⭐┃trilogy-general

[late condor]

gonna be honest i'd really appreciate a retranslation project, one of the few mods i'd really get behind

also (optional) AI voice acting that just uses ru/ua actors and translates their phrases lol

that would be peak

[rotund saddle]

eww AI

[rotund saddle]

just don't make an AI-translation

[whole geyser]

Morrowind

And many more but don't wanna flood this channel with offtopic

[rotund saddle]

if it's anything like Oblivion then eh

[whole geyser]

It's not but you'd know if you played it

[late condor]

I still think it's gonna be a ton better than whatever CoP official voice acting is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtyKEE-hQEI

[whole geyser]

cop english va was so goofy lol

[late condor]

I think AI would be a good compromise for people who want to hear the game with original voice cast but do not want to read subs.

It's currently not quite there yet to be feasible but I think it will be

[rotund saddle]

exactly, I haven't played Morrowind

[whole geyser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZX5ML6YvJo elven ai is a great example of ai voice possibility

[whole geyser]

you're missing out

[rotund saddle]

elven ai? you mean eleven labs?

[whole geyser]

yeah

always mix it up lol

[late condor]

I know there is possibility, but the very few videos with actual quality AI voices with RANGE are the result of hours of manual work combining results of several different models + mixing and editing

[whole geyser]

ah fair i never looked into how its actually done

[late condor]

It's not there yet in terms of out of the box solution. You can do a few minutes demo in a short period of time, but something the size of SoC is not feasible.

[whole geyser]

man i cant wait for that day

[rotund saddle]

although, elevenlabs has speech2speech now

so one person can do 50 voices

[late condor]

Yeah I mostly referred to speech to speech, not tts.

TTS is really behind, speech to speech is better but still has artifacts.

[rotund saddle]

yeah but you still need someone who can act for speech2speech

[novel bay]

Guys is this unusual I got a beril 5 suit 180000 rubles a gp37 chaser 13 and a black kite silenced before going to any of the labs

[rotund saddle]

where did you get GP37?

[novel bay]

Warehouses

Also got a vintar

[rotund saddle]

but Rostok isn't even open yet

[novel bay]

YES it is i did the appgrom mission and I'm not doing any main quests rn

And there are some tunder s14s I got

[rotund saddle]

"before going to any of the labs"

[novel bay]

I only went to apogrom

[rotund saddle]

"before going to any of the labs"

[novel bay]

Before the first lab it's open cuz you take documents to barkeep

Also got a bulldog 6

[rotund saddle]

you carry 3 guns?

[novel bay]

Rn I'm only carry chaser gp37 and black kite

Selling the 3 suits that are 10k each and the vintage and keep8ng 2 gp37s and the bulldog in a stash maybe

[novel bay]

On my first playthough on the first lab I had no armor and just a lr300

I'm very loaded rn

[rotund saddle]

get a tourist suit

[novel bay]

203524 rubles now

[rotund saddle]

still no tourist suit?

[novel bay]

Isn't the beril better

[rotund saddle]

tourist suit has 70kg carry weight

[novel bay]

Id rather have better protection since I'm on master and need to use cover more

[rotund saddle]

lol just use cover, you don't need good armor

or use 5 mama's beads

[novel bay]

Also should I loot all the stashes before continuing to a main mission

[rotund saddle]

yeah and find all artifacts

[novel bay]

Also after yantar the guide quest shows up right?

[rotund saddle]

idk

[sonic dew]

Hows the vss vintorez late game?

[graceful horizon]

works fine

[sonic dew]

Aight

Cuz i just entered the bar keep, i heard the vss is near there, but its too late and I’m just gonna check that tmrw

[sinful dove]

is stalker worth installing

[sonic dew]

Yes

[sinful dove]

[sonic dew]

Did it 2 or 3 days ago, i can give a very professional opinion that it has consumed me

Please do not harass me for shit grammar

[sinful dove]

is it like tarkov tho

[tawdry cargo]

Not even close. Only similarities are that both games are set in Eastern Europe in a closed off Zone. Oh yeah also, Prapor is just knock-off Sidorovich

[sinful dove]

how much gb in pc

[tawdry cargo]

They aren't much. SoC is like 20 iirc

[charred prism]

SOC doesnt hit 20 gib

[tawdry cargo]

Yeah it's a bit under but around there is what I remember

[sinful dove]

20 gb?

[tawdry cargo]

Rest apart from HoC are less

[sinful dove]

@tawdry cargo i meant stalker 2 heart of Chernobyl

[tawdry cargo]

Why ask in the Shadow of Chernobyl channel then? Best to start with SoC anyways cause it's the first game of the series

[sinful dove]

idk what channel is what im new i just want to know if its worth the storage sorry gang 😭

[tawdry cargo]

But it's like 200 GB maybe? I don't remember exactly

[tawdry cargo]

You are in the channel of the first game in the series and asking about the newest lol

[novel bay]

Use a gp37 you can get it very early if you are smart

[rotund saddle]

where?

you said Army Warehouses, that's not early lol

unless you just knife open Rostok

[charred prism]

brother, it doesnt even hit the 10gb, its like 7 if I recall

[tawdry cargo]

I swear it was 19 last I checked. Nah I have to get some better sleep

[zealous lantern]

probably mods. pure SoC installation is around 4.6gb (at least in Steam)

[gray mountain]

I'm not sure if this is the right channel but I need some help with getting SoC to get up and running cause all it'll do is crash with a message saying how it fails to initialize graphics hardware. Tried verifying the game files and that didn't fix it so idk what to do

[rotund saddle]

go to properties -> betas -> change version to 1.0007

[gray mountain]

Didn't work

[late condor]

Write a message to GSC support then

[zealous lantern]

Man I just figured out I could use virtual super resolution (AMD thing) to get antialiasing in all stalker games

[late condor]

[e-mail]

[novel bay]

before lab x18 after apogrom you do the quest where you takeover freedom base

[rotund saddle]

you can go to rostok before agroprom

[novel bay]

Ik but easier if you do it when you finish apogrom

[rotund saddle]

lol no

[rotund saddle]

can bandits take over the Depot in Garbage?

[late condor]

@summer elbow

I think they just go back to their previous spots if they do, right?

[maiden plaza]

hello can anyone help me? how can fix my reputation because i accidentally killed one of the duty in side quest on ambushing on the road and then when i came back to the bar gate they started shooting me i already killed them all but i cannot go to the camp anymore because lot of duty is in it and i need to get my quest complete

can anyone help? because i cant really play this game anymore im stuck killing bunch of duty's

[late condor]

You cannot fix your relationship with dutiers in Bar if they're already hostile, but you can raise it before the kill so that their relationship would drop to neutral, not hostile. You will need to continue the game with Duty hostile to you or load an earlier save.

It is possible to fully complete it while being enemies with Duty faction, you are not by any means softlocked or anything.

[rotund saddle]

is it possible to get the true ending in a "Kill Everyone" playthrough?

[maiden plaza]

thanks

[late condor]

absolutely yeah

You can kill Guide and still get a link to Doc.

[rotund saddle]

so I have to talk to him first?

[late condor]

Nope.

Just search his body and get the necessary info into your PDA.

SoC is VERY thought-through in that regard, there are safety precautions for every scenario where an NPC may die. And they all die (except for Sidorovich and Arnie in LotZ during arena fights).

[rotund saddle]

you can still kill Sid with a grenade

[late condor]

nop

Try that now in Cordon.

[rotund saddle]

I mean in the teleport

[late condor]

Well that's not even an NPC, it's just an animated object.

Like arena spectators. So you can't really kill it either.

[rotund saddle]

so he would be still alive if you went back?

[late condor]

Of course. When you're in teleport you're in a fake copy of a bunkera and that Sid is neither real Sid nor even an NPC. Just an object playing an animation.

[rotund saddle]

can you kill him in Cordon then?

[late condor]

Nope, dude is legitimately immortal. The only NPC in SoC. There was not even a way to make NPCs immortal in SoC but Sid is.

Cause he's on a different engine class that separates him from other NPCs and allows him to play separate head and body anims.

[rotund saddle]

are you saying he isn't even human?

[late condor]

The only other NPC in trilogy working on the same class is Forester in CS.

[late condor]

Well if we speak technically some of his files are with mutants lol

But more like a different kind of NPC that anyone else is with different code running for him.

Which allows very specific interactions only Sid has. Playing audio after trading, tracking player with his head, etc.

Also has bugs that only appear for this class. E.g. all the audio played by him is 2-dimensional and does not scale on distance. Which is why "GOOD HUNTING STALKER" is always so loud.

Again, same issue with Forester cause same engine class.

