⭐┃nospoilers_general

[jaunty pebble]

Ayo send link dude. dont keep it a secret

Yes, ST2 moved to UE5

wait, you mentioned ST2, right?

[hazy helm]

sure,send me a link I'll ask dezo for those files myself

[jaunty pebble]

I think i have done a no brain move

[hazy helm]

we are talking about something else,S2011

[jaunty pebble]

F**k

[hardy bear]

That soundtrack is honestly phenomenal

[vernal magnet]

sent you invite for Dez Server and the one i run

[dense leaf]

Hopefully some good news soon™️

[jaunty pebble]

Yea, the trailer music is dope

[hazy helm]

I'll be keeping an eye on both

[vernal magnet]

i dont see how ROH is going to realize the full vision of asynchronous play with multiple players. Especially if the are in different level areas

[hardy bear]

It’s like a mix of battlefield 4, 3 interstellar and deep rock. I love it

[vernal magnet]

ROH makes sense that its only got "match" and smaller scoped based coop finished

idk if 1 or 4 more years is gonna change that. its just xray

[hazy helm]

@vernal magnetjust so I dont make a mistake,I talk with dez to get the S2011 leaks right?I dont really care for anything else

[dense leaf]

Custom spagetti code is my best guess

[solid dome]

WH... Wait a second?

[foggy shale]

Has ray of hope even gotten any updates recently? I thought the project was dead tbh

[vernal magnet]

no if you want S2 2011 Leaks you gotta get them elsewhere

i have them backed up id have to see if i could host them for you. google searching usually can dig it up though

thought you were trying to snag subversity lol

[hazy helm]

Nha,I just honest to god want them leaks

I need to rummage thru the DesDocs again

[solid dome]

You tell me you have 300 gb of Stalker old data?

[hazy helm]

Yhea

[solid dome]

I need to buy meself a 500 gb drive to store my STALKERCRAP on too

[solid dome]

I see why there is literally no progress with the open world mode. BIG SHAME.

[vernal magnet]

literally have an SSD just for stalker

[solid dome]

Dude

Okay I am buying another HDD soon and would like for you to Soulseek me that crap

[vernal magnet]

why would you go HDD over NVME or 2.5 SSD?

[solid dome]

Budget reasons

250 GB of NVME wont cut it with 300 gb of builds only

[vernal magnet]

you can get some good deals on 2.5 SSD's now.

I try to harvest the old NVMe drives out of clients old machines when they turn em in

[hazy helm]

honestly,Id recommend only getting one NVME for main boot and the rest SSDs,wanna get a new 2tb SSD for games and storaging files tbh

[vital dagger]

Fun fact: you can still download the Stalker SoC from the official website but not of any other game

[remote crow]

Who wants to read Duty and Freedomer boyfriends in Romeo and Juliet style

[hazy helm]

please leave this server

[vernal magnet]

whatever has the best pricing. i took advantage of the last black friday and snagged 2 2tb NVME drives for like 140 bucks a piece

[finite summit]

Please shower

[vernal magnet]

Get some help

[remote crow]

MAKE ME

[finite summit]

Did it really take you that long?

[solid dome]

Duh. I can buy at least 4 4tb HDDs for the price of 1 SSD 2.5

12 TB is damn lot of data

[haughty path]

"play vanilla" they said

"the bugs are part of the experience" they said. yeah my game crashes if i try to EAT something

[finite summit]

skill issue

[finite summit]

Make sure you right click the item and choose "eat" from the context menu

[haughty path]

i did and my game crashed

[finite summit]

Oh and don't EVER eat food when looting corpses

[haughty path]

yeah i did that...

ima just install zrp

[ornate flower]

Any OG S.T.A.L.K.E.R's remember this

https://youtu.be/B5w3RZLfMkg

[finite summit]

Still trying to decompile the .swf file from kinostalker.com

[hazy helm]

this only happens if you try using a consumable inside the loot menu

simply,dont do it,easy fix right

[placid slate]

Did anyway saw the new pics?

[hazy helm]

just about everyone

[placid slate]

it says transfer spired

@sand condorthe link in the last announcement post

[hazy helm]

those pics that were shared when the wired post dropped

[placid slate]

could u take a screenshot for me

[hazy helm]

why

[placid slate]

i cant see them it says transfer spired

[vernal magnet]

true but do you actually need that much storage compared to the need for speeeed?

[haughty path]

does failing tasks matter?

[finite summit]

Nah

[haughty path]

or are they just side missions that reward you with stuff?

ahh okay cool thanks

[fleet glacier]

I knew it.

[haughty path]

this game is so good, im definitely gonna play the sequels. but one question, is the map the same in the other games? or is it the same but expanded?

[finite summit]

In Clear Sky it's 60% old locations(albeit remastered and with some new stuff added) and 40% new ones

Call of Pripyat has a completely new game map

[haughty path]

niceeee. cant wait, but this game is so good that ima take my sweet time with it

[potent bluff]

I just noticed that the OST they use in "Come to me" trailer sounds like John Wick 2s OST

[finite summit]

Send

[sleek creek]

guys

I have stalker and I dont buy the game I am a pro

[potent bluff]

Only first part btw

John Wick Plastic heart on YouTube

Also John Wick Reckoning

[teal timber]

question, what in the settings would make the trees and foliage look less "crispy"

[glacial quartz]

Guys is the release at the end of this year or we might get it sooner?

[remote crow]

Kwispy

[stark plover]

we don't know until GSC tells us it's coming out. December is a placeholder.

[tawny shale]

Sometimes I wonder if S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky takes place inside of that spacial anomaly that you jump into in the Cordon, and that none of it actually happened.

[remote crow]

Uhhhhh

Tremor

[spring abyss]

only happened in the scar mind, after the emission he fell into a coma and a pig is dragging his body into the bush while he imagines he is going to save the zone

[solid dome]

Data matters, speed... apocalypse ain't here yet. We have all the time on Earth.

[hazy helm]

ho it happened don't worry,it's canon,here to stay and live

[sand fiber]

i wish it wasn't

[hazy helm]

cope and seethe

[dapper finch]

Still seems weird they based him on how Ghost died then forgot to connect up that plot thread.

[finite summit]

They said it was planned for player to kill Fang but had to be abandoned because it was difficult to implement

[dapper finch]

Lol so just have it happen before the events of the game off-screen rather than making a plot hole.

[weak thicket]

anyone know if the physical preorder perks are coming at the same time as the game release or sooner?

[storm kernel]

My guess would be they would ship alongside the game.

[oak hare]

How would stalker run ( all 3 ideally ) with a 2060?

[vernal magnet]

1080p medium / high for 60fps would be my best guess

[vernal magnet]

idk games not on SSD stutter alot now. Dead Space is NVME optimized and STALKER 2 no doubt will be too

[solid dome]

Eastern Europeans are born to stutter. Economy made us like that. 😄

[tulip vapor]

Guess it's finally time to fill slot 2

[oak hare]

Honestly I'd think itd be better than that

I can get that with my 1050

[dapper finch]

CoP ran well on my laptop 10 years ago lol

[frail venture]

will rx 6600 xt be enough?

[vernal magnet]

thats super optimistic for Stalker 2

[spring abyss]

To run stalker 2 you need a I9 supreme with drip
Gtx 3090"Y"I
18283838gb in you ssd

[vernal magnet]

1050 is obselete by today standards

to get a fair Stalker 2 experience i would look to the Xbox Series X as a comparison for a balanced experience

[dapper finch]

No it really isn't, S2 is just a high end game.

Heck the last gen consoles are still prevalent.

[vernal magnet]

just cause it can play games in general doesnt mean its not obselete. 2GB of vram is trash

last gen consoles are dead now. cross gen titles dont come out anymore. the market finally moved on

unless its indie or low demand games that can skirt past the hardware

We already see series X and PS5 compromising on settings in certain titles by alot. PC is already several generations of hardware ahead of the initial "next gen" console launches

[dapper finch]

That's not what the shelves in shops say

[vernal magnet]

????? what relevance does this have

next gen consoles are still hard to obtain in stock. Series S filled the low end market gap.

nobody is buying PS4 and xbox ones unless they are on a deadly budget

the industry has moved on man. The focus is on the current gen now

[sand fiber]

6600xt is fairly powerful, 1080p60 on high-mids probably

[dapper finch]

There's a difference between buying them and still using them and buying games for them. I know the industry has moved on, the industry is ahead of the userbase.

[vernal magnet]

Correct. Which was my whole point

[frail venture]

k

[dapper finch]

Like how long has USBC been a thing yet it's still not everything.

[vernal magnet]

Did you notice Stalker 2 is not coming out on xbox one?

[dapper finch]

It's a high end game ported from PC, of course it isn't.

[sand fiber]

they really aren't

3 years have passed since the last gen release

[dapper finch]

Maybe a regional difference?

[vernal magnet]

There will be a certain barrier of entry to this game. Series S is going to be the low end experience. Series X is the standard. and PC is the only high end option

[dapper finch]

Well aware of that

[sand fiber]

i mean, i'm not denying that people use PS4s, but people also used PS3s in 2015

[dapper finch]

Exactly. My point is that a 1050 is not "obsolete". It's just low end.

