⭐┃nospoilers_general

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah

[rotund fox]

I even gave you 2 examples of what i mean

[pseudo rivet]

.223

[rotund fox]

Another thing that would have been cool if all factions different exos and sunrise suits had their own little quirks

[pseudo rivet]

Freedom one uses carbon, so they're lighter

[rotund fox]

Like idk, have the Freedom guys use some western gas mask whilst the Duty guys wear PMKs

Just to help with variety sake you know?

[pseudo rivet]

I don't understand

As long as we don't get canned S.T.2 exoskeletons

Those were ass

[rotund fox]

Different factions using different models of gas masks, but ideally every faction would have their own unique suits and nobody would just have the same copy pasted sunrise suits

[pseudo rivet]

By the way, I do understand, I just think le based OG model and the different colors are good enough

Besides, only Free Stalkers use the Sunrise Bodysuit

[rotund fox]

They do get the job done with identification yes

[pseudo rivet]

Of course, Freedom and Duty each have their own variants of basic bodysuits for the new members to their faction

You can notice the difference in the stats and the upgrade trees as well (duh )

Reading the upgrade tree descriptions, especially those of CoP, is fun

Duty's upgrade tree literally pumps them full with all sorts of drugs

[rotund fox]

In that regard they are different yes, but i was mainly talking about appearance. For example CS's equivalent of a sunrise is the CS1(or is it 3? I can never remember)

[pseudo rivet]

Technically CS-1 but due to a translation error, it's called the CS-3a

Way I see it, there's the CS-3a, which is available to use in CS and CoP, and there's the CS-3b, which is worn by Clear Sky Veterans

[rotund fox]

The 3B is the one that covers the johnson correct?

[pseudo rivet]

The one that most incorrectly label as the CS-2

[rotund fox]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/0/0f/SCS_Original_CS1.png/revision/latest?cb=20100807215119
Meant this

[pseudo rivet]

Which basically got changed into the "CS-2"

[rotund fox]

Anyways yea point is i would like it if all the factions had their own unique looking armor you can instantly identify

[pseudo rivet]

They're already pretty easy to identify

Although, there is this thing

If you're playing any of the games, you can be a normal Free Stalker, but still wear faction armor, for example, because you're a friend of a faction

If they added something like that, identification would become harder

For example, you're Duty and you notice this guy wearing a Wind of Freedom bodysuit. You shoot at him, but it turns out he's actually a Free Stalker who's friends with Freedom

Perhaps, in such a case, something like the armbands of MP could be handy (no glow, though)

[hazy helm]

this just goes if they're trynna make a disguise system

I highly doubt they are

[pseudo rivet]

Check local contacts on your PDA

[rotund fox]

Well yea pretty much

The reason that doesn't happen is cause of the transponders on the PDA's

Although i still find it strange that if you make it out of the swamps with either of the 2 CS armors nobody as much as gives you a funny look for it

[hazy helm]

dont overthing gameplay mechanics too much

[pseudo rivet]

Inb4 PDA status says Merc, Clear Sky must be a small merc group

[long harbor]

small merc groups that were plotting against Loners

it was a part of their plan to lure almost all of clear sky personels inside the wish granter and brainwash them

truth is, the game was rigged from the start

[fierce axle]

just looted a 5.45 Groza. idk how to feel about it

[hazy helm]

gorgeous weapon,isnt it

[glossy blade]

out of the context vodka

[split adder]

Good for the beginning but the original is way more brutal

[fierce axle]

man, i had just bought a SG550

but the groza comes with sight and kicks like a mule

[fierce axle]

they have the same damage stat

[tiny olive]

A followup:

In Call of Pripyat, there is a mission from Yanov Ecologist where they task the player to place Anomalous Activity Scanners in 5 anomalous clusters.

The description states that it has an artifact detector, and it can be observe that they can report presence of artifacts (up to highest tier). However in-game, reports are just like if there is or there is no artifacts in area.

With this, if ignoring the game design, theoretically they can just make artifacts appear and ready to pick easily.

Another irrelevant theory:

Gauss Rounds are made with fragments of an electric artifact, and Father Diodor's Chaser shotgun has a fragment of a Gravi artifact.

In that case, it is possible to bite on the Heart of the Oasis.

[split adder]

The higher calibre makes it do more damage against high level opponents though because it can pen armour

Also it sounds sick

[frail spire]

if you bite oasis you will literally die

or did you forgot how it's one of the most radioactive arts

[sweet frost]

I wonder what artifacts taste like

[spiral rock]

Like metal

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on the materials that mutated

[spiral rock]

Its what radiation tastes like

[pseudo rivet]

Just know that you'll definitely die

[frail spire]

it deppends what it mutated from and if you can even bite or lick them

I doubt you'll lick a chunk of meat

[pseudo rivet]

Or hardened blood

Or bones

[spiral rock]

Which tastes like metal

[spiral rock]

How do bones taste?

[pseudo rivet]

Like metal

[spiral rock]

xD

[terse path]

i did the chimera hunting mission and after it gonta started shooting bandits in skadovsk, now theres a dead guy in the doorway

[spiral rock]

For real? I highly doubt bones taste like metal

[pseudo rivet]

I truly wouldn't know, because I'm not mad enough to try and eat them

[spiral rock]

I guess you could eat bone powder

[pseudo rivet]

But from what I've seen, you know how hardened blood tastes

[spiral rock]

I know how normal blood tastes

I assume hardened tastes the same

[finite dragon]

im of that opinion too and i despise artifacts being as powerful as they are and would and will much prefer anything stalker related to be like ANOMALY but if you tell people that story driven survival games arent good they will loose their minds and start to whip out a 200L Can of Copium

[hazy helm]

Stalker wasnt hardcore,it was surviva for 2010s standards but nowadays its slightly arcady fast paced shooter with light survival elemnts

I'd hope it stays that way,and that it doesnt get watered down as a yet another survival hardcore where you need 5000h per animation and the screens as gray as a colorblind persons vision and its slowed down more than a french indie movie
I hope they buff artifacts

[rotund fox]

prefer anything stalker related to be like ANOMALY
So you want artifacts to be completely worthless to the point where you can safely ignore them for the entire game? Because that's how it is in Anomaly and Misery and Call of Misery and so on.

[hazy helm]

I got sad when they relegated artifacts to basically money farming in COP since they axed random quests and made the upgrade system overpowered

[rotund fox]

Artifacts are still a must have for me in COP especially anything that helps combat radiation and energy loss

[hazy helm]

those are the only one's worth having not even the Oasis heart

[rotund fox]

Wear any of the heavier suits and you get tired so freaking fast

[hazy helm]

when it wasn't the case in others

it just didnt matter going into anomalies so you dont care about anomaly damage like chemical or such
so you obv spec fully into bullet protection since that's the highest danger,along with capacity or Psy protection depending on your build

[rotund fox]

The ones that help with bleeding are pretty good too but yea i don't understand why they got rid of kinetic protections from artifacts

[hazy helm]

if they buffed artifacts then you'd NEED the anomaly protection atributes,making these a must have so in suit upgrades youd need to prioritize either bullet and laceration protection and capacity and stamina regen and make anomaly protection suffer
but you could patch this shortcoming by using anomaly protection artifacts,or spec even more into combat artifacts or into stamina and weight ones
I think that way it would make builds a lot more dynamic

as well as if they gave you the oppurtunity of getting overpowered suit upgrades that are so ridiculously hard to get that you'd just spend hours grinding I think it would be fun
just,gotta get the mechanic completely specced out and do a hard quest for him and then prepare a set of high end and rare artifacts that relate to the upgrades function along with a ridiculous ammount of money that would require loads of time to get

[rotund fox]

Id rather just have the upgrades all be unlocked from the get go

Without needing to find tools or flash drives, that was one thing i really disliked about COP. Can't spec out your lower tier suits when you needed it the most and by the time you got the expert tools 80% of all the outfits didn't matter anymore since you would just logically go for the high end ones

Perhaps im a weirdo but i liked fully upgrading my jacket before moving onto the sunrise suit and then repeat the process until i have done so with every outfit i could acquire

[hazy helm]

I have never gotten that urge,I dont think many ppl do

[dry imp]

i have to urge to burn down a neighborhood

[rotund fox]

I do this for artifacts and weapons too, basically fully explore the content and see what im dealing with

[worthy lagoon]

Finding tools wasn't that bad

It promotes who explores the zone

And it limited the last gen upgrades

Tools weren't that difficult to find compared to flash drives

I found the tools by myself, without looking in the wiki

I really enjoyed those moments

You knew that tools were in a special area

[frail spire]

CoP placed tools in good places

[worthy lagoon]

Yeh

[frail spire]

You explored the whole map anyways

[worthy lagoon]

Not whole of it

[frail spire]

Since unlike SoC you didn't had thess huge squares of nothing

[worthy lagoon]

But i always was interested in looking inside that anomalous train in Yanov

I found a way to get in

I actually thought i couldn't get in

Then i did got in and i was surprised and found tools

Like, that made me happy back in the days

Because i have always wondered what was inside that train

[swift nest]

I wish SoC would work better for me 😦

I'm enjoying the game its just giving me so much trouble

[worthy lagoon]

What issues do you have?

