⭐┃nospoilers_general

[midnight tiger]

"I'm ten? WELL YOURE FIVE!"

[knotty finch]

This meme is boring as heck

[worn oar]

I meant it in a good way! Some ppl don't really experience the game just because of the save system you know haha I had my friends forced to play it at some point in a way, just by heavily recommending it but they all failed to experience it cuz they kept being killed by the rookie bandits lol

[dry imp]

thats me

[knotty finch]

Hey u used a meme that is a little bit better but not much

[dry imp]

i go for one taps and flickshots

[hazy helm]

wiat what,I thought most ppl prefered a hard and quick save system

[midnight tiger]

Eww

[dry imp]

then use 13 bandages

[midnight tiger]

Imagine not playing STALKER like it's Escape from Tarkov

[hazy helm]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/928584270094684180/1086976276847411200/TVhead_Default.gif

[worn oar]

Perhaps this is the first time this Freedumb supporter agrees with something I said I love that haha we should be friends haha

[knotty finch]

Man if I was Rich I would ban the game from anywhere I'm at

[hazy helm]

friendship starts in the most interesting of places doesnt it

[midnight tiger]

I'll try not to shoot you on my next patrol 🤝

[knotty finch]

If I get the game I probably just play it once and hate it that way to anyways just saying

[hazy helm]

why are you still here

[midnight tiger]

Plot twist: protogen is actually a monolith member and this is one big psyop

[worn oar]

Oh Vasim, you don't really know that our kind is pretty much scarce lol! I saw ppl screaming out of fear after the first bloodsucker encounter lol then smash the damn quit button

[knotty finch]

You keep talking about how I should play it but I probably won't just saying lol

[dry imp]

you're terrible at trolling lmao

[knotty finch]

No f that side

[hazy helm]

I dont know who said that,but I wont say much to a poor trolling attempt

[hazy helm]

most just join for the drip

[midnight tiger]

S L A V A M O N O L I T A

[hazy helm]

I should play more Marathon 1

[worn oar]

Not that you can but I appreciate the gesture. I'll radio my patrol soldiers to spare you if you ever cross path with them hehe

[hazy helm]

I rly should

[midnight tiger]

New Marathon is dropping

[knotty finch]

Why would I join that useless side that protects the scientist that started it

[midnight tiger]

It's ok I'm usually busy fighting Monolith instead of duty anyways

[midnight tiger]

You know an awful lot for never playing the game

[hazy helm]

yhea,it looks like a generic minimalist cyberpunk mess of a game
basically a new IP that needs to wear the mask of the old bc it cant stand on its own

hope its good

[dry imp]

like i said he's bad at trolling

[knotty finch]

Because I can just look stuff up about it or watch crap about it

[dry imp]

why do that if you clearly dont care?

[worn oar]

This is getting boring haha the guy is not just a troll, he's a bot ffs

[dry imp]

you make zero sense my friend. you're wasting time on something you dont care about

go get a job

you have too much time on your hands

[knotty finch]

If I was a bit my username would have a bot thing by it

[midnight tiger]

Probably true but I can hope

[dry imp]

haha sure thing lil guy

vasim recommend me another mod

[midnight tiger]

How bout armored core 6 boys?

[hazy helm]

I mean,the ARG just shows that it is only like tangentially related and that they want to distance themselves from it to do their own thing with the only similarities being some names for lore shills to endlessly waffle on about
but yhea,I am trating it as a new IP and I dont even have a lot of hope due to how middling it looks,hope its good tho,Id rather have good games rather than bad one

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/moist-critical-gif-18538102

yes

[dry imp]

wow ignored by vasim

[midnight tiger]

@knotty finch my other favorite series besides STALKER: dark souls

[hazy helm]

whatve you played

thats new

[midnight tiger]

I bet you don't like dark souls either lmao

[dry imp]

nothing

[midnight tiger]

Play L.U.R.K. mod for ShoC

[knotty finch]

Dark souls sounds better than this

[hazy helm]

try The Messenger or AlternativA

[dry imp]

neat. ill probably forget

[midnight tiger]

I remember the wild west of mods, before CoC and now Gamma and all

[hazy helm]

they still exist,do you understand russian tho

[knotty finch]

Dark souls I would try

[hazy helm]

is the main question

[midnight tiger]

Unfortunately not

[knotty finch]

Dark souls is a bit similar to some other games I played before

[hazy helm]

well I guess youll have to stick to the machine translations and the translations

they are pretty damn good

[dry imp]

dark souls has brainwashing

[knotty finch]

Then I won't play it

[dry imp]

[worn oar]

Sounds he said, did you even play super Mario?

[midnight tiger]

The entire human race is brainwashed in dark souls lmao

[dry imp]

mario has brainwashing

[knotty finch]

Then I won't play it

[midnight tiger]

Mario: mushroom trip simulator

[dry imp]

what games have you played lmao

[worn oar]

The Nokia snake game lol

[knotty finch]

Minecraft Roblox halo racing games

[dry imp]

halo has brainwashing

[knotty finch]

Many racing games

[worn oar]

It also has brainwashing

[sturdy zodiac]

Roblox is brainwashing

[dry imp]

actually the main plot point of halo is the fact that the covenant was brainwashed

[midnight tiger]

VIDEO GAMES ARE BRAINWASHING

[worn oar]

The whole gaming industry is a brainwashing simulator

[midnight tiger]

Ya the Elites were pretty pissed when they realized

[hazy helm]

and isnt the Flood a hive mind parasite like entitiy that takes over ppls body?