[sonic dew]

Right, I just got the AR and sniper variant of the vintorez, I just came back to the bar to sell some shit and I saw the "come in don't stand there" guy

Can someone please tell me he doesn't die later in the story

[rotund saddle]

he's always there

he's a bar greeter

[sonic dew]

Idk man, some dumb shit like the bar getting raided , i just hoped he dont die

[rotund saddle]

you can kill him so you can stop thinking about it

[finite yew]

Well that makes sense now, it always bothered me that I could hear his voice through the ground so damn clearly, like he's in my ear once I'm within 20m of his position

[civic gate]

hi I'm new to the trilogy, i have a question : what difficulty should i start on as a first time player ?

i want best experience possible and I'm having hard time playing on lower difficulties so idk whether i should crank that up or learn to aim

[neon bridge]

I recommend playing on the highest difficulty from the beginning. The enemies won't become sponges or anything, you can take them down with 1-2 well placed shots, but enemies will also kill you that fast. Ammo and supplies won't spawn in large amounts either. Sounds tough but in the long game you will get used to it

If it's on console I suggest this even more because the easier difficulty make you take some more damage you won't even develop your covering techniques

Hey, it's just my personal experience lol

[graceful horizon]

nothing wrong starting on low difficulty to see what the games are about

[charred prism]

@civic gatein Master you deal less damage and resist less damage than other difficulties, lower difficulties are, indeed, easier

[civic gate]

thanks

i found Veteran to be sweet spot

[abstract cedar]

hello, good afternoon. This channel is to talk and advise about mods, or is there a specific channel for that. Excuse me, I'm new.

[whole geyser]

For mods check out #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[rotund saddle]

this was already pinned before 😄

[charred prism]

tough luck

[whole geyser]

Not alot of folks ever check pins lol

[rotund saddle]

not even moderators it seems 😄

[whole geyser]

It's easier sometimes to post the pic directly instead of telling a user to read pins but I didn't think I'd have to explain this

[rotund saddle]

there are two identical pinned messages now

[charred prism]

yknow, Ill keep em pinned

just for you

[valid jasper]

Let's do a third

[summer elbow]

yes

[summer elbow]

cuz there's 2 recurring quests basically with the same objective - to kill that group of bandits

[rotund saddle]

what are the "previous spots"?

from what I've noticed loners can defend the depot if I don't help them and walk by, if I go in and don't help them and just look - they get killed by bandits

[summer elbow]

default camps

[rotund saddle]

where are those?

[summer elbow]

my brother in Christ just play the game lol

[turbid wave]

anyone know why my minimap is transparent? new to the franchise so I'm not sure if it's meant to be but I don't see the icons for friendly/enemy/neutral/bodies like the guy at the start said I would

[late condor]

Could you post a screenshot in #📸┃screens_and_videos ?

[late condor]

@turbid wave think that’s a bug that appears when you change resolutions, did you change res while in-game? If so restart the game and minimap should reappear

[turbid wave]

ah yeah i did, it seems to have fixed itself now that ive changed locations anyways. thanks

[civic scaffold]

nvm sorry i read about the channel rules again, my bad

missed the mods channel

[sonic dew]

Yo I just got back from lab x18, and the trader is selling the Berill-5M armored suit, shud I buy it or is it common

[late condor]

You can find it but it’s not common. It’s a good purchase if you feel like your current suit does not protect you from bullets enough.

[quartz cape]

Hold a bit more... For good vss vintores chek military wäre house it on floor

[sonic dew]

Don't worry, before going to lab x18 I got the vintorez,and the AR version by helping freedom raid the duty camp

But I sadly missed the ammo cache😭

[grizzled rock]

neko07176 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[floral skiff]

Hi all! I started to play SoC Complete
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009/downloads/stalker-complete-15

Awsome graphics and original content. Is this the most right place to ask questions? Or is there another discord for that? 🙂

[naive hollow]

Sorry to hear you're playing Complete bro

[whole geyser]

Complete

[sharp cosmos]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3419927136

[steel pagoda]

Any good mod lists to bring this old classic up to date?

[stone fiber]

I’m upset due to selling all lot of shit and I didn’t know that the artifacts were meant to help you with everything around. Idk if I’m playing the game right.

[torpid rapids]

Did you check Radiophobia 3?

[graceful horizon]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[rotund saddle]

where would you say is the best situation to use an RPG in SoC?

[floral skiff]

Any recommendation of the mods? That Soc complete feels very old.

[late condor]

It’s good out of the box.

[late condor]

First quest with bandit vehicle station

[late condor]

You’re coming with the wrong mindset. It’s an old game and no mod will make it stalker 2-level graphics and environments. That being said, it aged quite well.

There’s no reason to ruin the art direction and dev intentions through third party mods if it’s your first experience with the game.

[whole geyser]

Fr vanilla trilogy is peak as it is lol

I actually prefer the trilogy graphics to stalker 2 or mods like custom or gamma lol

[tawny tundra]

stalker 2 looks too happy and sunshine

[whole geyser]

Fr

Hell max setting soc still holds up very well in 2025

Got a timeless look

[tawny tundra]

It do.

[whole geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-gif-20097304

[abstract cedar]

Anyone here tríed amk 1.4/1.4.1? How is, good or nothing new

[whole geyser]

I'd ask in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[steel pagoda]

I have not. There's a literal waterfall of mods and suggestions so I figured I'd ask here

Good modlist?

[steel pagoda]

Ah, missed that. Thank you.

[abstract cedar]

Tks

[neon bridge]

The colors, the sounds, and everything looks amazing when maxed out. The dynamic lights are the best

[floral skiff]

I played all stalkers back at the day, I am 43 years old. 😄

Gamma 0.9.3 makes the gamme better even with engine and weapons but it is too complex for me with the mods.

[rotund saddle]

is Elephant's Foot featured in SoC? https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ig5m3h/footage_of_the_elephants_foot/

[late condor]

Yes in Agroprom underground

[graceful horizon]

Hopped a long way on one foot...

[rotund saddle]

but that's nowhere near the reactor core, it should be in CNPP

[stiff bramble]

i bought shadow of chernobyl so i could play for the first time but any time i finish the opening cinematic i cant do anything

like i THINK we should be able to move even after the shop guy stops talking and tells me to come closer but i cant do anything at all

ive restarted my game and even made new games and it still happens

pls help me i wanna play the masterpiece :(:(:(

[rotund saddle]

you can't look around with the mouse or walk with WASD?

[stiff bramble]

i can look around but i cant walk

and i cant interact with lockers or the shopkeep or open the menu

[rotund saddle]

you can't open the menu with Esc?

[stiff bramble]

no

[rotund saddle]

what operating system do you have?

[stiff bramble]

windows 10

[rotund saddle]

restart your PC

[stiff bramble]

it worked thank you big guy

[rotund saddle]

Finished SoC for the 2nd time, this time without ZRP. The CNPP sequence definitely felt shorter this time.

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/awesome-ok-great-good-thumbs-up-gif-16351183

[late condor]

It’s also not really radioactive I think it’s just a nice lil reference instead of an attempt to actually recreate it in a geographically accurate way

[late condor]

Did you do the true ending on both playthroughs?

[rotund saddle]

yeah

I know I have to jump through 20 teleports to get there

[late condor]

How did you feel about the necessity of ZRP in the end?

[rotund saddle]

I appreciated it for the lack of Pripyat crashes

[stable copper]

Is there anyway to repair weapons to armor ?

[sonic dew]

Guys where can i buy 9x39 ammo? And where on the map can i find petrenko

[rotund saddle]

to repair an armor you need at least 4 of +30% resistance artifacts: electric resistance, chem resistance, impact resistance, etc.

then just walk into a corresponding anomaly

[rotund saddle]

go to Garbage and shoot 2 boxes that are up on the tower where Bes' group hangs out

Petrenko is in Duty's HQ part of Rostok

[rotund saddle]

to repair a weapon it's a bit convoluted, you have to give it to an NPC, then wound that NPC so he drops it, wounded NPCs drop weapons at 100% durability

[late condor]

That’s 9x19 not 9x39

[rotund saddle]

Petrenko sells 9x39

[rotund saddle]

I was wondering about one thing: in Agroprom underground, how the hell is the military just chilling there alongside Bloodsuckers?

[graceful horizon]

I've had those two parties duke it out among themselves, fun to watch

[late condor]

easy, bloodsucker does not spawn until Marked One comes in, and military knows that xd

[quartz cape]

Got the tunder it was a bad idea

[late condor]

wdym

tunder 5.45 is the best gun that's gonna be available for you for next couple levels

[rotund saddle]

I started a new playthrough and Sidor didn't have the Tunder for sale

[graceful horizon]

10% to have it available. Possible to force it in there by repeatedly resetting his inventory by quicksaving and loading(before getting the reward from wolf for the first mission)

[late condor]

^

If you don’t speak to Wolf about clearing vehicle station you can get it at any point

[graceful horizon]

Question about that btw

Is receiving that reward a requirement for him leaving?

