⭐┃trilogy-general

[torpid rapids]

so Stalker exists in Stalker and the barkeep was deep into it 🙏

[late condor]

You don’t want to know what’s the TV video in CS & CoP

[tranquil pelican]

barkeep come over here I need to buy more 5.45

No the coordinates aren't needed if I remember, they already spawn there so you can take them

[frosty radish]

that does make sense

100% you'd get influencers sneaking in to record videos for the outside

30 days surviving the zone challenge

[torpid rapids]

Yes exactly haha. I mean it does take place in 2012. We don't really see it but they should have internet and something like YouTube, right?? This would be around the start of widespread livestreaming. We have war live streamers, so why not Zone live streamers?

I'm not sure how I feel about this idea though lol.

[frosty radish]

The arena is bugged for me I think

I’ve just become rank veteran yet I’m not high enough level for the next fight

I also have 151000 rubles and and nothing to spend it on :(

[limber path]

did they remove naming save files for the enhanced edition of soc?

[late condor]

Yes.

[limber path]

thats really annoying

[karmic horizon]

That's incredibly annoying, since I would create names for specific locations or people, that I could reuse.

[late condor]

You can through console commands, just not directly in the save menu.

[karmic horizon]

The easiest solution is to avoid the EE versions.

[late condor]

Yeah, they need a LOT of fixes to be at least as good as originals, let alone better.

[graceful horizon]

OG or not OG, that is the question(not really)

[weak raft]

who buys armor at the best price in enhanced edition

[late condor]

There are no changes to trade lists. Just check out stalker-map.online

[weak raft]

what are the beach themed artis again

also did they fix clear sky enhanced

because i heard they fricked it up real good

uih oh

game crashes while trying to enter army warehouses

[humble crescent]

Enhanced CS?

[weak raft]

nah

ee SoC

it poops itself on "optimizing" part of the loading screen

[trail light]

Is there any way to set FPS limiter value to some custom value? I have only two options - 60 and 360 (monitor refresh rate). 60 is tooo small, and 360 is frying my hardware, something like 100-120 would be great. Any config files to tweak it?

[fast salmon]

u only need 60 for stalker bro

only multiplayer games need 120 fps

[late condor]

Request this feature in support, afaik it goes up to 60 and then uses monitor refresh rate. They did not anticipate someone having a difference between 60 and refresh rate being that high.

No config files to tweak because that's engine code. You can't modify that. Only GSC can.

[torpid rapids]

u can try doing that in nvidia control panel if u have nvidia gpu

Also what's the current state of the enchanced editions because i haven't played them since their release, still many missing props and other bs?

[late condor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1lxq8uj/as_the_question_of_has_ee_been_fixed_yet_gets

most issues are still here

with missing props they restored CNPP sign in 1.0.1, no other changes to censorship have been done since then

[torpid rapids]

yeah then ig its not worth downloading

[weak raft]

If i finish the game on master difficulty on my first playthrough, will i also get the other difficulty related achievments?

[late condor]

y

[weak raft]

Yippeee

[weak raft]

what the
why are dutiers attacking me

[torpid rapids]

I use RTSS and MSI Afterburner for FPS stuff.

It sounds complex to set up at first but you can figure it out in 1 good YouTube video.

This is how I set an FPS limit in the original games

and for any videogame that doesn't have an FPS setting in the menu

[grizzled rock]

aztec42069 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[torpid rapids]

I have a bad laptop but I'd rather have 30fps than an unstable 40-100fps

I cannot believe the word I used there was filtered lmao. That's actually insane. How, on the official server for a series of games where you are expected to kill people, are bad words the thing that is not allowed.

This was not even a 'swear word'.

[torpid rapids]

[trail spruce]

Hey guys is it true soc has no eng subtitles?

[late condor]

Depends on what you mean. The game has dubbing, most of the game’s important dialogue is translated. Some background phrases aren’t.

LotZ & EE add subtitles as well but mostly for the stuff that’s already translated so it’s of little use.

There are mods that give full subtitles to the game including to the bits that were never translated before, look up “In-Game CC” mod for SoC.

[trail spruce]

Gotcha thanks man! I was planning on playing it with Ukrainian dub and eng sub

[late condor]

In this case, there is a mod for you

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/english-subtitles-for-ukrainian

[trail spruce]

This will help me a lot! Thanks again man

[cinder crypt]

how is clear sky meant to work, is it just a constant faction war sort of thing? so far its just go outside, do some quests, upgrade my materials and repeat

im still in the swamp

[late condor]

faction war in the swamps ends pretty fast

once the southern farmstead is secured, it's pretty chill

[cinder crypt]

I see, so far I kind of like the gameplay more than SoC though, everything is pretty weighty and the graphics are a pretty big step up

[humble crescent]

I don't recommend to join any faction when you'll leave the swamps, because faction war is bugged af.

[cinder crypt]

ok ill just do the main quest then

[hollow halo]

I’m on xbox and it says I can use keyboard which is true but none of the movement keys work

Everything else does though

I’m on soc if that helps

Fixed

[civic mantle]

Can someone remind me if the duty got their own medic in stalker cop

[late condor]

There is a single medic at Yanov

Just like there is a single trader and technician

They’re all loners but they have their sympathies for one of the factions

[cinder crypt]

why am i so inaccurate in this game am i meant to buy alll the upgrades for my weapon

[late condor]

No, you're meant to engage from low to average distances until you get access to stuff like sniper rifles and grenade launchers

[cinder crypt]

ok that is what I was thinking, it definently makes the game more difficult than SoC

[late condor]

Upgrades do help, however.

A medium upgraded gun will feel comparable to SoC gunplay and a fully upgraded one will exceed your expectations.

[grizzled rock]

huntsman218 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[trail spruce]

Is there anything i need to know before playing soc as my first stalker game?

[late condor]

if you're playing on pc, play original, not ee

[trail spruce]

Yeah was planning to by judging the reviews of it

[humble crescent]

There's a lot of loot, including armor, in novice village. Climb on the roofs, jump to nearby houses, use knife to destroy wooden boxes. Take "find artifact" or "find monster part" quests when item is already in your inventory.

[trail spruce]

Gotcha! Thanks man

[runic lodge]

playing the og instead of the ee editions

[frosty radish]

whats the better artefact? Soul: health 600% vs mica blleding 400%

I have both and need to decide which one is more advantages, Mica has better downsides

[late condor]

They are for different things, soul gives you passive health regen, mica helps stopping bleeding without using bandages

[frosty radish]

can you stop bleeding without banadges

the worse stats for impact rupture and bulletproof are painful to see so ive been running mica

i did find a seva suit so once i get four batteries i might run it and say it works out overall better

I don't want to use it until I can repair it

I'd just equip four and sit near electro's in wild territory until its all repaired

[cinder crypt]

clear sky seems to not have much of a horror focus compared to SoC

[late condor]

Pretty much yeah. Different project leads, different directions the game is taken in.

[cinder crypt]

ah that makes sense

has there ever been any horror modpack/overhaul released for any of the games? i searched around online and couldn't reall find much

[late condor]

Not really. There are some standalone mods leaning into this direction.

But you're best asking this in in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[prisma monolith]

Anyone know how to fix clear sky crashing on launch

I deleted mods and did fresh install on steam and verified files

[late condor]

OG or EE?

[prisma monolith]

OG

I've deleted mods and everything, idk whats causing this anymore

[late condor]

Do you have a log file? That might shed some light onto the issue.

[prisma monolith]

wait omfg now it decided to work

[late condor]

Classic

[prisma monolith]

5th reinstall and it decided to load

[late condor]

Good luck with the best part of the series

[prisma monolith]

ty now i just got pray I can get mods to work again

[late condor]

eh

[prisma monolith]

anyone got good COP modpack recommendations, looking for something similar to radiophobia graphics and gameplay wise

[granite jungle]

I dunno that there's anything like that really for CoP

[late condor]

Radiophobia and its consequences have been a disaster for stalker community

[paper wraith]

anyone play on ps5?

[pulsar valve]

How does one not go insane whilst doing a bandit faction run on stalker CS

[light shuttle]

No there's a single mod for CoP that it's like Radiphobia 3 in content.

There's two mods in development that are possibly more bigger in content and higher-quality but hey, in development.

A Quiet Place and S.C.O.P.E, A Quiet Place seems be better than SCOPE.

[humble crescent]

It was easier in vanilla, but now you have to control all the Garbage, not only routes to Cordon. So non-stop Duty spam from Agroprom always ruins your progress.

[paper wraith]

anyone on ps5?

[pulsar valve]

Thank you sar

[late condor]

Idk why they changed that, it was so stupid. Did you see what the changelog entry was for it in LotZ lol?

[humble crescent]

There was changelog?

[late condor]

It was a change done during console ports of the trilogy, so it was automatically ported to EE. Yeah, if I recall correctly, the changelog said something as abstract as “fixed bandit faction war” lmfao

So much for “not changing gameplay” according to FAQ:

Those stories are legendary the way they are. We haven’t added new content, but fixed some things that were not working well for a long time.
No changes have been made to either of these aspects, and they remain faithful to their original implementation.