[knotty finch]

Halo does not have brain washing if it doesn't have the flood

[dry imp]

yeah

[hazy helm]

you could say they brainwash ppl and control them

[knotty finch]

And the one I have don't have them

[dry imp]

no the covenant was a brainwashed cult 💀

[midnight tiger]

The prophets were literally trying to make everyone drink the electric koolaid

[dry imp]

also i don't understand whats wrong with brainwashing in video games. its interesting

[midnight tiger]

Ya it makes you think

Which photogenic obviously doesn't do often

[dry imp]

man he wouldn't like Spec Ops The Line

[midnight tiger]

Protogen *

[midnight tiger]

insert deathklok brutal meme

[hazy helm]

that wasnt brainwashing it simply was schizophrenia and PTSD

[knotty finch]

Ok you are blocked then so this drama don't go on

[midnight tiger]

Lmao wut

[hazy helm]

why are you still here dude

go touch grass

youll feel better

[dry imp]

you're literally here to cause drama you dumbass. literally leave you dont want to be here

[dry imp]

that game messed me up for like a week

[midnight tiger]

I've just been taking the piss this whole time

[dry imp]

hit hard

[midnight tiger]

I thrive on effed up stuff. I have issues

[dry imp]

im scared to play it again

[hazy helm]

mhe,it was fun but it felt really condescending when the game clearly wants to be played but calls you a bad person for doing so anyway

[midnight tiger]

STALKER and dark souls being my favorite games says something

[dry imp]

but the gameplay was really fun

[hazy helm]

same thing I felt with Far Cry 3

[dry imp]

far cry 3 wasn't as bad

[hazy helm]

like hooo you couldve stopped before it got too bad

but dude,if I had stopped,the game wouldnt be a thing

[knotty finch]

Plus don't like that one side cuts someone head off and puts it on a stick

[midnight tiger]

Dark souls was chad because everyone is an asshole

[worn oar]

My head .. I'm feeling brain damage

[dry imp]

shut up

[worn oar]

Brainwashing *

[hazy helm]

*taking your brain out and washing all the wrinkles away

[dry imp]

smoth an cute brane :33

[worn oar]

I mean if I do that, I doubt anything would be left in that skull of mine xD

[hazy helm]

le smooth

[worn oar]

Vasim oh Vasim, aside from wrinkles what else do we have up there

[dry imp]

duty doesn't need brains. we need brawn

why do you need to think when you can just beat them to death

[midnight tiger]

Explains a lot tbh

[worn oar]

We are programmed bro, we shoot mutants, freedumbs and monoliths

[hazy helm]

it has the brainwashing soup and the PTSD cleanse of course

[worn oar]

Brainwashing* I mean hahah

[midnight tiger]

Duty? Fighting monolith? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀💀

[dry imp]

freedom? fighting anyone??? 💀💀💀💀

[knotty finch]

To be honest if I played it I would shot the one's that protect the scientist

[dry imp]

shut up

[midnight tiger]

Ironic coming from lazy ass dutyers

We went from trolling the troll back to classic freedom vs duty rivalry

[dry imp]

lazy? tf you mean freedomers are the embodiment if lazyness

[worn oar]

Yes, their own shadows just in the back room of the freedumb chef quarters

[dry imp]

they dont do anything

[midnight tiger]

That's where you're wrong, kiddo

[dry imp]

dutiers have organization and roles

[hazy helm]

meanwhile they conduct research and protect their own patches

[midnight tiger]

That's where you're wrong, kiddo

[hazy helm]

duty does roughly the same actually

[dry imp]

freedom just sits around picking their noses

[hazy helm]

@dry imphttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1QDvkDa5u2pxREzlykCrleEGfkLRzbQay_9HxZxU8bds/edit#

[midnight tiger]

We literally hold monolith back lmao

[dry imp]

guh

[worn oar]

Freedumbbbb* don't say freedom ever again! The only free thing they have is that morning pee after vodka night

[midnight tiger]

Freedumb and doody

[midnight tiger]

At least I'm not smelly

[hazy helm]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561153801114091521/937103159275446302/image0-8.gif

[dry imp]

you smell of weed

[midnight tiger]

That's objectively a good smell

[dry imp]

but fr i stored it in my archives

[dry imp]

no it's not. weed is a terrible smell

[midnight tiger]

Only people that actually reek of weed be hotboxing

Not to get on a tangent but it'd surprise you all the different people that smoke weed legally here lol

[worn oar]

Look at you man, you barely holding a troll xD. I mean like it was an option? The barrier is there just to protect your freedumbass/s ignore the invading Monolith and you all end up bloodsuckers soop

[midnight tiger]

Meanwhile duty sits on their asses in the bar and don't do shit

I guess we are even xD

[dry imp]

they dont lmao. nearly everyone in the bar is loners

[supple bay]

Bar is duty headquarters

[dry imp]

the bar is not

[supple bay]

the area around it is

[dry imp]

they have their own building

[supple bay]

The entire area is referred to as "bar"

[dry imp]

no its not 💀

[supple bay]

Take one look at the map please

[hazy helm]

the rostok factory had their base in it

LA map

[midnight tiger]

It's semantics lol

[hazy helm]

not the saem as the bar

[dry imp]

my man you're bad a trolling

[midnight tiger]

Point is loners have themselves said how duty doesn't do shit xD

[hazy helm]

they had a presence in the bar but the Rostok Factory is a different much bigger map

[supple bay]

Im not trolling. Rostok is divided in two sections: Wild Territory and Bar

[dry imp]

💀

i give up

[supple bay]

The skull emoji is not a valid argument

[hazy helm]

neither of whcih have Duty's base,in release,Duty is using a side location in Bar as a foward base

[midnight tiger]

Freedom wins

[supple bay]

The real duty base is the bathroom in lab x18

[midnight tiger]

It was entirely a strawman of what I was talking about anyways

[hazy helm]

this is LA's Rostok Factory map,where duty's HQ is in LA

where Lab X14 also is

I need to go back to LA

[sturdy zodiac]

just wait for LA Gunslinger in 3000 years from now

[hazy helm]

I would never download such a monstrosity

so it fits that its never actually coming out

[sturdy zodiac]

[hazy helm]

besides

Im Playing LA1.30003
all they do is use LADC

[worn oar]

Bro thinks duty are only in rostok xD I mean it's true that our faction kinda slept for a while due to the center being blocked by psi emissions but you can never deny that we are one of the zone most renoun faction! Duty is better trained, organized, and decently equipped. Freedumbs are just too shady and too anarchic

[worn oar]

Wrong! Bar is for stalkers and guarded by duty! The rostok area is duty territory and it holds the HQ

[worn oar]

Rostok factory! The bar is just half of it.

