⭐┃nospoilers_general

[solid dome]

Thank god I'm not the only one who seems to have "weird type of sarcasm"

[delicate chasm]

he's not being sarcastic though

[sleek tundra]

Sarcasm?

[spring abyss]

Only doctor x known how to make mods whiteout brake the game, he was the chosen one

[ember moth]

I swear that i will quit ALL MODS

[sleek tundra]

He died, he was too dangerous to be kept alive. The madlad actually managed to mange mods that weren't completely garbage, rest in peace

[delicate chasm]

it's worth not playing mods at least to not make cringe mod-rot comments in the GSC discord

[ember moth]

Only after i beat that one 2015 SoC mod where you play as a military guy that crashed in Pripyat

[spring abyss]

F
I learning trough his holy scripts, the guy was a god among the mens

[ember moth]

I need to play that mod then i'll die in peace

[sleek tundra]

Call of duty zombies?

[spring abyss]

#📜┃s2_suggestions be like:

[solid dome]

You never brought it to use?

[ember moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP4z20HPQlg

[spring abyss]

Theres a cod zombies mod for cod 4, it got all the main characters from the mw trilogy

[delicate chasm]

literally

[sleek tundra]

Guys what if we add PDA animations in Stalker 2

[solid dome]

That channel itself is a crater of insanity

[spring abyss]

Yeah, its more fun then the #🤨┃stalker_memes

[delicate chasm]

my only suggestion there was to close the suggestions channel

[ember moth]

They should cancel stalker 2 and leak every build and descdoc

[sleek tundra]

Smartest comment I've read here for weeks

[spring abyss]

No

[ember moth]

We don't need new stalker, we need to RETVRN

[spring abyss]

No

[sleek tundra]

We don't need either

[spring abyss]

We need call of chernokyl

[delicate chasm]

I will find where you live

[solid dome]

Here, here, giving ideas nobody needed

[ember moth]

I live in the build cordon thats in Crimea

[spring abyss]

There's probably a guy named nobody here

[delicate chasm]

these are the kinds of comments that produce school shooters

[uncut heart]

Kek

[spring abyss]

😎

[solid dome]

No comment in here

[spring abyss]

Also, you should join the cocK team, i didn't make any cs npc until now

[finite dragon]

select faction please

[spring abyss]

And i got a lot of new suits for them

[solid dome]

He won't, he's Schwarzkopf fan

[uncut heart]

Okay

[spring abyss]

Monolith? What's wrong with new comers

Join duty my son

[finite dragon]

shiny rock worshippers

[uncut heart]

Im not new, i left when the server closed...

[solid dome]

Glowing rock you mean

[solid dome]

Kev?!

[spring abyss]

you got a second chance and joined the monolith again?

[uncut heart]

Nah , he is my friend

[uncut heart]

Yes, i was suprised when i saw its already checked

[spring abyss]

[uncut heart]

Just realised i didnt speak to kev for a while

Im not a good friend...

[uncut heart]

Extra brainwash never hurts

[delicate chasm]

it's not mandatory

[uncut heart]

Okay

[vernal magnet]

Good afternoon fellow comrades

[uncut heart]

Oi

[vernal magnet]

Kev is a chad I love that guy

Makes great content 👌 Been meaning to give him a cameo in an upcoming video

[uncut heart]

Im kind of the opposite

Trying to make a stalker "short" film but i live in an area where no stalker fans are around, so im the only actor, its hard

[solid dome]

He gone from here for good, maybe

[hazy helm]

look at it from the positive part
it will never be worse than Shadow of the Zone

Im p sure there already is

[uncut heart]

Lol

[hazy helm]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/S-T-L-K-R-Chernobyl-Exclusive/dp/B09DJCW6RK
??

[solid dome]

Amazon with the lazy URLs. S-T-L-K-R-Ch__e__rnobyl

Too much work for them to update the address

Alibaba better

[uncut heart]

I wish surreal east notice me once again in life

[solid dome]

Best would be you tag the CMs for straight-to-the-point answer

[vernal magnet]

Really why? What happened?

[solid dome]

Huh? I said maybe he left the server for good.

[uncut heart]

He touched grass probably

[vernal magnet]

Oh OK your previous message just read kind of weird

[solid dome]

Does it? Damn.

[worthy lagoon]

He left because of the toxic gatekeeping

[solid dome]

Kev gone. Gaj gone, who else?

[dry imp]

me

[vernal magnet]

Gatekeeping against anomaly players or?..

[dry imp]

not really "gatekeeping" because its not actually stalker

[worthy lagoon]

Gatekeeping in general, the toxic kind not just discussing about eachother's opinions

[uncut heart]

[vernal magnet]

Oh, damn. What a shame. Stalker has always had the best community in my opinion. But as it grows its harder to keep the core culture

Anyone I meet IRL that's a stalker fan gets a glaring look from me like "did we just become best friends???"

[solid dome]

I'm taking you with me for a trip down under visiting the homeboy @vernal magnet if you will

Only if you answer one Australian question

What's the biggest sports brand in Australia from years ago? DO NOT HELP HIM

[vernal magnet]

Krezzin you realize I'm in the USA right lol

[solid dome]

Shhhh

[vernal magnet]

KangarooSport? 😎

[solid dome]

Wrong. You have another chance.

[delicate chasm]

A year or two ago I saw a guy in Toronto wearing a STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl t-shirt that was styled like a black metal album cover, so at first I was trying to read what the band name is only to realize it's f*cking SoC. It was so bizarre.

[uncut heart]

Survive outside for 24 hours

[vernal magnet]

It must be the holy Adidas. Otherwise I'm disappointed in Australia lol

[solid dome]

I'll wait for him to respond before I reveal the answer

[sleek tundra]

For the record, I criticize the mod, not the players. That's not gatekeeping

[solid dome]

I myself have to say I'm not sure what the definition of gatekeeping is per se

Have to Google that

[solid dome]

Wait, how is Adidas Aussie-first brand? I always knew it as german?! Continuing in #💬┃en_offtop

[tropic walrus]

anyone else ever thought about weapon lights in Stalker just to i guess mix it up from headlamps and night vision?

[finite dragon]

Yes that would be cool

[tropic walrus]

am not the only one haha i was playing other day and it just popped into my head

[finite dragon]

yes.
in stalker it would be nice to put like 4 flashlights to your fun to cosplay as the sun.

[sleek tundra]

Not allowing other people to enter so you'll only have others with the same mindset as you

[tropic walrus]

like in tarkov? haha just blind anyone

[hazy helm]

no no really,I dont think there would be any real reason to go for a flashlight on your gun over a flashlight over your helmet/forehead

[finite dragon]

I have PTSD from playing tarkov.
Nightmare game

[delicate chasm]

headlamp is more practical

[sleek tundra]

Gunslinger has it on weapons, hilariously useless

[delicate chasm]

i can already imagine going to hunt Burers in the tunnels and one just pulls the gun out of your hands and you can't see anything

[sleek tundra]

Speaking of gunslinger, they make them immortal

[hazy helm]

wouldnt it be nice if a weapon animation pack for stalker was simply just a weapon animation pack and didnt interfere with anything else?

[sleek tundra]

Animations for healing, I can understand, but why mess with mutants? Why make controllers a huge pain and burers survive 3 grenades to the face?

[solid dome]

Hmm. Basically being entitled then.

[solid dome]

Too hard to be done, one can't bother separating things

Slap one giant pack and call it done

I ask, can't there be one unique weapon pack modders contribute to instead of 0473974923674 similar mods basically copying models from each other

[hazy helm]

animations for healing need to bite into balancing as well at which point it's no longer a simple weapon animation pack
it would be fine if it was a option but nooo we know best and you will like your stupid 3d pda and your stupid consumable animations with your stupid mutant rebalancings

[solid dome]

Only Slinger wep models are hand-made, I recall

[sleek tundra]

I meant that they don't affect gameply as much as making mutants extremely, extremely strong

One is a minor change that, while annoying, isn't as drastic as the other

[hazy helm]

making consumable's dependant on very weighty animations means you need to balance the gameplay around smaller shootouts with a lot of cover and less enemies,more time in-between said fights,thankfully,only at certain points does this give problems to CoP,but the other games?I have no idea why youd want to put healing animations on SoC or OGSR it makes the games worse

[sleek tundra]

Gunslinger shouldn't have touched mutants at all, it didn't advertise itself as a mod that changes gameplay to such drastic measures

[hazy helm]

like,I dont care that Fortune Run has healing animations bc the combat balanced around said healing animations,Stalker doesnt,bc it was never supposed to have them

[oblique crypt]

I wish they gave us a Gunslinger lite mod pack where it just offers the new weapon models and animations. No balance changes and whatnot.