[sand fiber]

eeeh with that logic you could've argued that 8600gt isn't "obsolete" and is just low end

[dapper finch]

Don't even know what that is lol

[sand fiber]

as far as i'm aware 1050 already can't run latest games, which makes it obsolete

[sand fiber]

~2006 nvidia gpu

[dapper finch]

First 2022 game I thought of was Dying Light 2

Guess what the minimum GPU is

[sand fiber]

nvm 1050ti can do cp77 on fsr with 40fps

i mean it's the lowest end

[vernal magnet]

a 1050 cannot really produce a playable 30fps experience in new and demanding titles

[sand fiber]

nvm 1050ti can do cp77 on fsr with 40fps

[dapper finch]

Demanding titles were always a category of their own. Like trying to play crysis in 2007

[sand fiber]

in native - yeah

[vernal magnet]

and absymal 1% lows that make it feel nowhere near a consistent 40fps

[sand fiber]

nah 1% is like 30

[vernal magnet]

while watching visuals equivalent to wearing beer goggles

upscaled 720p barfing noises

[dapper finch]

plays Warframe on switch

Now that is pain

[sand fiber]

doom eternal on switch

[vernal magnet]

realistically a 1060 with more than 4gb is the best low end card if your down bad

[sand fiber]

no not really lol

[dapper finch]

The bargain spot atm is whatever cheap RTX card you can find because of DLSS

[sand fiber]

the only way to acquire a 1060 is secondhand market and you're better of going with rxes then

[vernal magnet]

i mean the 1060 card came out in 2016 so its more than half a decade old and can be had for dumb cheap

[sand fiber]

fsr exists

[vernal magnet]

the bargain spot depends on every persons budget

[dapper finch]

I often forget that AMD exists

[sand fiber]

same but then my drivers crash with a bsod

[dapper finch]

Was running AMD/Nvidia monstrosity at one point

[vernal magnet]

lol heck yea

also 1060 was listed as minimum for Stalker 2 so a 1050 would be DOA

[dapper finch]

I was never trying to argue that a 1050 could run S2.

[vernal magnet]

i understand but you said it wasnt obselete

if you cant play new games that come out reasonably then imho it is obselete

[finite dragon]

@glossy blade hello. do you know why alexander game isn't release on online stores?

[finite summit]

Try looking it up on abandonware websites

[glossy blade]

It was not a part of our plans.

[finite dragon]

I hope it will be on stores since is the only game made by you which is not on stores.

[glossy blade]

Cannot comment on our future release plans, part of NDA.

[finite dragon]

Ok

[glossy blade]

we do not discuss piracy on Discord

It is forbidden by the platform

[finite summit]

is it?

[glossy blade]

Ye

[finite summit]

where?

[glossy blade]

Discussing ways of potential piracy is forbidden, TOS

You can browse discord website for ref materials

[finite summit]

I did

[prime girder]

GUYS - I need help with vanilla SoC

[glossy blade]

It is not very convenient, but I found it when I was checking various different documentaries

[prime girder]

I have a task to rescue Fox
But he didn't spawn

[glossy blade]

There are also guidelines for big servers

Provided by discord

[finite summit]

Idk. The only thing I found was "Do not distribute or provide access to content involving the hacking, cracking, or distribution of stolen goods, pirated content, or accounts." in community guidelines
https://discord.com/guidelines

[prime girder]

meh

[glossy blade]

Honestly I do not remember where it was, so can not help you with this one

[finite summit]

Guess I'll take your word for it

[glossy blade]

I mean, if it was not Friday evening I would look through my documentaries on Discord

but, now I am too lazy

[storm kernel]

I wouldn't want to risk it

[prime girder]

OK - nvm
I reloaded the game

[hazy helm]

@glossy bladethoughts on Denuvo Anti Tamper software and its proliferation on trip A games?

[storm kernel]

I think that question would be better in the #🔍┃ask_gscarchive thread

[hazy helm]

not really

[glossy blade]

Not sth I can say anything remotely knowledgeable about to you out of the loop as a user.

And from the perspective of Community Manager I just can not comment such things coz of NDA

[hazy helm]

Ok,then have a great day

[hardy bear]

Dang I just had 800 rubles taken from me

[finite summit]

Good and bad news for you.
Bad: you can't take the money back
Good: you can take revenge

[hardy bear]

I didn’t even realise until a friend pointed it out. I started walking in but people pointed their guns at me. Only when I read back his response did I realise what actually happened

And im not going to barge in there. It was my own greed that got me into this position, and they are simply trying to survive. Im not ruining my faction reputation for that

[oak hare]

I can get it idk

Good cpu

[vernal magnet]

Can get what?

[hazy helm]

The game isn't out neither are the updated spec sheets,we have no way of knowing but I can already tell you,it won't

Like Tommy said, by today's standards a 1050 is an underpowered choice and unless you're willing to go down to the lowest resolutions possible I don't see how you an get consistently good FPS,and even then you may not

[vernal magnet]

True I'm half expecting the sheets to be updated closer to release

[worthy lagoon]

I think a 3070 would be fine for 1080p

[hazy helm]

it'd be a dream if I could get 1080p ultra 144fps with a 3070 but something tells me that's wishfull thinking

Even 60seems like an ideal

[vernal magnet]

My prediction based on recent released titles. 4k ultra RT = 4080/4090. 1440p ultra RT = 3080/3090. 1080p ultra RT = 6800xt / 3070ti. 1080p/1440p Ultra No-RT = 6700xt / 2070 / 3060ti

[vernal magnet]

Yea for 1080p for sure

[hazy helm]

[atomic flume]

[sand fiber]

i don't think 4090 will handle ultra rt in 4k lol

[vernal magnet]

It will but not for the FPS your expecting. And it will need DLSS obviously

[sand fiber]

RT is a scam anyway

[vernal magnet]

Anything at 4k right now thats ultra demanding needs DLSS

[sand fiber]

not really, aforementioned 4090 can handle 4k native with ease, just not RT

[vernal magnet]

Lmao no. It isn't. People said the same thing about shader 3.0. They said the same thing about needing a dedicated GPU when quake 3 arena came out. I been in the game a long time.

Plenty of games are dramatically improved with RT

[sand fiber]

nope they aren't

[sand fiber]

changes are slight if even present

[vernal magnet]

Like I said, "anything that's ultra demanding". Which is titles with RT

[vernal magnet]

No way. Metro exodus enhanced is dramatically different. Dying light 2 is dramatically different. List goes on

[sand fiber]

when first dedicated gpus came they were able to handle things, they weren't "Play in 144p with 5fps"

[vernal magnet]

You completely missed the point. That's exactly what it was. If you DIDNT have a GPU. And people said what the heck why can't we use software rendering???

[sand fiber]

there were 3 generations of nvidia rtx series already and only overpriced top end can handle RT in 1080p, nevermind the 4k

[hazy helm]

Quite honestly DLSS should be a tool that enables older GPUs to preform better and last longer,not something developers use to excuse poor optimization

[vernal magnet]

Your not making any sense this statement is simply not true. 1440p max RT was possible on my 3070 for quite some time. Deathloop, Metro, etc etc

[sand fiber]

with DLSS?

[hazy helm]

And I'm quite sad that we have relegated a jump in performance to instead of trying to create new architecture that are more powerful

[vernal magnet]

Of course. DLSS quality. The demand for RT is not small. Massive change, massive computational demand. Cards aren't a scam.

[sand fiber]

then it doesn't matter lol

[hazy helm]

Nvidia has the plans,they have the 3dfx enfeniers,revive the multidie design for god's sake

[vernal magnet]

And your lying through your teeth if you say DLSS quality isn't sufficient

[sand fiber]

dlss is poison with artefacts and other bullshit, even 3.0, especially 3.0

[vernal magnet]

Would we prefer native? Sure. Is it worth having native over no RT? Hell no. Not any day of the week

[vernal magnet]

I see you don't have the capable hardware and haven't used these technologies yourself first hand

Because none of what your claiming is accurate. Your like 12 percent correct overall

[sand fiber]

RT doesn't matter, again
At best it makes some slight changes in very specific situations

[vernal magnet]

Lmao ok buddy. 👍

RTGI determined that was a lie

[sand fiber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmpwMiSDYP4 ooh, what a change, some locations are darker/lighter

i'm sure it's worth paying quadrillion dollars for a gpu that can't even handle it adequately

e-e-especially sacrificing the native resolution's fine and sharp look to artefacts of upscaling technologies

[vernal magnet]

Lmao imagine outing yourself this hard. If you can't see the infinite bounce including the color of surfaces being bounced onto other surfaces and objects then you are blond air

I play exodus maxed with RT at native. And it's mint. Don't know what your on about

3440x1440. 100+ FPS

[sand fiber]

all i see is lighter locations and better transparent objects

[vernal magnet]

Or the fact that all scene objects are grounded with proper shadow occlusion

[sand fiber]

which uh how do i say it isn't worth it

[vernal magnet]

You don't see a difference because your on a 1080p monitor with a 2060 dog and you need to see an eye doctor.