[midnight tiger]

Freedomers aren't a bunch of gangsters lol we aren't just leveled up bandits

Duty is at odds with the Zone and Freedom wants to understand the Zone, as especially after all the happenings, the zone isn't going away lol

[worn oar]

You kinda are. You just don't ambush loners for goodies that's it! I can call you ethical and better equipped bandits

[hazy helm]

I mean both want to understand the zone simply for different objectives
duty is an interesting bunch bc they are mediates,they want to cleanse the zone not completely destroy it

[midnight tiger]

And that would make Duty washed up military has beens

We need a Shaman mod

[hazy helm]

Would be real cool yhea

[worn oar]

Understand is not quite the world you should use? Exploit? Yes bingooo

[hazy helm]

Bu that would also kind of ruon the fun

Shammans are cool bc they arent really explained and not many know about them

[midnight tiger]

True

[midnight tiger]

Duty propaganda

[worn oar]

The point of duty existence is to hold the zone from expanding. The only reason that we are against each other is that you freedumbs can't see that exploiting the zone might not be all rainbows and sunshine. Taking an anomalous objects out to the world is dangerous and you guys simply don't give an f

[midnight tiger]

You realize we have scientists and shit too right?

[worn oar]

Cut content kinda gave some legitimacy back in the days. Artifact activation for instance,

[midnight tiger]

What you explained is literally loners lol

[hazy helm]

no duty enables what you are saying against,Duty helps and facilitates the scientists endeavours which puts artifacts outside the zone

[worn oar]

Freedumb makes more sense with each argument haha

[hazy helm]

and many of tghese artifacts then go on to be studied outside the Ukrainian scientists eyes

Freedom simply studies these items and publicises their findings to the world

as well as direclty doing contributions to outside investigations and works

[worn oar]

For studying not for selling in black markets ? Unlike freedumbs I mean

[midnight tiger]

So that the world knows the reality instead of just being in the dark about a very dangerous area

[worn oar]

And mercs, they do the same I give you that

[hazy helm]

both do the same tbh,and they also sell on the black market a small fraction

[midnight tiger]

F dem mercs doe

[midnight tiger]

This is why I love STALKERs factions so much lol

[worn oar]

okay vasim haha your neutrality is frightening

[midnight tiger]

Neither faction is entirely right or entirely wrong

[midnight tiger]

The one thing he is halfway on my side about lol

[worn oar]

Okay, a second thing we can agree on. See? We are getting well

[hazy helm]

the only truly good faction is dead and they were also oclusionist assholes
render yourself to Brigada Larpers

[worn oar]

That's true! But the lesser evil wins xd

[hazy helm]

none are evil,they are simply different

[midnight tiger]

Except bandits, all my homies hate bandits

[worn oar]

Bandits left the server

[midnight tiger]

I mean there is honestly an argument to be made for Monolith and the c-con

[hazy helm]

they were honeslty better in OL renditions since the rock was an actual alien artifact that crashed on earth

GSC needs to bring back the Warcraft 2000 Schizo Energy for Stalker 2

[supple bay]

what are OL renditions

[midnight tiger]

That would have been crazy, straight up Roadside Picnic lol

[hazy helm]

Oblivion Lost

[supple bay]

what is that

[hazy helm]

Oblivion Lost was the project that was gonna be made but then turned into Stalker SoC
it was HEAVELY different

REALLY REALLY different

the Documents were leaked so we have a pretty good idea of what it was supposed to be

[worn oar]

I pity them to an extent tbh

[supple bay]

Hl2 beta leak but its stalker

[midnight tiger]

One could argue they were trying to do the right thing

Well I mean monolith is just the pawns

[worn oar]

Brainwashed soldiers do kinda feel tragic

[midnight tiger]

STALKER zombie moment

[worn oar]

The ones who didn't give in to the call ended up an image of their last thoughts

Empty vessels murmuring their last words over and over again

[sterile scroll]

Yo how to make Loki from CoP trust me into accepting Strider and his monolith friends

[hazy helm]

do favours and butter up to freedom

[supple bay]

Just do stuff for him until he likes you

[worn oar]

Loki is the only freedumb I respect

[hazy helm]

"stuff"

[worn oar]

Paradox is getting some that too

[midnight tiger]

You need to finish the ashot mission

[worn oar]

If we keep agreeing we might as well end the faction war after all

https://tenor.com/view/so-good-wink-smile-oh-yeah-its-true-gif-24163876

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/so-good-wink-smile-oh-yeah-its-true-gif-24163876

[midnight tiger]

Forget duty and freedom rivalry, we teaming up against Monolith and mercs

[worn oar]

Yes, the zone will fall to its knees

[midnight tiger]

Imagine all that we could achieve if we teamed up

Two biggest factions besides monolith and loners

[worn oar]

I mean I wouldn't be surprised if the zone had knees after all the radiation exposure

[worn oar]

Too bad devs won't allow it haha

But yes, we'd be the new power in the zone

[sterile scroll]

The one where you JFK the Mercenaries

Or which one

[midnight tiger]

I was trolling, it's a mission where you run back and forth between two characters. And the mission never actually ends

[sterile scroll]

Wait fr?

Is endless?

[midnight tiger]

Ya it's a troll mission

[sterile scroll]

Damn

But how is loyalty scored? Cuz I was thinking of doing 1 or 2 high loyalty reward missions and then try to convince the mf

[worn oar]

Goodwill is scored when you do tasks for a particular faction, heal their wounded and help their warriors in fights

[sterile scroll]

But how can I see it on my PDA

[worn oar]

You can't! You'll just know when they turn green in the map haha

[sterile scroll]

Oh

[midnight tiger]

Isn't there some sort of reputation screen?

