📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[crimson sundial]

Here you can share media materials regarding the Original trilogy.
Have fun

[hazy scaffold]

spinning stalkers

[zenith hull]

https://tenor.com/view/spinning-gif-24307158

[timid crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-gif-5331239234977328962

[wild tartan]

this channel is for the original trilogy, not stalker 2

[minor cipher]

stalcopter

[buoyant hill]

the legend says his spirit is still roaming in these walls today and you can hear "cheeki breeki" echoing from within

[obsidian forge]

must've been a whirligig

[low sorrel]

weird textures i keep seeing in vanilla SOC. any idea how to get rid of these vibrating lines?

[stray sedge]

xd

[green elm]

helikopter helikopter

[obsidian forge]

wrong channel

[twilit saffron]

Genuinely thought this was the chat for stalker memes and the like. Also genuine question you’re not a mod right? So why are you saying it and acting like it? and how does it affect you or anyone just let people be. You saw this didn’t think haha funny or oh well you thought, NO this cannot be what I’m seeing let me let him know he’s making an error which affects no one, thank you for your insight but dude nothing happened it’s all ok. Just click off the page.

[iron heath]

It just so happens that I'm a mod and they did nothing wrong man they just gave you the heads up to let you know it ain't the right channel

Alot of people do not know how to read channel descriptions so nothing wrong with helping fellow server members

Looking at the tabs goes a long way

[twilit saffron]

That’s completely okay and understandable and I have found the actual chat also he was wrong considering the blades aren’t moving on the chopper that is a visual bug so it’s in the right chat, he is wrong

also when you correct someone usually you show them the right way, for example the right chat, maybe hashtag the right chat but he didn’t just makes it seem spiteful if anything

[iron heath]

Ah Fair enough I get where you're coming from and imo linking to the proper areas is always the best move if possible

That was an interesting visual bug though lol

[twilit saffron]

Thank you for your understanding I don’t mean to be rude but sometimes feels like some people just wanna irritate others if he had hash tagged it, i’d had taken it another way but he didn’t, sorry if I wasted any of your time, thanks again, cheers.

And it was a very strange bug gave me a good chuckle I won’t lie

[iron heath]

No worries! Thought I shoulda said something just incase things got heated between yall haha naw you're fine didn't waste any of my time and fr was funny if you ever get interesting ones like that again feel free to Tag me

[twilit saffron]

Just doing your job as usual and very well I might say and no need to worry I’m not super argumentative just stating what anyone else would think. If I do get any more strange bugs like it I will be certain to tag you knowing this game I’ll probably get one or two more

[obsidian forge]

the proper channel is like 100 pixels up lol, take more time to read

[low sorrel]

Vanililla SHOC

[rugged shard]

just stalker gameplay nothing more

[cold crest]

Also genuine question you’re not a mod right? So why are you saying it and acting like it?
Because other people may prefer to keep discussion to the proper channels as well? If you want, they may ping the mods who will tell you the same thing - keep discussion to appropriate channels.

[twilit saffron]

Discussion has already been dealt with, don’t beat a dead horse. Also like i said before my clip was actually in the right chat, I was sticking to the rules thank you for your input.

[obsidian forge]

Channel for media from the OG trilogy is the right place to post clips from Stalker 2?

[twilit saffron]

Omg don’t jump me 🤣

Man just let it go Christ

[obsidian forge]

just answer the question, because what you said makes no sense

[twilit saffron]

It’s crazy that you ask that question because if you scroll up a little bit there is another stalker 2 screenshot and nothing was said about it and see how nothing changed? No one said anything or cared

You want me to answer yours but you won’t answer mine, doesn’t sound fair to me

[gilded birch]

couldve told me yknow

no problems now I assume

[obsidian forge]

does that mean we should continue posting in wrong channels? lol

[twilit saffron]

Not from me no, I put it to rest he’s instigating

[cold crest]

I love stalker community

[obsidian forge]

answer what? you didn't ask anything

[twilit saffron]

Aren’t you just daft 😆

[gilded birch]

yknow we could all just, stop typing

[obsidian forge]

you're the one who got their panties in a twist because someone pointed out your mistake

[gilded birch]

yhe

[twilit saffron]

I agree!

[obsidian forge]

why didn't you stop when it was time lol? you had a chance to move on after my first message

[gilded birch]

yhea and why arent you stopping now face?

leave it to rest

[obsidian forge]

idk maybe because he insulted me?

[gilded birch]

then learn to let it go

[formal pike]

Another day another argument

[languid island]

yk cotz isnt that bad after all

[iron heath]

it's always been peak freeplay imo

[upbeat onyx]

The rooftops of the CNPP, one of the best video game levels I’ve seen and clearly the best out of the whole S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, in my opinion. If I were to make a top three levels out of all these beautiful games, I’d put CNPP on 1st place, Pripyat from Call of Pripyat on 2nd and Red Forest from Clear Sky on 3rd.

[obsidian forge]

it's a tragedy you don't get to explore it at all

[upbeat onyx]

Being right on top of Reactor 4 of the CNPP was very moving. Looking inside, through the Sarcophagus cracks, you can see there's no Monolith inside. 😄

[obsidian forge]

not sure where that is

[upbeat onyx]

In the second screenshot, right on top of Reactor 4, where there's a helicopter crashed and burning on the roof. If you are in-game in that location, look to your right and down. You'll see the place where the Monolith aka Wish Granter is located in a previous level, but the place is empty, further more strenghtening the idea that it is, in fact, an illusion.

[obsidian forge]

or just devs wanted to save you some fps and didn't put it there

[upbeat onyx]

I don't think it would have been that demanding, but, sure, it's a possibility.

[obsidian forge]

they didn't expect people to walk on the roof

[upbeat onyx]

You have to if you want the good ending. The game literally takes you there after the 3rd portal, if I'm not mistaken.

[obsidian forge]

I thought you meant the roof of the main building

[upbeat onyx]

No, you can't jump over that railing, even if it looks like you could. You'll slide back down. I'm sure you could do it with noclipping, though.

[obsidian forge]

you can get on the very top before entering

[upbeat onyx]

But, practically, you ARE on the roof of the main Chernobyl building. It's just that you are funnelled through that small walkway and you don't have that much liberty to go everywhere you see. You go right beneath the reactor tower, the one with red and white.

[obsidian forge]

https://youtu.be/yV3nNwWIqN0?si=em4gJeVc7IcR9y_H

[upbeat onyx]

Yeah, with exploits.

[obsidian forge]

nah, no exploits there

[upbeat onyx]

Grenade jumping and that crazy wall jump that speedrunners use aren't exploits?

[obsidian forge]

to get to the roof you don't need exploits, he shows how to do it

[upbeat onyx]

1:30 and 2:18 - is that normal gameplay?

Also 2:40, but I guess at 3:50 the jumps look doable enough.

From what I can tell, you are not on the roof of Reactor 4, where the Sarcophagus is. You are on a smaller building, near the tall tower you can see in the tenth screenshot I posted.

I'm also curious how he didn't die even if the timer reached 0.

[glad cypress]

the emission in SoC in CNPP is only like 30 meters high or something (i have no idea how much but i know its not that high) so on the CNPP roofs you are basicallly safe from the emission

[upbeat onyx]

Oh, cool. I didn't know that. But you have to get back down in order to enter the Sarcophagus, no? Since the guy in the clip is on a completely different building.

[glad cypress]

yea

[upbeat onyx]

So won't you die then?

[glad cypress]

i've heard that emission in SoC deals the same type of damage as electrical anomalies, so 4 or 5 battery artifacts will start healing you while emission occurs

i dont remember

[upbeat onyx]

Well, it's not easy finding 4 batteries. I think I only got two.

[glad cypress]

it is quite easy, 2 of them you can find laying on the ground when other 2 you can get by doing missions

[upbeat onyx]

By the way, if you don't mind me joking, why didn't you have the CS-1 body armor in your inventory before I left for Cordon? Not cool, man. 😄

[glad cypress]

I give CS-1 body armor when Clear Sky forces succesfully take over Renegades base in swamps

[upbeat onyx]

But I did. I wiped them all out, from all over the map. Their numbers and resources reached zero. I was just unlucky on my latest playthrough, I guess.

[glad cypress]

prob a bug, but I'm sure if you will leave Clear Sky faction but will stay at the swamps you can grind reputation among Clear Sky forces so I will sell better gear, I think even CS-3a

idk i should replay CS

[upbeat onyx]

No, the CS-3a I got, that one is the lower tier armor. The CS-1 wasn't available for a while and I just wanted to go to Cordon and not wait anymore.