[hazy helm]

Honestly I played RE2 remake with RT on in Ultra and it was cool,seeing the reflections on the corridors,lighting them up with your flashlight,as without using DLSS I was getting pretty good results
The proble. With RE2R is that it is full of Vram Leaks,so you can't max out the settings

[sand fiber]

I've experimented with RT in CP77 myself and half of the time there literally were no changes to a scene, other half it was the slightest changes in some shadows/surfaces which i wouldn't even call better

[vernal magnet]

It's so not worth it that people spend money like crazy to get the high end cards for no reason the mental gymnastics with this one lol

[sand fiber]

marketing lmao

[vernal magnet]

Lol this guy unironically said marketing

RT makes everything fit the scene and look grounded. Games without RT shadows look terrible without baked in lighting

[hazy helm]

I wouldn't say games without RT look downright awful that's a bit hyperbolic

And I wouldn't say RT is the bane of crap only dreamt up to hike prices

[vernal magnet]

*without baked in lighting. And yea they do it stands out more on modern titles with dynamic lights. Because the shadows won't matxh

[sand fiber]

I've seen people with 1080p monitors who play only Apex Legends buy new XX90 every new generation, "but people buy it" isn't an argument

[vernal magnet]

And those people are extremely niche. Unlike those buying top GPUs

[hazy helm]

I think it's cool that this new tech that was literally so taxing it wasn't even attempted for decades is now able to be experimented with but I also think it still needs time in the oven both for hardware manufacturers and developers tk really bring out the most of it

[sand fiber]

i'm going to surprise you but people who buy top gpus are already an extreme nieche

[vernal magnet]

And so help me God I'd you bring up steam statistics like it means something I

[sand fiber]

^

[vernal magnet]

100s of thousands of units sold determined that was a lie

[vernal magnet]

Yea it did need that and it got it for the past 4 years

We already made it

[sand fiber]

rt will be nice when it's cheap and can be handled without gratified downscalers

[hazy helm]

It still needs refinement I'd say

[vernal magnet]

What doesn't? Nobody asked for perfection. Or we wouldn't be stalker fans that's for damn sure

[sand fiber]

hundrends of thousands isn't alot lol

[vernal magnet]

It is in the GPU market

[sand fiber]

no it's not, GPU market is even wider than gaming market

[vernal magnet]

Correct. Do you want me to include workstation cards then so we can be irrelevant? Than millions of units...

[sand fiber]

and gaming market is extremely big

[hazy helm]

I don't its quite there yet, but it certainly is getting there,optimize it for power consumption and stuff,but what I REALLY am interested in is either how they will solve the 2nm chip problem with Vcache and innovate with new designs
Imagine if AMD adapt Ryzen tech for a GPU

[sand fiber]

i'm not talking about specific nvidia cards for work, i talk about people who buy 4090 for other reasons than gaming, because, y'know, it's the most powerful out there

[vernal magnet]

Well this was fun but I gotta get back to managing networks and tracing rays n sh*t

[hazy helm]

come back we need to talk about 3DFX tech being revived

[vernal magnet]

History never fails. Once people get the tech themselves all of a sudden all their criticism is dialed way back. People complain about RT because it's expensive. Says everything I need to know about their opinion

[sand fiber]

people really do be slurping all of what tech corpos pour down on them and then complain about how market is going down in quality:price and gaming is degrading or smth

[vernal magnet]

RTX 4000 go brrrrrrrr

[sand fiber]

and saying that unreasonable prices isn't an argument says everything i need to know about you lmao

[hearty wasp]

2023 is going to be a good year for gaming. STALKER 2 and Atomic Heart coming out this year

[sand fiber]

unsure about both of them

[hearty wasp]

I am SO ready for the slav jank

[sand fiber]

but yeah lots of releases

[sand fiber]

tbh i'm looking more towards all the indie dev demos out there than anything "significant"

[hazy helm]

I don't think newer audiences are ready or will even tolerate what we call "Slav jank" and if Stalker 2 has a bad start on its first week it may seal it's fate...let's hope it does good

[sand fiber]

another argument towards gatekeeping

[hearty wasp]

I mean the jank is what gave stalker it's charm

[sand fiber]

no not really

[hazy helm]

no

[vernal magnet]

We already got Vulkan

[hazy helm]

we need more
make Nvidia go open the 3dfx vaulta and try to iterate on those designs,Id be on that,it; would be interesting asf

[vernal magnet]

You say the prices are unreasonable but you lack any and all context. We just got out if a global pandemic and a foreign country conflict affecting the entirety of stock and price. There's other factors. But these are huge. Why do you think nvidia was able to price creep so hard so fast?

Also, it's painfully obvious your less than 20 years old and don't remember paying literally thousands of dollars in the 90s for a PC.

[sand fiber]

i'm not sure about westerners but here it's a broad complex of reasons why it got as popular as it is, mainly: 1. it was i think the most hyped game in RU-UA 2. it's a cultural imprint, and people love recognising stuff from their surroundings in games

[nimble cipher]

NozAr#0330 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vernal magnet]

i adore that your username has bypassed the server rules lmao

[hearty wasp]

Slav jank encompasses more than just the game being buggy, it also involves the amount of depth, complexity, and archaicness that a lot of games from Eastern Europe have put in to help increase replay value and play time due to limited financial resources.

I frankly love games that leave me with questions on how things work and pushes me to find out more.

The bugs here and there are a nice comedic cherry on top.

[sand fiber]

so what? you're advocating paying thousands of dollars for computers again? i'm not even sure it was like this in 90s, maybe in the very early ones

anyways you're just slurping corpo bull shit they want you to slurp so you don't complain about high prices, low quality and profiteering of those companies
you seem like the kinda guy who'd defend Intel in the days of their monopoly

[sand fiber]

dat's called immersive sim

[unique zinc]

I found this weird monolith in my COP playthrough while in the underpass and it was kind of glitched out and nobody attacked him, when I opened a door to the next level he just ran away. Anybody have any idea what it could be? Hes name Shurik Spy and he only had a bandage and a sausage on him

[sand fiber]

just some bug

[unique zinc]

You sure? Ive never seen him before and its weird that he just spawned in randomly

[hearty wasp]

Debatable, although stalker skirts the line of imsim pretty hard.

[sand fiber]

yea

[vernal magnet]

did i say i was advocating for that? of course not. but i also dont complain like a child and blatantly overlook global conditions that contribute to the prices. It's not just hurr durr Jensen and Lisa Su are meanies that scalped me! Ridiculous. If they could afford to keep making cards and sell more they would. Of course Nvidia and AMD want to get a leg up on the other and be the dominant company. Your seeing both companies raise prices rather than undercut eachother because they cant fulfill the stock the market demands. so the price increases. basic economics. The difference is i dont huff and pout about this somehow being a reason to disparage RayTracing when its the single greatest improvement in Graphics tech in YEARS. Seeing Mario 64 get pathtraced and look JUST like the old magazine Renders that took DAYS to create.

[hearty wasp]

But I got two new games from Eastern European devs coming out this year so I'm happy. A lot of my favorite games come from devs living in that cultural sphere.

Pathologic my beloved

[sand fiber]

have you played all the other things by icepick?

[hearty wasp]

Unfortunately no, money is tight although I can make exceptions for games I've been waiting for years on.

[sand fiber]

pirating

[hearty wasp]

I wouldn't pirate anything from smaller studios, especially ones in less wealthy nations than I am.

EA can eat shit though and I have no problem with screwing them over.

Any big studio deserves it.

[sand fiber]

very based

[hearty wasp]

There's also the issue with abandonware but that's a different situation entirely.

[sand fiber]

dybovskiy is an exception though, maybe when he's tight on money he'll finally bother to do bachelor's route

[hazy helm]

He is currently doing it

[hearty wasp]

But I'm more than happy to give GSC my money for a sequel to one of my most beloved games

[sand fiber]

nope, he's relaxing near seas with his "daughters"

unsure of what the actual devteam's doing lol

if there's one

[hearty wasp]

I'd change it in server profile settings but I can't for whatever reason lol

[finite dragon]

I wanted to ask you people something.

what is your favorite part of the zone.

Mine is darkscape.

[oak hare]

Good fps

[vernal magnet]

how would you know though?

game isnt out and we only have the release requirements to go off of

[oak hare]

Wdym stalker 2

[hearty wasp]

Pripyat is pretty cool, red forest too.

[hazy helm]

Stalker 2 is still in dev bro

[oak hare]

The second gane released? Thats what you thought you meant

[hazy helm]

this guy trolling

[oak hare]

My bad ☠️☠️☠️

Clear sky

[vernal magnet]

Clear sky and Stalker 2 are worlds apart on system demands

[oak hare]

The second game released in the stalker trilogy

[hearty wasp]

Clear sky my beloved

It deserves more love

[oak hare]

I havent played a lot of it

[hazy helm]

it has more love than you realize

[oak hare]

But I really like the 3rd one

[vernal magnet]

too true bro

[hearty wasp]

Everyone likes call of pripyat

[vernal magnet]

it does but man for years it was the red headed stepchild getting hated on

[oak hare]

Why would you not

[hearty wasp]

I think it's most of the community's favorite

[vernal magnet]

this was the days before anomaly and gamma of course taking over the general purists hate

[oak hare]

I need to try the metro trilogy im just broke as shit

[hearty wasp]

Anomaly was really fun to play.