[narrow tartan]

So, does the ISG still canonically exist?

[hazy helm]

ISG was never in cannon neither did it exist

there were some models in a CS generators alpha once and that was it

[narrow tartan]

Ok, I was just wondering because Nimble in COP sells weapons from a failed UN expedition.

[hazy helm]

waht?

where is taht said

[worn oar]

Not in vanilla

[narrow tartan]

I was reading his wiki page and it talked about it there.

[hazy helm]

that was banter,I wouldn't put much faith in that tbh,since he doesnt sell stuff from deceased or looted bodies
there is only one and one only record of a mainland expedition to the zone and that was when a group of mainland scientists went into the zone and got whalloped so hard before going into the center that the entirety of the mainland scientists has been scared of going into the zone ever since

[supple bay]

I dont get it

All it takes is 24 men to beat the entire zone, including the military, into submission

[hazy helm]

the mainland scientists went out with big dicks,3 APC's,a small military detachement and some guides,but they were ambushed rather early by a group of bandits and never made it past the red forest,the only survivors were the 2 guides and a scientist that went crazy and was put in a mental institution

[supple bay]

How is the red forest "early"

they made it like 4/5 of the way through the zone. Hell they were practically on monolith territory and almost to pripyat

[hazy helm]

its what they say,so you can imagine that red forest is relatively early in north

[supple bay]

Red forest is super lategame. They got far

And how in the hell did a group of bandits destroy 3 APCs and a military detachement

[hazy helm]

in what we see from the games yes,but the zone is larger

[supple bay]

What I wanna know is, how did a group of toz wielding bandits take down a military detachment

[midnight tiger]

Cheeki breeki

That is all

[hazy helm]

@supple bayhere read it

misremebered the rotten forest for red forest dammit

[supple bay]

Where is the rotten forest

[hazy helm]

tahts the thing,dunno

you can say rotten is an adjective he uses in disdain and he means the forest,and that we can assume it is the red forerst,but they also say the expedition was a complete failure being defeated rather south so

[supple bay]

and what is the spiker

[hazy helm]

🤷‍♂️

[dry imp]

the rot

[dry imp]

the rot is coming

[eternal fulcrum]

We must venture to the earth mother as the rot consumes

[oblique thistle]

Scarlet rot forest

[civic lava]

you literally want anomaly, play now

[midnight tiger]

A crossover I'd love

[ivory portal]

Just got the trilogy series downloading them now so I’ll be ready for stalker 2

[solid dome]

Remember. Only if it comes out.

[midnight tiger]

The originals are based af anyways

[solid dome]

Originals suck

[midnight tiger]

You suck

[solid dome]

I wear socks

[finite dragon]

Originals could have been good as Anomaly but they made them wrong

[solid dome]

👆

Trash bullet physics, trash combat, poor voice acting, what else I forget? @finite dragon

[finite dragon]

There's a plot, that part sucks too

[solid dome]

Seven endings? Which trigger what? Nothing

Get lost, dude. You call that story writing.

[finite dragon]

how dare they try to make a game better than the original and better game that is Anomaly

[finite dragon]

should I play OLR VoA on my macbook potato

[pearl jacinth]

totally

[oblique thistle]

CS is underrated

[pearl jacinth]

true

[finite dragon]

are you just saying yes to everything

[pearl jacinth]

a hundred percent

yes!

[finite dragon]

have you actually played olr

[pearl jacinth]

no!

[oblique thistle]

What's OLR

[finite dragon]

so you are a liar

[pearl jacinth]

i just want you to run it on your ancient laptop for the funnies

[finite dragon]

stalker an old game and this is an alpha mod

it runs soc fine, maybe even CS havent tried

[pearl jacinth]

oh wait that stands for oblivion lost remake,, yeah i know what oblivion lost is

these damn acronyms are confusing sometimes lol

[finite dragon]

i guess the VoA repace is supposed to be the juice and yes it is, i cant believe how much time peoplke have spent playing STALKER mods

[pearl jacinth]

tfw i ask someone if they like stalker and they say "yes! i love (the current misery evolution)!"

going back in time to show the creator of that mod the horrors that would become

[finite dragon]

im just starting to play them a bit, honestly fuk anomaly ofc but I get why english speaking people play it as a popular mod (not the part where people don't play the originals ofc) - stalker mods are a really confusing and esoteric thing unless you're like slav and have been following stalker since 2010

[pearl jacinth]

wym theyre confusing??? just catch up with the past 20 years of community that has happened

its not too hard, just a lot of reading...

[finite dragon]

lol okay ill play ogsr and then olr voa and then will try and nlc 2.5 and several soups

[pearl jacinth]

but at the same time not many people bother doing that

[pearl jacinth]

stalker soup very yummy

[finite dragon]

was the music in olr from the actual alpha, lol it's funny

im kind of down to play this, just played You are Empty and the Paranoia HL mod, this is a good jank follow up

[oblique thistle]

I made the mistake of buying CS from gog games few years ago

[finite dragon]

counter-strike is on steam only i thought

[finite dragon]

Hello everyone. How are you doing?

[solid dome]

Go waste yourself with your Valve trash.

[solid dome]

👆

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[finite dragon]

I liked 1.5 and 1.6 some but did not like the vintar or scar switching to terrorist in dust in csgo

[toxic solstice]

litterally every other valve franchise is better than cs and dota

portal, half life, left 4 dead, team fortress

[finite dragon]

unironically CS (especially the original at the time) was good, i never cared about about tf myself or l4d and I also think it's rere to compare SP to MP games

[balmy hound]

Taking some time to play Wind of Time. It's been a while I haven't played Stalker after all. Any feedback ?