[limpid salmon]

i found 68k worth of artifacts in the red forest

I will buy sidorovich

[sleek tundra]

SoC or CS?

[limpid salmon]

cs

[sleek tundra]

I hate red forest so damn much

[limpid salmon]

5 artifacts, price ranging from 8k to 18k each

only good stuff

[sleek tundra]

This crap shouldn't be accepted

[solid dome]

Holy frogs

[ember moth]

I love vanilla

[limpid salmon]

ok

[sleek tundra]

nice

[ember moth]

Did you know that doors are helicopters ?

[limpid salmon]

go run in an anomaly pls

[ember moth]

i run into your mom every night, she's certainly got an anomalous butt

[limpid salmon]

mom jokes arent that funny anymore

[ember moth]

you say that yet she likes it when i use the mama beads artifacts on her

Goodnight

[dry imp]

damn, hit him with the "goodnight". its over for him.

[finite dragon]

Peoples
Important question
SVD or SV-98

[remote karma]

Svd

Or PSL

[finite dragon]

For me
SVD or PSG-1

[hazy helm]

SVD

[finite dragon]

Good Oppinion.

[hazy helm]

its bolt action,that is all you need to know

[craggy kelp]

Hello

[solid dome]

Hello there,, Mr Agent 2023

Are you up to the task to uncover Earth's biggest mystery?

[spring abyss]

All of this on cs ? My man is a lucky boy

Usually i just ignore the artifacts on this level bc the environment and the mutants are too annoying, i only take the pkm and the 2000 rounds 😈

[finite dragon]

This cowboy about to go to Pripyat

[spring abyss]

😎Goodluck

[finite dragon]

I need to actually see if i did all the other sidequests, I can come back though right? also dont have a juicy upgraded rifle but whatever

[spring abyss]

You can comer later, just don't do all the pripyat quests too soon

[finite dragon]

i did everything pretty much except stashes and odds and ends but i think i did all the quests so far

[spring abyss]

||also, after gary arrive, look for the duty guy bc he will be in trouble||

[finite dragon]

||will he hate me? ive got the freedom achievement||

[spring abyss]

I dunno i never do the freedom sidequests

[finite dragon]

too bad

[spring abyss]

Every time a saw one i just open fire

[finite dragon]

heyy my bros

[spring abyss]

Pkm goes pew pew pew

[finite dragon]

wth rifle should I upgrade first before I go, im mid game right or further?

i have a juicy shotgun

eh I guess I need a SEVA suit too, my boys have the right suits but forgot i need one

[spring abyss]

You need a seva and upgrade first

The travel will be kinda difficulty

[finite dragon]

just got a seva suit from nimble

[spring abyss]

You will survive without trouble but your buddies can and will die very easy

[finite dragon]

dont they give quests after if they live

[spring abyss]

No

[finite dragon]

oh I thought something told me they did so not to let them die

[spring abyss]

||But zulu will gonna need your help in pripyat||

[finite dragon]

ah okay well sounds less annoying than if i don't have to save scum when they die

[spring abyss]

Make they alive can change the ending but that's all

[finite dragon]

ah okay hmm I try to not look up everything my first playthrough and think its fun to ask here because its like the bar or something. also theres a lot of endings right and i don't need to worry about a "true" ending?

[vernal magnet]

BOIS

i need some help! I just got a replicator riddle

[spring abyss]

Don't worry, just try to do all the stuff and save anyone and you will get the best ending

[hazy helm]

It's my sleep time
I am eepy

[spring abyss]

good

[delicate chasm]

ou ar eepy?

[finite dragon]

who isnt eepy

[jaunty mason]

you don't know morse code?

[vernal magnet]

Cant say that i do

[finite dragon]

i actually translated that and it didn't make sense

[spring abyss]

, , ,, ,

[finite dragon]

it was gibberish I thought

[jaunty mason]

well, that's my hint

[vernal magnet]

im cracking it now

[delicate chasm]

I remember what it is but have no clue what it meant and didn't bother cuz it wasn't my drop anyway lol

[jaunty mason]

if we do crack the code, do we give it to an admin?

[vernal magnet]

i dont know how this works

[jaunty mason]

Neither

lets ask the one person who found it

Never mind the person is Russian

I don't think they can help us in this chat

[vernal magnet]

dang does that mean the morse code is for russian or ukrainian rather than english?

[finite dragon]

i deciphered the morse code and tried to translate it to uk and ru and it didnt work i may have done it wrong

[spring abyss]

,, , ,,, , , ,

[vernal magnet]

i translated the morse into letters and numbers

[spring abyss]

😎

[vernal magnet]

now im just as clueless. i wish i knew where to start with these cyphers. they make me feel dumb as rocks

[finite dragon]

lol yeah I did decrypted the morse code one and thought it was just bs but maybe I am

[vernal magnet]

E Y J F Z 2 M
help me brothers

[finite dragon]

what mf rifle should I upgrade mid game in CoP just spent way too much upgrading and buying this SEVA

[spring abyss]

G36

[finite dragon]

i have a bunch in stashes but dont know if i have that one yet

just been using whatever and its been mostly fine

[spring abyss]

You can get one by finish the jupiter bunker quests by killing skull

[finite dragon]

I guess I can buy one from Hawaiian too now

[spring abyss]

Just kill skull everybody know that this guy will won't live for too long anyway

[finite dragon]

lol I think i already did this and missed his gun, we'll see, ill go back to jupiter rn before starting the pripyat quest

might just use a vintar idk

[spring abyss]

G36 is the best

[remote crow]

"What's up guys, it's atheadax here. I have been arrested for multiple crimes, including: battery on a Duty soldier, grand theft, declaring war on the Military, and public indecency. I will be escaping prison on March 28th. After that, I will take over the world."

[spring abyss]

Find one g36, now

[finite dragon]

is it really that much better or worth upgrading than the vintorez, liked using that a lot in the past

ill go to jupiter now and look i guess to see if i already got them docs

[tulip maple]

Killed by anomaly shot by loners throwing off a cliff torn apart by dogs

[finite dragon]

killed skull but no rifle

[spring abyss]

He usually got one

[finite dragon]

lol did a reload too before but nada, eh its all good. ill get one later and see what happens. got the documents though

[hazy helm]

Did you solve it?

My dog decided that sleep is overrated so I need to loaf around for about fifteen minutes until she decides that she actually does want to sleep

[vernal magnet]

not exactly

[hazy helm]

Well better luck next time

It's not important anyway,just a dumb role,only role that matters is legend of the zone

[tulip maple]

Riddle me this Killed by anomaly shot by loners throwing off a cliff torn apart by dogs who am I

[finite dragon]

me

[hazy helm]

A corpse what else

[tulip maple]

Yep

[vernal magnet]

how does one get legend of the zone?

[hazy helm]

You talk,th more you talk the more xp you get,the more xp the more levels you get
You need to be level 70,I'm still 55

[vernal magnet]

oh wow

im 26 or 27 so im nowhere near lol

[finite dragon]

someone else in his crew had it thanks

[spring abyss]

Good

[hazy helm]

It's less levels than if you were level 20 for example

[vernal magnet]

true

January already ticking away

this year is going to fly by. feels like the game is going to come out at any time lol

[finite dragon]

do Svarog detect artifacts velles can't? you need a mf microscope to see the artifacts on that screen. my ti-83 was easier to read

[remote crow]

https://beta.character.ai/c/QUnF6zzurj335Fe4wycGG0pYu5_DHB4RictPwh5x-hY

Have fun guys 💀

[finite dragon]

bro that bot is based
Guest: Who has better tasting blood, Duty or Freedom?
Tremor: Definitely Freedom. Duty are too uptight and can be a bit... sour.

