⭐┃trilogy-general

[candid loom]

Where sadam?

[coarse halo]

Did they up the damage in clear sky or am i imagining things? Playing on veteran and my pm is going to town on these renegades. 6 or 7 shots downs them whereas in the past i would empty 2 magazines into their heads and then get instakilled by their sawnoffs

[swift nexus]

No idea, I even tried to do it by browsing the files but I couldn't find it

[swift nexus]

I think they patched the accuracy

Or you headshot them

[maiden narwhal]

is it fine if i play stalker clear sky ABR CS mode for my first playthrough ?

[graceful horizon]

Most would recommend vanilla for a first playthrough

[blissful timber]

Hi guys, I just started the first game but when I get the "kill the sales representative" side mission from the first trader, I can't find the representative's location in the map. It is not shown as an icon I mean. I know how to navigate the map. Is it a bug?

[graceful horizon]

You also checked the garbage?

[blissful timber]

Yes. As I said, it is not shown in the map as an icon. I mean where the representative is? As far as I remember, it was shown

[graceful horizon]

It usually is, but I have heard of it bugging out before

[blissful timber]

Someone said in reddit that it is a bug but I just wanted to check here. It seems it is

[graceful horizon]

Do you hava a save from before you accepted that mission?

[blissful timber]

I restarted the game

It is one of the first missions u know, then I can see

probably a bug in my first playthrough then.

will start from the scratch then

[maiden narwhal]

should i play the enhanced or the og stalker clear sky ?

[graceful horizon]

Personally I'd say OG

[maiden narwhal]

using only srp ?

[graceful horizon]

Many argue even SRP messes with things significantly

[late condor]

You will get a knife after you go to any arena match

[late condor]

No, OG vanilla.

[swift nexus]

Based on my experience with SRP I hardly find any changes to gameplay other than the SEVA arm model being added and Scar no longer wears a merc SEVA

And it now shows a loner SEVA when dropped instead of Duty's SEVA

And artifacts can now respawn after an emission

And you no longer start with an AKM-74/2

[late condor]

7.62 7N11 is restored

Heavy FW logic changes

[terse crypt]

ABR 💀

[maiden narwhal]

its bad?

[terse crypt]

Its laughable
They change random stuff, remove ridiculous things (like carry limit) and then insult people who voice their criticism of the mod

The game is in relatively good state in vanilla
But if you really want some extra buggfixes then SRP should be capable of running in more or less bugfix-only configuration

[maiden narwhal]

the problem is the performance is really bad on my pc

currently im using the cip mod and the performance and visuals are stunning

[whole geyser]

you should be able to just run SRP

[terse crypt]

Worst case you can use Advanced Xray engine
It should help with performance
And fix some bugs

But it may introduce some issues of its own

[late condor]

yes

[abstract nimbus]

has anyone played CoP with openXray gunslinger mod?

[deep lynx]

in the garbage I have loners blocking the progress of freedom to gain agropom points. how do I do it without killing the loners? clear sky enached edition

[graceful horizon]

You don't, collateral damage may be required at some points

Your reputation can probably take it though

[weak kayak]

so weird thing here, so i rebalanced the weapons of soc, and something weird happened, the npc shoots at the sky and not at me, like no shots are being hit at me

like seriously all of the npc shoot the guns at the sky

[charred prism]

what exactly are the values you changed

[graceful horizon]

Recoil 100

[weak kayak]

Cam dispersion, cam return, fire distance, for pistols I changed the class to VINT to be able to add full auto, rpm, cam_max_angle, hit impulse, and PDM stats

I did however rebalance the recoil to be more realistic however it should not cause the npc to just shoot at the sky and not shoot at me

Is there a problem?

[terse crypt]

well the problem is that the NPCs shoot at the sky

[graceful horizon]

Happens in vanilla too I think, if you force an NPC to use a black kite

[weak kayak]

okay so how do I fix it?

[weak kayak]

hello?

[late condor]

This is not a modding chat just fyi

[weak kayak]

okay thanks

ah sorry

[crystal bolt]

fix enhanced edition gsc 💔

[smoky lance]

SoC crashes each 3-5 minutes. how to fix it?

[crystal bolt]

og or ee

[smoky lance]

ee

[crystal bolt]

you can patch it by uninstalling it and playing og lol

but on a serious note turn off like frame gen and shit and see if that changes anything

[grizzled rock]

youdemilk has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[smoky lance]

disabled already

I dont wanna play this remasters they're REALLY bad, I just wanna take an achievements

[crystal bolt]

amd or nvidia user?

[smoky lance]

amd 7900x3d 4070 ti latest drivers

[crystal bolt]

driver downgrade might do it, im using a r6800xt wit driver version 25.5.1

[smoky lance]

ty!

[crystal bolt]

lmk if it works, if not its probably xray shennanigans or another game or amd settings issue

also hi gsc fix enhanced edition

[soft topaz]

im in the dark valley next to x-18 in soc and i got a side quest for killing a bloodsucker, but ive gone to the marker and theres nothing there 😔

[terse crypt]

Fun fact
Bloodsuckers can go invisible

[shrewd bramble]

since when do chimeras spawn during daytime in CoP, and how did a bloody controller win against one in melee combat?

[terse crypt]

Also probably misplaced marker
The bloodsucker should be across the road from bandit base

[terse crypt]

Always did
Just at small rate
After finishing Trappers quests it becomes more common

[shrewd bramble]

fair

[terse crypt]

Same with Burers

[shrewd bramble]

still baffled by the fact that it lost to a controller though

[terse crypt]

Also Chimeras are kinda whack
Ive once seen a Flesh kill the sleeping one in Zaton

[shrewd bramble]

lmao

[terse crypt]

Apex predator ladies and gentlemen
Killed by literal cannon fodder

[soft topaz]

i was gonna post a ss of where the marker says i should find it but i cant post an image for some reason

[terse crypt]

Yeah the permissions here are whack
Send it to #💬┃en_offtop and ping me

[soft topaz]

yeahhh i think it must have bugged or something because ive looked over every square inch of that piece of land to the right of the road and there isnt any bloodsucker there, not even a single mutant alive either, oh well, my first failed quest in 16 hours of this playthrough, rip

[coarse halo]

Late reply but this is awesome. I never fully explored clear sky and this will make it less grueling. Played through it once years and years ago but i think with a damage modifier mod

[late condor]

they did not change anything about gun balancing

[pure hemlock]

Stuck in an Emission in a drain pipe.

It's over.... I'm still alive. Phew.

[narrow nymph]

When did the remaster come out? It just appeared in my library randomly

[late condor]

may 20, but dont call it a remaster

[narrow nymph]

Why not? It performs infinitely worse and it has more broad support

[swift nexus]

More bugs than the original

[narrow nymph]

I mean so does oblivion and GTA Trilogy remasters

[late condor]

Oblivion is actually a remaster lmfao

not cheap AI upscale & auto-model subdivision that looks worse than the original

[surreal jackal]

It's also called remaster, that's the difference

[narrow nymph]

Stalker EE is ai?

[late condor]

yes

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kuzk6f/comment/mua3hhn/?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kr2nzc/stalker_ai_edition/

[grizzled rock]

bethesdaofficial has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[narrow nymph]

Frick i dont know if i should play the game now

[rose violet]

I don't think
A single Kolobok
Spawned in this CS playthrough 🤔

[rose violet]

Yeah Kolobok was the last one for Sommelier, just redid the bridge section.
The 1st sniper that spawns pretty much instakills a merc if you aren't watching for him 👀

[minor delta]

How yall doing in the enhanced editions so far

They told me not the go in the tunnel and I went into the tunnel, there I found a viper 9 with a conversion for 9x18 rounds 🤤🤤

[late condor]

the reviews are quite descriptive as they are, right?

[minor delta]

Wdym? I haven’t had any issues if that’s what you’re getting at

Also I’ve been finding artifacts just kinda laying around idk if that’s supposed to happen or not

[rose violet]

Doing achievements. Clear Sky's are like four times as involved.
It's kind of crazy actually.
But I don't mind because I had only played it once before vs the multiple times with SoC and CoP
Lots of learn and explore

[pale nebula]

That's normal for Shadow of Chernobyl.

[minor delta]

I haven’t had such luck in the original SoC

Just been finding random low tier artifacts laying around, I haven’t been able to get to a shop in a while so i stockpiled like 20 of them on me

[stuck scroll]

gotta love the dehanced editions 😎

[late condor]

there are 5 people listed from GSC in "Quality Assurance" category

five people were doing the QA for this abomination and they all decided it's ok to release it

insane

[stuck scroll]

i took note that they did infact remove the paragraph at the beginning of SoC mentioning that they will not change the game at all because of the ongoing politics

they better give me my old stalker games back

[naive hollow]

Luckily, the TrilOG still exists

So we can still play the OG games instead of TrilogEE slop

[late condor]

Consoles too? I thought it’s just gone on PC

[restive pagoda]

Late reply, but I had one yesterday, that spawned in zaton before the quest.

