⭐┃nospoilers_general

[sand fiber]

in all parts

they were stupid enough to let doug slip into the second and by extension the third games

[finite summit]

russian dubs?

[sand fiber]

russian and english dubs

[finite summit]

so play it in Ukrainian dub?

very based

[sand fiber]

i have no clue who thought it'd be a great idea to let a person who was the prime reason of en public not getting the whole witcher games thing let voice geralt the third time

but for some reason it worked and now he has lots of fans

[finite summit]

very based

[lost sleet]

i wanted to play the game in russian localisation with english subtitles as people recommended me. but couldn't find it.

[sand fiber]

SoC?

[lost sleet]

i played soc in purely english.

[finite summit]

I don't think subtitles exist

[last pine]

So in w1 voice actor of geralt isnt the same as in w2 and w3?

[sand fiber]

so what the game was

[lost sleet]

cs

[last pine]

😵‍💫

[lost sleet]

i'm playing it rn with srp.

[finite summit]

sorry man but it's either purely english or russian

[finite summit]

#bots

[sand fiber]

No, in all three games in english dub Geralt is being voiced by Doug Cockle

CDPR at the time of release of W1 didn't have any money to hire good VAs, so they outsorced it for 2 dollars or smth
Then in W2 the cast was completely changed EXCEPT Doug

I could be lying tho

[last pine]

Oh

[finite summit]

LIAR

did you win?

don't kys

[sand fiber]

tbh they should've just taught Jacek Rozenek english and made him do the acting

[finite summit]

he would sound like sidorovich in SoC dub

nope. I tried

[lost sleet]

i think i accidentaly walked with a grenade into his bunker.

[finite summit]

yes

[lost sleet]

and threw it

[finite summit]

but you can "kill" bartender tho

or rather make him aggressive and cause a game crash

[sand fiber]

oh god i remembered how i tried to kill barkeep in stason's coc fork and the game just crashed

[lost sleet]

uhhh. when i played shadow of chernobyl two or so months ago.

the grenade exploded and nothing happened.

[sand fiber]

nah, all of those ungodly traders are immortal, including saharov

[finite summit]

I remember successfully killing him in Lust Alpha with no crashes and killing the story

[finite summit]

https://tenor.com/view/хук-сталкер-сахаров-gif-23963854

[lost sleet]

what is c-consiousness?

[rotund fox]

Lust Alpha

[finite summit]

oh no embed fail

[rotund fox]

SoC sex mod

[lost sleet]

uhm. okay.

[sly matrix]

such is the nature of the internet, if it exists...

[rotund fox]

Beat SoC
Doesn't know what CCON is

[sly matrix]

the 34th to be precise

[rotund fox]

You must go back right now

[finite summit]

#📜┃s2_suggestions message

[sand fiber]

the guys at the end of the game lol

[finite summit]

I think he never got the true ending

[sand fiber]

Wait

[sand fiber]

Yea

[lost sleet]

there are several endings?

[sand fiber]

i've got it right after i wrote that sentence

[lost sleet]

hm.

[finite summit]

have you played the game?

[sand fiber]

Remember that quest in your PDA telling you to go to Cordon to see Guide?

yeah you should've done that

[finite summit]

It's a path to thw bAD ending

don't complete it

[lost sleet]

yes!
it was my first try two months ago and i fell in love with the game.

[sand fiber]

me when i purposefully spread misinformation on the internet

[lost sleet]

i think i didn't notice or it was hidden from me.

[finite summit]

misinformation🤨

[finite summit]

it gets automatically placed at the bottom of your quest list

[lost sleet]

i think i was too busy finishing the quests.

[sand fiber]

a lot of people don't notice it for some reason, anyway, C-Con are the guys behind the Zone creation basically

[finite summit]

gsc did a little trolling

[lost sleet]

ohhhhh

[sand fiber]

it was a quest

[finite summit]

bro, spoilers

[lost sleet]

i was doing the minor quests i think.

[sand fiber]

you'll get more information on them in CoP/CS, so don't go to the wiki

[finite summit]

I don't think Clear Sky EVER mentions C-Cumciosness

[sand fiber]

||dude who do you think lebedev is connected to ||

[lost sleet]

i will try to get the true ending after i complete the whole series.

[finite summit]

||He never fully admits in Clear Sky||

[sand fiber]

no

[finite summit]

yes(no)

[sand fiber]

||yes but we know for sure from cop ||

[lost sleet]

hm. but i'm playing clear sky.

[sand fiber]

nah

[finite summit]

||True||

[lost sleet]

oh. ok. thank you.

[sand fiber]

the only thing you need to know is not really important, because it's ambiguous if marked one actually did it

[lost sleet]

thank you so much. i didn't know alternative endings exist in soc.

[sand fiber]

do not force yourself to replay if you don't wanna, not worth it

[lost sleet]

but i love the game

[finite summit]

Force youself!!! It's important!

[lost sleet]

i mean. i love both soc and cs.

[sand fiber]

i remember my first SoC run where i got effectively softlocked at cnpp's inner corridors

[finite summit]

skill issue

[sand fiber]

i wanted to play CS so much at that point so i just skipped the ending

[finite summit]

skill issue

[sand fiber]

i LITERALLY had no ammo, no healing items and nothing

i replayed that game like 7 times

thinking on doing another run with ukrainian dub since i'm waiting for my DAC to arrive so i can play Deus Ex 2000

do you understand that inner cnpp interior is literally tight tunnels with ungodly amounts of monolith in them

[lost sleet]

oh. looks like healing items aren't a problem in clear sky. i have dozens of bandages and first-aid kits!

[sand fiber]

is this a joke or not

[rotund fox]

Imagine relying on healing items late game to begin with lol

[lost sleet]

uhm. no?

[sand fiber]

what difficulty are you playing on then?

[lost sleet]

the middle one. it is called something like veteran,

i didn't want to start with the hardest one,

[sand fiber]

i like literally made a plan of the thing, thought of every possible way i could get around, i tried to trick AI somehow and was observing the monolith with demo record for half an hour

[sand fiber]

my conclusion was that the problem is unsolvable

[rotund fox]

I wouldn't call spamming NPC's difficulty

Literal soup player thinking

[sand fiber]

OP 2.2. first quest

tbf there's some top-tier gear

NO AMMO

[rotund fox]

You mean getting wolf's razor? The trick to that is to lure the 5 sextillion zombies to Petruha and let him slowly kill them all

[sand fiber]

nah nah i mean that weird thing were you get a nightmare/memory or smth at the start of the game

[rotund fox]

Nah not really even with top tier gear you can still get one shotted by dudes with sawn offs

[sand fiber]

caves with crazy amounts of enemies

[rotund fox]

OP is just made to be difficulty for the sake of difficulty

[sand fiber]

that was it

not enough and the way back was blocked

[rotund fox]

OP has the easiest version of the cave lol, they give you a shotgun that just shreds everything and even anamalous grenades

[sand fiber]

the only real solution was to load a save pre-pripyat' and prepare better

which i didn't want to do really

[sand fiber]

kinda hard to do that when you have 10 fps

[sand fiber]

[rotund fox]

Memorize the route and just look at the ground the whole way through

[sand fiber]

the only other time something like this happened was my replay of CS on master where i somehow got to the hospital and just gave up since i had no healing items

was the section where you have to wait for cs stalkers to arrive

[finite summit]

Massive skill issue

[empty hull]

Hey everybody

[lost sleet]

hi!

[finite summit]

who?