Those stories are legendary the way they are. We just removed weapon handling stat, nerfed bloodsuckers in CoP, made bandit Arena fight a joke and for whatever reason forced bandits to capture flea market during their faction war, resulting in death of key characters

Enjoy the enhanced edition lads, we did our best

They did not even add it per se, they just uncommented a line that existed in the original game. Maybe Mataboo thought it’s not cut content and someone put a semicolon by mistake? I’ve got no idea

it = the requirement to capture other level changers

[humble crescent]

Yeah, nu-GSC never ceases to amaze. Bandit FW always was the worst, but they managed to make it even worse. I also noticed that arena bandits in trenchcoats now carry sawed-off, it was an easy fight even without that change lol

[late condor]

Do you know WHY they changed it?

Because Arnie says they “mostly have pistols and sawn-offs” before the fight. And instead of correcting the text to match gameplay, they did the other way around.

I guess involving translations teams to do the changes in all the localizations was too much effort so we nerf the fight instead

[humble crescent]

I wonder how they'll fix "guitar" and "hand_radio" not having descriptions. Or PSZ-7 at the military outpost...

[late condor]

They clearly do not care much about thinking “what was the intention” lol. As evident from the fact that the obviously-intended-to-be-cut Martha is not completely removed but made into an achievement instead.

I won’t be surprised if PSZ-7 is just made functional. Even though there is a huge text saying “OLD ARMOR DO NOT USE” on top of it in the files.

[humble crescent]

Martha shoots at 1 km despite the fact that most of the pistols have distance cap at 50 meters, and deals bigger damage than deagle. Very balanced gun, and they left it untouched. Might as well bring back toz with it's Gauss-tier damage, kek

[late condor]

I won’t be surprised if PSZ-7 is just made functional. Even though there is a huge text saying “OLD ARMOR DO NOT USE” on top of it in the files.

[light shuttle]

FrabLag should've deleted every game-file about cut-content, but in that case perhaps FrabLab would finish cutting smth as the mention of Illusionist in SoC folklore.

[humble crescent]

I won't mind if they leave it. It existed in the vanilla game, so why not? But cutting it out is an easy way, so they'll probably do it.

Yoga just ran from the depot and attacked concentration camp when I cleared it from bandits. Finally I have a save to present them this bug.

[late condor]

I mean, if we’re talking about fixing issues as in “bringing the game to its intended state”, many things should be cut.

like what would you do about APC driving in CNPP?

[late condor]

The fact you need to give them saves for bugs that are ridiculously easy to see just though code is absurd lol.

[late condor]

If they removed just multiplayer stuff and cut textures the game would weigh like a gig less lmfao

[light shuttle]

1 GB is important, 10 GB for SoC EE is too heavy.

[humble crescent]

Fix it's vulnerability to knife attacks, probably. I always thought it exists to make sure player won't go the wrong way

[late condor]

About APC driving. The player being able to get inside the ACP and drive it.

[late condor]

Like half of that is cutscenes. If they used 1080p console originals (which looks BETTER) they would save another 2 gigs for SoC.

Hell, ru localization in SoC files takes like 700MB.

[light shuttle]

lol

[late condor]

Not available in the game, still wasting space for everyone

[humble crescent]

Lmao, I didn't know such possibility exists

[late condor]

It does. Technically in the game. But obviously it shouldn’t be lmfao.

And imo Martha is in the same category. Devs wanted to remove it. It was a piece of content they didn’t want in the game.

And they DID remove it from every single character, except one that gets it through a script.

The proper solution is removing one last mention, not dedicating an achievement to getting it.

[light shuttle]

i understand that the cinematics of LoTZ in the case of SoC are better than EE by the inexistence of visuals bugs by the use of AI-Upscaling but, in the case of CS EE the cinematics are almost the same, and i think that the LoTZ cinematics only had 30 FPS while EE cinematics had 60 FPS.

[late condor]

Are you sure about the FPS?

[light shuttle]

No, just when i saw the EE cinematics in VLC media player (i unpacked SoC EE and CS EE, and take the cinematics of LoTZ from Clear Sky Revision) that seems be the case, or atleast the EE give that feeling of 60 FPS.

[ember veldt]

Good afternoon, distinguished gentlepeople, any like mods to change my hud size for COS? I just started and no resolution change fits my screen

[late condor]

Which resolution and screen do you have?

[humble crescent]

I hate that every second bum in SoC uses walther like arms dealers send it to the zone by containers. Not a single npc uses colt. They removed all 9x19 pistols except walter and put it instead of martha and hpsa.

[late condor]

It’s Walker and HPSS

Yeah you barely see Kora in SoC

[ember veldt]

im using a tv screen... i think i playing on 1024x768 i think

[late condor]

Are you playing EE or OG? There is no 4:3 support in EE, but in OG it should work flawlessly

[ember veldt]

OG

[late condor]

What’s the issue then? 1024x768 is 100% a supported resolution

[ember veldt]

hud isnt completely on the screen

[late condor]

I think I know what you are talking about, it’s a TV screen issue, they sometimes don’t have the corners of the screen showing properly as those end up out of screen bounds

[ember veldt]

Gotcha

[late condor]

You can’t fix that from within the game unfortunately but maybe there are screen settings or something, I had it when playing on Xbox on my TV and there was an option built into to correct it

Try to see if you can disable overscan

[ember veldt]

Yup I fixed it with the screens settings

[cinder crypt]

yeah call of pripyat is definently my favorite so far

[feral oar]

Is an specnaz raid on Rostok in vanilla SoC normal?

[humble crescent]

Hostile npcs sometimes wander to the bar territory. This situation wasn't predicted by the devs, and when you attack them, duty and bar visitors become hostile. So just wait till duty and stalkers kill them.

[feral oar]

It was a whole group

Also do wounded npc die if i dont give them a medkit? Petrenko got wounded and i am not sure if he will be replaces as a trader

[humble crescent]

A large group of military were killed somewhere, simulation spawned new ones and sent to an empty camp. You met them when they were passing through the bar. In offline they usually just pass by enemies, but you were close so they started fighting. Wounded npcs don't die and even travel when they are offline.

[late condor]

even travel when they are offline
🐺

There are scripted cases of wounded NPCs dying such as Tolik but yeah as a rule of thumb they don't

In SoC they stay wounded forever, in CS they heal themselves after a certain amount of time passes, in CoP other NPCs can heal them.

[lyric sigil]

The game instantly freezes when starting the first story, and when I try to launch that already saved story, the same thing happens. This game is SOC original. What should I do?

[fast salmon]

when will we get horses in the zone

[tawdry cargo]

[livid hare]

Emmm so yeah, no more EE updates. That's fine. At least they got updates unlike the original trilogy

But hey, the originals had no AI upscaled textures

[livid hare]

Well u have dogs

[fast salmon]

can you riiiiiighde a dawg

[late condor]

There are going to be more updates, it was in the roadmap

This patch just takes a while because it’s considerably more comprehensive than 1.1 or 1.2.

[verbal plaza]

Anyone ever heard of a glitch where Lt Rohovets isn’t in the cabinet before you destroy the antenna in the kindergarten

I can’t even progress the mission now it won’t let me open the cabinet and he’s just standing there staring at the cabinet while knocking sounds continue 😭

[frosty radish]

I’ve just made it to the army warehouses, do I help freedom or duty?

I’m stuck between who to support, on the one hand, duty has a noble mission, on the other, freedom might offer more for me to do

[humble crescent]

You can do repeatable missions for both, just avoid missions that require killing npcs of the opposite faction

Before accepting a mission that requires stealing bulldog 6 for freedom, do some repeatable quests for lukash to make sure freedom won't be hostile after that. Same if you want to help freedom, but you need to do a lot of quests for duty to kill dutyers at the army warehouses and avoid making their faction hostile

[frosty radish]

I kind of want to stay non-aligned ngl

[frosty radish]

The problem is, the first mission is helping either wipe out the duty base near the warehouses or help launch the raid

That seems like it’ll make either side hostile

[humble crescent]

Ignore the line about dutyers when you speak with lukash, it will open another lines with generic missions

[frosty radish]

Ok

What happens if I ignore either side? Will they just fight each other and I can walk away?

I’d like to interact with both tbh, I wish I could work with both but it’s mutually exclusive 😔

(No spoilers btw I’m still barely in, sorry, I should of said earlier)

[humble crescent]

You can work with both sides, just avoid their main missions, or those that require killing duty/freedom members

[frosty radish]

If I had to pick a side, which would be best?

[humble crescent]

Duty guards the bar, if they are hostile you have to serious sam through them everytime you visit the bar. But I like freedom more, I don't like the idea of self proclaimed police duty thinks they are

[frosty radish]

I don’t even mean ideologically or whatever, who has the most best stuff for me to get and side/main missions to do? I’ve been playing stalker soc through side quests, just going around killing bandits and selling their ak’s

22 hours in and I haven’t even talked to the scientists in yantar yet

Strelok can wait I need to hit half a million rubles

[frosty radish]

Do freedom have a bar and trader?

[humble crescent]

Voronin gives pretty good stuff for some of his side quests

Modified val for example

Freedom has a trader but due to a bug his money is limited

[frosty radish]

Is that skinflint?

[humble crescent]

Yes

[frosty radish]

I did wonder why he only had 5000 rubles

I thought he was the leader ngl since I had to report to him for killing the bloodsuckers

[humble crescent]

No, lukash is the leader, he's on the 2nd floor

[frosty radish]

And I guess max is second in command?

[humble crescent]

He's like field commander or something, he has his own quest but it's available only if you already helped freedom to kill Skull's group

[frosty radish]

I assume if I do that duty will hate me?