[oblique thistle]

Clear sky stupid not counter strike i don't play that shit

I ain't wasting money on some digital knife

I don't like Counter strike

[hardy bear]

how long would it normally take you to finish soc?

[gilded sentinel]

30 days

Without 0

[lunar basin]

In Call of Pripyat unmodded, I find little artifacts after an emission, I do know that there is a 15% chance for it to spawn and so how long should I sleep for them to spawn?

[patent cargo]

Hi

Stalker 2?

[still nymph]

what was the announcement about

[errant orbit]

What's all this then

[still nymph]

some arg or something?

[hardy bear]

I can't quite figure out what it's saying I won't lie

[hoary timber]

wha

[still nymph]

same

google translate moment

[solid burrow]

Looks like it

[hardy bear]

maybe it's some kind of multiplayer event?

bring people in to play the multiplayer modes of previous titles

[hazy helm]

cant say anything till tomorrow

[solid burrow]

[hazy helm]

[errant orbit]

Fight club

[solid burrow]

[glossy blade]

server activity starting on Wednesday

[errant orbit]

[solid burrow]

[hardy bear]

neato

[hazy helm]

clueless

[still nymph]

i dont get it? so its supposed to be an arg? release date maybe? probably mid 2024 im guessing.

[solid burrow]

One of the Discord things of all time

[hazy helm]

Its a discord activity

Not an ARG

Thank the heavens above

[still nymph]

no release date 😦

i am THIRSTY i NEEED this game man PLEASE

[hazy helm]

Wait then

[solid burrow]

Can't blame them for being a little too distracted at the moment for a concrete release date

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-yoda-patience-sw3-gif-21070142

Extra dev time is nice but don't assume that it alone makes a good game

Plenty of games have gone through development hell or constant delays and still turned out crap

[hardy bear]

skull and bones :|

[solid burrow]

womp womp

Can't say I do

[still nymph]

i understand but you gotta admit a release date would be mad zesty

[solid burrow]

A bold claim

[carmine girder]

Best flash game

s+

[solid burrow]

[oblique thistle]

The last stand

Idk about you guys but i rarely play flash games, when i was a kid i would hop on my dad's computer and opened the Paint app

[west oar]

are they going to release this game or just keep posting cringe?

[wet gust]

[prime spade]

yes, congratulations, they will now release something more unfinished and less refined than even your average 2022-2023 triple A game

[wise blaze]

how is what they posted cringe? thats a date to wait for is it not?

like thats reaaaaaalllly good news for now. it will be even better news, if they say worthwhile stuff in 2 days

[solid dome]

We did it before, couple times. GSC v SBC - Stalker Based Community

Sadly too much people involved and the server was going on and off at random times

Neverteless we fragged ourselves

[wise blaze]

ngl. I dont understand this opinion. Id rather a bad game now that will be fixed by the time it would be delayed to than a game that will be delayed. if that makes sense

[nimble escarp]

The sooner it’s released the sooner modders can fix it

[wise blaze]

that is partly my thought

not that they should have to

hardly. look at any bethesda game ever. any mane others

if they fix it, whos to say it couldnt be GOTY (I doubt it, but cant tell the future)

if they fix redfall and it is actually good, few will care that it sucks now

a very liked game now

[hazy helm]

i wonder what your thoughts on stalker should be hhmmmmmm

[wise blaze]

well, according to "all reviews on steam" 227,000ish people

that doesnt even account for console and other retailers, and people who didnt review

[nimble escarp]

What

[wise blaze]

what relevance does that have?

reviews have no bearing on how many people currently play a game. perception has 0 to do with people actively playing. look at any old COD ever

your point appeared to be that first impressions matter, so a bad 1st impression means a disliked game. not an unplayed one a few years later

but, looking like 50,000 since dec of last year.

[hazy helm]

tell me do you know how to mod a UE5 game?

[nimble escarp]

Not a clue

[solid dome]

You too optimistic, mane

[wise blaze]

thats just reviews. player count is 136,000 recently in september. so disproves both ur points. unless you want to also say that STALKER is bad since there is less than 1500 people between 3 games

I dont understand

[wise blaze]

even pessimistically, that view still holds. cant mod a game that comes out 5 years from now

[hazy helm]

why do you expect mossing EU5 to be remotely similar to modding Stalker

[solid dome]

Our man is too damn optimistic modders can patch a badly made - broken - game

[wise blaze]

ah. yea. Im going in totality

I actually would argue specifically for cyberpunk, it wouldve been worse. people enjoyed the memes of it

[wise blaze]

he never claimed it would be?

[nimble escarp]

Pls remember to go outside and get fresh air

[hazy helm]

i should learn how to write better but

[wise blaze]

thats who im refering to tho

[hazy helm]

Modding will be heavely limited if not impossible at release by GSCs statement
And even when official modsing tools are offered dobt expect the world or what we already have,modding in Xray is like that due to its freedom of changing the engine and how leaked it was,it is impossible to do the same on UE5

[wise blaze]

and not cared about. even more if the DLC is good

[prime spade]

The modding crackheads have been modding on a 2007 engine, I’m sure they’ll survive

[solid dome]

@hazy helm Help me, have we ever had an UE5 game which was a total mess and modders jumped in the baot to save it from sinking?

[hazy helm]

many dont know
I expect many ppl will dogpile om GSC on launch due to them not knowing

[wise blaze]

yall. all the dude said was sooner the game, sooner the mods. which is objectivley true

[hazy helm]

I have yet to see a UE5 game with good mosding support

[solid dome]

Krezzin, learn to spell BOAT right, for Petruha's sake...