[swift nest]

Before I was crashing every few minutes. Now the game refuses to launch 😦

[hazy helm]

I'd say try OGSR engine

[storm flare]

Anyone know a way to get physical Ultimate edition in the United States?

[fluid abyss]

gsc says supply chain/vendor issue or something, I think its more of a legal issue related to vendors pulling even digital preorders off of platforms due to S2 not having a set release date

[storm flare]

Really? Damn :|

[fluid abyss]

yeah, its been unavailable for a while

I would imagine it would go back up once the dates are confirmed again/once it gets closer to release

[dry imp]

leave the united states

[dry imp]

if it gets closer to release

[swift nest]

If I uninstall and re-install the game will my save files be ok?

on Steam

[dry imp]

probably not

i dont think there is steam cloud for the stalker games

there might be, but i have always lost my saves doing that

you can back them up probably

[frosty ember]

It Says it has Steam cloud.

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[frail spire]

thats the usual fix

[rotund fox]

The tool placement was the biggest problem i had with the whole system.

[frail spire]

more often than not tools were tied to quests though

[rotund fox]

Misery placed the expert tools in zaton and jupiter, near the entrance to the gauss testing lab and under the volkhov AA complex. Both of those locations heavily defended by mutants and i was okay with that. But having to wait to get to Pripyat just to fully upgrade all my stuff? Yea no.

[pseudo rivet]

Speedrun getting to Pripyat

Bonus points if you do the Pripyat-1 Run without a SEVA Suit and only a PMm while keeping everyone alive

[frail spire]

"I need to get to the end game to get my end game upgrades"

[rotund fox]

Ye +5 armor on the sunrise is real OP

Can't have The Balance™️ be broken

It would be better to just limit the last tier upgrades for stuff like the bulat and exo via flash drives found in the later levels, and keep all the other armors without needing to find anything

[frail spire]

If it's not a big upgrade then why whine about tools?

also tools aren't for suits only, guns are tied to it, and a bunch of guns have some pretty big upgrades in the last tier

[rotund fox]

Because i don't like leaving things half finished and want to get the most out of the lower end suits before moving onto the higher ones. I already said this yesterday.

[frail spire]

sounds like a "you" problem

I personally liked it and more games should do it as well

instead of letting you grind as much as possible from the get go you should be walled until you either advance the story or do a mission that is hard without fully upgraded stuff

first Metro also did this by not letting you upgrade things from the getgo

[rotund fox]

It's not a me problem because you can safely ignore most of the armors in COP as there is no point in getting them and upgrading them until you get to Pripyat, at which point it doesn't matter since you go for an exo anyways

[frail spire]

also having to use your ammo wisely

not everyone goes for exos though

[rotund fox]

Im just saying, what is the point in forcing the player to go out of his way to experience the different armors in the game?

Surely you would want the player to experience as much of the content as possible

[frail spire]

Because stalker games are about gear progression

you go from your hobo jacket to your sunrise suit into either a seva suit or a bulat into an exo

thats like saying "why should the player go out of his way to use other guns"

[rotund fox]

You start in a sunrise suit already.

So already we jumped the gun a bit on gear progression

Gear progression is also kinda screwed because of Nimble, you can get an Exo fairly early in game

[frail spire]

yes, thats why upgrades are hard locked until your get to pripyat

[rotund fox]

In which case, what is the point in not letting you upgrade it? Just make nimble offer it a quest or two before you get to pripyat

[frail spire]

you're literally stating the reason why it works like that

because you can get gear fairly easily and as early as zaton

[rotund fox]

My point is that the design sends mixed messages

[frail spire]

on top of that artifacts are easy to get as well so you get a constant stream of cash

[rotund fox]

First it's telling me i can get high end stuff by grinding but then i come to a brick wall telling me it's story related

Again i have nothing against the high end stuff being limited to later levels, but for God sakes don't make me wait until Pripyat so i can upgrade my damn jacket fully

Weapons should work the same way, keep the high end guns in later levels(although we don't know if they are gonna go for that design style in this day and age) but allow me to upgrade my crappy sawn offs from the get go.

[frail spire]

I do agree starter guns like sawn offs and toz's along makarovs should have only up to T2

so you don't need to reach the late game to fully upgrade them

[rotund fox]

Just to give you perspective: An AK fully tuned for accuracy still only is about as accurate as a stock LR300

[frail spire]

The lr300 is a higher tier weapon than the ak so yeah

A lower tier weapon can be upgraded but won't be as good as the next tier

Thats how it works in stalker at least

Just like how in soc you basically ditch any ak weapon because the guns will simply not do enough damage

[rotund fox]

Yea so there you go then, upgrading the lower tier stuff to max doesn't instantly give you OP weapons and armour

[pseudo rivet]

There's no such thing as "lower end suits", only different playstyles encouraged by the gear you're wearing

The only one that's worse than all the other suits is the trenchcoat, because every suit does everything better than that

[pseudo rivet]

Speedrun Pripyat-1 without a SEVA Suit and only a PMm

[pseudo rivet]

In SoC, at least

In CoP, the tiers don't matter as much. You can just as well use a TRs 301 and do better than you would with a FT-200m

It's a matter of what you want from your weapon and what your playstyle is when it comes to CS and CoP

Same with the armor of CoP

A Sunrise Bodysuit can just be as good as an Exoskeleton, it just depends on how you play the game

[worthy lagoon]

Older games has a better attention to details

Compared to some modern games

[hazy void]

You can shoot it as well iirc

[worthy lagoon]

Bandits are near the factory

Gonna show you

If you are playing SoC, you can find some bandits in there, although i do not remember that there was a quest for that

Also, if you explore the little swamp there is in the upper left side of Agroprom you will find a person

No spoiler though, he's friendly dw

[raven raptor]

yeah, every time you go in agro underground you get this bandit clear quest

annoying af

[frosty ember]

Game ends with credits, there, spoiled.

[ashen axle]

biglob#0423 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[warped temple]

Guys

I got a problem whith my xray engine

I can run the game perfectly but if i go to red forest i crash

Somebody know how to fix that?

[hazy helm]

Is it Shadow of Chernobyl or Clear Sky?

[warped temple]

Shadow of Chernobyl

[hazy helm]

Using any mods?
What's the log

[warped temple]

No mods

And how i see the log

Lemme see

@hazy helm

[hazy helm]

Where log

[warped temple]

In videos

I dm u see in ur dms

[hazy helm]

Strangest place to put a txt doc but ok lemme go

[warped temple]

I send the screenshots to ur dm

[hazy helm]

Send the txt file

[warped temple]

How

[hazy helm]

Just send it in my DMs
Drag the file as if it was an image

[warped temple]

What file the log?

[hazy helm]

[warped temple]

Im new doing this lol is my first time whith stalker

Tell me the name of the file

@hazy helm

[hazy helm]

Should be in the game folder

[warped temple]

But what is the name of the file i got alot in there

[hazy helm]

Should be called Smth like x-ray crash log or Smth

[warped temple]

I find the carpet whith all the logs

[hazy helm]

Send me the newest

[warped temple]

K

@hazy helm i send you the log to ur dms

[high panther]

why can i barely move in cop
i can't run at all and i'm not carrying too much

[rotund fox]

Eat more and drink energy drinks

[swift nest]

Is there a way to see why my game is refusing to launch?