I’ll stay neutral, lone stalkers ftw

[humble crescent]

Good choice, I usually do the same

[frosty radish]

Duty seems a little better tbh

[humble crescent]

If only Skinflint had more money

[frosty radish]

Anarchism cringe

Restoring order to the zone 🗣️

From what I’ve heard, monolith seems ok, a little crazy but they stop people from going further into the zone

[humble crescent]

Oh my sweet summer child

Okay no spoilers

[frosty radish]

I mean, worshipping some wish granter? Weird, duty will stop stalking once and for all

I know the monolith is real, I’ve read roadside picnic, stalker soc is practically a loose adaptation

[humble crescent]

And it's a bad thing. The Zone is an opportunity for adventurers of all kinds. It's the reason we are all here, to make money or die trying, what's the point of destroying it or locking it like the zoo?

[frosty radish]

It’s bad because the zone is dangerous

The zone should be cordoned off and studied, artefacts being removed by stalkers and sold will ruin its natural environment for studying

All for the sake of dubious profit

[humble crescent]

I was thinking the same when I just started to play

[frosty radish]

What if scientists are right on the edge of a breakthrough but don’t have enough samples to finish their work because all the examples have been sold around the world

The world fears the zones expansion, join duty and protect the innocent 🗣️

[humble crescent]

Not because of that. Stalkers are the reason scientists get the best artifacts

[frosty radish]

The good ones do, but the average loner isn’t selling to to the scientists, he’ll be selling it onto the black market

I just sell them to the Barkeep, I trust it goes to the right places

He seems like a stand up guy

[humble crescent]

He is an opportunist like all of them. People like him just don't go to the Zone and then decide: "I will give all the artifacts I get to the scientists!" He buys guns on black market, gives a missions to kill people, and his friendship with the duty is mutually beneficial cooperation. Stalkers work for scientists because they need risky people to do dangerous things. They pay better than traders, that's why stalkers like to work with them. It's all about benefits for both. Stalkers become richer, scientists get what they want. Everyone is happy

Finish the questline on Yantar, maybe it will open your eyes, because your view of things is rather naive

Also take as many artifacts as you can before going to Yantar, ecologists buy them for the best price

[livid hare]

not really sure abt that, but ok

[frosty radish]

Yeah I barely do the main story

I just like to put it off

[frosty radish]

Should I sell my spring artefact to them? I don’t see a use for the impact +30%

I wear two moonlights a crystal a mica and a stone flower

I swap out the bullet cap for rupture when I’m fighting animals

[humble crescent]

collect 4 springs, batteries or shells to heal and repair your armor in the certain anomaly type they protect from

[frosty radish]

thats what im doing, ive got three batterys thusfar

once I get the fourth im wearing the SEVA suit I found

[humble crescent]

Shells are the best because you'll be able to repair armor in any campfire, they are everywhere. But batteries are easier to get

[frosty radish]

I'm planning on just sitting by the electros in wild territory to repair my suit

[inner brook]

Idk why but this time when I complete shadow of chernobyl on master difficulty it's easier to me now idk why maybe because I started playing shadow of chernobyl on master after I completed clear sky on veteran

[frosty radish]

the game defaulted to the hardest mode for me 😭

[tawdry cargo]

Great, master is nice

[humble crescent]

Because SoC on master is easier than CS on veteran

[inner brook]

Now I can't finish SoC on master

X ray engine gives error every time I open the game

[graceful horizon]

Have you verified your files via steam?

[inner brook]

It's not the steam one

My friend downloaded it to me

I think it's gog one

[late condor]

post error log

[inner brook]

I can send screenshot

And it's not enhanced edition

[late condor]

https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/CrashesStillInTheGame.html

[leaden zodiac]

I once got a bug where i shot a snork at it floated middair while slowly falling in slowmotion. Any idea how that can happen? (Original)

[late condor]

Please see "Find your log file"

[late condor]

NPCs and monsters aren't really affected by gravity (when walking), and they don't have collision (with static objects) either. It's all simulated by basically having an AI grid of areas where they can walk. So they often will walk through air or geometry.

[leaden zodiac]

Ah, interesting
I really wish i knew how to record my pc back then.

That video of it happening may still be on my computer, idk

[late condor]

It's a common bug. :)

[frosty radish]

My fast shooting ak is now starting to jam on me so I need to upgrade, what gun should I go for? I’ve got:

• Vintar BC (ammo is rare at the moment)
• Balance IL 86
• “Tunder” 5.45
• Obokan (scope attached)
• VLA sar (ammo rare still)
• SGI 5k
• (can buy a GP 37)
  This is stalker soc

[leaden zodiac]

As somebody who has one favourite gun
Vintar bc

[frosty radish]

I do prefer staying far back and getting headshots tbh

[leaden zodiac]

So vintar
(I do not care for how you should use a gun i just play)

I did not know how to strafe until i had beat the trilogy and soc on mastermode. Fun times

My dad laughed at me a lot for that..

[frosty radish]

I’ve also got a proper sniper rifle (SVDm 2) but the ammo for it is rare until I can trade with duty

[leaden zodiac]

I suggest not hoarding. Use your gun till no ammo and stash it for later

Very bad but very fun strat

[frosty radish]

How long do four battery artefacts take to repair armour?

I’m sitting right next to an electro in wild territory and I’ll wait until my seva suit is fully repaired to make more money selling it

[frosty radish]

I’m constantly at the weight limit because of stocking up on ammo

[leaden zodiac]

I did not know artefacts could repair armour! Interesting!

[frosty radish]

Apparently it can and I really hope the wiki isn’t wrong

[leaden zodiac]

Idk who too trust anymore after looking in a guide and seeing gordon freeman as a monolith

[frosty radish]

IT WORKS

It’s a little slow since I’ve only got four but it’s actually repairing the armour

[leaden zodiac]

All my time running back and fourth between stashes for some good mono armour.. and i could have just repaired it..

[frosty radish]

Well tbf I went the width and length of the zone to find four electric battery artefacts

The weren’t easy to find but now I’ll be running the military armoured suit permanently I think

[leaden zodiac]

I just like to dress nice
So mono it is

I should really start playing stalker again
I make it my whole personality and yet i struggle to play it
I need to do my grenade only run..

[frosty radish]

I’m a stats fiend

That’s why I need to find the most optimal rifle

[leaden zodiac]

Maybe one day i’ll try to do it optimally instead MONOLITH YAAAYYY
What is your favourite faction?

[frosty radish]

Uhh

Idk really, I think I lean more towards duty, this is my first time playing stalker

[leaden zodiac]

Oooh that is wonderful!

[frosty radish]

I’m debating siding with duty or freedom at the moment tbh

[leaden zodiac]

Freedom properganda

[frosty radish]

Since I’ve reached the army warehouses I can make a choice

[leaden zodiac]

Kinda dumb to choose freedom but freedom is fun

[frosty radish]

You think I should side with duty? I wonder how long I can put it off and do side quests for both

[leaden zodiac]

If you are planning to go through Rostok a lot, choose duty

If you like fun, choose freedom

[frosty radish]

I like Rostock because the barkeep is good to trade with

Skinflint is bugged anyways as a trader

[leaden zodiac]

Is he?.. i did not trade much in my two SOC playthroughs

Might do more since a grenade only run is pain

[frosty radish]

Yeah he only has 5000 rubles spare

Every other trader is unlimited

[leaden zodiac]

That is really weird
And funny

(I ❤️ slav jank)

[frosty radish]

I’m not sure if the 5k comes back after you exit trading with him or not though but still, makes him bad to trade with in bulk

[graceful horizon]

It does not

But if you for example buy an exoskeleton from him he gets a nice bit of pocket change

[leaden zodiac]

How does that work

[graceful horizon]

So then you can sell guns to him for a while till his cash runs out again

[leaden zodiac]

Is it like it goes negative which makes it freak out and revert to positive?

[graceful horizon]

No

You can exchange money for goods and services

You can give Skintflint money to receive an exoskeleton after enough story progression

[frosty radish]

My in game explanation is freedom is just poor

[graceful horizon]

This money then stays in his inventory

So where he starts with just 5k he then ends up with 200k extra

[frosty radish]

You gave him 200,000 for the exoskeleton, he now has 205,000 rubles so you can sell stuff to him for a while

[leaden zodiac]

You would think they have more money than duty

[frosty radish]

Weird Al, what gun would you say I should run with? I’m at the part of the story where you disable the brain scorcher

I have most rifles you could want so really it’s just a choice of which one

[graceful horizon]

What is your prefered playstyle?

[frosty radish]

I kind of like staying back and firing, that’s why I’ve got a obokan with a scope and two-fire mode on

[graceful horizon]

If you can handle the bullet drop, go with the vintar

[frosty radish]

How bad is it? Also, I need a better way to get 7.62x54 and 9x39mm

[tawdry cargo]

Ain't bad if you know the gun well enough but the bullet velocity is slow and the bullet drop is decently big

Once you get used to using the optic tho it's just a matter of aiming a lil differently and shooting, no big deal

[frosty radish]

Also idk if this is a bug but I’ve already been inside x16 and gotten the documents, but on the map it still says “Get inside Lab X16” alongside a green indicator thing

[tawdry cargo]

Yeah it happens with missions

[frosty radish]

how can it go away?

