CoP or CS graphics style

Hold up let me send you in DM

[dire willow]

sure

[hallow gorge]

Uhhh...huh

[torpid rapids]

Anyone experienced super low fps in memories of the zone?

[hallow gorge]

I got a ton of fps in it
Only radiophobia tanks fps

[torpid rapids]

I think it's due to dynamic lighting

Can't change to static

[hallow gorge]

I mean dynamic lighting should be fine on modern machines

Soo uhh...is equipment repair not a thing in vanilla soc?

[torpid rapids]

I play on a Ryzen 7 5700u integrated gpu

[hallow gorge]

Is it added in my mod?

[hallow gorge]

Yeah thats why, its not great....

[torpid rapids]

You can repair exploiting artifact stats

[hallow gorge]

Wdym

[torpid rapids]

https://youtu.be/5PodhQUM998

[hallow gorge]

😭i can't do this early game

Guess broken armor is the way

[torpid rapids]

You can if you take some time to search for artifacts

[hallow gorge]

how do you find artifacts, do you roam with detector on hand

[torpid rapids]

I just walk around the map or search on YouTube for a specific artefact

Stalker Vanilla doesn't have artifact detectors

[graceful horizon]

Marked one too hardcore to need a detector

[granite jungle]

He's just that based

[graceful horizon]

I heard he fell into a cauldron filled with detectors as a child so now he doesn't need any

[torpid rapids]

I'm at the end sequence, currently in Pripyat, my armor is gone, i have no ammo, the tanks and helicopters are shooting at me, oh dear

My endgame gear was worthless at the end of the day

It's not worth to buy guns and armor from traders, you can find everything for free

[velvet turtle]

nah

spare backups

[lilac blaze]

Just beat the game for the 1st time. Dear god that was painful

[little ginkgo]

i just started but keep dying from exploding lightning randomly. probs going to bail

[lilac blaze]

Where you at in the game? The electricity anomaly in cordon?

[ripe storm]

🏅

heres your award

[torpid rapids]

I'm stuck at the run to sarcophagus

No ammo, no armor, just my trusty knife and courage

[torpid rapids]

Just walk around the anomaly

Should i go back to the bar and refill my ammo and gear?

[graceful horizon]

You might get in trouble with the emission timer

[torpid rapids]

So i cannot go back?

[graceful horizon]

Also, crates that spawn grenades can alwo spawn weapons to in front of CNPP. You can savescum to get one to drop

[graceful horizon]

I would recommend against it

But you can load the autosave from when you entered the map and immediately leave

[torpid rapids]

So I've wasted my hard earned money for nothing 😭

I have a save just before the mission, but i will try to beat the game this way

[graceful horizon]

You will find more armor inside

[torpid rapids]

At least i have a grenade launcher with 10 ammo

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/mate-cheers-demoman-gif-18514440

[torpid rapids]

And at least 15 granades

I'm on the final mission, right?

[graceful horizon]

Yeah

Entering CNPP is the point of no return

[torpid rapids]

I will save and then install zrp to be able to play the game after the ending then

It was so satisfying to wipe the freedom headquarters, i killed the snipers with a shotgun with slugs

[slim grotto]

first time?

[lilac blaze]

Yup

[slim grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/cool-shades-doge-shiba-inu-gif-2069364016369035215

[harsh sable]

Man i find it so hard to play this game. Ive tried a couple of tiems but it just feels v janky/confusing? Might not be the right word but any advice to get into it

[granite jungle]

Hmm, what is it that you find turns you off or gives you trouble in particular? That can help with making suggestions

[harsh sable]

Sorry only getting back now. Honestly its the difficulty. Just trying to manage everything and keep ammo, health, rads, in check whiole not being detroyed by other people

maybe i have a skill issue 😂

But idk just seems not very intuitive for what will/wont 1 shot you or cause rads. It feels like a trial by fire is all

[granite jungle]

I think my number one tip for combat is to use the lean mechanic to peek from behind cover. It won't stop you from taking damage but it will be less than stepping out of cover entirely

If you are at medium range or longer just single fire and try to go for headshots. At close range fully automatic is acceptable to kill quickly as long as you have ammo

If you loot dead bodies, break boxes, and go to stashes diligently you should be able to keep up on resources

The wooden crates sometimes but don't always have useful items inside. The little white and blue boxes always have something inside, or at least almost always

If you want a special new player secret tip I will put it behind spoiler bars ||In the rookie village you can get a better armor by climbing on top of the roof of the building behind Wolf, then jumping to the next building close to the edge of the rookie village. Through a hole in the roof you should be able to knife a crate that has a Merc armor inside||

[torpid rapids]

It happened to me before, my tip is to play the game like you would do in real life, don't shoot everyone, aim for the head, peek behind cover, run to take better angles, don't let the enemy surround you

[granite jungle]

Unless a fight is necessary for the story or a side mission, it is perfectly acceptable to just run away if you are badly positioned or low on resources

Even if it is you can always go lick your wounds and return

Also don't underestimate the power of even low tier artifacts. You may have to look up exactly what the effects are since it isn't explained very well. Almost all of them have a downside, but once you start collecting you can begin to overcome the downsides of some artifacts with the bonuses of others and end up overall more powerful

Though one free tip is that the +health artifacts are basically worthless. Just save them to sell or turn in for quests at the traders

[torpid rapids]

The best weapon in the game is the Ak74 with sights, you can find ammo everywhere

I just learned this after using all the weapons

[granite jungle]

Yeah. Fairly early in the game you will get an AK with improved fire rate. That is a weapon you can use for a long time

Eventually it will be outclassed but it will be viable for a lot of the game

[torpid rapids]

A good shotgun and the improved AK with sights, it can carry you to late game

I was shooting snipers with just a shotgun with slugs

[granite jungle]

Though I think it's worth experimenting a little to see what weapons you like

[torpid rapids]

And night vision is useless in this game

[granite jungle]

I guess that ended up being more than just a few tips. But it's the easy to remember stuff off the top of my head. There are people in this server with much more deep knowledge of the game than me, but I have put in my share of playthroughs of SoC

Oh this is less about playing the game, but if the world and story interest you, there are diary and encyclopedia sections of the PDA that are periodically updated with information about borh

[harsh sable]

@granite jungle @torpid rapids Thanks for the tips. Might give it another go this weekend. Maybe try a bit longer before giving up this time xD

[torpid rapids]

I will write a full guide soon

I hated this game before and uninstalled many times when i was in rookie village

[torpid rapids]

I just beated the game, my first Stalker

I got the bad ending, with the false coins

[grizzled rock]

deathmetalgearz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[torpid rapids]

But i am happy with the ending, at the end of the day all I've wanted was to became rich and rule the zone anyway

[graceful horizon]

the real stalker experience👌

[granite jungle]

its worth going back sometime and getting the true ending, though if you are happy with it i would move on to the rest of the trilogy first

[ripe storm]

i complete soc again and ||i got "mankind must be controlled" wish granter ending||

||first time got different ending for wish granter path because i always got i want zone to dissapeared||

https://youtu.be/6252uLZlhzw?si=xLmRKLhyrX_vIJTV

never realized my reputation bit low during storm of cnpp

[oak kestrel]

is there any mods like radiophobia 3 i cant play it without crashing

[late condor]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[late condor]

Reputation in SoC is bugged as it’s doubled after every quest, quickly resulting in integer overflow

[oak kestrel]

I just want radiophobia to work it looks so cool 😢

[rotund saddle]

what? why? they regenerate HP

[granite jungle]

Yes but so slowly it isn't really worth it imo unless you know you'll be out of combat for a while

[rotund saddle]

80% of the game is walking around so even slow regeneration is worth it

[ripe storm]

Huh i dont know that.. But nonetheless i got different type of ending.

[dire willow]

Yo had some questions about the endings

can I get both one of the fake endings + one of the real endings in a single playthrough if I save scum in certain locations?

[velvet turtle]

not in comparison to infinite sprint and damage resistance

and radiation reduction

[mighty zinc]

Anyone know how to fix -

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000002042a3ca010

[graceful horizon]

Yeah, stop violating the reading adress 0x000002042a3ca010

[ripe storm]

SoC?