I've uninstalled and reinstalled

[sand fiber]

logs?

[swift nest]

Is this the right path?

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl_appdata_\logs

There is a logfile in there but its blank

https://i.imgur.com/FVPImiA.png

This screen pops up after launching it on steam and just freezes 😦

I might just give up on SoC and play Anomaly. I wanted the "first time" experience with SoC but this isn't worth the hassle. Can I get the majority of the story line playing Anomaly?

What is ZRP?

Okay im getting ZRP and then doing what the readme says to "experience vanilla"

[pseudo rivet]

Fake Vanilla, ngl

[swift nest]

https://i.imgur.com/rJTGZBh.png

Well Vanilla is refusing to work at all lol

[hazy helm]

I'd say just try and install OGSR Engine

[sand fiber]

No? Because Anomaly is a bad mod?

[hazy helm]

ZRP cant help itself and changes stuff related to gameplay

[sand fiber]

If you can't play SoC at all then you better go play other games in the franchise

But until that yeah, try OGSR engine, ZRP, whatever

[pseudo rivet]

Had a guy earlier who couldn't start the game either, but he also installed it on the D drive

Maybe it's some sort of stupid problem and installing it on another drive might fix it?

[swift nest]

I origianlly instaslled it on my C: drive. Im going to uninstall and reinstall on my C:

I have a suspision this is something to do with the license key

[sand fiber]

nah, the game doesn't require it at all

[hazy helm]

it kinda does

the game registers a key in the PCs registry and then uses said key
It's how some mods require said key to funtion

[earnest hollow]

Okay i’m looking forward for the stalker 2, but i haven’t played a single stalker game before. Should i play the other games before the stalker2?

[hazy helm]

I'm guessing it won't matter
But I thoroughly recommend you if you want to get into the series right now

[pseudo rivet]

Playing the trilogy isn't a bad idea at all

[earnest hollow]

Is it heavily focused on the story?

[hazy helm]

yes

[pseudo rivet]

Helps with understanding the Zone and the people who live in it

And of course because it's fun

If you're skipping through dialogue or try to speedrun the game, you're not playing STALKER

[hazy helm]

now dont be too pritanical

[frail spire]

If you're looking for excuses to not play it then don't play it

Just don't go around asking dumb questions later

[sand fiber]

of course why not?

and how can you be looking forward for a game if you don't even know what it's about

[pseudo rivet]

Exactly

[hazy helm]

youd be suprised

I mean,have you looked at the launch of Scorn

[pseudo rivet]

It's on my very long and gradually expanding To-Do list

So, I doubt that's going to happen anytime soon

[sand fiber]

at the launch of any new game, really

[brisk valley]

https://soc.stalker-game.com/?page=reclaim does this still work

i cant pass the captcha for some reason

[hazy helm]

you need a gamespy key,a service that shut down years ago,suffice to say no

[brisk valley]

you mean the cdkey included in the game? the captcha keeps failing when i try to claim mine

[hazy helm]

this is a service for the ppl taht had the DVD of teh game and wanted the game on Steam or GOG
It's not for you,not nowadays anyway

[brisk valley]

uhh im trying to claim my dvd copy for steam lol

just the captcha is broken

[hazy helm]

like I said,you cant find any copy that's not second hand with already used codes + its relieant on a service that has been shut down years ago
its not gonna work

youll have to buy the game on GOG or Steam

[sand fiber]

idk works perfectly fine for me

[brisk valley]

so it worked for you?

[sand fiber]

captcha

[brisk valley]

https://i.imgur.com/rIcJN9O.png this is what i get when i put my key in and do the captcha

[hazy helm]

bc it doesnt work,its not supported anymore

[rotund fox]

Do you use Windows 11? Try using different compatibility modes in the properties of the game.

I had this problem too once but i can't remember how i solved it

[hazy helm]

I saw that and yes,that program is that website,its not supported nowadays bc,obviously,the games 10+years old,any copy of its DVDs running around is aquired second hand and its code must have already been used

[rotund fox]

I thought it might have worked with retail dvd's but i guess gamespy and retail is the same thing

[hazy helm]

it isnt,it's complicated without knowing but my best bet is they were connecting to the key that was registered on gamespy and then giving you a new one but for steam,if the gamespy one connected
gamespy was a multiplayer service old games used

[brisk valley]

the captcha just doesnt work dude lol, its not telling me the keys arent claimable

[hazy helm]

I told you dude it wont work,the captcha tells you it doesnt work bc the service doesnt work

[rotund fox]

Id give you a torrent link but all the torrents i used are long dead

[brisk valley]

nah i dont need a torrent or anything

[hazy helm]

I can tell you where you can [redacted] but thats against TOS

[brisk valley]

i just wanted this to work lol

[hazy helm]

well you cant really expect it to work after 10 years

[swift nest]

Win 10, i've tried that

[storm salmon]

does rule 3 imply i'm not allowed to curse

[hazy helm]

you arent allowed to curse

[storm salmon]

ight

y'know where i can stash my stuff at in SoC?

tired of carrying 1k 9mm rounds on me

[hazy helm]

you do have a chest in the 100rad bar,I think

[storm salmon]

that in cordon?

[hazy helm]

you arent at rostok yet?

[sand fiber]

in sidorovich's bunker

or in rookies village

[storm salmon]

i was stuck in garbage

[hazy helm]

[storm salmon]

every time i tried to go to the document quest sidorovich give's you i just load back into the rail station in garbage

instead of traveling to the new area

[hazy helm]

thats unusual,so you cant get into Agropom

[storm salmon]

yeah, i kill the bandits on the tunnel go into the new zone and just spawn back at garbage

[sand fiber]

is your game modded in any way?

[storm salmon]

nah pure vanilla

[sand fiber]

how the

[storm salmon]

my first time playing through so idk what the issue is

[hazy helm]

huh,so do you go thru the controller tunnel?

[storm salmon]

is there a way to take screenshots in SoC? my snip tool no worky rn

[sand fiber]

f12

and then some directory which i don't remember

my documents > stalker_shoc probably

[hazy helm]

just use steam's

[storm salmon]

i'm not playing via steam

wouldn't be able to run the game otherwise

[hazy helm]

I can run the game thru steam unmodded alright

[storm salmon]

because everyone has the same pc as you man?

i'm on integrated graphics, my cpu is at 80% when the game is open 😔

[hazy helm]

I'm just saying,using the newest windows version and parts taht may cause trouble I never had any

[storm salmon]

oh yeah it wasn't meant to be a jab

just like, my computer is super bad

[drifting gate]

Hmm does Stalker 2 take place right after Call of Pripyat

[sand fiber]

oh god, intel apu?

[sand fiber]

no, 10 years later or smth

[storm salmon]

let me check i forgot

AMD

[hazy helm]

yhea thats the reason

[drifting gate]

Ahh gotcha thanks

[hazy helm]

Xray doesnt play that nicely with AMD graphics,one day it works the other it destroys itself
on one computer its roses and lilacs and on the other its throwing a fit

[storm salmon]

my frames are fine

it's just this one area that didn't work

[drifting gate]

Is Strelok still alive presuming?

[hazy helm]

I hope we dont see him anymore

cant milk that cash cow anymore

[sand fiber]

athlon?

[drifting gate]

I think he's pretty kickass haha but to each their own

[storm salmon]

AMD 3020e with Radeon Graphics (idk wat athlon is)

[sand fiber]

oh god

[rotund fox]

Same i hope it's canon that he died during the evac

I like the zone being the wild west of sorts

[hazy helm]

if they base the game around him a third time it'll feel like bringing the old man to rehearse just to appease the fans

[tidal halo]

does ZRP change anything in regards to gameplay and general game experience?
(am currently at lab x18)

[hazy helm]

it does

[storm salmon]

didn't you read the page for it

tells you what it does

[tidal halo]

I read it but it just said it might make it harder by fixing spawners n such

and AI behaviour

[storm salmon]

yeah the ai is stinky

[hazy helm]

it also adds repair function,changes a few dialogue lines and messes with the factions

[storm salmon]

what're GAMMA's system requirements? i looked so hard online to find at least one page saying anything about it and couldn't find squat.