It was incredibly weak and died to a single ak burst 0.o

I've also noticed weirdness with artefact spawns. Now I'm getting 3 or 4 per anomaly, per emission. Even had one anomaly vomit 6 at me in 1 go!
In the old version, I felt lucky to have even 1 spawn in all three anomalies. Really weird balancing change, there. Not unwelcome though xD

[shrewd bramble]

no bugs, only anomalies

[restive pagoda]

The best

[shrewd bramble]

I'm glad that I have the original trilogy and not the enhanced version, probably couldn't run it anyways

[restive pagoda]

I have the ogs, and was mid playthrough of cop when these dropped. My gtx 1060 runs the EE pretty solidly, ngl.

I miss cheeki breeki though. The bandits are so damned quiet now.

[shrewd bramble]

honestly idk which is better, SoC or CoP

[restive pagoda]

Cop

[shrewd bramble]

I've found both absolutely phenomenal in terms of gameplay and really liked the addition of pripyat into CoP

[restive pagoda]

Though I'm biased!

[shrewd bramble]

kind of leaning towards it

I like the fact that I can actually upgrade / repair my stuff

I entirely skipped clear sky once I got to the garbage, I just didn't really like the gameplay

[restive pagoda]

I miss the old call of chernobyl mod. That had every map in one go.

[shrewd bramble]

and istg bandages are the rarest item in clear sky

[pale nebula]

On my latest Shadow of Chernobyl playthrough, a few months ago, I found at least ten artifacts in Agroprom, near the main path. I guess it depends.

[late condor]

It doesn’t depend. :)

They’re consistently there, the other guy is just blind.

[pale nebula]

It depends on how attentive he is.

[left scaffold]

In lost alpha (enhanced edition), what is the “trinket” artifact? it doesn't even appear in your wiki.

[late condor]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[fast karma]

"take back" is not the right choice of words as its not removed.

[late condor]

EE forced on Series S|X, can’t opt out of the upscale

[heady trout]

This is why PC is superior

[fast karma]

Its not a separate download you say?

[late condor]

No

Or maybe it is a separate download but the originals got removed

[fast karma]

Idk much about consol versions, but I don't think it's removed.

[livid kettle]

the og ones still exist 😭

[soft topaz]

lads im not gonna lie, i have reloaded the tunnel after x-16 about 20 times and i keep getting the wrong stash, im gonna combust

[chilly nebula]

That's the only redeeming factor tbh

[narrow nymph]

The one official version with controller suppprt is the worst version of the game lol

[sacred shale]

so i was minding my own business in the toilet when i stumbled onto an ''article'' that says the enhanced stalker trilogy is being shit on very badly on steam...... anybody care to sum up the reasons?

[narrow nymph]

Ai upscaled

[sacred shale]

thats it?

care to explain what they do?

[grizzled rock]

fytogilithefox has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[surreal jackal]

did the new patch fixed the blurry issue

duty scum

[sacred shale]

god? damn? what is this shit? if i put both together it gets censored!!

is the infinite radiation BS fixed at least? also pretty pathetic for companies to whine about ''profanity'' in their 18+ rated games or community servers/discord etc

[proud sand]

they say they have fixed it, cannot test it out myself, in the patch notes they say for the changes to take place you have to switch your graphics preset to medium, then to max again and reboot (the game). please test it out if you can. good hunting stalker

[rose violet]

Dam, I thought those blurry weapon stats were a bug I had

Probably still a bug. Maybe.

[sharp urchin]

It still kinda looks blurry

[proud sand]

I have verified it, fixed for me

[proud sand]

check if fsr was enabled when selecting the preset

[harsh mirage]

NPC's don't seem to know that I'm killing their squad. They don't seem to react. I'm not using stealth. I blast a guy and his friend a couple paces away doesn't even turn. Only once someone sees me and starts agroing do the rest join in. Anyone else experiencing this? It's like I'm constantly stealth killing.

[sharp urchin]

I tried it and it looks better-ish

[proud sand]

for me the screen space global illumination create some kind of visual jitter on textures

(edit: meant global illumination not reflections)

but game looks sharp

[sharp urchin]

Yea it looks better on second look

hooray

[deft rune]

Hmmm

[flint crane]

Hey guys. Now on console is possible to remap controls on the pad?

[minor delta]

Nope I for sure would’ve spotted em, they’re not exactly hard to see

They literally emanate an aura and they glow

[pale nebula]

You mean Fang's stash? Yeah, you might have missed the coordinates. Supposedly, some loners who come to Yantar can give you the coordinates if you kill them, but I couldn't do it on my latest playthrough.

[soft topaz]

Its okay, i ended up getting it, just had to keep reloading the save before exiting X-16 and loot the same body over and over, funny enough i think the body is called Gordon Freeman lol, genuinely took me around 45-50 reloads all in all

[pale nebula]

Well, good for you for being persistent. However, Gordon Freeman isn't the one in Yantar. His body is found in Wild Territory, in a tunnel with electro anomalies.

[soft topaz]

Ahh okay, my mistake, saw there was a new PDA in my Journal called "Gordons PDA" after leaving Yantar and just assumed that was the case

[pale nebula]

Poor Freeman, though! He destroyed Xen and the Combine forces on Earth only to be killed in Chernobyl...

[lone python]

Hello everybody i was thinking about buying the trilogy and i wanted to ask if you can play stalker gamma so that mod
on xbox?

[hallow thunder]

is it still blurry for anyone else ?

[agile wind]

The best way to play the enhanced edition on pc is to delete from your drive and play the old games

[soft topaz]

Are you asking if you can play Stalker Gamma on Xbox lol?

[olive steppe]

You can't really mod the trilogy on consoles. The mods are extremely rudimentary (hence why it's such a shame that EE is dogshit, since console players got shafted out of a real stalker experience).

[candid fern]

What is the need for that though right? Like, why make it so someone has to reload the same thing over and over to search the same thing, over and over, for 1 item. Whyyyyy.

[soft topaz]

Just Stalker things i guess, i have no idea why they did it like that all i know is that it got very old very fast, i almost closed the game down for the day and was gonna pick it back up again tommorow

[lone python]

Oh damn thats a sham

[fast karma]

It's not even based on any of the 3 games

Closest one is CoP

Tho, it's kinda different engine

[soft topaz]

I know, Gamma is a mod for Anomaly, not any of the vanilla games

[fast karma]

Yeah, it does use CoC based

Which is itself a mod

For CoP

[candid fern]

And Anomaly is a mod, of a mod, of a mod, of a mod

[fast karma]

So it's basically a mod, for a mod, for a mod

For a game

XD

[fast karma]

Gamma you mean*

Otherwise it won't be right

[soft topaz]

As far as i know it went: Call of Pripyat (Base game) - Call of Chernobyl (Mod) - Stalker Misery (Mod) - Stalker Anomaly right? I could be wrong though

[candid fern]

Well, both, right?

No wait, no lol.

[fast karma]

Anomaly is a mod, for a mod, for a game.
Gamma is a modpack, for a mod, for a mod, for a game.

That's the difference

[candid fern]

Aye, that’s what I said…

[olive steppe]

Gamma is a modpack for Anomaly.

[candid fern]

[soft topaz]

I mean, If a game is a standalone, that doesnt require the base game anymore, like anomaly, is it technically still a mod?

[trail light]

Look at this piece of blurry shit
#📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[obsidian willow]

Calling it a stalker game is a very fast track to getting ripped to pieces here lmao

[fast karma]

Not exactly

[fast karma]

And anomaly is a mod for CoC, and CoC is a mod for Call of pripyat

[candid fern]

Well, technically yes, just because a modpack has became standalone doesnt mean it still isn’t a modified version of one game or another.

[fast karma]

Not really a stalker mod if you consider how it's built

It uses the engine, yes, but none of the 3 base games

[soft topaz]

If people want to get their panties in a twist over something like that then thats their problem not mine lol

[candid fern]

How dare you not know your stalker knowledge.

[eternal iris]

gamma the modpack < anomaly < last day < call of misery < coc + misery < cop

[soft topaz]

Oh damn i had never even heard of last day, ill have to look into that one

[fast karma]

Doesn't really have much to do with misery

[eternal iris]

anomaly is a x64 fork of that iirc

anyway look into actually good mods instead

[fast karma]

Last day is a modpack for coc

With some elements of CoM

Not really based on it tho

[eternal iris]

cock

[soft topaz]

so really it just goes, cop > coc > anomaly?

[visual whale]

"Fixed several rendering-related issues with SSGI (Screen Space Global Illumination) that caused visual distortion and blurriness."

So does that make this option now a higher/better graphical option than HBAO?

[fast karma]

Yeah

[restive pagoda]

Btw, does anyone know if the new versions are x64, or still x86? If they are x64, I'd be interested to know how that was done!

(I'd laugh if they used open x-ray xD)

[fast karma]

X64 if I'm not mistaken

[restive pagoda]

I just checked task manager and apparently, CoP is indeed x64. Interesting!

[restive pagoda]

Oh, I just heard my first cheeki breeki in CoP!