[mighty zinc]

yes Stalker 2 i think its a bug they are working on

[ripe storm]

well open console " **** " and then type save [insert name of the saves you want]`

[ripe storm]

wrong channel

this channel is for original trilogy

and idk how to help you

[dire willow]

huh wait thats a thing?

[ripe storm]

yes

similiar with Half-Life

[dire willow]

So what are the commands for the different endings? Is there a list I can look over em?

[ripe storm]

uhh.. i think you cant get different ending using commands because Wish Granter ending SPOILER AHEAD: ||are depending on your behaviours and action in SoC so you will get different cutscene and ending||

but if you wanna do Wish Granter but in same time want to get true ending

just type save "wish granter" in console commands

once you complete true ending or vice versa you can load that save to get different ending

[dire willow]

Alrighty

[hallow gorge]

why is this game so damn hard

💀 i am like walking
some dude shoots me, then i am fighting like 5v1
then zeus has beef with me, the sky tears and starts attacking me

if i get through all that, i have to now fight the military who have good gear unlike me

i don't even have ammo for ranged weapons

[rotund saddle]

were the trilogy channels always this dead or is it because of Stalker 2 release?

[graceful horizon]

They we're made only a few days before release

Before it was all #☢┃stalker-general

[velvet turtle]

which is now hell

[graceful horizon]

It's okay if these OG channels are a bit more laid back

[velvet turtle]

I'm not sure why the 3 chats are separated either instead of just #trilogy-discussion

[rotund saddle]

makes sense I guess

[rotund saddle]

because not everyone has the time to binge play through all 3 and doesn't want to see spoilers

I only played through SoC and part of CS and I'm glad CoP has a separate channel

time or will, CS has been a slog for me

I couldn't make as much money from artefacts as I did in SoC and had to grind in other (boring) ways

[graceful horizon]

Good reasoning tbh

[velvet turtle]

||me when I||

it was also used previously

[graceful horizon]

||...DCs nutz ||

[rotund saddle]

huh

[graceful horizon]

you can't promote your youtube channel on here without the content creator role

[silver moth]

found a large brain in a jar and turned off the brain scorcher after for the first time

still wondring when tf am i gonna find this strelok guy

[silver moth]

no way we were strelok the entire time

[little ginkgo]

i'm blind!

[graceful horizon]

Hello Blind, I'm WeirdAlTankovic

[silver moth]

finally beat SoC for the first time

[sharp mirage]

game won't launch

[silver moth]

do u have any mods

[sharp mirage]

none

crashes on startup right after the patch

[silver moth]

soc had a patch?

[sharp mirage]

wtf wrong channel idk how I got here

my bad lol

[silver moth]

oh lmao, best bet would be to verify game integrity

it is 115 gb

[torpid rapids]

yo

[hallow gorge]

guys how to do the fight with military in lab

i keep dying

[late condor]

X18?

[rotund saddle]

if I buy SoC on GOG do I get a DRM-free version?

[hallow gorge]

all gog games are drm free, they give you a offline installer

[rotund saddle]

based

[ripe storm]

true

[silver moth]

aim for the head dont go in guns blazing if in agroprom

[ripe storm]

yep,use cover and loot ammo on dead bodies

[silver moth]

their 5.45 ak weapons are a lot better than the early viper/toz too

||strelok's hideout has good loot too ||

[ripe storm]

Fast Shooting AK74

[silver moth]

[ripe storm]

its overpowered guns in early game or mid game

[gritty summit]

The fast shooting AK-74 is the best option you will have until you get to some of high tier rifles like the sniper VLA or the sniper SGI 5k

[haughty totem]

Xbox new update ? 8,46 gb

New patch or update ?

[ripe storm]

are you talking about stalker 2?

[hallow gorge]

Problem is
The entire game is blurry
And i don't have a scope

Idk if i am aiming at the enemy or a tree

And someone dropped a good pistol and it slays

Till invisible mutant that is, that thing never dies

[ripe storm]

Bloodsuckers

[hallow gorge]

How do i go about killing em all

😭thing one shots me if i am caught while reloading

Maybe i should wait for next gen patch....might take years on pc though hmm..

[hallow gorge]

is there a flashlight in this game? i have no idea what killed me

[ripe storm]

Yet,another reason to play original instead mods overhaul main original games

[rotund saddle]

lul

[rotund saddle]

what mod is he playing?

[ripe storm]

Radiophobia

[hallow gorge]

💀 i think it was dark in original too?

i think radiohpbia is a bit darkner...

if they released the trilogy pack on pc, i would be playing that

man the sound in underground is so well made, even i am scared

[rotund saddle]

what, what trilogy?

[granite jungle]

the original trilogy of games

[hallow gorge]

legend of the zone trilogy
they did a lot of tweaks to the gameplay in it

[rotund saddle]

like what

[rotund saddle]

right, because it's not like it has been out on PC for the past 17 years

[hallow gorge]

idk the exact stuff but gunplay seems good in it

og soc gunplay lacks that feel

[rotund saddle]

you can't aim for shit with a controller so it makes sense they toned it down

[hallow gorge]

no like....the gun feel

[granite jungle]

oh yeah in this case its the updated console version. I don't really care if we get them or not but some might enjoy it

[hallow gorge]

like,,,,in some games when you use a greatsword you feel it right

you can feel the guns in most modern shooters

😔 only thing i hate in radiophobia is how hard it is even at easy

[rotund saddle]

so you installed radiophobia mod on a console?

[hallow gorge]

no on pc

[charred prism]

If you're talking about mods do it elsewhere this is for stalker not mods

[silver moth]

oh ur playing radiophobia

[grizzled rock]

etherealoni._. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[late condor]

Gun stats between OG trilogy and LotZ is the same

Other than aim assist being present

[rugged comet]

cool. update 1.12 got me stuck in Compiling Shaders. Checked files integrity in Steam, started the game again and now it got stuck in Compiling Shaders a bit later... waited both times until the Stalker 2 crash Report popped up. wtf ffs..... Is this also the update that fcks with the save files? Didn't this update FIX THIS FCKN ISSUE THAT WAS IN THE LAST UPDATE?!?!?!

[late condor]

Sir this is stalker: shadow of chornobyl chat

Not s2: heart of chornobyl

[rotund saddle]

sir, this is a Stalker's

[charred prism]

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST
check the channel name chuckle nuts

[ripe storm]

Vasim is TF2 Scout????

[graceful horizon]

can confirm

[storm cradle]

How to start a conversation with the doctor in the game (meet him in the Sagittarius hideout)? just passed x-18.

[hollow moon]

Did you meet the Guide?He tells you to meet the doc in Strelok's hideout

[storm cradle]

where to find a guide?

[granite jungle]

I will put this behind spoiler bars but ||Once you complete X-16, you can find Guide in the Cordon in the ruined brick building north of the bridge||

[hollow moon]

Whats your primary mission?is it just "talk to doctor"?

[granite jungle]

After you do that ||return to Strelok's hideout in the Agroprom underground and Doctor will be there||

[hollow moon]

☝️

[storm cradle]

Yes

[hollow moon]

What advisor said

[rotund saddle]

huh

[warm crystal]

Just finished SoC for the first time. Completely blind, got the cannon ending

[graceful horizon]

Based, congrats

[rotund saddle]

with ZRP?

[warm crystal]

Vanilla

[iron veldt]

Well done!

[ripe storm]

good, now play Clear Sky

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-dewit-gif-11426456

[primal wren]

Has anyone got the stash in the Kamatz near Freedoms base? I've lost my zittses and zerrins trying to push a barrel up to it so I can jump in the back, I feel like I'm doing this all wrong lol

Got a video of me slowly losing it and mag dumping the barrel 😭

If anyone needs a laugh

[graceful horizon]

I'm fairly certain no stash in SoC requires rolling overbarrels or crates in order to be reachable

[primal wren]

Yeah I wouldn't think so either but it's on a slanted hill so there ain't no Jumpin in the back from ground level, can't for the life of me work it out

[graceful horizon]

Put a screenshot in #📸┃screens_and_videos maybe I can recognize it and point you in the right direction

[primal wren]

I'm just uploading the vid so I don't have to run back there lol it'll take 5 mins but you'll see exactly what I'm talking about

[graceful horizon]

Ping me when it's up

[primal wren]

I've tried multiple times, it just won't upload sorry. I'll do the trek and see if it's in the front or under the Kamatz 👍

[graceful horizon]

Also check between the back and the cabin, on the chasis

[rotund saddle]

it's not in the back

[spare bolt]

any one else locking their game up when they tab out?