Or does he leave anyway?

[quartz cape]

I had to sell an arm and a leg bro

[graceful horizon]

I thought Sid only ate drumsticks? : o

[stable copper]

Thanks

[stable copper]

Any1 know when it will get a ps5 copy? Would love to play it

(Stalker 2)

[stone ridge]

Brother this is for the first game

[green musk]

they said they arent currently working on a ps5 port

[stable copper]

Darn

Just did the mission where u can side with freedom or duty (sided with duty) are the freedom really that bad?

Also I trying to get my payment from skull but it doesn’t let me get it

[foggy furnace]

Brother, Freedom is Freedom! we have no one that rules over no one, in missions we just listen to our commander cause of his experience if you do good deeds you get the respect from all of us

the zone is the best thing that could have happened for the future of science and new technology

[sonic dew]

Is gp 37 better or is ft 200 better

[late condor]

FT-200M

[sonic dew]

Ok

If you drop ur gun to a zombie, then kill it, you can pick the gun up in full condition right?

[late condor]

No, only injuring gives full conditions guns, guns from corpses will be still broken a bit but if yours is 0% durability it’s still worth it

And you need to find an NPC that will accept that gun. He should either have no gun of the same type (eg pistol only) or a worse ranked gun

[sonic dew]

U can loot injured zombies?

[late condor]

Any NPC works not just a zombie, and no you can’t loot them but you they drop weapon when heavily injured

[sonic dew]

Oh nice, so even bandits work?

[late condor]

Anyone

They just need to only have a pistol OR a worse gun with same ammo

[stable copper]

What would yall rank shadow of Chornobyl in your list?

[late condor]

A lot better than CoP and a LOT better than HoC.

Not quite up to CS standards but still a very good game that aged really well.

[rotund saddle]

#1

[sonic dew]

Damn bro HoC is that bad? I was thinking of buying it, is it worth it?

[late condor]

Yeah, unless you are a die hard vanilla trilogy fan, you will most likely find it ok.

It’s a good game on its own, just really bad for a sequel.

[rotund saddle]

so like Fallout 3

[open copper]

LMAO

[foggy furnace]

Damn that hurt a lot lmfao

[sonic dew]

Na,idgaf about a sequel, I just wanted to know if the story is decent on its own, not a sequel, as long as the timeline fits idgaf

But what about strelok, and do we know what happens to our Mc or is there a new one like in clear sky(ik clear sky is a prequel to soc)

[late condor]

It continues the stories of existing characters but retcons a lot of stuff to the point where events of old games could not happen in the new world / map. It's a new MC.

[rotund saddle]

MC?

[sonic dew]

i think some muckafucka named skif

is the ft 200 better than the vintorez? idgaf about stealth, and im thinking of dropping my vintorez when i get back from lab x16, and doing the glitch for the ft 200 from arena

[rotund saddle]

vintorez seemed more accurate to me, easy 1 shot headshots

[sonic dew]

Ok

[foggy furnace]

vintorez caliber also makes the job pretty much quick

[sonic dew]

I have 495 rounds of regular 9x39

And 20 rounds of sp5, petrenko only selling normal rounds😭

[foggy furnace]

more than enough to make a bastard military unit bleed for its sins

[sonic dew]

Damn right

[stable copper]

What’s hoc ?

[sonic dew]

Stalker 2-heart of chernobyl

[stable copper]

Dang I won’t ever play it

[sonic dew]

I wanted to buy it because it looked more realistic than real life

And because it has xbox support...

[stable copper]

I heard it comes out after the 3 month Xbox game pass but I guess it was false

[sonic dew]

Ok

[stable copper]

Wym?

[sonic dew]

Well , you see I bought shadow of chernobyl last week, on some old mac I found in my dad's Stache of shit that he'll save for later(I confirm that shit actually comes to use) but I also have an xbox

[rotund saddle]

he should start selling sp5 at some point

[sonic dew]

And since the mac definitely won't run stalker 2, I wanted to buy it ok my eggbox and connect k&b and play like I do with warthunder

[sonic dew]

I see, is there like any specific point or mission from which he starts selling sp5 or does that shit just happen randomly?

[foggy furnace]

i forgot when he may do, but just progress normally or kill any unit u see that carries said caliber by looking at their gun

[rotund saddle]

after the grenade launcher quest

[zealous lantern]

don't (for now at least). too may bugs, like WAY TOO MANY bugs. missing QoL and features from previous games, and the A-Life is nearly non-existent (basically a glorified spawner at this point).
they are working on fixes though, and as far as I can see from the answers channel, they promised a new patch next week. wait till lands and see some reviews

[sonic dew]

Eh what can you do when lead developers of your game are dying irl in an actual war

And not now, I was thinking of buying in July, when my birthday hits

So I'm just hoping most problems will be fixed by the latter half of the month

[foggy furnace]

shotguns are so damn goated ngl

[whole geyser]

Longer you wait the better tbh I'm waiting aswell

[whole geyser]

Fr

[sonic dew]

I legit dropped on just b4 going to x16 cus 9x39 has its own gravitational pull

[foggy furnace]

Just like new operative systems and almost all type of new tech, wait until fixes

[foggy furnace]

for you or for them?

[sonic dew]

Please spare me I didn't know they were that op😭 😭 😭

[zealous lantern]

yep, I hope they can fix most of the issues as well. I stopped playing after 150h (around 50% of the story for me) and just wait for fixes and hopefuly optimizations. other than that the game is really cool and atmospheric

[foggy furnace]

9x39 it's really damn strong and the guns that use them are even more stronger, the bleed effect makes u feel like actual paper

when i was going through my first playthrough i actually was thinking to sticking with the TRs 301 but oh i was so wrong

[sonic dew]

But they are heavy as hell, after buying that ammo I had to Stache away my shotty

[sonic dew]

I see

[foggy furnace]

i mean, the boolet is big

the caliber irl is heavy and wide

[sonic dew]

And since they aren't sold by sidorovich, they ain't rubber either

[foggy furnace]

i think it's one of the expensive calibers besides the other heavy guns

[sonic dew]

Fr, it too around 8 k for 500 bullets. That too of the normal type

[foggy furnace]

but hey, it's totally worth it, it can absolutely take down 1 heavy unit with exoskeleton in 2-3 headshots

non AP tho

[quartz cape]

Here's my ranking of stalker Games

1. Soc
2. CoP
3. Cs
4. S2

Any way I found a new anomaly

Falling pig

Oh remember I don't have the permit to show pictures

[whole geyser]

ranking Clear sky below stalker 2 ? 🤢

wack list

[quartz cape]

Oh bleen my mistake

[whole geyser]

i was gonna say atleast CS is functioning game with all its systems working in it

[rotund saddle]

faction wars work? when? where?

[foggy furnace]

Faction wars had me thinking "holy shit i can conquer the entire world" until i saw only that Stalkers/Freedom would move into outpost i massacred

bruh im a dumbass, didnt realize u could throw bolts in soc i totally went through the game without using them

[graceful horizon]

it takes some doing, but you can get it to work

[rotund saddle]

lol, how did you walk through the tunnel in Cordon that's completely obstructed by electro anomalies?

[foggy furnace]

h e h e h e, lets not ask

[late condor]

just pay 500 ru bruh

[rotund saddle]

500 ru is a lot of money at that point of the game if you're playing for the 1st time

[foggy furnace]

i sold some artifacts and i engaged with the first military units i saw below the train wreck

[rotund saddle]

in my 1st playthrough military under the bridge was hostile to me anyway lol, because I killed the patrolling unit

so I had no idea about the 500 ru thing

[late condor]

there is also a path on the east where the barbed wire fence is broken

which lets you go without paying and going through the tunnel, easiest way out there

[foggy furnace]

i saw military and saw their guns and my braincells went "pew pew = heavier firepower" so i didnt pay those 500

engaged with the pb1 and short barreled shotgun

[foggy furnace]

i accidentally glitched the military squad and just offed them with 1 nade

[graceful horizon]

they love to share

[zealous lantern]

or you solve the issue once and for all by beating the crap out of those military gopniks (you can try at least) and sell their loot

[rotund saddle]

they respawn

[zealous lantern]

wut? I kill them at the beginning of the game, and when I got back to cordon after disabling brain scorcher they weren't there

[rotund saddle]

I kill them every time I go back to Sidor, from 1 to 5 enemies

[zealous lantern]

lol

maybe mods do it for you?

[rotund saddle]

I played vanilla

wiki also says they respawn

so maybe it's your mods

[charred prism]

Damn, that's really one of the worst I've seen around

[rotund saddle]

"If any of Kuznetsov's soldiers is killed, they will be replaced by Spetsnaz armed with Obokan assault rifles." https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Kuznetsov

[rotund saddle]

"If Kuznetsov and his men are killed, Spetsnaz will take over the checkpoint. These soldiers do not accept bribes and will open fire on sight, forcing the player to battle their way through the bridge every time, unless using the aforementioned tunnel to bypass them." https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Railway_bridge#Shadow_of_Chernobyl

[whole geyser]

Wonder if zrp changes them to not respawn?