[empty hull]

Good morning, ralsei

[lost sleet]

good day, a giant thumb!

[empty hull]

I guess I messed up the STALKER conversation

[lost sleet]

uh. i wanted to start another one.

what is the tank doing in the red forest in clear sky? it has 2000 round in it.

hm.

[spring abyss]

The russians left there to get no parking thickets

[autumn parrot]

sup homies

[sleek tundra]

Hello my friend stalker player

[finite dragon]

Henlo frens 🙂

[empty hull]

Hey there

[vocal spruce]

Hello

[finite summit]

kys

[stable steppe]

does anyone know when it will come out stalker?

[finite summit]

2023 if we're lucky

[stable steppe]

:(((

[vocal spruce]

Doubt it'll be 2023

[finite summit]

anything can and therefore will go wrong

[timid trail]

Microsoft said that it be out before the first half of 2023

But with this situation

[carmine crest]

GSC is also microsoft's slaves??

[finite summit]

yes and no

[timid trail]

I don’t know, some rumors says that Microsoft have 3 months of Exclusive and they have also a PS5 version ready after that

[finite summit]

I think GSC confirmed it's true

[dry imp]

partially

[sleek tundra]

@dry imp ?

[dry imp]

💀

"remove trading rubles"

[sleek tundra]

"For very good equipment"

[dry imp]

and you also said to not put them in anomalies

[sleek tundra]

Yes, I said that

[dry imp]

that's literally where artifacts come from

[dry imp]

also that doesn't make sense, good equipment would be valuable why wouldn't you be able to sell them

[sleek tundra]

I said designated anomaly locations like CoP

[nimble cipher]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dry imp]

thats where they come from

[sleek tundra]

Because it would break the economy like every open world

[dry imp]

no it doesn't

[sleek tundra]

No, they come from anomalies, like SoC, not designated anomaly locations like CoP

[dry imp]

you can choose to use the equipment instead

[finite summit]

that's the point

[sleek tundra]

It did in all the games

[dry imp]

its called progression

the better you get, the more money you get

[sleek tundra]

Progression could still be unbalanced

[dry imp]

its just not though

[sleek tundra]

Yes it is, you get really good equipment and conquer the economy by midgame

That's not good gameplay

[dry imp]

why would that make a difference. those areas are filled with anomalies and have specific artifacts even

[sleek tundra]

Because it would make artifact hunting boring and easier

Anomalies should spawn everywhere to encourage exploration instead of rushing to designated locations

[dry imp]

thats what makes it boring though. its way more engaging and interesting to have to travel across the map to a specific area

having them everywhere would make them a whole lot more common

[sleek tundra]

It's unbalanced and makes you stop exploring every other area

[sleek tundra]

Then decrease their spawn overall, that's not related to artifact spawn location at all

[dry imp]

then add other stuff to find?

[sleek tundra]

Like what?

[dry imp]

💀loot

[sleek tundra]

Yeah, where exactly?

Artifacts will make you explore more than loot locations because they're much more random

[dry imp]

but its very balanced because to get good artifacts you have to travel to a SPECIFIC location

[rotund fox]

Eh SoC artifacts were kinda thrown all over

[finite summit]

so much copium in the chat rn

[dry imp]

anywhere?

[sleek tundra]

No it isn't, it makes it very easy to get a lot of money

[rotund fox]

Like the wrenched artifact that is just hovering on the side of the road for no reason lol

[sleek tundra]

You don't have to get good artifacts to get money

You can sell bad artifacts and get paid, and you can still find good artifacts in beginner areas

[dry imp]

it would be a more balanced to randomly find a super good artifact randomly outside ? 💀

[dry imp]

yeah, THATS unbalanced

[sleek tundra]

Yes it would be because it would encourage exploration, the other one is guaranteed

[dry imp]

exactly

[sleek tundra]

Very easy fix, by the way. Make beginner areas... not spawn good artifacts!

[dry imp]

but its not exploration. its just way more tedious. you are relying on chance rather than exploring

[dry imp]

exactly

[sleek tundra]

Exploring is chance based, going to the exact same anomaly multipe times in a row to break the economy is not good exploration

[rotund fox]

I like his suggestions, takes from the soup school of though where the best gear you get is by usually finding some rare equipment or artifacts in exchange for great gear

[sleek tundra]

NLC 7 inspired

And it's very balanced there

I got rich a lot slower than SoC and CoP

[dry imp]

it just seems way more annoying to just wander around looking for artifacts blankly, rather than making an expedition to a specific location

that doesn't sound fun in the slightest

[rotund fox]

Just dont veer too hard into that and make even basic ammo only affordable with artifacts

[sleek tundra]

Making an expedition to a specific location isn't exploration, because you're going to a pre-established location

Exploration is the act of finding something new

[sleek tundra]

It's balanced

[dry imp]

you have to explore to find the location first

[dry imp]

that doesn't mean its fun 💀

[sleek tundra]

Going to the same place over and over and over again isn't fun or balanced

You know where the artifacts spawn exactly so you won't go anywhere else

[dry imp]

yes it is. its reward because its the fact that you found the specific area. dopamine. plus they make the areas look really interesting, as in CoP

[sleek tundra]

The specific area is extremely easy to spot so the reward is insanely high

[dry imp]

have multiple locations for multiple artifacts obviously

[sleek tundra]

You literally lose nothing and gain a lot of money

[dry imp]

not really, you can just make good artifacts rarer and only appear after emissions

[sleek tundra]

Let's use CoP since you mentioned it, you can get very, very powerful and good stuff with barely any progression, main or side quests done by going to artifacts

[dry imp]

you lose a lot leas randomly wandering around

[sleek tundra]

Which has zero risk

[sleek tundra]

Randomly wandering around could be rewarding and more dangerous since you'll actually encounter mutants now

[dry imp]

well then obviously fix that

[sleek tundra]

I showed you a fix but you didn't like it

[dry imp]

i didn't

[sleek tundra]

Lock good equipment to artifacts

[dry imp]

it sounds boring as hell

[sleek tundra]

It's the core of the game, hunting for artifacts

[dry imp]

yes

[sleek tundra]

Becoming the richest man on earth because your game is unbalanced isn't fun either, and it actually is fun. Check NLC 7

Do you play anomaly by any chance?

[dry imp]

no anomaly is boring

[sleek tundra]

Alright, at least you and I have a common agreement on something

[dry imp]

its not that unbalanced

its not ridiculous to the fact you get instantly rich

[sleek tundra]

Yes it is, how isn't it ridiculous?

[dry imp]

you can get a lot of money, but you also spend a lot on gear

and upgrades, ammo, meds etc

[sleek tundra]

That's a lie, you get a lot of money and the gear is not expensive

[dry imp]

💀i dont think we're talk about the same game

[sleek tundra]

I always buy the best stuff possible, with a lot of ammo and medkits to go along with it and I still end up with a hundred thousand ruble

[dry imp]

how the hell?

you dont get THAT much money unless you're getting artifacts for hours

[sleek tundra]

Artifacts

Which are easily farmable, especially after you get the maps for Pilot

[rotund fox]

I remember in OGSE there was a quest to kill some dude who scammed people, and once you did so he had a super good artifact on him, the duty commander asks if he could buy it off of you for a unique duty suit, a pkm and 100k rubles
I would like such rewards in 2 too tbh

[dry imp]

yeah that sound interesting

quest artifacts

[sleek tundra]

No, just artifact trading in general

[rotund fox]

Well it wasn't a useless quest artifact like in Cop, it was a normal artifact but with really good properties

[sleek tundra]

Can't buy any good gun with ruble, you need artifacts

[dry imp]

OH, thats what you mean

i thought you were just saying to get rid of trading currency

[sleek tundra]

Im not saying that we should completely abandon ruble trading, that should be kept for pistol ammo and very early game weapons and armor

[dry imp]

but to have to get a specific artifact for a specific set sounds neat

[rotund fox]

My man you're illiterate

[dry imp]

"remove trading rubles for very good equipment like really good armor and weapons to prevent breaking the economy by midgame and instead you have to rely on artifact trading and hunting."

no im not.