In Clear Sky, the numbers are switched. The CS-3a should be the top tier, but it's the other way around. Anyway.

[glad cypress]

CS-3a is the lower tier and CS-1 is the higher tier, right? I can't remember

yea i think it is

[upbeat onyx]

Yes.

[glad cypress]

Yea. Anyway I have a fun fact - in CS, SEVA world model doesn't exist. That's why you don't see any loners wearing it on your playthroughs and the SEVA suit that player can wear uses world model of mercenary SEVA suit used in multiplayer.

[upbeat onyx]

I knew it something was wrong about SEVA in Clear Sky. Whenever I died, the 3rd person model was wearing a leather jacket. It bugged the heck out of me why, but now I know.

[obsidian forge]

where are the batteries?

[obsidian forge]

he explains it in the video, did you watch it? with sound?

[upbeat onyx]

Yeah, I heard that. But I didn't hear him say anything about going back to the ground and entering the Sarcophagus.

[glad cypress]

1. You can find one in Garbage, near transition to Dark Valley
2. You can find in Agroprom in the swamps
3. in 100 rads bar, Hunter will give you one after you give him back his weapon
4. in 100 rads bar, Hunter will give you one after completing his mission to destroy the lair of the bloodsucker

[obsidian forge]

because you didn't watch the video, he explains it at 8:53

[obsidian forge]

you don't get a battery for bringing him the family rifle

[glad cypress]

No? Wait let me see.

Yea you're right he gives you 4000 RU for that. My bad.

but you can repeat Hunter's mission about the bloodsucker so you can get 2 batteries from him

[obsidian forge]

wut? ok

[upbeat onyx]

I did, but I didn't understand correctly what he says. I listened again more carefully.

[obsidian forge]

you can turn on the subtitles, but yeah his English is bad

[upbeat onyx]

That's what I did. I'm not bashing on the guy. I just didn't understand. My accent isn't that great either.

[brittle girder]

i went too far with the texture quality authentence. i downgraded the 2k ai upscale to 256mb and slapped it over all 3 games for consistency purposes. (why does the makarov in shadow of chernobyl have to be a modern restyle, but the next 2 games makarov is the real one

real 2000s energy with this texture quality

[obsidian forge]

this looks like a texture that would be on a model 100 m away from the player

[cold crest]

Not in clear sky but in English localization in particular

[upbeat onyx]

Yeah, but most of the versions sold are in English, no?

[cold crest]

First of all, if we're going to talk about source material, it makes sense to talk about it in the language it was developed in. And devs called the heavy suit CS-3a originally, which is consistent between CS and CoP. It's English translators who screwed this up in particular and can only be attributed to a localization issue.

[upbeat onyx]

I was only saying the suit names are switched. Yes, in the English version.

Call of Pripyat confirms it as the armor you get from Nimble is properly named in that game, the CS-3a.

[cold crest]

(why does the makarov in shadow of chernobyl have to be a modern restyle, but the next 2 games makarov is the real one
SoC models were deliberately altered in last year of development to ensure no copyright complaints will come. The texture artists was given a task to create at least 7 changes per weapon that would be different than the real thing.

During the development of CS, many old assets were used instead of newer ones, which resulted in GSC using old dev textures from 2006 and never noticing this.

In CoP, they noticed some of their textures have real trademarks on them and applied minor changes, mainly removing company names. But it's still old in-dev textures.

[obsidian forge]

It's the rat king!

[iron heath]

AYO

[weary gazelle]

https://youtu.be/xtqtkC2CVrY?si=zlWEE3Ac6kdSLDL9

[obsidian forge]

wrong channel

[misty eagle]

How? Isn't this the channel for screenshots because it looks like it.

[obsidian forge]

this one's for the OG trilogy, you're looking for stalker 2 https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034504761409577

OG, you feel me?

this is for X-Ray goodness and not some Unreal Engine slop

[iron heath]

PEAK

[iron heath]

this is for the trilogy not stalker 2

please read the channel your in

[torn gulch]

where should i share ?

[iron heath]

in the stalker 2 areas

[obsidian forge]

Boy, this here is just gonna keep happening and happening...

[cold crest]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications already has image permissions

[iron heath]

That's for mods and pics/videos of mods not random stalker 2 walk through of locations lol

There's dedicated channels for vanilla stalker 2 content

[light ridge]

oh, didn't knew that

[cold crest]

??? What does S2 have to do with it, I referred to Rammaken posting his mod screenshots

[iron heath]

Oh sorry I thought you were referring to erens post

[obsidian forge]

Stalker 2 looks like THAT?

[iron heath]

no i misread someone posted a walkthrough video of stalker 2 in pripyat so guided them to correct channels

[obsidian forge]

lmao, this just gonna keep happening

not a day goes by without someone posting a Stalker 2 screenshot here

[iron heath]

fr

[buoyant hill]

that was a close call

[upbeat onyx]

@cold crest, it looks like it works to me. The health bar also slowly regenerates, but I didn't wait to film that too. The bleeding clearly stops and I have no bleeding reducing artifact, as I've shown. So the suit stays true to its name and heals wounds by stopping bleeding. On the fandom it says that it, supposedly, slows down bleeding by 200%.

[obsidian forge]

Oh, SoC has these Monolith praying animations? I thought it was Clear Sky at first.

I don't think I saw this animation when I played with ZRP.

[buoyant hill]

there is actually a whole bunch of monolithians praying in this pose in their base in Pripyat

[obsidian forge]

ah yeah, now I remember

[buoyant hill]

the virgin Skif: jumps from a garage roof - *dies*
the chad Strelok: jumps from a 150m tower - "lol that all you got?"

[obsidian forge]

lmao yeah, I remember doing that too

[iron heath]

damn strelok built different lol

[obsidian forge]

is it possible to open these? I tried every weapon on them but they won't budge

[upbeat onyx]

Out of curiosity, what language is that? Polish?

[obsidian forge]

yeah

[obsidian forge]

got my first harmonica, can I do anything with it?

[brittle girder]

i uh turned stalker into stalker if it did release in 2003

[empty terrace]

Rookie Village, home...

[obsidian forge]

Kot Village in Polish

[glad cypress]

binoculars, guitar, harmonica, hand_radio and "bread" are the items that you can find them and cannot do anything with them except selling them

They have not a single purpose and still you can find em (except for binoculars but you normally spawn with them at the beginning if i remember correctly)

[obsidian forge]

@cold crest do you agree?

[marble talon]

Alright so im gonna start heading to radar and onwards, here is my current inventory and stash, is it good or do i need to change things up, get more stuff?

[low sorrel]

monolit

[cold crest]

Yes you need to hit the lock specifically

[cold crest]

Nope. :) keep it in your collection of useless stuff

[cold crest]

Yeah, all except "bread" and harmonica act as NPC animation items. In 1.0 you can also find "vodka".

[obsidian forge]

yeah but didn't you say they can be given to NPCs to make them drop their guns or something?

[cold crest]

no I think you mixed things up, you can buy some of those items off NPCs when they're in paniced state, same state where you can sell them weapons to make them drop their guns, but those items are actually useless

[obsidian forge]

so if I sell them a guitar they won't start playing it?

[glad cypress]

Yes NPCs will use items given to them

[obsidian forge]

immediately?

[glad cypress]

It is possible but most of the time it takes some time to see them using the items given to them

[obsidian forge]

I can't sell the harmonica to them, the item is red. I think they need to be in a panicked state like @cold crest said.

[cold crest]

useless for the player but used in NPC animations, just the way food is. They will start using a guitar if they did not have it before. But yeah some have trade restrictions.

[glad cypress]

I'm pretty sure the NPC will pick it up if you will throw it on the ground

Not immediately but there's a chance

I have no idea if it works because i never tested it

[obsidian forge]

WTF HOW MANY BOARS???

[low sorrel]

first time back in 16 years

[crimson glen]

I gotta play through SoC again cause I understand the Military’s Operation Monolith plan much better now than on my first play through

[uncut lintel]

havent been yet its beautiful

[latent plume]

I think I may have enough guns, dunno tho

[fathom dagger]

Went to war with Clear Sky & Ecologists and caused a little damage

Maybe a bit too much damage

[cold crest]

@obsidian forge the prices absolutely do get better with Petrenko

top is friend middle is neutral bottom is base item price for comparison

[obsidian forge]

then my reputation must still be too weak, I just bought SVDm-2 for 60k

[obsidian forge]

I found Vova Vist in SoC.