[tidal halo]

oh

[storm salmon]

Probably beefy, ey?

[hazy helm]

if it almost cant play SoC you wont be able to play anomaly

[storm salmon]

i can run anomaly

i told you it's just NOT letting me load into garbage. doesn't crash, can run it solid 60 at max graphics.

[tidal halo]

I just had the bug where I keep pressing the drop button on an item in the inventory and it doesnt drop it until I press a few times

[storm salmon]

not garbage, that one spot.

[hazy helm]

and at 80%

[storm salmon]

yeah i can run anomaly just fine, 60 fps as well

dunno about gamma, it's why i'm asking? if you have a rough guesstimate

[hazy helm]

if you cant run DX11 anomaly fine then you shoukd

I dont recommend it,it is gamma after all but if your thing is hardcore muh realism taticool survival freeplay,go for it

[storm salmon]

i watched gamma and it looks hella fun so

i enjoy games like it, just don't think i'll be able to run it lol

[hazy helm]

being real,Anomaly is mediocre at best,the only addon I have played that was worth it and made it actually fun,was Old World

[dry sigil]

Hi! I come with a question. In Call Of Pripyat there is a compartment close to a pipeline near Skadowsk. I came there but i cant find it. Any ideas?

[storm salmon]

needta get a new job when i move and just buy decent rig

[rotund fox]

Wdym by "compartment"

[frail spire]

what are you even looking for, start there and we may be able to help you

[dry sigil]

a place where u store items in the game. It is a green circle with 3 black triangles in it

[frail spire]

ohhh

[rotund fox]

So a stash

[dry sigil]

yeah

[rotund fox]

Pipeline near shadovsk, i think that's the stash on the support beam

There is a road nearby and you have to jump on the support beam and just follow the pipe until you get to the stash

[dry sigil]

TYSM!

[worthy lagoon]

Have you tried lowering the dynamic lighting?

Usually that is the issue

[frail spire]

lower any graphical setting, change dx versions if you have to

if you still have issues you may need to play some psuedo-vanilla mod that has engine fixes

[worthy lagoon]

No, just lower grass density and DirextX (set it to static lighting)

Those are the main problems

Grass density takes a lot of VRAM

[fickle sparrow]

is the winds of freedom suit better than the monolith one?

[worthy lagoon]

winds of freedom is better

[fickle sparrow]

alright good

I had to drop the monolith suit anyways, I was too fat

found Big Ben in a underpass in a box

[digital lynx]

Barkeep vs Sidorvich, who wins in a fight?

[sly matrix]

Sidorovich, he has a bunker

[worthy lagoon]

Who is willing to protect him though?

[sly matrix]

idk, maybe Nimble owes him a favour

[worthy lagoon]

he doesn't

he owns one to marked one

[frail spire]

sid is the least bad choice

[sly matrix]

word

[frail spire]

since he keeps rookies relatively safe and has an information network, same as barman

in fact it should be telling how important he is if he is never under any danger even though he sits his ass alone in an old bunker

[sly matrix]

important enough to be fat without it being an issue

[frail spire]

also you don't see him fire a gun once

hes so unafraid of someone shooting him that he doesn't even has a gun on his table

[worthy siren]

so for a small recap, what key settings bare most weight on fps

what contributes to lag for anyne using 2016 ish gpu and older

[digital lynx]

Probably graphics and the amount of x in your level/area

[worthy siren]

i should have specified a liiittle more, amount of 'x' in 'y' being set aside from the contributing factors as a bunch of people dont want to worry about that

something that can be simply changed

lighting distance, anti aliasing, that stuff

thank shit i have a decent gpu

[digital lynx]

Sorry bud, I was in a rush to do something. I mean like gunshots in the level so if your in let's say radar, how many monolith are shooting or perhaps the amount of NPCs being spawned in

[worthy siren]

thanks for the clarification

[digital lynx]

No problem. Only issue is I don't know much about CPUs and other computer stuff. If you want help on that then I'm probably the last person you'd want to ask.

[worthy siren]

oh im good, i was just wondering if there was much diffference you can shift with graphics to make moments like fightinng in either swamps or radar smoother in general for those thatd need it

[sand fiber]

barkeep

canonically he'd totally win in an unarmed fight

[gilded sentinel]

Well we know that barkeep can walk , doubt sidirovich can get his fat a$$ out of his bunker even if he tried :p

[hazy helm]

You'd be surprised seeing his hands flying

[frail spire]

Barkeep has actual training iirc

Sid simply sat down to do bussiness with every kid on the hood

Only reason sid doesn't do stuff with monoliths it's due to monoliths shooting everyone

[fickle sparrow]

I feel like I'm doing something wrong

I'm still using the AKS Spetnaz but even on veteran every enemy feels like a bullet sponge and I die in two hits to those crawling dudes

should I be switching to a different rifle?

[gaunt mantle]

Hey I just got my pre-order for stalker 2 so I'm gonna go back and play the old games should I play through them without or with mods?

[dry imp]

play vanilla first

[fickle sparrow]

also despite me changing the bullet randomness, MY BULLETS STILL DON'T GO WHERE I AIM

EVEN 25 FEET IN FRONT OF ME

[ashen axle]

GamersCave#1337 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[fickle sparrow]

watching all these SoC playthroughs they all hit first shot headshots easy

but if feels like my bullets just disappear, even after I modified the weapons.ltx

someone please tell me I'm not crazy and am just doing something wrong

[frail spire]

You may not like my answer but it's literally skill issue

at least in SoC

if you said CS I would believe you but in SoC while a makarov will literally give you a seizure firing it even though it's a 9x18 you do land your shots if aimed properly

[fickle sparrow]

I am aiming

[frail spire]

so maybe you're just not used to it yet, when you do you'll land all your shots and scratch your head confused, just like I did eventually

[fickle sparrow]

my PSO crosshair is right on their stupid heads, and I watch the tracers go everywhere but there

even 15 feet away, crouched and single firing

I know you have to crouch, actually aim and then wait a second or so between shots

but I'm telling you, they aren't going where I aim

[pseudo rivet]

Move closer

That or low crouch

Increases accuracy significantly

[fickle sparrow]

I was 15 feet between me and the zombie on the railing

who was slow walking towards me and every single shot flew around him completely

and I can't even repair my weapons till I get through X-16 cause Duty won't let me in the headquarters

[pseudo rivet]

Ah, mods

[fickle sparrow]

just ZRP

[pseudo rivet]

That explains it

[fickle sparrow]

which adds the ability to have your weapons repaired by two people

one being the Duty leader

@pseudo rivet I thought OWR 3 was supposed to FIX the issues with the gunplay

not exaggerate it

[pseudo rivet]

With mods, you never know

[frail spire]

with mods you never know, hell, if you have mods that changes models you may want to check if the crosshair and the ironsights are properly aligned

maybe you're firing the correct way but the aiming is off and you're actually aiming a few inches higher or lower than you should

[fickle sparrow]

the thing is

I know they're aligned, because sometimes I hit headshots square on

and then sometimes I do the exact same thing, but I swear to God the bullets like curve away or all around

they don't go where I aim half the time

[frail spire]

then I guess you'll just have to get used to it

all games change the gunplay so it's a constant torture

SoC is seizure simulator, CS is "wow my bullets went into another dimension past 5 meters" and CoP is "wow this gun has negative recoil but it fires pellets instead of actual bullets"

[fickle sparrow]

I could post video footage

also what's the gun hierarchy in stalker? I'm still using the AKS but what should I look out for?

[frail spire]

I'm not saying you're lying, I'm just saying thats how the game goes

Nato guns>Warsaws

regarding to tiering at least

[fickle sparrow]

well I'm in X-16 right now

and it feels like I'm dumping whole mags for one or two enemies, on Veteran

[frail spire]

ak's suck past early game

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on what game your playing, but when it comes to SoC, it's NATO > Warsaw

[fickle sparrow]

yeah SoC

[frail spire]

you could try getting a nato gun from going to wild territory and gunning mercs down

thats what I ended up doing at least

[pseudo rivet]

When it comes to CS and CoP, it depends on your playstyle

[fickle sparrow]

I used the M16 or whatever it is for a bit, but it felt just as weak

also ironsights

[pseudo rivet]

TRs 301

[frail spire]

even if it felt weak the nato guns are simply better

[pseudo rivet]

Actually an amazing weapon, I assume your mods must've messed with something

[fickle sparrow]

could just be the narrow sights making me think I'm not landing accurate shots

[pseudo rivet]

Because it's basically a straight upgrade to any AK

[frail spire]

you could try switching to master difficulty too since it's a mod

and some mods mess with how the actual difficulty works

[fickle sparrow]

the mods I have right now:
ZRP
OWR3
Shaders Max
Absolute texture pack

[fickle sparrow]

oh hey I didn't know barkeep sells a SG-550

@frail spire it's 40k rubles but you think it's a good replacement?