[wise blaze]

if it takes 5 years after launch for the 1st mod, then a game released now gets its mod in 5 years. a game in 5 years gets mod in 10 years. its all he said

[prime spade]

Well, the modding community has consistently grown since the games released

[solid dome]

I would take an open-source engine for STALKER 2 allows for complete modding support over proprietary engine for STALKER 2 which allows for like 1/3 of it

[wise blaze]

wdym

[prime spade]

There’s almost zero reason for GSC to limit modding. It’s probably one of their largest player bases (modders and people who use the extensive mods)

[hazy helm]

The thing is,many ppl expect mossing UE5 to be equal to modding x-ray which will probably generate bad oress when reality hits the brakes o

Need to tell ppl

[wise blaze]

well yea. but if they wanna be delusional then thats on them not the game or devs

ok? i didnt say anything regarding that

[hazy helm]

im not saying it wont be moddable Im saying expect how you mod it and the capability of the mods to differ

[hazy helm]

Problem being it cam be used as arsenal from other imagine the clickbait you can get from "GSC whose games thrived on modding spurned it in their nee release",imaginr the views,preoblem being that ot may taint the look of the game at launch

[wise blaze]

how? why wouldnt it be better. you only win in that scenario

[solid dome]

Vasim spent too much time in the undergrounds, excuse him, dude. You get used to the moss.

[wise blaze]

ah yea. tho those will happen regardless

[solid dome]

Wowzers

[wise blaze]

how do you lose?

[solid dome]

This only works for MMOs

[wise blaze]

so because you have inflated expectations, the game should be delayed for eternity? not to mention the wide variety of players differing expectations

I agree. 2042 hasnt ever gotten fixed, thus the issue

tho the battlefield franchise proves my point even more

so I watched it, and I want a game where I am basically superman. I want it to be like fallout and skyrim combined. I think the trailers look like that. what happens when the game isnt actually like that, because thats not what stalker is.

[solid dome]

I am afraid to say, gamers nowadays don't even make a difference - no offence to anyone in the discussion, it's my view on the matter

[wise blaze]

because the bandits suck. that didnt make me immune to bullets tho

also, did you play hardest difficulty?

but u didnt answer my question

[wise blaze]

for this

[hazy helm]

Id assume itll be like the stalker games where the threat will always be somewhat leveled to the expect gear you have but you will still be john wick with a bunch of shiny stones

[wise blaze]

that still doesnt answer me tho

[wise blaze]

well, yea. but its no COD or Doom where you are basically untouchable

[hazy helm]

the stalker games are very easy and you can become like superman by just having minimal thought on building set specifications

[wise blaze]

but what expectations did it set. everyone has different ideas of a game. whos ideas are the correct ones

[hazy helm]

Stalker is a FPS action exploration series after all

[wise blaze]

well, any game you can be crazy OP if u min max. im talking average game. between dark souls and COD, people who want COD dont want DS and vice versa. that kind of thing

not what I asked

[hazy helm]

Somewhat but I wouldnt call them primarily horror based

[hazy helm]

Average game will make you feel like superman,especially CS and CoP

[wise blaze]

no. Whos opinions are the right one? you view the trailer as 1 thing. say I view it as the opposite. which one of us is right

[hazy helm]

Youd need to be playing the game wrong on purpose or ignorance for you to have genuine difficulties finishing it

[wise blaze]

but not to the extent many other games can

[wise blaze]

which is part of my point too

[hazy helm]

Would not know,I don play many new games

For the games that came out of that era,mhe

[wise blaze]

games are way easier now, imo. the toddlers whine when they die

that is not what I am asking bro.

[wise blaze]

you said that the game should only be released when it meets expectation. whos expectation is the baseline. yours, mine, vasims, my great great grandpas?

huh?

[green hearth]

what's the event about? the announcement looks poorly translated

[wise blaze]

bruh

idk how to make it any clearer

There are 1000000000000 different kinds of players. which groups expectations are the proper ones? 5 people can watch 1 trailer and have 5 different views. which persons views are the right ones

[hazy helm]

Discord event

Little server game

[hazy helm]

hes probably talking about the disparity of ppl who want vanilla and those that want smth similar to mods like Misery or GAMMA

[wise blaze]

if he is, then my point stands. I dont think it is tho.

yes. and so you said that it should only be released when it meets expectation. if my expectation is different than yours, it can only meet 1 of ours. so whos expectation allows a release

that doesnt answer my question.

ok. let me try to spell it out even more.

you- expectation A
me- expectation B
A does not meet B
under your claim, if it meets A it cant be released because it doesnt meet B and vice versa.
so under your claim, it will never release

to which everyone has different expectations. how is it not clear? you just agreed now u dont?

[dry imp]

holy shit voice channels are back

[hazy helm]

I think what biglob is saying is that regarless of meeting expectations a or b,it will not meet the expectations of one,and so that group will leave a bigger mark with dislike since its not ehat they wanted
Rather than saying that a game can only release when all field of wnats are met

[wise blaze]

Im talking about the trailer bro

[dry imp]

trailer shows nothing so i have no expectations

[wise blaze]

man. thats a hell of a claim

I dont fully disagree, but I also do

[dry imp]

oh wow we totally didn't expect that

they show like ten seconds of gameplay

we know there's characters in the game

[wise blaze]

many games never show gameplay trailers

[dry imp]

no it didn't really

no it didn't really

[hazy helm]

Well the thing with game feedback is thag it will no matter what be biased,since at the start of a game,when its rather unknown,the more vocal group of feedback will always be the ones that dislike it and want to see it changed to suit their styles,since the ppl that like it don't want it changed
And when a game gets popular you will get too much ppl saying its good and they dont want to see it changed so

[dry imp]

we have already seen those in previous gsmes

[hazy helm]

All feedback will be biased when it comes from the general public

[dry imp]

im biased

im awesome

[hazy helm]

You will never please either group and the ppl that are displeased will always be the more vocal

[dry imp]

that doesn't showcase the game.

yes environments are pretty but i want to see the functionality of the game

its on ue5 of course its gonna look good

less than ten seconds

of course.

bro what. thats how that works

its a trailer for a game and the game is barely shown

that's exactly how that works.