[torpid rapids]

hi, I stayed behind instead of taking the helo out of pripyat, and have been happily collecting artifacts across the three maps. is there an underground to pripyat? tunnels are mentioned, but I've only found one, and it's short and collapsed.

[soft topaz]

i swear ive killed like 9 bloodsuckers in this godforsaken village and it still hasnt completed the objective, bruh

[hallow thunder]

Bruh it's a village, it's not just 9 residents

[soft topaz]

ive run around it like 12 times already

its the fangs goodies tip all over again...

[hallow thunder]

Haha

[hallow thunder]

Theres like 6 bloodsuckas

I think, check houses as well

[soft topaz]

In usual stalker fashion, im pretty sure it bugged on me, killed more than 6 already, cleared every house, the tower, the basement, near the tree, rest in peace

[hallow thunder]

Hmm

Maybe one of them is stuck somewhere and doesn't respond to you

[soft topaz]

Perhaps, will give it another go over as thorough as possible

[soft topaz]

SNOW????

[olive steppe]

That one on the stairs is caked up

[hallow thunder]

[smoky lance]

how to fix an issue when Kochergas marker bugged on wild territory? I wanna take an achievment

[late condor]

And I do know much and I’m telling you that EE replaced LotZ on Series S|X.

Idk why you argue when you say you don’t know lol.

[olive steppe]

Yeah it's gone on PS5 too. There only ever was 1 version of LotZ, now it's something entirely else.

It's easier to have two separate versions on Steam than it would be on console. Console players got shafted with the forced EE upgrade.

[soft topaz]

is the AS Val a copyrighted gun and thats why it has a different name in stalker?

[late condor]

all the guns have different names in stalker because a) those are cooler; b) this avoids legal action even if its unlikely.

but don't tell me Ahmmm-Peeeee-Faev is anywhere near as cool as Viper-5.

[soft topaz]

Yeah i just wanted to know lol, guns with different but cool names are fine, but lets get one thing straight the MP5 is one of, if not THE best submachine gun ever created, lets not crap on its name buckaroo

[analog hamlet]

Lol based

[karmic horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/buckaroo-banzai-peter-weller-jeff-goldblum-lewis-smith-clancy-brown-gif-7093695506086835164

[pale nebula]

MP, no, but Machinenpistole definitely is.

[fast karma]

Did I? you sure you can call that arguing?

Well, either way, it be what it be

I hope that gets sorted out, and that's all

[velvet sun]

how dare you...

[stable copper]

Any1 have news on the ps5 version for new stalker

[fast karma]

Sorry won't do it again lmao

[indigo ore]

Bro asking for PS5 release when the game is still broken as heck... Good Lawd, Lawd...

[stable copper]

Plz i just wanna play new stalker 😭

[indigo ore]

With the broken A-Life?

[stable copper]

A life?

[indigo ore]

Blehehehehe

[fast karma]

[indigo ore]

Bro doesn't know a core detail @whole geyser

LAWD HAMMERCY!

[stable copper]

I’m pretty new lmaooo

[indigo ore]

A-Life is the brains of STALKER, the engine that drives the NPCS (AI system)

[stable copper]

Dang and your tellin me that shi is trash rn?

[indigo ore]

Its not trash but it doesnt work the way it should

[stable copper]

Would u say old stalkers have better ai?

[indigo ore]

Old games have AI much more dynamic, yeah...

Its the dynamicness that S2 lacks in terms of AI and that should've been fixed already - GSC should've done entirely an AI-focused patch and got rid of all the inconsistencies in that regard, instead of fixing it one step at a time...

[stable copper]

Shit dude

[stable copper]

Didn’t realize how far back they went

[indigo ore]

Move to the respective channel before we're warned of discussing a different game in here

[stable copper]

Bet

[graceful horizon]

[fleet tundra]

So, did 1.0.2 actually make the game no longer vasseline smeared?

[candid fern]

Some folks have reported it is better now.

[fleet tundra]

Cool. I might poke Shadow of Chornobyl then

[late condor]

it did nothing that you couldn't achieve yourself by fiddling with settings

if oyu played without GI & motion blur and with FSR & max sharpen, 1.0.2 didnt change anything

[fleet tundra]

Yeah, no.
No matter what settings I tried the game would always look blurry, like it renders at 70% resolution instead of native 1440p.
I even tried turning off everything
The only way to get it work was to force DLDSR 4k downscaled to 1440p

So now that 1.0.2 came out I will test it again

[late condor]

I even tried turning off everything
No FSR looks worse than FSR + Sharpen.

So you had to turn off specific things and enable others.

[fleet tundra]

The fact the game looks worse with FSR off shouldn't even be a thing in the first place.

How tf did we manage to regress so much in a decade?
How are games released before 2015 running at native resolutions, at sharp graphics that don't require sharpening filters?
Why did the world devolve into a blurry mess that makes you think the player characters have eyesight problems

[neon gulch]

Stalker trilogy of de enhancment

[zinc haven]

Well it all started when Nvidia crap out TXAA and industry realized its cheap AA with acceptable results so it "evolved" into TAA

Well evolved is bit wrong since its pretty much same but without proprietary name

Then somewhere along the way it evolved into upscalers allowing developers to compromise less when adding stuff and allowing some devs get sloppy or outright lazy

• adding temporal filter to everything doesnt help

• popularity of unreal engine that been dupped as "blur engine" since 4 so no there is not much hope for future

Except the few that still rock their proprietary engines

[whole geyser]

i'm sad that CDPR is moving witcher 4 and 2077 sequel to UE5..

[fast karma]

The latest engine updates are somewhat better. Maybe it'll change the overall opinion on the engine? Who knows

[whole geyser]

True good point there

[zinc haven]

UE5 is doomed. With logic running on 1 core there is not much hope

Daddy sweeney admitted that but hey will be "fixed" with UE6

[fast karma]

Well, at least it's more stable and all

I'm kinda optimistic

[zinc haven]

Abandon all hope

[fast karma]

Gl then I'd like to leave room for positive doubt no matter what

[granite jungle]

Meanwhile id tech 8 go brrr but since it's internal to Bethesda like 3 games will ever use it

[zinc haven]

Id tech 7 is possible to license

[granite jungle]

Is it? I thought zenimax was still keeping it internal only

[zinc haven]

Last i heard its possible. Terms just not being competitive against unreal, unity and cryengine

[torpid rapids]

CDPR is actively contributing to the codebase and making UE5 way better than before

[whole geyser]

Oh thats a relief to hear

[eternal iris]

i dont trust them

[torpid rapids]

let me be the first person on the server to say this

Frag Lab

[eternal iris]

cp77 already has forced taa it can get much worse

[graceful horizon]

Best not to abbreviate that game title

[eternal iris]

that's why 77 is there

[graceful horizon]

Hope it's enough

[torpid rapids]

Thanks for reminding me that I should download cp again for old time's sake

[soft topaz]

[graceful horizon]

People have gotten their discord accounts in serious trouble like that, you really should not

[hallow thunder]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/lfHpexhDQ3

EE handed over to another dev team

[crystal holly]

@plucky trench ~~ Hey Mol1t, would you be able to explain to me what the deal is with mods for the Enhanced Editions? I know that mods on the Steam Workshop will have restrictions to be in line with Mod.io, but will we be able to use bigger, gameplay-changing mods through manual installation i.e. not using Steam Workshop? ~~

Disregard, apparently this was all based on a miscommunication.

[late condor]

I know that mods on the Steam Workshop will have restrictions to be in line with Mod.io
they don't

[late condor]

bigger, gameplay-changing mods through manual installation i.e. not using Steam Workshop
You already can do it to install engine mods (e.g. done through HEX editing) but unless GSC makes the new engine source available, you won't see much in terms of engine progress

[crystal holly]

Oh, they changed that? I remember reading that that was going to be a thing, that the only mods on Workshop could be things like texture replacements and the like, but gameplay-changing mods wouldn't be allowed.

[late condor]

It was a miscommunication, they meant mod.io mods can't change scripts or configs for EE.

But Workshop is not affected. There already are config mods.

The biggest problem right now is the engine. Old engine source was avaialble to the public since 2015. People can mod anything. With EE it's kinda working with existing feautres instead of adding new ones, and that's sad.

[crystal holly]

Ah, so that's what happened. That's good to know, I remember there was quite an uproar because people thought mods for the EEs were being deliberately restricted.

[late condor]

I even deleted the post to not misinform people and some youtuber still dug up my deleted post and put it in his vid lol

[crystal holly]

Lol, whoops.

[late condor]

But yeah it was a miscommunication. Steam mods are ok (though currently LTX reading in mods is broken, but that's not an intentional limit but rather a bug, Mol1t promised a fix already).

[crystal holly]

Well, hopefully they'll make the new source code available. I'd love to see people go crazy so we can see things of the same scope as Misery, CoP, Anomaly, etc.