He's part of the Skull's group.

[cold crest]

got lucky, that's a 1/62400 chance for an NPC to have that name

104 names and 600 nicknames

[obsidian forge]

It's real Vova, trust me bro. He joined Duty after the events of Clear Sky.

[crimson glen]

Duty will need his services

[glad sparrow]

Noooo
Vova would never

[obsidian forge]

and this has what to do with Stalker?

[gilded birch]

!warn 280945970861047810 offtop plus politiquing

[foggy nimbus]

tigernikka has been warned

Reason: offtop plus politiquing

[olive pelican]

Just finished downloading the patch that was supposed to fix the memory leak. Nope Rostock still a pain.

[obsidian forge]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034504761409577

[cold crest]

this is for stalker trilogy, not stalker 2

[subtle raven]

first time I see this screen

[obsidian forge]

looks like Windows 11

[iron heath]

id report that if possible

[obsidian forge]

@cold crest I shot Twig from just outside the base, I only had to wait for the night for it to work.

[foggy nimbus]

zayebrak has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cold crest]

Yeah lighting affects stealth, think that was in the vid from that pro stealth dude

But sometimes they don’t aggro even in the middle of the day which I have no idea how to explain

[obsidian forge]

yeah, I tried several times during the day and they would turn hostile every time so idk

[obsidian forge]

Finally got 4 batteries 😄

[cold crest]

https://tenor.com/view/blm-gif-25815938

repair your armor, now

I’m glad you got to finally embrace the joy in quirkiness of the game’s mechanics, that’s the main thing that helps soc be replayable so many years later

[foggy nimbus]

boobieconnoisseur.2 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[obsidian forge]

I am, given how slow it is and how long it took to get 4 batteries, I'd say this is a perfectly balanced way to do it.

[obsidian forge]

yeah, I can't believe I'm saying this but the bugs are fun as hell in this game

[obsidian forge]

Just saw a zombie SPRINT out of the Factory in Yantar. He was ZOOMIN'

[upbeat onyx]

It's funny because in Shadow of Chernobyl zombified stalkers sprint when a grenade is thrown near them, just like the rest of the NPCs. In Call of Pripyat they just stay there. I can't remember about Clear Sky, but I don't think they sprint there either.

[obsidian forge]

I didn't throw any grenades

[upbeat onyx]

I didn't say you did. Who knows what freaked him out like that?! I'm just saying they look so helpless, limping around and mumbling, but they go full Usain Bolt when there's a grenade near them, as they should, to be honest. 😄

[obsidian forge]

yeah they sprint when I throw a nade

I might've thrown a nade then

[upbeat onyx]

So this happened after exiting the tunnels from X16 and back to Yantar?

[obsidian forge]

Naaaaah, I finished X16 long ago. It was on n-th visit to Yantar.

I was doing side quests for Sakharov.

I noticed that once you throw a nade they start to act erratically and will sprint around for no reason in random directions.

[obsidian forge]

He sleep

[crimson glen]

RIP King

[iron heath]

🫡

[zealous oxide]

ye postet it twice

[obsidian forge]

Every time Wolf warns me about "bad word usage"

[digital summit]

the meticulous and beloved hand crafted non-linear open world design the stalker series is known for

[queen perch]

average cnpp moment

[obsidian forge]

Found this artifact only by chance because I decided to take an acid bath.

[uncut lintel]

https://youtu.be/NSvLVQSA3ys?si=74gzJCfgHMf2iOTw

[buoyant hill]

I'm thinking about it, and you probably don't even need 4 artifacts depending on your armor and its condition.
I mean, all armors come with resists already. So if you wear sunrise armor (50% electrical resist) and have 3 batteries, that would mean 140% total resist (assuming the armor is new). Even a half broken sunrise would give 115% which should still do the trick.
Though you'll have to wait a lot of time to heal and even more to repair

[obsidian forge]

Have you checked that it works that way?

[buoyant hill]

nope, just assuming

[crimson glen]

Clear Sky moment

[obsidian forge]

just checked it and it doesn't work

even with SSP-9M that has 90% electric shock resistance

you still need at least 4 batteries to repair the armor

[buoyant hill]

aw, okay. i was going to check it tomorrow. good to know, thanks

[obsidian forge]

not this time, Storm Spirit

btw as I was testing it I had a freedom member casually stroll through the electro anomaly and get electrocuted twice

[iron heath]

lotta folks wish they could do that to wolf here

[cold crest]

you do. armor resists stack multiplicatively, if you have 90% armor resist and 90% artifact resist, it results in 99%.

[foggy nimbus]

gumapelvaler1an has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

kennii3175 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cold crest]

New LotZ update loading screens (for anyone unaware how they looked in LotZ before that: https://youtu.be/D_aTUKrH5eM?t=120)

Courtesy of @primal zephyr

(the game icons in the corner are modded, what's new is the 16:9 extensions at the sides)

Seems to be AI? weird af

Definetily lots of artifacts around those sides, and "YL" has wrong kerning/spacing between letters.

[cold crest]

yes 100% ai

Which is REALLY weird, ok they didnt have source files for soc loading screen but CS loading screen on PC was already 16:9, they broke it while porting and then fixed with AI?

why not just use the same PC loading screen instead of a build one?

[obsidian forge]

I don't see any difference

ah the black bars on the sides?

[obsidian forge]

there was no "L" before? 🤣

[cold crest]

In original PC editions, SoC had no 16:9 loading screen, it was stretched 4:3. CS DID have a 16:9 loading screen.

On original LotZ release they used central part of SoC screen with sides from CS, wihch did not fit both in terms of elements such as barbed wire and color scheme. And for CS they for some reason swapped loading screen to a build one, resulting in sides not ftting ONCE AGAIN.

In this patch they provided new (presumably AI-generated) sides for SoC and CS.

[obsidian forge]

how do you take screenshots of the loading screen?

[cold crest]

on consoles each game has a screenshot button, on PC I use steam screenshots

[obsidian forge]

nvm, I got it

had to spam F12

this is how it looks like for me on PC in 16:9

[cold crest]

Yes, it's stretched 4:3 screen

[obsidian forge]

yeah, NOW I can see that lol

[cold crest]

Either way I made comparison: original artist-drawn CS, LotZ AI SoC, LotZ AI CS.

[obsidian forge]

I see 3 on the picture

[cold crest]

yes and I listed 3

[obsidian forge]

"original artist-drawn CS, LotZ AI SoC, LotZ AI CS"

[cold crest]

Higher brightness lower contrast version for bad screens

[obsidian forge]

nvm I read that as 4

[obsidian forge]

it's the same column of pixels?

[cold crest]

yes

see how actual artist rendition just continues the barbed wire while ai does weird things with it, spawning new ones from existing lines and merging them

[obsidian forge]

yeah "LotZ AI CS" looks the worst

although "LotZ AI SoC" bad as well, like tree branches

[obsidian forge]

One shot from SVD costs 180 rubles 😮

still worth it because one shoting bloodsuckers from 200 meters is hilarious

[cold crest]

@obsidian forge you can use this camp box here

[obsidian forge]

thx, I decided to use Skull's body, I hope the game doesn't crash if I put too much stuff on it

[cold crest]

Why not in mods channel tho

It already has image permissions

[thick belfry]

Mods channel?

Oooh fuсk,this is for the bug report section

[gilded birch]

hes talking about #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[cold crest]

there's a hardcoded limit of 65535 items existing in game world

[foggy nimbus]

andro2725 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

baaaal44 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[obsidian forge]

yeah, but the items self-delete after a while right? because whenever I visit Wild Territory it's littered with guns everywhere lol

[cold crest]

They do disappear with bodies and trade inventory updates but people who played for a really long time still hit that limit

Guess it can be avoided if you clean up the world by yourself

[slow raft]

@cold crest

[cold crest]

you got the update in this case :)

the sides previously did not fit 16:9 screen properly as devs decided to use proto-loading screen with final sides

but now they AI-extended the sides, which now looks consistent but terrible lol

[sand shard]

Seems like badly edited picture, instead of AI to me. But as you said, they could have used the source files

[cold crest]

It’s 100% AI artifacts, look at my comparison a few messages lower. Barbed wire loses pattern, disappears, merges with other wire and behaves really weird in general. I am absolutely certain this is generative fill based on 4:3 screens.