[rotund saddle]

I played with ZRP and they respawned even more, I remember it being super annoying

[whole geyser]

Oh weird haha wonder what mod they running to stop the respawn

[rotund saddle]

it felt like they always respawned all 5 of them in ZRP, in vanilla it's 1-5

[whole geyser]

I deff prefer vanilla way of doing it tbh

[rotund saddle]

on ru wiki it says they respawn after you visit x18

[zealous lantern]

I played with ZRP too. Have no idea why they didn't respawn for me

gotta check my saves later, maybe I just didn't notice

[spice rain]

hello guys, so i am playing the game right now but after i log into it again my game crashes every time after 2 minutes. I had some mod in the game but i already removed the mods. Can anyone help?

And this here is the crash log

Expression : error handler is invoked!
Function : invalid_parameter_handler
File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xrCore\xrDebugNew.cpp
Line : 804
Description :

[late condor]

if you removed the mods, you need to start a new game, saves made with mods are incompatible with vanilla

[spice rain]

i just had the Original Weapons Renewal 3 and zrp, do i still need to start a completly new game?

[summer elbow]

yes

I mean you could try launching the save but it will most likely crash the game consistently lol

[zealous lantern]

yes. it says so in ZRP's Readme file, that if you want to remove the mod, you gotta start a new game

[spice rain]

oh didnt know that

[zealous lantern]

well, it's called readme for a reason :D

[spice rain]

haha yeah it was pretty stupid but fck it the game is too great to stop playing it

[zealous lantern]

no, it's actually just me. I loaded a save right after x18, when I entered Cordon, and they were there. so I just didn't notice. my bad

[foggy furnace]

not too much of an expert and 100+ hours on the game but, i killed them before in my 1st playthrough and they never respawned once, i have no mods installed

[sonic dew]

Guys, how to get the true ending?

[pale nebula]

Did you talk to Fox, then Mole, then Guide and then Doctor?

[graceful horizon]

Check unfinished missions

[rotund saddle]

you have 100 hours on your 1st playthrough?

[foggy furnace]

nono, that's way too much lmao

[foggy furnace]

i didn't have proper grammar there, sorry

[rotund saddle]

they haven't respawned on your subsequent playthroughs either?

[foggy furnace]

Yep, they haven't

[rotund saddle]

so you kill them, then come back after a few days and there is no one guarding the passage?

[foggy furnace]

Mostly stalkers roaming around

[rotund saddle]

I suppose there is a chance of them getting killed by A-Life

[foggy furnace]

that would make sense

[rotund saddle]

This how the minimap of the bridge pass looked like for me in my last playthrough near the end of the game #📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

These are all dead military guys

[foggy furnace]

i may be able to tell u if this one playthrough they respawn, since only 2 died under the train and the others died by a nade nearby one of the trees closer to the building where loners hangout

So if i see more than 2 bodies, it's a signal that there were new units that died

but ngl i totally enjoy the A-Life system, it is crazy to see this type of AI system in old games

[rotund saddle]

old games? 2007 was 5 years ago

[foggy furnace]

I'll be damned, it came out 1 year after i was born

[graceful horizon]

5 years already? Gtfo...

[foggy furnace]

Knife range in this game feels so damn off sometimes

[timber wagon]

Hey guys,
Could anyone share the sounds of psy voices and radiation?

[summer elbow]

2007 was 2 years ago

[graceful horizon]

Damn straight

[sonic dew]

Yo guys shud i buy the green sp 99, idk the exact name, or the SEVA suit

[zealous lantern]

SEVA has a bit better physical protection, while SSP has better anomaly protection. But overall, I'd say SEVA. You're much likely to get hit by a bullet than by an anomaly
https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/SEVA_suit
https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/SSP-99_Ecologist

[sonic dew]

Okay guys i am stupid

I heard u can get the green suit for free

If you trade in the ghost suit, but i deleted all my other saves

[zealous lantern]

Well, you can still buy if you have money

[sonic dew]

But, i still loaded back in, gave the ghosts suit, and now im at 5kruble

[zealous lantern]

sell artifacts, walk around garbage, argroprom. there are tons of them

also, artifacts from electric anomalies are only visible at night

[sonic dew]

Ok, shud i chuck away ghosts suit and buy it, or shud i keep it

[sonic dew]

I just loaded in the save again, im fine

Yeah i think the seva suit should be worth it

Shud i sell pellicle? I found it on my way to the lab

[zealous lantern]

Well, I kept it but never used actually

If you manage to find 3 more, you will be able to use the healing/repairing trick but chemical anomalies are quite rare. You have better chances doing that with 4 Batteries

[sonic dew]

Yeah

[zealous lantern]

So yeah, probably can just sell it

I think you can find a SEVA in rostok

But I don't remember who gives the stash location

iiric it was the guy in the bar, the one that asked you to find family rifle

actually, the guy just gives a hint on the building. but the actual stash is only marked after you search a body of a zombie in the burner tunnel (on the way from Wild territory to Yantar)

[late condor]

green SSP (SSP-99M) is better than SEVA in every way

[zealous lantern]

right, but @sonic dew asked about the orange one

my god, I'm blind

sorry, I thought we were talking about the orange one

like, there was twice word "green" that my brain completely ignored for some reason and thinks we're talking about the orange one. what the actual fck, brain

[graceful horizon]

SSP-99M is a strong contender for best suit in my book

[grizzled rock]

froztedtips has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

notreallyworstplayer5751 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sonic dew]

thats just great

i wanna scream sooooo loud rn

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

ya know what, it is what it is

[late condor]

you don't need the BEST GEAR IN EXISTANCE to beat the game yk?

[sonic dew]

and i dont think its that bad, since barkeep is selling the skat19 or some other thing

[late condor]

It's ok to go for middle options, people beat it with PMm and no armor

[sonic dew]

ok, idk man im pretty new and everyone is rambling on about how hard game is

[late condor]

it isn't haha, you're certainly encouraged to go for best gear but it's not gonna make your run impossible

and it's not that big of a difference between SEVA and SSP-99M

[sonic dew]

i see

bro istg bro 9x39 is so damn heavy😭 . like i just wanna buy the gp or do the glitch for the ft200 but vintar is really nice, if you aim for the head

[rotund saddle]

what about durability?

[zealous lantern]

yea... sorry that I confused you in first place bud

[sonic dew]

All good man, atleast now I found out barkeep is selling the skat 19 or sum other shit like that, which Lotta people r saying is best suit in the game

Honestly imma just save for that

[zealous lantern]

he also sells exoskeletons at some point. but the biggest downside of exos is that you can't sprint in it

[rotund saddle]

skibidi I'm a Skat-9Man

[sonic dew]

Yeah, late game no sprinting against monoliths is pretty painful I hear

[placid bobcat]

It’s not too bad

[sonic dew]

I just came back from arena, couldnt do glitch, didnt bother, but he is selling it

Still gonna svae up and buy the skat 9

[zealous lantern]

what kind of glitch?

[sonic dew]

The try and load out of arena with gun

Problem is.. that's the last enemy

And already im stuck in the arena and I already have a decent weapon so I'm good

[rotund saddle]

I just shot the military checkpoint that's under the bridge in cordon with an RPG (they gather around the fire at night), Kuznetsov didn't even blink and is still neutral to me.

[late condor]

you can grab the arena stuff after fight already ended with demo_record and demo_play

[sonic dew]

Screw that man I have to win first without smashing my table

[rotund saddle]

but that's cheating

[sonic dew]

And trying to load out of arena with ft200 isn't?

Anyway, just entered red forest

[rotund saddle]

what do you mean?

[sonic dew]

Listen, I was trying to do the ft200 arena glitch, and I changed my mind. You were telling him that using the demo record command to get the ft 200 outta arena was cheating, but I responded again asking if the glitch to get the ft 200 outta arena wasn't cheating

[rotund saddle]

[late condor]

it is, but it's fun xd

and arena stuff is unique and allows for unique interactions with NPCs as they will always accept it over any other gun

[rotund saddle]

so I can repair Strelok's AKM this way?

[late condor]

no it just has unusually high priority that NPC will prefer it over almost any other weapon

but Strelok's AKM is not taken by NPC in any scenario at all

unless traded in

[sonic dew]

Fun fact: I was js playing red forest, pretty dark room cuz my curtains are closed and it's raining, and I was eating an apple which was the only thing in my fridge, and I got jumpscared by a monolith so hard that I chucked the apple on the curtains, which was on the other side of the room

[rotund saddle]

how do you pull the guns out of the arena?