[frail spire]

Yes

You gonna stick with that for a while

You could try carrying a sawn off for some emergency

[pseudo tangle]

for some reason when i install the zip from the site, after extracting i seem to be missing files and folders. Anyone know why?

[solid dome]

Zip from the site?

ZRP you got?

[fickle sparrow]

alright despite what the wiki says, Big Ben can't mount a silencer

and neither can the SG

[fickle sparrow]

lol I found a M4 with a scope on it at least

so now I have a suppressed and scoped M4 which I dunno is better than just the regular SG I have and spent 40k rubles on

[finite dragon]

tf how do i install osge again

[fickle sparrow]

lmao nevermind again

I just found a freaking full durability G36 in a stash @frail spire

[frail spire]

yeah don't worry about money too much

since some of the guns you get from quests are straight upgrades

also stashes, don'te remember them too much but many have guns

[fickle sparrow]

man the wiki just needs to be reset

cause it says the G36 can't mount a suppressor but I just did :P

[frail spire]

you have mods

[fickle sparrow]

yeah but the wiki says Big Ben can mount one too

but I couldn't, I tried all kinds of ways to mount it

not sure why a mod like OWR would remove functionality

damn in the span of 30 minutes I found 3 equally useful rifles, no clue which one to pick

[fiery tundra]

Does anyone here play STALKER gamma?

Im watching my friend stream it and we’re wondering if there’s a way to change the settings to where you can save it whenever instead of only being able to do it at campfires

Ping me if anyone has an answer please

[clear raft]

Wasn't there a Quick save key somewhere at f8

[clear raft]

Should be f5

Not sure I just checked the keybinds in the discord

[fiery tundra]

I mean is there a way to change it to where you can save anywhere

My friend says you’re awesome and he loves you

[finite dragon]

F5 is quick save yea

[fiery tundra]

Yee it worked lol

[finite dragon]

I was doing a new playthrough of SoC and i was at the part where Mole sends you to the underground, but when i went back out of the underground it pointed me to go with mole for the previeous objective, did i miss something this time or is it bugged out?

It's not my first playthrough and every other time it went fine but this time it bugged

[vital knoll]

There should be some mod in the modloader called something like "yet another campfire save mod"

disable that and it enables the normal quicksave and quickload stuff

friend had the same issue lol

[rotund fox]

Put the most top caret on top of the guys head then shot

[rotund fox]

You can't be serious, just check the damn controls.

[finite dragon]

Guys, who knows what gas mask does Freedom wear?

[hazy helm]

Custom gas mask

[finite dragon]

I think I found it, EO-19 PBF

[hazy helm]

Stalker has models based on real gas masks but if you want it to be perfect you'll need to custom make or 3d print one

[fierce axle]

just finished SoC, now i have more questions than answers lol

[rugged scaffold]

mole tells you to go through the underground but he doesn't give you the objective to find streloks stash until you actually speak with him, that might be it

[rotund fox]

Has anyone played Vector of Alienation?

[pseudo rivet]

Which one do you mean? The Exo one or the regular one?

[pseudo rivet]

Ah, regular one

[solid dome]

Is "Will Stalker 2 be garbage" one of them?

[hazy helm]

Next one is Clear Sky
Ask if you have any questions

[solid dome]

Don't ask, you stupid

You play then ask, else its Spoiler Simulator

[hazy helm]

I mean gameplay questions not lore questions

[solid dome]

Gameplay question 1: Why grenade spam?

[fierce axle]

no lol, the ending i got left me kinda baffled

i just started CoP which is supposedly the next one

[solid dome]

Magod!

[hazy helm]

CoP is the last one released
We always recommend you play them in release order but it's not important

[fierce axle]

i heard bad things abut CS, so i didnt bother installing

[hazy helm]

I assume you got a false ending in SoC

[hazy helm]

bro,Clear Sky is the best in the series what you talking about

[ashen axle]

Magi#6284 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fierce axle]

you cant say frick, okay lmao

[solid dome]

You sure can say frick, BUT you can't spell frog these days even

Gee!

[fierce axle]

i got the || frick all i wanna rule the world|| ending

it was a very scuffed playthrough, Sidorovich made me kill some ppl and next thing i knew everyone at duty hated my GUTS

[hazy helm]

that's not the true ending but it doesn't matter now
You'll get answers in CS and COP and if you replay SoC

ppl don't play CS on account of memes and ppl who only played the beginning and never past it
Makes me feel sad

[fierce axle]

my friends told me i wouldnt like CS gunplay

idk how much of that has merit

[hazy helm]

it's good

CoP is probs the worst I'd say still a good game

[fierce axle]

hol up. i heard the exact opposite

[hazy helm]

CoP is like a DLC,it rips away a lot of mechanics
CS is like an expansion,a clear progression of mechanics
CS tried to improve what was in SoC and CoP did Smth completely different all together

CoP is the black sheep so to say

[fierce axle]

i see, doesnt CoP have the upgrade system as well? idk much about the series.

[pseudo rivet]

CS

[hazy helm]

Clear Sky was the game that introduced the upgrade system

As well as the detector artifact system

[pseudo rivet]

And also is the best in the series, imo

[hazy helm]

I already sucked it off a few messages ago don't worry

[fierce axle]

i see, i already got done setting up CoP tho XD i guess i'll play CS last

[sand fiber]

hm?

[fierce axle]

already asked the boys/gals above, thanks though!

[hazy helm]

He got one of the ||illusion|| ensina and then jumped straight to CoP

[sand fiber]

wow, i also don't like cs as much as the other two but to tell people to straight up skip it

that's another level

[hazy helm]

Crazy ppl I tell ya

[fierce axle]

they told me it was dogpoopo basically

[hazy helm]

Insane ppl sounds like

[fierce axle]

looted a boar and the game crashed lol

[worthy lagoon]

Better than someone who said that he wanted to jump right to CoP because his friends said so

Despite asking to me for advices

He jumped to CoP first either way

[sand fiber]

wait, uh, but you aren't able to loot mutants in vanilla cop

[worthy lagoon]

What

[fierce axle]

i have 3 mods installed, Atmosfear, absolute nature and arsenal overhaul

looting them crashes the game 100% of the time, weird stuff

ahhh its a known issue, found the fix already

[sand fiber]

Why

[limpid burrow]

yo, where can i get a PDA sound package for android phones

[hazy helm]

most likely the games files

[fierce axle]

makes the game feel better, i like having more weapon choices, and the graphic quality that absolute nature offers is quite nice

[sand fiber]

ever played half-life? it's like installing smod on your first playthrough

[hazy helm]

For first playthrus I'll always recommend playing vanilla

CoP,by nature of being more closed and tightly knit,it's less buggy,you get a few grandiose bugs here and there,but none that are really really bad just funny ones,so there aren't that many bug fixes

[solid dome]

Attention, STALKERS... If anyone wants to contribute to ☢️ Lone in the Zone ☢️, the ever evolving STALKER atmospheric music playlist, a side project I started early this year, here is the Google Docs page address:

https://bit.ly/lost-in-the-zone

Tracks added in the catalogue as of today: 111

[fierce axle]

will take off the gun stuff then, will try vanilla

the graphic mod stays tho lmao

[hazy helm]

Arsenal Overhaul is also just bad by itself lmao

[pseudo rivet]

Skill issue, ngl

[pseudo rivet]

This explains everything

[pseudo tangle]

is there supposed to be animations for drinking water and healing etc?

[pseudo rivet]

No

[rotund fox]

No installing a couple of graphics mods that slightly improve the games look isn't anywhere close to installing a weapon mod that gives you 50 thousand new weapons
Edit: i missed the arsenal overhaul, woops

[solid dome]

We have no hands!