If they edited it by hand it would at least be consistent where the wires are going in the same direction too

[sand shard]

Yeah, I saw now, seems to be.

[obsidian forge]

so they added more artifacts to the game, big deal

[steep breach]

He's a shy bloodsucker

[obsidian forge]

shysucker

it was a clusterfuck

[cold crest]

That’s a-life ladies and gentlemen

[obsidian forge]

do bloodsuckers hate dogs?

[cold crest]

They are hostile to everyone but jerboas and poltergeists

[obsidian forge]

lol "jerboas" you mean rats?

[cold crest]

They are called jerboas, rodents and hamsters in game texts, never rats. In fact S2 has both them and rats.

[upbeat onyx]

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fandom says that blind dogs and pseudodogs hunt rodents, but I've seen them move together in enormous packs in Call of Pripyat. I once saw a huge pack made of at least 15 blind dogs, 5 or 6 pseudodogs and around 30 rodents work together and kill a Pseudogiant! After they killed it, they still moved together calmly, as a pack.

[ocean widget]

||
Cardan is not Cardaning||

[cold crest]

How come your barbed wire looks normal and not with ai artifacts?

Did they do another update

[marble talon]

Yeah
This is the modded console version tho

[cold crest]

ah it's from a mod

funny that a modded extended load screen looks better than official

[marble talon]

Yeah

[obsidian forge]

nice that loners setup a camp in Wild Territory once you reach Red Forest, makes mercenaries less bothersome

[obsidian forge]

they even have this guy standing like this, looking like he's important, looking like he's got a quest to give... unfortunately he doesn't

[foggy nimbus]

neko07176 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[versed hedge]

Got all 3 games plat💪

[iron heath]

🫵

nice work

[obsidian forge]

when you accidentally drop an armor too close to a wall XD

[iron heath]

ayo haha

[cold crest]

April 2008, GSC on a trip to Pripyat before the creation of CoP.

[iron heath]

thats based

[cold crest]

Can see Novikov in the background of first one

[glad sparrow]

The guy with cig in the second pic kinda looks like Cold

Also
Why isnt the big PRIPYAT.COM sign modeled ingame
Im severely disappointed

[cold crest]

Yeah both Cold and Vano were drawn from him

[glad sparrow]

Peak

[cold crest]

And the dude with the camera in background of second photo is devs’ friend Aydar

You can also draw the connection lol, lots of references to developers and their friends in the games

[glad sparrow]

[cold crest]

Based artifact loadout

[obsidian forge]

I punched boxes for an hour in Duty's base to get the 4th Moonlight

[boreal sandal]

RIP to Freedom's trader he got wasted by 2 controllers at the barrier 🙏 🕊️

[cold crest]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications

it has the image permissions

[boreal sandal]

I already posted it there a few days ago

Is this channel just for vanilla stalker?

[surreal depot]

This section looks and feels cool at night

[surreal depot]

Here's the loadout I used

[obsidian forge]

did Strelok bug out for you as well?

[surreal depot]

Nope, everything feels normal in that

[obsidian forge]

where was he when you killed him?

[surreal depot]

About to enter the last portal

Shot a monolith and he died behind said monolith

[obsidian forge]

he bugged out for me and was t-posing in one place

[surreal depot]

Lol

[cold crest]

i'm not a mod but it appeared due to lack of image permissions in vanilla channels so i assume yes

though better to ask @timid crescent

[cold crest]

so many missions look a lot cooler at night in CS end-game ngl, I really liked Red Forest and Limansk

[timid crescent]

Hella Vanilla Trilogy

We do have #🔩┃trilogy_modifications, although I think that's more so for asking questions

Although, it being a shared Category, I don't see the problem with posting it here either

Just like back in the day

So yeah, go ahead

#👓trilogy-lore-and-story and the ones with the names of the TrilOG games are obviously meant for the Vanilla Trilogy games, so don't expect a lot of answers when asking for lore questions of a mod

[iron heath]

i liked the area tbh

[surreal depot]

Very fun if you use an assault rifle as your primary

Screenshots of the equipment I used for the end section of Clear Sky

[iron heath]

aye solid loadouts

[surreal depot]

Except the RP-74 one

The AK one is my favorite

[crimson glen]

Wrong category brother

But funny all the same

[pearl valley]

I think it was a "Pinched with Four Aces" in the zone

[obsidian forge]

[cold crest]

15 people died cause you couldn’t spare 500RU

[obsidian forge]

bullets are cheaper

[dreamy ivy]

reasonable price for high arrogance

i only payed once and when i saw they tried to make me pay again, i went ballistics way too literally

[glad sparrow]

No trophy AKM?

[surreal depot]

Can't find it

[glad sparrow]

Its in Cordon

[upbeat onyx]

Isn't the 7.62 ammunition too rare to be used effectively with an assault rifle? Unless you use the Trophy AKM as a marksman rifle.

[upbeat onyx]

Well, if they didn't ask for 500 RU, no one would have died either.

[glad sparrow]

The humble 2000 round 7.62x54 stash in Red Forest:

[foggy nimbus]

froztedtips has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[upbeat onyx]

2000? Who gives coordinates to that stash? Also, Red Forest is kind of late in the game.

[glad sparrow]

its always there
no coords needed iirc

wait no
Im dumb
its part of the Tank Machinegun quest
which can be started by talking to pretty much anyone (except Clear Sky) in Red Forest

[upbeat onyx]

It's a shame you can't mount a PSO scope on the Trophy AKM. With that caliber, it would make a nice mini sniper analogue.

[glad sparrow]

nah
its inaccurate as hell
and cant be upgraded

its best used as buzzsaw

[sharp turtle]

Ammo spawns in just not the gun iirc

[glad sparrow]

Peak

[blissful citrus]

If I had to review soc, this is what it would be

[obsidian forge]

me in lab x18 for the first time

[boreal sandal]

Agroprom underground bloodsucker

[obsidian forge]

Usually this place is filled with pseudodogs once Bes and his group die. I killed Bes myself this time, this somehow caused new loners to take over the place.

[obsidian forge]

x18 haul

[foggy nimbus]

surdno has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cold crest]

"but that's cheating" dude you got 1000kg weight

[obsidian forge]

I have no idea how that happened

[cold crest]

absolutely unrelated to question how to unpack gamedata?

[obsidian forge]

[dawn elk]

Found those bangers again this weekend:

Was only shocked to see that my Clear Sky collector's edition seemed to be too empty. Then I remembered that the German CE had a book tie-in instead.

[empty crypt]

For my side

[buoyant hill]

Bro, what the hell is wrong with you

[iron heath]

bandit moment lol

[sharp turtle]

Nuh uh that's a loner

[iron heath]

he just hasnt picked up his leather jacket yet ong

[karmic oxide]

friendly wild boar? how?

[obsidian forge]

amigo

[karmic oxide]

Marcado? Que diablos?

[paper tiger]

A common bug in stalker xD

[cold crest]

Mutant relation just shows last looted NPC relation

[obsidian forge]

turns out blind dogs aren't as good at dodging anomalies as they say

[blissful citrus]

I couldn't relate to this more rn(I just entered the red forest

[cold plank]

https://youtube.com/shorts/KVnWf0Ha9Ho?si=7fZOksjormEdM_LT

[cold crest]

OG stalker was something else
clearly not OG stalker but a mod

[obsidian forge]

looks like CoP

[cold crest]

You can’t get a gun out in cop and all characters within Skadovsk are immortal either way, and even if you did shoot someone who isn’t (eg outside the ship), nobody would react as it would just start an alarm on the ship.

[obsidian forge]

that sounds so unstalker-like

[cold crest]

common CoP L

[subtle raven]

Rest is on Steam

[obsidian forge]

what is this item? (SoC), the screenshot is from a video

[cold crest]

it appears on Kruglov's / Semenov's body if he dies during the measurements quest in Yantar. You need to get his scanner back to Sakharov to get the psy helmet.

[obsidian forge]

okay, he never died on me so that makes sense

[obsidian forge]

wrong channel

[native raft]

[iron heath]

this is trilogy pic channel it helps to reference this first

[native raft]

oh mb

[iron heath]

no worries

[foggy nimbus]

karvaj has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cold crest]

But this makes it block Limansk as well (outside the map, but you can see it from the red Forest). Also I think you forgot waste processing plant on wild island and Krug antenna complex in burnt forest

[hasty plaza]

Positiom of limansk changed due to emission

When you are at bridge position im s2 only fog, becaise limansk is gone

[cold crest]

Not really, dev maps (such as the one in resources) still have Limansk marked where it is and there is even a teaser for its potential later appearance in the game if you search the body of a spark member near the bridge. So Limansk is still very much where it is.