[vernal magnet]

freedom gang

[finite dragon]

Best blood in the zone

[carmine crest]

i made tremor very angry

[jaunty mason]

false

Lord knows your blood is filled with alochol and cannabis

and whatever psychedelics yall have been taking

[spring abyss]

no

[jaunty mason]

I mean, seriously. Freedomer blood has to be the most contaminated blood in the zone

Duty is sour, Loners probably have trace amounts of rabies flowing through their blood (we won't even talk about their nervous system), bandits always have a BAC of 0.2, I'm not even gonna talk about Military, and Monolith blood is probably full of radionuclides

Mercs and Military probably take plenty of antibiotics to combat infections from combat

[ripe birch]

zaza blood

[jaunty mason]

but Ecologists spend so much time in a sterilized environment, letting random stalkers do work for them, their blood is probably untainted

[remote crow]

NOOOOOOO

Tremor can have my blood 🥵

Please send screenshots of this I have to see

[remote crow]

what did you do?! sdsdsad

[spring abyss]

[cyan canopy]

He stole my blood

[solid dome]

[sleek tundra]

What about Master?

[hazy helm]

respectable

[burnt surge]

help me, i booted up op2.2

[sleek tundra]

Uninstall OP2.2, install SoC, uninstall SoC after 3 hours, install NLC, uninstall NLC after 5 minutes

[burnt surge]

lol

but like seriously,i got to the cave part and its not letting me interact with the cave men, i must have missed sometyhing, but it just isnt giving me the option to continue the story

[ember moth]

Do you have all your items?

The game checks if you have all thé weapons, artifacts and suit to make sure you don't try to smuggle any

[burnt surge]

yep

from the start its not letting me, i spawn in, grab the stuff, go, and it doesnt give me the option to talk

[ember moth]

Weird

Welp, do the cave again i guess lol

You can avoid killing the mutants and just rushing, the game despawns them later as they onlt exist in the dream sequence

[burnt surge]

ill try that

its not working

ill restart

[scenic phoenix]

They ported soc to unreal engine 5

[finite dragon]

I'm stuck, I'm inside a lab, to get documents for barkeep. And when I pick up the documents I'm locked inside and can't go back, how do I exit?

[finite summit]

Kill the flying fire thing

[hazy helm]

Is it out yet?

[jagged gale]

Guys do you know if duty turns hostile on me if I tell Max that dutyers settled in a farm?

or only if I shoot at them?

[ember moth]

Only if you shoot

[spring abyss]

Help duty bro, kill every non dutyer in the game

Just do it 👍

[jagged gale]

shaddap

[spring abyss]

😎

[jagged gale]

right they are gone
(SO IS KOLYAN LOL)

[spring abyss]

[finite dragon]

Dutyers on a Killing Spree I see.

[spring abyss]

[finite dragon]

[humble nexus]

am i missing out on anything in stalker soc by killing everyone?

[scenic phoenix]

That's how you get the true ending dw

[spring abyss]

No, theres a ending for people like you the ||spoiler ending||

[humble nexus]

wha ok

[finite dragon]

Nah you can kill everyone but It could happend that all factions are hostile to you.

[humble nexus]

idk i killed some military guys and theyre still acting like im on their side sometimes

[finite dragon]

And let me tell you the thing you should do when having this playstyle is to visit the wish granter.

[finite dragon]

Military is normally almost hostile but you probably killed duty people huh?

[dark sedge]

lol

[humble nexus]

i mean ive just been shooting everyone thats alive

[spring abyss]

I put a bounty on this dude 1200000ru

[finite dragon]

Would you pay this much for him to die Sylky?

[spring abyss]

Yes we are getting to much money from our new reality show "who stole my vodka with veronin"

[finite dragon]

Alright.
Good hunting Stalker

Can i play any Stalker multiplayer or co-op?

[spring abyss]

Deathmath multi-player, no coop

[finite dragon]

SoC Death match.

[hazy helm]

you cant
and there will be no coop in S2 either

[ember moth]

Just wait for a few years and xrmpe might delivre

[finite dragon]

😦

[sleek tundra]

The sex ending

[hazy helm]

as the developers said "it goes against the atmosphere we want to build"

[ember moth]

Which one

Whats the cheese bro

[solid dome]

Install that Chan mod, go crazy, turn to painkillers, keep going

[ember moth]

Uninstall SoC 1.0006 , install SoC 1.0004 RU, install KROVOSOS mod 4.0, uninstall after 3 seconds

[sand fiber]

Install stalker witcher mod

[spring abyss]

Ew

[sand fiber]

Then stop playing games

[spring abyss]

Gold and people soup later

[ember moth]

PEPEL mod

[spring abyss]

But anyway just do reborn, trust me is one of the mods ever made

[ember moth]

reborn is good though, like i am not joking

[spring abyss]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Good joke bro

[hazy helm]

There is one?

[sand fiber]

YES

[spring abyss]

Hold on

[sand fiber]

for SoC with an actual geralt model

[nimble cipher]

D2#6544 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hazy helm]

No way

[spring abyss]

https://youtu.be/sMYFrtpEBoQ

[mossy musk]

A 15 second chat cooldown? Ah hell nah. #💬┃en_offtop rq

[hazy helm]

The Polish have gone too far

[spring abyss]

[sand fiber]

not this thing but i'm too lazy to search for the actual one

[hazy helm]

Damn,stopped by Nozars lack of sleep

[sand fiber]

i'm a real snoozer man

[finite summit]

just shoot it

When I encountered it in my first playthrough I tried using grenade launcher against it but for some reason grenades decided to just phase through it.

The endgame is the best part of CS

most people love CS because of it

[sleek tundra]

I hate limansk, I hate limansk

[sand fiber]

literally the worst part of all of stalker

gaemdes ign

[hearty vigil]

The game rewards exploration, there is no need to rush.

[sleek tundra]

False, CS is objectively worse than SoC

• Easier to farm money
• Enemies are stupidly tanky and a bandit could survive two buckshots to the face

[obsidian frost]

good evening everyone

[sleek tundra]

I never said it's hard, I said it's even easier because artifacts always spawn at the same place, and I always play on the hardest difficulty: bandits still survive buckshot to the face at cloes range

For the record, difficulty only affects how much damage you take, not how tanky enemies are. Common misconception, same deal with Deus Ex

I literally tested it by spawning an enemy and making them neutral, one buckshot at close range headshot, not dead

[finite summit]

taste issue

[sleek tundra]

It's a very common misconception, the majority of people still believe it even though it was proven to be false

[last pine]

Says a furry male gay

[finite summit]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[sleek tundra]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/curcq5/addressing_the_silly_master_difficulty_myth_in/

[finite summit]

Enemy damage resistance is unaffected but Player weapon damage decreases on higher difficulties

[hearty vigil]

SoC is pretty much a tech demo to CS. It’s like comparing Portal to Portal 2.

And even being a tech demo it’s still miles better than any fan stuff out there, magnificent.

I mean not literally, Portal is a full scale game too. But it sure feels like one, especially once you compare it to CS.

[finite summit]

Lost Coast > HL2

[hearty vigil]

It’s taking SoC formula and making it better in every way, getting rid of things that didn’t quite work out and enhancing stuff that did.

[finite summit]

Better story, graphics, gameplay, soundtrack, everything basically

[hearty vigil]

It’s a prequel but you get the idea.

[finite summit]

That's exactly what SoC is

[sleek tundra]

You mean making the economy even worse and enemies tankier?

[hearty vigil]

It’s not meant to be a tech demo, what I mean is it plays like one. Devs have not fully fledged the ideas by then, but they sure did by CS.

It’s a good game, sure. Just not yet perfect.

[finite summit]

now

[sleek tundra]

Ideas, sure, but execution? Nah, they didn't execute a lot of stuff well in CS

[sand fiber]

nah you're wrong

[sleek tundra]

Hell, I'm being nice here. Some ideas were dumb

[sleek tundra]

I know right? Streed Cred is really weird

[hearty vigil]

CS is the best game of post-Soviet game dev to be released so far (and frankly ever in the future).

[sand fiber]

oh i thought you were defending CS

[hearty vigil]

more like gsc’s renegades amirite?

[sand fiber]

troll

it's impossible to say what stalker game is better since they're different on fundamental levels

[hearty vigil]

Yeah, also initially taking the engine and some of GSC resources.

