📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[next hatch]

wHaT dO yOu wAnt?

[cold crest]

I can’t watch LotZ footage without cringing from ai generated loading screen side fill

It looks so bad holy crap, it’s insane how a game studio can put that into production.

[livid bane]

I still cant see whats wrong with the AI generated loading screen, I know it is AI but I couldnt see mistakes or other things that points at the fact it is AI

[cold crest]

It's specifically the sides, they're very clearly below the quality of the rest of the image, you see barbed wire having a clear pattern and then just suddenly losing it, creating new strands and merging existing ones.

[shadow plover]

I don't see it

[cold crest]

the funny thing is there have been mods that ACTUALLY hand drawn sides for that specific screen, they could just darken the sides and it would look so much better than whatever lotz has

[cold crest]

i'll try to get screenshots of original and ai to comapre

Original PC, fully handdrawn. Notice the pattern on the sides being clear throughout the whole image, the direction stays consistent, no pieces of barbed wire merge with each other or disappear without a trace.

LotZ, center is handdrawn, sides are extended. Note how barbed wire suddenly loses pattern, changes direction, merges and disappears.

idk how it's not clear

[shadow plover]

I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you my friend. Does it really matter

[cold crest]

It does. They have a fully finished artist drawing, the one they used on PC. First they go back to an earlier version for no reason despite it only being made for 4:3 screens and not 16:9, and then fill in the sides with AI slop?

First of all, a company that made MILLIONS on a game couldnt do better?

[shadow plover]

I just don't see the reasoning behind the anger.

[cold crest]

Second, why change it in the first place to a worse version that is broken only to fix it that sloppily? They already have finished artwork, just use it. If you're going to change it, have a reason and change it to something that fits.

[cold crest]

Sorry. It's one of hundreds of issues with LotZ really. And it's not getting better. People are reporting CTDs and softlocks and the only fixes the game received in past few months is a chinese font update and one word change in texts. I am just very disappointed that's the treatment my favourite series is getting.

If AI use was the only issue with LotZ I wouldn't mind. Sometimes it's used tastefully, like with the cutscene upscales, I can get behind that. But what they're doing with loading screens is not only unnecessary but very poorly done.

[shadow plover]

What is LotZ

[cold crest]

Legends of the Zone, 2024 console reissue of stalker trilogy

[shadow plover]

Ohhhhhh yeah I have that

[next hatch]

I can't draw a gun, how can I shoot him?

Because this safe zone

[glad cypress]

go out of the safe zone and start shooting

then im pretty sure you will be able to shoot in this safe zone (i guess)

[cold crest]

You need another bandit (non-unique) to notice you to disable the safe zone

[glad cypress]

Welp, atleast works

[upbeat onyx]

Damn, that guy is made of jelly.

[foggy nimbus]

imstatikk has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

smh404 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[next hatch]

im stuck here

[cold crest]

Weird, you should have gotten a quest to defend the point and the door wouldn’t close then.

[next hatch]

There are so many bugs in this game

Clear Sky my favorite but too many bugs...

12375 Ammo

[cold crest]

Like half of them are the fault of console port

[cold crest]

On your way to crash the game I see

There is a hardcoded limit of 2^16 objects in the game world before IDs are exhausted, it’s rarely achieved unless you really lean into freeplay though

I’ve only seen a couple people who got their game crashing because of that

[balmy lake]

“for ‘za monolith”

[foggy nimbus]

zadikal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy nimbus]

elhait has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zenith hull]

probably the strongest I've ever seen Freedom be

[foggy nimbus]

bouncyboises has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[open bough]

Playing cotz, my monolith stalker going sight seeing

[cold crest]

Show map

[balmy lake]

finished clear sky today, its good to be back

[cold crest]

not much in red forest i assume?

[zenith hull]

Just the two squads

Was hoping they might make a move on the mine, but no dice

[cold crest]

I had the mine captured once

Yes, Freedom gets a trader in there.

[zenith hull]

Cool, maybe I'll that at some point

[cold crest]

Need to find screenshots with my highest

This one's not mine but a fight between freedomers and Leshiy's squad can happen lol

[zenith hull]

@timid crescent you got a screenshot of bandits blocking the stalker spawnpoint in yantar? having some trouble getting them to target the right spot

[timid crescent]

I had problems with that as well, but I eventually got a group holding that point

I think I've got a screenshot. Can you remind me to post it later today?

[zenith hull]

Ofc

[zealous hornet]

What the heck kind of mutant is this ugly thing

[sharp turtle]

Izlom

[zealous hornet]

it was so fast i only killed it by climbing to a spot it couldnt reach lol

[open bough]

Wait, are you playing gamma or something

Didn't realize that got added

[sharp turtle]

Definitely mods, izlom and climbing aren't in CS

Could also be a CoP map, idk the screenshot doesn't give much info

[open bough]

I only read about them, now I have more reasons not to wander around at night lol, whichever mod pack that creature is in. They look creepy.

[cold crest]

That’s swamps pump station

[sharp turtle]

Yeah that's what I thought

[timid crescent]

@visual quest
This is how I built mine

[visual quest]

Nice.

[timid crescent]

(Don't mind the mess of an inventory, moving gear from Skadovsk to Yanov station

[glad sparrow]

Many mods have them
I would say around half of mods I played did feature them

[open bough]

I haven't tried many so haven't encountered them. Other modpack that wasn't gamma I tried is cotz.

[open bough]

So many zombies in one building

[open bough]

Mutants bugged out here probably

[surreal depot]

Idk what happened

Secret bandit meeting

[zenith hull]

They finally found the legendary expired can of tuna

[surreal depot]

A blind dog can survive a headshot from this

[indigo drift]

Pop a grenade in there and run

[mortal siren]

Linux gaming

[cold crest]

Wine or OXR?

[mortal siren]

Wine, haven't tried oxr yet

[blazing portal]

it happened to me after an emission

[blazing portal]

skinwalker

[night wagon]

me too crab

[subtle raven]

This is how the Minesweeper game is named on my pc

[cold crest]

wtf if this lmao

[crystal ivy]

Anomoly gamma

Mix of Aydins grass tweaks and C Con grass, I use c con atm

[glad sparrow]

my eyes

[indigo drift]

Remember folks: Bloom =/= good looking

[cold crest]

All of those gamma player putting a weapon to obscure half the screen so that it’s less clear how bad the game looks

[queen perch]

It's like I stepped into late 2000s AAA gaming again with that much bloom

[crystal ivy]

Frfr

Very cinematic death view

[blazing portal]

Enough to get to Jupiter underground i guess

Old gear for reference

[crystal ivy]

Bloom

[upbeat onyx]

I'd take slightly more buckshot. You'll probably find some in the tunnels. You also need a SEVA for some parts of the underground. Take one in your inventory. Other than that, you're cool.

[blazing portal]

The seva isnt an issue but i need to unlock it first by doing some mission in the area and finding the entrance in order to trigger the buying mechanic i think

[gilded birch]

!warn 202233179690500109 self ad

[foggy nimbus]

casualcarlxxm has been warned

Reason: self ad

[upbeat onyx]

Yeah. I thought you were already past that and ready to go.