[rotund fox]

Yea, very good equipment, not ALL equipment

[sleek tundra]

I specifically said ruble trading for very good equipment like weapons and armor

[dry imp]

well duh we knew that

[dry imp]

i know.

[sleek tundra]

How did you come to the conclusion that I wanted to completely remove rubles?

I could've just said "remove ruble trading" instead of adding "for very good equipment"

[dry imp]

that's literally not what i said

[sleek tundra]

.

[dry imp]

YOU are illiterate

[rotund fox]

What's the problem you are having here

Please spell it out, i might be

[dry imp]

there is no problem 🤨

you guys are trying to make a problem

[dry imp]

i meant for good gear entirely, but making artifact specific gear that's better than good gear makes sense

[sleek tundra]

I meant removing purchasing armor like merc suit and sunrise suit for ruble and instead you have to rely on artifacts

[dry imp]

well maybe not that, but you can get much better upgraded ones with the artifacts

[sleek tundra]

The only items that could be purchased with rubles are the early game light jacket and generic items

[dry imp]

like special exotic sets or something

[sleek tundra]

That would be even more overpowered than what we already have

Some endgame armor sets makes you survive multiple shots from powerful weapons

[rotund fox]

I would like more of that actually

If i sink like 200k into a suit i expect to be able to survive a chimera landing on me

[sleek tundra]

Game is already piss easy on hardest difficulty

Making it any easier would involve giving the protagonist cosmic powers

[rotund fox]

Hm, tell me how do you feel about artifacts like these #💬┃en_offtop message

[sleek tundra]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561153801114091521/1037826245943120002/ss_manuc_10-16-22_12-00-55_pripyat.jpg

Least overpowered modded artifact

[rotund fox]

Yea it's based

You have to go through hell and back to acquire it

I would like it if the beginning of the game was pure CBT but the end was the exact opposite

[sleek tundra]

Have you ever played NLC 7? I mentioned it multiple times but its where I got my ideas from

Basically this, absolute hell at first but it gets easier the more you play, but it's never easy

[rotund fox]

NLC specifically focuses on being a "hardcore" experience, stalker was never that

You have a minimap that showed you enemies and a binoc that did the same, you get good weapons relatively early on and so forth

[sleek tundra]

It's not really that hard, and I don't care if a mod is different or not. If it's good, it's good.

[sleek tundra]

Minimap is still on the PDA, showing enemies on the map and binoculars was a silly mechanic. Good weapons early is more of a weird balance choice

[rotund fox]

Also don't forget how you have thousands of rounds of ammo by the end of the game

[sly matrix]

as long as you are enjoying yourself, that's what matters

[dry imp]

idk i think clear sky is like that

i kinda like it

[sly matrix]

At the start you don't have weapons that are good enough for mindless head-popping, so it requires a bit more work and thinking to clear areas out.

[dry imp]

yeah that gets a little annoying

remember that its a slavic game

its never complete

slavic game

it does

debatable

[carmine crest]

I thought COP's was the exact same?

I don't notice many differences between the three games if I'm honest

[sly matrix]

CS does cancel a lot of quests

[dry imp]

anti-aliasing just doesn't exist in the xray engine

[sly matrix]

only really fails them when you let people die

[carmine crest]

I think all it lacks is the dynamic sun rays but other than that it feels pretty much the same

[dry imp]

i dont even know

[carmine crest]

clear sky has, yea, SOC does not

[sly matrix]

yeah, grandpa never shuts up about the times he still had to hunt them for food

[carmine crest]

well I was never spoiled with good computers that can run games at high settings, so maybe its just me being more tolerant about older graphics. most worst thing i see is very low resolution textures or stretched ones but it's such a negligible issue

[dry imp]

such an ancient time... the minimum wage was 7.50 back then....

[sly matrix]

my nostalgia thirst is to strong to care much about graphics

[carmine crest]

yeah you and me both, i hate what the modern game industry has become. it is all about money nowadays :|

[dry imp]

i only think a game's graphics is bad if it's inconsistent or the artstyle sucks

[sly matrix]

and optimisation is a lost art...

[carmine crest]

I think HL2 base game still looks phenomenal to this day. hl1 shows it age but it's still good looks.

[dry imp]

true

[carmine crest]

yea that is how i mean, you still get a good product for your money. now you buy a 60 dollar game and it beckons you to go and gamble in it and the gameplay itself is mediocre and bored and is too afraid to try anything new

[sly matrix]

the money-people have far too much say in the development process

[carmine crest]

they are made nowadays with the 'how can we milk as much money as possible out of this' mindset

i get people have to have money to make a living but it's gotten a little out of hand because now the product suffers for it

i started my first half life game as half life source and maybe it's a bias but all the bugs and issues do not really detract from it for me. i still play hl1 way more, but hls is still fun

[sly matrix]

screw battlefield 2042, I play battlefield 2142

[carmine crest]

i used to make horror films in half life source but i lost all of those videos sadly, they were really popular somehow

lol the only one i remember is having a bunch of dead scientists pinned on the wall with crossbow bolts and the halloween theme playing, they are very old, don't remember exact years though

they were recorded with fraps i can remember just that much

they were neat albeit simple. the crossbow pinning physics just really amazed me so i tended to use them a lot

of course it would not be complete if it was not cobbled together in windows movie maker either haha

oh yeah the hours i have sunk into that game are not to be proud of, but its my most played

well that and i was a kid and did not know where to find better for free yet

if it is any consolation i do not have the 'yearl'y achievement yet, but just a little above 7k.

9 to 12, roughly

[sly matrix]

based

[carmine crest]

i was an outdoorsy kid but i also pretty much lived on my computer most of the time lmao

It's weird I have been playing that game since 2010 but have not even had enough hours to fit into a year

meanwhile I look at other peoples profiles and they have enough hours to easily accumulate for like 2 or 3 and i am just like 'ahaha what'

yeah even at 7k i think it is cutting it a bit close

I am like 1760 away or something like that

oh believe me i know, that and tf2 and l4d was the only games i had back them

that's the unfortunate thing I used to watch a bunch of stalker videos back then and the game looked so intriguing and interesting to me, but i only got to play fairly recently as in last year, since the games went on sale

had quite a few buddies yeah i dont know any of them nowadays unfortunately

such is life

I've been in that position a lot of times, it sucks, but the right time will come eventually

I bought all 3 stalker in second of may last year, i think it took me a month or two to start playing SOC though

I only finished call of pripyat this year and like 4 months ago hahaha

I could not play them back then because I was still just a teenager and getting my parents to invest in that hobby is pretty difficult, but better late than never as I see it

[sly matrix]

this year I streamed all three games to completion for a friend

[carmine crest]

I feel I completed clear sky myself illegitimately, as I just skipped to the end, I only had like 12 or 13 hours in it

[sly matrix]

with some silly challenges I put for myself

[carmine crest]

you should savour it even if it seems like you will be in the swamps for an eternity

[sly matrix]

In CS I completed all faction wars, for both sides of each conflict

more like equal opportunity stomper

[carmine crest]

i did not know you can do it for both sides

[sly matrix]

it requires a bit of weird stuff, but it's possible

as long as you don't kill too many members of the opposing faction, they can become neutral again if you join another faction they are on good terms with.

and beat freedom last, beating them breaks them a bit

can't join those in the first place, best you can do is become friendly with them

yeah

you play modded?

do you mean the military grunt under the bridge?

right, won't spoil you on that one

[timid trail]

Don’t worry the problem isn’t you, it’s Clear Sky that has a lot of problems lol

[carmine crest]

I think it was rushed out of the door, wasn't it? development did not take very long

[spring abyss]

Hey @hazy helm take a look

[hazy helm]

ok,and?

