⭐┃trilogy-general

[rough umbra]

What is Stalker Gamma? Ive heard about it, is it just a collection of mods?

[verbal tartan]

Its a modpack made for anomaly, which is a mod of last day, which is a mod of call of misery, which is a mod of call of chernobyl and misery, both mods for CoP

I wouldnt touch gamma or any of the previous mods until you finish the trilogy tho, they have different lore, gameplay, atmosphere, goal... everything really

[rough umbra]

Alright then
Do the earlier games play well on modern laptops?
I'm enlisting so I can't exactly lug around my PC base to base

[verbal tartan]

They should play pretty well, yeah

[rough umbra]

Alright then

[verbal tartan]

I got a super modern laptop and its great, all 3 games vanilla

[rough umbra]

If only the Fallout games worked as well.
I had to fight New Vegas tooth and nail to get it to not crash after ten minutes of gameplay.

[verbal tartan]

Something I should add: if you buy the original version, you get the enhanced version, and viceversa

[rough umbra]

So first play through I do regular, second enhanced?

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, no, the games are decently stable. Maybe CS is the most unstable, but at the very most, you'll get one crash or two (and its rare)

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, just play original first

[rough umbra]

Bet

[rough umbra]

Bought, and installing

[verbal tartan]

[rough umbra]

I was about to say Im noticing a theme about the starting sequence but then the truck ||exploded||

[light shuttle]

the theme of the intro is from one of the trailers

[rotund badge]

You can consider installing zrp and srp fixes for first two games which solves a ton of bugs. I have revently finished SoC and especially in Army Warehouse there were a lot of bugs.

I have also got a 3 or 4 crashes in Yantar near the helicopter and dead ecologist.

Those are for vanilla only unfortunately

[late condor]

Reclamation projects are not a first playthrough kind of deal

[verbal tartan]

I honestly never had any big bugs or crashes in SoC

Literally 0, and I've did 3 playthroughs

[jagged current]

https://tenor.com/view/chillet-dance-palworld-pokemon-pal-gif-7774484157687707478

[ivory citrus]

guys how can i do the sell and buy glitch for stalker SOC on ps5?

[cold musk]

@verbal tartan I finished Incubator. I appreciate that the story mod did not overstay its welcome. Side missions are mostly fetch quest but overall high reward, managed to get the gauss rifle, heh.

Maybe due to Spatial Anomaly being my first stalker story mod to play, I am starting to see the pattern of eastern european or russian modders on how they construct a story but then if this is their theme to go for I can respect that and looking forward to play more. Then I feel that one side mission seem incomplete, which is ||The Dreamcatcher artifact|| . I am not sure that time they did think of making a sequel, but the modders just shoo in this artifact, then a random person show up, talk about it and wanted me to help them, I thought I can proceed to help them after ending the dialog, as the MC kinda reluctant, but no progress afterward.

Overall, it is immersive, I am gonna download the next sequel

[lime halo]

Not to mention that Gamma and Anomaly are way more difficult

[verbal tartan]

Im glad you liked it I honestly have no idea about that trilogy because I haven't played it, but yeah, you will see some similarities

[verbal tartan]

Eh, I've seen more difficult mods tbh.
What I meant is that they arent even close to the trilogy and they are just sandbox, which cuts a lot of the magic of Stalker (you can even argue that Gamma isn't even stalker at this point)

[cold musk]

the funny part is, I went from finishing the trilogy, to trying out zona (which is another anomaly/gamma variant) and lastly landed at IWP, and I love IWP more

[lime halo]

There is a VRChat Map/Avatar Maker that is trying to make a fully playable version of Anomaly within VRChat

[verbal tartan]

Interesting

[light shuttle]

Spatial Anomaly it's made by eastern europeans, the author is ukranian

[cold musk]

I see

[light shuttle]

Dreamcatcher artifact is a refference to their next mod

[cold musk]

Yeah, just strange that the side quest just kinda ends after the mc meeting his side chick

Then that plague doc showed up asked for help by using the dreamcatcher, thought i can continue with it but the doc just nah

[light shuttle]

The mod it's completed, the only mod of that saga that is unfinished is Attribute, now u could follow the story with Dreamcatcher

[cold musk]

I see i see, currently downloading it along with the remaster

[charred prism]

EW

thats even worse than Anomaly, by God

[late condor]

what's the glitch

[hazy crown]

Hello how is everyone?

[cold musk]

shame that my desktop seems to block the dreamcatcher mod for unknown reason, gonna move on to other mod to try i guess

goldsphere it is

[misty vigil]

Absolutely.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is my only exception. And maybe also Escape From Tarkov, even though I have not played it.

[devout hazel]

How am i supposed to kill fiend while he is at the bar without alerting the duty

He keeps playing a guitar by the campfire and never moves

[late condor]

Wait for him to move out of Bar. He will once you progress the plot far enough.

[devout hazel]

Thanks mate

[graceful horizon]

Alternatively, shoot him till he becomes hostile, hide behind a dutier, wait til he unintentionally kills or 2 dutiers and watch them deal with him

[devout hazel]

Literally rage baited him to kill himself thx dude :D

[graceful horizon]

You got it to work? Nicely done!: D

[misty vigil]

How can one obtain a Dragunov?

[verbal tartan]

In which of the games

[misty vigil]

Call Of Pripyat, I've seen one hanged on one of the rooms in Yanov.

[verbal tartan]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/SVDm-2
Check the CoP adquisition category

[misty vigil]

Thank you!

[devout hazel]

Kruglov died in the blowout-

[humble crescent]

It's not possible. Probably one of the nearby zombies shot him

[devout hazel]

Damn

[verbal tartan]

try to leave the bus as soon as possible so you can shoot the zombies

[devout hazel]

He died mid cutscene i couldnt do anything

[verbal tartan]

maybe try to clean the place before taking the measurements?

[devout hazel]

At the bar and for some reason every single stalker is hostile againist me

[late condor]

hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder why

[devout hazel]

Technically i didnt kill him. I shot him in the leg. He shot at duty and duty killed him. But i see the reason

[woeful fiber]

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

[rose tusk]

Just remove your hud? (Hud_draw off)

[late condor]

this isnt hud

[rose tusk]

no? but it removes the red texts when using demo_record thas wha i use 🙏

ok i see that's an Enchanced Edition exclusive thing

EWW Edition

[late condor]

im a big confused what you're talking about, in non-EE the red texts only appear in SoC and hud_draw is only valid in CoP.

[rose tusk]

I was trying to suggest deleting the hud if the red texts somehow appears in call of pripyat. Maybe deleting the hud removes it?

[devout hazel]

Found a SEVA suit in a stash

[devout hazel]

Ok uhh the dutyer weapon is out of bounds and i cant get it

[late condor]

Rip

[tranquil pelican]

wheres Poker? Points me to the Wild Territory but went there he isnt there + AgroProm underground so where do i go now?

[verbal tartan]

Check garbage, cordon and dark valley

He can go to cordon in rare occasions (according to wiki)

[lament kindle]

Is enhanced any better now?

[verbal tartan]

Better than release, not much worth it either way

The only thats kinda worth it is CoP because of the grass distance, but you could install smth for that

[frosty radish]

Not really

I think the visual difference is very minimal, but then again I'm ok with older games textures

[split vortex]

So is it generally recommended to play the original release? I was going to play enhanced edition with absolute structures and nature

[split vortex]

I really just wanna know the best way the experience these classics before jumping in. I want to keep it vanilla but willing to use mods that add QOL improvements or fix any jank that might be in the original gameplay

Starting with SoC

[frosty radish]

Play the og SoC with no mods for your first play through, then afterwards mod to your hearts content

[devout hazel]

At dark valley there is a sidequest that is protect the duty detachment from tbe bandits. It doesnt start

[devout hazel]

I say try out memories of the zone mod

Doesnt add extra stuff but enchances plenty of stuff

[frosty radish]

every first play through should be vanilla, as the devs intended it

[split vortex]

Is original better than enhanced edition?

[split vortex]

I’ll look at it. Thx

[verbal tartan]

Yes

[split vortex]

Cool. Thx. I’ll uninstall the enhanced edition then

Does memories of the zone make using absolute structures and nature unnecessary

I saw it adds visual enhancements

[verbal tartan]

If you want to try the original game with a little bit of enhanced graphics, use both absolute mods

If you want a full change that makes it more modern, use memories

They aren't compatible either way

[frosty radish]

depends on who you ask, but argueably yes

[split vortex]

Ok gotcha. What about an unofficial patch

That only adds bug fixes

[verbal tartan]

Memories includes ZRP. Idk if it is compatible with absolute mods, but check their descriptions/comments, surely someone can say

Or just try it out either way, may work

[split vortex]

I read ZRP makes the game easier

So I’m just trying to avoid anything that overhauls the game to the point of making it unbalanced or even rebalanced

[verbal tartan]

You can just, not use it tbh

A bug fix patch is not needed, you'll very rarely find a game breaking bug tbh

Idk if it makes the game easier, but it has other problems, same with SRP

[split vortex]

That’s what I read when someone asked about it on steam discussions/reddit

[frosty radish]

I played fourty hours of SoC with no mods, never ran into a bug so obvious I noticed tbh

[verbal tartan]

Done 3 vanilla playthroughs, no bugs that I can remember. So yeah, its rare. Possible, but rare

[split vortex]

Ok cool. Gtk

[verbal tartan]

And then again, idk if it makes it "easier", Im pretty sure most of the balance is untouched. Just do what you want, you wont miss anything super mega important

[split vortex]

Thx guys. I’m just gonna stick to the absolute texture packs and use the original version instead of enhanced

[verbal tartan]

I love you

[split vortex]

One last question: which absolute nature resolutions pack looks the most compatible with the resolution of structures

[split vortex]

Aw I love you too, Gordon the Wizard

[verbal tartan]

Uuuuuh, Im pretty sure theres just 1 absolute nature pack

[split vortex]

It comes with 3 presets

[verbal tartan]

Just grab the most famous version

[split vortex]

Normal, high and ultra

[frosty radish]

the jank is half the fun

[verbal tartan]

Ah, well, doesnt matter really
Just go with what your pc can handle the most, Im pretty sure you wont notice the difference much

[split vortex]

Thanks. I’ll just use high then

[late condor]

It hasn’t been updated since September mate

So not really, no

[late condor]

The original textures are based on real Chornobyl zone photography

replacing them with mediocre texture pack is a crime

[split vortex]

Ok noted. But the texture pack is upscale vanilla textures

[verbal tartan]

Not really, no

Im pretty sure it changes more than that

[split vortex]

The description just described it as edited vanilla textures

Do you guys think I should play master for the first time through or stick to veteran

[verbal tartan]

Stalker, at the very most veteran

[frosty radish]

the hardest difficulty isn't that hard tbh

I played the hardest difficulty on all three and only the first hour or two of Clear Sky was difficult

[verbal tartan]

I'd still recommend against Master for first playthrough

[split vortex]

Ok I’ll play it on master. Appreciate you folks

[late condor]

Why not? Can always tune it down.