[livid bane]

Not me imagining a stalker puting a smuggling order for a canted sight that costs a fortune just to look 'tacticool'

[glad sparrow]

Nah yours is worse to look at

[crystal ivy]

Agreed I got to optimize it, that meme was for me because of the HDR bloom

[coarse fossil]

fun detail i found in SoC

[glad cypress]

Thats so cool

[glad sparrow]

Shared today by Drombeys from the IX-Ray team
Very noice imo

[glad sparrow]

Eye vomit

[untold bane]

!0days

[hybrid basin]

That is a beautiful zaton wow

[crystal ivy]

Jupiter

[cold crest]

There’s a game in your bloom

Post this at #🔩┃trilogy_modifications at least

[zenith hull]

[solar plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-kruglov-kruglov-stalker-ok-gif-391588752309643144

[crystal ivy]

Had no idea that was a channel

[thick belfry]

the king finally reviewed the whole trilogy https://youtu.be/7G6Ck0h9lzc?si=zJ84uxhxwKddGP7c

[livid bane]

Wolf looks hotter in the trilogy than he is in stalker 2

[cold crest]

handcrafted models with manually mapped textures vs soulless scanned metahuman slop 💔

[open bough]

real

[livid bane]

wolf looks more like a grizzled veteran, stoic, has perfect jawline and cheekbones in the original trilogy

[glad sparrow]

in SoC he looks like a leader
in HoC he looks like a guy who would try to sell you half eaten Durum

[sharp turtle]

Cause he's almost 10 years younger

[livid bane]

He does kind of look like an unc ngl

[glacial marlin]

What mod for those skyboxes

[crystal ivy]

Default gamma, I think it’s called atmospherics

[glacial marlin]

ripping immediately

[glad sparrow]

stalker of the day

[quick summit]

We've all been there at least once in our lives.

[surreal depot]

Rare bug?

[glad sparrow]

Not rare
Happens a lot if you save at wrong moment

And even more if you alt+tab a lot

[surreal depot]

I saved 3 minutes before I died lol

[normal nebula]

death waiting

[glad sparrow]

Skill issue ngl

[cold crest]

Based 4:3 gaming

[empty terrace]

Based

[queen perch]

Enjoying the game as intended

[cold mist]

Vanilla STALKER1 if you have beyond 10K ammo of 9x19 and 9x18 in your inventory, it wont show you the correct ammo amount unless you equip a gun of said caliber. 5.45x39 and up calibers since they take up 2 spaces in your inventory, the correct ammo amount is always shown unless you have like millions of rounds. I know this because i have 43K 9x18

[glad sparrow]

Who the heck would carry 10k rounds or 9mm anyways?

[cold mist]

............. fair point.......

But it cant be worse than my 2000 PMMakarovs

[indigo drift]

Why are you carrying nearly two tons of Makarovs

[zenith hull]

You might break your makarov and need a replacement

[lusty cloud]

after getting the documents from the military outpost.. is this normal? there are so many 😮

[blazing portal]

yeah dont worry, there are a lot of artifacts that spawn in SoC

[hybrid basin]

It's funny how they talk about a Klondike of artifacts while sitting on top of 50,000 meat chunks

[zenith hull]

Finding a goldfish in aggroprom is lucky though

[cold crest]

They also say that Agroprom is not a good place to search for artifacts lol

[zenith hull]

Eh, there's the odd nightstar artifact. If it didn't spawn outside the fence

[timid crescent]

Yes, pretty normal

[queen perch]

You will end up with mountains of artifacts in SoC

[zenith hull]

Not if you sell them all to Sakharov

[cold mist]

80K 9x18 yeesh

[paper tiger]

useless

[indigo drift]

80 lbs of 9x18 🗿

[zenith hull]

Ah, the slippery slope of removing the weight limit

[cold mist]

If my 80K 9x18 is useless, what about my 70K 5.45x39?

[dusk geyser]

See ivan there is no such thing as too many boolet

[cold crest]

WTF

the EE HUD looks so ass, it looks cartoony

This is so bad

[zenith hull]

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-old-man-clint-clint-eastwood-ugh-gif-7506146

[cold crest]

Mobile game ahh ui

[foggy nimbus]

fytogilithefox has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cold mist]

WHAT IS THIS MISSION?!!?

F does nothing anywhere in this area

[timid crescent]

F in the chat, lads

[cold mist]

ok i got it to work, even though i died for no reason with 3 minutes on the clock and full hp.. whatever.....

[empty terrace]

Bros at GSC, got AI to do this

Looks like it

[cold crest]

not surprised > #📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[empty terrace]

Sad

[cold crest]

Regarding LotZ censroship and someone hoping they would reverse it for EE, NAH, EE has EVEN MORE, they removed CNPP stellar lmfao

[fleet oxide]

For real, they delete every object that has Russian?

They probably encrypted game files so Russians can't mod it.

[fleet oxide]

Imagine spending hours crashing out of the LE and recompiling the level just to remove a sign.

[cold mist]

Pathetic.... if microtransactions are slowly becoming illegal then so should ANY types of censorships. Im looking at you AOE3DE

[queen perch]

man that's just kind of depressing

[cold crest]

it's not russian, it's cause CNPP is named after Lenin.

[surreal depot]

This guy kept blowing himself up with his own grenade

I saved before the monolith ambush and when everytime I load it, this guy blew himself up a few minutes later

[open bough]

Mood

[cold crest]

I got SoC & CS but not CoP o_o

[open bough]

Looks like all three are currently in my library, just not downloadable yet till it's 5/20 my time.

[cold crest]

I got CoP for free from a GSC CM like 7 years ago.

Maybe it's related.

[scarlet star]

I got all

[open bough]

It still kind of strange to me

You have the game, so you should have it

[surreal depot]

I got SoC & CoP but not CS

On steam

[cold crest]

Will i have to buy enhanced edition

[open bough]

Does it have anything to do with buying the game at once and not separately. Because that's what I did on steam a while ago, and I currently have all three. Although I had the assumption if you just had the game you still get the enhanced versions free.

[queen perch]

they're all in my library. weirdly SoC and CoP properly show up under "no activity" while CS is saying I played in 2023... somehow

[scarlet star]

yeah you get them for free

[surreal depot]

Ouch...

CoP enhanced edition requirements

[scarlet star]

ehh not bad

[queen perch]

High for what it is, though not terrible if your computer can play modern games

[cold crest]

If you get origianl textures it should run better than legacy trilogy

[cold crest]

JUST got CoP as well.

[open bough]

Nice

[cold crest]

They fixed year-long LotZ bug where rupture was labeled "telepathy" in SoC... but broke icons in the process.

[queen perch]

lol...

[livid bane]

How is rupture even close to telepathy

[cold crest]

Well they're both stats in the menu.

[fleet oxide]

Live already? steamdb said 8:00 UTC

[cold crest]

that's a screenshot from a video, some people got early access

[fleet oxide]

First thing I'll do is diff view old vs new.

[cold crest]

Yeah that's what I'm planning. If you want to do a better comparison, I recommend getting LotZ files first

Then you'll compare actual EE changes instead of EE + LotZ changes.

[scarlet star]

should be 3 hours from now

[olive pelican]

There should be a way to report curators for spam reviews tbh

[scarlet star]

i would not be so quick to get rid of things like this

[olive pelican]

There are fair critiques about the game, like for example some bugs still being present in the enhanced edition, or the graphical upgrades not being comprehensive enough.

This here is just whiny spam

[scarlet star]

so was the review bombing on overwatch 2, but if we got rid of that people would not know what state the game is. to be fair this is criticizing by association, but people still need to be heard, and seeming as steam is the only platform that allows this, best keep it that way

[olive pelican]

Review bombings do get removed though

[scarlet star]

no they dont

[olive pelican]

Huh did they change policy or something....

[scarlet star]

if that was the case overwatch 2 would not be the most negative game on steam

[scarlet star]

never was the case, you are probably thinking of epic, who randomly selects who can review to prevent that sort of thing

[olive pelican]

I feel like it would have been funnier if they made the Lenin letters fall down on the ground lmao

[cold mist]

I understand boycotting or review bombing, BUT.... when i have proper reasoning and excuses to shhhh... to 💩 on a product and my review gets banned? Thats straight up BS

[upbeat onyx]

#⭐┃trilogy-general message

[surreal depot]

Yeah, I did that in 3 different playthroughs

But I decided to do how the game wants me to normally do

[scarlet star]

That happened on steam?