[tawdry cargo]

Idk, dont think it can. Itll just annoy you the whole time. I usually have the mission to kill the bandits at the very beginning like that

[frosty radish]

thats annoying

I blame the zone messing with my pda

[tawdry cargo]

[leaden zodiac]

I had to restart clear sky on my first playthrough cuz i glitched the Yar mission and i did not know you could save

[frosty radish]

the wiki is saying the SGI-5k is good

if I get the one with the scope that might be an option

[tawdry cargo]

Ngl always forget it's in the game lmao

[frosty radish]

It seems to be the best rifle

since its got good accuracy and durability, it just can't mount a scope (there is a unique variant with it)

its held by two freedom guards so maybe I side with duty to get it?

could be better than the vintar

[tawdry cargo]

All depends on your style

I like the VSS cause it's good for range but still good for assaults. Low mag but good dmg

Looks cool and subsonic

[frosty radish]

ive got the SVDm-2 as well

[tawdry cargo]

2 unique guns you might like are the sniper TRs-301 and the sniper VLA

[frosty radish]

pretty good condition im pretty sure

[tawdry cargo]

Both obtained by doing missions for Voronin

[tawdry cargo]

Good gun but no sprinting with it

[frosty radish]

???

thats why I didn't buy the exoskeleton even when I could of, I love sprinting

I have two moonlights just so I can sprint everywhere

[tawdry cargo]

Tho id save the sniper VLA for the actual end of the game

[frosty radish]

I have both types of VSS

The assault rifle one and the sniper one but not the sniper vla

[tawdry cargo]

AS-VAL and VSS Vintorez are both equally good tbh, just that in SoC you can't stick a PSO-1 on the AS-VAL

[frosty radish]

Unless you have the sniper vla I’m guessing

[tawdry cargo]

Yeah

[late condor]

Him not having infinite money is a bug btw

[graceful horizon]

I don't doubt it

[late condor]

Basically you can track when NPCs got the ability to have the money randomized, and devs just forgot military warehouses file completely

All NPCs on MW have engine default sum of 5000. just that skinflint is the one that suffers from it the most

[humble crescent]

What if we try to bombard GSC support with this problem? Maybe they'll reconsider and fix it?

[late condor]

Wait for 1.3 first, you might get positively surprised :)

Not that it’s gonna fix EE, it’s still massively a downgrade over OG versions. But a slightly lesser downgrade.

[frosty radish]

I want support for the original three games, never enhanced

[late condor]

That won’t happen because it will ruin mod compatibility :(

I do wish they ported the fixes.

[leaden zodiac]

I bought them a few months ago.. i just do not want to play enhanced

[leaden zodiac]

I do not trust it

[humble crescent]

I barely noticed positive changes, especially in CS. They didn't fix the main feature of it, a faction war, and in some cases made it even worse. Fixed some stuff but added a plenty of new bugs. People come from stalker 2 to play a legendary franchise and that's what they get, a bugged mess

[leaden zodiac]

I’ll have to see for myself
I do not trust this fandom and their opinions on new stuff more.
Too negative

[livid hare]

They're posers

[frosty radish]

Do you have the originals?

You can still buy them if you have the steam link, you just can’t get it from the store page

[leaden zodiac]

I have them downloaded

I played SOC a few days ago and COP i think

[frosty radish]

There’s also heavy censorship in the enhanced editions

[livid hare]

The enhanced fixes some issues from the original games, however not all of them, and the essence is almost the same, except with AIscaled textures (a a lil bit more of photo-realism)

[leaden zodiac]

Of what?

[frosty radish]

Anything Russian or USSR

[livid hare]

Soviet references

Including Russian dub

[leaden zodiac]

Well that sounds.. dumb…????
I know it has political reasons but..
We don’t censor away what is there in real life
That seems.. really off.

[grizzled rock]

realcapikev has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[livid hare]

Damn nationalism

[livid hare]

You should play the original games if you want to feel the original, uncensored experiences (just don't install patch mods, that's for betas)

[leaden zodiac]

I thought the old soviet stuff staying and being obvious was a way to point out the failed system???

[late condor]

There are laws in Ukraine that do not allow depicting communist symbols, it’s sorta treated like nazi symbols elsewhere

I do not know how those laws treat art and fiction though, especially in worlds like stalker where the Soviet Union is definitely not depicted in a positive light (communist symbols in ruins don’t exactly scream propaganda to me)

[humble crescent]

They left some of soviet symbolics, there's a massive soviet emblem near the flea market and they left it untouched. I see no reason in removing posters at the bar but not a big deal

[late condor]

We never really found out whether they had to do those changes or just chose to.

[livid hare]

Well, sadly they're not. But as someone who only completed the original trilogy through EE, i can't rlly tell any difference at all

[livid hare]

Maybe they should've allowed the soviet vibe, smth like Half-Life 2

[late condor]

It’s inconsistent with S2 too. Stars on Depot gates were left intact in EE but removed in S2 (they were here on earlier models). At the same time the Soviet cartoon characters in Izumrudne were removed in EE but preserved in S2.

5.45 texture had red star removed but the icon still has it…

I am not a fan of those changes but I doubt GSC is gonna back down on those.

[leaden zodiac]

Times change.

[livid hare]

I don't think so. Despite the removal was disliked by many (most being non-communists), it's not smth that ruins the game itself, except for the vibes tho

[late condor]

Well I say if they were going to reverse it, they would have done it by now. It's one of the biggest complaints, yes, even by people who couldn't care less about communism.

[humble crescent]

Cartoon characters might be removed for copyright reasons, I can understand that, but other changes seem to be rather chaotic

[late condor]

2/4 characters aren’t even from any cartoons

[frosty radish]

Germany recently allowed us of Nazi symbols in video games, before it was allowed but only for films or tv, and now they’ve recognised it’s the same spirit

[bleak oriole]

Shadow of Chernobyl > Clear sky > Call of Pripyat is the right order?

[leaden zodiac]

Right order of what?

Release? Timeline? Quality?

[bleak oriole]

Timeline

[leaden zodiac]

Nope

Clear sky > shadow of chernobyl > Call of pripyat

[bleak oriole]

Thanks!

[leaden zodiac]

You are welcome, stalker

[frosty radish]

I’m playing in release order (SoC, CS, CoP)

I do that because it’s how the story developed as the devs flesh it out, a prequel game released after can only really be appreciated by playing the first game

[leaden zodiac]

As COP’s biggest fan
I hope you enjoy it

[frosty radish]

Can you stealth kill in stalker soc? I’m trying to assassinate freedom’s sniper tower guard without others knowing it was me

[grizzled rock]

pastbedtimejeff has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fast salmon]

yes with the PB

but its difficult to 1 tap guys in the head if you play on master

[frosty radish]

And what of the knife?

[leaden zodiac]

It is there to write words on walls

[fervent rampart]

how do i stop my soc ee from crashing upon launch of any save file?

[frosty radish]

I sold my noiseless pistol so I have to use it for stealth 😬 unless the VSS counts with its silencer but I don’t want to spend ammo on that if the knife works

[late condor]

You shouldn’t play in timeline order though

You play SoC -> CS-> CoP

[weak kayak]

Hey how do I activate god mode? G_god doesn’t work

[late condor]

You don’t, there is no command to do that in original games.

And which game are you playing? And which edition?

There is a way to enable invulnerability through run_string in CS and CoP.

[upper parrot]

Well, since we've played Stalker 2, isn't it time to hear about the preparations for Stalker 3?

[leaden zodiac]

Idk i think it should be stalker 2; blank of blank

Continue 2 more times with stalker 2 in name before moving on to stalker 3

[upper parrot]

Yes, there may be room, they need to start the sequel series now.

[tawdry cargo]

Dlc aint even out yet

[kind edge]

idk I wanna hear about Stalker 2.3

[leaden zodiac]

Stalker2.2

[kind edge]

my dog is interested I think

[frosty radish]

SVDm 2 or SVUmk2 or Vintar BC or sniper sgi?

I wish the weight limit was higher, I want to carry an assault rifle and sniper but I can’t carry enough ammo for it

Unless I ditch my pistol, I’ll save around two kilos

[kind edge]

I think there are carry weight mods on PC

[frosty radish]

(Stalker SoC)

[frosty radish]

I’m playing unmodded

[kind edge]

then idk

[frosty radish]

Idk where to save inventory space, I’m not carrying unnecessary artefacts, I’ve got 23 Merlot’s and some ammo

[leaden zodiac]

Have a main rifle and lightweight backup when ammo is ouy

[frosty radish]

Do I need a pistol at the stage of the game I’m on? I’m going to meet the guide and switch the brain scorcher off

I don’t really use it that much, I think the shotgun could replace its duties tbh

[leaden zodiac]

Oh
No pistol

Late game, not worth it
Use a ak and Vintorez

[frosty radish]

Shotguns are good against creatures tbh, for some reason every creature takes like 45 rifle bullets to die but only 3-4 shotgun shots

I wish there was a way to repair guns in SoC with artefacts like you can with armour

[waxen gate]

I wish someone was able to port the enhanced editions controller support to the older superior games

[leaden zodiac]

I would suggest a rifle for the CNPP and pripyat.

[frosty radish]

Which is better, SVUmk2 or Vintar BC? I think I can have the space for either

I managed to clear enough room so I’m only at ~43kg as a base level

I wouldn’t be using the Vintar in automatic because of the recoil I think

[light shuttle]

there's smth like that since 2019.

https://www.moddb.com/members/marksmanko/blogs/stalker-with-a-gamepadcontroller

[humble crescent]

SVD if you want to hit a monolithian in the head from 600 meters first try. SVU isn't much worse. The only issue, you can't run with them. But you can always switch to a pistol.