[pseudo rivet]

Inaccurate

[solid dome]

Heck off, @Crim

[pseudo rivet]

We have the Black Hand

[solid dome]

[pseudo rivet]

[solid dome]

Hand me the NOD banner

[pseudo rivet]

C&C4 playthrough when?

*Silence*

[rotund fox]

So turns out my tolerance for jank isn't as high as it used to be, can't be bothered to finish OGSE

[hazy helm]

no those are mod additions,I hope S2 doesnt have them

[rotund fox]

Just get rid of food completely then

[hazy helm]

where did you get taht from what I said?

[rotund fox]

I didn't, im just saying that if there are no anims it's no big deal just get rid of food entirely

It's not like it ever mattered in the games

[hazy helm]

Vodka was a good patch up if you didnt have any artifacts or antirads

and food overall could be used to patch you up in the lack of medikits

[rotund fox]

Devouring 50 cans of meat in 10 seconds is too memey even for such an arcady game

[hazy helm]

waiting 10 minutes to eat 2 sausages and 1 can of meat is too memey

[rotund fox]

The whole having food and drinks but no anims is too amateurish for this studio now

[hazy helm]

what do you even mean amateurish

its a gameplay decision like any other

[rotund fox]

Hell in 2008 FC2 had anims for a thing that would only happen sometimes, so no real excuse for it now.

[rotund fox]

Not really, creating anims was harder back in the day then it is now especially under a tight budget

[hazy helm]

I dont understand why it would be a bad thing to skip animations

[rotund fox]

As i said it feels amateurish and also kinda lazy

[hazy helm]

that sounds very very dumb

[rotund fox]

Not to worry though, they can just remove food entirely

[hazy helm]

guess the witcher 3 was a lazy and dumb game since it didnt have animations for literally every little goddamn thing

[rotund fox]

It's kinda like not having reload animations for weapons, sure you could just hide the weapon for the duration it takes the character to reload the weapon but why would you do that?

Answer: You either can't be bothered to make anims for it or you find it too hard to do so

[hazy helm]

are gamers THAT dumb?

waht am I saying of course they are

either way I can still dream they'll keep it as true to the original games

[rotund fox]

Wdym by this?

[hazy helm]

calling gameplay decisions just lazy

[rotund fox]

Ok so let me ask you this, when the devs were deciding to add anims or not, do you honestly think they intended for you to be able to spam food/medkits to heal? Even in situations like being stuck in a anomaly field with an damaging area of effect?

[hazy helm]

yes,which is why they allow you to spam consumables,to allow you to tank otherwise unsurvivable situations thru consuming giant tons of medik kits or antirads
a conscious decision beetween saving your stuff up or not,and then if you need to go back and restock or will you brave on being able to only use the halfassed food and vodka that arent nearly as effective,and relying on stuff you find

[rotund fox]

ok.

[finite dragon]

Im a dutier for life but i have to accept that Freedom's logo actually is cool tho

[finite dragon]

I'm always using Vodka, it's not that expensive as antirads

And it's fun

[hazy helm]

all consumable foods have a place as cheap patch me ups,

[pseudo rivet]

Renegades best patch

[finite dragon]

Ecologists also have a really cool logo

[hazy helm]

A shame ecologists aren't a real faction

[pseudo tangle]

might be a stupid question but how do i get more healing supplies

[hazy helm]

Traders

[pseudo tangle]

any trader?

[hazy helm]

Depends
Which of the 3 games are you playing

[pseudo rivet]

Loot from enemies

[pseudo tangle]

bro im new idk xd

[pseudo rivet]

B r u h

[hazy helm]

Just tell me the name of the game you're playing

[pseudo tangle]

stalker anomoly i think

[pseudo rivet]

Lmfao

[hazy helm]

🐟

[pseudo tangle]

??

[pseudo rivet]

That's not a real game

Why start with Anomaly when you're new?

[hazy helm]

I'm gonna go put clown makeup

[pseudo tangle]

🤷‍♂️

[pseudo rivet]

Try SoC first, the game that started it all

[hazy helm]

Anomaly is a mod,go ask in their own server,the link is in the moddb page you used to download the mod

not even asking in the mod channel

[pseudo tangle]

im new how would i know this lol

[hazy helm]

It's in moddb,it's a mod,they tell you

[pseudo rivet]

The actual games are called Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat

[hazy helm]

Mr entering moddb expecting to see download links to games and not mods of said games

[sharp radish]

Hey, there's a first time for everyone

[pseudo rivet]

I'd suggest playing them in release order

[pseudo tangle]

🤓

[hazy helm]

is this your first time modding a game or smth like that?did you just never hear the name moddb before?

[pseudo tangle]

no, i just didnt know anything about stalker

[hazy helm]

So let me guess,you saw some random YouTuber play the mod and followed a link

If so,theres a lot of you,I can't even blame ppl like that

They were dealt a tampered card from the get go,how sad

[pseudo rivet]

It's honestly just the fault of plenty of YT'bers and mod players

Stuck in a Space Bubble, pretty sad

[hazy helm]

Nha its no one's fault,it's simply Smth that's bound to happen

[pseudo rivet]

Happens often enough

[stiff orbit]

Hay, any Suggestions for active SOC servers that aren’t based across the world (it Gets pretty annoying seeing people teleport around)

[hazy helm]

It's normal for ppl to want to show other what they like,
If you assault a youngin saying like,you can't play this you need to play 3 other games,they're gonna think you're insane

[pseudo rivet]

Who says I ain't?

[hazy helm]

Being schizophrenic is not the rule around the west,only on the Balkans

[pseudo tangle]

🤨

[pseudo rivet]

[pseudo rivet]

Wouldn't know, sorry

[finite dragon]

I think that anomaly is a good way to get into the series for people who are curious about it and don't wanna make a full compromise of buying something with their money and ending up not liking it

I have both the 3 original games completed and Anomaly too btw

And before anyone asks - i got into the series with SoC so dw

[frail spire]

anyone who says anomaly is a good entry point for players is a subhuman who deserves to be shunned from this server

[hazy helm]

Anomaly is not representative of the original games and it's a really bad way to prepare player to get into the original games
It will face plant players with expectations that the original games won't meet BC,these are different

[pseudo rivet]

Anomaly is a whole different animal, not only gameplay-wise but also lore

[frail spire]

that includes staff members

[finite dragon]

Ok that's a good point

[stiff orbit]

Well dang. Thanks for the help

[hazy helm]

You may like anomaly or you may not
That's fine
But saying it's a good entry point to the series is a whole different story all together
It's a different thing entirely
Now you may not want to play stalker so you go straight to anomaly,that's fine,just keep in mind stalker is very different

[frail spire]

Like, for starters vanilla SoC has no mechanics

from the get go anomaly already screws up

[hazy helm]

Giving ppl the expectation that they're the same will just faceplant ppl and give them a bad view from the get go

[pseudo rivet]

But what if you start with playing CS or CoP?

[finite dragon]

Lore-wise in like the existance of Sin, Clear sky still existing, the UNISG and that iirc right?

[frail spire]

also anomaly can't do quests, and it's the same for the story quest

you'll want to do story mode and start at rookie village and get a quest to deliver a package in the red forest

from the getgo the mod already f* up on an abysmal level

[finite dragon]

Yeah that's true

[pseudo rivet]

And a couple of other things. One that springs to mind is the Freedom Bloodsucker joke, while that actually is Bandit dialogue from CS

[hazy helm]

Anomaly is a mod,a mod is not constrained to canon like the games
It's only like that when ppl start recommending it as a starting point then it start mattering a whole lot more

[finite dragon]

Yeah

Well now i know better so thx

Though i play anomaly more for fun, so for that matter i don't really mind the lore discrepancies

[pseudo rivet]

Fair

[hazy helm]

Completely fair,I can't start shouting at you just for liking anomaly,that'd be insane

[finite dragon]

I like both anomaly and thw originals for being very different sometimes

While anomaly's more realistic tone and reworked animations are good for me, i also really like the style of the older games

(Also because CS and CoP's weather doesn't make it seem all depressing)

[trail lava]

Hey guys, on anomaly rn. In debug, when I want to change the stats of either weapons or suits, it says that it Failed to do so and no changes were applied, saying I need to unpack sumn. Can anyone help pls?