[surreal depot]

Add a bit of graffitti from Stalkers

[upbeat onyx]

I see. Well, it's difficult to do it normally because they are dumb and the small apartment doesn't help.

[cold crest]

That’s what they did in S2 (where they actually got people working on the game)

[surreal depot]

Yeah, luckily only one non-scripted death occured

[olive pelican]

For reals? I haven't explored the CNPP region much

[cold crest]

Yep

They changed “V.I. lenina” into Veni

[olive pelican]

HAHAHA based

[cold crest]

Journalist reference???? wtf

But yeah even if censorship is required by law there are more tasteful ways to do it than whatever GSC did

[cold mist]

My AOE2DE review was banned for "violating" Steam guidelines

[upbeat onyx]

||Unfortunately, it influenced the ending. ||

[cold mist]

Can somebody pls mark the SOC map where freedom and monoliths spawn?

[surreal depot]

Ik but I got 2 lives left to protect

[scarlet star]

Monolith in pripyat, freedom in armored warehouses

[scarlet star]

Did you find out why and which?

[cold mist]

What do you mean why? I literally 💩 on one of the game's DLC which was HORRIBLE and because i was being to vulgar, it got banned. Id share a screenshot of the review, but i dont think people are gonna like what theyll see/read

Pripyat and Warehouses eh? Ill be sure to pay them a visit, cause Duty, Merc and AFU arent fun no more to farm... i killed thousands

[scarlet star]

Well then you know why

[cold mist]

And i wouldnt take ANYTHING back, cause im not the only angry consumer who expected BETTER from a copy paste from the game's workshop, but with a hefty price tag

[scarlet star]

Then that isnt the fault of steam

[cold mist]

Yeah because brain dead and smegma chode are soooo offensive, effing snowflakes do TERRIBLE business practices and expect not to get 💩 on? And for the review only being active for a day, it got quite the likes

The review wasnt short either. I detailed every stupidity the DLC threw at me. Whats next? Account ban for calling somebody the F word?

[dusk geyser]

Legendary username pull

[upbeat onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBW2nvNO17c&t=104s&ab_channel=ElAnalistaDeBits

[tribal tusk]

LETS GOOO

[cold mist]

Cant wait to shoot Wolf in the face in the remaster. Actually EVERYONE that isnt a trader

Also a workshop tab would be nice for proper use of mods

[cold crest]

it's going live according to answer in #⭐┃trilogy-general, so soon!

[cold mist]

"Click" Noice

The only issue i have with the OG games is the BS radiation bug that i cant fix and the inventory synchronization which stagnates loadings to an upnormal 2 minutes long agony and can and WILL constantly crash your game. The developers should have taken inspiration from Bethesda about synchronization, but oh well, not everyone is a mad hoarder

[cold crest]

Original Trilogy vs LotZ vs EE - based on all datamined info and official answers. Will probably update later with more info once I play through it a bit.

[cold mist]

That "technical" tab better not disappoint me! I wanna hoard as much or more than my save on the OG games!! 3K PMMs and 2K AK74s etc and beyond 1 million total ammo

[cold crest]

It was not the RAM limit in the game.

[cold mist]

Inventory synchronization. Effing Tarkov has the same issue too. Stacked duplicated items SHOULDNT count as fully separate and independent items from the stack which is whats causing this issue. Having 100 PMMs with different durability % would make sense for them to not stack, but not when they have the same ammo in their mags, attachments and durability and nost stagnation is caused by the ammo as they count individually

[cold crest]

This is so bad

WAIT IS THAT A MISTAKE OR DID THEY REVERSE SOME CENSORSHIP

the upscaled textures are based on original PC versions

Seems to be a mistake and not intentional

[timid crescent]

Sultan

Sidorovich

Owl

[timid crescent]

Beard

[lyric spoke]

already got 3 suits and 4 artifacts

im sure everyone knows this spot but there isnt rads here anymore

[hoary stump]

Is this more or less than you usually get it's been so long

Also you get 200 free AK bullets from white caches in the next door shack. The economy is slightly op

[lyric spoke]

personally i think sid looks great

[alpine meteor]

chicken never looked better

[sinful vale]

Only cop enhanced not the others any ideas

[hoary stump]

They removed the lions from CoP. It's actually over.

[cold crest]

yeah censorship is still a thing unfortunately

[dusk geyser]

NOOO why would they do that, I loved these little guys

[ornate bramble]

what is the meaning behind them? or why exactly did they get censored?

[cold crest]

anything somewhat soviet is censored, including soviet cartoon characters

[ornate bramble]

oh ok

[dusk geyser]

Such a shame

I remained unphased by Russian being removed since I can't read it but this is what will break me

[hoary stump]

The lion face through the window in Pripyat that you swear is following you..

[autumn granite]

Those AI upscales look horrible, good lord. They couldn't even bother to upscale everything either.

[cold crest]

already making mods to deupscale it.

[plucky surge]

Does anyone knows what can cause this smearing effect?

[cold mist]

Do a mod for duplicated items to count as a singular listing just like Skyrim. Having the game to load each and every single item separately is stupid and can cause unexpected crashes as well are quadruple loadings or worse

[plucky surge]

it's hard to see but on the right side you can see a "Ghost of a Bus"

or Truck I guess

[cold crest]

that's beyond what is possible

[cold crest]

was this a lie? it looks the same on 21:9 as original game did

[plucky surge]

the support is there as you can see ... I am normally running the game on 2560x1080 straight from the menu ... but I am having this "Ghost" Issue ... sometimes it's barely noticable but still it's there

[plucky surge]

Now for example I don't see it at all ... I am now on top of the Grain Elevator in Cordon

[cold mist]

Spaghetti coding

[plucky surge]

Now I looked on the Roof itself and moved head away and the ghost is there again

Right third of the screenshot

[cold crest]

Well if they say enhanced edition features support, you would think they actually coded some manual logic. This is just stretched 16:9.

[plucky surge]

yeaaaaah teh UI is stretched ... but the game itself doesn't seem to be .... or at least it seems same to me as in original

[cold crest]

yeah its same as original, i just thought the enahnced edition would change something

the FAQ is so weird, it's like

• FULL UKRAINIAN LOCALIZATION
  (actually same as original)
• 21:9 SUPPORT
  (actually same as original)
• NO CHANGES TO ENEMIES
  (actually nerfed mutants in CoP)

[plucky surge]

yep the Ukrainian is actually the "Ukrainian" build that is also used for the Mods that add UA voices to Anomaly, OGSR, etc. ... so combo of UA and RU Voicelines, which Personally I like because it makes sense that both Ruskies and Ukrainians would be in the Zone

[cold crest]

I do also like ukrainian localization being a mix but its weird to put the "complete" stuff in faq

Like it literally says "FULL" ukrainian localization and "complete" ukrainian localization with full ukrainian text.

[plucky surge]

When it comes to enemies, or rather to overall difficulty it feels to me like they decreased the difficulty ... but that might be just a me thing because I'm more used to playing ShoC with Radiophobia and I don't really remember last time I played completely vanilla Shadows 😄

[olive pelican]

hilarious

[plucky surge]

Now correct me if I'm wrong ... but didn't you have currently equipped stuff highlighted in barter screen in Original game ... or am I mistaking it with modded game

[cold crest]

you're mistaking it with mods

[ornate bramble]

no, prob some mods

[plucky surge]

aahhhh ok nevermind then 😄

[ripe heron]

they broke wpn_aim_toggle

[plucky surge]

hmmmm this is getting better by the minute

[cold crest]

i mean worst bugs will get patched out

[cold mist]

Not STALKER related, but i need to show something. Who here knows about Metal Gear Solid?

[tepid mural]

The nice franchise MGS? Never heard of it.