[verbal tartan]

Well, thats true actually, forgot you can do it

[split vortex]

Best subtitle mod for npcs talking? I’d like to know what they’re saying lol

For SoC

[late condor]

You have two options:

• classic In-game CC - just adds subtitles, the voiceover stays a mix of English and Russian https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/in-game-cc-and-subtitles-1-00
• In-Game CC with ukrainain lcoalization, a better updated version that adds faction-based text colouring and replaces the VA with Ukrainian https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/english-subtitles-for-ukrainian

[frosty radish]

Classic in game is probably the most vanilla-esque

[split vortex]

I tried the first one but the batch file can’t locate the game. Even tried to run it in the root folder

[peak dove]

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[devout hazel]

I am playing clear sky rn. Who do i sell the artifacts and mutant parts

Also if there is someone paying higher for guns we sell

[humble crescent]

You can sell guns to the closest trader, they all pay basically the same, except maybe Tooth, who only pays something for modified guns. Sid pays the most for artifacts. Sakharov pays well too. Make sure to spend all your money before you get to the basement under the flea market

[devout hazel]

Thx a lot. What about mutant parts can i sell them to anyone and they pay the same?

[verbal tartan]

Scientists should pay the most, maybe the bartender in CS too but I dont remember well

[devout hazel]

Alrighty thx for the answer, ill check them out

[late condor]

There are no mutant parts in CS????

[late condor]

wut

[devout hazel]

Might be because i dowlanded the AB R mod

[late condor]

The one that removes bandit quest lines? Lmao what made you do that to yourself

[verbal tartan]

Ok so now I remember that there are no mutant parts my bad, was kinda stucked that there were

Also, yeah, abr

[dense cape]

Yeah they stopped mutant part harvesting in clear sky and cop

To I guess make the game more challenging and balancing the economy even tho making money is still really easy

[fast salmon]

mutant parts dont really affect the economy in SoC

plus i liked getting bounties for dolge

felt like a real mutant hunter

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, honestly, I dont think it was for balancing

If it was, what a stupid decision to make

[verbal tartan]

Like I'm gonna believe an AI...

At least try to look and post the sources of it, at the very minimum

[dense cape]

You know we also have the main source here right?

Just ask the devs

Or molit

[verbal tartan]

Tbf, I doubt the original dev of clear sky that had the idea is still here

Would be cool tho

[late condor]

Idk if you are being ironic but none of the current GSC had any involvement whatsoever in the design of the original trilogy, it’s all new faces.

[grizzled rock]

surdno has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[late condor]

The sources the AI is referencing is most likely bs too. We simply don’t know why it was cut out, anything else is theorizing.

[devout hazel]

Bro i literally saw a bloodsucker take duty member into space

Ah nvm he just jumped far

[tired trout]

Must be Stalker Clear Sky you're currently playing.

[devout hazel]

Yeah i wasnt looking at the direction bloodsucker jumped. Just saw him go up into the sky

[late condor]

That’s a swamp thing not a regular bloodsucker

[sick mauve]

Hello there, fellow stalkers, i have some questions about the game..

I'm playing the remaster of SoC and uh ... Is this normal thaht i litteraly find artifacts everywhere ? I mean, absolutely everywhere.

[verbal tartan]

yes, that is only a SoC thing

[sick mauve]

I dont remember looting these shiny stones on the first release

[verbal tartan]

where are you exactly

[sick mauve]

I beginned the quest to enter X13 under aggropom, and its like the 5th artifact i loot on the ground.

Inside the lab

[verbal tartan]

yeah, it's normal

[sick mauve]

It always has been ?

[verbal tartan]

ah, well, I know about 3 artifacts underground, not 5. But in the whole game, they are scattered around almost everywhere in Agroprom, to the left side of the entrance to agroprom and on the train rails, below the bridge. Theres many there

and yes, it has always been like this, it was in CS that the system was changed to center around the artifact detector

[sick mauve]

Ok, thanks !

[late condor]

Soc doesn’t have a remaster

[sick mauve]

[devout hazel]

Hey i am playing clear sky and is it intentional that we cant accept more than 1 sidequest?

[late condor]

You can accept more than one side quest, but some quests are chains, and some block each other.

You can have unlimited number of being items tasks. Only one return item offered at a time. And capture tasks depend on the number of squads in the camp.

[devout hazel]

That expains the multiple get items side quests in a row i suppose

[haughty marten]

Guys I need help. I’m about to enter Chernobyl NPP but not sure what to bring it for it. I turned around before exiting Pripyat and went back to the bar first. I’m gonna go look for that exoskeleton, but I also want to know what guns and gead yall would bring in. I wanna bring the mosin nagant just to he cool, and that MSS nato gun looks good too, but I haven’t even got that many Nato rounds. What do yall think.

[late condor]

There is no mosin nagant in this game. If you’re playing it modded then any advice would be irrelevant because the balance would likely be completely different too

[graceful horizon]

This

[haughty marten]

Oh shit guilty. Any suggestions either way? I’m just a little scared of what to expect going in

[verbal tartan]

Just bring the most you can and the best armor you have

Shrimple as that

[graceful horizon]

And don't skimp on anti radiation drugs

[verbal tartan]

Oh yeah, that

[haughty marten]

Thank you well do you know the common ammo drops at the area?

[verbal tartan]

Idk, because you are playing a mod

But in vanilla, nato and 9x39 ammo, mostly

[devout hazel]

I wouldnt take exoskeleton armor since you cant sprint.

Might wannna bring 5.56 ammo too since enemies use weapons that are in that caliber

In case you run out your primary basically you can pick a enemy weapon

[verbal tartan]

You cant really know since its a modded version of the game tho, but most likely they have the beat ammo possible

Either way, I would take exo. You can't sprint (at least in vanilla, maybe you can in that mod), but you tank every shot

[haughty marten]

Its autumn aurora. I don't think it really does much

[verbal tartan]

I mean, you got a mosin
But yeah, maybe it doesnt change as much

I need to play that mod one day

[haughty marten]

To my knowledge one mosin andd erm there are UI changes

Radiation is a bit stronger I think, and artefacts not so much, but story-wise and stuff everything is the same i think

I wouldn't use a mod that changes the story on first run

[lime halo]

There is a mod for CS that allows you to sprint with the exoskeleton equipped

I've also downloaded a Cheat Menu + Spawner Mod for CS, but the cool thing about it is that the mod has toggleable Chaos Mod built into it

[woven lance]

I have played autumn aurora, it is a good newgame+ mod. You really play this in your first ever playthrough? err.... okay i guess. I'd bring a Tunder Groza in Sarcophagus and Monoliy Control. They shred no matter what.

I think armor doesn't really matter because Monoliy weapon also kills easily. Artifacts with rad and health is necessary.

[haughty marten]

Thanks for that. Where’d I find those anyway?

[late condor]

You shouldn’t use the one that changes gameplay either, stalker is not just its story

[haughty marten]

Yeah I'm realising it now, already on my way to play it again

[late condor]

Fun fact - a lot of the original textures used in the game are based on Chornobyl photography! The dev landscape was different, getting textures from the internet was a lot harder, so devs used their own photos, including from reference trips to the exclusion zone.

The blood splatters are real scans of blood of one of the devs!

[haughty marten]

Oh shit, what a big mistake. Yeah my bad, I’ll play it in the original way. Seems daunting to restart again but I love stalker a lot

[devout hazel]

Trying to spawn a meat chunk in call of pripyat but it wont spawn no matter how many times i sleep. At this point imma wake up in stalker 2

[devout hazel]

FOUND THE MEATCHUNK AND THEN SOMEHOW GAME CLOSED

Ye screw this im using a spawner

[misty vigil]

How the hell do I get out of Zaton??

I can't send images here, shit.

[verbal tartan]

You have to go through the guide

CoP removed the ability to walk to the other map, only guides let you do that

[misty vigil]

I haven't played C.O.P. in like a month.

[misty vigil]

Ohhh, right. Thanks!

[verbal tartan]

You eventually get access to jupiter when you give the guide a map with the route, just follow the quests a bit or talk to him, he is in the center of skadovsk iirc

[misty vigil]

Alright, I appreciate it! I've been playing E.F.P. for a long time, so I forgot most of the basics of the C.O.P. 😹

[misty vigil]

Do I need to get to Zaton to find a closed-cycle respitory module thing?

[verbal tartan]

You can buy from Hawaiian and from Owl, yeah

Owl being in Zaton

[misty vigil]

I only 8k Rubles, though. I'm screwed ☠️

[verbal tartan]

Grind time

[misty vigil]

I'll try to kill stalkers, take their weapons, fix them and then sell them 😹

[verbal tartan]

Or grind artifact hunting

[misty vigil]

Actually a better idea. Thank you!

[devout hazel]

Playing cop and i did the compass mission for beard. When can i buy artifacts from him? I didnt do shady business

[dim condor]

Oh, I forgot the name of a mod I was interested in installing. It's a stalker mod, but it has a name called Gunsmith or something like that. If you could send me the link, I would be grateful.

And I'd also like to play a SOC game, but a better one.

Anything to say?

[verbal tartan]

Gunslinger

[verbal tartan]

Wdym by "a soc game, but a better one", give more details

[dim condor]

Link?