[hasty plaza]

Yes ofc because it reappears after a major emission in a dlc

[cold crest]

This is great headcanon, but locations changing places due to emissions is not a part of the lore of neither original games nor S2.

Not to mention Limansk buildings clearly are clearly visible from the bridge.

So no, even a line THAT weird is still not going to explain how certain areas were unavailable with HoC brain scorcher position. It's just a mindless retcon that was not thought through.

One of hundreds.

[hasty plaza]

Here is an image actually showing the psi emitter lines (red arrows)

[cold crest]

Uhhh this is electricity lines. They're all around the Zone lol. And in this picture they go directly through Limansk which is not affected by Brain Scorcher fyi. You are just completely clueless, are you?

[sharp bramble]

I think the origin of the confusion may lie in the fact that a lot of psi anomalies in CS are bound to powerline towers

[foggy nimbus]

wolfskopf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sharp bramble]

otherwise it looks like sh1tposting lol

[cold crest]

Are you even a true stalker fan if you never saved Grouse by injuring him before he dies?

[boreal sandal]

SoC OGSR Gunslinger, raided Freedom Base on master with little armor damage. I was savescumming the entire time until I realized sticking with my Duty bros wouldn't get them killed so easily.

[naive stratus]

future freedomer

[iron heath]

@tacit owl post this in the stalker 2 area this is in the trilogy section

[tacit owl]

My bad apologies

[iron heath]

No worries

[buoyant hill]

I feel like this is a frame from a video that I might have seen very long time ago, but I'm not really sure. Does anyone recognise it or it's just a wallpaper?

[cold crest]

This is most definitely fan made

[hoary elm]

I found this guy in a trash fire while doing a quest

[iron heath]

Bros on the menu lol

[obsidian forge]

That's Wolf

[obsidian forge]

that's why you can't play with ZRP or you won't get memes like these @hoary elm

[hoary elm]

What’s ZRP

[glad cypress]

mod (probably idk lol)

[iron heath]

Supposed "bugfix" that actually causes more issues then it solves and makes changes it shouldn't

[obsidian forge]

what issues does it cause?

[iron heath]

among other things

[obsidian forge]

[obsidian forge]

never had that happen but ok

also it fixes a bunch of crash bugs, hardly "minor bugs"

[iron heath]

Anecdotal evidence is not often the best source of info @glad sparrow Ayo can you go into more detail about the flaws of ZRP?

[glad sparrow]

it does changes to gameplay that it doesnt list and doesnt let you turn off while acting like its strictly bugfixing mod
half the updates are just fixing bugs that ZRP introduced in the first place
it meddles with tons of stuff and arguably makes it worse while lying about everything
ZRP is no small bugfix mod, its big spaghetti monster of a gameplay mod thats marketed on lies, lies and more lies

and if you dont believe me...

:3

[obsidian forge]

lol

[iron heath]

tejas prob played the most SoC out of everyone here idk why this is funny to you again anecdotal evidence isnt facts

[obsidian forge]

his wording is funny

[iron heath]

@glad sparrow thanks for dropping facts ZRP goofy as hell

[glad sparrow]

also
guess who got admin privileges in Glorp server

[iron heath]

you? based as hell

id give mod powers to you here if i could ngl

[glad sparrow]

. . . . Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Nation attacked. Only the , master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new , a named . And although his skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe can save the world.

[iron heath]

praise

[obsidian forge]

[cold crest]

I wouldn’t rely on Tejas in this area tbh, dude thinks all SoC vanilla bugs were found within the first year xD

[cold crest]

He has, but you also have to consider he has a hateboner for ZRP has ZERO understanding of technical intricacies of the game. He claimed things based on anecdotal evidence many times and when proven wrong just refused to elaborate.

[cold crest]

@glad sparrow @iron heath #clear-sky message

[foggy nimbus]

shitiz2042 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

xrpthestandard2025 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

steve215481 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[shut swan]

I don't know how to feel

[dusk geyser]

"Hmm yes, that looks like rifle"

[shut swan]

Dude was just confused

[cold crest]

This feels so weird. I wonder if it’s a lotz only bug.

[shut swan]

Looks like he dropped it but I'm guessing he's trying to pick it up but can't?

[cold crest]

Was he injured?

[shut swan]

Nope. Dude was just patrolling

[cold crest]

How did he lose his gun then?

[shut swan]

Dunno. Mightve gotten wounded when I didn't see or he's trying to loot it but can't reach it?

[cold crest]

NPCs usually do not really scavenge for weapons. They will pick up stuff that’s lying under them, but won’t go out of their way to pick it up.

Really weird, in 15 years of CS I’ve never seen anything like this.

[glad cypress]

probably weirdly placed Hunting Rifle and a truck that blocked the loner from grabbing it made the issue

[cold crest]

What I am saying is he wouldn’t try to grab it. You put a weapon in front of an NPC and they will ignore it. They will only pick it up if it collides with them.

[glad cypress]

I do know that.

[cold crest]

Then he wouldn’t try to stand still trying grab it. Unless LotZ changed something about NPC logic.

[glad cypress]

I don't know if LotZ changed something about the NPCs, I have no way to test it out.

[shut swan]

I'm not sure tbh. No one on the loner side during the fight were killed.

[hoary elm]

how do we feel about the inventory (S.o.C.)

i forgot to put the grenade launcher on my SGI

[cold crest]

You could do better but overall good

[hoary elm]

yay

Ammo is taking up like half my carry capacity, but I really don’t want to run out of ammo

Or at least I’m pretty sure it is

[cold crest]

well you don't really need two suits lol

could sell both and get ssp-99m instead

[hoary elm]

SEVA is for combat and general exploring, SSP is for high radiation zones and anomaly zones

Wait I’m a dumbass

The SEVA has almost as much rad protection as the SSP

[cold crest]

And you can also get a suit that is better than both

[hoary elm]

Yeah but the 99M is like 100k

I only have about 34k on me right now after buying the SEVA, and I don’t think the ecologists would buy it back at the same rate

Also, there’s the whole lack of being able to see any stats of armor you’re buying until you equip it problem

This is also my first playthrough of any stalker game

I wanna tackle the original trilogy before 2
2 is also on Xbox gamepass right

[obsidian forge]

you can use the wiki

[obsidian forge]

you can get this down to 25 kilos

[foggy nimbus]

sundance967 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary elm]

Cursing isn’t allowed? Isn’t that bit redundant considering just about everything in the series

I was even talking to chef in my playthrough and used a word that most folks now consider a slur, or at the very least incredibly offensive

anyways
my eyes (spoilered so you don’t get flashbanged immediately)

[obsidian forge]

there's swearing the game?

[obsidian forge]

heh, my favorite places to explore

[hoary elm]

I’m not sure about full on swearing, since I only know English and the only dialogue that’s English is text dialogue and dialogue directed towards the player, but I was talking to chef and he called duty a word most consider to be a slur or at least incredibly offensive today, the one starting with R

And even then, I feel it’s a bit redundant to not allow swearing in a server about a game about mutants, bandits, violence, and lots of guns and types of substances

[obsidian forge]

Ranger?

[cold crest]

Never been called a retard in CoP?

[obsidian forge]

hmm I don't recall

[cold crest]

Mercs may drop a funny line. But yeah the games are pretty free on swearing although more hard stuff is reserved for bandits only

SoC even has a line for bandits that was censored from CS, calling their enemies “half-assed negroes”.

Don’t think it has been translated though, a lot of faction banter hasn’t

[hoary elm]

Chef used that when talking about duty

[livid bane]

Sir, this is a original trilogy channel

[iron heath]

@tacit adder this is for the trilogy

[tacit adder]

oh

i did not see im sorry

[iron heath]

no worries!

[glad sparrow]

BULLSНIT
Youre lying!

[full steeple]

omg... where amazing skyboxes gone from old stalkers... why only 1 weeather actually have clouds... (clearly weather - 1st screen, 2 - rainy , 3 - cloudy ) all rest types of weathers are random gradients... @midnight notch

thats should be rainy weather skybox...

[cold crest]

This is for trilogy screenshots, head to #📸┃screens_and_videos

[full steeple]

?

I used it to show example of how good looking skybox was in 2010 a now we gettin 1 color as skybox...