[covert hollow]

oh that's a classic

[gilded birch]

!warn 270956644962271232 keep it stalker

[foggy nimbus]

fytogilithefox has been warned

Reason: keep it stalker

[gilded birch]

[covert hollow]

man i was too late

[lyric spoke]

PATCHED

[cold crest]

If this is what you said “fixing the game” is then I don’t want your fixes

[lyric spoke]

the question is why did they cut this gun from the game

[cold crest]

It’s not cut

[surreal depot]

What I need to do to get 30 fps

and its also because my laptop is a potato

[lyric spoke]

nimble didnt give me the job after i delivered the mail suit

[cold crest]

The quest is cut, the item isn’t

Also it was sids not nimbles

[lyric spoke]

how else would you get the gun without the quest spawning it

[lyric spoke]

nimble sends u to get it tho

[cold crest]

No, he doesn’t.

Nimble’s only quest is chainmail suit. Always has been. Since before the game released.

Whatever memories you have are of modded game. Even the cut quest belonged to Sid.

[lyric spoke]

my last play through was like 3 years ago lol

i played it vanilla for years tho i must've always just thought nimble gives that quest

[mortal siren]

Maybe you've played with ZRP or something

[lyric spoke]

I played with VSO the last time i played shoc but theres no way coz i remember it being that way when i was a kid

[hoary stump]

Wall skip survived

[knotty pulsar]

Very clean.

[coarse fossil]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legend of the Zone, literally, legendary "bread" still in the game

[hoary stump]

Because people were concerned Cheeki Breeki is still in the game

[earnest sorrel]

steam banner bug?

[true sparrow]

look at what they did

[iron steppe]

Direct comparison between Shadow Of Chornobyl (2007) and Shadow Of Chornobyl Enhanced (2025).

I don't know why people are saying "Turn on whatever anti-aliasing setting it will remove the blur", it literally does nothing.

[cold crest]

looks straight outta temu

[ionic quail]

[scarlet star]

Already?

[slender flame]

7 h, play

[scarlet star]

Damn, i can get all faster. Instantly you might say

[slender flame]

This path is not interesting.

[scarlet star]

Still possible

[earnest sorrel]

For those who know the alphabet, are these letters deformed by ai?

[pliant ocean]

they are inverted

[sharp turtle]

It's backwards lmfao

[earnest sorrel]

hmm

[calm heron]

Cinematic Marked one camera anomaly

Bandits have kill aura

Party at the 100 Rads bar

[sharp turtle]

[chrome sorrel]

can i somehow fix this its all blurred

[earnest sorrel]

no, its ai upscaled textures

[zealous thicket]

any way to fix it though

[fair basalt]

Okay I can actually confirm that Shadow of Chornobyl has sun shafts.

[acoustic quail]

Trippy visuals going on for me, the game crashes randomly every 2-5 minutes, not to mention the terrible performance. Actually unplayable for me

[fleet oxide]

They even censored Stalkers of Russian descent

[inland oracle]

What is this

[fleet oxide]

The invisible man

[scarlet star]

@lime nova

[lime nova]

forgot that there's own channel here

Enhanced on the left, OG on the right. Default FOV seems different tho

Also obviously different lightning conditions... couldn't get the weather to cooperate

[inland oracle]

Cop honestly looks good with grass distance and new(old) texture instead of sand

[fleet oxide]

Flying a helicopter and shooting rookies is more fun than enhanced edition

[scarlet star]

I thought that was cut content no?

[fleet oxide]

Cut from what?

[scarlet star]

Bc stalker wanted to add working vehicles orginally but cut it

[fleet oxide]

It is a hidden feature in Call of Chernobyl 1.5, you can spawn heli and control it.

[scarlet star]

Interesting

[fleet oxide]

Vehicles were cut, yeah. The helicopter though didn't ever have code to be controlled, just cars.

[inland oracle]

Flight sim

[fleet oxide]

Can roleplay a pilot who flies around Zaton and dies

[inland oracle]

Cop story

[cold plank]

changed some settings around but will do more later lol

[inland oracle]

did you manage to remove the film grain and noise ?

[cold plank]

watcha looking at willis lol

[inland oracle]

Marked One smaller than other stalkers

[vestal knoll]

just started the enhanced edition on Master Difficulty, also.. what happened to the OG energy drink can look?

[cold plank]

gidddy up take me home!

[inland oracle]

[cold plank]

lol the rain isnt so bad with company 😄 looks nice though

[cold crest]

@inland oracle which names got updated

[inland oracle]

Oh...no

Bring ruski back

[inland oracle]

What did that man do to deserve such treatment

[cold crest]

interestingly it's not very consistent, lots of names still transliterated from russian, it's like they just played randomly and thought HUH that should be updated

[inland oracle]

Why did they have to touch this

They said they just want to update these games and keep them original

And they do this

[cold crest]

i dont really mind those, it's just a letter swap

like sure, it's revisionism blah blah blah but it's not any worse than the original UNLIKE THE TEXTURES & MESHES

[inland oracle]

And they left SoC hands in EE

[cold crest]

ai slop edition frfr

[inland oracle]

[cold plank]

had ak and those are mine 😄 haha

[inland oracle]

[livid bane]

that looks so out of place for me

[hoary widget]

I like the night skybox

[quartz geyser]

OG SoC + ZRP

[inland oracle]

Enable grass shadow and increase grass distance and it will blow EE out of this universe

[knotty pulsar]

Returning from aHroprom nowadays nets you 15 military dudes glued together flocking from Garbage to i guess the military cordon

[acoustic quail]

The way to go, sadly no hd cinematics in the original, I actually really enjoyed that addition in the EE, thats about it though.

[quartz geyser]

im sad that the grass shadow in the OG doesnt work :C

[cold crest]

@gilded birch imagine if instead of neural upscales GSC actually recreated newer textures from source photographs

[cold plank]

@quartz geyser sort ya settings

[gilded birch]

that would require Mataboo to put in effort and coordinate with what needs to be done
the upscales were really really messy, they werent all upscaled, so its odd

[cold crest]

Stalker enhanced edition if devs actually cared about the quality of final product lol

[cold crest]

Yeah only characters, trees, skies, weapons and UIs are upscaled, the rest isn't.

[cold plank]

People also need to stop being lazy and change settings too cause it's not 'really blurry' unless you don't change it..

Annoying af with the over exaggerating

[fair basalt]

tf you mean lazy?
I literally tried every setting and its still blurry af.
The only way I managed to remove the blur was forcing DLDSR in the game by making my entire desktop run at 4k.

[quartz geyser]

Different weather lighting? Because mine is already set to the highest settings with full dynamic lighting

oh wait your screenshots are from EE :/

[fair basalt]

The underlying issue is the fact the game seemingly runs at a lower resolution than what you actually selected in the settings.
1440p looks like 1080p.

[gilded birch]

you do all of this to play a worse version when youh could play the OG with no mods rn

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-gif-16508948274886257497

[open bough]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-confused-gif-15712129875520007531

[cold plank]

If you already tried then the comment ain't directed at you

[inland oracle]

You just need one bin file r2.dll

And it works

[quartz geyser]

where can I get that?

[inland oracle]

I will send it to you

[cold crest]

Downgrade to <1.0004 and it will work

[gilded birch]

just use Deus NSF edits and it wioll work

[inland oracle]

Yes

Deus_nsf

[quartz geyser]

[inland oracle]

[cold plank]

How is it in CS? About to try that one now

[inland oracle]

What do you mean

[cold plank]

Any rec changes ya got ?

[cold crest]

Is that legacy + grass distance + grass shadows?