[hazy helm]

the only ppl taht hated it was the reddit En community,if you went any deeper,youd realise that the rest loved CS,and to be perfectly honest,ppl only hate CS nowadays bc someone told them to,back in the days

[hearty wasp]

I loved that Clear Sky made a return in Anomaly, even though their numbers were limited.

[oak hare]

I think i broke my clear sky

I was playing the clear the camp mission thing and i waited for 30 minutes after killing all the bandits and nothing happened

[last pine]

Anomaly is my favourite game of stalker trilogy

[hazy helm]

I will make anomaly good in my mod!in 5 years you will be able to play it!it will remove half of the playable factions and you will like it !

[spring abyss]

So i look my task manager while i was working with the fake start level
Blende was using 8gb of memory

[vernal magnet]

idk i remember alot of purists hating on it. i heard it all. that it was a re-hashed SOC. That the right click aiming without iron sights was trash. etc etc

and boy did people have harsh opinions on the Factions feature

[hazy helm]

I find it amusing taht the pistols dont ADS argument is seen as ruining to the standing of the game aha

[vernal magnet]

Rose colored glasses made people look back more fondly

[vernal magnet]

to be fair it was a SOC repeat and was too linear

COP was a much better sandbox but my god the visual reduction compared to Clear Sky was ROUGH

[rugged scaffold]

but it also had clear sky

[vernal magnet]

the best sky 🍻

im pretty sure Clear Sky was the first direct x10.1 game

[hazy helm]

even with such a thought,CS had many realisations and improvents over SOC and tried its own thing,CS was overhated however and it turned into a meme to hate it,not ironically however
it got to the ppl ppl were recommending to new peeps to not play CS which is simply wrong

[vernal magnet]

i distinctly remember the game SHREDDING my 8800GT on launch with the rainy intro

[vernal magnet]

Oh i agree. I personally loved CS. it did have its own flaws though. its a shame people overlook it

it was the only one i played Vanilla too every time. Remember when people argued about the Complete mods? hehehe

[hazy helm]

They still so hahahaaa

[vernal magnet]

man i havent even heard people mention them in a long time

Autumn Aurora became the newer go to for SOC

people just talk about anomaly and gamma now people dont even ask questions much about vanilla runs except ZRP

and people still think ZRP doesnt change vanilla except it does lawl

[hazy helm]

Some do...and we usually tell them to play vanilla first here

[vernal magnet]

The way God intended

[arctic rover]

A question to people who know, does anyone know if I can change the original XRay Engine 1.5 in STCS into OpenXRay expansion for it?

I want to get it on 64 bit engine to improve performance, and keep the original game untouched (I do not want overhauls or mods which add anything or ""fix"" some things in CS)

[hazy helm]

see the OpenXray1.5 github page to check its progress but I think its still quite a ways to go,ask in their discord

[formal rapids]

Any pc gamers here i need support please

[vernal magnet]

Whats your question?

[sand fiber]

?

[vernal magnet]

He just has questions about fitment in a new build im DM'ing him. He's a new builder

[onyx nexus]

What's the line that sounds like "VRAG MONOLITA! ISKE DE NYAIEM!"?

[ember jasper]

So should you only actually play master mode on SoC i was thinking of starting a new playthrough and i have heard master is the best way to play it

[hearty vigil]

Enemy of Monolith. Eradicate him!

[tawny shale]

Is there anywhere where the quotes in Stalker are listed?

I know this is beyond a doubt incorrect, but I always think that Monolith sometimes says, “Pierogi” when spotting a player.

[stuck valley]

do you guys think that stalker 2 will actually look as good as the screenshots they keep sharing

[hearty vigil]

Not really, too many of them to list

[fluid abyss]

no

[hearty vigil]

Monolith in SoC/CS or CoP?

[tawny shale]

I recall in SoC.

[stuck valley]

i hope it looks similar then

[fluid abyss]

I think its gonna end up looking like a generic AAA game. High-res & nice models that are scaled down in detail for gameplay optimization.

Aside from the graphics, the gameplay will need to mesh well with it. You can have the best visuals in the world but if the controls suck then it'd feel like a Unity asset flip game

[stuck valley]

if it looks any where as good as metro exodus ill be happy

[fluid abyss]

I hope it looks better than metro exodus

[hearty vigil]

Then it should be in loner voice files too.

[fluid abyss]

Metro wasn't bad but they got that potato graphics, ya know? I don't know how to describe it but a lot of it looked... mushy

(minor nitpick)

I think it may have had to do with the rig I was using to play it at the time, along with automatic optimization dynamically lowering the graphics

[stuck valley]

mine looked truly next gen especially after the next gen update

[fluid abyss]

I'll need to replay it sometime

since I now have a better rig

[stuck valley]

def recommend, i wish i could it play it again for the first time

[silver pagoda]

Bruh metro exodus enhanced edition is easily in the top 5 most beautiful games out there

[exotic hamlet]

Just a few days ago, I was reminded, the hard way, that all the Mercenaries at the Pump Station were former Major League Baseball star pitchers.

[pure sinew]

Never expected that

[nimble cipher]

The Renegade#7821 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pure sinew]

Oof

[blissful bluff]

I actually prefer the older graphics for some reason older graphics just have a less cartoony and more scary vibe I feel like stalker 2 may look too clean to be scary but idk them suckers seem a bit scary I hope they jump u like OG stalker 🤣🤣and I hope agropram is the same layout of spawns

[silver pagoda]

Its all about atmosphere and how the devs make it, graphics dont mean anything on 'scary' part imo

[blissful bluff]

Then why is ps1 dead space scarier than the ps3 version

[silver pagoda]

its not, the new dead space remake is scarier because of the lighting job they did which is amazing

[blissful bluff]

It's not scarier it's more divine

I like stomping human tumours

[silver pagoda]

definitely scarier, the dark parts of the corridors are actually dark now. Dead space has a lot of emphasis on sound aswell to make the game scary

[blissful bluff]

Splash splash stomp stomp

Yeah the remake is amazing tbf

[blissful bluff]

Dead space 2 remake is all we need now

That was one scared me more than 1

[silver pagoda]

Oh absolutely dude, dead space 2 is a better game all aspects than Dead space 1. If dead space 2 and callisto protocol gets fixed with the upcoming patches + dlc, horror action genre is in a great place

[blissful bluff]

Dead space 2 literally kept me up at night as a kid

Like I'd watch my dad play it and I'd be quaking in my pants thinking it was real all day and now I can just sit there chill not even flinching at a jump scare 🤣🤣

That's why I love stalker it never failed to make me jump and scream because I was taking a lil walk and I get screamed at by bloodsucker 🤣🤣

[pure sinew]

graphics just make games look more realistic and enjoyable to see

[sand fiber]

who cares

[stuck valley]

Me, I do

[sand fiber]

you should not

[stuck valley]

Why’s that

[sand fiber]

the artstyle is the only thing that really matters

[finite dragon]

I have 3 “bread” in my inventory help please

[sand fiber]

[icy plover]

the higher the expectations you put, the higher disappointment you will get

[finite dragon]

Nooooooooooo

[pure sinew]

cyberpunk was a good example

[blissful bluff]

Tbf cyberpunk was actually really good true I did start playing in 1.5 but I was able to run 60fps on high with a gtx 1070 8gb

[pure sinew]

On release it was something else

[blissful bluff]

I know

It was basically saints row 4

Or like mass effect andromeda

It was rushed tho

I'm happy that stalker 2 is taking longer means they are working towards perfection I wonder if it will be 1 big map or level maps

1 big map might be laggy

[pure sinew]

Well

The game will need to be heavily optimized

[pure sinew]

Rip to the lead dev

[blissful bluff]

Rip

[sand fiber]

wdym

[blissful bluff]

A true stalker

[sand fiber]

???

[empty hull]

[sand fiber]

[pure sinew]

The lead dev of stalker died in Ukraine

[sand fiber]

no he didn't lol

project lead on st2 is evgeniy grigorovich, brother of sergiy grigorovich and he's alive and well

[pure sinew]

I didn't mean stalker 2

[sand fiber]

the one you're thinking about is vladimir ezhov, and he only worked on CS in 2007 for a short time then left the company

[pure sinew]

Still a rip

[astral valve]

so my stalker cop (gunslinger mod) suddenly started crashing often, and I only get this error:

stack trace:

Doesnt even tell me what the problem is, just that. Does anyone know a lead to this?