[dim condor]

I'm talking about a kind of SOC remake, for example, with improved visuals, better weapon animations, and custom hands for each armor. Let me send you an example image.

[verbal tartan]

Just google "gunslinger moddb", should come out first

[devout hazel]

Hey guys i am playing Stalker CoP. Where can i find the kolobok artifact?

I did get the one from oakpine anomaly. Dont know if it respawns tho

[verbal tartan]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Kolobok_(artifact)
Go to the CoP Adquisition part

[devout hazel]

Ok, but i did the compass mission but beard wont sell kolobok artifact

[verbal tartan]

No idea then

[devout hazel]

Wiki is talking about killing artifact hunters. Early game beard gives us to get a glowing streering wheel in a ship. I didnt give it to the guy who asks for it to help his brother then there was a ambush so i killed those guys. Were they the artifact hunters?

[verbal tartan]

Maybe? Idk

[candid fern]

Try either SoC 2.0 or Radiophobia 3.

[charred prism]

neither of which are "remakes" of soc

just different games

[verbal tartan]

Radiophobia does change some stuff to the story and adds some other iirc

And well, of course just has so many new stuff that arent exactly considered a remake, just an overhaul

I did recommended them Memories of the Zone and SoC Revisited. Again, not remakes, but they are nice overhauls

Tbf, there is no real remake, so at this point, just play whatever you like

[light shuttle]

SoC Update 1.4.8

Do not confuse the 1.4 with the 2.0, are mods completely different

Also, In the past, two teams tried to remake SoC in UE4 and UE5 but these project are more dead than LADCEGA

[woven lance]

They are not one of them. Beard artifacts hunters wears high-ranking SEVA.

I wouldn't recommend killing them still. They can prevent further beard side missions (which is extremely profitable side mission).

[woven lance]

Oh easy! Duty traders sells them frequently as well as lootable from high-ranking duty members.

[woven lance]

Complementing: "SOC Vanilla Ultimate".

[sick mauve]

Yo, i'm playing SoC again, can someone tell me where do i find the code for the gate on the picture i sent in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots please ?

[late condor]

It is not available anywhere in-game.

The only way you would find it out without looking it up is by playing S2 first where the same door has the same code

[late condor]

Gsc modding guidelines explicitly outlawed mods on other engines

[sick mauve]

Really ? 😂 ok thanks

[dusk sun]

Hey, been meaning to get back into the OG STALKER trilogy. I got through the first few missions in SoC but then got distracted by some other game drops. I noticed that the enhanced editions came out for all of the original 3 games, so i wanted to ask your all's brutally honest opinion on the "enhanced" editions and if they are worth restarting my save for

[verbal tartan]

They are not worth it, just keep using the originals

At the very most, CoP enhnced edition is worth it because of the grass, but if you want a bit of a "remaster", just use the IX-Ray engine. It's only for CoP now but still

[dusk sun]

i should say i already have the Enhanced editions, as they were just added to my account i guess for already owning the original games.

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, you get them if you already got the original

And if you buy the enhanced editions, you get the originals, and vicevers

[dusk sun]

but ya feel its best to still just play the original versions?

[graceful horizon]

Yes

[verbal tartan]

Yep, its not worth to go to enhanced

[dusk sun]

okee, fair enough

what are the issues with enhanced?

[verbal tartan]

The "enhanced" textures are just AI upscaled, and kind of destroyed the artstyle a bit.
It fixes some bugs, but includes some others. Even just technical aspects that fail, like cinematics having sound for 2 seconds and then muting (not a universal issue, but happens)

And removes some of the soviet imaginery, which adds a ton to the lore of the place (the disasters happened because of goverment stupidity, as a tl;dr of course)

And it runs much worse for some

[dusk sun]

ahhhh yeah nah the AI stuff itself is enough to turn me off, eugh i hate upscaling so much just makes everything all blobby

Need to get on dat Studio Ghibili Style hand upscaling

[verbal tartan]

There is a way to not make it look blobby, and its really good (you have to use dlss or smth, it really looks nice)

But even then, the original is there and keeps the textures as they should

[dusk sun]

yeee

also the removal of soviet stuff, while i understand all the feelings there and stuff, i just feel removes from the feel of the game i can agree there. I mean that's just history man, ain't no reason to ignore it

but anyways yeee thanks for the recommendations, thankfully these games aren't too old and the original editions don't need much to get them stable

its not like im playing Deus Ex

[verbal tartan]

Deus ex is still pretty good I'd argue, I've been playing it recently

You just need that Kentie launcher to make it not explode at higher than 60 fps

[dusk sun]

yee

[grizzled rock]

braindeadrat has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[misty vigil]

Brother..

I was trying to say that the song with the piano and guitar when you get in combat is freaking sick.

[devout hazel]

Ive officially have completed the entire trilogy

[true path]

hey, in stalker soc can I somehow set my sensitivity below 0.05?

[fickle root]

Hi people.

[late condor]

Console commands yes

[true path]

no, it doesnt allow decreasing under that

tried that already

[late condor]

In this case no.

[true path]

I tried looking for a config file or something but couldnt find one

[verbal tartan]

Just lower your mouse through the mouse's program/windows settings. Best you can try

[misty vigil]

Hell yeah, can't wait to do that myself.

Guys, so I've been playing this entire time on the normal version of C.O.P., and I want to try the enhanced version, does my save still work if I put it in the right place?

[verbal tartan]

Nope

[misty vigil]

Damn it, I'll have to replay the game 😹

Is it built on another engine?

[verbal tartan]

Its a modification of xray Im pretty sure, but saves arent compatible afaik, it did a lot of changes

[misty vigil]

Ah, got it. Thank you!

[misty vigil]

Just finished C.O.P. 💪

One of the best games I've played.

[verbal tartan]

Have you played SoC and CS?

[misty vigil]

Nope, but looking forward to buying them when they are on sale.

What do you I should start with first?

I know I should have started with S.O.C..

[verbal tartan]

SoC

[misty vigil]

The trilogy story goes like this, right?
1 - Shadow Of Chernobyl
2 - Clear SKy
3 - Call Of Pripyat

[verbal tartan]

Yep

I mean, no, clear sky goes first, but you shouldn't play cs before soc

[misty vigil]

Oops, I started with the last 😹

I'll play all of them at some point, so I think it's gonna be fine.

[graceful horizon]

SoC > CS > CoP is release order
CS > SoC > CoP is chronological order
Release order is best

[late condor]

CoP > Mobile > HoC > CS > SoC for absolute madmen

[verbal tartan]

Wait what

[frosty radish]

I couldn't find the mobile game anywhere

just a video detailing it, but I have an iphone so I wouldn't be able to run it anyways

[verbal tartan]

https://alex1197.itch.io/pito

this is a remake of the mobile version made for pcs

[frosty radish]

this is windows only :( but I can probably get it working, thanks bro

[fast karma]

[wooden ember]

Hello everyone! What's the best pistol in SOC?

[verbal tartan]

Big Ben, Kora or UPD Combat

Although, being honest, doesnt matter much, you'll use shotguns and rifles much more

Maybe except for the first hour or so, but you can't get any of those 3 pistols at the start

[wooden ember]

Thank you!

[granite jungle]

As much as I like pistols they almost aren't worth using in soc

[wooden ember]

Hello everyone! What's the best Shotgun in SoC?

[verbal tartan]

SPSA14

[wooden ember]

Thanks, I have pump action currently

[graceful horizon]

Threaded SPSA-14*

[late condor]

@summer elbow

[wooden ember]

Is there a way to reduce radiation without using item, can I wait or is it permanent?

(SOC)

[graceful horizon]

Artifacts like thorn, crystal thorn, urchin, droplet, fireball and crystal actively reduce your radiation when equiped. Radiation also slowly goes down with time.

[pliant cobalt]

I assume SOC is Stalker 2? If so I recommend Kora-1911 and Rhino. Perfect for lose combat and accurate at mid range. Versatile for both mutants and human enemies.

[verbal tartan]

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Released in 2007

[late condor]

What in the world made you come with this assumption in Trilogy channel???

[oak fractal]

is night vision on CS-3A worth it? (clear sky enchanced)

[verbal tartan]

I'd do it as the last thing you can upgrade. Its useful in cs considering you can't sleep, but its not super essential

[oak fractal]

well there is 2 option

radiochemical protection 30%+ or night vision

[pliant cobalt]

Thank you for clearing that up.

[verbal tartan]

You probably have that in another slot, no?

[oak fractal]

no sadly

[verbal tartan]

Well, ngl, its not that important, at least to me. Maybe make a save before upgrading it and check how good it is

I remember night vision being kinda meh, except for the purple filter

[oak fractal]

in clear sky enchanced they didn't add that sadly

[verbal tartan]

Wdym? Im pretty sure the second generation night vision is the purple one

I dont think enhanced removed it

[oak fractal]

it has only first gen one

[verbal tartan]

Maybe its that suit that doesnt allow second one. Ig not bother with it then

[glossy fractal]

cant really find any chat for something like anomaly and gamma, but...
what do you guys think about anomaly and gamma on steam? if we putting it on GOG, and I haven't heard it EVER, plus downloading something like GAMMA would be 100 times easier with steam
anomaly is already easy to install, like just find the link to download, extract and you got stalker anomaly, but with gamma you have to, as someone who downloads it for the first time, suffer, as doing one thing wrong in a what feels like a 50 step process only gets you a free space taker

[verbal tartan]

You can go to the anomaly or gamma discords to talk about anomaly or gamma. At most, #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

But, I mean, I would prefer that they added quality story mods first at least (the well known ones), instead of a modpack of a mod of a mod of a mod of 2 mods.