[glad cypress]

The crow and thunderstorm were paid actors

[full steeple]

But the clouds weren't 😄

[foggy nimbus]

nightcrawlerg has been warned

Reason: self promoting

[iron heath]

@bleak trail first wrong channel and no self advertising

[glad cypress]

is this a mod or what

[full steeple]

Stalker clear sky default

[glad cypress]

I see

[glad sparrow]

Is that The Journey or am I losing it?

The last pic I mean

[full steeple]

yeah, imagine this skybox(1) in Stalker 2 on raining weather(2)

[glad sparrow]

Im so good
Supreme modplayer

Do you still have it installed?
If so
Could you make PDA maps of all the maps ingame?
To do so, change lighting to static, use the "demo_record 1" command and press F11
Do this in every map, they will be saved to appdata :3

[full steeple]

look, skybox like good old stalker should have

originall skybox during rainy weather:

[glad sparrow]

Yeah
I like the ominous look of trilogy skies
S2 looks flat?
No idea what other word to use

[proud wraith]

And F11 + Control is for high quality screenshots of the levels

[glad sparrow]

Yes

[iron heath]

Would help if you posted this in the stalker 2 area and not the trilogy

[full steeple]

a mb i thought it was non-spoilers section lol

[iron heath]

No worries imo you'd get answers there faster then here

[iron heath]

wrong channel lol

[cold crest]

Wrong channel

[obsidian forge]

[sharp turtle]

Never seen that pose lmao

[crimson glen]

What happened to that poor bandit’s bones

[foggy nimbus]

conerboner has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[iron heath]

@lucid bridge this area is for the trilogy

[weary gazelle]

https://youtu.be/19FjSubO9qI?si=hH9ebtVQCP6tcTa5

[sharp storm]

sorry

[buoyant hill]

Seasonal bandit migration

[crimson glen]

wrong channel

[obsidian forge]

wat

[buoyant hill]

I can't send vids to #call-of-prypiat so I posted it here and asked my question (#call-of-prypiat message) there

[iron heath]

@verbal orbit stalker 2 pics belong in stalker 2 channels

@quasi grail you aswell

[iron heath]

@golden orchid I'd ask this in the appropriate areas this is for trilogy pics

[golden orchid]

what is apropriate ?

[iron heath]

The stalker 2 section this is for the trilogy

[sharp turtle]

We need screens and videos specific mods just to lurk here lmao

[iron heath]

Ong lol

I asked mol1t to rename this trilogy pics and videos to clear up confusion

[sharp turtle]

Yeah if trilogy is in the name of the channel it'll help

[golden orchid]

Sorry for the inconvenience

[iron heath]

No worries! #☢┃stalker-general #❔┃gameplay-advice or #📸┃screens_and_videos should be able to help with your issue @golden orchid

[buoyant hill]

Just AtmosFear and Absolute Nature make CoP look amazing. And this is just DX9 (for some reason on DX10 or higher my FPS degrades over time)

[iron heath]

@long harbor this is for trilogy post non stalker stuff in offtopic

[tepid thorn]

looked amazing until 3rd screen lol

[buoyant hill]

well, yeah it's kinda specific. I just love stormy clouds and the sun setting. but yeah, that's probably not the type of screenshot one should be bragging with lol. anyway those two mods make everything look so beautiful

[tepid thorn]

a flying monolithian

my collection

preparing for prypiat undergrounds 🫡

[glad sparrow]

Which AN4 preset is that?

[buoyant hill]

Just Autumn (not the aurora one)

[glad sparrow]

Thanks :3

[buoyant hill]

wrong channel bud. for stalker 2 ask here #📸┃screenshots_and_videos
this is trilogy channel

[iron heath]

what lowercase said

[cold crest]

pls ask gsc cms to rename the channel xd, there are more S2 posts in here than actual trilogy screenshots

[iron heath]

i pinged mol1t but haven't heard back yet i hope its changed soon

[buoyant hill]

wtf is this pose, Strider looks like an anime girl lol

[ocean widget]

monolit-chan :3

[torn bobcat]

VS Vintar in blockbench

[iron heath]

@olive pelican keep stalker 2 stuff out of here

[sharp pewter]

Not quite true. It might not be as good because it is procedurally generated and not static photorealistic image, but you still can see it in S2 during rain.

[full steeple]

Naah thats not it, these just looks bad in other weathers.

Expect Clearly - this only has good looking clouds

For example wth is this, cloudy weather - just white skybox

Clearly at 18:00

[ocean widget]

i'm stuck (cnpp, clear sky)

[obsidian forge]

I'm stuck, Scar-bro.

[dusk geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/nba-gif-15687325833433865178

[cold crest]

@tepid thorn

[subtle raven]

bro is onto something

[obsidian forge]

so they used Petrenko's office in the cut scene?

[cold crest]

pretty much

[buoyant hill]

In Call of Pripyat, apart from medicine, you can sell the Gauss Rifle to Bonesetter (the medic in Jupiter) lol

[dusk geyser]

It gets rid of the pain on terminally ill people and monolithians

[sharp turtle]

Shit if I was terminally ill and got a Gauss I'd be so happy it would immediately relieve pain

[cold quest]

Just delete the game. Its clear sky so u wont be missin much

[cold quest]

Lebron is ass ngl

[sharp turtle]

Jump over them

I've done it (maybe in SoC I don't remember 100% but you should find a way)

[ocean widget]

Nuh uh

I lobe clear sky

[crimson glen]

I lobe clear

[iron heath]

What a stupid thing to say lol

Clear sky is the BEST stalker game

[obsidian forge]

[iron heath]

bro got filtered in the swamps

[thin ibex]

Seasons Of The Zone - The Swamps : Pump Station Pathway

[cold quest]

[cold quest]

[buoyant hill]

mfr dropped the documents from the table down to the tunnel

spent half an hour running around the lab looking for the last missing documents. after checking with the wiki I found out that these were the missing ones, could barely find them

[cold quest]

tcl

[upbeat onyx]

"Such is life in the Zone"

[buoyant hill]

Is it a reference to this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Aigf_Qsqa4

erm.. probably not, there are tons of others with this title. can't seem to find the origin

[upbeat onyx]

No, it is a common saying among S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans whenever something bad, mysterious or sad happens in the games, emphasizing the harsh life of living in the Zone, bugs and glitches included.

[buoyant hill]

yeah, I kinda get that. I just thought there must be some first time this was used, like a meme origin or something

[upbeat onyx]

I suppose it is not well known outside the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community, it is not present on Know your meme site either, despite „Get out of here, stalker” being shown there.

[iron heath]

Ong

Soc and clear sky are the only relevant stalker games

[glad sparrow]

Clear Sky so good mmmmm

[glad sparrow]

You look like someone who got violently Vist'd

[iron heath]

Lol

[ripe blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/diagnosis-skill-issue-diagnosis-skill-issue-draker-discord-gif-22231351

I lobe Clear Sky

[cold quest]

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-no-skill-skill-massive-l-gif-1772992733160300208

[upbeat onyx]

Hello, hello!

[tepid thorn]

Appreciated. Doctor's house in rostok wouldn't be completely crazy but I'm more willing to believe it was just devs' laziness

[cold crest]

Reusing assets yeah, not the first time we see the same building in a different place.

[upbeat onyx]

My Call of Pripyat inventory.

[glad sparrow]

Who puts scope on protecta? 🤨

[dusk geyser]

Huge respect for the rpk ammo collection

[ripe blaze]

me

[glad sparrow]

do you feel well?

[ripe blaze]

I mean, does anyone even scopes when using it?

[glad sparrow]

no

[ripe blaze]

The scope is just here, as a talisman or something, you know

I use it rarely, in some situations

[crimson glen]

it’s an art expression

[ripe blaze]

Yeah, you could say that

[glad sparrow]

so its the same when I decide to carry a TRs with grenade launcher in SoC as dedicated grenade launcher?

[upbeat onyx]

Have you tried it? It's the 1.6x SUSAT scope. It gives a boost to accuracy and makes the weapon even deadlier.

[upbeat onyx]

Shred mutants from afar, before they reach you. Of course looking through the scope helps.

[ripe blaze]

I just shoot without scoping, that's what I mean

Mostly

[upbeat onyx]

I've killed quite a few Zombified stalkers with RP-74s, hence the reasonable amount of MG ammo.

[upbeat onyx]

Scopes help a lot in these games.