Earliest known metro build is on pretty much X-Ray fork.

[sand fiber]

leaked metro builds

[hearty vigil]

Because GSC wouldn’t file a lawsuit if they had given a permission duh.

[sand fiber]

Griga was mad at people he fired from his studio for making their own game after that so he filed a lawsuit

[hearty vigil]

2010

https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/02/18/news-metro-2033-developer-4a-games-accused-of-plagiarism.aspx

Not many English websites cover this though.

[sand fiber]

Or it was something about payment raises, idk

[finite summit]

Didn't he plan to fire people in advance?

As far as I know the development of 4A engine started when stalker was still in development and people weren't fired en masse

[sleek tundra]

Oh, you know. Locking artifacts to a single location on the map, artifacts themselves only producing radiation instead of having other disadvantages like SoC, also locking anomalies to one location on the map which makes traversing the zone much easier

[sleek tundra]

Not in a good way either

[sand fiber]

uhhh you can't really say

[hazy helm]

Coping about CS being better than CoP

[sand fiber]

objectively speaking cop is the best one

[dry imp]

im the best one

[hazy helm]

hardest cope of the years

[sand fiber]

i've just wanted to write "if cs is so good why are you using smile degtyarov instead of scar" but it won't work now

[worthy lagoon]

*SoC

[hazy helm]

hehe

[sleek tundra]

Regardless of which stalker game you play, we can all agree that all stalker protagonists are meme-able to hell and based

[finite summit]

CS = good
SoC + CoP = trash

[sleek tundra]

All of you shut up, the best stalker game is very obviously Stalker Anomaly

[sand fiber]

*gamma

[finite summit]

Cope

[sand fiber]

Korshunov my beloved

[sleek tundra]

Him

[worthy lagoon]

Except it's not even stalker

[sleek tundra]

It has stalker in the name, argument invalidated + skill issue + mod = fat + cope

[worthy lagoon]

It is

[worthy lagoon]

Just like Chinese copies of something

[sleek tundra]

I mean, duh? We mock it every hour

[sand fiber]

omg literally me

[finite summit]

I think Japese is like 50% identical to Chinese

[sand fiber]

japese

[sleek tundra]

Wdym, it's average genius routine

[finite summit]

skill issue

[worthy lagoon]

I think you're 100% a bot

[finite summit]

NPC(hostile)

[sleek tundra]

Liar? When did I lie?

[burnt tulip]

Hey do you guys know what PC version the game comes out with ? Microsoft (Xbox) Store, Steam or Epic Games ?

[finite summit]

EGS esclusive

[sleek tundra]

No seriously, when did I lie?

[sleek tundra]

Epic Games Store only at release

[hearty vigil]

I still can’t get over the fact that you’re ironic about Anomaly but unironically shill NLC7.

[burnt tulip]

Yeah but the game ships to Microsoft Store too.. My fear is that the key code inside the physical copy is to redeem in the Microsoft store..

[sleek tundra]

They're entirely different games

[finite summit]

Literally the same thing

[hearty vigil]

It’s the same concept of useless gameplay loops (crafting / artifact containers) and making the game unnecessarily realistic.

[sleek tundra]

First of all, NLC 7 doesn't have crafting. Second of all, the majority of artifacts aren't radioactive, only 6 of the main ones are radioactive. Last but not least, the mod focuses more on gameplay than realism.

[hearty vigil]

Crafting for Anomaly, artifact containers for NLC7. Thought it was obvious, duh.

[sleek tundra]

Anomaly has both crafting and artifact containers, but the containers there are handled much worse than NLC or even radiophobia 3

[spring abyss]

You can take him down bro

Regeneration? I never saw that

cs?

Even the vanilla, i never saw regeneration on the final boss

||You're not killing him either, you're just disable his psy protection|| i think your version is bugged

If you are in the boss it should be the end

Its literally the end

I never heard of it, the only thing that really happens is that some shots don't hit them bc it have a coldown on his psy protection that basically turn him immortal for some seconds

I never saw him regenerate either

Also, back there is full of blindspots that make that battle really cheese

[sleek tundra]

23 minutes, 34 seconds

[spring abyss]

Don't worry strelok will only apear again when you cross a portal, but if you miss all it's game over so, always keep a save when at the start of the battle

[sleek tundra]

My bad, 23 seconds and minutes

[spring abyss]

Nah you can cheese him if you hit all the shots

Also theres is a bug, you can just go to the ground level and find strelok there

[sleek tundra]

We really can't give you an estimate, it depends on how much you explore

[spring abyss]

whatahell

[nimble cipher]

biglob#0423 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spring abyss]

Hold

https://youtu.be/wkqdGr9iWj0

[sleek tundra]

WHAT THE HELL

[nimble cipher]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[spring abyss]

Also on master

Debug menu i think

Put -dbg in the target shortcut or in the steam command section

Them press "s" in the main menu while in game

No, debug menu need to be activated

[hearty vigil]

What are you talking about lol, there is no debug menu in CS.

Just watch speedruns, there is an easy way to kill Strelok in 20 seconds through save/load bug abuse.

Nope, don’t have to walk at all.

[spring abyss]

oh yeah i forget that

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-clear-sky/addons/stalker-clear-sky-all-objects here blob

[hearty vigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuzJWeab61g

[sand fiber]

i think that was how i killed strelok in my first playthrough

[hearty vigil]

No, there were no gameplay updates since 2009.

[spring abyss]

it have any other way to do that ?

[sand fiber]

nah tf2 is only ~6 years without an update

(oh god oh god)

[spring abyss]

that last update fixed the incompatilibt with hacks, now the bots can play the game too

[sand fiber]

based

[worthy scroll]

If I pre-ordered Stalker 2 Ultimate physical edition from Amazon UK, will I still get it?

I got in prior to it being sold out

[sand fiber]

saveload

more like saveload shoot saveload

[finite summit]

Don't go into the portal and just wait til his pathfinding glitches out and he falls down

Just stand it one place for some time

Strelok will fall from the building due to a glitch

and then he'll be stuck in one place so you can kill him easier

it just works

[ember moth]

Came here to give you your deserved 👑

[solid dome]

According to the laws, if you don't get it and don't get a refund, you can sue them for trade scam. Make from that whatever you want.

[gilded sentinel]

Talk to every one , screw bandits , try to help both factions

[gilded sentinel]

So much errors in one message

[sand fiber]

nothing really

except not playing in english dub but y'know you have no other choice

you can

but you should

i forgot you are able to understand it

anyway english CoP is just absolute bonkers

worst one i've ever encountered

Oh no actually maybe Chernobylite was worse

cop starts so good

[gilded sentinel]

I know I shouldn’t say that

But you can just play misery

It’s basically cop , but hardcore

Yup , it’s kinda mid

Although they added gunslinger to it recently

So if you feel like playing it again (which you definitely will) , maybe give misery a try

[sand fiber]

try it

Sight issue

[sleek tundra]

Farm for artirfacts

[gilded sentinel]

Bruh , I wish they’d add voice channels already

[sand fiber]

Naah economics are broken as they are

[sleek tundra]

Good point, don't farm for artifacts

If you need money, go outside and ask yourself "how am I poor in stalker?"

[gilded sentinel]

But artifacts are cool and go O0oo0O

[solid dome]

That sounds like asking for too much

[sleek tundra]

You chose literally the worst stalker game to get artifacts in, the system here sucks

[solid dome]

[gilded sentinel]

Agreed but it seems the most fair one

Did you defend the rookie village ?

[sleek tundra]

Artifact container system says otherwise

[gilded sentinel]

Noice

[gilded sentinel]

Why tho ?

[sand fiber]

stalker

turn off the 60hz option?