Those mods came first and are what made stalker modding insteresting and acknowledged

[wooden ember]

Are enhanced editions better than the original ones

[glossy fractal]

somewhat, yeah better graphics as what it says, I couldn't spot the difference after turning off AI upscaling... and the cons is AI upscaling

[wooden ember]

Idk if it will run well though, I'm using intel Celeron n5095

[glossy fractal]

dont know about that too, check the requirements on steam, personaly I woud get whats cheaper

[wooden ember]

K, I will try the Enhanced edition once I get a dedicated pc

[glossy fractal]

I mean I haven't checked the requirements, but one thing I can say, easier moding, with the steam workshop its 100 times easier, plus the games were made 2007-2009, and even if its enhanced, its the same old engine, with some updates, I feel like it shood run, you can refund it if you use steam

[wooden ember]

K, thank you

[light shuttle]

NO

[wooden ember]

Oh yeah expected. Only Original games will run on it

[light shuttle]

Yes

[verbal tartan]

They are not, and not only for performance

[wooden ember]

K

[verbal tartan]

This message and the one below answer that

[late condor]

No they are significantly worse

[wind bluff]

Any idea why my entire pc becomes unresponsive in COP? I have played gunslinger and return to the zone, it sometimes happen and I have to hold my power button to turn off the pc. And the logs are just empty with nothing in them after crashing. I'm not playing gamma but this was the only server I could send this message to

[verbal tartan]

I can't say why, but, instead of powering you pc off, open your task manager now, go to settings and select "always on top". Now, every time you crash, task manager will appear above, no matter what

[wooden ember]

Got it

[sturdy gate]

hey i want to play the original stalker games (shadow of chernoble mostly) but i want to play with my brother, are there any multiplayer mods that support this

[verbal tartan]

There is, but I would recommend if you play the original games alone and vanilla first. The multiplayer mod has a lot of balance, graphics and other changes that differ from the original vision, and it makes the game/atmosphere much less scary if you play with someone (which is one of the things praised in SoC, the suffocating atmosphere)

The mod is called Shadow of Coop btw, based on xrmpe iirc

[sturdy gate]

awsome thanks. i played the orignal already i just wanted to experience it with my brother on the other side of the country lol

[sturdy gate]

where would i download this mod btw?

[verbal tartan]

https://www.xrmpe.online/es-ES
Check their discord, might have better info

[sturdy gate]

thanks man

[verbal tartan]

Otherwise, just go to youtube, write shadow of coop and you'll have a link, although might be more outdated than the discord

[sturdy gate]

awesome man appreciate it

[indigo ore]

Ayo, anyone knows where this comes from:

"There's no way you'd find it on a yellow barrel."

Its a stash description. What up with that yellow barrel, whats the meaning?

[late condor]

The stash is on a barrel. Said barrel is yellow.

[indigo ore]

Hmm

[wind bluff]

Thanks! I'll try if this works!

But I have to say that not even Ctrl+Alt+Del works when it crashes... It's just glitching sounds and the last image or it becomes a blackscreen

[verbal tartan]

Uh, maybe, use windowed instead of fullscreen? Idk honestly, its so weird

[wind bluff]

yah k ill try that

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications message this is also similar

[wooden ember]

Are pistols in cop basically useless

[verbal tartan]

Unless you want/need a lightweight weapon with light ammo, yeah

[frosty radish]

in every game really

[graceful horizon]

in SoC I like Big Ben for headshotting unsuspecting zombies. In CS I like the Walker P9m as a fall-back weapon as an alternative to reloading because of its 20 round mag, especially against low-tier mutants. In CoP I like March as a low weight silenced full auto option.

Do any of them do anything you couldn't really do with a main weapon? not really, but I'll use them anyway as personal preference

[wooden ember]

Why are the pistol anims in CoP and CS much worse than in SoC? in SoC you rack the gun (equip anim) but in the others only the sound is played, and etc

[verbal tartan]

Rushed development, most probably

[wooden ember]

Oh yeah that could be it, but why couldn't they reuse anim?

[verbal tartan]

We can't read minds

[wooden ember]

I saw a video where it's a comparison of the SVD from CoP to HoC, but in the start of the CoP clip he kind of "smacks" the gun on right side, how does he do that

[verbal tartan]

Could you send the video?

[wooden ember]

I found out what it is it's just the fidget animation you get for standing still for a few seconds damn I'm dumb haha

[strange thicket]

Hello all! I hope this is the correct channel to ask in (slightly overwhelming being new to the discord). I have a vague understanding of the Trilogy and HoC, with time being spent/actually playing in CoP and HoC. I do not know, however, anything about modding and the standalones etc.. for the trilogy, and really want to experience them. My question is, if I want to explore the trilogy for the first time (excluding CoP, but even this one was never finished), should I start with SoC? follow up question, what mods/modpacks are recommended for SoC if so, for QOL and modernizing the title. I have little interest in the super hardcore milsim-lite mechanics I've seen in some modding like GAMMA (I think thats the one).

[verbal tartan]

You start with SoC and then go to CS. Then you can replay CoP if you want, but you've already played it, so...
But you don't need any QoL mods tbh, the games are decently stable. Not perfect but they are good.
Just don't play the enhanced editions

[strange thicket]

is the ZRP reccomended?

[verbal tartan]

Not really. You can use it? Yes, but it changes quite a few stuff based on what the author liked

[strange thicket]

Also, why no enhanced? just curious

[verbal tartan]

They suck and are worse than the original. They may run worse or have even more bugs. As well as taking away some imaginery

[strange thicket]

Oh performance wise? Ok thanks. What was the intention of the enhanced editions?

[verbal tartan]

AI upscaling them and bug fixing (which did fix somw stuff, but added quite a few others)

You may play them and have no issues, same with the original

[strange thicket]

I'm looking forward to playing SoC. My most recent experience ofc is HoC, but it's not gona affect anything or make me expect x y z out of SoC. Going in with a blank slate mind

[verbal tartan]

But I prefer the original look, the artstyle is great

SoC it's my favourite so I hope you like it

[strange thicket]

It's not too milsim-y? if that makes sense

I just don't care to be an inventory junkie, but i DO love loot

[verbal tartan]

The original SoC? Not at all. The most milsim you may have is the attachable granade launchers.
The game does have an inventory system, but its manageable. You have to stash stuff in boxes so you don't go overweight. And even if you do, mid game you may find stamina artifacts

If you look for them, you may have infinite stamina even

Its even less "milsim" than HoC

Just remember this: when shooting, crouch and dont move, just get cover and lean to shoot. And use single fire mode for even better precision

[strange thicket]

Ok sweet, that's great news. Follow up question to that > I heard vaguely something about playing on GOG instead of steam cuz there's some benefit/discount or maybe something to do with installing? Maybe modding?

[verbal tartan]

It does have some "realistic" stuff, like bullet trajectory and usefullness based on meters, but thats about it I think

[verbal tartan]

I have no idea about tbe benefits and cons of gog. Just buy it from where its cheaper

[strange thicket]

It might have had to do with modpacks in hindsight, maybe something to do with installations being automated

[verbal tartan]

And btw, if you buy the enhanced editions, you get the originals. But gog sell the originals (steam too, but its delisted)

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, I don't really think you'll have problems with it tbh. I do know all mods work with the steam version, but rn you dont need mods imo

[strange thicket]

Oh wait i looked it up. Anomaly and G.A.M.M.A. are 'one click mods' on GOG

[verbal tartan]

Oh yeah, but you can also download them elsewhere, it isnt that hard tbh

Not like you need them now either way and you dont seem to love them

[strange thicket]

For sure yeh, I'm pretty experienced with modding, both making and using

I appreciate your help my friend. Here's to hopefuly some fun times ahead! How long does SoC take to beat?

[verbal tartan]

Around 12 to 16 hours, depends how slowly you play and what actions you do

Just one big advice: after going to certain lab, check your pda for a quest in cordon. Its important ans you may miss it

Or just remember to read the PDA from time to time, thats the best I can say (for advice to enciclopedia stuff)

[strange thicket]

Thanks! I'm avoiding any guides. I used the hell out of guides for HoC and tbh, as much as they helped, it made the game feel more like a checklist rather than an experience

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, its better to go blind in here

[strange thicket]

Sweet. Will check back if anything comes up I need help with, or if I just want to talk about the game. I assume this discord channel is fine for that?

[verbal tartan]

Yes, it is

Enjoy your journey

[strange thicket]

Wait how do I get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl the not enhanced haha

I only see enhanced on steam

[verbal tartan]

If you buy the enhanced version, you get the original too

[strange thicket]

Ohhhh ok. Well that's kinda sus to force that

[verbal tartan]

It is, yeah. But well, at least you get both

Some companies may just sell one.
They actually still sell the originals on steam, but they are delisted (you have to google them) and never on sale. Unlike the enhanced edition

[strange thicket]

Oh interesting. I know Fitgirl has it

How is it possible some modpacks/mods are standalone and don't even require a game?

[verbal tartan]

They include the game itself, thats why

[strange thicket]

also, man it sucks the enhanced is buggy cuz wow it definitely looks great

[verbal tartan]

It looks kinda meh imo. Only CoP enhanced looks decently well, but the original games were made based on irl photography, while the enhanced just passed it through an AI to upscale it, so it looks pretty mid in a lot of cases, even the UI

[strange thicket]

Ahh. Classic. And yes I was actually looking at CoP pics it turns out, on steam.

Welp I'm no stranger to slightly dated graphic fidelity haha

[verbal tartan]

If you want CoP but prettier, #🔩┃trilogy_modifications message

[strange thicket]

Isn't that for CoP? Or SoC?

[verbal tartan]

Only CoP for now

I dont know how much it changes the textures, but it has a ton of graphical features for sure. And seems to be one of the most prettiest and less performance heavy engine that tries to respect the original, as well as having an open door to modding

[strange thicket]

Hmm I'm really debating playing one of the full, free standalone mods instead of paying 15 for the enhanced version...even tho its a different experience entirely

[verbal tartan]

For soc and cs, play the original games imo.
For cop, well, you already have it, you can put ixray on top of it

[strange thicket]

You're probably right...but 15 bucksssss lol. I was hoping it'd be like a couple bucks with how old it is plus sales rn

[late condor]

It’s against the rules to discuss pirating in this server. You get the games when you buy the EEs

[late condor]

The original game was on sale for couple backs, then they brought EE and raised prices. Ik it sucks :(

[strange thicket]

Ah my b. It was a joke. thanks though, yeh it kinda sucks but ill just wait

I also don't see anything regarding mentioning pirating in the rules

I did read them when I joined

[graceful horizon]

Props on reading the rules, most people don't bother. While discussing piracy is indeed prohibited, I have to agree that it could be more clearly mentioned. I'll see about getting it stated more clearly.