[charred prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1059231758823981189/1370777750423732295/Somsnosa_Sitting.webp

[plucky trench]

mod io and Steam Workshop have separate guidelines, shortly, it is possible to modify almost everything on the Steam Workshop. We are preparing tools and guide for the Steam Workshop atm

[crystal holly]

Do you know if there are plans to make the new source code available? If not now, then maybe in the future?

[indigo ore]

Broman, there's so much sheet to correct there's no point in that atm

Ludacris amount of work after Mataboo fked up everything and will get away with it now (already did, I'm afraid)

[crystal holly]

I'm kind of hoping GSC just completely takes over the development of the EEs, I think they should have enough people to do it. Outsourcing seems like it was a bad choice.

[analog hamlet]

Like it would change anything

[granite jungle]

I dunno I think the fact it's so messed up makes it more worth fixing

[obsidian willow]

I’m hoping this acts as a big ol black mark on Mataboo’s record

This level of laziness is incredible to behold

[olive steppe]

I mean they worked on Blair Witch, Suicide Squad, Gotham Knights, Green Hell. I know half of which were dogshit games, but at the very least they looked passable. The EE was literally just a half baked AI upscale.

[obsidian willow]

Green hell is the only game on there I think is decent lmao

[late condor]

AI part of EE may have been another studio

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kwo2ez/enhanced_edition_was_handed_off_to_a_new_studio/

[obsidian willow]

You’re joking me

[granite jungle]

If they put out an EE that was merely unexciting because it barely improved anything then fine because it's free. But screwing it up means that you gotta work twice as hard to try and earn the trust back.

[olive steppe]

Bruh.

Okay, Fraglab bad. They wanted to add cryptoscam into their newest game.

Secondly, no portfolio on their own website.

[zinc haven]

Quite common actually

[crystal bolt]

yo is there anything still missing/broken in EE?

[charred prism]

a lot

[torpid rapids]

i have to ask.... am i, the player, being targeted by roaming packs of snorks (enhanced version). any direction i go, they find me. it's a savage ending. beginning. anyhow, it's savage.

[smoky lance]

how to fix crashes?? in 5-30 minutes for each session each games freezes and not responding. I dont know how to fix this. help me please!

[teal edge]

Is blur fixed

[narrow zephyr]

I cant find the technical channel for PC i trilogy, so soryy for posting here:

I have a few problems in the agroprom location in clear sky EE

1.When I try to save the game (quick save or regular) - the save does not appear in the save list, as if it was not created.

2.When I enter the agroprom location, when I try to exit or go down the hole (which I have to sink) the game crashes.

This means that I cannot progress the game any further, the rest of the locations work normally.

Loading older saves does not help.

The problem is both on my computer and in the geforce now cloud.

I am attaching the logs:

Initializing Engine...

Starting INPUT device...

[MTB] mtb_ai_vertex_search_depth changed to: 52

[MTB] mtb_astar_timeout changed to: 53

[MTB] MTB::AsyncLimbIK::Enabled to: 52

[MTB] mtb_ai_vertex_search_depth changed to: 52

[MTB] mtb_astar_timeout changed to: 53

[MTB] MTB::AsyncLimbIK::Enabled to: 52

• CREATE: DeviceREF: 453

[SWS] Mod #3486486129, state: 5, installed: yes, size: 14290, path: C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\2427420\3486486129

[SWS] Registering pack 'spawnEN.pack' [14290 bytes]

Starting engine...

Loading objects...

Loading models...

[MTB][xrDebugNew][MTB_CrashDump] dump path: [c:\users\xxx\saved games\stalker clear sky - ee\steam\logs\xrEngine-release-2025-5-28__16-63.dmp], log path: [c:\users\xxx\saved games\stalker clear sky - ee\steam\logs\xrEngine-release-2025-5-28__16-63.log]

[MTB][xrDebugNew][MTB_CrashDump] [c:\users\xxx\saved games\stalker clear sky - ee\steam\logs] exist.

After unistalling mod, the game crash without creating log file - I never use this mod, its just installed.

Anyone know how to fix this?

[regal pasture]

https://support.stalker-game.com/hc/uk
I don't have knowledge how to fix it, but at least you can try to search in the link which I provided, or make a support ticket with your problem

[charred prism]

go to the log path and show us the log file, the last lines of the log with the issues

[late condor]

He showed the log file LITERALLY in that post

But EE crash logs look weird

[charred prism]

either that log is diff and useless or Im not seeing well
Stalker logs tell you at least what file you ran into taht was an error

[narrow zephyr]

That's all what's stalker save in log and make screenshot of loading screen or dont save the log when crash. Its only on this one map. I can move/get quests, but when I try enter other locations its crash

[torpid rapids]

Is trilogy worth getting?

I don’t have access to the OGs bc I’m playing on an Xbox

[late condor]

No, Xbox series S|X received forced “enhanced edition” updates that immensely downgrade the experience all across the board.

I’d wait until you can get your hands on a laptop and play actual OG without any downgrades

[torpid rapids]

So just play stalker 2 then?

[late condor]

In the meanwhile yeah good option

At least S2 experience is consistent between PC and consoles.

[torpid rapids]

What a damn shame.

[torpid rapids]

Moneys tight so that won’t be an option for a long while

[late condor]

Even a cheap-ass second hand laptop would be enough to launch those games honestly. :)

but I understand. Just do it when you get the chance.

[torpid rapids]

That’s nice bc I really want to play clear sky lol

[ocean berry]

Hey, simple fix if you are not playing the game in English. Change the game language to english, it fixed for the saving and level changing in agroprom.

If you mean the level change crash and game not saving, just change game language to English, it should fix both.

[upbeat surge]

yo, I just finished clear sky, but I dont know if I should get SoC or CoP first. any suggestions?

[soft topaz]

SoC, as it takes place after clear sky

Really though you should have played SoC first anyways

[upbeat surge]

yeah, but thanks

[crystal bolt]

this fangs stash achievment is so annoying holy

[crystal bolt]

lads is there any faster way to find this f*** fang stash marker other than farming these poor guys in yantar

[regal pasture]

No

This guy in the tunnel it's the only stash giver to this stash

[crystal bolt]

ive been told that farming loners also has a chance to give it no?

[regal pasture]

As far as i know, only dead guy in the tunnel after x16 can give it to you

[crystal bolt]

he didnt

[regal pasture]

A hint with some probability can be obtained from the corpse of any loner on Yantar

Info that i found out

But i always use that body in the tunnel

Didnt get?
Reload until get

[crystal bolt]

what if reload 100 times and no get

[regal pasture]

Bad luck

[crystal bolt]

nope. can be given by loners in yantar lol

i farmed sparrow near the bus and he gave me it

[regal pasture]

For me it's the best spot, since you don't need to look at any of them.
Just reload in case if you don't get it

[crystal bolt]

its ok i got it now lol

[crystal bolt]

are artefacts any good in cs? because iirc theyre kinda ass in cop, and ive never used them in cs

[narrow zephyr]

It works, thanks a lot!

[regal pasture]

Arts vs bleeding + maximum weight are op

With the anti radiation

[fringe hamlet]

Im playing Stalker Clear Sky enhanced edition
I think i found a bug where i cant deliver the upgrades flashdrivers to some traders.

Is someone else having this problem?
For an example. The pistols upgrades (that should be delivered to the loner agroppon technician)
I have his flashdrives in my iventory but the option of the quest doesnt show up

[rose violet]

You can get multiple flash drives of the same upgrade so you might have already handed it in. Or is it your first ever time talking to him?

[minor delta]

SoC remaster crashing on startup after the update

Let me verify game files and see if that fixes it

When in doubt verify game files

Did not fix anything

Nvm found the issue, the mods were outdated I guess. Disable your mods and start the game again

[cinder geode]

it's not a remaster

[soft topaz]

i mean... kinda is?

[minor delta]

Bleh bleh bleh blah blah blah

[cinder geode]

nah, it's a update

[soft topaz]

not really lol, considering its listed as a new game

[cinder geode]

nah

the console versions are basically the same with better shaders and upscaled textures

the pc version is just a port of the console version

[soft topaz]

well it literally fits the definition of a remaster, its the same game but "upgraded" (take that with a grain of salt obviously) with better graphics and improved gameplay

[cinder geode]

actually, downgraded

[soft topaz]

hence the speech marks lol

but still

[cinder geode]

nah

even gsc don't call it a remaster

[soft topaz]

just because they dont literally call it that doesnt mean its not true

[cinder geode]

because it's not a remaster

it's basically a updated port

[soft topaz]

so youre saying generally that ports of games include graphical and gameplay changes?