[sand crest]

yo guys i installed stalker anomaly last night played and got some nice stuff for the start but today i booot up the mod again and there is no save

[oak hare]

Did you save it manually

It automatically saves basically never

[dry imp]

he didn't save

[hazy helm]

my guys, #🔩┃trilogy_modifications
This channel is for discussion the stalker games not mods

[dry imp]

vasim the janny

[sand crest]

i did

[hazy helm]

congrats you were saved from the horror of playing anomaly

[sand crest]

fair enogh

buti didnt play ay other anomaly games i saw the game and i thought it looked cool and honestly i enjoyed the mod... well until the saves dissapeared but i think i found the solution

[hazy helm]

We aren't th anomaly server,if you want support go there,you'll find more info

[sand crest]

yeah

i didnt see before joining sry i went to the server have a good day sir

[hazy helm]

at least you found it
Good luck

[sand crest]

thanks!

[spring abyss]

Ewww anomaly

[sand crest]

?

[spring abyss]

Anomaly bad

[last pine]

Imagine being anomaly player

[meager temple]

Juuuuust a quick poll about what guns did you use the most in Stalker series, I need statistics for choosing 3 most popularly used

https://forms.gle/9N1rucGVPMyzzG3G8

If ye have a second, please fill it

[silver pagoda]

Anomaly BAFTA awarded mod for sigma males only + top g mod

beta vanilla experience for little boys (not men no ratio gg enjoy bad mods)

EFP Awarded by Hideo Kojima

[hazy helm]

too busy doing quests in OGSR sorry bro

[quiet leaf]

anomaly is objectively the perfect stalker game

[silver pagoda]

Died in an Anomaly mod
Shot by Loners
Found with a stone around his neck
Torn apart by dogs

[quiet leaf]

skill issue

[tawny shale]

I like the Anomaly mod because I can play as an Ecologist and am unaware of any other comparable experiences.

But it is also admittedly very frustrating.

[quiet leaf]

you can have whatever stalker experience you want i love that

[tawny shale]

I restarted my playthrough three times. ;(

[quiet leaf]

only complaint is it can get repetitive tbh

run here do this run there do that bring this back to me walk across the zone to kill one guy come back etc

[last pine]

Anomaly objectively isnt a game

[tawny shale]

Sakharov, on Survivalist difficulty as my first mission, gave me a job to retrieve a mutant tracking device.

He failed to mention it was a Chimera I was tracking down.

[quiet leaf]

lol

[tawny shale]

Thank god for vortexes.

[spring abyss]

Based stalker dude

[hazy helm]

Anomaly is objectively a bad mod

That is all I will say

[quiet leaf]

elaborate

[hazy helm]

I have elaborated on why anomaly,a CoM fork on a bad engine with the most atrocious balancing I have seen in years,is a bad game too many times

[quiet leaf]

its highly customizable, you can tweak the balancing to your liking

[tawny shale]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications message

[hazy helm]

What we are talking about isn't customizable unless you use external mods,and if you start using external mods you arent playing just anomaly anymore
Aside from that it's a freeplay mod,thus it cannot be the defenitive stalker experience as you say

[tawny shale]

Found some of Sir Vasim’s elaboration.

[hazy helm]

Nha,I have many verbose arguments in this very same channel ,too many to count,a d I'm tired of saying rh same thing over and over again

[quiet leaf]

ah well thats a pretty fair point, vanilla anomaly is pretty messed up in some places but i personally enjoy it a lot, i havent noticed many balancing issues but that might be because im more of a casual player and just bad at stalker in general

[tawny shale]

Perhaps, but I don’t really want to search through 32 pages of you saying “Anomaly” for an argument I’m not particularly invested in.

[hazy helm]

And you shouldn't,it's not worth your time

use that time to search for good mods my friend,the market is wide and there is a lot of good out there

[quiet leaf]

only mods i know are anomaly ive never really looked for others lol, any recommendations?

[hazy helm]

Oblivion Lost Remake,OGSR,Spatial Anomaly

[quiet leaf]

thanks ill be sure the check them out

[worthy lagoon]

Pretty much any STALKER mod is highly customisable

[spring abyss]

You mean like coc?
Coc always wins

[tawny shale]

Corn on Cob mod.

[scenic phoenix]

Anomaly kind of feels lonely because I rarely see stalkers in cordon other than in rookie village

[icy plover]

watch Cheeki Breeki's YT video, he has some recommendations for you

[spring abyss]

Nah, that guy* only know gamma and some few mods
You guys should try this channel
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRA7j-B5yt-V6urOlJrcKCOZgsNk66dM

[silver pagoda]

Not gonna lie anomaly is better than stalker and metro combined

[opaque parrot]

I need Stalker 2

[spring abyss]

Weak bait

[silver pagoda]

shut up boltboy

[opaque parrot]

I know it's a joke, but you're making me wanna Rip and Tear until it is done

[silver pagoda]

Stalker Anomaly is the best bloodborne successor out there by far with heavy elements of Doom Eternal, whoever disagrees bro like yall heretics, everyone knows anomaly is the best turn based warhammer game

not even joking Gamma is by far the best souls-like out there

[opaque parrot]

You got me, I have to agree now

I need to try Gamma btw, is it really that good?

[silver pagoda]

its just harder than Anomaly, EFP is still my favourite but i like suffering (ultra nightmare enjoyer here, gold plated Doomslayer skin all day and sigma male certified)

If you want a game that is similar to Age of Empires with a little bit of mario kart influences, you can try anomaly

[opaque parrot]

Played EFP, loved it
Went through Anomaly like 10 times already
Need something new

I just want more challenge

[silver pagoda]

In all seriousness, Anomaly -> baseline, Anomaly Dark Signal -> questing+ warfare with sound overhaul and graphics, Gamma = hard as hell anomaly, EFP = literal suffering and much slower paced than all previous modes with skills etc.

You can try out Anomaly Dark signal, but its meant to be played with both 'quest' and 'warfare' features on

Gamma is just pvp AI with several more additions, depends if you enjoy challenge on another level

sylky ur bolts dont hurt me noodle-arms boy

[opaque parrot]

Dark Signal seems interesting the way you described it

Like a real sh*tshow tbh, I like that

[silver pagoda]

Its by far the best looking anomaly mod out there, and best sounds, they have overhauled everything

But its not meant to be 'hard' its supposed to be more scenarios in it, its not even close to Gamma

[polar fern]

Glory to major zvyagintsev

[opaque parrot]

Glory to Magpie

[upper void]

I'm the thinker

[jaunty mason]

BRO YOU AIN'T THE THINKER

[upper void]

and how do you know that

I'm the thinker

[jaunty mason]

we shall let the masses decide

thinker or stinker

[jaunty mason]

I have no braincells left

[cyan canopy]

I delete my Anomaly

[solid dome]

You wh... you are simply tinker

[upper void]

I think

[cyan canopy]

I'm free thinker

[upper void]

we are thinkers

[jaunty mason]

Indubitably

[solid dome]

You are piece of garbage rated at 1/10 on RottenTom

[silver pagoda]

Big L

[upper void]

that's not what your mother told me last night

[spring abyss]

based

[spring abyss]

but how about imdb ?

[solid dome]

She told you about Metacritic and you went mad

I heard it across the wall, you started throwing things and jumped off the window
I was there, I was fixing the kitchen sink!

[upper void]

wa

[solid dome]

Exposed

[upper void]

get the social resentment out of your mouth that I don't understand you

[upper void]

actually ☝️🤓

u

[solid dome]

I am not making mom jokes

[upper void]

It means I'm ahead of my time, boom

[finite dragon]

what happened to the wallpapers that were on the stalker 2 website?

[dry imp]

sorry ill put them back

[finite dragon]

thanks

[tawny shale]

Strelok killed the thinkers at the end of Shadow of Chernobyl.

[sand fiber]

so called free thinkers where there's a guy with an AK

[vestal herald]

can i ask an anomally question here?

i think it relates to the main story of the game anyway. I'm stuck story-wise

[tawny shale]

People will usually redirect you to the Anomaly server.

[vestal herald]

It's to do with the strelok storyline

[tawny shale]

People say that the quality of the Anomaly server is questionable, though.

[hazy helm]

ppl also say the quality of anomaly mod is questionable

but IG direct any questions about bugs or softlocks to the anomaly server they can help you a lot faster and more readly

[vestal herald]

I don't think its that bad cause its modular and you can add what you need as you need it. Just causes a lot of issues for people that don't know what they are doing

[hazy helm]

nha,its bad bc its bad,simple as

[vestal herald]

sure, anyway, I've got streloks notebook from the lab and i've not got another task to do after i've got it? I've googled it and people say to read it but i do not have that option

My Task bar has no active quests on it after i got out the lab

[blissful bluff]

It must be an anomoly 🤡

[vestal herald]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-blank-face-eh-leave-gif-15778154

[silver pagoda]

Good morning anomaly lovers

[long harbor]

greetings to you, fellow anomaly lover

my my, what a beautiful day it is today ain't it? just in time to teach some foolish vanilla-loving knaves some lessons about the greatest mod ever made, anomaly!

[silver pagoda]

Indeed, it's a snowy day here and what better time than playing the best Dark souls successor, Anomaly Dark Signal

[long harbor]

ah, a fellow knight of culture i see! why, i must say that you have quite an exquisite taste in anomaly addons!

[silver pagoda]

Indeed sir, such is the exquisite taste of any average anomaly enjoyer. A higher breed of folk among the vanilla pancakes.