[strange thicket]

Ah cool, no worries. I try to at least not be a mouth breather when entering new servers but yeh I guess i should have extrapolated the rule of only discussing the trilogy to discuss nothing outside of that including pirating lol

even though i was kidding*

[graceful horizon]

I think it falls under rule 11

[strange thicket]

Being nice and positive?

Oh 11 lol

[graceful horizon]

11, i typo'd

[strange thicket]

OHHH ya you know what, that checks out. It didn't click for me for some reason

Is there a region where it's legal?

surely not right

it could probably be covered by " dubious resources" as well in hindsight

[graceful horizon]

Also against discord TOS apparently

[strange thicket]

Yeh I guess that makes complete sense lol

Though...If Discord magically was able to enforce their TOS all at once, almost noone would be left on the platform lol

[somber zinc]

is there anywhere to report bugs with the PC/steam enhanced edition?

[lime halo]

Does anybody know how to get to the third section of the Hospital in CS cause I'm stuck in the second section after the first section with the machine gun nest and the sniper

[verbal tartan]

https://support.stalker-game.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
I think its this one

[verbal tartan]

It'd probably be better if you look up a walkthrough of CS for that. Its better if you see a video of it

[lime halo]

When I was doing the mission for Yoga to get the stash surrounded by electric anomalies, I decided to get the artifact from it, which was a Moonlight, but I got lucky because the game spawned two Moonlights instead of one

[verbal tartan]

CS is a fantastic mystery

[lime halo]

I still question how when I fight the Trench Coat Bandits that have no body armor, it takes one and a half mags from a Viper 5 to kill one of them

[verbal tartan]

Are you completely sure you are headshotting them?

It should take like, 4 shots at most I think

[lime halo]

I'm talking about body shots

[verbal tartan]

Oh yeah, enemies are quite resistant hehe

In the whole trilogy and wven S2 I think? Its a bit offputting, but if you land headshots, the job is easy

[lime halo]

And my Viper 5 has the 9x18 ammo conversion upgrade because I found my Viper 5 in a stash in the Swamps and so I used my credits to buy the upgrade since the 9x18 upgrade is one of the cheapest and because knowing how much the economy in the OG Stalker Games suck, I didn't want to have to worry about buying ammo all the time

I did it also because I had way too much 9x18 ammo

[haughty marten]

It’s the Groza OC-14?

[oak fractal]

does anyone have problem with NPC spawns in Clear Sky Enchanced Edition?

[graceful horizon]

In what way?

[oak fractal]

Important characters not spawning

fast travelers too + not able to talk with mercenaries after getting task "talk to the mercenaries"

[graceful horizon]

Is there an emission happening?

[oak fractal]

I used to fix this problem by reloading save before going in dark valley from agrophgrom to upgrade SVDM

[graceful horizon]

Odd

[oak fractal]

when I loaded older save there was emission and important characters disappeared but after emission end they came back

[oak fractal]

• alongside with this you encounter almost all stalkers sitting in one line

[oak fractal]

@graceful horizon I made another save at red forest rn in moment where stalkers aren't bugged yet

[frosty radish]

I nearly broke my run doing that. I was asked to flank round to kill the sniper but I just lined up a shot of my own, but the game wouldn’t allow it and wouldn’t progress the mission

[oak fractal]

@graceful horizon it didn't broke now but still its weird that this thing still happens even in enchanced edition

[frosty radish]

Common enhanced edition moment

[graceful horizon]

I suspect it's more of an enhanced edition issue

But I've only played the original release

[rotund badge]

I have completed CS few days ago, had this bug all the time. There is no need to wait for emission to end, just save&load and NPC will reappear, however the technician from the flea market dissapeared in my run indefinetely.

[oak fractal]

I somehow managed to escape it

by going to mercs first instead of Dark Valley and etc

[fossil drum]

Hello everyone. I am playing through the stalker series and I'm about to play CoP I wanted to ask what mods should I get to make the game look as good as possible. Keep gameplay the same but make it look and sound better

[verbal tartan]

https://github.com/ixray-team/ixray-1.6-stcop
Scroll down to "Ready-made builds" and select the CoP "engine+assets" file. Install it on top of CoP.
Its the most beautiful upgrade to graphics (and I think sounds) without going very far away from the original look

There is also Pripyat Renewal (it's on moddb), but that one makes it look much much different than the original

[fossil drum]

Awesome thanks sooo much!

[haughty marten]

I saw the stalker wish granted ending and it made me feel depressed

[verbal tartan]

did you go back to cordon to ||talk to guide||?

It's on the PDA as a mission

[misty vigil]

I just bought both S.O.C. and C.S. and I'm wondering if it's worth playing the enhanced versions. I have played both the enhanced and normal versions of C.O.P.

Just want to know if those other two are different.

[verbal tartan]

CoP is actually the best enhanced version (and it still has meh things), both SoC and CS enhanced suck imo

go with originals tbh

[haughty marten]

Yes I managed to get true ending and everything bur I saw the gold coin ones and it just looks very sad

[verbal tartan]

oh, yeah, it is

[haughty marten]

By the way what was the whole point him and his crew were there in the zone anyway?

[verbal tartan]

||might get it wrong, but it was to uncover the real reason on why the zone exists. Or mostly, to get more answers. Doc already tells you it's all a lie and that you should get the decoder and all that. They were experienced stalkers that got more information the more they dug in||

||Im guessing they were simple loners at first and then this happened after they got experience||

[grizzled rock]

15millionholes has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[haughty marten]

Err

||I think it’s sad that they didn’t just stay home or something. And after that when strelok messed with the c control or whatever, who knows what doom he unleashed upon the zone||

[late condor]

For SoC and CS absolutely go with the originals

[wooden ember]

This might be off topic but does anyone know what the "Chedop" sound is called that plays when you reload (in the start where you release empty magazine)

[misty vigil]

Can someone help me with a task in S.O.C.?

[verbal tartan]

Which

[misty vigil]

Damn it, I can't send images.

[verbal tartan]

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[misty vigil]

Okay!

[cobalt panther]

does anyone know how tto fix custom zone error

[wooden ember]

What's the best assault rifle in soc

[late condor]

ft-200m

[misty vigil]

I'm on my way to the sarcophagus place, but it's so damn hard to get past the military outside.

I've googled and it says that it's an ending, I'll lose my mind if I continue trying.

I'll just consider that I've finihsed the game.

[late condor]

Well you’re like 2 hours gameplay away from the ending

You can load a save in Prypiat to return and stock up on supplies before going further

Ensure you have your suit and weapon in good condition

[misty vigil]

I should've saved, damn it,

I guess I'll just play on the enhanced version so I can load in a mod menu if there is any.

[late condor]

EE

[misty vigil]

Yeah, I know. 😹

I hate when video games get too challenging. I like my video games fun 😹

HOLY SH*T, the knife is so over-powered.

Okay, I think I can do this..

[late condor]

It’s only challenging if you are severely underprepared

[misty vigil]

True.

[late condor]

You should be able to find a new gun and suit if you are attentive though

[misty vigil]

I forgot that I had a knife. 😹

[eternal spindle]

Im stuck in a hole with the military spawn camping me

[verbal tartan]

Which hole, which game, what is your arsenal

[eternal spindle]

Im not feeling my feet

[misty vigil]

How long does the scientific suit take to heal?

It is actually pretty quick, but is there a stat or data sheet that shows how long it takes?

[late condor]

Suits do not affect your healing

There is one unique suit that does but it’s a one of a kind and it doesn’t work in unmodded game

You are healing on your own even without a suit

[misty vigil]

Oh, really? I don't think that I've noticed that healing was a normal feature.

The Ghost suit or whatever it was called that said something along the lines that "...doesn't need first aid kits".

[late condor]

Yes it’s meant to restore health but that feature is bugged in unmodded original and just does nothing.

Though people have successfully swore by a placebo suit for years XD

But yeah it’s not doing anything

In EE it does if you ever end up replaying it with the inferior edition

[misty vigil]

Ohhh, okay. That makes sense.

I might replay it on the enhanced edition some time in the future, thank you!

[rich yarrow]

Is there any sort of documentation that explains what's the difference between the originals and EE versions? Like, what's broken in the originals but was fixed in EE and vice versa - what worked in the originals and was broken in EE... My father wants to replay the games and I don't know which version to install for him, lol

[late condor]

It’s really hard to do that since we don’t have the engine, so a lot of stuff you have to compare pretty much by playing the games. We still keep finding new issues months later.

If you go purely numbers wise there is probably more stuff fixed than broken, but that’s disregarding other issues EE has like the AI upscales, new HUD issues, altered textures and removed geometry, you name it.

I could name maybe about 35-40 things that were working in the original but broken in EE, and 150-200 that were broken in originals but working in EE. But again, it’s not a thing you can compare by just looking at numbers. The fact that a certain quest now can’t be finished is far more of an issue than eg OG having someone have the wrong starting dialogue line

I have a list of the community changes for 1.3 (fixes), which I think might partially answer your question. But it does not take into account all the fixes Mataboo and GSC brought.

[rich yarrow]

certain quest
Which one?

[late condor]

Bring back stalkers trust, the optional quest you get in CS when you attack loners

I send a hotfix in Nov 2025 for them to fix it. It has not been applied yet.

[rich yarrow]

Let's say... Is a certain quest from ShoC on Armed Warhouse still broken if too many duty members die when you first enter the area? You know, one of the first freedom quests, I don't really remember all the details of it... Had something to do with a number of duty members that had to be killed when you start a quest and it was always a bigger number than the amount of duty members left so you couldn't finish it anymore, lol

[rich yarrow]

Interesting, didn't even know a quest like this exists in CS...