[cold plank]

As in changes in advance

[inland oracle]

Grass distance does a lot for visuals

CS already looks good

[cold plank]

Also noticed fsr in one section made the game look terrible in distance on soc

Well for me on my screen that is

[inland oracle]

I disabled FSR in EE

Motion blur too and antialiasing and still it looks blurry

[quartz geyser]

yes sir

+ZRP 1.09

[inland oracle]

Isn't 1.07 RC 5 latest

[quartz geyser]

i use the beta one

[inland oracle]

Ah I see

Where is Natvac btw, there are some changes in ZRP that some pointed out , that are not vanilla

Should be brought to his attention

[quartz geyser]

Maybe he left the STALKER community

after many people debunked his mod, saying it isn't vanilla-friendly

[inland oracle]

[distant dagger]

new wallpaper

[hushed owl]

Original game vs "enhanced edition" at 1080p no upscaler

[inland oracle]

no strider ?

[inland oracle]

Og colors look a bit better

[livid bane]

is this what people mean when they say EE is blurry? or is my eyes just getting worse

[hushed owl]

yes, it is

[livid bane]

wow, it looks like gta 4

or like mobile-ification, like gta san andreas, even the HUD

[inland oracle]

@livid bane you can see better when playing, it's like blur and film grain

[livid bane]

hmm

[hushed owl]

i don't like that dark light either, godrays are almost imperceptible and the overall mood is dark even with the sun clear

[sacred rose]

chat, how do i open this ?

[lilac totem]

in due time

[sacred rose]

awn man

the reason of why the Enhanced might look almost similar to the original versions is because the X-Ray engine version is the 1.7.0.12606 (in all the enhanced trilogy games)

well, that's the "file version". As for the "product version", it's the 1.7.0+22-3878619

well, 1.7.0 in other words

[hushed owl]

what do you mean "similar"? it's worse

[fleet oxide]

But people on reddit say its better

Honestly I don't get the weird defense of EE. They say we have originals but these are the versions they'll use in another remaster 10 years down the road. Also originals are delisted and a click away from being deleted entirely.

[tribal tusk]

the enhanced literally looks worse 😭

[sacred rose]

not for me tho. I don't see the blurry tbh

just upscale the graphics (as for me, i play on mid cuz they all look similar)

[sacred rose]

we'll still get them, if we buy the enhanced versions on PC

[fleet oxide]

This sums up EE

[inland oracle]

[fleet oxide]

Goldfish brain and mouth tumor, I always hated that status effect.

[acoustic quail]

No way this is real

[ember hill]

allegedly AI upscaled UI icons with no quality control. Got it from reddit, haven't checked myself.

[hushed owl]

and this is something that scares me the most... see the crysis remastered thing, they picked the console nerfed version instead of the full pc version to do the remaster

[fleet oxide]

Lol "allegedly" more like blatantly

[ember hill]

I mean - I haven't verified if those icons are indeed present in the remastered game. If they are, then of course they are AI upscaled unless they were made by blind kids.

[acoustic quail]

AI is demonic

[acoustic quail]

EE experience:

graphical glitches beyond comprehension, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bad trip edition:

[fleet oxide]

Wow that's like a corrupted projection matrix

[surreal depot]

Play it on 720p if you don't mind it being way more blurry and choppy

Rn I'm playing at barely 30 fps 😭

[lyric spoke]

This is why u dont leave the cordon to quick

ive never seen this dog before

[acoustic quail]

this is without FSR btw, with it the only thing i can describe it looking like is a nintendo switch game.

[sacred rose]

How far am i from finish the first game ?

i'm rlly into this game so bad

[surreal depot]

Barely half way through

[lyric spoke]

far

[sacred rose]

i'm skipping secondary missions btw

[sacred rose]

ok

[lyric spoke]

you shouldnt the rewards are impeccable

theres so much u can do in SoC that the others dont have

[sacred rose]

understandable

[sacred rose]

without spoilers, what things ?

does SoC have more secondary missions ? Is the story bigger ?

i only played SoC atm. Will play the others when i finish SoC

[lyric spoke]

some missions can be story related theres a big one that gives the cannon ending to the game but its not cannon anymore as we didnt know back then if there was gonna be more stalker games but its an optional quest

this is why i dont rush the cordon

breathe the game in dont rush anything because alot of the things you find are actually quest things that pay more

[sacred rose]

mmm k

[lyric spoke]

CHEEKI BREEKI THIS

[lusty cloud]

i need help. got a quest to get an item but body is inbetween zones ;d

[lusty cloud]

damnit dogs actually dragged the body to the gate but the weapon was on the ground 😭

[fast pilot]

can we get a comparison image between og and ee so that the non believers can see the blur

[fast pilot]

i think this portion of the screenshot really shows the blurrines problem

[cold crest]

the new UI looks so bad, it's so funny it's human made

like it REEKS of cheap AI upscale

[tropic jasper]

WHAT IS THIS WHY DO THEY OVERLAY

[fast pilot]

jesus h f*** that looks abysmal lmao

[tropic jasper]

like seriously what the fuсk is this

oops sorry

i mean this

look at the campfire god

[blazing portal]

try nades maybe 🤷

[calm heron]

Skif reference? (It should say: "Tourist suit is yours.", but it says "Tourist Apartment is yours."

[acoustic quail]

EE can only dream:

[earnest sorrel]

better than the professional work?

[acoustic quail]

clearly yes

[cold crest]

YES

[proud wraith]

Yes

[sacred rose]

aye me editing on Wikipedia abt X-Ray (spanish article)

peak moment

[inland oracle]

cinco de mayo

[sacred rose]

we actually don't celebrate 5 de mayo

only americans do that

[inland oracle]

really ?

[lyric spoke]

Me when someone says EE is better than OG

Still havent left cordon lmao best artis in the zone in cordon just for staying there for a whole day doing side quests, artifact hunting and stash hunting patience is how u get ready to move to the garbage

[inland oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/jurassic-park-shade-big-pile-of-shit-jeff-goldblum-gif-15372128

I moved to the garbage with 3 rubles and mp5 with 30 ammo

[lyric spoke]

ive done it before but this time i wanna play slow to get 100% achievements

[inland oracle]

true

I just wanted to see the whole game quickly

[lyric spoke]

GSC inteded for it to be slow paced

[inland oracle]

I'm on my way from Cordon to Bar to deliver the lab docs and move to Yantar

[lyric spoke]

after u go to brain scorcher and barely see prip then game is finished at CNPP

On my last OG playthrough i went to CNPP and backtracked to rostok and started collecting excellent guns and armours

[inland oracle]

I don't think you can backtrack from Cnpp

or ...maybe not from CNPP interior, not sure

[lyric spoke]

u can

i did it mid raid because i was low on meds

[lyric spoke]

this is what it looks like when u go to garbage for the first time as a master stalker

[sharp turtle]

Didnt want the merc armour?

[balmy lake]

bandit cake

[rare sand]

Anti-aliasing and anti-blur options comparison

[cold crest]

1, 3, 5 looks worse than 2, 4, 6. What are the options you are using?

Would appreciate the legacy editions for comparison as well just to have a base benchmark.

[rare sand]

Rendering at 2880p and scaling down to 1440p

[cold crest]

So the only way to get rid of blur is rendering at non-native resolution? huh. What exact options do each of the pics correspond to though? I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between 2, 4 and 6.

[rare sand]

You can see options in the name of each image

1. No_AA_1440p
2. No_AA_2880p_to_1440p
3. MLAA_1440p
4. MLAA_2880p_to_1440p
5. MLAA+Sharpening_1440p
6. MLAA+Sharpening_2880p_to_1440p
   Everything else is maximum

[surreal depot]

I'm trying to get all the achievements before deleting it

[cold crest]

got it, so no matter which AA option you choose, until you downscale the game, there's gonna be blur

[rare sand]

For me it looks good enough with maximum sharpening at native. But of course rendering at 4x resolution will give superior results.

[cold crest]

I'll try to get a screenshot of the same area in original releases.