[polar fern]

[long harbor]

haha! quite a humor, i see! but you're right, sir! our taste is clearly quite superior to those peasants down below! they will never know the joy and comfort we live in when we play anomaly.

[long harbor]

what's 'tis? an anomaly-hating knave? fools! all of you!

[silver pagoda]

Absolutely, such is the higher taste that anomaly giveth to thy average player, vanilla is a rather dry wine, is it not, indeed?

[long harbor]

i must agree with you, sir! those vanilla-playing peasants don't know anything about stalker!

Horrible graphics, such awful sound effects and a ridiculous amount of money must be paid in order to play them? oh no no, count me out! I'd rather stick to my old-but-gold anomaly!

[silver pagoda]

It was a divine download, thousands of years ago when Moses walked the desert, God giveth instructions to him ''Go home and shall you presented with a moddb link, divine fingers may bless the download button''.

[long harbor]

Ah! Execellency! I remember that part in the Bibles!

[silver pagoda]

Thus, Moses played MONOLITA B L I N and met his end under the prophet Strelok.

[long harbor]

When Jesus was crucified by the Roman soldiers from the 10th legion, he exploded open the rock that was trapping his rotting corpse inside and gave them a sign!

"Thou shall taketh them azzes home, present yourself with a computer and a moddb link shall henceforth be shown before you."

[silver pagoda]

''You shall not sh**ttalk Anomaly, or thy soul shall be condemned in the deepest parts of hell, while Doomslayer rips unto your body'' - Isaiah 12:4

[long harbor]

My my! You have such wide knowledges about the Bibles! What a fine gentlemen you are sir! And a chivalric one too! My respects to you and shall you have many luck fighting for what belongs to us! Anomaly positive reviews!

[silver pagoda]

Another... peculiar part of history is such of King Arthur, when his enemies tried to conquer him, he offered them a challenge. Speedrun anomaly's Strelok quest. There was no war, as such are the lies of the books. King Arthur found strelok within 40 minutes of the playthrough, therefore defending his grounds in the most impressive manner.

[long harbor]

Ah, it's about time again! It's time to jam up some Anomaly! My my, I must say that it was a pleasure talking with you! May your name and knowledge go far and wode, sir Sektoras! I apologize to you but I must depart to go play some Anomaly now!

[silver pagoda]

You too fine sir, may your sword strike true, unless you play clear sky then your sword wont hit sh**t because clear sky bad.

[long harbor]

@spring abyss you better react with on MY messages so i can be with sir Sektoras or else you're getting railed

[spring abyss]

No

[silver pagoda]

Sylky is duty bro i cant hate him much

I can bolt his a55 to the moon though

[long harbor]

bend over

[quaint niche]

first time playing stalker clear sky

how do i kill crowd of bandits in swamps

[spring abyss]

1 have a gun (optional)
2 aim on them (optional)
3 shot on them (optional)
4 profit

[hazy helm]

[quaint niche]

anything else?

[quaint niche]

hello long time no see🤣

[spring abyss]

Start the game(optional)

[quaint niche]

more?

[spring abyss]

Nah that's all

[quaint niche]

and what difficulty

[icy plover]

1. hit and run then come back repeat
2. throw a grenade
3. LMG Brrrrrrrr
4. Profit

[hazy helm]

Whatever you fancy

[hazy helm]

I replied the wrong message

[hardy bear]

so I'm currently in yantar, this guy is stuck behind the door and won't come out. I'm guessing that's not normal

[hardy bear]

Reloaded and fixed it

By the way, leading on from that clip I posted, does low crouch improve accuracy anymore than regular crouch?

[hazy helm]

Yhea a bit

[hardy bear]

Just helped a scientist guy take some measurements and got knocked out due to an emission I think, did someone bring you into the truck to keep you safe or something? What was that chatter about?

[soft lily]

At the beginning of the "come to me" trailer was that a Monolith member beating up people?

If so that's rad

[hardy bear]

What’s the general weapon progression? Cause I’ve got the option to get more guns now but I’m stocking them up and it’s simply a waste of space

I’ve been using the TRs 301 for a while but have an ak still. What’s the next step up?

[spring abyss]

The weapon progression in soc is take the next gun from the ground

[worthy lagoon]

Looks so, the uniform and camo fits

[delicate chasm]

@spring abyss were you the one telling me about RealRTCW?

[spring abyss]

Yep

[delicate chasm]

I just replayed it over the past week, what a blast from the past

[spring abyss]

Played with the mod? Or the classic vanilla?

[delicate chasm]

really well done mod and I loved that it has achievements too

Well, whatever the main thing in the mod page is. I looked at Vanilla + but decided against it because I played that game so much, there's nothing new about it for me really

[spring abyss]

Yeah it's great i was searching for more guns mod, the silenced sten is much less annoying on this mod

[delicate chasm]

but the different gunplay and gunmodels was very enjoyable

[spring abyss]

Yeah it's just great

[delicate chasm]

The only thing I wish I had done is disable additional guns from MOHAA/Spearhead (by the looks of it that's where the models were from)

[spring abyss]

I never noticed that, i didn't played spearhead expansion

[delicate chasm]

it's mainly the soviet guns there

made no sense in Wolfenstein

[spring abyss]

So wanna try another classic game? Try vietcong with mods

The first game got a big list of mods, the second game is kinda dead

[delicate chasm]

I played the shit out of Vietcong as a kid too. A lot of time put into the multiplayer there too, and Fist Alpha

[spring abyss]

Vietcong got a bunch of graphics mod but i think it got a gun mod too i not sure if i installed

Well it's very a old game, so i can upload it on mega if you want

[delicate chasm]

I have CDs of it still

[spring abyss]

Also wolfenstein 2009 is great, not great as rtcw but he is kinda a hidden jem

His problem it's that his open world factor is very boring after a while

[delicate chasm]

Played that too, but it didn't stick with me as much. Although I remember the final mission kicking my ass

[spring abyss]

Yeah, it could be a great game with a bit more polish, but the guns upgrades was really fun

Hum one more recommendation, theres a mod for doom 2 that is fusion of doom and blood, his name is bloom, of you like them both you should definitely take a look i got a real fun time with it

[delicate chasm]

Considering you remember some old shooters... there was a couple games about WW2 with like Ahnenerbe theme where the character had like a force field and you could stop bullets with it

I can't remember what it was called, it was so niche and obscure

[spring abyss]

Ubersoldier?

[delicate chasm]

yeah! I think that's the one

[spring abyss]

The first game is really cool

But i got some problems to make it work on my actual pc

[delicate chasm]

I wanna get stoned and play that tripping out on nostalgia

[spring abyss]

[delicate chasm]

I remembered it by the russian name too, so kept looking for the "Eastern Front"

[nimble cipher]

Wolfskopf#9067 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spring abyss]

I'm not sure but i think it was made by the guys of sniper ghost warrior

They got a bunch of ww2 games, like a lot

[delicate chasm]

yeah but most of them are meh

[spring abyss]

Yeah, but the first ubersoldier is good, the second one is broken

[delicate chasm]

mid-2000s was such a time of so many sorta half-assed games that we played nonetheless

[spring abyss]

The nazis design is very similar to the helghans of killzone both probably watched that cool anime

[delicate chasm]

what was that game that Wolfenstein New Order stole the concept from

[spring abyss]

Yeah, theres so many russian/Ukraine games hidden there
Like you're empty
I love that game

[delicate chasm]

Remember the one where nazis took over the US

[spring abyss]

Fall of liberty

[delicate chasm]

You're Empty is a cult classic of its own. Did you notice the menu looks painfully similar to Stalker?

[spring abyss]

YEAH
I was talking that with my friends both you're empty, stalker and paranoia got the same vibes and references but all of them are launched at the same time: 2007

[delicate chasm]

no, YAE came out a year earlier

[spring abyss]

Oh

[delicate chasm]

But I was looking into it with a guy from SWZC and one of the early stalker devs actually left old GSC team (i think he left instead of coming) who worked on certain hud elements

so there's a chance that he might have taken the menu concept along

[spring abyss]

Gsc influenced a bunch of games

[delicate chasm]

people from the GSC influenced a bunch of games

[spring abyss]

[delicate chasm]

because some influences go back before Stalker even came out

[delicate chasm]

anyway was that good? I don't think I ever finished it because of some crash

[spring abyss]

Yeah, the oblivion lost dudes that leave gsc to go work on metro

[spring abyss]

No, kinda goofy and slow paced but you should look for yourself the opinions are mixed

[delicate chasm]

i'm trying to remember some more old niche FPS games that i played

[spring abyss]

Delta force?

[delicate chasm]

never played that

but i just remembered Spec Ops series for Playstation One. Man that was a vibe.

[spring abyss]

You should friend even to this day it still cool

He got the tatical vibe mixed with the arcade stuff "one man one army"

[delicate chasm]

Spec Ops: Airborne Commando was like a weird top-down action game, but hell I loved it

[spring abyss]

Looks cool
Another one is not that old but its cool the heart of evil mod for half life

[delicate chasm]

Looking into some PS1 games...