[frosty radish]

I can't even run with the SVU?

I suppose I can just set up shop somewhere and dequip it for later

[grizzled rock]

0_nyx has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[leaden zodiac]

Man i always miss it

[leaden zodiac]

Smart idea.. i Never thought of doing that cuz i forget where i put stuff

[frosty radish]

Oh i meant just putting it back in my inventory

Sit down somewhere, snipe all the enemies and dequip the sniper and get back out my assault rifle

If I can't run with any sniper rifle

[leaden zodiac]

You can

[frosty radish]

The only issue, you can't run with them

further testing is required then

[leaden zodiac]

I do not know of a gun you cannot run with

[frosty radish]

the wiki is so confusing, the SVD page says the svd is good because its rate of fire is high enough to make follow up shots easy, but then the SVU page says also says that

[leaden zodiac]

You can run with anything but an exoskeleton

[frosty radish]

thats why im using the military armoured suit

second best armour in the game, I love running in the game, the walking speed is just too slow for me

I wonder if the Threaded SPSA-14 is worth it, it halves projectile dispersion, so its allegaedly worse with regular shot, but wouldn't a tighter spread be better so I won't miss as much?

[leaden zodiac]

I have never seen somebody this focused on stats. I’m impressed honestly. You seem cool. I cannot help you here but i really hope you enjoy the games

[frosty radish]

Thank you! When I play games, I try and min max them, its not something I really do consciously, just something I fall into and then I'm stuck "optimising" forever

[frosty radish]

Ok, so I think after some research I'll use the SVU until it breaks, since Duty sells the SVD so I can get a replacement easier

[late condor]

That’s incorrect. :) weapons do block the ability to run as well

[humble crescent]

Despite the description, it's good with buckshot. It spreads less and more buckshot hits the target

[frosty radish]

That’s what I’d figured, slug is just one pellet so really it doesn’t matter how tight you make the spread, just increases accuracy

I wonder if it is better than the chaser 13

Chaser 13:

• 6 shots
• 3kg
• 88 damage
• 100 RPM
• 2000 shots of durability

The threaded SPSA-14 has less damage, weighs more but it can carry two more shells and has a higher rpm

The SPSA14 is relatively unpopular because other weapons like assault rifles have better damage over range. It is still popular with some players and is generally considered an improvement over the sawed-off variety. It has a greater spread and recoil and a bit less damage than the Chaser 13. It's a great weapon against mutants, so one might want to take one into Lab X-16 if one is found.

Hmm

[leaden zodiac]

Man this is just making me want to take over a merc base again

[frosty radish]

The best thing to do is to wipe out freedom, I found so many stashes from them

Probably every single one in the army warehouses

[leaden zodiac]

Nah
I play COP

[frosty radish]

Oh ok

[leaden zodiac]

Merc base is so funny to take out!!!

They call me shit while i devour them and they have no idea

[frosty radish]

Is there a way to join the mercs? The game seem quite limited like that, you can’t join the mercs or bandits

[late condor]

You can join bandits in CS

[cinder geode]

you are alread a merc in cs

also, makes no sense to you join them

[humble crescent]

Scar isn't a part of their organisation

[cinder geode]

he's a merc, just not these mercs

[humble crescent]

He's a solo merc, not a merc faction type of merc

[cinder geode]

yeah

also makes no sense to other stalkers join mercs, since they are hired by someone else

[tranquil pelican]

Nope it doesn't have penalty

The buckshot doesn't have a penalty but idk about the slug/dart rounds and their buff

[frosty radish]

The descriptions just lying then

I blame translation, all “cellars” are actually attics

[late condor]

There aren’t that many translation errors in SoC, usually if a mistake exists in the original text it exists in English. There are even some translation corrections where translators noticed a mistake and corrected it

[leaden zodiac]

Operation one shot is so damn hard
Any tips?

I keep trying to shoot them but keep missing despite my perfect accuracy (sarcasm)

Or do i just need to “get good”?

[late condor]

Uhhh what are you shooting them with? The rifle you’re provided should be enough.

[leaden zodiac]

I just needed to get good

I finished it on my like.. 5th or 6th try

[karmic horizon]

You're a Merc again, as soon as you leave the Clear Sky Faction in the Marshes.
As Scar, if you remain a Merc and work hard to get friendly relations with all the Factions,
you benefit from getting access to all the Faction Traders and Mechanics for rare upgrades.
Choose wrongly to join the Loners, Duty, Freedom or Bandits and you limit your options everywhere.

[late condor]

Unless you join them all in a single playthrough and reap all the rewards

[leaden zodiac]

Is there a set amount of how far away you must run away till a bloodsucker stops chasing you?

[late condor]

Normally they will just keep chasing you, though in CS all mutants that are tied to camps disengage at certain distance, making it easy to cheese

[leaden zodiac]

‘Oh man, time to do the x8 mission, i usually hate it but i will try even if i get scared half to death’
‘BLOODSUCKER-‘

how far must a man run

(I did forget energy drinks. But this is COP so it does not matter

Update: even worse
I got it inside of the building

[junior root]

Hi, I'm new to Stalker and I jumped straight to call of pripyat, was that a good choice? I don't know much of any of the lore but I need advice on what I should start out with. I have a decent setup and already did the quest where the bandits were plotting to rob the bearded bar tender. That's about as far as I've gotten but no idea where to go next. Please ping me or dm. Thank you for your time

[leaden zodiac]

As Call of pripyat fan number one, you did the right choice. Best game.

[junior root]

I've heard it's probably the best game out of the trilogy, I got clear sky and call of pripyat on ps4

[leaden zodiac]

You made the correct choice. The next correct choice is to join the monolith
heheheheh

[junior root]

Am I supposed to attack the mercs? Or could I still talk and trade with them

What's so special about the monolith?

Is there several fractions similar like fallout?

[light shuttle]

Several factions?, yes.

[junior root]

Yes my bad I'm typing too quick lol

[light shuttle]

there's more or less throught the games but, ok.

[leaden zodiac]

We are the best in every single way, trust me. You’ll see

[light shuttle]

As Call of Pripyat hater you did the wrong choice, Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky are a lot better, CoP it's the worst of the trilogy with a great difference in certain aspects

[junior root]

Is there a wiki on the different factions?

[leaden zodiac]

What is wrong with you …

[junior root]

I got it based on graphics

[light shuttle]

Nothing

[late condor]

He is based

[late condor]

CS got best graphics

[light shuttle]

Ironically CoP has the worst visuals and graphics, in both cases, EE/LoTZ and OG Trilogy.

[leaden zodiac]

Freedom of speech includes wrong opinions..

[late condor]

Which is why you’re allowed to like CoP

[junior root]

Oh?

[late condor]

Seethe and CoPe

[light shuttle]

Call of Pripyat has intentional downgrades in the engine and graphics compared to Clear Sky.
Too has intentional and great changes in the visual atmosphere compared to SoC and CS (more brown and that).

In theory no there's none graphic downgrade in CoP EE/LoTZ but the "downgrade atmospheric" is still here.

[junior root]

Ahhh

[light shuttle]

It's a solid experience as first game i guess.

[junior root]

What should I use for my gear? I noticed a lot of different bars but I don't know how to look at stats for gear or weapons

I currently got a gauze shotgun and a ak4u

[late condor]

It’s a matter of personal preference. You select your gun or suit so that description shows up and view the bars there.

[late condor]

LotZ still has 55 FoV

[junior root]

How can I up my weight capacity? Is there backbacks

[light shuttle]

you can get more weight capacity according the suit and his "changes" with technicians.

[junior root]

I jumped into this game jus knowing it was hard and has a lot of the stuff I'm interested in all in one game lol

[light shuttle]

and there's artifacts for that tho.

[late condor]

You still need to learn to balance your loot

You don’t need to carry everything, only pick up what you need

[light shuttle]

Ironically CoP it's the game of the Trilogy more easy and izipisi with a great difference

[late condor]

Carry capacity extensions is a luxury and won’t be available early game

[junior root]

I saw a video where I should only pickup ammo meds and grenades and other stuff based on sales. Is there weapon attachments I can put on my weapons?

[light shuttle]

there's some attachments for a couple weapons, as grenade launchers and silencers.

[junior root]

Is there red dots or stuff better for recoil? I noticed on PS4 my weapons like to sway a lot and shoot around my target or it jus not registers

[light shuttle]

there's upgrades for the recoil and more things if you pay the services of technicians.

[junior root]

Okay so it jus makes the gun better

I think that is all the questions I got at the moment I'm probably gonna play tonight

[warm musk]

Man I am trying to play Stalker 1 on PS5, and the gun play is sooo bad. To the point I cant even enjoy the game.

[junior root]

Man I'm getting use to it

I think it's better on PC, well meant for it any ways

Does my character need food and water as well?

[leaden zodiac]

Need food

[warm musk]

i tried to get use to it but cant, I hope Stalker 2 is more polished when it comes out

[junior root]

It's already out?

Is it not?

[leaden zodiac]

It is..

[warm musk]

Not on ps5 though, soon

[leaden zodiac]

Oh right

I say you suck it up and continue playing till you life it!

[warm musk]

eh, i die before i can even get aimed most of the time.