[graceful horizon]

the real stalker experience^^

[late condor]

Open console, do demo_record 1, fly under the map in freecam mode until you find the arena building, in the first spectator cabin on the left you’ll find a dynamite crate, get closer to it until you see a search prompt, spam Space, then press Escape and type demo_play 1. You will be right where you smashed space and will be able to loot the crate and get arena weapons. Note that they don’t look any different from regular ones

[rotund saddle]

so, do I need to be in a fight in the arena for this to work or something?

[late condor]

Nah you need to complete the fights first. It’s a box where items go after they’re removed from arena.

[sonic dew]

HEEEEEELLP MEEEEEE IM TRYING TO TURN OFF THE BRAIN SCORCHER AND 2 BIG BLACK BLOODSUCKERS ARE TRYING TO KILL MEEEEEEE

I SHOT THEM AND THEY ARE JUST RUNNING IN AND OUT OF COVER AND BREATHING VERY VERY HEAVILU

HshshsshShhshsSHHSHDHFDAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

[rotund saddle]

[whole geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/suspicious-cat-ayo-yo-ayoo-gif-14708032146858915875

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/gato-withrock-gif-27341353

[sonic dew]

Hlep guys my armor broke do u find armor in Pripyat or the plant

[sonic dew]

im doing c consciousness ending

[west canopy]

Can I even save Kruhlov?

[rotund saddle]

there is one exo in the plant, in the first rooms, down the ladder

[rotund saddle]

yeah, just be fast

[late condor]

Kruglov? Yes you can

[west canopy]

Saved him

[late condor]

Was his name changed to Kruhlov in console release?

I still haven’t looked into latest patch so I don’t know what the changes are

[open copper]

he probably just accidentally put h instead of g they are right next to eachother

[late condor]

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case considering Agroprom is now Ahroprom

[rotund saddle]

how much IRL time is 1 hr of in-game time?

[late condor]

6 minutes

[rotund saddle]

what's the source of this gif? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608004963

[late condor]

Some fan film that never saw the light of day but a semi-popular YouTube film review dude made a collab with them for his review of a chernobyl-themed series: https://youtu.be/dA5wNB7gYFs

[tawdry cargo]

Idk how to explain it very well but the Russian г (g) is the Ukrainian г (h)

So some names in HoC were slightly switched around. Maybe the same in LotZ

[open copper]

ahh that makes sense i just assumed typo

appreciate you letting me know that

[tawdry cargo]

Yeah, same letter different pronunciation

[dense sapphire]

Yeah it’s a different pronunciation of the same letter, though sometimes Ukrainians will make a hard G sound with г but it depends on the word. But Ukrainian has a dedicated letter for G which is ґ.

[tawdry cargo]

Yeah but for the most part г does a h

[dense sapphire]

Yeah

[west canopy]

How do I get out of X16?

[west canopy]

Nevermind

I have no ammo anyway

[feral oar]

You jump into the hole in the room with Ghost

There is also a bunch of 9x39 ammo there

[west canopy]

That's alright but I have no gun for it

[feral oar]

There is one in a toilet at the begining of the lab

[west canopy]

I'm already out of the lab

[late condor]

How come you all go to main missions so unprepared xd

[graceful horizon]

Ikr

[rotund saddle]

you can always turn back

not in x16 I guess

[graceful horizon]

You can go into x16 again from the factory

Just one way traffic

[sonic dew]

Bruh I almost completely overlooked a skat 9m in the decoders room in the hotel

[foggy furnace]

@rotund saddle sorry for the mention lad, but it seems the military squad that looks over around the train wreck did respawn

[rotund saddle]

😱

[graceful horizon]

They do

[zealous lantern]

What I usually overlooked there is the decoder and realized that only near the door

[late condor]

Ah yes Doctor sent you to the stash in the hotel to get a SKAT suit

[white knot]

Is modded SoC also discussed about in this channel?

[late condor]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications is best place for that

[quartz cape]

Im doing a run of SoC its not with or without only

its a run but without doing the actual story

[zealous lantern]

there are documents, decoder and the suit. i remember I took the docs, then I was surprised by the suit, and hapilly left the building lol
luckily there is good old door glitch :D

[vague copper]

Is there actually any good hope of getting Steam keys from GSC as someone who acquired all three original games back in the days?

[late condor]

do you have cd keys from the old retail games?

if yes then yeah you can trade them for steam keys

[summer elbow]

GoG should be a better option personally, but steam has the beta patch

[late condor]

think GOG does not have win11/intel 12 updates?

[rotund saddle]

you used to be able to e-mail Valve the photo of your Half-Life copy's CD-Key and they'd give it to you on Steam

idk if they do it with other games

[vague copper]

Have all the retail keys from the old games, but Steam doesn't recognize them. So I contacted GSC support about it. Though, I'm not sure if they follow it up...

[fathom basin]

Hi folks, I’m rather new to stalker, I’m at the point of the game where you get that psi helmet, but I wanted to ask if it’s possible to find someone that repairs armor or something? I found a SEVA suit in a stash and it’s getting a bit banged up rn

Like I’m at the point where you can find Gordon freeman

[late condor]

You cannot repair armor in SoC (the weapon and ammo progression is made in a way to force you to often exchange for new weapons),

That being said, there are ways to repair both, but they're very hard and usually not worth the trouble.

[fathom basin]

Ah, okay

[late condor]

Armor repair needs 4 of the same +30% resistance artifacts.

[fathom basin]

Wait what

Now I’m confused
You say there’s no way to repair armor
Then say there’s a way to repair armor

Nvm

[late condor]

There's no legitemate way and the game is balanced around you not being able to repair. But there are bugs that allow you to repair it but they're really hard to perform.

[fathom basin]

Ohh okay

[late condor]

Not bugs per se, oversights in game mechanics moreso.

But you get the idea. If you really want to, you need to find 4 30% artifacts. But it's much easier to just buy a new SEVA.

[fathom basin]

Yea

[fathom basin]

Uhh
Well the only hope I’d have for that is buying from the bartender since he’s the only real good trader I know of right now, and he doesn’t have one

[late condor]

Traders get better inventories when you progress through the storyline. He may have a good suit later.

[fathom basin]

Yeah

Btw I remember when I entered that lab that needs the psi helmet that I was told something about a time limit I think? I can’t exactly remember

Oh yeah the question

The question is if there’s actually a time limit while you’re down there with that psi helmet

[late condor]

yes but you will know of it

you will see a timer when the time comes

[fathom basin]

Ah

I did a job for Snitch, where I had to kill either a stalker named Master or a Master Stalker, I’m not sure which one it was, but I feel bad for doing it, he was just hanging out, was entirely passive too

His friends weren’t after I took him out with a single black kite headshot

[late condor]

You missed a few potential quests for his friends too lol

All of them are quest targets

missed rewards if you killed them outside the quests

[fathom basin]

Oh

I mean like they were all at one camp

And there was a corpse in a trash fire for some reason

Like the barrel with the fire in it, it had a dead guy in it for some reason

[late condor]

npc sometimes die in campfires

known bug

[fathom basin]

damn

I wish there was an easier way to look through info on stashes you get from dead folks instead of looking through the map

[rotund saddle]

btw @late condor ZRP also "fixes" the "Get out of here Stalker" being repeated over and over again

[late condor]

Yeah ik, similar phrases like “hello hello” too

[rotund saddle]

that's why I had no idea WHY it was a meme when I played with ZRP

[rotund saddle]

are you talking about Sakharov?

[late condor]

Yes

I guess the whole definition of what is bugged and what isn’t is very hard to draw

Does ZRP do anything to joining freedom dialogue?

[rotund saddle]

I haven't checked that

I haven't tried joining Freedom even in vanilla yet

[rotund saddle]

although I think Lukash at one point says something like "welcome aboard" even though you don't actually become part of Freedom

it confused me enough that I looked up if you even can join factions in SoC

[late condor]

The way to do it involves a very weird order of actions and it’s clearly an oversight

In fact if you do this several dialogues will be active at once and you need to exit and enter dialogue until you get the one where you join freedom

So it’s most definitely not working as intended. But then again fixing it could range from removing feature devs likely forgot about to trying to polish it but that would obviously involve lots of decision making

[rotund saddle]

yeah, I saw a video on it on YT

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

[soft topaz]

Hey guys i went to launch Shadow Of Chernobyl for the first time and it gave me a key that it said i would need to use upon starting the game, i am in the main menu and i do not see anywhere to input this key?

[late condor]

It’s for multiplayer only.

You don’t need the key to play singleplayer.

[soft topaz]

Oh i see, okay thank you

[safe trail]

I need help I saw some people somewhere was playing full version shadow of Chernobyl on phone but they didn't told me how do u guys know how to play stalker shadow of Chernobyl on phone?