💀

nevermind

gameplay is the single most important part

you dont know what mad means

yes it atill does 💀

gameplay is always the most important part

you call me unintelligent and you're saying this

aint no way

💀

i am not doing this

[wise blaze]

really? that is a massively bold claim. proven wrong over and over and over again.

so the devs knew best with golum? redfall? 2042? cyberpunk?

wdmy "someone like you" 🤨

so the devs dont know best then? which is it

[hazy helm]

Goluk and refall were managerial decisions
2042 was a victim of a parent company imposing on the vision of developers

Do not know about cyberpunk

But I do trust GSC

[wise blaze]

yes, but the devs wouldnt have gotten themselves into such issues if they knew best

so, then they dont know best, else theyd know to get control

[hazy helm]

????
2042 wouldve been a better game if they were given enuffntime to QA ideas and playtest
Redfall was bad bc management wanted a quick Pestle production game to market to investors

[wise blaze]

yes. and the release of the game is part of the game, is it not?

[hazy helm]

These games had very little actual dev input

[wise blaze]

yea. and if they knew best, theyd know how to get the time is my point

ah. right. the game release has nothing to do with the game. releases happen all the time without games

they just, uh, release air?

oh. i see. well, because u say its not, then ig thats how it works. because ur totally all knowing

I didnt say it wasnt

[hazy helm]

There was no way to grt time bc upper management rarely cares about devs and games in such places like EA or Redfalls development

i dont understand this view

[wise blaze]

quote me. reply to the comment where I said "publisher doesnt set release"

[wise blaze]

that is also what Im saying. if they did know better, there wouldve been a way. but since there wasnt, they didnt

big agrees with me but doesnt realize it. or doesnt want to admit, idk

that does not say the pubs do not have control. technically, that is actually agreeing they do.

as if the pub didnt have control, id not be saying the devs would need it

[hazy helm]

GSC is self published

[wise blaze]

so again. is release date not part of a game

[hazy helm]

The biggest problem dor self published companies is if they are able to get money to make and release+publicise the game
GSC appears to not have such problems especially bc of microsofts backing

[wise blaze]

so if devs knew best, theyd know how to get control over release. its very simple what im saying

[hazy helm]

Microsoft has a deal with GSC with Xbox Game Pass first months exclusivity which pretty much covers a lot of the costs as well as ease of publicity

[hazy helm]

ok

[wise blaze]

if the devs knew best, theyd know how to get managment to let them.

ah. i see. so again, just because u say its not, doesnt mean its not. perhaps you need to know the definition of "Best"?

so then if someone knows best over all the others, would they not then know how to do things others dont?

I never said it wouldnt have.

[hazy helm]

It needed more than a little more

[wise blaze]

so if they knew best, theyd know how to get such control.

[hazy helm]

They needed to redesign how the game played out

Id say 2

[wise blaze]

Yes. That is what I’ve been arguing

you literally have agreed with me on multiple occasions

also, what? ive been on the topic of stalker dev the whole time

is that what you are? because if u claim I cant be correct because im not such, then you cant be either

so I do too, but since ur so logical, explain how something applies to me that doesnt apply to you?

that is quite literally the opposite of logic. circular reasoning is probably one of THE MOST simple forms of non-logic that there is. how ironic

so wanna try again? how does something apply to me but not you when we did the same thing

[midnight tiger]

🍿

[wise blaze]

I never claimed you were wrong solely because i am right.

quote me.

again, ironic. also again, quote where I have said you were wrong solely because I am right

so then why did you agree that "its not that simple"

[midnight tiger]

"Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right"

[wise blaze]

never said they could. my whole argment is that they cant.

bruh.

if I say they cant choose the release date, then how am I saying they can? you are oh so logical, remember

so explain how in saying they cant, im saying they can

.

.

you: they cant decide release me: correct you: you said they can

[wise blaze]

.

and earlier too but im not gonna scroll up that far.

[oblique thistle]

I got scammed by sidorovich

I sold a pistol and got only 500 bucks

[wise blaze]

because u were arguing that they knew best. if they did, theyd have control. because theyd know best how to get it

yes.

release is part of the game.

that has no bearing?

the release of the game is just as much part of the game as development is

wait. you just said that release isnt part of the game. yet here you say the publisher releases the game? how odd

here too. like bruh.

[midnight tiger]

Trolling aside I just wish GSC was more transparent

[wise blaze]

so which is it. logic man here is blatantly contradicting

[midnight tiger]

Total radio silence but they are constantly posting unrelated announcements and shit

[wise blaze]

indeed. tho im not sure hes trolling or not

[midnight tiger]

It's not good business practice in this industry

[wise blaze]

is the 31st date at all possibly an game update.

also,we are still 6 months out. lots of games that are just fine dont say too much 6 months out either

Im not saying they dont. you arent responding to what im refering to

in one breath you say release has nothing to do with the game. in the next you say it does. which is it

[midnight tiger]

I'm just saying, all the normies that had any hype for the game have probably forgotten it by now

[wise blaze]

so here you are, saying the publisher has no control over the game. yet you say they control release. which you agree is part of the game. so which is it

[midnight tiger]

Be more transparent lol

[wise blaze]

.

[midnight tiger]

As toxic as gamers can be overall, they are way more understanding if you just let em know as opposed to keeping shit in the dark

[wise blaze]

.

[midnight tiger]

Anything. State of the game update, whatever, even if it's fairly small

[wise blaze]

as bad as it feels, they are just a bit below norm tbh. from the games I compared to a little while ago, their trailers are about on par. but I agree they need more

"the game". "nothing to do with the game" which is it bro. like damn

[midnight tiger]

It could be just showing a couple guns or a mutant or what not. Even a small taste is better than nothing at all

[wise blaze]

so then they dont release the game?

[midnight tiger]

The drink thing was the best we have gotten in a minute, and all it was was the drinking animation outside of yanov station

[wise blaze]

my bad. wasnt clear. so the publishers dont release the game?