[late condor]

Nope, thats one of the things GSC actually fixed on their own for 1.3... or maybe it was FragLab...

either way it was included in 1.3 and was not in a bunch of community-provided fixes

[rich yarrow]

Sounds cool, actually. I wonder, what are the most critical bugs in the originals and in EE? In your opinion

Let's ignore all the censorship and upscaling issues

[late condor]

There is still a bunch of save corruptions present in both.

as in, they are not fixed by either (but are probably fixed by reclamation projects)

The bugs unique to EE are not critical I'd say. There are some new crashes when inventory managing in SoC but they can be mitigated by disabling quick slots. There are some gameplay bugs like every camp box always being filled to brim in SoC. A lot of issues with timers in CoP cutscenes, like due to race conditions some stuff happens too early/late or does not happen at all, but this is mostly just distracting.

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

I made this for 1.2 which might be helpful

[rich yarrow]

That's what I needed, really, thank you for making this

[late condor]

I can tick off a few boxes for what has been fixed since then though

[rich yarrow]

I'll just compare it to 1.3 changelog. If you'll do it - do it to update the post, not for me, hah... Ah, wait

You've done it before I've finished writing this, lol

[late condor]

I will do a full update to the post to this post once EE releases a new update. Last one was in september so I feel like it would be beating a dead horse.

[rich yarrow]

Yeah, makes sense. Thank you for your work, you really helped me with that one

[late condor]

Glad to help.

[rich yarrow]

One more thing. Would you say these issues are fixable with mods from workshop? @late condor

[late condor]

For SoC yes (90% anyway)

There will be some minor stuff left... but its really not that big of a deal tbh

[rough yarrow]

hey everyone

anyone has the STALKER XRMPE Discordd count?

[verbal tartan]

You mean how many people are in there? It's about 48.000

[lethal hearth]

Hey guys what game should I buy first?

[graceful horizon]

of the trilogy? Shadow of Chornobyl

[lethal hearth]

I heard call of prypiat is also pretty good , if I had to pick one , which one should I pick?

[graceful horizon]

they're all at least pretty good. you start with Shadow of Chornobyl

[lethal hearth]

Yes sir

[limber kestrel]

Hello I’m new to the series any tips I’m going in blind into clear sky

[verbal tartan]

My first advice would be to go over SoC instead of CS first

My second advice is that, if you insist on CS, whenever you take a place as yours in the swamp, go back for the reward, its free to take a guide

And upgrade your equipment with the technician

But do go to soc first, it was intended as such, unless you dont care much about it

[limber kestrel]

I see I’m trying to go by story I’m trying to play the story in order

[verbal tartan]

It kinda goes in order too becuse you need a bit of understanding of soc story to fully understand cs

[limber kestrel]

And someone said clear sky is first story wise

[verbal tartan]

And even more in gameplay, you'll feel like something is missing in soc when you go there if you start with cs, theres a lot of new mechanics and stuff that was polished

[lethal hearth]

Lore wise yes but I feel it's the same as the assasin creed games , you need to play it in the release order to fully get the experience

[limber kestrel]

I see

I see is there any other female players of the series or any other female characters in the games or did I get false information

[verbal tartan]

And another tip, play on stalker difficulty, never ever on veteran or master unless you want more suffering, a 2nd playthrough or you are experienced at fps

[verbal tartan]

No female characters until Stalker 2

[limber kestrel]

I see

[limber kestrel]

Can you play as a female in stalker 2 or pick a gender

[verbal tartan]

You can't pick, its the story of Skif

[limber kestrel]

Is that a dlc or main story

[ebon forge]

Everyone has to be skif

[verbal tartan]

Main story and dlcs most probably (not out yet)

Its not an rpg, more like an arcade-y shooter with rpg elements and some horror, and a set story

[limber kestrel]

I see

Wonder if the next stalker game will have gender picking

[verbal tartan]

Doubt there will be another game, but I also doubt about that too

All 4 games have predefined characters with predefined stories

Unless they pull a big move and make it an rpg like, idk, skyrim, they will continue on the predefined character and story stuff

[ebon forge]

There will be mods for that stuff eventually. You on pc?

[limber kestrel]

I’m on ps5

[ebon forge]

Rip 🪦

[limber kestrel]

I’m confused we are playing as the one we are hunting to kill

Does bro have memory loss to forget his own name

[verbal tartan]

||actually, yes but more details ahead.||
Another tip, and remember this: when you finish lab x16, look at your pda and go finish a task related to Guide. Very important

[limber kestrel]

I see thank you

And question can i customize th guns I use so less recoil

[verbal tartan]

those upgrades are present from Clear Sky and forward

In SoC, you either adapt or get a better gun

[limber kestrel]

I see is there a site where I can buy stalker merch

Or is the game series not that popular

[verbal tartan]

I think not officially, but Im sure you can find someone selling somthing on amazon or other digital marketplaces

[limber kestrel]

Ah

I’d like a sunrise outfit

[misty vigil]

@limber kestrel You like Mal0?

[limber kestrel]

I’m still new to scp

[misty vigil]

Me too, honestly. But I respect you.

[limber kestrel]

Ik there are things the main thing I like mal0 was the entity’s design the skull face and the design over all is very good looking

But I’m people are weird and like to make weird shit out of that sort of thing

[misty vigil]

Very true.

[misty vigil]

Absolutely, it's gross. I really like how people have imagined it to look like, not the p*rn stuff.. the actual anatomy, right?

[limber kestrel]

Like not everything has to be lewd

[misty vigil]

Some peoples' brains are fried, man.

[limber kestrel]

Like fr

Hm

[surreal jackal]

@primal garnet can I ask why I got warned?

[primal garnet]

#💬┃en_offtop

[silver grove]

Lame 😂

[soft seal]

Hey, so, probably a stupid question, in CS, is there some way for me to do something in the faction wars on a scale larger than individual battles? Mainly wondering about starting attacks on specific locations, because otherwise the faction I'm in (Loners in this case) ends up being in an endless loop of "we should attack the enemy base" [the capture quest appears] -> "nevermind the enemy attacked us now we have to retreat" [the capture quest is cancelled] -> "we reclaimed our point" -> "we should attack the enemy base" [the capture quest appears]
It was especially frustrating when I decided to attack the bandits base myself while the quest was there, wiped out all the bandits, the quest moved on to the second phase where you have to wait for a friendly squad to arrive to the location, but then for half an hour (real time) no one arrived and then the quest got cancelled because another point held by loners got captured by bandits

[verbal tartan]

Nope, cant do much else

[soft seal]

Oh

[verbal tartan]

The faction war system is not thag amazing and has issues

[soft seal]

So basically just wait until I get really lucky or just ignore the faction war?

[verbal tartan]

Just follow the rules. If you cant because stupid ai, then stupid ai it is

[verbal tartan]

Or even hwlp them out to get there. Check the map on where they are and see what theh are doing. Dont rush and go with a group

But you can entirely ignore the faction war and you'll be ok

[soft seal]

Thing is, I can't help them, they almost never even start going anywhere in the first place, and if they do, then at the same time another point gets attacked by the opposing faction so the allied faction goes back to square one

[soft seal]

But if that's the case, then alright, makes sense, thank you

[old ocean]

i was SO CLOSE to killing Barkeep in the console version of SoC. I glitched my bolts into the Bar, threw an APC at Garik, killing him, Baldy ran away, I threw an APC at Barkeep, but he dodged it and shot me to death.

and now I can’t recreate the glitch that let me get my bolts in, so I’ll never be that close again.

Does anyone know how to glitch things into the Bar? I think I could do it if I tried again.

[graceful horizon]

This video has a few things you can try if you want to get loners to occupy the bandit base in CS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFwme_K7hC0

[soft seal]

Oh, so it's not an uncommon issue
I'll try this, thank you

[graceful horizon]

Most people will say it's outright impossible

[soft seal]

Ok yeah I can't even start the quest in the first place now, I can't even get the loners to hold both entrances to Garbage at the same time, the moment one is captured the other is lost to bandits

So is this only an issue with this specific point, or is that common with faction wars overall?

[graceful horizon]

Freedom and duty faction wars are more straightforeward

Bandit faction war is worse

[soft seal]

Alright, now I got really really lucky for a loner squad to finally attack the depot through the west side of Garbage

So uh, yeah, the depot is finally captured now

Oh wow the rewards for that are huge

[late condor]

You need to enter it with an unloaded weapon and press shoot when the animation of you putting your weapon down starts playing

[old ocean]

I see

thank you. I’ve heard that the game crashes if you manage to kill Barkeep

[late condor]

It does

[old ocean]

I tried, and there strangely isn’t an animation. The weapon just disappears from my hands

[late condor]

It is almost a frame perfect thing, takes me about 15-20 minutes to nail

The easier alternative is entering with a charged grenade

[strange sable]

first time playing stalker soc and im stuck in the underground tunnel part
ive got an ak and a suppressed pistol guys how do i make it out

[late condor]

Any screenshots of where you are? What are your current quests?

[verbal tartan]

Remember that screenshots go in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[wooden ember]

Please, help! My stalker call of pripyat boots with a black screen and 3 white lines, that looks like a windows app window thing It doesnt go away!

[verbal tartan]

Could you show a screenshot of it (or a pic from your phone) in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[wooden ember]

does anyone know where is the poisonous gas thing in stalker call of pripyat, i saw this military truck where the pointer tells me but i just found an ak there

[verbal tartan]

check a playthrough of it, would be easier to find out where it is exactly

[warm panther]

anyone else getting a random crash in SoC-EE sometimes when unloading looted weapons in inventory? game runs flawless otherwise

[late condor]

disable quick slots

[warm panther]

fr?! lol, how odd

thx, will try it after work tonight!

[lime halo]

Does anybody know how to speak to Barkeep in SoC, cause when I walk up to him in the bar it doesn't give me a prompt to talk to him

[verbal tartan]

try to approach from different angles, happens sometimes. Or reload a save

[lime halo]

I've all of that and it still won't work

[oak fractal]

do you guys know what to do if Splinter is already dead in Quary before talking to him? (quary)

[verbal tartan]

It's in EE or OG? Do you have a quest to talk to him yet?

[lime halo]

EE

[verbal tartan]

Well, I hope it's not some specific EE bug, but idk what else it could be, sorry

[lime halo]

And I do have the quest to give him the military documents

[oak fractal]

@verbal tartan sorry to disturb but I think you might know cause by a chance

[late condor]

can you send a screenshot?