[spring abyss]

Cs>>>>>

[hazy helm]

I may put CS above COP but Im not oblivious to it having issues

[spring abyss]

Noooo, cope is better

[hazy helm]

it really isnt hard at all just use your detector in an anomaly field

extra model?

there may or may not be artifacts in the anomaly field
at the start of the game they give you a detector and tell you to try it out on an anomaly field

it is a mandatory segment when youre going to the tower,you can skip doing that but the guys tell you to whip out your detector
most artifact spawns seem to be in the swamps from waht I gather

you cant skip that segment,you can make mute ears and just sprint thru the anomaly field but youll need to get to the tower

CS has stingy spawns for artifacts and their usefulness are downplayed,tho theyre still more usefull tahn COP artifacts,you'll need to explore to find an anomaly field with artifacts,but keeping your equipment stocked and upgraded is the most important and realistically only thing you need

it's a mechanic,its at the start of the game

you,you did see the mechanic in the Clear Sky base and Valerians base

and in every other base, why do I try

the game has no timed challenges or rushes you

the story SoC and CS give false agency but the game has no real agency

well its not a big deal you missed them at the start,just make sure that you keep your equipment upgraded and keep changing guns to better versions and youll do fine
just go to the little cog icon on the map,thats where the mechanic is

only the bandit base is at any real risk due to some bugs,otherwise unless theres player intervention youll be fine
you know Faction Wars is VERY profitable,war sells

it gives a lot of money,wether youre a bystander in a conflict or an active player in a faction,tho being an active player nets you more mone and more upgrades paths and lets you buy armour at lower prices

its for the upgrade system,at the mechanic
certain powerful upgrades require these pen drives to use

like if you want the SEVA suit upgrades you need to work for the bandits

different factions give different rewards that are in line with who they are

sorry?

you cant get out of a faction I think
and CS isnt a gameplay faction,they are outside of the Faction Wars system
you cant completely wipe out a faction either ,they'll resort to hit and hide tatics to a point to try and regain a foothold

joining a faction and the faction wars system is completely optional

yes

I am happy to help

even more when it's about CS

[delicate chasm]

but you can't play through the whole game without being in a faction, though you never have to join one

this is more trivia though

it's mainly main tasks anyway, the side quests in the game are even less prominent than in SoC

The biggest "side quest" of CS is the faction war for the most part

but it's too... sterile... like there's no story to it really, wish there was

[delicate chasm]

faction war is

They were a lot more known than you thnk

Stalker blew up after SoC and there was a long anticipation

yea

but a lot of that was because of how raw the game came out

it's gonna slow down a bit, it's a great game overall, but the ending is weak and I disagree with certain design choices

some people didn't really like that they had to visit the same places over again, i enjoyed it

everybody definitely doesn't agree, but I do

there is some flame

partly because of the bugs, partly because of how many plot holes there are

loose ties from earlier builds of the game in the PDA and certain dialogues

no

well like in your PDA there's a mention of a conversation with a guy who lost his mind because of the Brain Scorcher

but that was cut out of the game, you never actually have all of that happen

that's not it

uhh okay how familiar are you with the games

so that i know what to explain and what not to explain

well so you know that without the psi-helmet Marked One never goes north and does die to the psi

and?

like you connected two completely unrelated things

[viral valve]

Gonna make an addon to Gunslinger that adds a anti-burer mech with the latest on heavy weapons

[delicate chasm]

i'm just saying that in the PDA there's a mention of a conversation with a stalker who doesn't exist in the game because that whole quest and story got cut out

sorry, I didn't mean the loose end in that particular case

Radar is the Russian/Ukrainian name for the level, the Brain Scorcher is the actual system that emits psi

in English localization they called it Red Forest for some reason

Х10. The controls for it are there.

[viral valve]

Don't let the door hit you

[nimble cipher]

Wolfskopf#9067 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[delicate chasm]

The English localization messed that up. X19 is the Monolith control bunker

yes

not sure what the sarkofag question is though

well yeah

[solid dome]

https://twitter.com/Okami13_/status/1598575062759653378

TFW Stalker 2 ends up the same or worse

Glorious UE

[delicate chasm]

Some desdocs actually apparently call the monolith control bunker an X20

So I don't really resort to the usage of those codes unless it's very clearly established

[nimble cipher]

Wolfskopf#9067 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[delicate chasm]

omg Wolf.
I was saying that it's just one of those b.s. "tails" that hangs since the development period in the release

I can hear him telling to go wash my potty mouth with soap

and say a prayer to Jesus afterwards

[viral valve]

For the broken hearted people
Diamonds now surround us

[solid dome]

Attention, STALKERS 📣...

Yes... The Zone may be expanding, but so we are.

If you are a music enjoyer and you want to refresh your playlists and/or you feel like helping us expand our soundtrack to the Zone, you are welcome to join "Lone in the Zone, the ultimate source of atmospheric music for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans" ☢️

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12eVK8ItlIJyYiO4kbcIYodYwmTECvf3-X2RRxVqHmdo/edit?usp=sharing

Tracks added in the catalogue as of today:
2️⃣1️⃣4️⃣

https://i.ibb.co/Bnzws5p/stalker-litz-banner1b-wip.png

[dry imp]

and thats a krezzin fact

[solid dome]

I don't know why I keep posting this when there is no effect...

Though I do know something. When the Zone talks, it repeats itself.

[dry imp]

thats a krezzin fact

[solid dome]

See, I wanted to do a Krezzin Fact and I did, totally randomly

Much to Arizona

[dry imp]

i demand representation. im canceling gsc if there isnt an Arizonan in the game

and the Arizonan is in the Zone because he hates Arizona

[solid dome]

See, I made a pun for a reason

Reasonable punning

[dry imp]

(i have an hour left on the suggestions cooldown so i cant put it there yet)

[solid dome]

I pinged Arizona

[dry imp]

@flint parcel

[solid dome]

STALKER: Arizona for Stalker 3!

[dry imp]

wait whay 💀

[dry imp]

did i actually ping someone

[solid dome]

You pinged the Mayor of the State, now get rap'd

[dry imp]

💀

im terrified that this arizonan will attempt to kill me

im sorry bro i dont live in marana please dont come here

[solid dome]

You will be sexually adopted by a Bloodsucker if you run

You will turn into LGDPR

[jaunty mason]

what's the one quote that sounds like "slimu pie mal"

I can't find it on any list of quotes and I don't know ukrainian nor russian enough to piece together what it means

i think it means something like "flank him" though, right?

[sleek tundra]

@viral valve Why the hell do you want to add NATO to Stalker and the Military?