[sand fiber]

one of the best intros in gaming + it just spits you out and you can do whatever immediately

[finite summit]

Opinion issue

[finite summit]

Literally a sequence of slides with narrator telling the backstory
One of the best intros

[delicate chasm]

iirc it was made that way because there was no time to make a video like in the two previous games

but i might be wrong, because for the ending specifically it's the only way it can work with that much variability in slides sequence

[finite summit]

I know that there were plans for CGI intro mentioned in design document

[delicate chasm]

okay so I remember correctly... somewhat

though imagine if they made a CGI video for each outcome

short ones, but still, that would look cool

[finite summit]

Idk. The description of the CGI in the design document seemed kinda eh

[delicate chasm]

Descriptions are usually meh. Comes down to how it's made most of the time, the cinematographics, the angles

[finite summit]

It was basically Degtyarev running while locations change in the background(implying his journey to the center) and his voice talking about his past

[sand fiber]

yeah lol

[delicate chasm]

nothing will beat SoC intro

[sand fiber]

amazing music and an excellent narration

[delicate chasm]

Maybe HoC can, we'll see

[finite summit]

Maybe that

[sand fiber]

sets the mood and explains the whole deal perfectly

[finite summit]

It simply did it's job and did it well. Nothing extraordinary.

Although it did leave some plot holes due to some slides being cut

[sand fiber]

kinda, but y'know, many fail even that

like clear sky that started with a 2 hour sequence of endless swamps

[finite summit]

I liked the swamps tbh

but kinda sad that it was so action focused

[sand fiber]

I mean, yeah

Could be less restricting still

[finite summit]

yeah well

[delicate chasm]

Swamps best level in trilogy

[nimble cipher]

biglob#0423 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[sand fiber]

ye

[delicate chasm]

Sleep ruined night time in CoP, change my mind

[finite summit]

only at 3 locations

but yeah

[delicate chasm]

GSC made nights darker in CoP and allowed players to sleep through it. Power move/

[sand fiber]

only kinda

[finite summit]

CoP seemed too dark. At times I had to use flashlight during the day

[sand fiber]

the one problem i see with it is the ability to skip to quests, which is a thing relevant in many games

[finite summit]

not enough ambient lighting

[delicate chasm]

I remember the day I first bought CoP in 2008, man i got so lost on Zaton at night. I remember like stumbling along the hillside just near the.. whatever that place is called in English where the bandits do a deal with Morgan... and then I finally found a way to get up there, heard bandits and got real spooked lmao

the nights are definitely significantly darker there because I couldn't see much

[sand fiber]

big locations moment

[delicate chasm]

I think the sleep was added more so because there are several time-based quests. Otherwise Degtyarev never needs sleep

[finite summit]

For me the issue with sleep was that you didn't really have to explore the Zone at night like in previous games and I really missed those moments. But then I went on to do quests at night on purpose and realised that it's not even worth it in CoP

[delicate chasm]

That's what I mean, they made nights darker and spookier but allowed to skip them. It's lame.

[finite summit]

Yeah

[delicate chasm]

They could have easily just implemented a wait option with the quest giver, like you can wait with the bandits

I was also hoping at first that Degtyarev would at least have some dreams that would elaborate more on his character

[delicate chasm]

...but that goes back to the whole "not having time for CGI"

[finite summit]

But all stalkers would go to the main hub/camp at night so the only living thing you'd encounter at night would be mutants

[delicate chasm]

Increased mutant activity at that

[sand fiber]

Well, not sure about that one. Nothing's forcing you to skip them except your own preferences

[delicate chasm]

always vanilla first man, always

[finite summit]

yeah well

[delicate chasm]

I know, but most people choose to sleep through it, I think

[finite summit]

Locations just felt dead when all stalkers disappeared

[delicate chasm]

That's a symptom of a bigger problem generally speaking. Goes back to my rant about the "empty Zone" in CoP and its utter hazardlessness

[finite summit]

I tried to abstain from sleeping on purpose during my second playthrough

didn't get much from it

[delicate chasm]

yeah, it's a whole problem

no real enemies, contained anomalies, small gulags for mutants

[limpid salmon]

im playing on master, aint hard

[finite summit]

The only balanced difficulty in CS

[ember moth]

Jupiter best map btw

and Jupiter at any time of the day is chef's kiss

[delicate chasm]

Do you think Scar has hemophilia?

He's quite symptomatic

[ember moth]

Scar and Strelok are confirmed superhumans

their metabolism allows them to instantly get health from food items unlike DOGtyarev

[finite summit]

Tbh Jupiter factory is my favorite thing in CoP

liked it even more than X8

[ember moth]

Pripyat is underrated, its actually so scary that no one ever bothers to fully explore the map

[finite summit]

I did decide to explore but the emptiness only felt scary during my first playthrough. The second time I noticed that there was a lot of vast empty space to traverse which is probably the reason most game developers don't make 1:1 real life locations in games

[ember moth]

yeah Pripyat is too empty, not dynamic enough, they even lazily placed a respawning chimera in the hospital as a poor attempt to populate it

Zaton isn't intimidating enough but Jupiter has a healthy variety of threats and the OST is amazing

[delicate chasm]

They're not necessarily missing, because we know their locations. They crashed or were forced to land and he needs to find out what the cause is/

[finite summit]

You are an SBU operative who was tasked to find out why the military helicopters sent to CNPP crashed before reaching their destination.

[ember moth]

i think Zaton (and by extension Jupiter) could work even better if not every single goddamn squad could guide you to Skadovsks

[finite summit]

Investigating the crash sites is step 1

[sand fiber]

pripyat' is so fvcking atmospheric

[finite summit]

Is it?

[sand fiber]

the sheer hopelessness and constant deaths of the military

[ember moth]

real, i just wish it was less scripted

[finite summit]

Idk. The hopelessness wasn't really emphasized on(plus they say that food issue is solved by Garik) and the repeating deaths only make you irritated from how helpless and incompetent the guys you are supposed to save are

[sleek tundra]

And to break the economy

[delicate chasm]

meh. If they finished what they planned with it then it would be spookier, but it's still kind of empty. Not much going on really

and i say that as someone who explores every nook and cranny

[sand fiber]

idk, i need to replay it to formulate my feelings more precisely
it's just, so empty, i dunno what's the best way to translate безысходность

[finite summit]

was there much planned?

[finite summit]

despair?

[sand fiber]

perhaps

[finite summit]

there isn't really a counterpat for that word in english

[delicate chasm]

There are some remnants of what I can best translate as the "Pripyat terror", the other day there was a conversation about this either in the ua or the ru chat, I forget

[sand fiber]

vandeley has a video on it

[delicate chasm]

A guy by nickname Cartoteka was exploring that first but never got to finish his research

[finite summit]

Yeah there was to be such thing but Idk what was it exactly supposed to be and would it even be explained to us

[ember moth]

Horror Hour from mods??!

[delicate chasm]

doubt it

[hybrid kite]

Hello

[finite summit]

You could even say that "Pripyat horror" is still in the game since it's the thing that killed all soldiers that were being sent on patrol and took control over the medic guy during evacuation

but in retail it all seemed like a controller that we just couldn't find

[delicate chasm]

It's unclear whether that's what killed the squad or just a controller, but the medic during evacuation is most likely affected by that

[finite summit]

except that one time in Gastronom

[sleek tundra]

What's the pripyat horror?

[finite summit]

Supposedly a cut "thing" from CoP that was behind all the military patrols going nuts and shooting each other

[sleek tundra]

I thought they did that because they couldn't handle the amount of among us jokes in CoP

[finite summit]

and also the same thing that took control over the medic guy during evacuation

[ember moth]

fk this, time to replay CoP and analyze every polygon to understand more about Pripyat Terror

[bitter kindle]

[spring abyss]

Tremmor is kinda sus, but lets kill crab just to make sure

[hazy helm]

@real sierra sorry to say but the developers have already said there would be no drivable vehicles in the game

[real sierra]

:(

[delicate chasm]

Crab's simulating cuz he doesn't wanna go anywhere

i saw him quickly lie down once, that cheat

[spring abyss]

My man just want to take his nap

[graceful saddle]

feels so bad having to kill monolith troops they just want to protect the wish granter, idi kom nya

[ember moth]

Vehicles would suck in the zone anyways

[ember moth]

yeah but its an artificial goyslop so you're actually freeing them

[hazy helm]

@digital fern the developers have already responded to the Coop questions and they said there would be no coop in S2,sorry man

[graceful saddle]

what did you call it yo

[finite dragon]

Freedom and monolith are bad

But Clear sky is the worst
I hate those ppl

[ember moth]

Goated opinion

[finite dragon]

viva la freedom

[finite dragon]

French freedomer are also bad.

wee

[finite dragon]

yeah just got here, thing it has a scarier vibe than the other zones so far

music slaps too

[high birch]

d

[high birch]

got a problem dude?