[cinder geode]

yes?

most ports do that

[soft topaz]

thats just completely wrong but okay

[cinder geode]

its literally not? there's a bunch of ports that changes stuff of the game

[soft topaz]

a bunch meaning like 5% of ports? 95 percent of game ports are the exact same game but on a different console

[cinder geode]

and that upgrade literally don't fit in a remaster

texture? even being upscaled they look the same, the models? literally the same, the gameplay changes? making the game more easy, besides that there's literally nothing to make it a remaster

[soft topaz]

skyboxes, character models, gun models, god rays, lighting, ui and hud changes, voiceline changes, names of people and location changes, changed reflections and wet surfaces, come on now buddy, gsc literally say in their faq that saves wont work between the two because and i quote "Those are two different games"

[cinder geode]

come on buddy?

half of these things you listed are the same and don't even got touched

for exemple, skyboxes, characters models, gun models, god rays that alread exists in cs/cop and still not exist in soc, wet surfaces is alread something that also exists in cs and cop that also is not present in soc

"come on buddy"

[soft topaz]

hey buddy, im not sure why you are getting so annoyed over this, but im sorry to burst your bubble by saying this, no matter what you say they are still considered remasters, buddy

[cinder geode]

this "remaster" is lliterally a shader upgrade that also don't add features that show up in cs/cop in soc

[cinder geode]

and im just correcting you

don't call a upgrade a remaster

[soft topaz]

i personally like that they kept the gameplay features almost exactly the same on the games, because if you look at the trilogy as a whole, all 3 games feel like their own seperate entries that have slightly different vibes and ways that you experience them, so if they just copied over the new things that were in cs and cop to soc then it wouldnt feel like shadow of chornobyl anymore

[cinder geode]

im talking about visual stuff

the gameplay is the same but now the weapons are more accurate

[soft topaz]

oh sorry i must have misunderstood you then

[minor delta]

So are remasters

[cinder geode]

"remaster" that don't remaster anything besides making a shader upgrade

[minor delta]

“A remastered game is an updated version of a classic game that improves its graphics, performance, or audio while keeping the core gameplay largely the same. It's essentially a "fresh coat of paint" for an older game, making it more visually appealing and compatible with modern platforms. “

Literally textbook definition of a remaster

[soft topaz]

i mean look at the last of us remaster, they just added better lighting and enhanced character models, and upped it to 60fps

[cinder geode]

so for what you are saying, it alread fails to be considered a remaster

[minor delta]

How, it’s updated. Remaster

[cinder geode]

why? because it censors soviet stuff that also a core of the game

[olive steppe]

How the hell could you call this a remaster lmao, it's an actual downgrade. Just because something is listed twice it doesn't make it remastered.

[soft topaz]

just because its bad doesnt mean it isnt a remaster, bad remasters exist (unfortunately)

[olive steppe]

There's a reason they were at least honest with their naming conventions, knew it could never pass as a "remaster", so they just slapped enhanced on top.

It literally isnt a remaster. Nothing has been remastered.

[minor delta]

Because they have to lmao how is that a core piece of gameplay

[soft topaz]

Graphics: lighting, character models, gun models, etc etc etc etc etc

[cinder geode]

not because they have, but because they wanted, censoring it they just make it seems that ukraine who caused the chernobyl incident and not the soviet union

[minor delta]

The Red Cross has to be censored

[olive steppe]

Etc.Etc.Etc.

You can slap on as many Etc. As you want, doesn't mean things were actually added.

[cinder geode]

the red cross got censored because copyright

[olive steppe]

Also Soviet shit doesn't HAVE to be removed, it was purely their choice to do it.

[minor delta]

No because it’s international law

[cinder geode]

not true

[soft topaz]

a remaster isnt about adding things, most of the time at least

[cinder geode]

surdno alread explained it

[olive steppe]

Sure, unfortunately copy pasting the same game two times over doesn't count as a remaster. Legends of the zone was never called one, nor is "enhanced edition", even the Polish devs who made it were smart enough not to push the definition.

[soft topaz]

Except no matter how you try and twist it, it wasnt "copy pasting the same game two times over", if that was the case then save games from the original would work in the new ones

[olive steppe]

You're the one twisting it buddy. You're the one trying to call it a remaster when even the actual developers who made it, didn't.

It's like you're trying to call the sky red.

[minor delta]

Even if they don’t say it is, it’s technically one

[cinder geode]

actually, i think they actually works

[olive steppe]

Jesus, it's like talking to a wall.

[minor delta]

When we talk to you guys yes it is

[soft topaz]

You took the words right out of my mouth

[olive steppe]

"No u", classic comeback. 6000 IQ.

[soft topaz]

That wasnt a "no u" but alright buddy 💀

[olive steppe]

Quite literally was. Hard to understand when two people share the same brain cell.

[naive hollow]

Honestly

Why TrilogEE when you can TrilOG?

[soft topaz]

Real

[olive steppe]

You can, just download it on your PC.

Unfortunately console players are relegated to the garbage edition.

[naive hollow]

In a way

Even then, there's also the standard LotZ version

[fringe hamlet]

Hmm... This info is new to me...

[olive steppe]

You can't download the LotZ version anymore. It's been replaced by EE.

[fringe hamlet]

I thought that the flashdrives were unique itens....

[naive hollow]

Entirely?

[olive steppe]

Yes, entirely. Only one version of the game exists on the PS5 store.

[naive hollow]

Welp, that's scummy

[olive steppe]

Same with xbox.

It was essentially a forced update that you cannot undo.

[soft topaz]

Yeah, at least they left the original version fully accesible on PC, but the console versions were completely replaced with the EE

[naive hollow]

If so, then yeah, y'all got shafted fr

I can ask GSC if they're aware of this and if they're going to make it available again, though

So here's hoping

[soft topaz]

its a lot harder to do that than on pc though, because im pretty sure scummy playstation and microsoft would be against giving what they would consider as one of two seperate trilogies for free

[olive steppe]

That would be appreciated but I don't think it'll happen. PS5 & Xbox usually have strong standards for publishing games.

[naive hollow]

Yeah, I know

I can still ask

See what's what

[olive steppe]

Would be appreciated

[naive hollow]

Still, this sucks

[whole geyser]

I hope console can have lotz and ee to keep parity

[olive steppe]

It does. I bought LotZ on my Xbox a while back, and overnight it was essentially erased & replaced with something I never would've bought.

Honestly they could just work on getting EE to be better. Better than even what LotZ was. It would be significantly easier than trying to re-publish a second version of the game.

[minor delta]

It’s a remaster guys

[soft topaz]

That's 100% the right route to go, just keep updating EE until it lives up to its name

i agree but that conversation is over now lol, not worth arguing over anymore

[soft topaz]

[inland vigil]

I have a lot of artifacts

Like 6

I just came across them

Should I sell them and get a better suit?

[soft topaz]

Yes, if they are simple and not very good ones, if they are good ones then equip them lol

[whole geyser]

Ban foot freaks

@naive hollow we got weird ahh foot pic

[inland vigil]

What are the good ones?

At first I couldn't find any now they are literally everywhere

[soft topaz]

If you are playing SoC then yeah, they are kinda everywhere, you can fill your entire bag with them very quickly

[minor delta]

Bros calling the mods for a photoshopped picture of Mike Ehrmantraut with his toes out

[inland vigil]

I mean I have more on the other two games

[soft topaz]

Still, artifacts are MUCH more plentiful in SoC compared to CS and CoP

[inland vigil]

Are the souls the very good ones?

[soft topaz]

It depends on what you are trying to do with them lol

Urchin and Crystal are good for stacking radiation protection, thats one example

[naive hollow]

Okay

[inland vigil]

I just wanna get a better suit

[whole geyser]

Smite 😈

[inland vigil]

So I can show the military I mean business

[soft topaz]

Bad game

[naive hollow]

Bad game fr

[whole geyser]

Fr fr

[naive hollow]

But to answer you, no

I'm not going to lower myself to that which you hate

[soft topaz]

The Mike feet stay

[inland vigil]

I love these games

Even though they hard as hell

I haven't really traded with Sidorovicb before

Does his inventory change every once in a while?

[naive hollow]

Yeah, it does

[soft topaz]

yeah, it refreshes every once in a while but it usually has mostly lower tier weapons and armor that are only really good for the start of the game, after a while the barkeep is the better trader, and then the Ecologist as well

[inland vigil]

Should I steal the military documents or does they not offer anything

[soft topaz]

You killed all the military at the outpost lol?

[inland vigil]

I usually just focus on the main missions

[naive hollow]

At Agroprom? It's part of the main quest

[inland vigil]

Oh it is? Damn

[naive hollow]

You can also stealth it entirely

[soft topaz]

Oh okay i thought he was talking about the Military documents at the outpost

[inland vigil]

Oh yeah those dudes

[naive hollow]

Without killing anyone

[soft topaz]

But Strelok with at least 600 kills on his belt by the end of the game is best Strelok

[inland vigil]

I just checked my kill count

2117 stalkers killed

[soft topaz]

[inland vigil]

Most of them were bandits

[soft topaz]

Bro is asking all these questions yet killed half the zone already wth

[inland vigil]

I have a very bad memory

[soft topaz]

How the hell you got 2117 stalkers killed bro i just did a 30 hour playthrough and ended with about 700 😭

[inland vigil]

I don't know bro 😭

I just started playing again

Is this a bad thing?