[leaden zodiac]

Same
I just cry and reload last save

[warm musk]

Ill just hope Stalker 2 on controller plays better, which sucks because I did buy the trilogy awhile back. I dont mind dying to difficulty but not jank

[leaden zodiac]

Slavjank is good

I meant to write gold but that works too

[charred prism]

yea, its called, not liking the game

[warm musk]

that is a filthy lie

[rocky hawk]

hello everyone, do yall know if I can expand the inventory in SSOC?

[light shuttle]

getting suits as SKAT and Exoesqueletons

but 40-50 kg are really good.

[rocky hawk]

thanks, is it late game or?

[light shuttle]

mid and late game.

mid game are the main missions on dark valley, for example.

[rocky hawk]

I see, thanks

[late condor]

Get better weapons

Don’t engage from medium distances

All weapons have their effective range, shooting a pistol from afar is useless

The gunplay takes getting used to

[mossy fern]

okay so did anyone notice the removal of soviet restoration mods on stalker 2 and the enhanced editions respective workshops?

[late condor]

wtf

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485133010&searchtext=

No, it’s still here?

S2 one got removed but as far as I am aware it’s because it used resources from the leaked build and GSC aren’t really fond of that

But EE one is still here, unless there were others?

[leaden zodiac]

Not this again..

[torpid rapids]

I finally finished SoC 😂

i got the good ending

first time playing the game, second attempt. Started Clear Sky today.

[rocky hawk]

lucky

I love this game but DAMN it tends to fail/bug/crash/annoy EVERY TIME it can

allies blocking a door and not moving, random crash (my game just crashed randomly 3 minutes ago), the IA breaking, missions breaking (the first mission in the game broke for me)

the only non-annoying bug I found was a bandit agressively noclipping in a train

[late condor]

How did the first mission break for you lol

[rocky hawk]

the green dot still appears even after killing all the bandits

also it doesnt appear neither as complete, incomplete or even on course

the dot still there annoying my life

[late condor]

Ah that’s normal

The markers get left even after task is complete.

[rocky hawk]

oh thank god, thanks for telling me

[zealous lantern]

hi folks. do steam workshop items disable achievements in the EE games?

[late condor]

No

Neither do console commands

In fact you can pretty much give yourself all the achievements through console lol

[zealous lantern]

lol

ok, that's good news, thanks

[torpid rapids]

I used ZRP (I think that is what the mod was called) and had no issues. I think it crashed maybe once??? No game breaking bugs

[wild wedge]

I love hearing crying in the X8 bathrooms

Even better when it’s a baby it’s just so ”great” for my sanity

[graceful horizon]

It's stalker, you leave your sanity at the main menu

[grizzled rock]

dyson350 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[warm musk]

For the record, Im a stupid asshole

[wild wedge]

I finished CoP EE but I lost a guy during the final fight when I wasn’t looking and I never found Barge’s body

[warm musk]

i just realized after bitching about the games gun play, I was still on the PS4 edition and not the upgraded PS5 edition..its waaaay better

[wild wedge]

Anomaly changes it to a woman but even worse instead of a burer tricking you there’s nothing there which is terrifying

I mean the burer having that illusion to throw at you also kinda implies the staff at X8 killed a baby at some point

[graceful horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-wake-up-wakey-wakey-awaken-gif-26734899

[wild wedge]

I guess the ghost woman would be the mother?

Otherwise idk why you’d hear the echo of a woman crying in the bathroom of a lab making gauss rifles

Oh apparently they are children which is odd why are there mutant children in a sealed lab dedicated to making Gauss rifles?

[light shuttle]

Burers according to the official Call of Pripyat page are criminals but mutants, just criminals of 1.50

[leaden zodiac]

I can relate to burers as a 150cm bastard
I too would become psychic

[late condor]

Would you be surprised to find out it’s the same gunplay lol

Placebo? Or you just got good.

[torpid rapids]

is there a way to load into a map with the console in shadow of chernobyl?

[late condor]

No

[warm musk]

There is no way it hasnt been polished in some way. It was a lot easier on the ps5 version compared to ps4

Also, what is the purpose of the bolts you can throw?

[late condor]

it hasn't

you either got lucky or got good, it's exactly the same :)

[late condor]

You're being told that in the encyclopedia and if you talk to Sidorovich, I recommend paying attention to both what NPCs and your PDA tell you.

[warm musk]

Ok..that's crazy its the same. Maybe the better graphics just make is essier for me.

[late condor]

Wait till you get to AI artifacts, broken models and extra censorship of the enhanced edition lol

it's really not a good release despite some improvements to lods and grass

[warm musk]

Are there any mods I should use on the enhanced edition? @late condor

[late condor]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485133010&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484980597&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3488284088&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484981145&searchtext=

this won't address all of the issues but will make it somewhat tolerable

i really should release no ai slop upscales for CS and CoP

oh wait you're on ps5 :(

unfortunately GSC doesn't allow config mods on PS5 (so you can't reverse some of the downgrades)

and they don't let uncensor mods pass moderation

[warm musk]

Thats what i was getting ready to ask. I just have access to mod.io

[late condor]

mod.io is ridiculously limited (to the point you can't do most simple edits) and also moderated (so people can't eg bring original PC textures and reverse censorship)

[warm musk]

Plus i can't tell what mod is meant for enhanced or not enhanced editions

[late condor]

https://mod.io/g/stalker-soc/m/2025-restored-faster-knife-anim-speed-soc
https://mod.io/g/stalker-soc/m/2025-restored-faster-bolt-anim-speed-soc

i would only recommend getting those as its the only bugfix mods there are

there were a couple more useful mods but i think they were taken down

[warm musk]

Ok thanks

[late condor]

shame

[warm musk]

Im gonna try and beat 1 before 2 comes out in a few months

Sinces its a sequel

[late condor]

good call

though i would personally wait for at least EE 1.3 release

[warm musk]

Whats ee 1.3?

[late condor]

would take a few weeks tops but they may reverse some downgrades

[late condor]

enhanced edition, they broke lots of things but its getting patches

[warm musk]

Ah ok, thats good to know.

[late condor]

it's still going to be really heavily censored and all that, that is not something thats going to get patched

but if you could postpone your playthrough for a bit you'd end up playing a bit better game

still not as good as PC version :)) but not as much of a dumpster fire

[warm musk]

Pc will always be better, thankfully i never played these games before so dont miss what i dont know

Patch will be out in a few weeks you said?

Wonder why they just didnt launch with it, looks like the patch has been out awhile

[grizzled rock]

rollingdagger. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[torpid rapids]

Hi im new with stalker games and wanted to play them, bought 3 original games and didnt get into it but now im invested and are there any differnces about original games and enhanced editions?

[late condor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1l0vv5h/as_there_is_a_lot_of_confusion_and_misinformation

if you need gamepad support, go with ee, otherwise, original

[left pilot]

Hi! I've just finished all 3 games on the enhanced editions and i can confirm, the experience is identical. There are two things to note, if you have the games on steam, the originals dont come with steam achievements, while the enhanced editions do. Might be important to some. Also, i have noticed that on my rig, the enhanced editions use way more resources, CPU, GPU, while there being no difference between performance, so for me, the originals are better cause my PC is quieter that way.

[late condor]

The experience is not identical if you’re attentive. :)

There are some removed features, changed textures, changes to gameplay and more

[left pilot]

yeah i've noticed some, but nothing major.

[late condor]

Details do add up.

[left pilot]

thats true

[swift nexus]

Did they changed the cop enhanced edition hud?

Nvm, it didn't

[late condor]

Since release or OG->EE?

[swift nexus]

Ee

[late condor]

They did for EE, it suffered the least compared to SoC and CS, just some minor details missing or incorrect but not outright AI slop.

Generally looks very close to original.

[swift nexus]

I thought it used looked cartoony when the ee first came out because they simply AI upscaled it

[late condor]

SoC and CS look cartoony

CoP is mostly okay but a few details are missing

[swift nexus]

I knew I was misremembering things

[warm musk]

I think Im gonna try to just rush the story on Stalker 1 to get up to speed for when I can play 2 then deep dive into that...trying to avoid burn out after playing 1.

[late condor]

Bad choice, most of those games lie outside of main story

Story is by far probably the weakest part of stalker trilogy, all the lore and atmosphere lies in the other details.

[warm musk]

whats the best approach then, or are you saying it doesnt matter

[late condor]

They’re short games. There’s no need to speed run them. Each will take 50-60 hours tops if you explore every rook and cranny, normal playthrough is about 20-25 hours per game.

[warm musk]

ok thats good to know, are the npc side quests just never ending? I have done some but havent done all of them from any given npc yet

[late condor]

no, there are a total of a little over a hunred side quests. some are repeatable, some are unique one-and-done.

and that's soc only.

In CoP almost all side quests are unique. In CS you basically run out of quests once you finish faction war, quests just pop up when you are needed on a map.

[warm musk]

ok thanks

[fast salmon]

☢☢☢☢Get out of here stalker!☢☢☢☢

[zealous lantern]

How the heck do I get SEVA in CS? I'm pretty sure the last time I played it, I could get it without joining any faction. Right now I'm green with both loners and bandits, but none of them is selling the suit. Am I missing something?

[leaden zodiac]

You gotta uhhh
If i am right - buy it from the scientists
Or join the Loners and take over the bandits

[zealous lantern]

it that true? man that sucks, I'm about to go to the dark valley and wanted to dump all my money on it, before I get robbed :D

[leaden zodiac]

You get SEVA muuuchh later

[zealous lantern]

oh, so I just need to progress a bit further into the story?