[late condor]

you can expose Flint without talking to Splinter by just doing all quests and listening to enough of his stories

[oak fractal]

I need that splinter due to damn Pinocchio achievement

[late condor]

oof ee player

reload a save

[lime halo]

If I wanted to talk to Barkeep, I'd need to essentially be standing directly next to him in order to talk to him

[verbal tartan]

There's 3 things no one can escape:

1. death
2. taxes
3. having an error while playing EE

[oak fractal]

I wonder why there's no achievements on Og Stalkers

[late condor]

reloading a save and standing in place should be enoguh

[late condor]

millenial games dont need gen z achievos

[lime halo]

Tried it and it didn't work

[verbal tartan]

old man, you don't understand, achievements existed before steam added them...

[oak fractal]

Steam achievements are claimed to be worthless mostly

[late condor]

I mean specifically the achievements introduced in LotZ/EE

[verbal tartan]

Ah yeah

[oak fractal]

@verbal tartan anyways is Senka's death canon or nah

sleepy dude that probably swallowed whole box of melatonin

[verbal tartan]

I have honestly no idea, CoP's lore is not my expertise

I played it only twice, years ago and never paid much attention to the lore except for some side quests that thought were cool

[oak fractal]

he was mentioned in S2 if I am not wrong

[verbal tartan]

Even less my expertise cause I haven't even opened that game yet

[frosty radish]

Considering his death is shown in CoP thats pretty canon

[late condor]

I mean, it’s only shown if you go specific way about a quest

[frosty radish]

still, GSC placed his corpse there, and Nitro mentioned it was him that delivered the package so thats definitely him. It may be tucked away but its still there

[late condor]

Again, you can complete the quest a different way and Senka will live till the end of the game.

[frosty radish]

I didn't know that

[late condor]

It's not canon if it's based on player choice.

(and whether the quest will be completed is also a choice btw as we know many quests aren't)

[frosty radish]

I always just thought if you decrypt the UAV you find him dead

[late condor]

if you decrypt it with Nitro yes

if you give it to Novikov then no

[frosty radish]

I knew not that you could have someone else do it

its been a while since I played

[soft seal]

Hey so, another question for Clear Sky [spoilers for the quest you get from Freedom after you help them out at the factory]
I got to the part where you ||need to seek out Fang where you get robbed by bandits, but before it I also spent quite a while grinding out money and so got about 30k RU, and the quest doesn't return you your money unlike items, so now I'm very mad and salty, is there a way to cheat money in? I found a save editor on ModDB, but it seems that it only works for .ltx saves, but in my case the saves are .sav||

[verbal tartan]

I think best you can do is to go back to a save prior to it, ||spend it all in stuff you want|| and go there again

Otherwise, wait for another possible answer to this

[soft seal]

If it's known how exactly the savefile is structured (coupled with possible compression and stuff) I don't mind going through that

BSD file doesn't seem to recognise it, just says "DOS executable (block device driver \314)", so I assume there is no utility out there to easily edit it

[late condor]

there is no save format description available, cheat engine is your friend for that

[soft seal]

But when opening it as plaintext there are some actual words related to the game so I assume you can edit it

[late condor]

Though I’d just do what everyone else did and reload a save to spend your $$

[late condor]

I mean, yeah, it’s not encrypted. It’s just nobody actually researched the format because it’s different between games, editions, mods and even patches.

[soft seal]

Unfortunately I wanted to spend my money after joining Freedom

[soft seal]

Oh, well that's unfortunate

Actually I wonder if I can make one save near a shop, load it, immediately change the amount of money i have, and save to another file, then check the difference between the two files and find the money value among the other differences

Nevermind the money value isn't stored as plaintext

[late condor]

You can invest into vodka which sells for the same price

[soft seal]

Oh, that's actually really nice then, will try that, thank you

[graceful horizon]

Or buy stashes/upgrades

[late condor]

He wants to save his money, not just use it now

[lethal hearth]

I take back my words , call of prypiat is fun

Its just the swamp thats horrid

[lilac blaze]

Question can owl/Hawaiian sell any type of suit? Like thr seva?

[late condor]

There is full info about every item sold by every character at https://stalker-map.online

It’s pulled directly from the game files so it’s 100% accurate

[frosty radish]

Money is stupidly easy to make in all three games

I wouldn’t worry about it tbh

[wooden ember]

Clear sky is really hard, any tips?

[graceful horizon]

Run when they call out their grenade throws

[torpid rapids]

Stalker anomaly is pirating the trilogy. Report them to FBI cyber for fraud, theft and piracy

[verbal tartan]

Dont play in veteran or master if you are doing so.
Try to get money to upgrade your equipment, really helps.
You dont really need to engange in faction wara after swamps if you dont really want to.
Try to examine the place for stashes that you can break, they may get loot

Are you in the swamps first mission or somewhere else? What is exactly your difficulty?

[wooden ember]

On novice in the first mission

[verbal tartan]

Try to get conquest a place and then move right to your base, with a guide if you have one close (they should be free at first iirc) and upgrade your equipment. Then go back to the battlefield

Try to camp a lot behind obstacles too.
Let your teammates be a human shield.

[verbal tartan]

Btw, when you conquest a place, you should get reward money for it at the clear sky trader. Use that to buy more stuff and to upgrade what you have

And also, dont spam bandages, you can bleed for a bit, sometimes the bleeding is not that serious so you can wait before wasting an entire bandage and get shot right after it

[granite jungle]

The first few hours of CS are the hardest. You start out with very crummy, short range weapons. My top recommendation is to loot every stash you get coordinates for on the first map. You'll accumulate a lot of valuable resources that make the rest of the game easier

[livid wing]

Does the Enhanced Trilogy also include the Original Games? Because I heard the Enhanced Versions have many problems and also removed some stuff

[granite jungle]

Yes you get the originals for free with legends of the zone versions

[late condor]

You get both whichever one you buy

[sour grail]

call of pripyat is the worst in stalker franchise

[light shuttle]

true

[lilac blaze]

How many artifact containers does the cs3a start with?

Specifically in cop

[late condor]

One

[lilac blaze]

Dang

[lethal hearth]

You aren't wrong..the swamp area is genuinely one of the worst areas in gaming I've ever seen

[late condor]

Funny how I’ve heard that one sentence referring to three games by now

[lilac blaze]

Why isn't zaton liked?

[lethal hearth]

There's not really alot of buildings Honestly

That and I dont like the layout..

[lilac blaze]

Hm. I can see it somewhat. I like zaton cuz it feels like a runoff

Place where stuff kinda just drifts off into

[lethal hearth]

That and the swamp is somewhat..mid

[lilac blaze]

Like the skadovsk and shevchenko.

[lethal hearth]

Only reason I go there is to either make a order or sell artifacts

And even then I barely go out of my way to make orders

The entire area suffers from them putting a bunch of zones onto a baseplate

[lilac blaze]

But I can't really say that any of the games are bad. I just didn't enjoy clear sky alot cuz the faction system broke alot

But lymansk and clear sky's red forest are some of my favorite areas

[lethal hearth]

We really cant since they're ancient games

I was litteraly months old when prypiat came out so that's something

[lilac blaze]

I was 9 when it came out lol

[frosty radish]

You know gsc endorses it right? They released it under their page on gog

[graceful horizon]

Don't be silly, that doesn't fit his narrative of drama-maxing

[light shuttle]

Zaton is very gamey

the consistency between types of locations is small

The hills are criminally big, at the point of make worse the gameplay compared to if it didn't have these hills
The map itself it's too empty, has a lot of locations but aren't enough

[fast salmon]

this is why i play SOC

[wooden ember]

I noticed that the AK in cutscenes is correct (Bolt on correct side and the handguard isn't green) But ingame it has a green handguard and the bolt is on left side, why is this? (SOC)

[verbal tartan]

A different studio made the cutscenes

And of course, time limits, maybe not so great communication, not enough money and shit like that

[wooden ember]

Damn I didn't know that thanks

[light shuttle]

Plastic Wax is the company author of the CGI cinematics

[lilac blaze]

Just did the night hunt mission. Glad I brought an rpg lol

[real compass]

Yall did you see the new metro 2039

I'm hyped af

[graceful horizon]

We talk about trilogy here, sir

[blazing meadow]

Meh. Kinda, sorta, not really. Also, this is the OG trilogy chat, my guy.

[real compass]

Technically speaking some of the ppl also made thoes games 🤣

[blazing meadow]

Yes, but the Metro games are not part of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so it is probably best that is done in a off-topic chat if there is one here or elsewhere where Metro is being discussed.

[real compass]

Alright mate

[lost nest]

started playing shadow of chernobyl today, man, i will be so addicted to gaming again. Stalker is just pure prime of games

im playing on easiest setting for now but who knows, maybe i will be elite stalker sooner or later. Been into lore for long. Played a lot of dayz stalker rp so map and lore familiar to me

sometimes i get a bit lost during tasks but i end up finishing them at the end 🤣

[frosty radish]

Stalker SoC is just one of those games that really takes you in isn’t it?

[lost nest]

yes! i have played some clearsky before but SoC just took my soul with it, after i stopped playing today i already was thinking when i will have time next to play it again :D and im in the very beginning still in the story. Completed like story 3-4 tasks and side tasks from that chicken loving gentleman in rookie

[frosty radish]

This fever took me as well 😭 when I started playing SoC I couldn’t stop thinking about it the rest of the day, I very quickly got fourty hours with it in my first playthrough

[grizzled rock]

ffrieda has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lost nest]

:| i was trying to say i think for me the playthrough time will be longer bc i explore and just mess aeound a lot

[frosty radish]

Yeah, same here. I like to thoroughly explore an area before moving on. Very helpful in games like this and metro where things are hidden if you don’t look for them

[lost nest]

this is my first time attempting to play stalker game through. Im on easiest level. Next playthrough i try harder version. I think i have "novice" now 🤣

I've tried anomaly and gamma too but just like hour or two

[frosty radish]

I play all games like that on the hardest difficulty tbh, stalker and metro just feel right on the hardest mode, but honestly there isn’t a large difference in difficulty

I believe the only change is how much damage it takes to kill you, there’s been huge debate at it

[lost nest]

i want to get used to game better and when i know all tips n tricks and remember all keybonds from top of my head i sure will try harder setting. Right now getting used to the game mostly

[frosty radish]

I’ve never touched them. I might depending on how long it takes for metro 2039 to come out

[frosty radish]

Fair

[lost nest]

i keep pressing my dayz keybinds for stuff in stalker, played a lot of stalker themed dayz servers before 🤣

[frosty radish]

Old habits die hard I guess. Are you Nordic by chance? Your name is Germanic

[lost nest]

im from finland, frieda is just my gamertag in most games! 😎

[frosty radish]

Oh cool! Finland is close to there though (especially with how many Swedish people are in Finland). I know someone who moved to Finland recently with his wife

[lost nest]

finland is pretty good place to live kn. Good choise for them!