[burnt sail]

I’m having weird shader issues but no not rly

[grizzled rock]

magicmush00 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[slow swift]

hello i have a question, if it's my first time playing the game, would using autumn aurora mess with the original art direction / style much? i ask because i'm still in early game and even if im having some issues with the guns im really liking the vibe so i wouldn't wanna change it completely

[granite jungle]

Its a fairly substantial overhaul. If you want better model qualities and animations for weapons you can try OWR3

[slow swift]

do you maybe know if there are mods that just make the iron sights smaller? cause so far my only real issue is that i can't understand where the gun shoots since the iron sights are huge

[slow swift]

i'll check it out thanks

[granite jungle]

Not really sure. I think you can adjust the zoom level but idk

[slow swift]

okay i see maybe i'll try checking if the zoom level will do it 👍

[dire willow]

Yo had a question about a FREE Roam camera in SoC? im trying to get some cinematic shots but I can't figure out if there is a functional free roam camera setting/mod or console command? does anyone happen to know :)?

[candid frost]

hello, im new to this game and i have a question. How do i get out of rostok and go back to cordon without killing the duty members?

i cant open the gate

[ripe storm]

demo_record 1

and press "enter" to teleport where you want

[ripe storm]

you need to complete the main quest

[dire willow]

Oh ok I tested that but it keeps repeating the red text on screen which makes it hard to film like that :3 is there anyway to remove that or do I need to actually record and rewatch a demo to get the footage?

[ripe storm]

type hud_draw 0 before doing it

[dire willow]

ah ok!

[candid frost]

im pretty sure i did

[ripe storm]

Did you go to Agroprom yet?

[candid frost]

yea i stole the documents already, and i stole streloks stash

[ripe storm]

have you tried asking them

[candid frost]

asking who

[ripe storm]

the duty guys

[candid frost]

oh, do i need to kill strelok first?

[ripe storm]

the one says " We dont let every losers to come throught"

[candid frost]

Thats the problem

i climbed the fence because i thought they wouldnt let me through

im behind the gate bro

[ripe storm]

huh

[candid frost]

which part is this

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[ripe storm]

did you talk to duty commander wielding Sawn-Off shotgun?

Wait hold up?!

[candid frost]

no

[ripe storm]

how the heck you get in there in first place?

[candid frost]

i climbed the fence

[ripe storm]

bruhhh

you had to ask him to open it for you

[candid frost]

is there a noclip mod for soc

man im a dumbass

[ripe storm]

type demo_record 1 and then press enter to place where you want to teleport

[candid frost]

i tried that, it just moves your camera not ur character

[ripe storm]

yep,but it can also teleport you by pressing enter

[candid frost]

ill try again

[ripe storm]

[candid frost]

It doesn't work

It just moves my camera

My character doesn't move 1 bit

[ripe storm]

even pressing enter?

[candid frost]

yep

also, i fixed it

[fervent palm]

how i can play in 1080p?

[candid frost]

change it in the settings

[fervent palm]

yes fix that

[candid frost]

u fixed it?

[fervent palm]

yes but thegame freze cant play

[candid frost]

type of shit i cant help you on

search in youtube for about ur problem

[warped narwhal]

Anybody have any experience with SOC stuttering?

Ive been trying to play it but its literally unplayable, game freezes everytime i walked more than 10 feet

[warped narwhal]

I figured it out

[hollow mason]

Hey there, does anyone know how to solve this issue?

I can't increase or decrease the volume while playing Shadow of Chernobyl, but if I get to my desktop I can do it. Any suggestions?

[warped narwhal]

you could just alt tab and turn it down, do you mean the audio sliders in game arent working

[late condor]

the way the games are coded is no windows input is being sent while you're in the game, so if you have external volume slider e.g. on your keyboard it won't work

same reason why print screen does not work in stalker

[hollow mason]

I'm using the keyboard one and my headset one, how can I increase/decrease it?

[late condor]

You cannot, use in-game volume sliders or alt tab to do that

[hollow mason]

I see... Thank you!

[velvet turtle]

wrong game

[candid frost]

im having problems again

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I cant press F only for this part of the mission, I don't know why

Nvm

[surreal jackal]

Is there any proof of A-life in this game, I couldn't find any information about A-life in this game. Some People claimed there is A-life in the older titles, I myself can't remember any of this system.

I'm a Stalker Veteran and played all of the stalker games twice

[tight vapor]

On Xbox there’s a 1/3 chance of my Xbox fully crashing (kind of like a restart) when I try to open SoC anyone know how to fix?

[granite jungle]

It's not the most obvious but it's there, if you get specific NPCs green you can find them moving around the game world at times

[trail ice]

Man SoC is hard

(Or i'm just bad)

[surreal jackal]

Weirdly, I found nothing about A-life

[jovial pawn]

Do anyone about you know how to get out of bound in stalker shadow of chernobyl

[jovial pawn]

Depends on where you're at in the game / what difficulty have chou chosed

[granite jungle]

It definitely got expanded and better used in CS

[ripe storm]

A-Life is in there..

[jovial pawn]

A life is weird but exist in every game

I experienced something weird, when you rescue ||the duty guy from the dark Valley|| i decided to shot at him and he kept running, i killed him to see that he had a viper 5 with ammo but he didnt used it, weird bug

[surreal jackal]

If I can't find any information about it, then it doesn't exist either.

but still people are mad about a-life not existing in stalker 2 at release.

[surreal jackal]

no offense, sounds like you describe something that doesn't exist. Very few ever know how the first stalker game was without mods, often reality is washed out with mods.

[ripe storm]

theres file called character_desc_simulaton.xml and mostly contain some npc with weapons,ranks and dialog and you can find them around the zone.

they have random generated name

they often fighting with mutants and spawn in different areas.

or fight with their opposite faction.

[surreal jackal]

This might be true but why I don't find any information about this, some have said artificial life is one of the reasons they played stalker in the first place.

[ripe storm]

??

[surreal jackal]

Stalker is known for A-life, but at the same time I found nothing about it.

[velvet turtle]

you can see NPCs like wolf migrate to army warehouses, and while almost all NPCs do it you can use quests that track NPCs to see it in action

including whenever the brain scorcher and the miracle machine is turned off

https://youtu.be/w0ImdCEZZTk?si=Es0d4wRC1Zl24noJ

great video on the development of SoC that talks about it

[surreal jackal]

Yeah I have seen this great video years ago

[late condor]

We have soc code fully available to us, you are welcome to study it

Unlike s2 which is a black box with some exposed variable names

[surreal jackal]

my point is there is hardly any information about a-life and people are still not satisfied with the a-life 1.1 patch in stalker 2.

I don't understand it

[velvet turtle]

there's plenty of info about a-life in the trilogy, as it's been replicated many times in mods

[late condor]

You see it in person. NPC persistence, offline fights, movement even on other locations. In S2 people don’t see that happening so they’re naturally upset.

[velvet turtle]

https://blackshellmedia.com/2017/08/12/a-life-an-insight-into-ambitious-ai/

this does a decent job explaining the basics, even if some of the examples are a little eh

[surreal jackal]

In my vanilla stalker game I never saw fights outside of main Questline I played a lot the first game

[velvet turtle]

please inform yourself

educate yourself, NOW

[ripe storm]

huh?

[late condor]

How lol

[ripe storm]

i bet you just focusing main quest

because thats not main thing in stalker.