[pseudo rivet]

Why I personally like Vanilla lore is because there's still an outside world that functions normally and the fact that Stalkers need the Big Land and the Big Land needs them, thus explaining why the phenomenon is even possible in the first place

[hazy helm]

I honestly prefer CS visuals,you don't need to make everything look like crap and gray,

[pseudo rivet]

CS visuals best

[hazy helm]

The zone is alive,but it feels dead from the looks of it,CS understands that th zone is a living environment

[hazy helm]

That's a question better asked in th anomaly server,you can ask modders and the Devs about it,it would help you more

[trail lava]

I couldn't find an anomaly server in the Internet, could u pls send me a lin

[pseudo rivet]

Send it in DM or the bot will spank you

[hazy helm]

Go to their moddb page,it's there

[solid dome]

Come again?

[finite dragon]

In SoC and Anomaly the weather made me feek isolated wich works for the tone but like you said, it makes it look dead

I like CS and CoP's visuals because it seems like even if before the second incident it was dead, it is now alive again

[hazy helm]

I think he means multiplayer

[stiff orbit]

What about that is confusing?

[stiff orbit]

Yea

[solid dome]

The Zone is alive... but the silence led to her hanging herself.... - random STALKER 2 article on Google

[hazy helm]

That would be dumb as heck lmao

[solid dome]

Are you russian? (You're not)

[pseudo rivet]

CS can also look gloomy, just not constantly because that wouldn't make sense

[stiff orbit]

If you already knew the answer than why did you ask?

[solid dome]

If we know Mars is safe to land, why aren't we there yet...

[stiff orbit]

Fair…

[stiff orbit]

So do you have suggestions for multiplayer servers or no?

[hazy helm]

There arent any, especially on the western side,you'd need a couple of friends and Radmin VPN to do a LAN match

You're not losing much,the multiplayer mode isn't very important,the game is squarely on the single player campaign so all the multiplayer has is like TDM

[frail spire]

multiplayer is just dumb fun mode

you'll get bored of it after a while unless you're a special kind of autismo

[hazy helm]

if you like it you like it
you dont need anything more than to like it to play smth

[stiff orbit]

It find it fun but I would never play it more than a hour, especially since the lag is so bad

[stiff orbit]

Ah, ok. That douse make sense. Thanks for the help

[solid dome]

What servers yer looking for?

It's literally 99.5% russia-based servers full of schizophrenics screaming in the mic constantly for the remainder of the game and insulting you in the chat with no real reason

I recall no quality server existed for either SoC, CS or CoP

It's always been like that

[stiff orbit]

That is a fairly accurate description

[solid dome]

It do be like that

@stiff orbit Why are you so interested in MP?

Fed up on SP?

[stiff orbit]

To be fair, i play a lot of stalker and I just wanted to try something new.

[finite dragon]

Sooooo like Counter Strike?

Also @stiff orbit
There is a co-op mod for CoP, might work better than the vanilla multiplayer

[stiff orbit]

What’s it called?

[sacred salmon]

I played Anomaly for 7 hours today with my cousin in VC doing a side by side playthrough. Chatting, chilling and dying a lot.

[finite dragon]

I think that if you just search Co-op ln CoP's moddb page you should find it

[sacred salmon]

Getting him introduced to S.T.A.L.K.E.R., man it was a long playthrough

[finite dragon]

If not try with a space instead of - or all together

[stiff orbit]

Ok

[solid dome]

I don't play that but yeah I guess?

[sacred salmon]

There are also a lot of Balkan servers for CS ( 1.6 (

[swift bough]

Hi

[dry imp]

no thats just russians normally

[swift bough]

How can i stream anomaly on discord?

[dry imp]

the same as streaming any game or app

[swift bough]

it dosen t show up

[dry imp]

add it under your games list in discord settings

its under "registered games" or something

[swift bough]

i added ot

it but it dosen t show up

[dry imp]

elaborate

[swift bough]

i press screen and i don t find it there to select

[dry imp]

anomaly has a special thing for discord where it shows where you are and and what you're doing in a status so it definitely works for anomaly

[finite dragon]

You have to be quick iirc

Let me elaborate;

[swift bough]

vixie i know

[finite dragon]

Oh ok

[frail spire]

then do it, otherwise it's skill issue

[dry imp]

does it show a stream button on the bottom left

[swift bough]

when i played with gamma

it worked but now when i just play anomaly without gamma it dosen t show up becase it takes a long time to swich the tabs to discord

[dry imp]

well idk then

i've never had an issue with streaming it

[swift bough]

i got it

i restarted the game and it works

thx

[hazy helm]

🤨 you didnt try restarting from the get go?

never heard of the turn it on and off meme?it actually works just so you know,its one of the most basic and best tips a person can give you

[stiff orbit]

That’s the first rule of tech

[dry imp]

you didn't try that first...?

thats the stalker community for ya

[stiff orbit]

Has anyone here read the book “road side picnic” before knowing what the stalker games were?

[frail spire]

no

I just liked the weird zone and slavs shooting eachother

[stiff orbit]

Interesting

[dry imp]

no i read it after

well i havent finished the book because i keep forgetting to continue reading it

[stiff orbit]

It’s a good book though. This is my second time reading it

[hazy helm]

I like roadside picnic but I think monday begins on a saturday is better,honestly I like it more

[stiff orbit]

Haven’t heard of it, might give it a read. Who is it by?

[hazy helm]

Strugatsky Bros. same guys taht made Roadside Picnic

[stiff orbit]

Ah ok. I know them

[proper lion]

Is there a channel here for tech support?

[last pine]

Ping CM

[hazy helm]

CM?

[proper lion]

that's what I'm saying

[hazy helm]

no matter

[proper lion]

just need help fixing the stutter issue nothing too big

[hazy helm]

what exactly do you need

[proper lion]

a solution to fix the stutter on anomaly

worded that terribly lmao

[frail spire]

you could try the anomaly discord

just don't expect help because it's trash

[hazy helm]

cant help you there,you'll find better help in the anomaly server but try to mess with graphical settings it might work

[frail spire]

just like anomaly

[proper lion]

Tried that still stutters when going into new areas etc for .2 seconds. But thank you for the help.

[frail spire]

tried lowering render distance?

no matter how much of a beast pc you have the engine will choke and die if you ask too much from mods

[proper lion]

im a noob playing vanilla

ill try to lower the render distance and see what that does. You're right btw the anomaly help is trash. Its just a patch notes discord

Why join that when you can just bookmark the mod db page.

[hazy helm]

sorry?

[frail spire]

vanilla isn't anomaly

[hazy helm]

yhea,that confused me a bit

[proper lion]

Playing normal anomaly then

[frail spire]

anomaly still has a bunch of stability issues so some stuff can't really be fixed

[proper lion]

Was playing with what the game settings gave me and the game still stutters about ready to try borderless window and deal with extra input latency.

[frail spire]

like, older builds had boxes basically crashing the game because if they were stacked on top of eachother the second you touched them with either melee or guns they would start colliding with eachother and releasing a bunch of dust particles and killing your fps

if you had a good pc you may avoid the crash but still tank to like 2 fps until the boxes destroyed eachother

[fiery tundra]

What does it have to do with controls, im asking if there’s a way to change it so that you can save anywhere and not just campfires

[frail spire]

if you didn't that was an instant CTD

Check the keybinds and see if the quicksave key is binded

if it is then check if you can disable the "save only at campfires"

[proper lion]

Heard grass is a nightmare to render so i turned that down. Would putting the games launcher into compatibility mode do any justice? like windows vista service pack 2?

[hazy helm]

the MCM

[frail spire]

grass, shadows, lights, all that stuff

also render distance

all that may or may not cause you fps issues

[fiery tundra]

What’s the MCM, this is for my friend who’s playing it I don’t have a PC

[proper lion]

would checking the box for "disable fullscreen optimizations" do anything?

[hazy helm]

the Mod Configuration Menu,it should be in the options and you should see campfire saves,you should be able to disable them there

[fiery tundra]

Oh okay Ty

[proper lion]

fps isn't the problem the game choking for no reason is the problem.