[minor delta]

Found some “bread”

[soft topaz]

2117 stalker kills with only 7 PSN trophies unlocked for the game is crazy 😭

Nahhh you are messing with me lol according to your trophies the furthest you have reached is Garbage, no way you killed 2117 stalkers in Cordon and Garbage alone

[inland vigil]

Idk

That what it says

[soft topaz]

Proof in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots ?

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[inland vigil]

what?

[soft topaz]

Im so confused, Only reached garbage, 23 quests complete, and 2117 stalker kills, it doesnt add up, unless you have spent weeks just grinding the bandits around Garbage and Cordon?

[inland vigil]

I haven't spent weeks on this game

[naive hollow]

23 quests completed

Kek

Must be some glitch

[inland vigil]

Maybe

I myself find it very hard to believe that I have that many kills

But I have encountered a lot of enemies

I don't like to run away from combat

[soft topaz]

I mean, i literally took out every single bandit i came across, cleared outpost and bridge multiple times, destroyed every bandit and military patrol i saw, cleared all mission enemies, and still ended with 700 kills after 30 hours at the end of the game, definitely a glitch of some kind

[inland vigil]

Definitely a glitch

[soft topaz]

wait nevermind i was getting it confused with mutants, i ended with just over 2000 stalker kills lol

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[inland vigil]

Damn

I wonder how many I'll have by the end

[soft topaz]

100,000 perhaps by the way its going? 😭

[inland vigil]

Even if it is a glitch it's pretty damn funny

[soft topaz]

True, turns strelok into a mad mass murdering machine, military wont have to worry about stalkers anymore if strelok kills them all lol

[karmic horizon]

The final score is based on a point system, with variables being the levels of experience

[rose violet]

"It was the strangest thing.
Scar helped us take the enemy faction base, then he took off his armor and threw a grenade at his feet.
He was a good Stalker."

[barren juniper]

Hey guys, just for clarification if I get the enhanced edition it also comes with the original right?

[candid fern]

Yeah, just not on Xbox afaik.

[barren juniper]

Ahhh okay. I wanted to get SoC but wanted to make sure it came with the origional. Thanks!

[candid fern]

They all come with OG and EE version. Just not on Xbox.

[barren juniper]

That's good to know. Thank you!

[late condor]

LOTZ ain't OG already

but yeah EE and non-EE

[crystal bolt]

yo guys, is there a reason that my movement gets really tweaky when im near walls in clear sky?

[rose violet]

Just an engine quirk. You get used to it

[mossy adder]

Any idea .script mod why not work?

[plucky sand]

should I replay SoC or CoP first

[late condor]

They do, there are mods that change the scripts.

[mossy adder]

I know what is script, but dosen't work my script mod, that's my problem

[late condor]

What are you using to pack it?

[sterile summit]

as i cannot find channel for achievements, i'm asking here: how to get "artifact hunter" achiv in cop enhanced? i found all artifacts including heart of oasis, and the two quest ones (for beard and hermann) but i dont get the achiv

[late condor]

There are at least three quest artifacts

[sterile summit]

yea, i found and retrieved the two irradiated arts (i play in polish, i dont know english names) and found heart of oasis but didnt retrieve it, the rest i found normally

[mossy adder]

I dosen't pack I just drop in gamedata

[minor delta]

I checked all the bodies in the x18 lab and the code wasn’t announced

[primal garnet]

Then you didn't find it

[primal garnet]

Soc

Play cop last, it spoils everything

[tacit spade]

Is there something up with artifact spawns in SoC EE? I've just walked out of agropom with a half dozen electric artifacts and am picking up loads more in the train tunnel now

Another half dozen or in gravis, stone flowers and jellyfish all pretty clusters together

[fast salmon]

artifacts a less rare in SoC as the emissions only started happening in CS and then the massive blowout so now they're not as rare

[tacit spade]

I meant compared to PC SoC or just the LotZ, I've never been so flush with decent artifacts so early in the game

[fast salmon]

in the original alot of the spawns were bugged but in EE they're lore accurate

u should only find 3-4 in each anomaly field

[minor delta]

I did, I had to reload a save to make the scientist spawn in

[fast salmon]

just anomalies

[soft topaz]

I'm not gonna lie lads, I'm having a tough time with CS, I steamrolled SoC in about 5 days getting all the achievements in around 32 or so hours of gameplay, but I have had CS installed for 3 days now and I have a grand total of 2 hours...

[minor delta]

Found an ecologist suit in a stash did I hit the jackpot

[fringe hamlet]

Did someone actually find an artifact that respawned in an anomaly in Clear Sky Enhanced Edition?

I know the game needs around 2 in-game days for artifacts to respawn (in their respective maps), but in my save I've been playing for more than 18 hours and no artifacts have respawned so far.

I'm sure I've completed 2 in-game days in some maps, like Garbage...

Do I need to stay on the map the whole time without leaving even once?

[soft topaz]

They respawn but not in every single location and its very buggy and super inconsistent with the timing (As far as i know)

[minor delta]

Bruh why is this game so buggy, barkeep needs documents but I can’t give them to him

I gave them to him before and then I reloaded a save and now he need them again? I don’t even have the documents anymore

[soft topaz]

I mean, he needs a series of documents from different locations, could that be whats going wrong here?

[whole geyser]

also is this og or ee ?

[desert vector]

Clear Sky is known for being the bugiest game of the Stalker trilogy, especially the faction war feature that is still broken nowdays.
Not to mention some pretty hated things like the infamous Cordon machine gun nest. A lot of bad memories for a lot of players

[late condor]

No lol artifacts are not as rare in SoC because every single anomaly that is not a weak variety naturally spawns an artifact

Don’t try to justify gameplay with lore

[late condor]

How exactly were they bugged? Could you provide an explanation on that?

[late condor]

It’s every single location (apart from maybe gravi in a swamps cave because that one isn’t an anomaly, just a pre-placed one).

[heady trout]

Wait a minute...

That's why I was finding artifacts at the roadside or some random places like fallen apple. Also I got rich too quickly by them.

SoC is one weird game, that has this thing.

[heady trout]

Swamps...

[grizzled rock]

your_future_boyfriend. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[inland vigil]

Okay then

I think my playthrough might be screwed

I'm at the end

But don't have a radiation suit

I had one but accidentally dropped while sorting my equipment

[soft topaz]

I had like 60-70 radiation meds that I just kept popping in the CNPP lol

[plucky sand]

I've already finished the games but good choice, thanks either way

[inland vigil]

I have none

I used them all

I do have exo suit though which isn't helping

I've died maybe

15 times now

[soft topaz]

Oh damn that’s unfortunate, maybe try searching the dead monolith soldiers and destroying any crates you and metal cases you find that could have meds in them

[inland vigil]

I'm at the top of the stairs I'm thinking about turning back

And going to a merchant

The Monoliths have NOTHING

[soft topaz]

Uhhh unfortunately you can’t exit the CNPP after you enter it I’m pretty sure, it’s like a point of no return 😅

[inland vigil]

Damn

I'm cooked then

what good even is the exo suit?

I guess I have to load a previous save

[soft topaz]

Best bullet and explosion resistance in the game + increases maximum carry weight by 20

[inland vigil]

I die in 2 hits

[soft topaz]

What difficulty are you playing on btw?

[inland vigil]

Well I was playing on stalker

Now I'm playing on novice because yes

[soft topaz]

Hmm, what about the durability of the exosuit? Because at full durability you should be kinda tanky and also have decent radiation protection, the only downside to the exosuit is not being able to sprint

[inland vigil]

I think the exo suit might be glitched for me then

Because I'm not tanky and there's barely any radiation protection

I'm not using mods btw

Did I mention I don't like Monolith?

[soft topaz]

I mean, I think the exosuit gives maybe 30 radiation protection, which obviously is not as good as the Ecological suits but it’s better than nothing

[inland vigil]

Ye I got to the top again broke open some crates

Got like 5 things meds but had to use 3 because I had to fight Monoliths again

I hope the ending is good

[soft topaz]

Did you get the decoder from Doc?

[inland vigil]

Which one

The flash drive?

[soft topaz]

No the thing literally called the decoder, doc tells you where to find it in pripiyat

[inland vigil]

The brain scorcher?

or no

I shut the brain thing majig off

Which doctor are you talking about

[inland vigil]

That guy?

[candid fern]

The Doc man.

[inland vigil]

Saw him once

[candid fern]

You trying to get the canon ending for SoC?

[inland vigil]

Didn't mention anything about any decoder

[inland vigil]

Nah

[soft topaz]

Nah, after you go into one of the X labs and find the body of Ghost you get a side quest to go talk to somebody called Guide, when you talk to him he tells you to go back to Streloks lair to talk to Doc, he gives you information (which I’m not going to spoil if you haven’t seen it) that gives you 2 more endings for the game, one of which being the canon ending

[inland vigil]

I figured I'm gonna get the bad ending

[primal garnet]

I suggest going for the true ending

[candid fern]

Which one

[primal garnet]

Offers the best endgame

[soft topaz]

True ending is best ending

[inland vigil]

I haven't seen any endings

How do I get the true ending?