[ripe blaze]

Of course, but we're talking about Protecta

[glad sparrow]

no
in CoP I usually use the Predator shotgun

[upbeat onyx]

Like I've said, it's the 1.6x zoom scope. You get the accuracy boost without losing much field of view. Try it and see for yourself. It helps.

[upbeat onyx]

The Predator is good, very accurate and does good damage, but it's cumbersome during reloading, in my opinion. The Eliminator also has more rounds in the mag, which helps when you are swarmed by mutants, like snorks in the Pripyat underpass, for example.

[glad sparrow]

dunno
I found Protecta too clunky and the reload feels too long for the damage output
Predator loads pretty fast and does tons of damage

[upbeat onyx]

They both do tons of damage. I can kill a Chimera on Stalker difficulty with the Eliminator with two mags of buckshot in less than a minute.

Both of them are great and the title of best shotgun of the game is definitely disputed by these two, with pros and cons on both parts.

The fire rate of the Eliminator is another factor to take into account. It fires almost as fast as you can pull the trigger.

[glad sparrow]

I mean damage per shot
Predator has huge damage buff compared to Chaser iirc

[upbeat onyx]

It does, but it's also pump action, so if you factor fire rate as well, it's not really that much of a difference between it and the Eliminator.

[glad sparrow]

it got 105 RPM

[upbeat onyx]

The Predator can be upgraded for automatic fire, but it's fire rate is still low compared to the Eliminator.

[glad sparrow]

you dont need fire rate when you can do 60 damage instead of 52
not to mention that having such firerate on a shotgun that reloads as slow as protecta does isnt always good

[upbeat onyx]

Here, in-game evidence:

[glad sparrow]

okay but thats still absurdly fast
you dont really need that fast firerate on a shotgun

[upbeat onyx]

In my upgraded weapons, for every 2 shots from the Predator, the Eliminator fires at least 3, so the damage per shot advantage is offset by the higher fire rate. It's 120 vs 156. Also, you can clearly see the reload time is roughly the same, despite the Eliminator loading 12 rounds instead of 9.

[upbeat onyx]

Oh, but there are many cases when you do. And it's not absurdly fast, so it doesn't eat through your ammo mainly because you'll put almost everything down in less than a mag.

[upbeat onyx]

Just evidence in a civil conversation. I've already mentioned whether the Predator or the Eliminator is better for someone depends on their play style.

For the record, I've timed their reload times: Predator - 7.35; Eliminator - 8.05. So the difference is just a little over half of a second, not as long as you remember it to be.

[glad sparrow]

yeah
I probably shouldnt have even argued
Dont even remember the last time I used protecta in vanilla

[dusk geyser]

Just use whichever you prefer bro

[glad sparrow]

NEVER!

thats a completely logical and reasonable conclusion

AND THERES NO WAY I WILL DO IT

[cold quest]

Hello there

[livid bane]

General kenobi

[cold quest]

Grevious?

[livid bane]

thats me

[cold quest]

I will do what i must kwaauw

[upbeat onyx]

It wasn't an argument. At least, I don't see it as one. It was regular talk, with pros and cons on both weapons. That's all. Both are good and one might feel better for someone than the other depending on the play style. Simple.

[glad sparrow]

[sharp turtle]

So real. Predator >> eliminator

[formal pike]

Justice for Fox

[glad sparrow]

Which one?

[full steeple]

Yeaaa

[crimson glen]

I lobe clear sky

[blazing portal]

Should i go and fight it ?

[shut swan]

@zenith hull these guys yea?

[zenith hull]

Yes

[foggy nimbus]

cuh123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

cuh123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shut swan]

@zenith hull here's the swat guy.

[zenith hull]

Ah, SWAT officer is just te last name. I thought it was the entire name and SWAT was his first name

[gilded birch]

this is a mistranslation if I recall

I remmeber one word in the name pool that can be translated poorly by machines if there isn't context

[zenith hull]

yeah? should it have been Vasim SWAT officer?

[shut swan]

Was just "oh" dude was in exo and had a neat name lol

[gilded birch]

no, at least when I went around and did bad translations, "Omon" translated to that

they prob meant like, Vadim Enforcer

[zenith hull]

I mean that works

but I find SWAT officer works fine, less generic

[weary gazelle]

https://youtu.be/TUBEsrb9s-s?si=i1GbMssURdiChi9f

[upbeat onyx]

@molten kite
#📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[foggy nimbus]

emvit_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[iron heath]

based fps

[thick belfry]

I agree.I rarely use the Predator simply because the SPAS-12 and Armsel Protecta hold more ammo wich is my play style

Tho I respect anyone who uses the Predator.Beast of a shotgun

[buoyant hill]

I would guess this is intro videos. they ramp up FPS like crazy

[crimson glen]

Only Clear Sky could achieve that FPS, it’s why it’s the best game in the series

[glad sparrow]

what a well behaved fella

[cold quest]

Such a distinguished gentleman

[orchid quail]

does anyone know how to obtain this in SOC or CS

[glad cypress]

Mods

[glad cypress]

even more mods

[orchid quail]

are there any mods that just simply restore cut items and weapons or do i need to get one of those modpacks that also do 500 different things

[languid island]

Never drink vodka

[foggy nimbus]

_5373_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[crimson glen]

Looks like they’re having a wonderful time idk what you mean

[foggy nimbus]

michalizor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[solar plinth]

Field day for bandits

[upbeat onyx]

In the first 3 pictures you can see Shishak and Dwarf, dead after battling blind dogs and pseudodogs off-camera. I simply found them like that after a while. I like how Shishak died near that sledge hammer, as if he used it to make his last stand. In the last picture you can see Jack, who died right outside of Yanov Station, close to the Substation, where Snag hides your goods.

A random spawned chimera in the swamps near Yanov station. Apparently, it was neutral towards the blind dogs and the pseudodog. Just moments before taking the screenshots, they attacked a boar, seemingly together. Of course the chimera killed it quickly, but they didn't fight afterwards. In the second picture, you can see the chimera resting near two other chimeras, sadly dead prior from sudden gauss gun intoxication.

[foggy nimbus]

jouly has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vague kiln]

I was cleaning my stash with games and I just stumbled upon my clear sky collector's edition. That medkit still smells like army warehouses, it's unreal lmao

[iron heath]

Based as fuck

[crimson glen]

I lobe clear sky

[silk kraken]

Rule 3

[digital drift]

I love this

[iron heath]

[glad sparrow]

Jealous :(

[glad sparrow]

Omg
Cat

[glad sparrow]

Rule 3?
More like
Jekans VK Group Rule 7: The question "my save stopped working in goldball, what do I do?" is prohibited

[glad sparrow]

what is Petruha doing? 😭

[zenith hull]

Regretting his life choices

"I should have stayed in SoC..."

[vague kiln]

Off into a listing it went 🪄 expenses do be killing me but I completely forgot I even had it lmao

[vague kiln]

Based Petruha behavior though

[shut swan]

Got freaked out. Real bad lmao

[glad cypress]

the movement of camera and the player is so smooth it feels like IA

[iron heath]

PEAK sky

[shut swan]

Ia?

What's IA mean @glad cypress ?

[glad cypress]

sorry i meant AI

i typed it wrong

[cold crest]

Gamepad gaming

[shut swan]

Good ol stick drift gaming

[upbeat onyx]

You're going through Red Forest with a pistol?

[iron heath]

they are based like that

[upbeat onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/braveheart-gif-5769103628160436553

[shut swan]

I was using it for the psydog originally but then fella came and said "ello there"

[foggy nimbus]

fbl7546 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[void condor]

RIP

[iron heath]

[cold crest]

It is so funny that LotZ devs fixed the Drifter dying bug but not Hound which dies for absolutely the same reason lol

Just shows you how incompetent they are when it comes down to knowing of the issues that plagued the game for years and being able to fix them.

[void condor]

If that's the case, I suppose I am glad it wasn't drifter, his stash coordinates came in handy

[dusk geyser]

That recoil control is crazy though

[void condor]

Now they got my boy Father Valerian
Actually he is still alive back at the Neutral Base, but his doppelganger remains in Red Forest

[void condor]

Ashot must have some crazy artifacts to do this

[foggy nimbus]

.slimestar has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shut swan]

Dude had to go take a leak real quick

I knew this 1 was coming this time and it STILL scared me. Legit can't see it till it's right in your face

[void condor]

Red Forest is no joke, Day or Night, and always when you least expect it

[west surge]

I can't proceed in I guess the final part of Clear Sky

[shut swan]

I was In there like for one night and it was to get the compass. Kinda glad I wasn't runnin around it at night too much. Place felt like darkwood

[stiff nest]

Anomaly spotted??