[cold crest]

couldn't get absolutely the same angle as your FoV is different than vanilla one, but here:

no blur even without upscaling

so it IS an EE issue after all

[hasty sierra]

I know it's not screenshot but I wanna share what i found in files, trabantnoice.ogg

[fleet oxide]

Why is crazyfrog in game files?

[cold crest]

it was used as a meme by devs by attaching it to the SoC intro video. So the whole epic cutscene played with the truck going through a thunderstorm, and crazy frog was playing in the background.

[fleet oxide]

Doesn't sound funny

[cold crest]

not meant for the general audience, it was for the devs

[cold crest]

@timid crescent check this out

so very clearly photoshopped on the texture lol

[lyric spoke]

FROM WHO?

entered the garbage like this lmao

[lyric spoke]

thx for the reminder guy

[timid crescent]

Ouch, that one's painful

[fleet oxide]

could have easily shadowed it a bit

[cold crest]

it's like they have no artists in EE team lmfao

[hushed owl]

everything is painful in this "enhanced edition"

[final pilot]

Why do I see chicken pieces in this brain on the left

[dusk geyser]

Sidorovich brainrot

[timid crescent]

Basically

[tribal tusk]

wait they raised the prices? 💀

[inland oracle]

🤑

[cold crest]

They did in all but US dollar seemingly

[inland oracle]

[upbeat onyx]

This should be made as a reaction on this discord channel.

[mellow crane]

[inland oracle]

[mellow crane]

I mistook them for enemies because I have myopia in the game

[dusk geyser]

Everything can be an enemy if you have little enough trigger discipline

[fast pilot]

mole is just above my crosshair in this screenshot, but is barely visible due to the blur that some people have claimed is hard to see. this is with FSR off and anti aliasing off.

bro looks like a tuft of grass

[inland oracle]

Terrible greasy screen effect

[foggy nimbus]

bludtm has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fast pilot]

this model is absolutely abysmal

[inland oracle]

AI upscaled

[mellow crane]

A LIFE

[mellow crane]

STALKER's best friend

[sacred rose]

GUYS

[sacred rose]

IT'S YE

KANYE WEST

[inland oracle]

Fox?

[sacred rose]

thank you workshop, now i got rid of the ads

[mellow crane]

Dog

[hoary stump]

Anyone know what's going on with the stats in CoP? Tried a bunch of settings, nothing changed

[weary gazelle]

Can anyone help me out? im trying to get a screenshot in soc, but the screenshot button isnt working, theres no new screenshots in the folder

[inland oracle]

Same

[cold crest]

https://tenor.com/view/hang-first-time-smiles-gif-14991372

[weary gazelle]

Yep. X-ray shenanigans

[cold crest]

Use F12 and check in the same folder where your saved games are.

[weary gazelle]

Like I said originally there’s nothing in the folder

[inland oracle]

Same.for me

[sacred rose]

if this is a bug, then please never remove it (looks darker than usual)

[sacred rose]

omw to ||X16 lab||

[hybrid basin]

You almost spoiled a 20 year old game!!!

Good thing you ensured it was hidden

[iron heath]

to be fair theres new people to the series here joining often

[hybrid basin]

That is true

But how many of them will speak Spanish?

[iron heath]

lol good point there

[sacred rose]

maybe a few

most are either americans, russians or ukranians, but as for me, i'm mexican

[sacred rose]

thx but no thx (for now)

[surreal depot]

Can anyone confirm this?

[cold crest]

this is more likely a bug, but it is confirmed

if they decided to censor CNPP they'd probably not leave an entire level lmfao

[surreal depot]

It's confirmed?

Oh wait nvm, the sign

[sacred rose]

i hate when politics remove peak in gaming and/or replaces it with garbage

[cold crest]

the sign was removed intentionally, no doubt

This - I doubt it

[empty terrace]

Even game bug removes CNPP, I cannot trust Mataboo over this "fixing"

[odd otter]

They’ve [Matapoo] totally ruined what could have been a really good remaster for the OG trilogy, it deserves a lot better than what we got…

[empty terrace]

Yeah, this is what happens when QA ain't controls what they are cooking and talentless workers who just sits on chair and do nothing. After I saw UI/UX Designer is just very bad Graphic Designer who will use Comic Sans for everything.

I saw his Art station account and... I feel hopeless. They do hire talentless people.

[odd otter]

Haha, I know right? It’s not even like the OGs were needing all that much done to them to make an ‘enhanced’ version, update to x64 bit engine, some graphical overhauls here and there and mainly bug fixing was my hopes for it, instead we got AI upscale slop, cause you know, it’s a lot easier, faster and cheaper but unfortunately that stuff shows through too much and we’ve had parts of the landscapes removed. Wouldn’t have been my call tbh, all they’ve done there is caused controversy, no one would have said anything if they left it the way it was before altering levels and removing stuff.

[empty terrace]

Yeah, true. Like just give update to engine, right? People already made "remaster" with fans and for the fans.

What I learn is Mataboo is Polish company who just co-devs and do porting. So Poland's history with soviets. I get the hate but problem is, not making it like it's fading away, straight up removing it. I like GSC's take on soviet stuff; making it fading away, posters being ripped apart and letters been fallen by the time on Stalker 2.

and yeah, GSC get the blame over this mistake.

[odd otter]

Yeah same, it’s the world building that I really like about the stalker series and seeing all the older soviet type stuff all decaying was so cool tbh. Just a shame they felt the need to remove it entirely, doesn’t make the history of the place any different, in real life anyway.

[dusk geyser]

I actually had no idea another studio worked on all this, not that I really looked into it since I don't own EE but that's somewhat reassuring to know

[empty terrace]

I looked into this EE thing and I found Mataboo is doing this thing, a Polish compny who co-devs with other devs and does porting.

[cold crest]

GSC still were doing some stuff

Like achievement ideas are by GSC

And the poorly done remastered HUD was made by GSC UI/UX lead

[empty terrace]

[cold crest]

Same guy who did S2 PDA UI

All they had to do was reach out to the original artist man

[empty terrace]

yeah, like... I'm a graphic designer and I found this UI (I'm not UI guy but I can do comment on it) as too modern for an old game.

[odd otter]

AI is unfortunately easier and cheaper but ends up looking like shit.

[empty terrace]

like do more CRISP

[cold crest]

They just downgraded it a lot, it looks similar at first glance but it lost details and depth

[odd otter]

Know what though? At least it’s free.

[empty terrace]

Bro, UI/UX guy is real deal Graphic Designer, who is bad at UI/UX. Even worse than AI.

[odd otter]

Like I’d be hella pissed if I had paid money for it thinking it’s gonna be some awesome revamp of my favourite game franchise to get hit with this..

[empty terrace]

https://www.artstation.com/estreltsov

@odd otter This is the guy, look at it

[odd otter]

Heh, yeah, I see what you mean.

[cold crest]

When your work is so bad it gets mixed up with AI upscale

[odd otter]

They should have just kept any development to any sort of revamp, remaster, enhanced thingy mabob to the OGs in house rather than outsourcing it.

Look at GTA remaster and how Grove Street butchered that, R* was having none of it and not long after the remaster came out R* ended up booting Grove Street Games off the project and fixing it themselves. Chad move tbh, I’m kinda hoping the same thing happens here. An injustice has been done to the OGs!

[empty terrace]

Look even I tried to make map itself, more modern, as Graphic Designer but never get mastered on UI/UX

[cold crest]

i'll be honest that's far from original designs as well lol

[odd otter]

Still looks pretty dope.

[empty terrace]

There is old saying; "Don't fix, if it's works"

[surreal depot]

Mataboo made the enhanced editions?