[velvet turtle]

even with the main quest you should still see something

[ripe storm]

yes

[velvet turtle]

could just be someone lying on the internet

crazy, I know

[ripe storm]

internet is place where fill with misinformation sometimes so yeah

its not like typical cod where everything linear

the timeline is same but theres different random action

either theres gang of bandits,soldiers patroling on garbage,and much more

[velvet turtle]

like the squads wandering agroprom, and the bandits in the garbage

[ripe storm]

i mean you cant see them but they are exist

i encounter group of spetsnaz though in the fence of carpark

[velvet turtle]

you can wander into them

you can also SEE them move in CS

[ripe storm]

and some 2 veterans bandits in garbage (brown trenchcoats)

did anyone ever see Wolf alive in Army Warehouses?

i always saw him sleep in the campfire

[graceful horizon]

Taking a little spice-nap

[trail ice]

oh man i just got out of that godforsaken agroprom underground

now i have to deal with military

[granite jungle]

They aren't too bad, just gotta go berserk on them

[ripe storm]

just land a headshot

[trail ice]

i ran out of mp5 and ak ammo and double barrel doesn't do crap 😭

and i only discovered i could open the crates right after getting out of agroprom underground

[ripe storm]

loot some bodies

or if you lucky you can rush to Strelok hideout to get some AKs ammo and theres op weapons that can throught mid game that is Fast Shooting AKM

[trail ice]

i do, why do they all have like <10 5.45mm rounds in each body

[ripe storm]

try not rapid shoot it and best thing is shoot in single mode by pressing 9

[ripe storm]

sir,this is stalker soc channels not anomaly

[analog adder]

my bad @raw wren

[ripe storm]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications go to here if you wanna ask something about modding related stuff

[warm osprey]

anyone know how to install the ExtraHD mod for Radiophobia 3??

[graceful horizon]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[finite yew]

I found shotguns (using buckshot, my favourite) Never works that well on armoured human targets, even close range I've struggled to kill guys with one quickly (again, using buckshot, just because)

[torpid rapids]

Unload enemy weapons too.

[trail ice]

I did all that except for checking crates

I guess it's on me for using too much ammo on the bandits i guess

[trail ice]

Is it just me or do they have the GoldSrc explosion sfx in this game?

[ripe storm]

I mean,most stalker trilogy use stock sound effect even Old build of SoC use CS 1.6 sounds

[trail ice]

Oh no wonder

[ripe storm]

i love stock sound effects

[graceful horizon]

Always amusing to hear them pop up in random places

[trail ice]

shoutout to the stalker who gave me the PSO-1 scope i will always remember you

[graceful horizon]

Based Bullet

[ripe storm]

Ah you in Dark Valley now

[trail ice]

gotta free that dutyer

[finite yew]

Been offered the gauss rifle yet? Don't leave dark valley until you see the merchant for it

[graceful horizon]

Steal of a deal, that one

[finite yew]

He keeps offering me it when I'd go back that way for safety or supplies when running through,
NO, I already got what i wanted, just leave me alone and let me take shelter dammit. His company is, quite friendly

[trail ice]

oh, where is that? i haven't encountered that yet

already in X-18 (poltergeists are scary)

[finite yew]

Dark valley, I'm sure it was some info verbally given to me by some.... soldier I may have helped? In a building I think, possibly near (right side of) the giant set of buildings at the north. There's some big Silos nearby.

I'd never realised they were 'poltergeist' and could be shot. I was expecting something in a physical form, like in the PDA description

[tired trout]

Poltergeist can easily drain your ammo if you dont know where to shoot. Shoot slightly above the colour thingy.

[trail ice]

oh hello jayko

[tired trout]

Sus yo

[tired trout]

playing SoC for the first time or just replaying the OG Trilogy before playing S2?

[trail ice]

first time

i can't play Stalker 2 anyway because i only have GTX 1050Ti 😔

but so far i'm already having fun with SoC

[granite jungle]

Top quality game

[graceful horizon]

It's highly based there's still newcomers to the og trilogy who enjoy them.

[late condor]

I think most weapon sounds are unique cause they were recorded on THQ gun range, it’s one of the reasons they had to replace them in CS when their contract with THQ was no longer valid.

[hollow mason]

Hey there, does anyone know how to complete the mission "Find the Strelok's stash"? I'm in the military base but I can't find the stash.

[granite jungle]

It is in the underground

[graceful horizon]

any clues in the mission description?

[hollow mason]

To be hones I'm kinda confused, I went to an specific area, then help some Loners to kill military, they showed me an underground entrance. I got there and cleared the whole area, got some bandits and military.

If I get out I appear in a military base (Already cleared), in that base I found some documents for another missions. I couldn't find the stash.

If I come back to the loners that teached me how to get underground, they repeat the same dialogs and I don't want to walk all the way to the first base you get in the game.

[tired trout]

Oh relax, when you're done with the trilogy, there are plenty of free mods/standalone stalker games you can play.

[finite yew]

Tunnel/sewer grate entrance is closer to some trees

[finite yew]

Ahhhh, you missed the side tunnel where you encountered the blood suckers. There'll be some boxes beside a wall with a hole cut out of the concrete with a ladder that goes up to a hidden room, where stewloks stash is located

You'd have to go back underground through the grate near the trees, the underground tunnel/corridor where the secret entrance is, will also have a giant concrete pillar tha5s fallen down and is on like a 35° angle. I used that to hide from blood suckers while I shot them. But Streloks secret entrance is like 3m away

Strelok* stewlok lol

[late condor]

Check out the quest description, it should have a map attached.

[tacit herald]

why are guns so innacurate in this game?

[trail ice]

I got scammed bruh

Screw you vanka hood

[late condor]

cause you use cheap guns and dont aim

[hollow mason]

Thanks a lot, it worked.

[finite yew]

What, he seemed like a good guy, he said the money was going to a good cause. His last name is 'Good' afterall?

Hmph, good for nothing pos took my money and walked away. I threw a grenade at him and shot his bodyguards. Now everytime Id go back there I just spray them with bullets. Get your money back from their looted corpses lol

[late condor]

It’s a weirdly translated “Robin Hood” lol

And it’s not his name, it’s LotZ lazy authors being really bad at identifying unique characters when writing subtitles

Mataboo really sucks lol

[trail ice]

Yeah, right after he told me to scram i started spraying

[finite yew]

Hahahaha Sorry. You probably thought "THIS MFer, LIED to me, I want my damn Gauss rifle, and $800 back"

[finite yew]

I was playing dumb haha I was disappointed but half expecting to be shot first when I first went there. Thought it was funny his name was Robin Good, too. Still kill him every chance I get though

What can you expect for $800, really, a gauss rifle? Haha too damn good to be true, that one was. It seemed fishy from the moment I was told about it

[grizzled rock]

rouxorcfop has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[trail ice]

See you!

[finite yew]

Tisk tisk

[trail ice]

bruh the military soldiers are blocking the door in X-18

their AKs and hands are sticking out but it doesn't seem like they'll die from getting shot in the hands

[rotund saddle]

where can I read it?

[torpid rapids]

I remember killing other players in Medal of Honor back in the day, shooting people in the feet and hands lol. I won't apologise for a crack shot sniper. Even managed to snipe players from far distances too, even getting accused of cheating too lol. And i have no regrets about being that good either.

But then there is, always this, "instinct" when to take the shot and when not too as well.

Like a Wolf, waiting for it's moment.

[rotund saddle]

but you hate them because they use ZRP

[graceful horizon]

ZRP is fine, we save that for GAMMA/Anomaly ; )

Jokes aside, I don't object to anyone playing however they want. It only becomes problematic when they try to sell mod content as canon

[rotund saddle]

not if you ask @late condor

[graceful horizon]

My opinion is my own

[trail ice]

i play vanilla

[finite yew]

I'd like to see what that games code looks like haha

[finite yew]

This is the way

[fluid silo]

hey so this is my first stalker game n i must say im enjoying my experience but holy shit it is hard 😭

[finite yew]

Stay behind cover and peak out. Headshots are your friend

[fluid silo]

game is very pretty i will say

[fluid silo]

yeah ammo is not a grace it seems here n i like it

[rotund saddle]

always headshot, no point shooting the body

[finite yew]

It's okay to take tour time too, if you can. Enemy accuracy is locked at a 80% value so they will miss, you may just need to sprint to a new hiding spot if youre getting nailed because I reckon their accuracy gets better the longer you're in one spot lol

Higher difficulty also means they respond a lot faster. Going from master difficulty down to Stalker was boring because they take way too long to respond for my liking

Stock up on AP rounds if you want, but I went through the vanilla version on my Switch on Master difficulty and didn't use AP rounds until I got to prypiat. Headshots with a good rifle can still drop people but AP will do it faster. Just best used with a scope and single shots

Keep unique gear and weapons you find instead of handing them in to mission givers who ask for them. You'll lose it then and they don't respawn.