[candid fern]

#⭐┃trilogy-general message

Basically there’s a guide in Cordon across from the farm location you have to talk to and he starts off a quest chain, just follow it.

[inland vigil]

Quick question

Exactly how many enemies are on this last level

I think I'm gonna try doing this later and take a nap I'm tired

Not gonna abandon it though I'm just a few steps away from the wish granter just Monoliths are in the way

[tacit inlet]

Hey friends,i ve been playing the remastered trilogy and i saw that they finally fixed the ragdolls in this new version! Its much better. Any chance that they improve stalker 2s ragdolls? Because those death animations are too robotic! 😄

[soft topaz]

Depends, the path to wish granter? Like 20-30 in total maybe? The path to the true ending, I'd say AT LEAST something like 80

[indigo ore]

2 gunz, baby

[late condor]

How did they “fix the ragdolls”, would you care to elaborate?

[summer elbow]

fake news

[tacit inlet]

On the original old stalker games,specialy on SOC,the NPCs went flying when shot. In the new trilogy,the ragdolls have weight and behave more naturaly.

[late condor]

I am pretty sure that's unintended side effect of them updating the physics issues. EE has lots of bugs that never happened in originals, the wrong pose for pre-placed bodies, corpses flying up after getting shot, etc.

What you're describing could be changed easily by just changing the impulse values on weapons. But it was intentional game design so that the deaths look more cinematic,there was nothing to "fix".

Devs specifically gave those values to all weapons to ensure that NPCs don't just fall down upon death. And considering those values are left unchanged in EE, what you're describing is just another physics issue.

[summer elbow]

What....

Characters never went "flying" in SoC, if anything it was a bug, yeah, but that definitely was not fixed in EE.

[tacit inlet]

Well,at least for me,since i ve played the old stalkers for the first time,i have always had this issue with npcs having too much force applied to them when shot. That so,i always used this mod to fix:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/niftys-improved-ragdolls-for-stalker-soc

the new trilogy apparently had this problem fixed. But to be fair,maybe this problem happened because i wasnt using V sync. I know that some older games need to have V sync on to avoid physics issues.

At least it fixed for me. 😄

[grizzled rock]

daretheone has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[soft topaz]

I finished the faction war against renegades in CS, but never found the modified PMM, did i mess up for the achievement?

[graceful horizon]

you find it by accepting missions from clear sky squad leaders

[soft topaz]

ohhh okay thx

[inland vigil]

Imagine killing all the Monoliths and then dying from radiation because you couldn't take meds fast enough

[inland vigil]

Got an ending

He went blind

Now next is clear sky

Actually time for the true ending

Loaded an older save I'm off to meet the doc again

[soft topaz]

Quick tip, it still depends on personal preference obviously because some people dislike the game anyways, but i HATED Clear Sky until i started upgrading my guns and using Artifacts properly, IE: actually using the mechanics the game intended for me to use 😭

[late condor]

it also encourages exploration a lot

if you rush it you'll be in pain, you need to stay behind until you're ready to move forward

[coral yew]

Is anyone else having problems with the rp-74 on Xbox clear sky?

I keep freezing with it

[soft topaz]

I LOVE THE VINTAR BC

[karmic horizon]

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/05/stalker-trilogy-enhanced-edition-gets-its-first-xbox-patch-heres-whats-included

[late condor]

You’ve literally posted another headline for the same patch several months ago.

The game needs far more than a few hotfixes

[inland vigil]

Is the SEVA suit good?

[soft topaz]

Yes

[inland vigil]

Alright I need money for ammo should I sell the orange suit?

I'm stocked up on everything but ammo

I found an artifact Mica saw what it does I'm keeping it

[ripe basin]

Hey, has anyone installed the Autumn Aurora mod for Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl? I would like to install the mod but I can't find the installation instructions

[tawdry cargo]

SSP-99 is pretty mid. Good anomalous prot but shіtty physical protections

[inland vigil]

Alright I got the decoder

Where's the door at?

I'm at the end again

Found it nvm

[inland vigil]

For the true ending do I say no to the green dude?

Or is the ending I just got the true ending

[soft topaz]

Yep you have to say no to joining the the C-Consciousness

[inland vigil]

there's no objective after that

[soft topaz]

You spawned outside?

Just keep going towards the portal anomalies, go through every single one you can find until you reach the end

You've got a looooong fight ahead of you bud

[inland vigil]

Oh yeah I know

There's a lot of them

[soft topaz]

Youll know when you get to the end because it will be on a rooftop and you will climb a ladder and see another portal infront of you, but 6 monolith soldiers will spawn from portal anomalies that and will try to kill you

[inland vigil]

It's alright cause I got a gun that kills them in a few hits

[soft topaz]

Did you find the Gauss Gun too?

[inland vigil]

Nah

I prefer real guns

[soft topaz]

Fair

[median mist]

i found this brazillian video that might help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2AyNFt80E

[inland vigil]

"I don't know if I was right or wrong" this it?

[tawny trout]

Replaying the og trilogy on console rn. Feels like an entirely different game, my aim is shit on console so shooting from a distance is more dangerous then bum rushing everyone with a double barrel

[inland vigil]

Now that I got the true end it's time to move on to clear sky

[livid hare]

Wsp giats ?

How y'all doin?

[sullen spade]

Кто пойдет делать сталкера в майкрафт пишите в лс

[inland vigil]

When can I go to the bar in clear sky?

[soft topaz]

lol the name and pfp change, but yes, thats the true ending that leads into Call of Pripiyat

Here on out I can’t guide you much though, only just started Clear Sky myself

[inland vigil]

I can finally join my favorite faction

Because I don't like bandits or those freedom dudes

[harsh vine]

finally finished clear sky enhanced

the game pmo sm 💔 💔 ✌🏼

[late condor]

Should’ve played the OG

[whole geyser]

fr the og is peak

[harsh vine]

Ive played both

[harsh vine]

Both are granade hell

[late condor]

Oh that one’s a skill issue

[harsh vine]

But the enhanced edition is agony

I fw soc enhanced tho

[late condor]

Due to broken burst shooting?

[late condor]

They’re all broken pieces of crap that shouldn’t have been released until they went through extensive QA

[harsh vine]

That and a zombie with a broken akm 2 shotting me in my upgraded seva from 40 meters away

[late condor]

And we still keep finding more downgrades and new issues daily

[harsh vine]

I like it, gonna try cop enhanced now

[candid fern]

Pretty much standard in everything these days - we pay more for less.

[harsh vine]

Then ill replay stalker 2 and gamma

[harsh vine]

Its free

[candid fern]

I know it’s free, they’re still slightly increased the prices for some currency’s though.

[harsh vine]

They did?

Weird

[candid fern]

Do you get EE versions when buying LotZ edition btw?

[late condor]

It’s still selling downgraded versions of the games under “enhanced” label and confusing customers

[harsh vine]

I got all 3 of them for free cause i bought the og trilogy like a year ago

[late condor]

Are you on PS or Xbox?

[harsh vine]

Pc 💔✌️

I bought lotz on steam

[late condor]

Then why do you reply about LotZ question? 💀

PC doesn’t have LotZ. MAD GOD was asking specifically about LotZ.

[harsh vine]

Wait huh

[late condor]

No you didn’t lol, LotZ is the name of the console port

[harsh vine]

Yea you right, i did but the og 3 on steam tho

[late condor]

OG trilogy is not LotZ.

[harsh vine]

Mb i didnt know those were 2 difftl terms

[late condor]

Yeah we all know you get the extra game when you buy it on steam but how it works on consoles is still not fully clear

[harsh vine]

Oh, got it

[soft topaz]

OG Trilogy = PC Port
LotZ = Console Port
Enhanced Edition = "Remaster" of the Trilogy

[calm arch]

when is new patch?

[whole geyser]

Pretty ee is a remaster of the lotz trilogy not og trilogy

[soft topaz]

Tbf i just consider it a remaster of the 3 games in general but yeah as far as i know it did use the LotZ as the base for the "enhancements"

[indigo ore]

🇩 🇮 🇸

Wassup bossman Based Dee Lite chad of STOC gringos gang @whole geyser

[whole geyser]

aye not much man just vibing to some youtube rn before i hit up some OGSE whats good with you king of the STOC kots

[indigo ore]

At the moment I'm cooking and all that jazz, lord of the STOC based people

[whole geyser]

aye whatcha cookin

[glad palm]

anyone know how to patch SoC to v.10006?

like i cant figure out how to do it

[indigo ore]

Pea soup

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/erwtensoep-snert-winter-herfst-gif-18609043

[glad palm]

thanks for the answer you guys are so helpful man

[candid fern]

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/my-job-here-is-done-bye-done-gif-14879937

[graceful horizon]

are you playing on steam?

[glad palm]

gog

[graceful horizon]

I don't use it, but doesn't it auto update games?