[empty terrace]

Yes

[acoustic quail]

Off-topic but is that notification showing the game is ready to pkay new? Ive never seen that

[twilit kraken]

i know this isn’t a screen shot but what is going on, this was happening before and now after update, only CS is doing this

[upbeat onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYLT2dbStE&ab_channel=Eptable

[cold crest]

CNPP sign is back, fyi. GSC listens.

It's not perfect yet, but they are set on improving it and that's what matters.

Maybe in a few months time EE will actually not be a downgrade over original editions.

[upbeat onyx]

I actually wanted to say the last scene was funny, when the CNPP is missing entirely. 😄

[upbeat onyx]

The problem is there is no clear incentive to get the EE when you already have the originals.

I mean, the way I see it, they have to work to bring the EE back to originals' levels, before actually improving something.

[tribal tusk]

@tepid mural

[upbeat onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSRg4bbHGTQ&ab_channel=CloZZeN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCu1XeCzFo&ab_channel=CloZZeN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKP4ZEIzapk&ab_channel=CloZZeN

[cold crest]

dude got some weird CS install, the game absolutely does not look like that wtf

[upbeat onyx]

Either that, or he got very unlucky with the weather. I've seen it happen on other comparisons, in Call of Pripyat.

[cold crest]

The thing is, weather is static and always the same until you complete the second outpost quest.

[upbeat onyx]

I suppose. The thing that made me frown was the lightning in the Clear Sky interiors. It's much more vivid and warmer, normally.

[hasty sierra]

I see the skybox through the ground

[cold crest]

that's always how the game's fog system worked

[hasty sierra]

oh okey

[hushed owl]

even people are confused on how the original looks better than the enhanced 🤦 this edition is a bag of s.

[marsh tiger]

Total flop.

[odd otter]

Incentive? You do realise it’s a more or less free EE version of the games right? You got it for free if you had the OGs already and when you buy the EE editions, you now get the OGs anyway.

[dusk geyser]

Wait you still get the OGs when buying EE?

Didn't look into any of it but if it works like this it's fire

[left saffron]

The only saving grace is to remove the AI slop and replace with actual remakes, remove the censorship, and fix the bugs, then the "Enhanced" edition slander will stop from me.

[iron heath]

Yes you get ogs still

[fleet oxide]

I dislike that argument. 10 years from now, if they release a new remaster? guess which version they use?

People only saying this because currently the remasters don't affect them. They can delete OG any day now.

[cold crest]

i'm not against AI when it's used as a tool, but they just selected 5 folders randomly and ran them through the upscaler

like wtf is this 💔

[fleet oxide]

that's like trying to upscale 8-bit textures to 4k

They needed to do some elbow grease first and clean before upscale

[inland oracle]

Damn AI will doom us all

[cold crest]

the thing is, there are textures in original TGA (before DDS artifacts) available.

The could AT LEAST use the original textures where possible.

[fleet oxide]

I doubt they even knew there was an SDK with preproduction assets

I don't think any CLI AI tools even work directly with DDS, they probably had to convert back and forth creating even more artifacts

[left saffron]

AI is ineffective as a tool when the product is often worse than doing it themselves

[surreal depot]

Dead giveaway

[golden mural]

Time to sleep, suckasses

[upbeat onyx]

True. I meant playing instead of getting. My mistake.

[sacred rose]

yes

it's something new

[mortal siren]

At least we've got them godrays in SoC or something...

[blazing portal]

look behind you

[mortal siren]

That dude doesn't know how to make that kind of vids. They are compressed as fuсk. Like... Just look at this:
(And yeah, I also don't remember originals looking like that)

That skybox looks a little bit weird... Was it like that in original too? I've only played original SoC on static so I'm not sure if skyboxes were the same with dynamic lighting...

[hoary stump]

Name a better boss fight than a freaking refridgerator

[acoustic quail]

GSC needs to improve the game’s performance, truth is it runs like shit for no visual improvements.

[hoary stump]

Classic

[fast pilot]

this is me at max fov chilling at a campfire. the fact that the guys on the right are blurry is extremely offensive to my eyeballs

(ai frame scaling off and no AA btw)

[sacred rose]

You should see the comparisons made by ElAnalistaDeBits

Dw, no spanish in the whole video

[cold crest]

He was comparing the “textures” showing the environment that is left exactly unchanged lol

[sacred rose]

Only thing that's changed was the blur

Motion blur makes it look good

[sacred rose]

i asked Grok to remove the HUD from this screenshot, and now it looks wonderful

[cold crest]

comparing old & new HUD bars

@iron heath check out this crap

[misty latch]

what's the difference, I might be blind

One is more pixelated, and one is less with a minor color change

Not even change, simply more intense

[cold crest]

top is original, you can see the coloring is non-uniform, bottom is EE, it's just a single line of pixels with a gradient stretched

[misty latch]

This can be reversed anyway, so it's not really a problem

[cold crest]

Original makes it seem like it's flowing, there's a part of the bar that clearly reflects light, there's a part of it that is muddy & shadowed, EE just killed that

[misty latch]

Ppl can play with it, and others who don't can revert back to the old one

[cold crest]

you WILL complain about the downgrades cause that's how you get crap changed

we wouldn't get back the CNPP sign if everyone went "not really a problem"

[misty latch]

Yeah, that is the only one wrong thing about it, and I believe it's salvageable

[cold crest]

the only thing wrong with the HUD entirely or the bars? there are lots of issues with the hud

i'm just showcasing one of them rn, of course it's "only one wrong thing" when i'm focusing on one thing

but there are lots of downgrades to detail and depth all over the place

[timid crescent]

OG keeps on winning

It's sad, really

Why even release a downgrade

[empty terrace]

Cleaning bars is just... Bro what are you fixing?

[cold crest]

it's like that meme

[misty latch]

Sure! But hud thing can still be changed. Complains can wait until at least a patch. The hotfix clearly shows that the feedback was considered, so let's just give em time

[empty terrace]

[cold crest]

no, let's actually complain so that community managers forward that feedback to the devs and devs know this is still wroth fixing

LotZ released a year ago. Most people didn't voice their concerns because they didn't know of all the downgrades compared to OGs -> GSC did not fix them.

[misty latch]

I assure you that they do see and know, and what needs to he done is being done regardless.

[cold crest]

Hell, half of the stuff in #1215013259740979320 is STILL in EE despite being reported a year ago.

[misty latch]

I would love to see the changes the community are asking for, but we gotta wait and see until a patch is up, not a hotfix

[empty terrace]

Yee

[cold crest]

Then one thing GSC could do before a patch is an official announceemnt where they acknowledge the issue.

[timid crescent]

If they actually care, then they'd have a #s2-support for EE

[empty terrace]

I mean it's free to change, after making them 4k Ultra HD

[timid crescent]

Especially due to the backlash

[cold crest]

Like sure they acknowledged blur, im not complaining about it, it will get fixed in a patch. I haven't seen GSC saying ANYTHING about AI slop or downgraded HUD. How do you know this is even something on their radar?

[empty terrace]

I mean moddin

[timid crescent]

You don't, because GSC, as per usual, is keeping silent

[cold crest]

The problem is, people will play "enhanced" editions with those visual downgrades and think "huh thats an old game maybe it always was this crappy" but that's actually very much a change of the newer editions.

[timid crescent]

And refuses to communicate with the community, as per usual

[cold crest]

And that's why it will need to be repeated and talked about until we get either a fix or at least an acknowledgement that a fix is coming.

[timid crescent]

Hella

This sadly isn't the first case

Nor will it be the last

[empty terrace]

[cold crest]

It is, but I'd rather get a fixed EE that's at least not a downgrade over vanilla games in any areas instead of relying on mods, like come on

What kind of argument is that. Ofc we can fix the EE issues with modding, but MAYBE devs can actually fix their own product??