[vivid gulch]

Dont do it, you can get hold of it on weird sites full of malware and viruses, but the game is very buggy so its not worth it

[late condor]

Windows emulation?

[fathom basin]

Y’know personally I don’t find the “Get out of here, stalker” line to be annoying
What is annoying however is Snitch harassing me while I’m using the blue box in the bar, he hasn’t given me any information I don’t already know

[fathom basin]

Real quick: how good is the mama’s beads artifact really? I know that it’s a free 5% bullet capacity artifact, but 5% is rather small, is it not?

[rotund saddle]

Snitch is so useless it's comical

[fathom basin]

I got one of the random popup jobs from Voronin to clear some zombies out while I was visiting Yantar and when I turned it in he called me a good boy

[fathom basin]

hey real quick, if I decide to join Freedom, would I lose access to the 100 rads bar

i meant helping lukash

[rotund saddle]

as long as you don't kill too many dutiers you should be fine

[naive vigil]

How's the consensus of people here feel on modding?

Ah, found the #🔩┃trilogy_modifications channel, nevermind

[fathom basin]

Wait why does the channel name say Chornobyl

Oh

It said Chernobyl on the box and in my steam library

Didn’t know it was also called Chornobyl

[rotund saddle]

it's the Ukrainian spelling

[fathom basin]

Ah ok

[late condor]

Similarly #call-of-prypiat is spelled prypiat and not pripyat

[fossil orbit]

Stalker clor sky

[undone meadow]

Are C-Consciousness bad ? I completed game second time after a long time since first time and now i dont understand why we should destroy C-Consciousness. If what they say is true, then join would be better ending.

[dapper magnet]

So I have zrp on my soc playthrough. I want to also get memories of the zone. Is there a possibility to get it into my save? Moddb says zrp is included in memories of the zone

[late condor]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications for mod talk this is vanilla channel, but the answer is no

[zealous lantern]

To make things even worse, google maps spells it Pryp'yat'

[dense sapphire]

Yeah that’s the official transliteration from Ukrainian

Pripyat’ is more of a Russian transliteration

Прип’ять (UA) vs Припять (RU)

It’s Pryp’yat’ officially, but a simplified transliteration from Ukrainian will be Prypiat (in Ukrainian the letter и becomes a y in Latin, in Russian the same letter becomes an i. While in Ukrainian the transliteration of я can come out either as ya or ia. Then you just remove the markers ‘ and ь to simplify it down to Prypiat, much easier to spell and more recognizable to non-East Slavic speakers)

Belarusian, as always, has to be bloody different. In Belarusian it becomes Прып’яць (Pryp’jać)

[zealous lantern]

So, should you change your name to Partyzan then? :D

[dense sapphire]

That would technically be correct in Ukrainian yes. But I’ve had my username spelled like this since 2013 so changing it now would just feel weird lmao

[zealous lantern]

Yeah, no problem, I'm just kidding

[feral oar]

I wouldn’t recommend ZRP for SoC because it simply isn’t needed and it brings new bugs into the game

[whole geyser]

^^

[fervent wagon]

Cheeki breeki, fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S.:)

[graceful horizon]

[sonic dew]

Im actually gonna scream

I just booted up my laptop and all of a sudden my saves aren't there

Like bro I was preparing for endgame and this is what happens

[sonic dew]

Okay it's back now but I can't open any saves without em crashing

[rotund saddle]

load older saves

[sonic dew]

How old? Like 5 saves or the last mission kinda old?

[late condor]

If you show crash logs we can say for sure

[late condor]

If SoC changed it after 17 you can change it after 12

But tbf even GSC is not really consistent with that, e.g. Bes was changed to Bis in console release but still left as Bes in HoC. Vice versa for Mikluha/Myklukha.

I’d appreciate if they just made whole new English translations from Ukrainian instead of doing those minor spelling changes tbh.

All games suffer from outdated texts when played in English and CoP has a terrible voice acting on top of that.

[rotund saddle]

just keep going back until you find one that loads

[rotund saddle]

are the ones that crash made in Pripyat?

[sonic dew]

No

The bar, just after the arena

[grizzled rock]

mike2200 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[grizzled rock]

yakubavm has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

mlovo has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/cliff-jump-gif-6002411

[keen vortex]

Hi, does anyone know a page with more stalker mods (the classic ones) that isn't modb? Sorry for my bad English,thanks

[whole geyser]

Appro it's russian but depending on the browser you use you can have it translate the page for you

I know edge does have that feature

[keen vortex]

thanks

[rotund saddle]

Lmao, I think I just witnessed a loner walking into a fireplace and burning to death.

Turns out they don't spawn dead, they spawn alive and burn to death.

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

[crisp iris]

play stalker 2 to find out

[crisp iris]

there's a certain 🐺 that loves doing this

[dense sapphire]

SoC, CS, and CoP should also be able to tell you how good or bad the C-Consciousness is lol

[undone meadow]

Its not answer.

[undone meadow]

Played them all, but still cant find answer. In CS i missed C-Consciousness. In CoP is there any C-Consciousness at all ? Seems like only in SoC C-Consciousness appeared.

[dense sapphire]

Oh if you’re asking for actual appearances of the C-Consciousness then SoC I believe is the only one. Im sure at least CoP at least mentions it at some point. As for S2 I cannot say really.

[undone meadow]

Well, in SoC they said that they only want to contain zone, to make it stable, this is why they offer to Gunslinger a place in C-consciousness. If he denies and kill all members of C-Consciousness zone becomes more unstable, more blowouts happens. Also, in "destroy" ending i hear some voices when Gunslinger leave CNPP. Cant find if anyone else hears them and what this supposed to mean.

[late condor]

Gunslinger lol

[desert vector]

Rifleman, Shooter, gunslinger or whatever name you prefer to translate. I'll stick to Strelok

[rotund saddle]

@late condor have you ever knocked down spectators in the arena?

[undone meadow]

Yeah, Gunslinger is Strelok, because Стрелок is Gunslinger.

[late condor]

Yeah though for some reason it feels like only some can be knocked down

[rotund saddle]

how do you do that?

[late condor]

Find the one that's not behind metal bars and literally try to push them out like physical objects, easiest with a grenade

[rotund saddle]

is it possible to push him out the arena?

[late condor]

The arena you fight in is underground the rest of the Bar area so even if it were possible you would push him out of bounds at best lol

[rotund saddle]

so the arena that's in Rostok is fake?

[late condor]

Yeah

The interior is slightly different too

In bildos you fought in actual arena

[rotund saddle]

yeah I noticed the arena in Rostok looks different from the actual arena you fight in

but when you're fighting in the arena it still shows you in the correct place on the minimap

[late condor]

I think the reason they made it separate is to ensure other NPCs don’t react to arena fights

That does still happen though although rare

But you can sometimes see a loner literally come through the ceiling

[rotund saddle]

lmao

[bronze orchid]

hey guys im replaying soc once again and ive never properly learned what the deal with artefact combos is

wasnt there something special that happened when you have 5 of the same artefact/artefact type equipped

also should i keep fast shooting ak or obokan?

[rotund saddle]

the only combos I know is 4 artifacts with the same +30% resistance type that let you repair your armor using an anomaly, maybe @late condor knows more

[rotund saddle]

Obokan has better accuracy iirc

[bronze orchid]

yeah ive heard about that but im not sure of the details, i never properly figured it out

[bronze orchid]

apparently it doesnt

[bronze orchid]

that was the springs right?

or wait no i remember it now

[rotund saddle]

check the crosshair

[rotund saddle]

springs and other artifacts

[bronze orchid]

huh youre right, weird

[bronze orchid]

but wait, if spring has impact resistance, then how do you heal using it?

do you take fall damage? lol

[rotund saddle]

springboard anomaly

[bronze orchid]

aah, right

[rotund saddle]

vortex and whirligig work too

they all deal impact damage

[bronze orchid]

i forgot i thought they deal rapid bleeding damage

either way im gonna be looking for the resistance artifacts, i cant remember a good way to get the ones in the alcove

[late condor]

that too

getting stuck in collision is the fastest

[late condor]

Well combining stamina artifacts makes sense, 5 souls let you heal really fast as well but I wouldn’t keep them on as they decrease resistance, it’s better to heal and take them off.

[late condor]

There is no bleeding damage in the game, only some damage types that cause bleeding

[rotund saddle]

yeah, I wish you could hotkey artifact presets

[late condor]

I think mechanically soc has the most interesting artifact balance out of the entire trilogy + S2 as the drawbacks are actually unique

But there aren’t many combos per se, it would be interesting to have some artifacts cancel out the others

[rotund saddle]

yeah, artifacts having only radiation penalty in later stalkers was pretty boring tbh

[tacit zinc]

hello

how can i change the language in this game? i have been looking for like 20 mins in the settings and i cant find it

[late condor]

If you’re on console, it’s in settings. If you’re on PC, your install by default contains only one language. Changing it in Steam is going to Properties and selecting a different language there.