[glad palm]

yeah, and it says apparently i have 2.1.0.10

[graceful horizon]

can you send a screenshot of the main menu in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[lapis tendon]

Hey I'm starting a playthrough of SoC, Is there any mods I should pick up before playing? I played it a bunch vanilla in years past, but I keep having people say "bro u should play modded is good :)")

[eternal iris]

there aren't any good vanilla+ mods

[lapis tendon]

fair enuff

[median mist]

zrp i guess

or ogsr engine with swr

[rich yarrow]

2.1.0.1.0 is a version updated by GOG. Try this: #💬┃en_offtop message in the gog galaxy launcher, maybe it'll show you 1.0006 in there (There's no gog galaxy on linux so can't check it myself rn)

Cause judging by this page there WAS a 1.0006 build before so maybe it'll let you download it
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1207660573#builds

[soft topaz]

What's with the AWFUL mutant AI in CS, boars and dogs just run around in circles endlessly and only actually charge you if they are lucky enough to be whispered in their ears by an ancient forgotten eldritch god telling them to attack

[late condor]

They’re bound not to leave their camp so there’s a certain distance at which they just can’t attack you and will keep spinning back and forth

Not so much awful AI but rather really bad design choice . Should’ve made them chase while aggroed

[soft topaz]

The entirety of Clear Sky just seems like nothing but bad design choices and bugs, though i may just be saying that because i have spent the last 3 hours running around cordon and the swamps until i realised that the game bugged and has hard locked me out of the main questline

[livid hare]

Here comes my meat, Garry 🥩

[inland vigil]

How far did you get friend

I'm stuck at the stalker stash objective because it says I can't go any further

[soft topaz]

Cordon, just don’t have a quest objective anymore lol

[prisma dove]

Is there a package in the trilogy without having to buy all 3 separately?

[granite jungle]

Yeah there should be one on steam

Presumably gog too

[graceful horizon]

The only package deal I could find yesterday included stalker 2, but I wasen't looking too closely

[late condor]

Yes

There is stalker bundle that includes all original games and stalker legends of the zone that includes all the enhanced editions

Doesn’t matter which one you buy cause you always get the other one for free

[indigo ore]

Sup, men of all ages

[tawdry cargo]

Yo

[indigo ore]

Yo yo homes

[tawdry cargo]

How you doin?

[indigo ore]

We feelin it good, howdya do?

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/howdyfeller-howdy-feller-howdy-sam-elliot-sam-elliot-howdy-gif-1691153279806890689

[tawdry cargo]

Good here too, apart from 8 syringes of my blood getting lost

[indigo ore]

Howdy folk

[fast karma]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hello-cat-peek-cat-door-cat-peek-door-gif-16222824428429565231

[soft topaz]

Do i have to be wary about not doing quests that activate magpies stories or can i just complete them and he will tell all the stories anyways

[short crown]

Guys I downloaded the gun slinger mod from moddp.com scanned it and found 4 trojans

is that normal

[inland vigil]

Like at all?

That happened to me sometimes the objectives are hidden

[soft topaz]

Nah, its fully bugged, i was told to kill the captains friends at the Elevator, no one is there no matter what i do, nor is there a quest telling me to go there

[inland vigil]

Quit the game

I haven't had any bugs so far at all just the game crashed a few times

Next playthrough I'm gonna join the bandits so I can wipe out every other faction and then at the very end stab them in the back

[topaz estuary]

can someone help me? playing clear sky and i cant get the return modified pmm quest, what should i do?

should i do quests for squad leaders on clear sky camp until it appears or is there a trick or something im missing?

[late condor]

do other return item quests first

[topaz estuary]

theres 3 squad leaders at the base, need to do them for all 3?

[late condor]

There's no specific squad. Only one return item quest is available at a time, do that one and then you'll get otherse.

[soft topaz]

Question, are you doing it for the Gun Baron achievement?

[topaz estuary]

yup

[soft topaz]

Okay so either its a big misconception or its up to chance, but the Modified PMm is NOT what you get from that Clear Sky quest, at least for me, when I did that quest I went to the quest marker and picked up the PMm but in the challenges menu, it was still 1/9 Unique Guns collected (I had already collected Scars Vintar BC), turns out the Modified PMm is actually a random drop from Renegades, specifically the renegade in full black wearing a long black duster

[topaz estuary]

so i just have to roam around swamp until i kill that npc at it has a modified pmm?

if so any specific spot that has higher chance of him spawning?

[soft topaz]

I found 3 of them on the bodies of Renegades at the top right of the map lol

But like I said, the Inscribed PMm for the Clear Sky return mission didn't up the counter for the achievement for me, it was the Modified Version found on Renegades that did it

You'll know when you've found it because it will be a PMm with the upgrade arrow on it, just remember it will be a Renegade wearing completely black and a long black duster

[topaz estuary]

yeah ive been searching for that specific npc but ive never found the modified pmm on him

[soft topaz]

Luck I guess

Hell maybe the PMm fetch quest counts too but it just bugged out for me or something, Clear Sky is the buggiest game in the trilogy so I wouldn't be surprised

[topaz estuary]

BRUHHHH i just found it in the first black coat npc i killed lmaoooo

[soft topaz]

[topaz estuary]

just found another lol

[soft topaz]

Told ya lol, did you check the counter just to make sure too?

[topaz estuary]

yup, 2/9

[soft topaz]

Les gooooooooo

[topaz estuary]

i was worried it was bugged or something 😅

[soft topaz]

Clear Sky itself is more like a collection of bugs than an actual game, but you shoulde be good now till the end of the game, all the rest should be actual quests instead of guns you have to find or grind for

[minor delta]

Damn what a twist

The wish granter ain’t even real

Or maybe it is idk, my dude asked to be rich and got nuts and bolts

[cinder geode]

you still need to get the true ending

[olive steppe]

My dude got the fake ending & died, rip bozo.

[proud sand]

go see Guide at the Cordon, you probably missed the dialog!!!

[minor delta]

Which is that

Ngl it’s probably cause I sped through the game, I only did 2 missions for the barkeep and I sided with the monolith or something

[cinder geode]

yoy need to make some side quests first, like the one that tells you to talk with the guide in cardon

[minor delta]

Never got that one

[cinder geode]

it shows automatically

[minor delta]

Well I never met a guide and nobody told me to meet him

[cinder geode]

actually

you need to talk with the doctor first

[minor delta]

I met up with some veteran duty stalkers on the race to the middle

[minor delta]

I didn’t go check on them since I saved the green dude and got the other things for the scientist

[cinder geode]

without making these quests you lost some sections of the game

[minor delta]

Zamn

[cinder geode]

but you can make these quests always when you want, since they don't have time limit

[soft topaz]

You can’t side with the monolith they are the bad guys lol 😭

[soft topaz]

Nah, it’s find ghosts body at the X lab, talk to Guide in Cordon, then go talk to Doc in Streloks lair

[cinder geode]

same quests but i forgot the order

[minor delta]

Well I got brainwashed so I would say I sided with them for a bit

[minor delta]

I found ghost and his suit, never found the guide

[gleaming breach]

do you guys think enhanced editions are worth playing? how different are they?

[soft topaz]

where the hell are 3 veles detectors, im tryna get the boss achievement quickly so i can reload and go the free stalker route instead

[olive steppe]

If you're on a console, it's your only option. If you're on PC, you should play the OGs instead.

[topaz estuary]

im playing clear sky, how can i fix the take shooter from stash in the anomaly doesnt update after i looted the weapon? doing bandit quests for the guns for gun baron

[late condor]

Renegades friendly too?

[minor delta]

Damn getting through the cordon machine gunner is hell

Had to run and dodge hiding between trees and rocks, got a lucky spray on the gunner and killed him

Absolutely shredded the rest of the military at the checkpoint

[minor delta]

They’re not different from each other

[minor delta]

Doesn’t really matter which one you play they’re just a remaster with ai enhanced graphics

[olive steppe]

Copium

[inland vigil]

How do I get the other ending in clear sky

I used the gauss rifle and got bro health all the way down

what do I do for the other ending?

[inland vigil]

there is no other ending is there?

[minor delta]

Chronically online

[olive steppe]

"No u"

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/new-edition-tommybrown-tommy-smoking-gif-26152294

[jovial pawn]

there is only one ending

[humble path]

Hey newbie to the Stalker series
Was wondering if anyone knew how to increase the fov for the original SoC (Not the enhanced editions)

[late condor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/15ii8fe/tutorial_how_to_manually_change_fov_soc_cs_cop/

I do recommend against it though

[humble path]

Oh why's that?

I asked cuz I'm playing on Ultrawide (3440x1440) and the game just looked a tad bit off

[late condor]

The game is vertical FoV, which means it's automatically scaled towards ultrawide screens in terms of horizontal FoV.

You do see more on the sides of the screen with higher aspect ratios, it's calculated automatically and does not require any action from you. You can launch it on 4:3 in settings and see how it looks about the same.

[humble path]

ah so it's already the best it can be for that resolution?

[late condor]

It's not the best it can be, but you don't need to do any adjustments for the resolution, it does look the way it's meant to be. You can change it to be higher using the method above but FoV already correctly scales with aspect ratios, so it's not bugged or anything.