Fun fact, we already had NATO weapons in the older games and they were mostly used by freedom or mercs

NATO also existed in CoP, just in the background. Best role for them since, well, there's nothing to do in the zone for them

[dry imp]

yeah there is no point for nato to even get involved down there

its literally in control by ukrainian military, bypassing that would be seen as an act of war probably

[amber tendon]

Maslinu paimal

It means "I caught a bullet"

Or if word for word "Caught an olive"

[jaunty mason]

so that's what she's been saying to me...

[amber tendon]

SHE!?!

WOMAN??? AWOOGA

[nimble cipher]

HarryCallahan#5588 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[jaunty mason]

NO

go find your own female friends

[viral valve]

Y'know, having more NATO games may be cool, especially showing they fight I

[sleek tundra]

Wouldn't make sense

There is nothing for them to gain in the zone

[solid dome]

NATO has a place ingame, to destroy it

[sleek tundra]

A good chunk of their expedition teams died

YOOOO UNCLE KREZZIN

[nimble cipher]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[solid dome]

It's been 3 decades since we last spoke in Kopachy @sleek tundra

[gilded sentinel]

🤨

[gilded sentinel]

Maybe mercs are some kind of pmc working for nato/other major forces on the world , since they clearly have western routes

[sleek tundra]

Mercs are PMCs for everyone

From private companies to rich people

[solid dome]

This is what STALKER 2 soundtrack should be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrTIDqFRGA

Not that crap we've been served....

[sand fiber]

This is what STALKER 2 soundtrack should be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB0LCX-JHd4

Not that crap we've been served....

[finite summit]

This is what STALKER 2 soundtrack should be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1IlssVd6g

Not that crap we've been served....

[lost sleet]

boy. artifacts are so helpful in clear sky!
i think i found the best combination. kolobok, snowflake

and bubble!

[sand fiber]

[finite summit]

yes and no

[lost sleet]

i don't have to spend money on energy drinks anymore!

[finite summit]

well mostly yes

[sand fiber]

couldn't you just equip a buncha stamina artifacts in SoC and run infinitely

[finite summit]

I'm still salty about the fact that the only debuff all artifacts can and ALWAYS have is radiation

SoC had a bit more variety in terms of that

[lost sleet]

i think i got some of them. but they only gave me +33 stamina.

and i had only two of them.

[sand fiber]

but regeneration is much quicker with them

+with just one of them you can walk and restore stamina at the same time

[sleek tundra]

That's not good enough!

Waiting for NLC artifacts :;(

[lost sleet]

yeah! but i decided just to run with a light weight.

[finite summit]

Didn't help when I was overencumbered

[lost sleet]

instead i used artifacts, which give me +400 health.

and. uh.

[finite summit]

Idk. Health buff felt useless in SoC

Should've sold Ghost's suit

But it did help in CS

[sleek tundra]

SoC artifacts were so individually weak on their own

[lost sleet]

i think bleeding or bullet protection artifacts. or i used even both of them.

[sleek tundra]

But CoP artifacts are more generic and less fun

Funny how a game about characters hunting for artifacts, doesn't have a good artifact system

[finite summit]

at least it had new hunting mechanics

[lost sleet]

i don't understand why did they limit the amount of artifacts you can use.

[finite summit]

balance no balls

[lost sleet]

i could use 7 or so artifacts without problems. but now i have to upgrade the suits.

i'm limited to 3 now.

[finite summit]

skill issue

[sleek tundra]

Balance

Encouraging the player to create interesting combos

Make artifacts have SoC debuffs, and make them stronger on their own

[finite summit]

Encouraging the player to cope

[rotund fox]

That's health regen, not an additional 400 points to the health pool

[rotund fox]

Balance is the fun killer

[lost sleet]

oh.

[sleek tundra]

Fun is the game breaker

[rotund fox]

And?

[sleek tundra]

Based

[rotund fox]

I like having my stats look like a complete mess

[finite summit]

Average OP2.2 player

[rotund fox]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153801114091521/1035154640519577680/op.png
Yes

[sleek tundra]

Op 2.2 players on their way to singlehandedly kill every single faction in the game using a knife, a low condition PM pistol and the most overpowered artifacts in the game

Your health is 5600%, new mutant

[rotund fox]

You still die to random dudes with sawn offs because difficulty

[sleek tundra]

• the guy with 5600% health

[rotund fox]

And no fun allowed in OP

[sleek tundra]

Why play OP 2.2 when you have NLC

This post was made by pain enjoyers

[rotund fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6qh262x8M

[finite summit]

Has anyone ported OP2.2 to NLC yet?

[rotund fox]

Very sad piece of information indeed

[sleek tundra]

Why would you even port it

[finite summit]

I know that someone ported OP2 to OGSE

[rotund fox]

You mean they ported the engine to OP2, not vice versa

[finite summit]

or that

[rotund fox]

It's sad you know, i can look past all the insanity of OP if only it weren't so full of artificial difficulty. Stuff like snipers that spawn out of bounds, NPC spam and collector stashes are so petty lol

[finite summit]

very based

[sleek tundra]

Stalker mods try to have actual challenging difficulty instead of depending on crappy mechanics and game design elements challenge (impossible)

Never understood why Anomaly is so popular, the only hardcore thing in the mod is trying to keep yourself entertained

[rotund fox]

You know why don't act dumb lol

[sleek tundra]

No I don't, it has gameplay that puts the original trilogy to shame, shame in that it's somehow worse.

Which is saying a lot, by the way

[rotund fox]

Because you can convert it into free tarkov

[rotund fox]

Also that's not how you use that sentence/insult, you usually say it when the OG is outshined in every way

[sleek tundra]

Free offline tarkov with nothing to do

[sleek tundra]

Yeah I know, that's why I said "Shane in that it's somehow worse"

Anomaly lacks content, there are 3 to 4 radiant quest types and zero hand written side quests

[rotund fox]

Mate people that play Anomaly more then twice are NPC's just laugh at them and move on

[sleek tundra]

I might play it again just to write down every crappy thing I encountered, then post it whenever the mod is mentioned

[rotund fox]

Sounds like a waste of time but ok

[hardy dock]

Hello where is stalker 2 in the Microsoft store

I can’t find it on m’y Xbox

[sleek tundra]

Still not out

[rotund fox]

2027

[sleek tundra]

Deus ex refetence

[sand fiber]

deltarune reference

[finite summit]

1984 reference

[cyan canopy]

Black Ops Refrence

[rotund fox]

Stop the stream of unfunny

[cyan canopy]

Ok

[supple summit]

whats that one stalker mod with a billion factions

[finite summit]

Zone Reclamation Project

[supple summit]

شكرا حبيبي

[finite summit]

fuсk you too

[supple summit]

i said thanks 😦

[finite summit]

oh

you're welcome then

[supple summit]

🙂

[nimble cipher]

Pie#7581 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[supple summit]

man

[sleek tundra]

Why can't we swear

[supple summit]

i just remembered what the zone reclamation project is and now i feel like an idiot

[hazy helm]

there isnt one

[supple summit]

well not literally billion

but yk a ridiculous amount

[hazy helm]

nop

[supple summit]

you sure?

wait lemme send a pic of the mods factions

[hazy helm]

hmmm

[finite summit]

good luck with sending pics on this server

[supple summit]

i sent the pic to #📸┃screens_and_videos

[finite summit]

Some mods already have them

[sand fiber]

how

nato soldiers? un missions?