[hazy helm]

[frail spire]

game choking for no reason can be something choking the fps's

[proper lion]

riva tuner?

[frail spire]

like npcs spawning on top of eachother

or having too many stalkers and mutants around all maps since the mod does simulation

[proper lion]

well since I'm only at the beginning of the game that would make sense then since everything is alive.

but ive seen playthroughs at the beginning and they have zero stutter.

[frail spire]

you could try changing the dx version when you launch the game

[proper lion]

running dx9

[frail spire]

also deleting the shader cache option

[proper lion]

since im pretty sure thats what lfd2 uses?

[hazy helm]

Misery had this problem,the game couldnt handle all the stalkers that it had introduced,it tried to simulate A-Life but it was just awful at it

what ahppened

it happens

many ppl miss Doc,I did first time playing,I honestly blame the agency of the situation and story,at the point where the doc mission shows you its badly communicated you can go back and take your time,it feels like you need to immediatly push forward

no,time doesnt matter really

[frail spire]

Its not time the issue but the whole money one

did they ever fixed money ending taking over everything else

[hazy helm]

nope

[frail spire]

lmao

[hazy helm]

its not broken,it works,,its just the bar is very low so

[rustic elbow]

@mortal parcel answering from #🤨┃stalker_memes:
people hop in anomaly without knowing anything about the game lore → the anomaly experience is not what it should be → they gonna get spoiled → the original games will suck too
the original mechanics also feels a lot clunkier than the survival horror thingy, no way the mil simmers will get it

[hazy helm]

put it simply,after newcomers play anomaly,they expect the series to be like that
they get hardwalled by expectations the games were never out to fuffil,they dislike the games from the get go

[rustic elbow]

thats a point too

[honest sedge]

Hey guys. Someone here able to help me resolve an install issue? I’ve installed Stalker Anomaly but have an OpenAL issue that’s preventing me from starting the game

[sand fiber]

1. have you played the original games
2. what's the issue

[honest sedge]

I’ve played Call of Pripyat but that was yearssss ago. Never played anomaly but have always wanted to. First time trying to install it and I’ve come into this issue something to do with OpenAL (I’m not really a techie so this stuff doesn’t come easy to me. I’ll show the error message once it pops up again)

Oh not allowed to send pics on here

[sand fiber]

whyyyy would you play a mod of arguable quality before playing the games themselvessssss

[sand fiber]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[honest sedge]

Wdym lol

Posted the pic on that thread

[sand fiber]

anomaly is a mod and you haven't played the games, so the question is why would you play the mod first

[honest sedge]

Isn’t it a standalone? I haven’t bought the other games yet and at the moment not in a position to be spending for enjoyment lol. I’ve played CoP (the full thing) and a tiny bit of clear sky

[sand fiber]

unfortunately yes, it is standalone

[sand fiber]

do you have openAL installed? can you show the error log?

[honest sedge]

I’m considering doing that but don’t wanna risk using the wrong pirated files for now. But before hearts of Chornobyl is out I intend to play them all and in order (I hear playing in order isn’t required but I might anyway)

[honest sedge]

Don’t think I do. I’m unfamiliar with OpenAL. How do I access the log?

[sand fiber]

uhhh somewhere somewhere in the anomaly folder

[rustic elbow]

@honest sedge play the original games first, it will be better overall

[honest sedge]

Found the log but can’t open the file

[sand fiber]

also search for OpenAL32.dll in your system32 directory

[sand fiber]

what's the extension of the file?

[honest sedge]

Bkp

[honest sedge]

Don’t see it in there. Is that the issue?

[sand fiber]

ehhh? i've checked it it should be in appdata > logs

[sand fiber]

well it means you don't have the thing installed

so try just that

[honest sedge]

Oh found the log, putting it in the thread

[honest sedge]

Know where I can get that from?

There’s loads of links when I search it

[sand fiber]

openal .org

[honest sedge]

What’s SDK and windows installer? Need both?

[sand fiber]

sdk is a Software Development Kit, you don't need that

[honest sedge]

Still an issue. Log now says can’t open device OpenAL soft

I’ve installed the OpenAL already now

[sand fiber]

check for soft_oal.dll and alsoft.ini in anomaly > bin

[honest sedge]

There’s alsoft (no ini on it) but there is soft_oal.dll

[sand fiber]

anything different in logs?

[honest sedge]

Slight difference. will show log in the thread

[honest sedge]

Pictures up

[frail spire]

just play the games

[sand fiber]

no idea honestly. could it be that... uh... your speakers/headphones are disabled/unplugged?

nothing i can suggest other then rebooting pc/reinstalling the mod, but you might find luck in asking on the anomaly's discord 'bout the issue

[honest sedge]

Tf. The computer restart worked lol. Thanks for all the help!!!!!

[sand fiber]

oh lol

well yeah then the issue was openal not being installed

[honest sedge]

Seems like those files id have needed anyway so yeah you helped a lot. Thank you

[sand fiber]

nice

[honest sedge]

And yes, you and you and the others that have suggested it, I’m planning on getting (maybe pirating) all the games and playing them again

[sand fiber]

good luck with that

[cinder sapphire]

Honestly can’t wait for heart of Chernobyl to come out

[finite dragon]

Same

What's so good about yantar

[fickle sparrow]

welp my game keeps crashing when I enter the underground

is there like a way I can find an error/bug report? I need to go there and kill Frair

[fickle sparrow]

okay so after some like troubleshooting, the game WILL load the underground if I load an old save and go in there for like the scripted quest stuff

but will NOT load if I want to return there, and honestly I have no clue why not, and I can't find a crash log anywhere

[radiant remnant]

Dangerous anarchists, deadly bandits, anomalies, and mutants

[radiant remnant]

vanilla, no mods?

[fickle sparrow]

ZRP, OWR3, shaders,max absolute textures

I just want to find a crash log or something

[radiant remnant]

I don't know about crash logs but I do know that ZRP can be very imposing on other mods.

though I think that'll be incredibly tedious to disable and might cost you starting a new game

I wish I knew more to help, I sadly don't

[rotund fox]

Did F5 work?

[hazy helm]

Yhea it did

[rotund fox]

So there you go all he had to do was check controls

[hazy helm]

Nha he was confused cuz Gamma has campfire saves included,I told him how he can disable it

[rotund fox]

That's even worse somehow

Download hardcore survivalist mod
Don't want the hardcore

These people are unreal man, actual human NPCs

[worthy lagoon]

On what game are you?

[inland kraken]

People on this server are NPCs

[finite dragon]

Yes

[ashen axle]

MiguelMadrigal#6229 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gilded sentinel]

True

[hazy helm]

Everyone is an NPC,REMEMBER,you're the main character

[dry sigil]

I have a question, i am in the Krug antenna station, but i cant find anything useful there, is there a way to power up the elevator in the building ? In Stalker Call of Pripyat

[fickle sparrow]

Shadow of Chernobyl

[finite dragon]

show some screen shots of the place and im going to tell you

[dry sigil]

and, how can i get to Jupiter factory and Pripyat?

[finite dragon]

because i forgot how the interiors of krug antenna looks like

it's been a while since last time i played CoP

[dry sigil]

my computer crashed lol

[languid moon]

Talk to Pilot in the skadovsk, he can take you to Jupiter for a fee

[worthy lagoon]

have you tried setting the lighting to "static lighting"?

In the video settings

[finite dragon]

its not about going to jupiter itself i think they meant how to get in the jupiter factory

[languid moon]

Ah

[ashen axle]

dutyer Y.#3849 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

bro what

i didn't even say a bad word

i just said "a*noying mission"

nvm

so anyway there is that one mission where you have to collect some documents to make a generator work to get in a tunnel, that tunnel will lead you to pripyat

[worthy lagoon]

To get to the Jupiter factor there is like two entrances, you have to follow the road and kinda go around the factory to see the entrances, about Pripyat, you'll find out, first you'll have to find the documents to know how to go to Pripyat, the documents are marked in the PDA

[finite dragon]

you won't be able to make the generator work anyway so you'd have to go to a certain stalker to make it work, i think he was the mechanic from yanov station

[finite dragon]

that's what i was saying lmao

that mission was so annoying

[worthy lagoon]

Meh, not really