When you get to dark valley, be sure to find a soldier who is in need of assistance, he'll point you in the direction of a guy who had a really good deal you don't want to miss before you leave

[grizzled rock]

maloy8889 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[fluid silo]

whats master difficulty? i only have veteran

[ripe storm]

huh?

are talking about stalker 2 or original trilogy?

[fluid silo]

stalker 2

[late condor]

Wrong channel buddy

[fluid silo]

oh.

😭

[queen kiln]

is there anyway to stop Sakharov from saying “Hello, Hello” repeatedly

[iron veldt]

Vanilla, I don’t think so. Zone Reclamation Project fixes quickly repeated dialogue, like that, “Get out of here, Stalker”, etc.

[sonic nest]

Hello, im new to the stalker trilogy

I have stalker 2 but im waiting for my laptop upgrade

[finite yew]

OMG I NEED that on the Switch version, can they patch that in? Hahaha God those repeated lines are so annoying. Especially the "hey Stalker come over here, I've got some information that could be of some use to you"

[iron veldt]

Get out of here, Stalker.
Get out of here, Stalker.
Get out of heGet out of here, Stalker.

[trail ice]

I don't think i should've bought the Groza S-14 from Semenov

Goddamn why is it more expensive than a 5.45 S14 from Sidorovich

Maybe i should've bought the SGI 5k from barkeep instead?

[late condor]

It is piss easy to make money in this game, you won't ruin your playthrough cause you spent it on the wrong thing.

[trail ice]

Thanks

I'll just scavenge everything then sell before going to brain scorcher

[trail ice]

Wow Skull is dripped out as hell

look at that exoskeleton and groza

huh? why's he dead after i killed the sniper?

[rotund saddle]

any character can die

[warm crystal]

"I want to be rich" incoming

[trail ice]

"I need to be able to afford exoskeleton"

[finite yew]

Because he just stands in the one spot without moving while the Sniper shoots him. It's dumb, I had to lower the difficulty as on Master, he was dying too quickly because the sniper can see him. But he can't see the Sniper.

[finite yew]

You can't sprint in exoskeletons. I got my first one during the CNPP gauntlet, tested it out then immediately dropped it

[trail ice]

Yeah, i read about that but wasn't sure

What about the 160,000 ruble military suit?

[limpid rain]

im new to pc and modding on pc im trying to download the starter pack mod just for fast easy enjoyment now ive got up to the point were i can have one mod running correctly however once i start moving the second gamedata file over the game no longer starts crash on launch however before this problem begins windows files ASK me to check 2 files that are both the same from each data file so im certain this is the problem however i cant find a fix or remedy and alot of guides say to make back ups of your vanilla game i tried that and after a broke the orginal file i could get the back up to launch so i completely restored the first one PLZ HELP I CANT FIQURE IT OUT

ON soc

[late condor]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications for mod talk, this is vanilla channel (also sstarter pack is shit and should never be used, not by starters not by anyone else)

[limpid rain]

like i said im new to stalker modding all the guides kept recommending starter pack and i can only get one running

[quiet rock]

I accidentally cleared shadow of chernobyl too fast

Its my first time playing and I must say, the game is really good for the time, it was really fun

[late condor]

is it your first playthorugh or did you play before and now modding it?

[limpid rain]

now modding it

[late condor]

there are far better mods if you've already played the game that will provide actually new experience gameplay-wise, amk is a classic, but better switch that discussion to #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[quiet rock]

Are there any major improvements from SoC to CoP? Like in terms of mappings and gameplay

[late condor]

Yes all games in the series have unique gameplay loops, even though the most mechanics are shared the games tend to focus on very different things

Idk what you mean by mappings

And don’t skip CS it’s the best one in the series

[rotund saddle]

@late condor is it true that trilogy is going to get updates in 2025 that add the updates and changes made for the console release?

[late condor]

Yes that’s mentioned in #📰┃announcement channel

Post from 20/12

[rotund saddle]

do you know what did they change/add?

[late condor]

There are a bunch of changes but you will probably not be aware of most of the issues it attempts to fix if you never played vanilla anyway, the fixes are low quality and it’s evident Mataboo did not do their research, many issues are fixed in the wrong way and a lot of new bugs are added

[rotund saddle]

are you gonna play it?

[late condor]

https://stalker-fandom-com.translate.goog/ru/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Legends_of_the_Zone_Trilogy?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Here’s a (machine translated) incomplete changelog

[late condor]

I played it on console already, it’s 90% the same game but I will play legacy editions because the few improvements are not worth the rest of LotZ issues for me personally

[rotund saddle]

but if I have the steam version I will be forced to update it

[late condor]

We do not know if LotZ will be shipped as a separate branch / launch option / store entry. Hopefully but there has been no official statement on how GSC plans to release this

[cunning dock]

whenever i try to enter the dark valley my game crashes, im playing vanilla and i cant seem to find a fix. Anyone got any ideas?

[late condor]

Without the crash log guessing is useless

[quiet rock]

Poltergeists are so annoying man

The one in x-18 kept on respawning

[ripe storm]

no, they are not respawning

they scattered around X-18

[quiet rock]

Oh dam

They arent like too powerful but man, they are annoying

[ripe storm]

you can wipe them out using Fast Shooting AK.

[trail ice]

What's the purpose of Not adjusted psi-helmet? It's in my inventory but i can neither drop it nor wear it

[dense blaze]

Hello, does anyone have a link to a modding server?

I downloaded the MOTZ pack but all it gave me was a single txt file that's like 5gb

[graceful horizon]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[dense blaze]

Tkz

[rotund saddle]

where did you get it?

[ripe storm]

let me guess: Kruglov or Semenov didnt alive during that quest

[trail ice]

kruglov didn't survive the measurements mission in my situation

[ripe storm]

rip

[trail ice]

i don't even know how you can manage to keep him alive

the guy is a big-ass liability

[ripe storm]

make sure quicksave in same specific area and you always need to be front not npc.

[trail ice]

eh too late

already finished x-16 and didn't make a manual save

[ripe storm]

X-16

[trail ice]

ya idk why the 6 didn't register

[ripe storm]

can you show me your loot?

[trail ice]

my inventory?

[ripe storm]

yeah

[trail ice]

damn i can't send images

[ripe storm]

hmm maybe send it in #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[trail ice]

thanks

[ripe storm]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message nice

also, you can get quest randomly by Voronin

he may give you 9x39 bullets for your Groza and Vintorez

as reward for completing that quest of course

[trail ice]

I did, it's pretty cool to get ammo from him

I wonder when he'll give me the quest where i can get Sniper VLA

[rancid tiger]

Hello players of the best stalker game

[wispy burrow]

i ran into the bug where he got stuck in the bunker door and I didn't realize this mission was so buggy

[finite yew]

I kept him alive on Master difficulty. Tried taking it slow to pick off zombies but he kept dying so I figured f$&k it and just ran ahead of him and headshot everything I could, drew their attention to me and saved whenever I took out a new group that was coming

I think, for keeping him alive, you're given a powerful suit from the scientist behind the counter

As well as the helmet. Unless the suit reward is for another mission you can do for him?

[rotund saddle]

I kept him alive on the 2nd try on master, I wouldn't say it was difficult

[finite yew]

Just have to know where his threats will come from and be quick about stopping them.

I think I lowed difficulty for one arena challenge. Then put it back up for the next one and was going to change it back down again but it ended up being the easiest fight in the whole arena. Like 5 dudes and they had crap pistols or something.

Challenge before that I think was kill an exoskeleton dude with the damn knife, and before that had 3 heavily armored soldiers with good guns. One had a spaz, he kept getting me,

[wispy burrow]

amazed after 10 years this game still crashes on me

[rotund saddle]

there were no official patches for the past 10 years, why wouldn't it?

[late condor]

You “wear” it as long as you have it in your inventory

Unadjusted just means phantoms start spawning earlier it’s not a big deal

[wispy burrow]

I would have thought they fixed all the issues before ending support

[late condor]

You need it to complete brain scorcher quest and it stays on you after that

[trail ice]

Huh, noted
I thought it wasn't working due to radiation in Red Forest, but that's something out if my control i guess

[rotund saddle]

you can install the unofficial ZRP patch

[late condor]

Not on switch lol

[wispy burrow]

this game is out on switch?!