[granite jungle]

Late response but I would second everything SurDno said. You can take your time doing side tasks and going to loot stashes in each and it probably won't run you more than 25 hours each (less for CoP since it's a shorter game). Main stories have some pretty good missions but especially Clear Sky feels worse if you just beeline the main story imo

[leaden zodiac]

Why do you want aSEVA?

[zealous lantern]

because it has 5 artifact slots

and I just generally like it

[warm musk]

Does anyone know where to find the Night Star artifact in Lab 18?

In Stalker 1?

[dense axle]

I think it's in a stash

[warm musk]

i couldnt figure out which one its in

[dense axle]

I looked it up

Apparently you can only get it before retrieving the documents, and even then it's difficult to grab

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_stash_of_Smoked?file=Secret_stash_of_smoked.jpg

[warm musk]

i havent got the documents yet...but i do notice the quest will randomly fail anyway..not sure if its on a timer

do i need the coordinates to find it or can i stumble upon it?

found it but it is empty

[granite jungle]

In SoC you need stash coordinates for loot to appear in them

It's a little nonsensical but it's a game design thing

[warm musk]

ok, i think im just running out of time for the quest thats why im failing...screw it. i dont care that much

just getting a feel for the games before stalker 2 comes out on ps5

[humble crescent]

Duty trader sells it

[weak raft]

enhanced clear sky is broken as hell

i got an actual exoskeleton with the icon and name of the CS armor u get at the swamps at the beginning of the game

[zealous lantern]

holly cow

but luckily, I'm doing just one achievement run and never touching it again

[zealous lantern]

yep, that was it. got it for 28k. thanks

[weak raft]

i mean it is cool but how does that even happen

[late condor]

Wut hahaha show screenshots

[rocky hawk]

How I can get out of the x16 lab in the original game?

[light shuttle]

there's a tunnel on the controller home

[rocky hawk]

oh

[spice rivet]

Did anyone encounter the bug (and maybe a solution?) where npcs are stuck in emission behavior after sleeping through / advancing time in clear sky complete during an emission? I found some old reddit posts where people described the problem, but no one found a solution.

[tulip spruce]

it would seem i have encountered the kill the duty squad bug in SOC, curious

[trail osprey]

Where can i sell or drop stuff off in the first game? I just made it to garbage and i have too much stuff

[charred prism]

you can drop anything everywhere you want
the zone doesnt want you to know this but its free to dump AKs in Agropoms lake

[weak raft]

vova fist has been obliterated

[graceful horizon]

That's what you think. Vova Vist is eternal

[trail osprey]

Its safe to stash my stuff in the blue boxes for sure?

[south raptor]

U

[graceful horizon]

Yes

[trail osprey]

How do i install mods for stalker soc on ps5?

[late condor]

just subscribe on mod.io

[trail osprey]

Do i do that on a laptop or can i do that from my ps? And then can i download them straight from the menu on ps or do i download them on a pc and it transfers over?

[late condor]

You do it from PS, there is mod browser entry in the main menu. Subscribing should automatically download the mod. No need for a PC.

Though you will likely be disappointed with the kinds of mods that are available.

[trail osprey]

Yea its nothing crazy but i like some of the weapon reskins

[trail osprey]

Does subscribing cost money?

[late condor]

No lol

Mods are free.

[trail osprey]

Awesome thanks

[late condor]

This ain’t Bethesda, GSC would’ve been eaten alive if they tried to pull of paid mods

[leaden zodiac]

Are you telling me these ||[[worthless]]|| bandits killed this controller?

[karmic horizon]

Why are they worthless? At night when the Loners are hiding aboard the Skadovsk, the Bandits are out killing mutants in the middle of the night.

[leaden zodiac]

You do have a point actually..

[fast salmon]

which game is stalker 1?

[leaden zodiac]

Brains stay inside and wait for the brawns to kill and die

[spiral edge]

does any one know if "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly" will be available on steam? and not only on gog

[charred prism]

in my darkest nightmares yes

[rocky hawk]

Yall I have a question
Do the Exoskeleton makes you unable to run?

[leaden zodiac]

Yea, unless you upgrade it in CS and COP

but that is a very lategame upgrade in COP if i am right

[rocky hawk]

CS/COP?

[leaden zodiac]

Clear sky
Call of Pripyat

[rocky hawk]

Oh im in Shadow Of Chernobyl

[leaden zodiac]

Nope you’ll just have to walk with it /shrug

[rocky hawk]

💔

[leaden zodiac]

💔

[rocky hawk]

Damn I wanted more inventory because im very greedy

[leaden zodiac]

Aren’t we all?

[rocky hawk]

but being unable to run makes the game miserably 💔

[rocky hawk]

Is there any other way to expand the inv?

[leaden zodiac]

Uhh.. you’ll have to wait for somebody else to answer heh. I am not good at SOC lol

[rocky hawk]

Oh

welp thanks anyways

[humble crescent]

Try not to hoard every bandage and rusty ak you'll find, it helps a lot

Also do Sid's 'bring artifact' quests, one of the rewards is modified stalker suit with increased carry weight

Bring him night star to get it

[rocky hawk]

The problem is that I have mostly only medikits (specially blue and yellow ones)

[rocky hawk]

Oh ty

[scenic fiber]

Im playing Stalker cop tryna get achievements,i finished the game and i have a bunch of the x8 documents in my inventory can i give them to someone or no?

[pulsar valve]

Pretty sure you can sell them to owl

[scenic fiber]

Doesn’t let me

[pulsar valve]

I’m not 100% though

[pulsar valve]

Did you like ENTIRELY finish the storyline and choose to stay

Have you tried duty or freedom?

[scenic fiber]

Its says theyd be of great use to uss analysts so i imagine I should’ve given them to kovalsky before I chose to stay

[pulsar valve]

Maybe, I’m not sure though

I choose to stay and I just started a new game

[scenic fiber]

Well doesn’t really bother me ,the weight of the documents does and up a bit

add*

[pulsar valve]

Maybe try duty or freedom, I’m probably wrong once again however they might go for it

[scenic fiber]

They dont want it ive tried

[pulsar valve]

Dang, I dunno then I’m sorry

[scenic fiber]

Its only half a kilo of documents

[pulsar valve]

Oki

[frosty radish]

How can I post a file?

[late condor]

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[frosty radish]

its a song

I found the dirge for the planet file online (on an offical website, fret not)

[leaden zodiac]

Oohh! You should listen to firelake if you like it!

[frosty radish]

its hard to listen to, i just like how it plays everywhere

I was happy to find a big portion of Stalker SoC's soundtrack available online for free

and artwork

https://stalker-game.ru/en/?page=home

It's weird, if you click the english version it takes you elsewhere, but if you leave the /en/ in it takes you to another place entirely

difference between .com and .ru

[late condor]

They remade website for LotZ release but didn’t remake ru version obviously

[frosty radish]

LotZ

oh right, the cringe remix, why didn't they update the original website?

[late condor]

It served a different purpose I guess

Original website was before the game’s release, it had a little encyclopedia with lore tidbits and all of it

Official screenshots, news, all of it. For the people waiting for the game and then for the patches

[frosty radish]

Yeah, now all the stuff for soundtracks wallpapers etc are gone

[late condor]

biggest loss is GSC forums

20 years of stalker discussion

cut content, first mods, developer interviews, all of it.

and now it's gone completely

[frosty radish]

now you have to know that its still available if you go and replace the .com with .ru and translate it to english, a big pain thats not obvious. According to the wayback machine, stalker-game.com/en/ looked the same as the .ru one until at least november 3rd, 2023

[frosty radish]

😔 wayback ftw I suppose, if you still have the link there may be something

[frosty radish]

Do you know why they did it?

[late condor]

Yeah but there were literal tens of thousands of pages, only very few were saved by wayback, most are lost

[late condor]

No, there wasn’t an official announcement or anything

[late condor]

I think there is a button called “legacy” on the new website that takes you to the old one.

No need for translation

[frosty radish]

very strange

[wraith tundra]

whats the changelog in anomaly 2.0 vs the old one

[light shuttle]

they replaced GSC Forums for the current GSC Page.

What a shame.

[trail osprey]

I wish you could aim down sight with weapon reskin mods

[fast salmon]

so they added anomaly to GoG but i need the GoG version of trilogy to get anomaly thats kinda whack

[late condor]

i think it's really ironic to add anomaly and require cop ee

[fast salmon]

it kinda makes sense but its also dumb i guess the anomaly devs make money off of the sale

[grizzled rock]

surdno has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cinder geode]

anomaly is a mod, so they don't get money for that

[late condor]

no it's because anomaly is known for adding a hell of a lot more of soviet imagery

[fast salmon]

yh but u need to buy COP EE to download it from gog now

[late condor]

and it's really funny that to play that commie fantasy game you have to get the one which got every single star censored lmfao

[cinder geode]

and the money goes to gsc, not anomaly devs

[fast salmon]

no because they didnt have to do the gog transaction there will always be a percentage lol gog probably pays them as it advertises it as you need this game to to play it

[late condor]

i don't see anyone buying cop specifically to play anomaly

[cinder geode]

no

[late condor]

people will just downlaod it off moddb

[fast salmon]

gog wont make money if it was the case

[cinder geode]

makes no sense to they even get money from gog or gsc

[fast salmon]

apparently the gog version has a new patch compared to the moddb version 1.5.3

[fast salmon]

i literally worked in an advertisement company its very well known strategy to make money if i was the anomaly devs id like a percentage from gog or gsc as people will want an easy set up file to play it instead of waiting for a long time to get the zip to download

so gog and gsc make money from it

there for anomaly devs should be paid

[cinder geode]

bro, anomaly devs probably don't get a single penny

because it's a mod

[fast salmon]

well maybe but they should mod or not theyre advertising it on gog if it was the case of not earning a penny it would also be on steam which its not because if it was people would choose that over gog there was probably a contract or nda that anomaly devs signed stating they are not allowed to publish it on steam

[cinder geode]

anomaly can't even go to steam

[fast salmon]

explain

[cinder geode]

by the simple fact that it uses stuff from other games, for exemple, hip model is actually jill model from resident 5

[fast salmon]

have u seen mods that are there own stand alone games that are literally built from valve assets?