[finite summit]

Foreign mercenaries/science groups?

[sand fiber]

a bit cliche, but i guess un science team could work

[sand fiber]

actually yeah mercenaries are alright too

[finite summit]

In SoC all mercenaries were originally meant to be foreigners but the only thing left from that in retail is an accent in russian dub

[sleek tundra]

Bro, imagine if the only black characters we meet are hostile since the majority of mercs are dicks

[sand fiber]

lul

[finite summit]

very progressive based

[sleek tundra]

Alright, we've talked about Muslim stalkers

We've talked about black Stalkers, but what about female stalkers?

[sand fiber]

crimean tatars in zone (real)

[finite summit]

They are all canonically hallucinations

[sleek tundra]

Dude, stop. The channel can't handle all those based comments

[finite summit]

Native americans in the zone(real)

[sand fiber]

i guess they'll put some women in science teams across the zone, but likeee idk

the explanation of why there are no women in zone is as good as explanation for why nobody ever mentions the eastern/western/northern parts of the zone

[finite summit]

Stalker 2 lead writer said that there was a woman character in his story

[sand fiber]

(there's none)

[sleek tundra]

Based

[sand fiber]

you mean S2012? yea i remember in desdocks something about that

[hazy helm]

there is one non-explanation,and thats fine,the moment you put weight on it it breaks,waive it away,its a game not every question like this needs to be answered

[sand fiber]

i meant in a there's no explanation way not the there are no women way

[hazy helm]

dont touch it,dont think it,

[sand fiber]

[sand fiber]

memetic agent

[finite summit]

there were 2 variants of the story. The later one got leaked just 2 years ago and it actually has woman(singular)

[sand fiber]

or antimemetic perhaps

[sleek tundra]

One female character, where is she

[finite summit]

ded

[sleek tundra]

Guess 4chan reached her

[finite summit]

Well there also was "Olesya" a supposed girlfriend of Orest in Clear Sky

[sand fiber]

i remember there was a story about a woman who tried to reach the zone but got caught by the military in cs

and also some artifact description that i don't remember

[rotund fox]

AQUZ - Al Qaeda in the Ukrainian Zone (based faction)

[finite summit]

Scarlet Flower

[hazy helm]

she got caught before she entered the zone,the guy telling it is pissed that he went into the zone to look for the woman when she never was in it

[sleek tundra]

Think it was about a stalker and his girlfriend trying to get in, only the stalker managed to enter

Based military?

[finite summit]

A mysterious artifact of unknown origin. Produces virtually no emissions; its only confirmed effect is to woo women.
Scarlet flower

[sand fiber]

Loki, the second drone has hit the Yanov

[hazy helm]

[timber salmon]

Had no idea there was a Stalker discord channel ! Just finished my first playthrough of CS last night.

[finite summit]

very based

[rotund fox]

I think one of the russian CoC modpacks unironically had al qaeda as a faction

[hazy helm]

chad

[rotund fox]

They were positioned in the deserted hospital for some reason

[sand fiber]

an important question

[sleek tundra]

BASED

[finite summit]

I wouldn't be surprised after wehrmacht

[sand fiber]

have you played SoC prior to that?

[finite summit]

why would he?

[timber salmon]

yeah man starting CoP tonight

[sand fiber]

nice

[hazy helm]

my man knows whats up

[sleek tundra]

Download gunslinger

[sand fiber]

do not

[hazy helm]

play it vanilla,first time playthru

[sleek tundra]

Do yes

[finite summit]

What next? Anomaly?

[sand fiber]

gamma

[sleek tundra]

Misery

[finite summit]

OP 2.2

[rotund fox]

It was missed oppurtunity for them not to bring a Stug along or something, the only faction in the zone with functioning armor

[sand fiber]

NLC 7.1

[timber salmon]

Gunslinger looked real cool tbf. The suicide by controller alone almost sold me on the mod xD

[sleek tundra]

Why NLC 7.1?

[hazy helm]

Khazakstan War mod

[sand fiber]

highfleet 3d?

[finite summit]

Emba-5

[sand fiber]

ХПАХПХПФВХАФЫХВАФА

[nimble cipher]

NozAr#0330 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[toxic vector]

someone needs to make a stalker version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S30N9yhI-68

[hazy helm]

it'd be good IF the changes to balancing were purely optional,as it stands,,you cant get the good without enduring the bad

[sleek tundra]

The mod, despite what everyone says, doesn't do much to gameplay. It doesn't have ALL the weapons from vanilla, mostly an animation pack.

I said it doesn't do much, I didn't say it doesn't do anything to gameplay. Don't use my words against me.

[sand fiber]

someone should acquire a taste in entertainment

[hazy helm]

adding consumable animations and changing mutatns changes a lot in gameplay

[finite summit]

Someone should someone

[sleek tundra]

But that would be gay and doing it with women is impossible because they don't exist

[timber salmon]

I might save all the gameplay changes for gamma if i end up going for that. For now i'm just looking forward to seeing what the changed from CS. The gunplay in that without some mods felt super weird.

[finite summit]

truly 1984

[sleek tundra]

Bro we were joking about gamma 💀

[hazy helm]

GAMMA is pretty wack

[sand fiber]

people really do be looking at demosphen's coc fork and saying "yeah that's basically vanilla gameplay and graphics"

[timber salmon]

CoP has free roam in the end right ?

[sand fiber]

wdym?

ah freeplay, yes, but there's no point

[finite summit]

isn't it?

[oblique crypt]

[timber salmon]

ah gotcha

[sleek tundra]

No, not like sandbox mods. You can't choose your factions

[finite summit]

there is extra content and lore

[sleek tundra]

No there isn't, it literally has less lore than vanilla

[hazy helm]

COP factions suck anyway,they took everything cool away

[sand fiber]

i don't remember any extra content, and it's not worth it anyway

[sleek tundra]

The only extra content is radiant quests that makes skyrim look like a masterpiece

[hazy helm]

there isnt you can do it to do quests you still havent and finish up business but aside from that its meaningless

[finite summit]

Stalkers come to the laundromat

[timber salmon]

Factions felt cool in CS but the faction war stuff felt like it barely worked. Bandits had dope music though.

[sand fiber]

the ||evacuation || is an extremely good ending and there's no point to ruin it

[finite summit]

And it reveals some important lore

[sand fiber]

Yeah, it doesn't work basically

[sleek tundra]

The only thing to do in anomaly and the like is improving your equipment

[oblique crypt]

This

[sleek tundra]

But even that is boring because most quests follow the dame rules

Go to location, shoot or get a document, come back for money

[hazy helm]

follow me and bully me into learning LUA and maybe when Stalker 2 releases I'll make an anomaly mod to overhaul quests

[finite summit]

Yar is has a clone created by the Zone(Just like Valerian in CS). It is proven by the fact that he comes to Pripyat even if you kill hiim in Kopachi.

[sand fiber]

Anomaly 2 will be released 100%, so you're better off waiting for that

[sand fiber]

ужас припяти реален

[sleek tundra]

No, no it won't

For starters, we're still not sure if the game will come with a good sdk

[rotund fox]

Whole point of the game is to find out why helicopters have trouble existing in the zone
2 choppers come in at the end without any problem
No.

[sand fiber]

Yes it will, as well as NLC 2, NS 2027 and OP 3

[sand fiber]

???
did you not listen to what strelok said or smth

[finite summit]

It turned out they forgor to update anomaly field maps

[sleek tundra]

Making mods requires SDKs, newer games don't have SDKs. Don't speak like you're 100% certain that those mods will come out

[rotund fox]

Yea and?