[late condor]

There are thousands of issues left in the game. A lot of stuff that is meant to be in there but just isn’t

[finite yew]

F%&k yeah it is

[late condor]

LotZ released on switch in October yes

[finite yew]

That's how I'm playing the trilogy. Finished SoC on Master, CS is 90% done on Stalker and I'm in Zaton in CoP on Veteran

Got the funniest video ever on SoC of a guy I shot in the head in the starting buildings of Wild Territory, he sky rocketed through the building, straight to heaven

CS is quite bugged for me at the tunnel to Lymansk.
CoP so far everything's going swimmingly. I'm keeping 6 saves that I cycle through each time

[wispy burrow]

holy F looking at the ZRP crash notes, this game

[rotund saddle]

you mean the change log?

[wispy burrow]

I'm looking at the metacognix page and the Crashes in SoC section

[rotund saddle]

bro I can make 200k in a day and buy an exo

[wispy burrow]

100k weekly is choke change

20k coupons ia a good haul

in one day

[rotund saddle]

the carry weight limit in SoC makes it harder to farm but then artifacts are just lying around

[wispy burrow]

artifacts respawn in SoC?

or only on dead peeps and missions?

[rotund saddle]

they respawn

[cunning dock]

where do i find the crash log?

[late condor]

they don't

[late condor]

yes

[wispy burrow]

yea I've been walking by the downed scientists helicopter where I found a bunch of electric type artifacts and they haven't come back yet

all corpses/stashes now

[late condor]

depends on if its gog or steam install

[proper lotus]

This is more a technical issue than an in game one but I can't get shadow to go into a proper windowed mode so I can switch monitors

[wispy burrow]

has anyone done this network mode with the game before? what is it like a bunch of friends or randoms can play together in storyline of this game?

[finite yew]

Whaaaat? I assume thats only PC?

[wispy burrow]

yea

oh I see they're just type of game match modes

team deathmatch, artifact hunt, etc

[rotund saddle]

I'm pretty sure I visited the junkyard that's filled with anomalies next to rookie village more than once and got an artifact each time

[rotund saddle]

for coop you need the mod Shadow of Coop

[wispy burrow]

omg the bugs in this game lol, destroy the duty company suppose to have max start a briefing, and they're all just standing there on the bridge with nothing happening

[late condor]

you never played unmodded game though

maybe it's another one of zrp's additions, who knows

[late condor]

yes, cut in lotz

[late condor]

pretty sure the question was about multiplayer in original soc, not mods lol

[rotund saddle]

there is no point in playing without ZRP anyway, unless you enjoy bugs and crashes

[rotund saddle]

but he asked about coop

[late condor]

zrp is only a thing in english-speaking communtiy in the first place, all stalker fans from eastern europe have played the game vanilla for years and still do, there is no stuff that's gamebreaking enough for vanilla game to not be playable

there was on release, there isn't anymore, a few bugs here and there but it's a stupid thing to trade off authenticity of vanilla game for a few fixes lol

[wispy burrow]

well the bugs are annoying but meh I'll trudge through it

[rotund saddle]

I didn't know bug fixes had nationalities

[rotund saddle]

you define "authenticity of vanilla game" as sprinting with X instead of Shift so you could be described as a Stalker extremist

[late condor]

being fussy enough to trade off original experience as dev intended for fixes of issues that you may not even encounter is, for some reason, purely a western thing

[wispy burrow]

i'm fine either way I might try out the ZRP after the vanilla run

i'm just starting to recognize areas from my play with stalker 2

[late condor]

which is fine cause it's a vanilla+ mod

good for a replay, not for your first experience with the game

[wispy burrow]

i mean if it's t rue GSC is planning to do some patches with the trilogy games that'd be great

[rotund saddle]

what original experience? bugs and crashes?

[rotund saddle]

nobody replays games, buddy

[wispy burrow]

well I am playing this game again after 10 years

[rotund saddle]

replay every 10 years, yeah

because of Stalker 2?

[wispy burrow]

mm I forgot how much fun stalker was

[ripe storm]

Huh killing a bounty that same faction as yours dosent affect reputation within faction you in.

When i kill Vampire only few of them hostiles.

[grizzled rock]

surdno has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ripe storm]

Reet just.. Well like npc

[graceful horizon]

POTTYMOUTH

[late condor]

im talking about bunch of stupid stuff you get bundled with those "fixes"

[late condor]

in this case, full vanilla lol

if you dont replay it, stay clear of any mods, including "unofficial patches"

you ruined your experience, no need to come here and advise others to ruin theirs

[graceful horizon]

"Nobody replays games"... I rarely pick up anything new

[late condor]

loners just do not have a sympathy system enabled in soc, no matter who you kill it only affects their mates, the rest of the faction will not care

only freedom and duty has an overall relationship that goes down when you kill somebody

and in cs pretty much everyone has it

[ripe storm]

"Nobody replays game"

Me replaying my favorite games quantillion times:

[graceful horizon]

How about the bandits when you join freedom through the glitch?

[late condor]

"Nobody replays games"

my brother in christ we have tejas stalker in this chat

[ripe storm]

I guess i should be careful

[late condor]

i would call it "not fully cut feature" not a glitch but yeah no sympathy either, can kill them all you want

[graceful horizon]

Potato potato

[ripe storm]

No matter bored you are, you always come back that game you played

[graceful horizon]

Only if you played good games in the past

[rotund saddle]

like what? one dialog change for Wolf? lol

[ripe storm]

ZRP aint fixes shit

[rotund saddle]

I would probably have never finished if it was crashing like people say it does

[rotund saddle]

yeah because I didn't sprint with X

[graceful horizon]

Nowadays the crashes are actually few and far between imho

[rotund saddle]

I also used a script to hold shift to sprint, the horror!

[rotund saddle]

wasn't the last SoC patch released 15 years ago? why do you say "nowadays"?

[graceful horizon]

Because I played unpatched for a long time back in the day

[rotund saddle]

1% of all gamers

[ripe storm]

False

[graceful horizon]

Ask around about who doesn't have a game with 1000+ hours

Single player games

[rotund saddle]

unpatched as in version 1.000?

[graceful horizon]

Yeah

[wispy burrow]

ok red forest is way more scarier than I would have guessed

everything is bulleting me to death very fast

[graceful horizon]

Yeah it's like they don't want you there or something

[wispy burrow]

wait really? I'm not suppose to go up there yet?

[ripe storm]

But we actually called them Radar in SoC

[wispy burrow]

I'm on the brain scorcher mission

[graceful horizon]

Nah if the main mission says so you should be there, I'm just talking about the monolithians being poor hosts

[wispy burrow]

oh yea i have to fight from a distance, they kill way too fast

and I need better armor than the stalker one

[ripe storm]

Monolith

[graceful horizon]

You can find some on that map

[wispy burrow]

I found the duty one already but saving it until my current armor becomes swiss cheese

[ripe storm]

Buy SEVA suit from Sakharov

[wispy burrow]

oh yea is that the best one besides the 160k one? I'm like 150k right now I was trying to save up to buy that armor instead

[ripe storm]

Or you can use Skat 9 which provide more protection against bullet

[wispy burrow]

I really wish you could repair in this game but it seems like the flow of the game and item drops makes it not too bad

[late condor]

the games that introduced repairs had stuff break faster, so in soc the game is balanced around you having more durability on items

but you have to switch them yes, the intention is that you wear through one item to find another

[late condor]

people who say it's crashing have never played it lol

[wispy burrow]

eh to be fair I've had the game crash on me 3 times vanilla

[rotund saddle]

is there a list of things that ZRP changes that you don't like?

[rotund saddle]

what about saving in Pripyat?

[wispy burrow]

ok... they have a rocket launcher

[late condor]

it's still a hit or miss, i personally never experienced it lol

there is not a single STABLE crash that is GUARANTEED to happen, and since you talk about pripyat, that's 80% of the game already completed

sure you did not mean "no crashes for the first 80% of the game" when you said about people saying how often soc crashes

i'm not saying soc has no issues, but they're not significant, you can easily avoid them and by no means is playing vanilla unstable

[rotund saddle]

so all your saves in Pripyat work?