[cinder geode]

but valve let them do that

[fast salmon]

do u think capcom would even notice

[cinder geode]

if capcom notice it, they would probably sue it

they alread did it in the past

[fast salmon]

if so then why is it on gog as im sure the policy's arent much different

[cinder geode]

idk, gog probably pays them to be able to get in on gog

[fast salmon]

pays who?

[cinder geode]

the owners of the stuff used from other games

[fast salmon]

i dont think GoG has that much money bro

[cinder geode]

they have

[fast salmon]

they literally lose millions per year

[cinder geode]

and they still very much good

[fast salmon]

people prefer them for DRM free which i get but that also makes piracy easy so they lose and do GSC lol

[cinder geode]

gsc just don't care about piracy

and gog have been there for 16 years, so they probably make some profit from it

[livid hare]

specially in eastern europe ig. Most from there cracked it

[swift nexus]

Why is live to forget not in CoP EE?

[late condor]

censored

[swift nexus]

How come?!

Isn't Firelake a Ukrainian band from Kyiv?

Nvm it is censored because of the language of the lyrics

[charred prism]

there are a lot of people who would rather download anomaly thru GOG rather than get it on Moddb like a normal person, even tho after you buy COP EE and get Anomaly youll still need to go to Moddb to get the addons to fix Anomaly and make it less bad

now, more people dont do that bc its not on steam

you have to remember, people are dumb
#💬┃en_offtop message

[sly ember]

Hey guys!

I was gonna ask what game from the trilogy i should get. I love the style and (from what ive seen) gameplay from stalker and i was wondering which game to get started with

[leaden zodiac]

Call of pripyat.
Short and sweet

[swift nexus]

Shadows of Chornobyl

[graceful horizon]

SoC, CS and then CoP

[sly ember]

Do they have a story?

If they do which order is it in

[charred prism]

SOC then CS then COP

[hallow thunder]

Release order

[swift nexus]

Who started with CS, then SoC, and CoP last?

Cause I did

[charred prism]

what a foolish thing to do

[sly ember]

Thank you :)

[light shuttle]

Yes.

But no there's an official ukranian version of the theme, just ENG and RUS versions.
and Oleg Yavorsky (Firelake member) currently it's working on Forest Reigns by Vostok Games, soo i imagine that oleg don't have a lot of interested on make an ukranian version of the theme

but i think that the main problem it's because the iconic version it's on russian, because Mataboo/Fraglab/GSC still let some themes made by MoozE on the EE and MoozE is russian, mooze don't sing on his themes, oleg did it.

[flint crane]

Stalker Anomaly is finally on GoG. I finished the first three Stalkers without mods. What should I expect from Anomaly? Who has played it? Is there a campaign with main and side missions? What languages ​​does it support?

[light shuttle]

the main quest is too shitty.
the first main quest-line is SoC/CoC plot but worse, and the next two plots are +- worse.
Is an freeplay without nothing new and blablablabla, the narrative is far from be his strong point or smth.

[flint crane]

Okay, but at least the gameplay and exploration are good? And above all, is the game more hardcore than the original three Stalker games?

[light shuttle]

the gameplay is more or less difficult, is more boring than nothing in a few days or a few weeks.

[light shuttle]

The mod isn't so great in exploration, almost none freeplay stalkermod is good in that.
The Call of Chernobyl forks has atleast 32 levels in-game, with restored levels from SoC and in the case of Anomaly and other CoC forks have MLR Maps as Meadow.

[flint crane]

Which mod would you recommend that's truly hardcore?

[swift nexus]

More guns, more armor, you can play as any faction you like, you can start with a variety of items.

[charred prism]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/nlc7-he23

[cinder geode]

prosectorss project or nlc 7

[trail osprey]

Stalker soc kinda reminds me of mass effect 1 but i cant really explain why

Came out in the same year and both legendary games

[oblique prawn]

New to the stalker games and started playing shadow of Chernobyl today. Absolute peak😩

[tawdry cargo]

Hell yeah

Good hunting Stalker

[pale nebula]

This is one of the weirdest comparisons I've run into. I love both franchises, though.

[flint crane]

But have you read the novel Roadside Picnic?

What inspired the film and the game

[pale nebula]

And the 1979 movie. A very good book and a very good movie, although the movie might not be for everyone.

[leaden zodiac]

Goooodd stuff! Would recommend even if very different from the series

[smoky dew]

can anyone help me further understand the game or give any tips/advice? i just started call of pripyat and im having a bit of a difficult time just understanding certain symbols, what to do, where to go, and how to do some things

[tawdry cargo]

Hell it's mostly the same as the earlier games. Just the hud and some stuff is off but it shouldn't take too long to understand

[karmic horizon]

Ready for Limansk

[humble crescent]

That's a lot of weight. I'd sell most of it in favor of 2 assault rifles, one for melee, one for ranged combat. Damn, 79 vogs

[karmic horizon]

You can always cross over and make a stash to unload some of it.
The point being there is no return, so you want to be prepared.

[late condor]

I mean, you can return through load console command

I always explore Limansk and Hospital and then go back

Second Bulldog is much appreciated

[fast salmon]

i think clear sky ee is actually more goated than it used to be

[trail osprey]

Sheesh .45 acp puts people down better than my rifles do😭

Its too easy to drop your guns in this game i just had to backtrack like 5 minutes scanning the ground because i dropped my stick lmfao

[livid hare]

Hey @plucky trench give us a patch for EE where we can disable the main menu ads, not only on PC but on consoles too

[late condor]

???? Are they still on consoles? Lmfao

[late condor]

Opinion disregarded

More buggy sure, more goated nah

[late condor]

Dude I just checked and I don’t have go to store option on my XSX

are you sure you’re not using an outdated patch

[livid hare]

I swear to still have them on patch 1.2 (latest patch)

Still using the No Ads workshop add-ons on CS and CoP (the one for SoC has been deleted)

I want to ask you, is there a way to disable them ?

[smoky dew]

i now semi fully understand and am having a great time🙂

[frosty radish]

What is stalker anamloy? people glaze it a lot

[light shuttle]

An freeplay that is an Addonpack of the Addonpack of the Addonpack of the Addonpack of Addonpack of a mod.

[frosty radish]

so its like a super sub mod? where is the most comprehensive list of mods? nexus has nothing

[light shuttle]

1: No.
2: No.

it's just a boring freeplay that it's used for put addons on it because that's it his purpose.
there's people that enjoy Anomaly without a lot of addons but, they are minority.

[late condor]

are you by any chance using the spawner mod

Think it brings it back

[lunar tusk]

Playing the enhanced version of SoC, anyone have any ideas about what I'm supposed to do here? 2 mercs right next to the loading zone, and if I defend myself duty shoots me for attacking people in their territory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6JfnNRPva0

[lunar tusk]

Okay I managed to get away when I immediately started sprinting away when the game loaded, and I led them to the gate guards that took ages to kill them for me

[lunar tusk]

Is it normal for the mercs to spawn in the bar area? So far I've had like 10 mercs shooting up the place in different areas, sometimes in the middle of town. It feels like a bug but from what I can find online, it's meant to be happening after going to X16?

[humble crescent]

The appearance of hostile npcs at the bar territory was not anticipated by the devs, but it happens sometimes, so best you can do is run away and wait until the dutyers and stalkers kill them.

[lunar tusk]

Wasn't anticipated? Are they sentient?

[fast salmon]

just seems like the zone is trying its best to 1 up u lol

[fast salmon]

i think it adds to the realism because they usually just wait for stalkers to go to wild territory and they never move

[late condor]

lots of things happen in those games that devs didnt think through, mercs aren't supposed to go to bar but bar is on the way when they try to go to other levels

[late condor]

they never spawn there, but they travel through there

sometimes in the middle of town
When they travel in offline (i.e. unloaded state where an NPC does not exist as a physical entity, e.g. on other levels or just far away on the same level), there is no combat calculation, so they will pass through the area without fighting anyone.

if you come close and force them to be physically loaded, they will start behaving as regular NPCs and start blasting.

[torpid rapids]

Noooo fox died 😢

[lunar tusk]

Oh yeah definitely. The only issue is that duty doesn't allow you to defend yourself. Also them being next to loading zones is annoying

[lunar tusk]

Oh okay, I didn't know the game has NPC's travel between areas except for the few named ones like Poker the bandit

[fast salmon]

offline ai was supposed to be able to complete the game if u took too long getting to the CNPP but ppl wouldnt enjoy that

[lunar tusk]

Lmao yeah I can imagine. If the labs and other locations were more mundane it would work better, but there's a lot of info you dig up from the labs that other stalkers shouldn't have access to