[empty terrace]

Most of companies always leaves to gamers who does modding sooo

You can see

Bethesda did it

[timid crescent]

The whole point of an Enhanced Edition is to have better graphics, bug fixes and additional things for modding support

[cold crest]

^^^^

[empty terrace]

But failed with Starfield

[timid crescent]

Like the new Dawn of War

[empty terrace]

Yee

[timid crescent]

Like, they actually put effort into that, from what we've seen in the trailer

Actual love

[misty latch]

I might just be optimistic, but I still think we should give some slack

[timid crescent]

Not a cheap cashgrab

[misty latch]

Change will come, and complaints are welcome

[empty terrace]

Like people always say, wait until it is fixed

You don't need to play it rn

[misty latch]

I understand that without complaining there is no change, so it's okay to complain

Within common sense

[timid crescent]

The problem is more so that this would be the zillionth time we should "give them some slack"

This isn't GSC's first dropped ball

[empty terrace]

Anyways I should eat something, I just woke up

[timid crescent]

Aite

Enjoy

[empty terrace]

[cold crest]

And we gave them the slack when we saw the positive changes. The Reddit post about bringing CNPP sign back is at 2k upvotes. People praised GSC.

The criticism will stop when we see changes, so far there are none, so let people freaking voice it.

[cold crest]

I've even been forwarded a ruzzian post saying i'm actually gsc's psyop and everyone in the comments is an army of bots lmfao

@empty terrace day of LotZ release, people reported that knife is slower than in PC version. 1.5 years have passed since then, the issue has not been fixed in LotZ and got carried over to EE.

So no, knowing about the issue is not the same as working on fixing it.

[timid crescent]

Which is honestly pathetic, imo

[empty terrace]

I laff

[misty latch]

I do want to see criticism! Do not mistake what I say for denying criticism. I've been part of this community since 11, and been a modder for years till 2020, so I understand the concern and frustration.

I simply ask it be constructive

[cold crest]

Is my critcism not constructive? I voice what the downgrades are and what exactly needs to be changed to bring it in line with originals.

[misty latch]

Nah, just saying in general

[cold crest]

Then wtf is with "complains can wait until at least a patch"? That's not wanting to see criticism.

[misty latch]

Results

Needs to be seen

In order to know what to complain about next

[timid crescent]

And for that to happen, GSC will need to listen to the community

So yeah, that doesn't work kek

Nor will giving feedback

But hey, Mol1t allowed people to complain

[cold crest]

Then in absence of results, let's voice ALL of the concerns with the current releases, right?

[timid crescent]

You know the best way to do it, SurDno?

[cold crest]

40 min youtube video?

[timid crescent]

Make a list of all the problems and DM it to me

I can relay said problems to GSC and they'll actually see it

[cold crest]

I mean, they DID see it in console-bug-reports. Mol1t left a reaction under each post saying the issue is acknowledged.

[timid crescent]

Then it's merely the question of whether they listen or not

[misty latch]

That would be understandable for sure

[cold crest]

Hell, there are even posts where people PROVIDED THE ACTUAL CODE TO FIX THE ISSUE. And it's still not a part of EE.

[timid crescent]

Exactly

So if you make a big post of all the problems, I can relay that to Mol1t. For some reason, our voice counts for more than the community's

[inland oracle]

Here is feedback: Bolt throwing is slower than OG. Throw a bolt and it takes like 3 seconds to pull a new one.

[timid crescent]

Both LotZ and EE, as both usually got the same issues

[cold crest]

Can I post it here instead of dming so that it’s public?

[timid crescent]

And please, take your time to be thorough and detailed to make it easier for GSC to locate these problems and hopefully fix them

Yeah, sure dawg

[empty terrace]

[timid crescent]

Hopefully I'll still be here to relay it ASAP tho

Gotta bounce in a bit kek

[olive pelican]

So guys, you know how the Call of Prypiat Enhanced Edition has those terrible AI upscaled icons which are blurry and messy?

In Stalker 2, there are leftover temporary icons from around 2020. Found in: Stalker2\Content\GameLite\FPS_Game\UI\UIIcons\IconAtlas

These are re-drawn CoP icons. Why could they not use these instead of the terrible AI upscales?

[mortal siren]

They probably didn't know about these. Like... That release looks like "It's just a shіtty job that I need to do so I could go home already" kind of project. Sadge

[fast pilot]

fix enhanced edition chain

[surreal depot]

Gonna get the last achievement before I delete the game

[mellow crane]

hopefully someone mods these into the enhanced editions

[surreal depot]

I did it, just need to beat it one last time before I delete it

[surreal depot]

I uninstalled it, it may be a mess but I still had fun completing it

[cold crest]

because there's a good game behind all the stuff Mataboo has done to ruin it

[surreal depot]

True

Atleast they managed to fix Wolf's campfire issue, and that weird Prypiat stadium skip

[cold crest]

Atleast they managed to fix Wolf's campfire issue
I'm pretty sure I seen screenshots of Wolf dead in the campfire?

[surreal depot]

Hmm, I think I just got lucky with mine then

I also did recall Master dying on the campfire instead of Wolf in mine

[cold crest]

(arguably even worse as that locks you out of a quest reward xd)

[surreal depot]

Luckily, it happened when I was about to kill him for the quest

[iron heath]

😋

[surreal depot]

SoC tradition

[mental kelp]

ain't nothin turned off here

[sacred rose]

chat, where's the secret tunnel ?

[sacred rose]

Nvm i found out

[sharp birch]

ay yo what the f--

[cold crest]

welcome to EE

[pastel comet]

man that is kinda sad to look at.

[grand meadow]

Muzzle brake, lol

Not even AI was used for media assets, but for text assets too

This is... LUDACRIouS

[hybrid basin]

This is pretty strange

I wonder how long ago they used the upscale, because it's gotten better over time

It'll take a long time for it to even be close to artistic upscaling though

[grand meadow]

Guys I just have been hit with a thought

We have Tremor being kinda sad in CoP all these years, then suddenly when we enter that one place he shoots himself

https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/5/4739/thumb_620x2000/QSxm4.gif

And then there is his fatal facial AI-urgery

Is that why he killed himself?!?! To not witness how they massacred him?

[empty terrace]

[grand meadow]

Literally the definition of PRE TREMORTIC STRESS DISORDER, PTSD

@empty terrace Why do you think they did exactly Tremor dirty and not Sultan or Vova Vist or somebody else? WHY TREMOR ONE AND ONLY?!

Bruh I tagged random Sparrow. Too much sparrows and not 1 pirate.

[boreal loom]

just me?

[empty terrace]

I'm working on something

[grand meadow]

WORK IT!

[zenith hull]

https://tenor.com/view/subrote-star-trek-odo-tuxedo-goodbye-gif-22007260

[sacred rose]

has water always looked like this ?

[indigo drift]

DBD red stain looking shit

[empty terrace]

[calm heron]

Now only one thing left to do

[left saffron]

i will marry whoever mods the old textures back in with tons of bug fixes

[cold crest]

Removed soviet censroship: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485133010&searchtext=
No AI slop upscales: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484981145&searchtext=

cinematics to be fixed

[left saffron]

time to get the wedding bands

[cold crest]

also recommend the non-stop mod and red crosses uncensored

[shy scaffold]

Please report this shadow glitch thats been a problem since the first games and is still present in all three . I feel this is not talked about enough and its immersive killing. These are enhanced version of the games after all

[sacred rose]

normal day in the zone

[surreal depot]

How did that happen?

I've played it for like 20 hours and never seen that

[sacred rose]

idk, it just happened

btw, i have a feeling that there was a soviet element on that tower

[paper tiger]

Nuh

[sacred rose]

i mean, i never went to this part of the game in the OG version, and i'm aware that all soviet elements (along with the russian language in both text and dub) were removed

[whole eagle]

In order for them to completely remove the Soviet symbols from the game, they need to delete the entire game.
After all, Chernobyl is a Soviet symbol.