[finite dragon]

I don't like the French... They are arrogant little shits.

[finite dragon]

Nah I am from the Military, I shoot everything that isn't ecologist, duty or my own kind.

Nothing Personal.

[heavy wing]

Military🤢

[finite dragon]

Freedom 🤮

[finite summit]

Renegades

[finite dragon]

I hope the renegades rott out Clear Sky.

[high birch]

damn that's just far-right conservative ideology with extra steps. like corruption

[delicate chasm]

how come you don't have a novice tag? O_o

[finite summit]

Built different

[last pine]

kys😊

[finite dragon]

Have you ever spoken to my kind?

All of them are corrupt.

I don't care in the slightest.

def some incel vibes in the military

[finite summit]

Who in the Zone isn't an incel?

[finite dragon]

We exist

wth are community tasks

[delicate chasm]

meaningless arbitrary achievements

[finite dragon]

lol in pripyat in CoP and the military doesn't attack mutants attacking them

[finite dragon]

is there no electrical protection in cop

i just find energy recover stuff in electrical anomaly fields and cant find any drugs that help

[spring abyss]

some artifacts can help like flash

[finite dragon]

eh guess i havent found em yet

[worldly cargo]

Is stalker 2 collector edition still available

[finite dragon]

wth this chimera has god mode

[finite dragon]

nvm was a psuedogiant

[solid dome]

It is, for certain countries.

[mossy musk]

Wish me some luck. I'm gonna try and get these 3 graphic overhaul mods and texture re-do to work. I want a good winter aesthetic but the mod pack for it Isn't out yet.

[worldly cargo]

Usa?
i just preordered amazon

[finite dragon]

clear sky is pretty fun

[dreamy holly]

Do you guys think that Stalker 2 will come out in the first half of 2023?

[hazy helm]

the microsoft tweet says so but hopefully it will come out in 2024

[dreamy holly]

What tweet?

[hazy helm]

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1609681671036764163?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1609681671036764163|twgr^a029e682098810d5c79978e83bb048da842251bc|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmultiplayer.it%2Fnotizie%2Fxbox-stalker-2-e-forza-motorsport-tra-le-esclusive-in-uscita-entro-giugno-2023-indicate-dai-tga.html

[dreamy holly]

So why do you think it will come out in 2024 then?

[hazy helm]

I dont think anything aside from hoping they will release in 2024
2023 sounds a bit too hopefull,Id rahter they have a bunch of time to fix issues and compress

[sleek tundra]

Why do you ask? Not like we can predict the future

@finite dragon You got a problem with my suggestions, mortal?

[finite dragon]

Matrix sounds stupid and Space sounds redundant to the other teleport.

[sleek tundra]

The space anomalies could be used to enter special areas and requires a specific artifact to activate, the teleport anomaly is completely random

Space anomalies are preset, teleport isn't

Space anomalies require artifacts most of the time to work, teleport doesn't

Why is matrix stupid?

[mossy musk]

🙏 Can't wait to play stalker 2

[sleek tundra]

Reject stalker 2, embrace SoC

[mossy musk]

nah I need the 4k customizable ukrainian crackhead

[sleek tundra]

You mean graphics? Install graphics mods

[hazy helm]

do not

[drowsy valley]

Now i know it's technically wrong but if the AKs in stalker 2 has their charging handle on the correct side i will be VERY disappointed

[mossy musk]

I'm waiting for anomaly to be done downloading so I can struggle with shaders and 3 graphics overhauls

[hazy helm]

you poor lost soul

[mossy musk]

to get a nice winter aesthetic at 2 fps

[sleek tundra]

"Why do modern games only focus on graphics? We want good gameplay"
"This game has terrible graphics"

[mossy musk]

There is a whole ass game overhaul mod pack that hasn't come out yet in a winter setting and its beautiful

[sleek tundra]

Unlocked: the bad ending

[mossy musk]

Ultrakill

mfw 15 second chat cooldown for no reason

[drowsy valley]

Stalker has amazing graphics for being late 2000's games and if anyone says otherwise I will kill them

[mossy musk]

0 chat cooldown > any chat cooldown at all

[drowsy valley]

No

[dreamy holly]

I was asking because I wanted to hear what people think

[sleek tundra]

Some games before the 2000s had graphics way ahead for their time

[sleek tundra]

What are you, a game journalist?

[mossy musk]

epic embed fail

[dreamy holly]

No?

[sleek tundra]

No images allowed here

[drowsy valley]

Embed fail laugh at this user

[nimble cipher]

D2#6544 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dreamy holly]

Why do you ask?

[mossy musk]

I am going to put my cat in the microwave

tfw newly upgraded internet only installs at 800 kb a second

[drowsy valley]

Put it in a toaster instead

No wait don't eat your cat

[mossy musk]

insert cringe protogen toaster joke

[drowsy valley]

Yes.

[mossy musk]

hey do you mind if we move to #💬┃en_offtop so I can embed images + not wait 12 seconds to send a msg

[dreamy holly]

Does anyone know a good mod/modpack for shadow of chernobyl that’s worth playing?

[sleek tundra]

Why'd you even download Anomaly @mossy musk

[mossy musk]

schizophrenia

[sleek tundra]

NLC 7

[hazy helm]

nope

[sleek tundra]

Get out of here, Vasim. You're going to lose subscriber

[hazy helm]

bold of you to assume Im a youtuber ew

[sleek tundra]

Which game of the original trilogy have you played?

[mossy musk]

Not going to say or I'll get crucified by every member in here

[hazy helm]

please so say so

[sleek tundra]

20 dollar bet he either only played CoP or nothing

Why download a mod like Anomaly before finishing the trilogy or even 2 games?

[mossy musk]

ITS FINALLY DONE INSTALLING DAMN

[nimble cipher]

D2#6544 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[mossy musk]

It was the first game I got recommended to by my mate

mk its finally done installing

[hazy helm]

its so over

[sleek tundra]

Ignoring how bad the mod actually is, it's very different from the vanilla games, has little to no proper lore in it and the story is bad

You can't start with it, it has almost nothing to do with the original games besides the name of the franchise

[dreamy holly]

I finished the trilogy before playing Anomaly, am I cool now?

[mossy musk]

I mean I couldn't give less of a shit about any of its story I care more about how it plays

[sleek tundra]

It plays like crap, then

[mossy musk]

but I will get the trilogy SOON

[sleek tundra]

You aren't really helping the western player stereotype, son

[mossy musk]

Sound's like a severe case of not my problem.

[hazy helm]

the story is cool bro

[mossy musk]

It is cool but I don't really care for it, I don't play games for their stories.

[sleek tundra]

It isn't, but it sure doesn't help the stereotypes

[hazy helm]

youre breaking my heart

[mossy musk]

im sorry ❤️

[sleek tundra]

THen what do you care for?

[mossy musk]

Playing the game. I still get a good atmosphere when I play stalker but not because of the story.

[sleek tundra]

"Playing the game" is very vague. Do you care about the gameplay? The characters? The bugs?

[hazy helm]

not to mention taht Anomaly,the mod,is nothing like the games,and thus does not offer the same gameplay nor atmosphere,its a mod,it doesnt need to

kind of strange how ppl force Anomaly into stuff that it never tried to be

[mossy musk]

mk im back internet shut off for a second

what did i miss

[sleek tundra]

"Mentally Ill furry from america who likes Tarkov-" That explains a whole lot

[mossy musk]

so true'

[sand fiber]

ew

[mossy musk]

so what were you saying @sleek tundra

[sleek tundra]

Check above, I'm not rewriting stuff that's literally visible on the screen

[mossy musk]

The gameplay of stalker anomaly so far is enjoyable. When I get bored of it I will move onto the trilogy

[sleek tundra]

You know there's something wrong with you when your fellow furry is disgusted by you

[mossy musk]

🤷‍♂️

[sleek tundra]

Then again, Noz is not western (based)

[sleek tundra]

What stalker? You said you never played the original games

[hazy helm]

were you playing Stalker?or were you playing A MOD

[mossy musk]

stalker anomaly*

[sleek tundra]

You said you just downloaded it though?