All they learned is that anomalies shift positions, how did they know where to slip through and where not?

[sleek tundra]

The original trilogy were easy to mod because the devs gave away an SDK and modding old games is very easy

[hazy helm]

heheheheh good joke

[sand fiber]

gsc promised an sdk, and mods are basically the only thing keeping stalker alive

[sand fiber]

Because they have anomaly field maps?

[sleek tundra]

Modding stalker 2 wouldn't be the same as modding stalker SoC

[finite summit]

The Medic in Pripyat(forgor his name) is actually a brainwashed agent of C-Conciousness

[sand fiber]

Because they failed the Monolith mission and invented that?

[sand fiber]

ковальский?

[finite summit]

yes

[sleek tundra]

Hello c-conciousness

It's monolith

We need 5 billion soldiers

[timber salmon]

c-conciousness are to busy being green

[rotund fox]

That doesn't answer my question...Unless you are expecting me to believe there is only 2 possible positions anomalies can shift to and back from

[sand fiber]

they are too busy commissioning all that monolith equipment

[timber salmon]

would love to see their order invoice

[sand fiber]

What are you talking about? They are able to collect anomaly field location

[sand fiber]

that's canon btw

[hazy helm]

In the ass

[hazy helm]

When are we getting the stalker C0DA

[timber salmon]

imagine the hypno TV power bill

[hazy helm]

You know you know

[sand fiber]

But they didn't know anomalies dislocation change every time a... uhhhhh i don't know what's the name for выброс in english

[sand fiber]

so they just did it once

[empty hull]

Emission

[sand fiber]

oi right

[finite summit]

blowout

[sand fiber]

пососи

[hazy helm]

Pososi?

[sand fiber]

yes

[timber salmon]

Do the emissions become more of a thing in CoP ? I got like 3 or 4 of them throughout clear sky.

[hazy helm]

[sand fiber]

yes

[hazy helm]

Getting better at this

[sand fiber]

also weird, i remember emissions being a constant thing in cs

[sand fiber]

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TRAVEL BETWEEN LOCATIONS

[nimble cipher]

NozAr#0330 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[rotund fox]

You know just forget about it

[sand fiber]

stoopid

[rotund fox]

No i just can't be bothered to explain to you what i mean

Nor do i care enough to do so tbh

[sand fiber]

.

[sand fiber]

.

[empty hull]

@sand fiber Maybe I could stream STALKER since I haven't played anything like that in a long time

[dry imp]

or just play it

[empty hull]

This time I'm streaming so I can hang out with one of my bros

[limpid salmon]

yes, at night with the lights off

pussy

[sand fiber]

what do you have installed rn though?

[limpid salmon]

too scared of the little hamsters?

[dry imp]

i literally only play with the lights off

[empty hull]

The trilogy, OLR, Vector of Alienation, OGSR and Goldsphere

[dry imp]

1.6 incher

[hazy helm]

Which OGSR version

[limpid salmon]

they're not that tall

[empty hull]

I don't remember

[limpid salmon]

also just take a shotgun with you

or an RPG

[sand fiber]

oi olr would be cool lol

[limpid salmon]

they're barely taller than the player

[empty hull]

They are mostly invisible

[limpid salmon]

sometimes they show themselves, and they're not 100% invisible

[empty hull]

You can kind of see their eyes from far away

[limpid salmon]

idk a Controller is scarier

[empty hull]

Yeah, that can be pretty spookful

[limpid salmon]

but you can usually run away and they stop chasing

[rotund fox]

No you wouldn't cause arming distance is a thing

[empty hull]

Everyone at some point

[rotund fox]

The grenade has to cross a certain distance before the explosive is armed mate

[empty hull]

The RPG is fun

[rotund fox]

Have you ever played Killing Floor 2 with the RPG?

[empty hull]

You don't have to carry that much in any of the games, honestly

[rotund fox]

https://youtu.be/rqSyjhlmom0?t=67

This is what would happen IRL too, would probably just take off the bloodsuckers head

[empty hull]

Like for SoC you just need the fast shooting AK, a PMm, some ammo and medical supplies, a can of tuna and armor and you are pretty much set for the rest of the game.

[rotund fox]

My point is that it wouldn't explode if the bloodsucker was close enough to you

[empty hull]

What are you talking about?

[dry imp]

good anomalies

[limpid salmon]

it was the brain scorcher

[solid dome]

It was the Wish Scorcher aka Krezzin

[limpid salmon]

it tells me to talk to chef but... we killed all the freedom freaks

[dry imp]

he got scorched

[timber salmon]

can the brain get scorched if one does not have a brain 🤔

[left sparrow]

I can't complete the "Kill Lukash" mission without Skull being killed

And I can't finish the mission without talking to him

[sand fiber]

typical dutier

try killing everyone on your way except lukash and then talking to skull

might work, not promising anything tho

[timber salmon]

Is that the sniper thingy in SoC ?

I had to reload a few times to keep the quest dude from getting snipped

[sand fiber]

yes near the freedom base skull's group wants to destroy freedom

i always kill them stealthly

[faint canopy]

greetings stalkers

[faint canopy]

i played SoC and CS vanilla

and i've been meaning to play CoP

[fallen adder]

nice

[timber salmon]

Looking at mods for CoP atm and that AtmosFear one looks real good

not that the base sky box looks bad

[flat prism]

Has there been any tidbit of news within the past 86 days

[finite summit]

I assume you are an expert in doing that

[sand fiber]

пососи

[finite summit]

show me how

[sand fiber]

what exactly

[finite summit]

what you are telling me to do

[sand fiber]

what part of it exactly don't you get

[finite summit]

Every part. I've never done that

unlike u

[sand fiber]

nothing complicated

[finite summit]

Easy for you to say

[sand fiber]

indeed

[limpid salmon]

I need help, it still shows me the missions on the map even though I've done them, they're gone on the PDA, how do I fix?

[finite summit]

skill issue

[limpid salmon]

yes

Go into X-16, Bring this, Talk to him...

[finite summit]

did you find the ghost's suit?

[limpid salmon]

yes

even sold it

[finite summit]

No

[limpid salmon]

broken

[finite summit]

You should've taken a quest from scientists

[limpid salmon]

I did wear it a while

[finite summit]

they reward you with the 2nd best suit in the game

in exchange for ghost's suit

Sakharov

[limpid salmon]

i had it but as i played the condition got worse, so a merc suit was better

[finite summit]

SSP-99M

[limpid salmon]

bandit

[finite summit]

It's like SEVA but better

the green one

[limpid salmon]

among us suit

[finite summit]

it's really good

[limpid salmon]

what about seva suit?

[finite summit]

It's a bit worse in terms of bullet protection

[sleek tundra]

All bad

Best armor is monolith suit + trenchcoat

The amount of drip you'd get from that combo could make your eyes bleed without protection

[limpid salmon]

монолит

[digital fern]

i wonder what is the story for the new stalker is

[limpid salmon]

монолит

stalker 2 story is about монолит

[digital fern]

ik that but what will happen now since the game will be based again around chernobyl

[finite summit]

Strelok will be revealed to actually have been captured and brainwashed by C-Conciousness at the end of SoC

[digital fern]

hopefully not

[finite summit]

If you paid attention to the details

It was shown that C-Consciousness can control teleporters(like the time when you put decoder on a door in sarcophagus and they teleport monolithians to you), so why make a teleporter that conveniently gets your enemy to your exact location?
In reality what you see in the final cutscene is a hallucination that Strelok sees after being hit by c-cosciousness' psi-emissions(akin to wish granter). In reality Strelok was teleported into a trap set up by C-consciousness and brainwashed into become their agent as a part of "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." program(this time for real). This is also supported by him wielding an AK he didn't have at that point of the game and "magical" teleportation to a green meadow right after he shoots c-consciousness. He is in fact at the very same meadow seen in "I want the Zone to disappear" ending.