[foggy nimbus]

randl1 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

racing5566 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

intimiderp has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

alvaroabc has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[boreal sparrow]

Who has that one clear sky cutscene where the emission happens at the end

[glad sparrow]

Die Wolf die
Fuсking asshole burn

[wicked laurel]

[obsidian forge]

Bad word usage! @foggy nimbus

[boreal sparrow]

Even Wolf knows his place when it comes to Kotmaxxers

[tidal thicket]

I got Wolfed yesterday, that's what he deserves

[wicked laurel]

FR

[gilded birch]

!warn @dawn cypress offtop + cringe gamma asmr

[foggy nimbus]

ultra._. has been warned

Reason: offtop + cringe gamma asmr

[sharp turtle]

Lmao

[crimson glen]

the only acceptable response

[tidal thicket]

Marked one,what the hell?

Huh

I'm about to start tweaking

What if I pull up wolf's rank?

[foggy nimbus]

Hello 😏, that's me! I'm un-rankable!!! 🚫

[tidal thicket]

Ah

[dusk geyser]

Gotta love my trilogy screenshots

[iron heath]

damn dont remember all these in the trilogy

[foggy nimbus]

dthchm_marci has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

kolbaska0666 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tidal thicket]

За Монолит!

[void condor]

Idk what happened to this Renegade, but Scar will have a good campfire story to tell

[cold crest]

Wtf are those weapon models

[void condor]

mod.io

[cold crest]

Changes for the sake of changes, vanilla weapons look so much better

[void condor]

I do miss the viper a lil bit 😔

They do look a little bit cursed tho I agree

Maybe the bad juju from the model is what launched the guy

[spark mirage]

Знаєте як буде "За Монолит!" навпаки?

Тепер знаєте

[left radish]

@midnight notch Showing it off, as requested bought at original release

[bitter marsh]

#📰┃announcement message these were gifted to me +-12 years ago. best gift ever.

[iron heath]

damn thats awesome

[trail birch]

Happy birthday S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S

(I have copies of those games on STEAM, physical, and now on PS4, currently completing the achievements, can't wait for the update on STEAM too)

[bitter marsh]

i wish i had clear sky one 😦

[trail birch]

I have those since 2010 or something, bought them from a kiosk, clear sky came out with a FIFA or soccer game demo too, that's why I hide it with CALL OF PRIPYAT disc, no manual 😭

[bitter marsh]

person who gifted disks to me said couldnt find to buy clear sky one, and i sadly didnt try to find one on the internet myself back then tho. when stalker 2 was released i checked ebay and amazon but the price of delivery or the disk itself was too high and the cheaper ones all looked fake or whatnot. wish there was an option to buy it just in a physical shop in my town or country.

[queen perch]

I still got my CS disc copy somewhere

[halcyon flint]

Bought this couple of years back collector’s edition of shadow of Chernobyl kinda rare

[trail birch]

I agree, even in my country if you wanna look for an used copy, they are pretty rare to find.

I however found a collector edition of Shadow of Chernobyl, similar to the one above, I think I will buy it just for collection

[bitter marsh]

you selling maybe? 😛

[bitter marsh]

do it. ill be jealous but do it lol

[strange jungle]

happy birthday, stalkers! showing it off, as requested!
my dad bought this after the game release

[queen perch]

Sry didn't see this but sadly not right now I'm afraid

[foggy nimbus]

amon_amarth has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

notso2586 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lime stirrup]

What is the game?

[indigo drift]

Clear Sky on Console, I have no idea why he got yeeted that hard but I had a good two minutes just laughing

[lime stirrup]

Oh

I haven't played clear sky. It looks good

I thought its call of pripyat. I gotta play clear sky after watching that

[indigo drift]

Also to add on to this: Duty boy somehow survived that

Man just came back after like ten seconds with a new AK like nothing happened

[lime stirrup]

Duty guys are absolute units man. Unlike those freedumb guys

[iron heath]

Classic xray moment lol

[cold crest]

i mean, it's not a bug

it is swamp thing intended behaviour

https://cs.stalker-game.com/en/?page=bolotnaya

**It has very good muscular system and ability to do great jumps but also it can carry off stalker without any problem. **For this moment nobody who was carried off by this mutant couldn't return and answer what it does with its victim. May be it kills them by its clawhand, drown in to the water or may be sucks the blood out from the alive human.

man the website translation is awful lol

[spring comet]

oh on the PC version I remember he did Wilhelm scream

[blissful hemlock]

i just download abr mod
mann......

I'll try to edit max graphics tomorow

[delicate lily]

Interesting

Oke

[sharp turtle]

Ain't no way, Wolf you gotta give me some xp boost or smthn

[hybrid basin]

Yeah the Veteran -> Master grind is the actual trenches

[queen perch]

gotta get in your daily 10000 posts

[hybrid basin]

chymo had no trouble doing this unsurprisingly

[sharp turtle]

I'm just not used to the new layout and so many old people I knew or was friends with gone or not active anymore

I had technical issues and wasn't here for December and during that time so much changed....

[spiral zinc]

Not a screenshot of the game covers but two of my best screenshots from the trilogy. The immersion is for real 🔥

[cold crest]

Underground areas lighting in SoC looks way ahead of its time

[queen perch]

The classic squeaky spinning light when you enter agroprom underground still looks great

[normal aurora]

doesn't need DLSS to make it run at a stable framerate
doesn't need top of the line nvidia gpu
in fact it can run just about anything
doesn't cause input lag
looks amazing even to this day

we didn't know how good we had it back then

unreal engine is a mistake

[spiral zinc]

Word bro

[spiral zinc]

It does

[blissful hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-laughing-gif-13031147940704744720

[bitter marsh]

so nostalgic, my heart

[spiral zinc]

Very. I still remember the experience of first entering the underbelly of the Chernobyl power plant. Such a mindblowing experience.

[blissful hemlock]

Hmmm

[blissful hemlock]

Why does everyone use bad words here

[indigo drift]

94% sure that’s a bot, guys doing it in nearly every channel

[blissful hemlock]

oh, i didn't notice

Good for now?

loadout

[tidal thicket]

Those are scam bots, that get warned for bad word usage

[languid mauve]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQsadefPkcw

[solar plinth]

Sigma

[sharp turtle]

Lmao

[marsh obsidian]

So I'm not the only one

It's happening to me in anomaly too

Maybe April's fools?

[sharp turtle]

Yea

[glad sparrow]

the peakness we lost

my man got yeeted as I took the screenshot

[queen perch]

When I was playing OP-2 the other day a stalker was dragging a dog body out of the cordon camp where Fox/Guide appear and another one of his crew randomly walked up behind him and punched him until he was wounded on the ground. I gave him a medkit and then they were back to being friends

[thick belfry]

https://youtu.be/N2K5nlsbvLY?si=cHIroC4Sm9SkxB5M

his SoC video is alredy amazing,this one will probably be even better

[mint thorn]

just like me

horde to sell and never use the money

[bronze atlas]

nothing like some S.T.A.L.K.E.R in the morning and drinking fresh coffee..bless whoever invented working from home

[foggy nimbus]

psychxnxrmal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

mikkyts has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[foggy nimbus]

_yander has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zenith hull]

Like hitting a bandit in a barrel

[next hatch]

I will kill all the military members in Clear Sky! i hate this guys...

[vale zinc]

these ss are of s2 right

[full steeple]

Yes, some in game time weather skybox is like that - 1 color or just gradient of 2 colors

[glad sparrow]

Poor Vova Vist

[balmy lake]

is this the outpost infront of that one entrance to the cordon?

[cold crest]

no, that's vehicle station

[cold crest]

those NPC models are ass ngl, looks insanely kitbashed

[next hatch]

Bro i have a question i need help

Where is safe chest ?

Where is the safe box where we put our belongings? in clear sky

and how can I increase the load capacity we can carry?

[zenith hull]

In CS-base there is no safe-box(other faction bases generally do)

Carry capacity you can increase with suit upgrades and artifacts

[balmy lake]

oh, apologies

just as kovic said, you dont have a personal stash nor a bed you can actually use. find stashes (the little green crates) to stash your stuff inside

[next hatch]

Best gun but, rare ammo...

[glad sparrow]

Truth

Shreds monoshits like crazy
I usually start using it at Limansk
After picking up the 7.62 tank stash in Red Forest