[mossy musk]

IM AWARE I will move onto the trilogy when I get bored of anomaly

[hazy helm]

a mod
like I said,the mod anomaly is nothing and its not trying to be like the originals,it cant be compared bc of this

[sand fiber]

i think they should make getting anomaly a bit harder

[mossy musk]

Did I say that? I had to reinstall it to get my mods to work

[sleek tundra]

We can just compare it as a game, in which case it still fails in every single way

[sand fiber]

so people stop jumping into this cesspool

[sleek tundra]

I think they should lock it behind having CoP or SoC even though it's standalone

[mossy musk]

mk which trilogy game should I play first then

[sand fiber]

Shadow of Chernobyl > Clear Sky > Call of Pripyat

[sleek tundra]

From release order? Why even ask this? It's obvious

[mossy musk]

gotchu

[sleek tundra]

Guys which fallout should I start with, fallout 76 or tactics?

[sand fiber]

eh they shouldn't like, actually implement a drm

[hazy helm]

SoC

[sleek tundra]

Lore pop quiz?

[hazy helm]

when I said they should do this months ago you said no

[sand fiber]

pronounce паляниця before playing

[hazy helm]

palyanitsya?

[sand fiber]

never said that

[sleek tundra]

NozAr supported Anomaly months ago

[sand fiber]

i did not

[sleek tundra]

Oh really? I have a clear photo of a furry saying they love Anomaly. I could count on one hand the amount of furries in this server

[sand fiber]

it's a ukrainian word, accent on и

[sleek tundra]

Does it mean sex?

[sand fiber]

sex is шiсть actually

[sleek tundra]

Lies, it starts with a W

Wait, SEX IS W?!?

[hazy helm]

big if true

[sleek tundra]

@simple kiln @cerulean knoll How dare you downvote me?!?

@frosty ember I literally copied all the anomalies from NS and NLC 7, the alien snow storm sounds like that from there. It's a good thing that the anomalies can't be explained well in text

[west void]

My friend started playing SoC vanilla, can someone give me a good list of secrets and Stashes in the game in English?

[sleek tundra]

Too many to name, just tell him about the merc suit secret in the house behind Wolf

[west void]

I had one somewhere, but its in my 1st

[high birch]

femcel Hip go brrrr

[sleek tundra]

Hip isn't canon so that doesn't count

[west void]

We're currently 1/4 on the way of getting enough cash to buy the Bullpup rifle from Sidorovich

[sleek tundra]

Skill issue + cope + freedomer + weed smoker + bloodsucker pervert

[high birch]

wait sorry what ?

thank god

[sleek tundra]

Hip is only in Stalker Anomaly, she isn't in any of the 3 main games

This is what only playing mods does to a MF

[high birch]

time for getting more cultured than I was when the dawn broke today

[high birch]

gamma is peak stalker gameplay I don't wanna hear nothing

[sleek tundra]

Gamma is nothing like Stalker, get the hell out of here

[celest heart]

[high birch]

okay, what are the differences ?
go ahead, you a stalker and gamma differences conoisseur ? name all the differences
gru gun image

[west void]

For what I know its one very highly rated Anomaly build

[celest heart]

[sleek tundra]

Oooooh boy, strap on your seat belt boys. This is going to take a while

Do you want the in-depth explanation or the quick summary? I geniunely don't have the time to write an essay for 3 hours

[hazy helm]

when youre at the car park where you need to fend off against bandits,go to the white tower and shoot the boxes above,goodies will show up

[west void]

@hazy helm I was looking for like a link for a good listing

[hazy helm]

Stalker isnt supposed to bhe a Hardcore Survival Realism simulator so no

[high birch]

it's trash can, not trash cannot, what is stopping you ?

[sleek tundra]

Time, I have an exam tomorrow. It's not important but I'd rather not get low grades there.

[high birch]

ehhhhh except some things being taken a bit too deep, it remains an horror and survival game highly based on roadside picnic

gamma just takes base stalker material to another level, neither good or bad

[sleek tundra]

No it isn't. The Zone is obviously meant to be a mysterious, inconsistent place that defies logic. Every step you take is supposed to worry you. This is how it’s portrayed in Roadside Picnic and Tarkovsky’s Stalker movie, but all three official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games totally fail to deliver here, as do almost all other mods. So it isn't highly based on it, just has some ideas

[high birch]

golden sphere ? (yeah I mishmashed multiple things there)

[sleek tundra]

Lost alpha is not the official stalker game

We're using the three games as an example because they're obviously what stalker is supposed to be like

[hazy helm]

Im getting very tired of ppl turning stalker into what it isnt,I like the gameplay,story,lore,everything in stalker,and assuming that the games gameplay and gunplay are trash and that the only way to fix it is to change it into something completely different that it wasnt supposed to be in the first place leaves me uncomfortable

[sleek tundra]

They failed to make the game like roadside picnic because they don't want to copy it right away, saying it's highly based on them is wrong, they only took some ideas

[west void]

@hazy helm pokes with a long stick

[sleek tundra]

C'mon, say something

[hazy helm]

what

[high birch]

oh hoh

[sleek tundra]

The original stalker games also had very little survival horror and survival mechanics

[nimble cipher]

Yao#7694 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hazy helm]

it's a light survival game,its not supposed to be based solely around those mechanics

[sleek tundra]

The only thing that would qualify as that is needing food, but that doesn't immediately make a game a survival game

[west void]

Can I get a link to "guide" of sorts on all the secrets? For SoC

[hazy helm]

and SoC was more horror

[hazy helm]

find the secrets yourself,I told you one

[sleek tundra]

Depends entirely on the mod

[nimble cipher]

Yao#7694 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[high birch]

EHHHHHHHHH WOLF STAHP THAT

[nimble cipher]

Yao#7694 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[sleek tundra]

For every purist out there like Street Ced, there are 20 other "MODS ARE THE TRUE AND ONLY EXPERIENCE" players

[celest heart]

you can kill wolf

[west void]

I've got long ass listing in my first language, but my fren won't understand it, I need the English version for it to be usable for them

[hazy helm]

translate it into his lang then,in prose

[sleek tundra]

NLC 7 beats Anomaly and Gamma out of the water and into orbital space at what they try to achieve: a hardcore stalker game that focuses on survival/survival horror

NLC 7 is a hardcore survival game like very few single player games out there

[hazy helm]

CS and COP were less horror and COP was def a little more survival but not by much
still Id say they retain some horror elements

[sleek tundra]

Not enough to qualify as survival or survival horror

Would adding eating to CoD qualify as survival? No it wouldn't

[frosty ember]

Just wait when Anomaly starts copying NLC mechanics "Best frre game of century"

[hazy helm]

it would still be bad since it has no meat

[sleek tundra]

Fun fact, it tried to do that but failed. Artifact container was originally in NLC 7, Anomaly copied it and made it much worse

[west void]

eh, its over 170 entries for what I remember off the bat

[sleek tundra]

In NLC 7, artifact containers aren't mandatory for the majority of artifacts and the beginner container could hold 8 artifacts.

[hazy helm]

well you have quite the work ahead of you

[hazy helm]

artifact containers were copied from misery where they sucked hard,very very bad

[sleek tundra]

Artifact containers also have other uses besides keeping artifacts that emit radiation away, they can be used to avoid making artifacts go bad (every time an emission occurs, the artifact's tier gets lowered until it eventually becomes worthless)

[sleek tundra]

NLC 7 came before misery. How do the containers work in misery either way? Asking because I ain't playing that crap just for testing this

[hazy helm]

it's the same way that everyone copies
most if not all give radiation,you need to use either a metal container that very weighty or a high tech costy and weighty container to stop it from giving radiation

[sleek tundra]

How many artifacts can they store?

[hazy helm]

1

[sleek tundra]

What the actual hell? What?

They're very heavy and only carry one?

Whoever made that game should be crucified

And you're saying NLC 7 is as bad as this? The mod is practically canadian level nice compared to Misery

[hazy helm]

you wouldnt understand its hardcore

[celest heart]

m i s e r y

[sleek tundra]

One light-ish container could store 8 artifacts, the majority of artifacts aren't radioactive. You can play for hours upon hours looking for artifacts and you're most likely not going to fill the container

[solid dome]

@sleek tundra @finite summit The coupons thing feels out of place

[sleek tundra]

They're coupons, of course they are

[solid dome]

First, a CM confirms it's literally called Coupons (even though the icon indicates K...), then the actual sounding of it

Coupons. Doesn't feel right where the game is set.