[digital fern]

i think the part with green meadow is that strelok was finally at peace and discovered the "truth" about what is in chernobyl

[finite summit]

but how is he suddenly transported from the underground lab to the middle of somewhere

[digital fern]

since he always wanted to go there

[digital fern]

thats i think a subliminal message that strelok is at peace

[finite summit]

why is it so dark and no sunlight then?

[finite summit]

probably

[digital fern]

and the ak part

i think thats its just is signutare weapon tbh

plus you see that weapon even in cop

[finite summit]

really convenient that a random teleporter leads right to the exposed c-conciousness and not a trap

[digital fern]

and also maybe because it was a pre-rendered cutscence

[finite summit]

true

[finite summit]

exactly

makes sense

especially when you consider how many monolith soldiers gets teleported

[finite summit]

although that'd mean that they can control teleporters. Then why make a convinient one that lets your enemy kill you?

[digital fern]

plus if you hear the voice in stalker clear sky strelok voice was more active and chaotic in a way while in shoc or cop was more calm and monotone

[finite summit]

No I meant that C-con controled teleports

Well someone had to

Otherwise it's too much of a coincidence how all the monolithians teleport exactly to where you are

valid statement

the teleports?

I was talking about the times teleporters suddenly appear spawn monolithians and disappear. A very prominent example is when you put a decoder on the door in sarcophagus

maybe

true

although they do manage to randomly teleport all the way to cordon(sidorovich) and back

although that might be just a random unintended one

just like a convenient one that teleports you right to c-con

I guess

true

[green delta]

Guys, i am doing my first Stalker SoC playthrough, how scary exactly is Lab X16? I've been trying to avoid going there for few days but the time has come - i need to go there. My question is: Is it less scary, more scary or as scary as Lab X18?

Lab X18 nearly killed me, the weird absence of mutants and enemies overall was very creepy

[finite summit]

X16 is scary but not as much as X16 X18

[limpid salmon]

yea X16 is scarier than X16

[finite summit]

It's right between Agroprom Underground and X18

[green delta]

I nearly gor a heart attack when i encountered my first Controller in Agroprom underground

Are there more underground levels besides there three?

[finite summit]

yes but only one of them can be considered slightly scary

[green delta]

Ok cool👍

Thank you

[limpid salmon]

honestly, bandits only have shit loot

[crystal bane]

Me when

When I turn the Brain Scorcher off and escape that hellhole called Radar after more than 15 failed attempts:

https://youtu.be/8SnNVJVdqo8

[carmine crest]

man lab x16 is nothing, wait until you get to lab x8

[finite summit]

eh

[carmine crest]

x8 was the first lab where i hesitated at the door and was almost too afraid to press on

[finite summit]

If you still find X8 scary after all you experinced in SoC, you have a serious skill issue my friend

[carmine crest]

they have spooky goblins in there though 😭

[crystal bane]

I can assure you the stress factor of the system shutdown in turning off the Brain Scorcher mission is a lot worse than X8.

It's like the safest X lab

[carmine crest]

did we play same x8? haha. man that room with 3 burer was a headache, i wasted all my ammo until i realized i needed to be in the exact same room to kill them

[finite summit]

It's difficult to find but not scary tbh

[carmine crest]

mm, yea, to be honest I can't remember if I even felt fear from x16 and x18. the poltergeist jumpscares with throwing loud noisy props at me sure got me, but they became annoying more than anything. pyrogeist did not scare me, either, and pseudogiant i just cheesed by luring him to the door and using the RPG on him. x16's timer was slightly stressful but i remembered in games that give you timers they usually give you more than enough time, so i didn't really panic

the atmosphere is a little scary but it doesn't actually induce any fear in me, i'll look around if a strange jostling noise appears, sure, but really it didn't unease me as much as x8. agroprom underground was genuinely unnerving I can admit that, but I guess my fear of the undergrounds died in that place

i hope stalker 2 adds a lot more labs than just 3 or so, because they are easily my favorite setpieces to travel regardless of spooks or not

[crystal bane]

Yeah,I wanna see the other X-labs,such as X-7 and X-9 which are mentioned in the trilogy but never seen in the game.

[delicate chasm]

Idk man there are a lot of fall and slip hazards

And the burers have messed up all the wet floor signs

[worthy lagoon]

We will see more X-labs in STALKER 2

Or most likely, new paths/rooms of previous X labs

[delicate chasm]

So far i think in the leak there was only one underground level mentioned and we saw it in a trailer

wonder if there'll be more. Underground levels have been kind of a special treat in the games

It would be nice to see some really large underground system that could span across half the available world

how?

it can still be claustrophobic, but just a much larger system than the Agro underground or X16 for instance

I phrased it pretty coherently the first time, I feel

when I say large I mean long more than anything

not some kind of underground city like in Ace Combat 3 lol

Pripyat-1 was actually pretty close to that concept

well it doesn't have to be mandatory

[worthy lagoon]

???

[delicate chasm]

I don't know how to interpret three question marks

what do you mean...

i'm exhausted from "that wouldn't be stalker"

Where did you get fast travel from lmfao

And the original trilogy has fast travel in two out of 3 games

I just wanna see an underground system about twice the size of Pripyat-1

I don't know, you brought up fast travel...

why are we talking about fast travel ffs

Pripyat-1 was pretty big but it was too much fighting. Kinda want a longer one with more spooky monsters, less human enemies, and more scary elements

just give us an exhausting underground where we are grateful to see the skylight as we leave it

Pripyat-1 is an underground system that leads from Jupiter outskirts to Pripyat

that one's tiny lol

You haven't played CoP

Those are all different levels

Pripyat-1, Jupiter outskirts, Pripyat -- those are 3/5 of the levels in the game

in English the Jupiter outskirts may be called something else, like Yanov

damn if you think the Agro underground was exhausting... get ready to play CoP lol

[solid dome]

You don't know that, lol

We can see a blank screen as well by that logic

[worthy lagoon]

Trailer showcases new locations

Especially the room full of capsules

[solid dome]

Trailer showcases WIP stuff, stuff that may be there but may not look the same at all so it's kinda 50/50

[delicate chasm]

I doubt that they would show something with so much significant detail without making it the final product, so I'm leaning more towards 80/20

[finite summit]

well that was the case for Shadow of Chernobyl

we never got driveable cars

luckily

[spring abyss]

Smash use key on the btr at cnpp

[finite summit]

there is no "start car" button

[spring abyss]

Noooooooo 😔

[finite summit]

unless you bind it via console

[spring abyss]

Press num8, its works for dimitri

[solid dome]

Remember we've been told the game's been finished and it's in polishing stages. We've been told hundred things without zero facts, so... I'd say 65-70/20

Maybe even 50-55

[finite summit]

cope

[solid dome]

I dug a roll of coper early today, @finite summit

[finite summit]

proof?

[solid dome]

Polaroid broke

[finite summit]

guess i'll take your word for it