[frosty radish]

Yeah, he married a Finnish woman so moved out there, they seemed pretty happy together

[lost nest]

can you show me where i can choose faction tag/role in this server. I saw ur role experienced so thought u might know

[frosty radish]

There’s a channel called “faction-choice”, you can pick your faction there

[lost nest]

i cant see it, i try to find it

[frosty radish]

If you click channels and roles you can add or remove channels that you want to see, it should be there

[lost nest]

can you link that channel here?

oh ofc now i find it

:D too much text so many channels

[frosty radish]

I removed most of the channels myself, I don’t use them

[fast salmon]

so im getting into CS again after a long time i was wondering what mods i could use with AOR 3.2 mainly looking for a texture mod like absolute structures and absolute nature

[graceful horizon]

@late condor you aware of any way to kill a stalker without their squad noticing and turning hostile?

in clear sky

[late condor]

Stealth kills do work sometimes but I do not know what the conditions are they say whether the squad becomes hostile or not. Playing around with save and load usually helps for anything stealth related.

In SoC if you kill in stealth, get everyone angry, reload before the kill and kill in stealth again, it sometimes allows you to not draw aggro

[graceful horizon]

I'll try some more stuff then

I'm hoping nightfall will help

[frosty radish]

stealth and the original trilogy (cant attest to S2) is a hopeless want

[graceful horizon]

I can work with it in SoC, CS is a bit trickier

[fast salmon]

so basically a welrod is best for stealth

[feral oar]

Does anyone else have an issue in CoP where the FPS is low because the GPU is only running at around 30%? I know my PC can pump out much more but the GPU just doesnt go above 30% usage

[verbal tartan]

enhanced or original

[feral oar]

Original

[verbal tartan]

mmmmm, have you tried bumping the settings out to the maximum?

and have you tried manually setting the game to high performance in windows settings?

[feral oar]

Yeah my game is set on max the whole time

But if i remember this only started after i enabled antialiasing, although it doesnt go away when i disable it

[verbal tartan]

maybe try this

go to settings, system, screen, graphics, add the .exe and set it to high performance

may help, idk. also maybe check if its using the igpu (if you have any)

[feral oar]

Thanks for the tip
It got better after i set it to high performance but it is still running at 80 FPS and 50-60% GPU usage

[jaunty steppe]

I have never played stalker before, so i don’t know if i should buy the original games from GoG and mod them or the enhanced edition from steam.

[graceful horizon]

Enhanced edition is a worse experience than original release

[jaunty steppe]

okay then how do I play the anomaly mod?

do i have to manually move the exe from all three fames into a new folder?

do i need a special installer?

[charred prism]

Anomaly is standalone meaning its a download, extract and play mod

you download from their moddb

of course, we recommend you play the Stalker games before you play something that isn't stalker

but we can only recommend

[graceful horizon]

I mean, blackmail is not off the table tbh...

[verbal tartan]

Anomaly is meant for experienced stalker players

So it's almost a must to play the stalker franchise before it

[late condor]

CPU bound I assume? Do you hit 100% GPU usage when in main menu?

[late condor]

Neither, you play originals unmodded

[granite jungle]

This is correct. But also FWIW whichever storefront you get them on, you'll have both the originals and EEs

[rich yarrow]

What's your opinion on SRP for CS

[late condor]

I wouldn't recommend it but purely because I am a purist. I'd say it's considerably more authentic than EE, for example.

ZRP has dozens of changes that violate dev intentions. SRP does have some, but they are pretty minor. To name a few - the dev removed the 2 squad requirement for getting a capture quest, brought back one cut ammo type and added freeplay in the end.

It's a tremendous project that fixes a LOT of issues that nobody else fixed. Hell, I contributed to SRP with a few of my own fixes.

I just personally think it's better to deal with bugs than to get even a minor deviation from how devs wanted people to experience the game design-wise.

[rich yarrow]

Yeah, ZRP is too much even for me. Too many dialogue changes, for example. Weird stuff. SRP, on the other hand, felt pretty authentic to me, I didn't even notice any differences so yeah, I was wondering what's your opinion on it

[granite jungle]

Stalker modder sticking to design scope challenge (impossible)

[thin jewel]

bold for you to assume that anomaly players have played the trilogy

[glossy niche]

👆 I only played Anomaly before Heart of Chernobyl

[graceful horizon]

Sad brag

[wooden ember]

So i got the wish granter ending where strelok wish for coins but the building collapsed (I felt bad) How do i get other endings

This game i side with freedom

[granite jungle]

Before going to CNPP you have to go talk to the guide. It's a task that should show up on your PDA after X-16

[wooden ember]

Ok, i am replaying Thank you :)

[granite jungle]

the game is goated so good choice

[wooden ember]

Yes it for me now i learn shooting mechanics (I dont like the aks-74u its hard to aim with it )

[wooden ember]

Are dogs gonna come back to me after they flee once i kill them and theres only one left

[granite jungle]

They might calm down later and aggro again if they notice you again, but generally they won't re-aggro if you're away by then

[wooden ember]

Lol i picked up the fast ak in underground agroprom the table shattered and i got scared

[wooden ember]

Who should i side with

Duty or Freedom

[verbal tartan]

none, or duty

if you go with freedom, you can't go back to the Bar without getting murdered by Duty

Im guessing you are playing with the ZRP mor, right?

[wooden ember]

No im doing vanilla game

Because when i unpack the game disintegrate and crashes

[verbal tartan]

huh, I thought you couldn't join Duty vanilla

[wooden ember]

I mean like who to help, i could try join freedom though

[wooden ember]

Why were there no cinematics for Call of Pripyat? (like in Clear Sky and Shadow of Chornobyl)

[light shuttle]

Because the game was made in two microseconds

If in Clear Sky, with a development of +-18 months, just 2 CGI cinematics were added, with Call of Pripyat being made in several months less of development, make a CGI cinematic was improbable

[verbal tartan]

The images give certain charm to it tho, ngl

[granite jungle]

They worked within the limitations and it worked out

It is easy to give CoP a hard time for being short and a little undercooked conceptually, but for such a short development time it came out pretty well

[rocky hawk]

I have 13 hours of gameplay in ClearSky and I still dont know how to get a single artifact

sooo how?

[verbal tartan]

Go to an anomalous place, pull out your artefact detector with the key "O" and guide yourself by the beeping sounds / the direction where the detector points to. Run around the area for a bit if you can't see those clues. If there isn't an artifact, that place has been "discharged" and it should have one in the next (aprox) 48 hours.
Go to the next anomalous area
Repeat

[rocky hawk]

K thanks

[frosty radish]

they show you in the tutorial mission right?

[verbal tartan]

they do

[frosty radish]

I thought so, its been a while since I played

[verbal tartan]

but, to be super fair, they dont tell you that you must go to an anomalous field especifically

or at least thats what I remember. I might be wrong

[rocky hawk]

Theres a tutorial?

[verbal tartan]

when you are first taken into the swamps, yes

Lebedev tells you about it with his PDA voice note

[rocky hawk]

oh yeah I forgot

[warm swallow]

Got a random question for you all
Want to be a stalker in the Chornobyl exclusion zone?
I'm working on a video essay on SOC, and I'm trying to find some people to help voice some of the non-voiced NPCs in the Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, and I'm asking around to see who's up for it and who's going to tell me to go get a job

[late condor]

What is there possibly to do an essay on?

[warm swallow]

mainly covering the game's story and the differing endings and how the game holds up in 2026.

[late condor]

I don’t mean to sound rude but that’s not very original, is it?

[warm swallow]

You're fine. it may not be original but it's been treating me well so far but i enjoy the creative process and love the stalker games. So it clicks for me. and theres alot to cover in SOC alone

[late condor]

Yeah I agree there is a lot to cover and the games have a lot to offer mechanically, lore-wise and through development history, which is why I feel doing a plot recap is wasted potential

[frosty radish]

Eh, depends what you want said, I don't think I have the right accent though

[ocean field]

all characters are voiced tho

unless you mean during like the dialogue you have with them

in which case id just read it out

if i were you

[lean quartz]

Why is modding dead for the ps5 versions??

[charred prism]

bc they are undeserving

[verbal tartan]

Cause Playstation isn't exactly modding friendly compared to pc

[lean quartz]

True but tbf hasn't Sony started allowing external mods slowly?

[verbal tartan]

Slowly, yes

And thats about it

If you really want modding platform, its either an xbox (limited) or a pc

[lean quartz]

I'm not denying that but with the growing PC prices and enormous amounts of job requests denied I don't think I'll be getting one ever

[charred prism]

you can still find miniPCs at half the cost of consoles, and can build a PC that matches a consoles price while being faster

with ram prices starting to fall especially

[lean quartz]

They are?!

If anything I'm better of building my own or buying pre built right?

[charred prism]

the new trend in AI spaces is speculation about how little ram new models need, and therefore, there has been a slow decline on ram, as prices settle
plus there are a lot of bundles that offer ram with other components for a good deal

[lean quartz]

I've got no money been unemployed my entire life so something has to change

Been trying at least I hate console life believe me

[verbal tartan]

It can get a bit expensive, but considering you are playing the trilogy, you can get a really cheap pc, tbf

But well, you got a play now, just use that and have fun exploring the games

[charred prism]

I recall Linus made a video yesterday showcasing how you can make a pc better than a PS5 at a lowe price
Linus is tech illiterate but he has 20 overworked nerds behind him so hes so so for new trch