[late condor]

yes, i haven't gotten pripyat save corruption

maybe you need to stay there for a long time or save in specific areas idk

[rotund saddle]

define "long time"

you zoom through it in 15 minutes?

[finite yew]

The most unstable SoC was for me, was it would freeze for 3 or 4 seconds if i sprinted in to Rostok from Wild Territory. Sometimes I'd get a frame drop in Prypiat but I had to be doing alot for that to happen

[late condor]

the freezes are npcs loading, and i guess it's mostly a switch issue, it's a small (0.1s) freeze on other devices

devs tried to have less npcs in SOME areas on switch to reduce freezing like cs yantar and cop yuvileiny service center, but soc bar was left untouched

so it's more of a hardware issue tbh and fan patches make no attempt to fix this

[late condor]

idk, several hours at least? i usually complete the main missions, then go back, then come back there for the final stretch

[rotund saddle]

this also happened to me with ZRP

[finite yew]

Going in to the 100 rsds bar was barely an issue, and I'd sprint in with my high sensitivities, turning quickly etc.
If I walked in to Rostok, it was fine, no real slowing down.

The most slowing down I ever experienced was in CS and that's whenever I went in to 1 particular stash box where I stored probably 80% all stash kept. Storing more stuff in it like more grenades, medical supplies and ammo, would slow the game down heaps. Yet I could pull anything out of the stash really fast.

[finite yew]

I was wondering if much was changed for the switch version. Figured the fog being closer was the main thing, to reduce render distance.
Skadovsk in CoP had quite a few npc hanging around it at all times too. But overall CS seemed to have less people everywhere, it felt quite empty compared to SoC

[rotund saddle]

@late condor you like my meme?

[late condor]

which meme

[late condor]

rostok is entire area that covers both bar and wild territory

[finite yew]

What, really. I thought rostok was thrust that entire complex that duty and stalkers occupied, with the bar being a neutral zone for everyone

[late condor]

The game does refer to both occasionally as Rostok making it confusing as if it's either of them but yeah it's the entire factory

[finite yew]

So what's the buildings surrounding the bar called? I never really worked out what kind of building or factory it was

[late condor]

half of it is occupied by stalkers and duty - that's bar, another half is not occupied by anyone - that's wild territory

[late condor]

that's the location name, Bar, which contains both 100 rads bar and duty base

[finite yew]

That's the train yards area with all the electrical anomalies

Ah right, that's right duty eventually allows you in their side of it, for like one mission

[rotund saddle]

in #🤨┃stalker_memes

[late condor]

I assume the implication is that people playing ZRP eat their fruits with condoms

[rotund saddle]

someone compared playing vanilla to rawdogging and I thought it was funny

[graceful horizon]

[finite yew]

What's wrong with vanilla?

I'll tell you what's wrong, the damn RGD grenades coming with an automatic return-to-sender function. Half my deaths were from my own grenades that I threw across fields

[late condor]

What lol

Btw does switch also lack a function to hold a grenade to throw it further?

Cause Xbox does not have it, wonder about switch

[rotund saddle]

They should ship it as a separate branch, unless they want everyone's saves to break.

[late condor]

it's far beyond saves, it's any existing mods breaking too

and also anyon who still plays multiplayer would likely not be happy

[finite yew]

In all 3 games I can press LB to do a short toss, useless really imo. And RB for a throw. That's a set distance and if I want something to go further I aim higher or jump and throw

[late condor]

But you can’t hold it to control the throw distance

I wonder if it’s cut or broken hm

[finite yew]

But RB is akin to a good grenade throw in say, Call of Duty.
Though I'm sure the RDG-5 grenades can be thrown further than the other

[quiet rock]

I went back with more difficulty and man

The undeads are far more tankier than I expected

[granite jungle]

It is headshots or bust with zombies pretty much

[quiet rock]

Can you fix the armor?

[graceful horizon]

If you get over 100% anomaly protection from just artifacts and stand in an anomaly of their respective damage type

Like 4+ batteries and electro anomalies

[rotund saddle]

headshots only in this game, headshot everything

[finite yew]

Armors cannot be fixed or repaired, that mechanic starts with Clear Sky , but everything last quite a while as it is, you won't be swapping out much

[granite jungle]

By the time your armor is badly damaged, you should be able to find a better one anyway

[wispy burrow]

yea I've found the game to be pretty generous having spare armors laying around if you look a bit in the new areas

[finite yew]

Even on Master, I didn't need to swap stuff out due to low durability.
I used named weapons as well, they almost don't degrade lol

[late condor]

Well it can technically be repaired with anomalies

And not just anomalies…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8-opMLE0cEE

[finite yew]

HA. That's just weird and so funny that it does that

[late condor]

Found the anomaly repair vid https://youtube.com/watch?v=B2GpWBOCaJo

[finite yew]

I never found myself jn need of any repairs. Guns jamming was just a cool aspect amd I wanted to keep it happening occasionally

[late condor]

It takes a bit to farm those artifacts so it’s almost never worth it, just a funny little unintended mechanic with >100% protection stacking

[finite yew]

Was going to say, he's got heaps of the one artifact, pretty sure I didn't find that many

[hollow mason]

Is there any way to repair your guns? I want to bring my favourite gun back to life.

[wispy burrow]

you enjoy what little time left you have with that gun

red forest is not a place I'd like to have my game crash in

[rough nexus]

go to a tech, select the gun you want to repair and press R (if not on pc the button should display on the bottom right)

[late condor]

I just posted two vids xd

You need to get >100% protection with artifacts

[late condor]

There are no techs in soc

[wispy burrow]

oh god red forest keeps crashing

[ancient orchid]

I just started today, and I love the way the trader says “Good Hunt Stalker”

[vast mirage]

Ya very great nostalgia

[hollow mason]

What artefacts can do that?

[vast mirage]

Ones for electro is battery

[late condor]

Shell, Battery, Pellicle, Spring all have 30% anomaly resistance. You need at least 4 instances of the same artifact to get 120% resistance.

[ancient orchid]

Do y’all think you’d be able to survive in the zone

[wispy burrow]

no

after playing stalker 2 and vaguegly remembering stalker SoC, playing SoC again it's wild to recognize some of the areas and landmarks, especially the exit areas

in stalker 2 I'm like this looks like something I should be able to enter, and it turns out it's lab x18's exit so no wonder I can't climb in

[late condor]

Insane that you don’t immediately recognize all the retcons and stuff that no longer makes sense lol

[wispy burrow]

yea the map position for sure made me like oh they changed locations

[ancient orchid]

I think I’d do the same thing the Main Character did. Take random jobs in the zone and try to survive as best as I can while avoiding anamolies

[wispy burrow]

er wait that was xlab-16's exit in Yantar

[late condor]

X16 was cut from s2 iirc

Along with many more areas

[finite yew]

I was looking at CoP map, and it left me confused on locations in previous games. Isn't CNPP meant to be just above Prypiat? In CoP, zaron is NW of prypiat, but I can't see no blurred areas that would resemble the CNPP.
I didn't recognise Prypiat until I zoomed in on an OOB area and recognised the building with the curved wall amd the Ferris wheel just north of it

[late condor]

CoP shows a different area of Pripyat and two new locations, so while they do not perfectly line up with soc/cs map, there are no contradictions

S2 is just… fully remade map that makes many events of old games impossible

It works well as a standalone game but it sucks as a continuation (lore wise)

[finite yew]

I was reading the location names and didn't think it was prypiat as I was still trying to look for a square shaped city that you see on SoC map. Then I seen the buildings that aren't accessible and realised its the right side of prypiat with the port. So in SoC we would have been going down the center-ish and left side

[finite yew]

Yes, I seen. I don't like it lol I like sticking to what's already been set in stone

[late condor]

I agree, I think redoing the map within established lore was the worst thing they could come up with.

[finite yew]

I GUESS you can sort of understand why, but at the same time also, WHYYY? they could have added new locations and placed them in fitting new locations in the already established map, just placed somewhere else. Now anyone who goes from the first game+exp to S2 will be confused as it makes no sense. I know I'd be trying to make sense of it, like did I miss something, did someone day something about the zone changing. No lore related explanations?