Second, why would they confirm it's called one way then, year later, come out with different term?

Those things are long set on stone, you'd know how to call it the day you start building the world itself

[sleek tundra]

Ukraine war and people associating rubles with russia

[solid dome]

Who the frick even mentioned any war here

Open your eyes or if you did already, clean up the cans. This much cans you can't even see around. @sleek tundra

You'll suffocate in the pile of cans you built

[finite summit]

Should they?

[solid dome]

Imho, no need to change something which didn't have to be changed

[finite summit]

Yeah

[solid dome]

Don't fix what is not broken

[finite summit]

should've never changed the engine and graphics

[solid dome]

You only make it so you have to explain it through lore somehow

[solid dome]

You're comparing male genitals to female

Technology versus lore element

[sleek tundra]

Females have genitals?

[finite summit]

Is there any difference?

[sleek tundra]

Why are they always pussies then? Checkmate

[solid dome]

@finite summit Would you change your car engine with the same one, being in the exact same condition as your current?

Because in the same sense, changing the lore element as the currency from RU to K doesn't bring anything new to the table. Only that you have to explain why you made the change through suitable means.

That's my point

[glossy ore]

Maybe people in the Zone just stopped using roubles. This is years since COP.

Ward "Zone police" didn't exist back then either.

[sand fiber]

coupons are pre 2000 ukrainian currency, also known as karbovantsi

[sleek tundra]

How do you know? Not like you're Ukrainian

[solid dome]

It's one thing to say Karbovans and Coupons, different feel to it

[glossy ore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_karbovanets

[sand fiber]

Those are interchangeable

[open lintel]

they confirmed changing the currency :S ?

[sand fiber]

long ago

[glossy ore]

the loot screen from the trailer kinda makes it obvious

[solid dome]

Wikipedia knows it all

[open lintel]

ngl I stopped paying attention or caring a long time ago, but I agree with Krezzin on this one. its not about it being a good or bad choice morally or w/e, but all it does it create a need to explain why it was changed

I myself am already worried about how the economy will be in the game, original economy was pretty bad. hoping that gets a big facelift

[glossy ore]

... it's pretty simple? Rouble devalued so people opted to use something else

no need to mention a war there, just fictional economic events

[sand fiber]

you miss one important detail that neither soviet rubles nor coupons make any sense as a currency in zone

[solid dome]

Yeah but if we take it's Karbovans, this is no longer currency in use. Given the game takes place in present times..

From logical standpoint... 😄

[glossy ore]

the context of the Zone in the game isn't super clear but it could even be a Zone-centric currency

[solid dome]

I'm trying to understand the logic behind the whole change

[glossy ore]

not necessarily a currency used anywhere else

[solid dome]

Meaning the only one realistic bit you could retain, by using actual currency instead of going for fiction, has been...

Don't take me wrong

[open lintel]

zone only currency wouldn't make a whole lot of sense tbh, since you need something of value for when you "leave" the zone, one of the largest reasons for being in the zone in the first place was to make a living off it for money or a quick buck

that and intertrade btwn the zone and the outside, aint nobody gonna trade you for a couple disney dollars for supplies going into the zone lol

[solid dome]

I could care less if the money ingame are called cartel money or marks or zloty or whatever

Though it's interesting to see what forced the change

[glossy ore]

I would expect artifacts are the best way to get money from the outside, assuming you can smuggle one to a buyer anyway

but yeah having usable money in the zone itself probably helps

[solid dome]

The only way I see it, roubles could have been dropped if the lore is made to include politics with the ongoing war

[open lintel]

im looking at it personally from an entirely logical and immersive view on it. immersion sort of breaks down if they don't have a way to properly transfer it over, but you made a good point drop of value of ruble = they used something else

[solid dome]

Because it'll be hella hard to present it to the player in a different way

[open lintel]

really depends on what it ends up being though too, so long as its not actually "coupons" that... idk dude you cant sell me on that one lol, it has to be an actual currency of some kind otherwise it just doesn't make sense

[solid dome]

You can't go and simply "hey, RUs dropped, the printing factory filled for bankruptcy, we use coupons now" on the player

[open lintel]

but yeah artifacts are supposed to be the one thing that actually is worth anything of real high level value

[sand fiber]

how could soviet ruble drop in value if it's soviet ruble in post1991

the games never went as far as to explore economical situation in and outside the zone, we literally don't know anything

[glossy ore]

I thought it was supposed to be the Russian Rouble, given SHOC takes place in 2012

[open lintel]

true, and I don't mind it so long as they again are using some sort of real currency and not.. well coupons lol

[glossy ore]

but you make a good point that they never really said much of the outside world, which doesn't even really need to resemble the real world anyway

[open lintel]

I would prefer RUB personally, mostly because im accustomed to it in the games already. So it would be fairly weird having it change.

alot of people will be new players too though, so I guess they don't really have to focus too hard on what pre-existing players would feel huh?

[solid dome]

If you were storywriter, how would you explain this change so the player doesn't remain confused and finds the logic in an easy manner

You don't want to cause plot holes and all

[glossy ore]

but has anyone considered that it might in fact be a cursed cryptocurrency? everyone carries PDAs

[solid dome]

This I think is the only reasonable take

[open lintel]

Krypto :S

[glossy ore]

how stupid that would be I'm not sure

[open lintel]

ngl, alot of extra useless effort for such a simple change to make that work though

[solid dome]

Cuz paper coupons... Those have to be printed somewhere. And a printing factory doesn't pop in the middle of the Garbage.

[open lintel]

then you need to add a least a bit of backdrop on why they use crypto, and how it works getting money. do they have physical money? or do you take it off peoples PDA's, and if thats so why would you 100% of the time carry that PDA with money loaded on it, do people have multiple PDA's? etc.

[solid dome]

Sounds way too futuristic for the game univese but hey.. it's 2021, you have dildos as weapons in shooters... why not bitcoins

[sand fiber]

there can be no plotholes since there is no plot
you literally can make up stuff as saying "karbovantsi are still a currency in ukraine", the game is set in alternative universe after all

[solid dome]

Is it 2021...

Lol, I have to upgrade my calendar app

[open lintel]

well whatever it is, plz no coupons, actual currency thanks. :)

[glossy ore]

Yes I see, so that's where those graphics cards went... the Zone

[open lintel]

mods will be available to change it anyways tbh ~

[solid dome]

Those for the Zone to process all the Zonehub requests

[sand fiber]

if i was a narrative designer for s2 i'd do a fallout thing of barter being the main way of trading

logically it fits more

[glossy ore]

Bandits went from enslaving people to dig artifacts to running cryptomining farms off electros

[solid dome]

I asked a serious question. Anyway works for me

[solid dome]

Presenting the GeForcefield. Zone's biggest mining farm.

[sleek tundra]

NLC 7:

[open lintel]

havn't played it

[sleek tundra]

It's possibly a better game than stalker ever was

Best total conversion mod for a game

[frail spire]

falllouts barter works because the whole world is ruined

it would work when trading with another stalkers mid trip but not with traders

[sleek tundra]

True, true

[frail spire]

unless it was a very context reliant trader like sid who sells ovepriced trash to rookies

[sleek tundra]

This is a true Sid moment

[frail spire]

tbh the only currency you should have with traders is artifacts

and regular object barting with other stalkers

think like Path of Exile where theres no money involved at all when trading, at least ingame , and it's just stuff you picked up from grinding

[sleek tundra]

THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL DAY, WHY IS EVERYONE CALLING ME CRAZY?!?

[nimble cipher]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[frail spire]

if anything you could see how much an artifact costs with rubles but you wouldn't be handling money at all

[sleek tundra]

Why not keep rubles but only make traders sell generic/everyday items and basic equipment with rubles?

[frail spire]

like, if a jellyfish is worth 1000 rubles then you can either get stuff that in total makes it 1000 or you get something cheaper and let the leftover go to waste

this would make you keep stuff that you wouldn't really need just to not let anything go to waste and then you would have extra items to barter with other stalkers