[tacit zinc]

I have it cracked :((

[whole geyser]

Buy the games and problem solved

[tacit zinc]

i cant

[whole geyser]

Job?

[tacit zinc]

underaged

[late condor]

Then find amother version that will have your language reinstalled.

[whole geyser]

Keep pirate talk to dms

[ripe storm]

hmm.. i can tell you in the dm

[zealous lantern]

I thought it will dm me rank and stuff, and I can't delete this crap. so, nevermind

[whole geyser]

Deleted it for you

[zealous lantern]

thanks

[lethal geyser]

Hey is this the right place for questions regaurding stalker: anomaly?

[graceful horizon]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[grizzled rock]

cherkovskiy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bronze orchid]

i think i did something wrong, how do i get the meet with guide quest? i already looted ghosts corpse

[late condor]

Usually you do that by looting ghost's corpse yes, did you visit Strelok's stash back when you were in Agroprom underground?

[bronze orchid]

Yes i looted everything in there

[late condor]

Yeah you should get a quest on looting Ghost in this case. If you are playing vanilla you can send me your save and I can take a look.

[bronze orchid]

i still have the find' strelok's group stash mission from agroprom hanging around which is weird because i have the find the stash objective finished on it

Ah shit

doesnt this mean that

[grizzled rock]

cherkovskiy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bronze orchid]

i think i irrepairably missed something

[late condor]

Well

Yeah, kind of.

I think you have to load a save BEFORE you complete X16 and go back to finish the agroprom mission.

[bronze orchid]

yeah i might do that

[late condor]

And then loot Ghost.

and that should give you the meet the guide task

[bronze orchid]

what did i miss though

[late condor]

You should have gotten into the stash and picked up a flash drive in there.

[bronze orchid]

can i load a save from after disabling the psi emission but before grabbing his corpse loot and go back to agroprom like that

[late condor]

No, X16 is only completed one-way, you can't return to Ghost's corpse the second time.

[bronze orchid]

thats fine

i still have a save from before i entered the actual city

[late condor]

That one should be fine.

[bronze orchid]

also should i give up his suit to sakharov

i already have half a million in monopoly money

[late condor]

Yeah it kinda does not work anyway

Get SSP-99M from Sakharov

[graceful horizon]

SSP-99M is goated

[bronze orchid]

mightaswell get the nightstar from agroprom if it doesnt spawn out of bounds again

also i feel bad about killing the deserter should i do it anyway lol

[bronze orchid]

nope still spawned out of bounds

lol thats annoying its right by the gate

[late condor]

It spawns at the beginning of the game.

[bronze orchid]

literally hugging the fence

[bronze orchid]

yes but i never got it
only now i returned for it and its there but i cannot get it

[whole geyser]

is there a toggle collision command?

[bronze orchid]

i think there was one in multipalyer

[late condor]

no, but you can pick it up with demo_record.

[bronze orchid]

nvm it was a stone flower

also i cant seem to pick it up with demo record either way

i forgot how demo record worked i know there was a way to drop down where you are with thecamera but i forgot how

[bronze orchid]

so i got the flash drive from agroprom but the find a way to escape the underground objective still isnt finished

i already got the documents a long time ago

[late condor]

It should just finish when you walk out to the exit near the institute

[bronze orchid]

it kinda didnt yeah

i left agroprom with the flash drive and i got the note

but that objective still didnt work

[bronze orchid]

im not sure if this will be a problem or not.

[late condor]

No idea xd, you’re the first person I am seeing who missed Strelok’s stash flash and went there that late.

[bronze orchid]

well do i need to have agroprom stash quest completed to get meet guide lol

[late condor]

Worst case scenario you can get someone else’s saves and continue from them

[late condor]

I know you need to get the flash drive but I don’t know if you need to get the whole quest completed

[bronze orchid]

guess ill find out

hey do most mods work on existing save files btw or would i need to start a new game if i want to mod back in unused/cut content

[late condor]

Any mod is a new save with very specific exceptions. You also can’t combine mods.

[bronze orchid]

it worked i got the quest to meet the guide

[late condor]

Good luck with getting the right ending now, it should answer most of your questions.

[bronze orchid]

yeah i think im fine now
thanks

one question
which tunder is better

like should i keep the 9x39 one or the 5.45 one

[vast bluff]

you can find more ammo to 5.45 tunder

when 9x39 tunder just makes more damage and i think bigger penetration. I don't know I should replay SoC

[bronze orchid]

maybe you should

[vast bluff]

yes

[bronze orchid]

is SSP-99M better than PSZ-9Md

[rotund saddle]

ye

[granite jungle]

One of the best suits in the game. Only real downside is the durability is fairly low

[rotund saddle]

durability?

[granite jungle]

Yeah like its condition goes down relatively quickly

[quartz cape]

Guys

Tbh
I only completed SoC

The others are kinda hard to do or boring to do

[rotund saddle]

you said earlier you finished CS

[deft vortex]

Is there any way to play SoC with ukrainian voice over and english subs?

[late condor]

Yes there are mods that do that: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/english-subtitles-for-ukrainian

If you’re on console you can just select VA and text language in settings separately

Though the mod is still better as it retranslates the game instead of just putting a different voice acting

[fervent wagon]

"So, Marked One, I saved you and I'm not gonna pretend I did it to win favors upstairs. You do some jobs for me, and we're even. Besides, keeping you busy might be a good way to deal with your amnesia. And I'll see what I can find out about your problem. I don't give a shit why you want to find this Strelok guy and mind my own business. If you want to kill him, well, you must have your reasons."

[fierce pebble]

[surreal jackal]

What is your favorite mod for the game?

[deft vortex]

The only downside is this doesn’t work with ZRP the massive bug fixing patch

[late condor]

ZRP is a really bad mod either way and I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone doing their first playthrough.

[rotund saddle]

[whole geyser]

Zrp causes more problems then it solves

[deft vortex]

really?

okay thanks for the heads up

[late condor]

I really wouldn’t quote tejas but yeah most of its “fixes” are not fixes at all.

[grizzled rock]

daddy_snow has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bronze orchid]

should i ditch my ssp-99m and get an exo

[late condor]

If you are ok with not being able to run, it might be worth it. Do ntoe you're getting far less anomalous and radiation protection though.

[bronze orchid]

does the regular exo also improve carry weight

[late condor]

It's a question of preference.

Did wolf just delete my message after editing

[late condor]

Yeah, it does give you extra 20kg.

[bronze orchid]

does the barrier armor appear in soc, or seraphim

[late condor]

Sorry I'm not sure i get what you mean by that

[bronze orchid]

hmm that mighhave been a mod actually

cant send imaeges so i cant show you proper

[late condor]

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots are for that

[bronze orchid]

ok check it

[bronze orchid]

yes

[late condor]

I’ve got 0 idea what those are but it’s definitely not something from a stalker game xD

[bronze orchid]

well thats alright

[grizzled rock]

yaku91 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[late condor]

Noooo CS and CoP channels :(

[tawdry cargo]

Finally en_stalker is back

[charred prism]

is this the merge event

[civic gate]

bruh wtf is this

why is AKS so ass in CoP, can't hit shit with it

[tawdry cargo]

74U? It ain't bad just needs upgrading

[civic gate]

probably my sensitivity sucks ig

still didn't find good one yet but i'll try

[tawdry cargo]

I always play very low - minimum

[civic gate]

mine is low as well, yet balanced

as long as i can turn comfortably without picking up my mouse i'm fine

[tawdry cargo]

2.2 maybe depending on the game

[civic gate]

Clear Sky had best sensitivity mechanic

aiming felt so smooth

[vast bluff]

nooo CS channel

[civic gate]

got confused at first, didn't realize they merged all 3 into single channel

[late condor]

But at least now we can say for sure that lotz is not the same as trilogy

[faint wasp]

Wasn’t there a thing in maybe CS and probably also CoP where gun stats was lowered to incentivize people to upgrade their guns?