Was it ultimately easier to do? From a design pov. Or more so reasons outside the game?

How are you supposed to make sense of it in S2, coming from the trilogy haha

They not care about their already established lore?
An oversight realised too late?

[late condor]

They wanted to redo the geography for the game map to be closer to real life, eg by moving Pripyat to the north from CNPP. But many other changes were not even dictated by that, eg merging Zaton with Swamps is just meh.

[late condor]

They decided that it does not matter I guess, the game is full of fan service and little references (eg you meet a lot of old characters and many descriptions are almost word to word with trilogy) and yet it has such HUGE gaping issues in the lore

It’s geography but it’s also other stuff. I won’t spoil it but they really retconned the entirety of Clear Sky plot and added a really weird MacGuffin to CoP plot both of which ruin the existing storylines a bit

[finite yew]

I guess if you don't like your own established lore, just change it 🤷‍♂️
Bit of a gut punch to the og fans I think.

Do they not keep track of their lore? Maybe they need a Tablet with a means of storing and recording all the games knowledge and lore lol

[wispy burrow]

I do think it's interesting how the map is one long path to the reactor, I kinda liked that design but man I do not like how the missions rewards require you to travel to far away places to cash it in, and if you don't complete the mission in time you get a failure with a rep hit

i'm like come on

[feral flower]

What difficulty do y'all think is best to get the full experience of Shadow of Chernobyl?

[finite yew]

I'd say Master, as I went through and it felt rewarding. HARD, but damn proud of myself at the end. But some things, ooh, something things I had to beat on Veteran just to get past it.

Try Veteran at least. Bullets hurt enough that you feel like staying close to cover whenever you are going to be engaging someone. Though realistically Master difficulty is a level playing field with you having no increased resistance over the npcs. Enemy accuracy stays at 80% no matter difficulty, whilst yours stays at 100%
Loot drops aren't affected by different difficulties either

[feral flower]

Nice! I'll give master a try and maybe veteran too. I just got the original stalker trilogy on console and have been wanting to dive into the world! Thank you

[late condor]

Loot drops aren't affected by different difficulties either
They are though?

Random breakable box contents and dead body loot is directly affected by difficulty level

not whether an item but will appear, but if it does, in what amount. mainly affects ammo and consumables

[finite yew]

@feral flower the chart I have says loot isn't effected in SoC? I'll send it to you. For CS and CoP it says it changes.

Nope, I was wrong. It just doesn't have colours to seperate the games like it does the other changes, but does state each difficulty offers a lower quantity of loot

[wispy burrow]

last part of the game was hard

the only one in the reactor area

[jovial pawn]

never played w mods

like if you explore the game, even a little bit you should see things

[torpid rapids]

there is stutering after emision and eventualy crashes if you dont restart, where to report problem?

[velvet turtle]

in the scripted one in the middle or at the end?

[torpid rapids]

random one

after emision

[wispy burrow]

oh the ending part wit hthe whole fight and emission was wild, I wanted to watch but the helicopter kept shooting at me

[torpid rapids]

i was in house while emision hits and didnt notice, when ended i got out and then it started stutering but it was feling like aproximitly every 4 seconds

[torpid rapids]

wait what helicopter? i finished game and never saw helicopter shotin at me

[wispy burrow]

uhh so as you enter the chernobyl area and you're trying to head into the sarcophagus, you're fighting all the monolithians trying to reach it, and then you see a bunch of military helicopters flying over head to the reactor

after a couple explode or go down, one of the helicopters is actively shooting all the NPCs on the ground, including you

you must have run really fast or stayed hidden in cover when you went through the area, same area where the emission countdown occurs

[feral oar]

Stalker 2 or stalker soc?

[torpid rapids]

stalker 2

[feral oar]

Then this is a chanel for stalker shadow of chernobyl the first game of the series from 2007 go to a chanel for S2

[torpid rapids]

ok i didnt know that

[rotund saddle]

yeah there are no emissions in soc lol

[graceful horizon]

There's 1

[rigid flare]

I dont know where else to say it.
Was gifted the game. Thought,...not much of it. Then Ir ead on the company and what they went through. Well worth the gift.
I wish I could buy the deluxe edition by just paying the difference to simply support the company.

The game has much potential!!!

PSZ-91 Falcon, suggestion should have some psi protection since the associated helmet does have psi protection. It is a great armor but lack of psi protection sadly made me change it.

[velvet turtle]

there's 2 scripted ones

[velvet turtle]

this is for SoC, not HoC

[oblique wraith]

anyone i have problem, everytime i loot someone, and use item while it in their inventory (dead body) i got crash any fixes to it

[rotund saddle]

SoC continues to impress people in 2024

[rotund saddle]

don't use items in the body you're looting, loot the item first, then use it

[oblique wraith]

i see ty o7

[late condor]

You can downgrade to patch 1.0005 to fix this

If you don’t intend to play multiplayer there are no side effects

[rotund saddle]

what about everything else that 1.0006 fixes

[late condor]

what does it fix?

[rotund saddle]

you tell me, master

[late condor]

nothing in singleplayer

[rotund saddle]

bro, you have a PhD in Stalkerology

[finite yew]

I'm starting to think he reads the game code as bedtime stories 😂

[rotund saddle]

he does

[fading barn]

Yipee just finished this one for the first time, absolutely loved it

I did use gunslinger because Original trilogy gunplay is a bit too outdated for me

[finite yew]

It's pretty decent I thought, controls were super smooth and fast to respond, on the Switch version.
Which ending?

[fading barn]

I want the zone to dissapear

[fading barn]

It's the weird accuracy at range I had issues with

The new models are also just a nice touch

[finite yew]

I went for the Canon ending first, then re-loaded it for the wish granted ending. I apparently wanted to be rich lol googled it and understood why a lot of people get that one. I knew I should have spent my money first

[fading barn]

I spent way too much money on armor and ammo

[finite yew]

I didn't mind the accuracy of the enemies, up until cnpp

[fading barn]

The accuracy of me, the random bullet spread was weird

Idk probably complaining about nothing, I just prefered modernized shooter mechanics

[rotund saddle]

he doesn't know

[finite yew]

Ahh yeah, just watch your round wizz past their head, alerting them. Then other times you get a MOVING headshot from same-ish distance, and they drop like a brick

[signal ice]

Шо тут робиться?

[fading barn]

For some reason certain enemies ignored getting shot at long ranges and just dropped dead eventually instead of running away

I don't think the AI is activated until they're a certain distance away or something

[finite yew]

Clear Sky, its more prominent I noticed, also since guns sway when you're moving while aiming (no optical sight), it's much harder to hit someone at the start

[fading barn]

I will also be modding clear sky to fix the gunplay

I've played COP and SOC so far

[finite yew]

Kind of like they were outside of a kind of 'registration range' where NOTHING registers before they vanish, or something

[fading barn]

Last fallout overhaul is closest thing to gunslinger I think

I tried ABR and didn't like it much, feels off and the animations are stiff

[rotund saddle]

I tried Clear Sky with modded gunplay and it was too easy

[fading barn]

I'm there for the characters and world not for the difficultly

[grizzled rock]

onlyswizz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fading barn]

Aw man

[rotund saddle]

yeah but shooting at enemies from a distance and they can't shoot back it's boring

or killing an entire squad in one burst

[fading barn]

Oh yeah that while ai activation stuff can be annoying

[rotund saddle]

I think they got the gunplay right, it's the players who expect call of duty, it's more like Fallout 3/4 except instead of skills you upgrade guns

it's a mix of fps and rpg system

because headshots still are the best way to kill

[fading barn]

Yeah I don't think there's too much wrong with it, I'm just tailoring the experience to what I enjoy

[rotund saddle]

yeah

[rotund saddle]

that's why I like CoP a lot because they toned down the amount of fights and amount of enemies in each fight

at least so far, I only got to Pripyat, we'll see if it becomes yet another gallery shooter near the end just like SoC and CS lol

[finite yew]

I swear SoC had the perfect balance for its hardest difficulty

[fading barn]

CoP was good but it felt so scaled back compared to the previous 2