"One is a fast-paced shooter in which you play as an amnesiac with a gun arm on a mission to find out his identity. He attempts to discover the answer across six levels, and is constantly pursued by the police and military."

[spring abyss]

I really dunno this one lol hehe

Hey hey hey, look what i found
I was lookin for them: deadly dozen

The game is good, classic tatical fps ww2 whit perma death

The remake is not that great

[delicate chasm]

Might check it out actually

[spring abyss]

👍

[delicate chasm]

I'm just saying it sounds a lot like the basic concept of SoC mixed with CS lol

[spring abyss]

Imma go check

What is his name?

[dry imp]

Tampico

[spring abyss]

😎

[delicate chasm]

whose

[finite dragon]

you are gay

[dry imp]

can we get this man a

[hybrid barn]

Has there been a version of Stalker or Roadside Picnic or anything similar for a medieval fantasy setting like DnD?

[spring abyss]

You said too many funny words magic man

[edgy isle]

Stalker is literally a fantasy disguised as scifi

[hybrid barn]

Actually when I read the tabletop rpg of Stalker it said something like that , I can see it

[edgy isle]

So any fantasy with supernatural malformed monsters, magic traps and powerful artifacts is like stalker lol

Probably even a vanilla dnd could have a campaign that has almost everything that stalker has

[hybrid barn]

Actually reskinning a dungeon to have things like anomalies and artifacts and inorganisms. Trying to make them weird as hell and have no explanation how the physics or magic work. An arcana check even at a nat 20 would yield no answers except it’s nothing that you or anyone else would hear of. I think something that may be a trap would be to have the visitors visit and have a purpose of any sort

[edgy isle]

You can see some anomalies like immobile dumb elementals, sometimes they are mobile though

[hybrid barn]

I was considering having the “visitors” be Mindflayers or aliens tha were studying humans and dropped the artifacts to see what they’d do. But I think an interesting twist would be to have them just be regular mind flayer a that want to study humans. but the mind flayers had nothing to do with the artifacts or abnormalities and are as equally confused

[edgy isle]

Remember that ball lightning nearby yanov station that cruises back and forth inside a passenger train? Thats sort of electric wisp

[edgy isle]

Can some planes collision or convergence produce anomalous stuff?

[hybrid barn]

I think I’ll reskin elementals to be anomalies. I won’t name them at all and have the players come up with the names. They’ll be the first stalkers

[hybrid barn]

Huh. Idk, I think I want to have the Mindflayers act like “the institute” and they’re just studying the anomalies and humans who contact those. They can introduce the theories of what they think happened like in Roadside Picnic (earth was just a rest stop, maybe they dropped artifacts on purpose, maybe they’re still watching us in the zones)but I’ll never reveal the answer bc it doesn’t matter in the end

[hybrid barn]

Reskin wild magic maybe too

[edgy isle]

wizards in some castle tried to create portal into a plane full of mana and it flooded surrounding lands, changing it in unexpected ways. Yes that's retelling stalker story

[hybrid barn]

The game? I actually only am going thru Roadside Picnic now and read the rpg book. Haven’t event played the games at all

[delicate chasm]

i thought about that too lol

[delicate chasm]

That one's barely related. It's more based on the novel.

[untold stump]

strelo k

[silver pagoda]

Good morning Anomaly lovers

[pure sinew]

good morning

[steep fiber]

How is life fellow stalkers?

[soft lily]

Will there be a way to get Stalker 2 on steam while also getting the items from the physical ultimate edition? Or would I have to buy it for Xbox then also buy the digital ultimate edition?

[silver pagoda]

as far as I know the physical edition comes with a steam key

you can ask on the Ask-GSC channel to be sure

[soft lily]

I've been thinking of creating a DnD campaign based on stalker but it's medieval. All I really have are drawings

[silver pagoda]

warhammer x stalker crossover game when

[quaint niche]

first time playing clear sky

how do i get ak ammo?

i am at bandit mission:hold point until help arrives

i have heard that help will never arrive

[spring abyss]

1 find ak
2 unload ak
Now you have ak ammo 😎👍

[hazy helm]

Make a Homebrew of GURPS

[long harbor]

that's a glitch

they'll arrive soon enough, i promise. CS doesn't have the reputation for being the most bug-free game out there so just be patient

[hybrid barn]

Harkon collected artifacts. Was he a stalker?

[rugged scaffold]

they do arrive eventually but they usually take a really long time

i have experienced a glitch where they never arrive but i still get the reward for capturing the base even tho the bandits respawned so that may happen too

[west harbor]

is trapper's predator, fully upgraded, better than a fully upgraded spsa 14?

[hollow harbor]

I have a problem with SoC. I took a sidequest form a guy in the bar to take his historic rifle that he lost in the wild terithory and i can't find it i don't know if it's a bug or is it on the roof.

i have a video but i can't send it here

[glossy ore]

If I remember correctly it's underground in a tunnel

[hollow harbor]

how can i get there?

[glossy ore]

There's just an open tunnel near the crashed helicopter

[hollow harbor]

thanks man

ill check it out later

[valid pagoda]

bar has been renovated

[thick sundial]

oh god, bar²

[hazy helm]

why are all those GP5's hung up?

[dapper finch]

Is that a hundred rads rework?

[spring abyss]

It's a symbolism to the toxic mod community 😎

[dapper finch]

Snork trophies like the other animal heads?

[spring abyss]

Took off a snork mask gives bad luck, cut off a snork foot give good luck. Get real

[vernal magnet]

new Bar gives Deus Ex Mankind Divided Vibes

[finite summit]

does it?

[vernal magnet]

with the hanging fluorescents it sure does

[finite summit]

was it shown already(outside the concept arts)?

[spring abyss]

Looks great but it still rostok, or maybe that's a new area?

[hazy helm]

I dunno,I dont like the sheet metal scrap look,barkeep was always the kind of guy to have something nice imported from the mainland so he didnt need to sleep in the goddam zone

[vernal magnet]

it looks a bit too modern and flashy for my taste. old bar is the best bar. new one looks like its made for large population

[hazy helm]

beard would be a better fit

[vernal magnet]

the new image was shown back during Ukraines STALKER food market reveal.

it was a vinyl on the wall

[finite summit]

it's just a concept art

[hardy bear]

Do we know who’s making the music for the game? The soundtrack so far has been great and im curious if they have any other works

[spring abyss]

It kinda reminds me metro

[finite summit]

I'm not even sure if it was made by gsc and not the store designers

[hazy helm]

old bar was old but you could look and see that the part where barkeep was in was very well treated with nice wood and decorations most likely imported from the mainland,this looks more like a skadovsk bar

[vernal magnet]

true but i doubt it stays a concept

[vernal magnet]

agreed

[dapper finch]

Maybe more of Rostok was reclaimed so the Bar was able to expand into new premises

[dapper finch]

Sponsored by triangles

[vernal magnet]

true but GSC did just officially reveal it for bartenders day

[upbeat orchid]

Hi guys

[still ridge]

I bet it’s literally concept art

it’s not like it’s a screenshot or anything lol

[vernal magnet]

I wonder if "Black Stalker" will be a drink available ingame

also nice obscure reference to the old black stalker

[still ridge]

The psuedodog heads look huge

[silver pagoda]

Any team looking for teammates for anomaly vs OG arguements?

[hazy helm]

Go look in Reddit,I'm sure you'll find poor sods there

[silver pagoda]

[hazy helm]

Hahahahaaaaaa

[silver pagoda]

[radiant remnant]

Fellas, what do you think about a "going to the bathroom" mechanic? I placed it in suggestions, but I want to know what you guys think

[hazy helm]

[silver pagoda]

kinda useless not gonna lie

[radiant remnant]

HOW DARE YOU

[silver pagoda]

bruh nobody wants to play a game and go to the toilet lol

[radiant remnant]

but it's so important

like... mutants can track you if you decide to dump in the wild parts of the zone

[silver pagoda]

you can go play SCUM if you want useless overbloated additions like that ahhaahaha

[radiant remnant]

I can just play anomaly if I want useless junk in my inventory

but this is a way to offload weight, you see? Quite the opposite of useless!

[silver pagoda]

what does selling junk for money has to do with going to a toilet in a video game xD

[radiant remnant]

junk doesn't add dimension, while pooping does

[silver pagoda]

nah, selling junk existed in games as a way of making small income for a long time

but you are obvious trolling so gg

[radiant remnant]

think about it.... it takes "getting caught with your pants down" to a dimension never seen before

mmmm maybe not trolling for the sake of trolling, but having fun, yes!

My intention isn't to bother anyone, rather just have a laugh

[silver pagoda]

its all good man this is not a social justice discord

[icy plover]

that fat bxstard had upgrade his bar from our hard earn money

[hazy helm]

That's a downgrade not an upgrade

[silver pagoda]

that concept looks good, are we sure its 100 rads?

[hazy helm]

Most likely not,like in the S2011 concept art they used any model really to gauge the height,it's most likely what's happening here,this should be a new location with a new story I bet

[blissful bluff]

F*cringe clear sky! spits at clear sky rookie

[hazy helm]

what are you doing bro...