[granite jungle]

Yeah base stats were slightly lower than their SoC versions, but they are better when upgraded

[zealous lantern]

Better should have renamed #📸┃trilogy-screenshots to #!!!NOT_STALKER_2!!!_trilogy_screenshots_and_videos

[tawdry cargo]

Real

[civic gate]

bruh i got bored playing Call of Pripyat

feels so empty , it was fun at first hour or so but after on it's just boring

[zealous lantern]

CoP is more about exploration and free roaming.
Main missions are meh, but side missions are pretty good

[civic gate]

i agree with that

[zealous lantern]

Though Zaton indeed felt a bit empty for me too

[civic gate]

also ragdoll and gunplay feels off

[zealous lantern]

But after I moved to Jupiter there were a lot more stuff to do

[civic gate]

didn't reach that yet

[zealous lantern]

Alright, just finished CoP, and thus the trilogy.
Time to dive into the shithole called Overhaul Mods

[civic gate]

just me or gunplay feels worse than first two

SoC gunplay was great

[zealous lantern]

Not sure, but for some reason I didn't want to use anything but shotguns

I still used rifles, but rarely. Mostly when I needed to snipe someone

[civic gate]

i use same sensitivity and it feels off

worst part about CoP is how empty it is

at least gunfights in first 2 games will give you a reason to engage in game

[zealous lantern]

maybe because bandits are no longer hostile to you, and you just roam around occasionally killing zombies or mutants, idk

i'm not really picky in these stuff, but I can say there were a lot more gunfights in previous games

[whole geyser]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1o996FD2lx1rlHUwY9fmaFo-g_fE9uXPmrx_PoaXsI3Y/htmlview?pli=1#gid=0 @zealous lantern here's some lists of mods to take a peak at from fellow stalker chymo

[zealous lantern]

Looks familiar. I think I've seen this link in someone's bio in this channel. Looks like there's a lot to pick from. Thanks!

Ah, of course, it was the Emperor of Cat Kind!

[late condor]

if you're native ukrainan speaker you do have a wider catalogue of UA translations, check out https://stalker2fenomen.at.ua/load/

oh wait it seems to be dead

[zealous lantern]

The link works for me

But overall there weren't any new posts since 2022. And some download links are dead, and some are not.
thanks anyways

[late condor]

the download links don't unfortunately

[trail ice]

bruh

where are the 3 channels

[trail ice]

doesn't matter, we can still lobe clear sky

[whole geyser]

i lobe clear sky

[trail ice]

i lobe clear sky

[light shuttle]

i lobe clear sky

[faint wasp]

Iirc they lowered gun stats at least in CoP but made the upgrades more noticeable because guns were too good in SoC that there wasn’t a need to get any upgrades on guns done.

[unborn pawn]

i lobe clear sky

[vast bluff]

i lobe clear sky

[naive hollow]

i lobe clear sky

[valid jasper]

i lobe clear sky

[dense sapphire]

i lobe clear sky

[unborn pawn]

we lobe clear sky

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153801114091521/1288426719799152640/Monolith-pray.gif

[ripe storm]

i hate- i mean lobe clear sky

[open copper]

big shame.

[civic gate]

bro why do i keep getting Fallout shorts and videos on yt

gotta admit it kind of makes sense to play Fallout after stalker series

[sonic dew]

Yall what happened to the seperate games channels

i cant find em, clear sky, call of pripyat or soc

[unborn pawn]

It's now one channel

[sonic dew]

Bruh

[tawdry cargo]

So real. I lobe clear sky

[vast bluff]

what

[ripe storm]

nothing

[vast bluff]

[ripe storm]

hey lets peace 🫱 shall we?

[vast bluff]

alright 🤝

[proud marsh]

im doing that mission in cop with the trade, i keep failing the mission kill the witnesses, what do i do?

[lilac blaze]

For clear sky. Uh. Can you get those stalkers to move from yantar to garbage without killing the duty soldiers? Also could I just join up with another faction then rejoin the loners so the war would reset?

[tawdry wagon]

"Marked one! You were the Shadow of Chernobyl?!?!?!"
"Scar, these skies are pretty clear..."
"I hear it... The Call Of Pripyat..."

[graceful horizon]

War won't reset

[late condor]

there is no reset mechanic, war goes on whether you are in or out

[lilac blaze]

Dang. So will they just perpetually be at a stalemate unless i like. Kill a loner squad?

Cuz I know what's causing it. Bandits are at 0 resources

[late condor]

Resources just controls the equipment of new squads

[graceful horizon]

Stalemate? Are there a duty squad and a loner squad trying to claim the same point?

[lilac blaze]

Bandits are at 0 resources in garbage. Loners squads refuse to move even while being attacked

[graceful horizon]

Faction resources have nothing to do with that

[lilac blaze]

It's like the ai think the loners already won even tho the bandits still control the garbage

[graceful horizon]

It's the loner spawn-cap that's the issue as far as I can tell

Plus their shift to the yantar spawnpoint after the roads to the cordon are taken

[lilac blaze]

Ah. Uh. How would I fix this?

Go to yantar and let them move to garbage?

[graceful horizon]

Without killing friendlies/neutrals? You don't

[lilac blaze]

Ah. So is that why I need to kill that duty squad on the road to agroprom? Or would I need to kill a loner squad or two?

[graceful horizon]

But let me emphasize, the reputation impact from killing 2 or 3 squads is easilly fixed

Killing loners in this situation wouldn't help, they'd just respawn at yantar

[lilac blaze]

Dang. Even tho I've not like been there yet? Do they automatically switch when you move to garbage?

[graceful horizon]

They automatically switch when your objective becomes capturing the depot

[lilac blaze]

Daaang

[graceful horizon]

Question though

Is there any squad on the road to agroprom on the garbage?

(The point just east of the depot)

[lilac blaze]

There is a duty squad on the entrance to agroprom yes

[graceful horizon]

That's good, if it were empty you'd be out of luck

[lilac blaze]

So are those guys stoppin the guys from yantar from moving to assist garbage?

[graceful horizon]

The duty squads at the agroprom and garbage exit block the loners, yes

Biggest flaw in the faction war system imho, neutrals aren't let through

[lilac blaze]

So as soon as I kill them the squads will start movin?

[graceful horizon]

When you kill the dutiers at the agroprom exit, yes

Killing the dutiers at the garbage is best done with a mission receives of the loner squads that moved up

[lilac blaze]

? Like one of the loner side missions?

[graceful horizon]

Once two squads of loners have taken the place of the dutiers you cleared out, they can offer a mission to capture the point held by the duty squad at the garbage. It's better to do that because then you can be pretty sure that that squad will capture the point when you do. Squads might not move in to capture if you do it without the mission

If you're not sure what that's supposed to look like, I demonstrated it in that one video

[lilac blaze]

Gotya. What happens if duty don't hold any positions in garbage? Will nothing happen or will they just continue moving to take more positions?

[graceful horizon]

That's what I meant with that point needing to be held by a squad

[lilac blaze]

Ah

[graceful horizon]

If that point is empty, you're likely to be out of luck

[lilac blaze]

ah ok. The road to garbage checkpoint

I thought u meant in garbage

[graceful horizon]

Somehow they can't target thay point if it's unoccupied

Wait

[lilac blaze]

Weird.

[graceful horizon]

I think we're misundertanding eachother

Can you send another screenshot? One with the depot on it?

[lilac blaze]

Yup

[graceful horizon]

Oh

I see you are pretty early in the story

[lilac blaze]

I am yea

[graceful horizon]

At this point duty won't be at the garbage

[lilac blaze]

Do they move in there at a later point?

[graceful horizon]

Yeah, at some point you habe some business with duty. Afyer you conclude there they will start their faction war with freedom and spread out

[lilac blaze]

Ah ok. So wait to kill the guys at agroprom yea?

Like. Kill them after doing stuff for duty?

[graceful horizon]

Well, wait and see IF they take the exit on the garbage side

[lilac blaze]

Alrighty. So if they take that spot kill the dutyers there and at the entrance to agroprom. Gotya

[graceful horizon]

Yeah, otherwise the only real way to have loners occupy the depot would be the fleamarket spawnpoint, and you wouldn't enjoy the amount of killing required for that :' )

[lilac blaze]

Gotya

Would it be better to kill the guys in garbage first or the guys in agroprom?

[graceful horizon]

agroprom, absolutely agroprom

killing the guys at the garbage first with no squad rearing to take its place would leave it unoccupied and un-targetable for squads, breaking the faction wars for loners, duty and freedom

[lilac blaze]

Gotya. Also how would I get my rep back up with duty? Can I do the thing where you help them take positions thing? Like how you can help the loners take the farmstead ruins back as a repeatable?

[graceful horizon]

admittedly, duty is the hardest faction to gain reputation with without joining them

but you should be able to get a chunk back from their fetch-quests in agroprom, red forest, and the army warehouses

[lilac blaze]

Gotya. You get those from squad leaders right? I've not been able to get any from the loner squads yet tbh

Like. How many bars would I lose from killing the squads I need to kill?

[graceful horizon]

just north of duty's base there's also a point they like to occupy. on occasion it gets attacked and requests help(but I think they only get attacked if they're already weakened in numbers)

[lilac blaze]

Gotya

[graceful horizon]

3 bars at most

[graceful horizon]

first you need to complete all fetch quests at the swamps, then the fetch quests at the cordon become available

[lilac blaze]

Ohhhh

[graceful horizon]

after that garbage(most likely), dark valley, agroprom

[lilac blaze]

Dang. I kinda just didn't do those lmao