[radiant remnant]

Chad Clear Sky:
-Secret society vibes
-Actually made it to the CNPP
-blue camo helps blend with sky when on watchtowers

virgin Renegades:
-Exist solely because Clear Sky need something to shoot
-Have no real base
-Never left the swamps

[spring abyss]

Wow faction wars

[blissful bluff]

Want to talk dolga sh*t about my people Nd my swamps u guys were so scared of the CNPP u sent a rookie merc to do ur dirty work heh can't even do ur own job without needing to bum lick

[radiant remnant]

Oh yeah?

That rookie merc really gave you some memorable pew pews if I recall correctly

he single handedly wiped most of you out!

[blissful bluff]

Makes sense why u disbanded after CS u just end up an bum locking loner like little nimble in skadovsk

[radiant remnant]

Look, per GenZ, licking bums is fine

right down the crack, So I don't thin that's an insult

[blissful bluff]

Pipe

cough cough

chokes on crack pipe freedom said was good painkiller

[radiant remnant]

did Renegade just die?

[blissful bluff]

Hmmm

[radiant remnant]

plz no die. U was good stalker. Without renegade, Clear Sky just boring nerds in swamp

[blissful bluff]

Idk about u but in anomoly I've decided to be leader of the renegades and now I can run a 5 man squad around pripyat outskirts may the renegades rise again

[cobalt nexus]

Renegades are bandits with better guns. They die a little slower but have better loot.

[finite dragon]

whirligigs are fun

[cobalt nexus]

What’s a whirligig?

[hazy helm]

bruh

[spring abyss]

[cobalt nexus]

I just looked it up. We have a few at home. I’m nearly 40 and am still learning the English language

[finite dragon]

im talking about the anomaly

[spring abyss]

Get out now pls

[cobalt nexus]

🤦‍♂️

[finite dragon]

i tricked a group of zombies into a whirligig anomaly and they exploded

[cobalt nexus]

This is why I’m starting over with the original games. I don’t know shit about anything

[celest edge]

anyone have those cool animal soldiers posted from the other day?

[native ibex]

Think this game will run on anything but SLI 4090s?

I know, SLI doesnt exist anymore, but, go along with it

[sleek tundra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9BcEKBNP0A

Nikolai is back!!!

[soft lily]

[cobalt nexus]

Being on Unreal engine 5 will mean it will run well on a wide range of hardware. They are going to have to make it run on a Xbox series S for example.

[native ibex]

I see, I see

[native ibex]

But I heard Hogwarts Legacy runs kinda doodoo on PC

[cobalt nexus]

That’s a Unreal 4 game. Probably runs like crap on PC because it’s a console game.

[native ibex]

For shame

At least some devs respect the enthusiast's hardware

[cobalt nexus]

Yeah some games are made for consoles then ported to PC and others like Stalker 2 are a PC game from the ground up

[native ibex]

But, anyway, I just built a new rig after seven years and the difference in Spider-Man 2018 was astounding. Stuttered anytime I saw too much of the city before, now looking down from the ESB is smooth as butter

[cobalt nexus]

Nice. Sometimes a decent CPU, Fast Memory and SSD can do more than a gpu upgrade

I already have a fairly decent system but will probably get a new gpu just for Stalker 2.

[native ibex]

Just hope it arrives and is well-received

[cobalt nexus]

It’s already my Game of the Year

[hazy helm]

depends on the skills of the coders and developers,as well as the quality of their code

like sure,the engine is good,but that means nothing if you cant write code for sh

[spring abyss]

Literally me at work
-simple code on python
-6 hours of debug
Profit 😎👍

[cobalt nexus]

Fair.

[limpid salmon]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general = #💬┃en_offtop

[nimble pecan]

Just a question, on vanilla SoC, Skinflint sells 7.62x54Rmm? I couldn't find it specifically in wiki, but i saw someone mentioning that Freedom sells it.

[limpid salmon]

check all traders, they usually never change the stuff they sell

[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" ☢️

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

Tracks added in the catalogue as of today:
2️⃣7️⃣1️⃣

[spring abyss]

I care

[spring abyss]

Keep up the good work 👍

[solid dome]

Is this advertisement at all? You advertise paid products, not Google documents, lol. You be trollin'.

[solid dome]

Yey, thanks, boss.

[dry imp]

good work

can we get this man a

[solid dome]

If you don't like this, don't post about it. Simple as that. Some people appreciate good choons.

[spring abyss]

Lol i think he block me

[dry imp]

aint no way bro

💀

[spring abyss]

I can't react his stuff he blocked me, what a loser kkkkkk

This whole discord exist to advertising stalker 2
Get real

[solid dome]

Get real, yeah. You are free to block people if you don't like em, hit that red button. 👍

[spring abyss]

-Don't care
-Keep complaining

Hummm amogus
🤨

[worthy lagoon]

That is okay, it's not advertisement

It's just a project for the community

[outer lichen]

[dry imp]

so true bro you dont care at all

[finite dragon]

@exotic hare

BOO! you suck

[dry imp]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-sad-emoji-gif-22168442

what.

bro im definitely older than you, you're literally 15

you're fumbling on your keyboard spelling things wrong in anger

bro pay attention in class get off your phone

he blocked me

[orchid kiln]

Strelok is hot and cool n all but snorkussy is just devious

[vestal herald]

Hi guys, i've got a story question?

[cobalt nexus]

If one must play Anomaly then Old World is the only mod you need. It removes the wank out of it.

[vestal herald]

When i came out of the lab i needed to go into for the strelok lead, i've got no quests?

[spring abyss]

Welcome to the club

[dry imp]

but it unfortunately still is anomaly so it gets pretty boring

[spring abyss]

Try call of chernokyl, it Got zap, sylky, shaman all the smash bros favorite characters plus warfare

[cobalt nexus]

I like how old world removes a lot of the bloat from the item pool

[orchid kiln]

Killed some bandits felt cute might get drunk with Sid later

[pseudo rivet]

Returning to the quest giver is your safest bet

[orchid kiln]

@sleek needle I just entered Darkspace thats super weird

[sleek needle]

What weird?

[orchid kiln]

You knew my location

[sleek needle]

Click your Dc profile or mine

[orchid kiln]

oh heck

[sleek needle]

Weird ?

[orchid kiln]

imma go back to finding Strelok now bye

[hazy helm]

why did you ask here if you were playing anomaly all along?

[sleek needle]

Anyone know where I can find Major Degtyarov

[hazy helm]

yhea,in the anomaly server

[worthy lagoon]

w h a t....

[dry imp]

in my house (we're playing cards together)

[polar osprey]

Bread

[limpid salmon]

"bread"

[orchid kiln]

Bred*

[sleek needle]

Bread

[orchid kiln]

Bred* Dont let Clear Sky brainwash you

[tawny shale]

Do you guys know where I can find Sidorovich? ...in Anomaly?

[orchid kiln]

No Doc you will never find the Sidmiester

Also found my first Artifact called the dragons eye IM SO HAPPY

imma give it to strelok as a gift

[solid dome]

Then why are you bothering everyone with your hate?

[orchid kiln]

Moron*

So I'm currently in lab X18 ran into it while a Psy storm was happening killed a bunch of DOOTIES and now I'm fully in with only a boomstick a pistol some cigs for stress and 10 bottles of Cossacks finest I think I have an awesome chance my armour is at 3 do you guys think I should do it FOR STRELOK!?

[delicate chasm]

Why can't I react to his messages lol

I wasn't even a part of this conversation

[spring abyss]

He blocked you too

Welcome to the club we got cakes

[orchid kiln]

I wish I could be blocked:(

[delicate chasm]

Why??

I literally JUST got here

[spring abyss]

I really dunno, i only said two lines and he blocked me

[orchid kiln]

He sensed you

[delicate chasm]

The dude doesn't even know me lmfao

That is so funny

[orchid kiln]

He's like a snork

[delicate chasm]

his avatar is so fitting of the behaviour lol

yo @spring abyss where do i get the different user campaigns for RealRTCW?

I thought they'd be with the mod already but I guess I have to search the workshop?

[spring abyss]

I really dunno bro 😔

[delicate chasm]

nvm i answered my own question as usual

[spring abyss]

Also i was looking on deadly dozen it's junky but fun, it's squad based, but you squad mate die, you lost him for the rest of the game and you can't use his especial abilities anymore

For a ww2 fps it's kinda a good mechanic, like a extra hard brothers in arms

[delicate chasm]

It is similar to Spec Ops on PS actually

[spring abyss]

Yeah, but it's on ww2

[finite dragon]

god took a break and trying to finish CoP but left in the middle of CoP and forgot how to get al the documents in the walkthrough I was using about to start x8 over

been at this hump for too long idky x8 stresses me out

[spring abyss]

Why? I hate the stuff flying and hit me but tha is bc theres a poltergeist in the upperfloor, go there and kill him, also theres alot of burers on that lab throwing stuffs on you

[finite dragon]

well mostly because I left for a while and did x8 but didn't do that one sniper quest first so redid it

wtf also how do i kill this asshole

[soft lily]

just pre ordered the collectors edition from german amazon pray for me lol