[midnight tiger]

Magazine thing? More recently?

[wise blaze]

one reason I think it feels like we havent gotten much, is because the ur5 engine looks prerendered even when its not. so gameplay stuff looks non gameplay without a hud

so then they do have stuff to do with the game?

[midnight tiger]

It's an energy drink company they partnered with a long ass time ago I guess

[wise blaze]

great. so you agree with what I have been sayign this whollllllle time.

is this not an agreement with what I have been saying?

except the part where you said they dont have anything to do with the game. sure

so here we are again. do they do stuff with the game or not

yes. that is a different claim that I am not reffering to

aside from selling it to everyone who buys it

yea. thats who im refering to

never said it did

HUH? dawg. that is literally me saying that the publisher sells "hats"

no. quote me

how is that saying it has anything to do with making it

[worn oar]

I saw the announcement? Anyone cares to explain what's it about?

[wise blaze]

it doesnt even have the word making. or dev. like wtf bro

[wise blaze]

ig server event? but idk

[worn oar]

Yes? What are we supposed to do exactly

I'm pretty much new to these events I suppose

[wise blaze]

me: do publishers have ANYTHING to do with the game? you: no. me: aside from selling to people who buy it. you: thats what the publisher does.

like how tf is that me saying the publishers are making it

[nimble cipher]

dredgencayde6#6933 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worn oar]

Haha where are the other ranks tho?

[wise blaze]

dude. go get some mental help. like how tf can you be this sped? im literally autistic and can understand shi better than u

[worn oar]

What za f is this

[wise blaze]

me: publishers do x. you: no. me: so they dont do x? you: no thats what the publisher does. like geez bro

[wise blaze]

this guy says publishers have NOTHING to do with the game

while at the same time agreeing they do

aside from directly being the ENITRE reason it gets to sell anywhere in the first place

no publisher, no sales. no sale, no money. no money, no development, no development, no game. no game, no publisher. and thus is the cycle

right. its reallllll ez to make software with 0 money

any examples?

[sour zinc]

so, another announcement with 0 news eh

[wise blaze]

New Blood Interactive
Video game publisher

literally right in the name, mr. logical

yes. meaning theres a publisher

yes.

yes. whats ur point

whats ur point

so you proved that some games dont have publishers by naming a game with a publisher? weird strategy

meaning they have a publisher- themseleves

so?

[cobalt nexus]

Just like Stalker 2. It’s self published and technically it’s an indie game.

[wise blaze]

that isnt what I asked for an example of

[sour zinc]

I'd rather get complete silence than these pointless announcements like an ad for an energy drink or some kind of collab with another game that doesn't involve stalker one bit. Each time I get one of these announcements I wonder if the game is even gunna be anything good or just another Cyberpunk with all the hype with no substance

[wise blaze]

I asked for an example of a game iwth no publisher than has any relavence

[sour zinc]

debatable, I still can't get into it, I've tried getting back into it 3 times but it's still so painful to play

before cyberpunk, i havent preordered since homefront, bc I loved the hell out of witcher 3 and gwent, but they failed my expectations

[wise blaze]

so in other words, every game has a publisher. including self published.

[midnight tiger]

Well had you seen everything I said that's what I was talking about. I want actual game updates even if it's just one gun model or mutant or mechanic

[wise blaze]

never said they werent

[cobalt nexus]

Destiny 2 was self published quite some time.

[midnight tiger]

It did. Iirc witcher 3 had issues on launch too but not nearly on the same scale

[balmy hound]

I don't understand why Stalker 2 is always compared to Cyberpunk. The team, the situation, the project itself, everything is different. And the energy drink is the best brand partnership possible as it's part of the Stalker universe. It's not like Coca Cola in a peplum movie.

[midnight tiger]

Also that energy drink did give us the drinking animation and yanov station in ue5, which is better than anything else we have gotten other than the trailers

[sour zinc]

They're both games that have little to no information prior to release other than a bunch of hyped up garbage. Both have some kind of reason for delays and a scapegoat in case the game comes out as hot garbage (eg. Covid and the war). Both are self-published titles.

[cobalt nexus]

Some games are created for profits and some for the art. It’s irrelevant if it’s an indie game or Published by another party.

[wise blaze]

blud. ur mad that I say publishers do stuff with games, as if thats some cultist idea. and at the same time you agree they do, while saying they dont.

any sense of the word has equal opportunity to be true in this case.

[balmy hound]

I wasn't hyped for Cyberpunk, but I remember there were serious red flags about the final product, which there is not in my opinion in Stalker 2.

[worn oar]

My foe friend, hey

[wise blaze]

mad does not always mean you arent calm

and all I said was that they do stuff with the game. which you said no.

[nimble cipher]

Spectakil#5772 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wise blaze]

cold mad, mad as a synonym for crazy. other meanings

[midnight tiger]

What's up frenemy

[wise blaze]

different claim now that I have shown you were wrong

maybe i was saying you are mad as in love with me. 😫

[worn oar]

How this server events work ?

[cobalt nexus]

Sometimes it’s the devs themselves that can’t work to a deadline. Publishers fund, promote and set dates.

[wise blaze]

meaning and saying are not one in the same

its all good

I always had my assumption of what I thought you meant. turns out it was right.
im not saying that as a "gotcha" dw

not really. you were right in what you were meaning, but wrong in what I was meaning. I was not saying what you meant was wrong but what you said was.

[cobalt nexus]

Get a room 😘

[wise blaze]

yes. tho that does ignore some things. but im not in the buisness of "only able to be right" so Its ok

unfortunate choice of words

[midnight tiger]

I dunno tbh

[wise blaze]

cant even make jokes about it because ur underage. shame

eh, that depends but i dont know and dont care enough

[worn oar]

I'm interested in collecting roles here haha, I kinda climbed fast here lol

[midnight tiger]

🤨 📸

[worn oar]

Even in games, I'm more of a collector lol

My stalker playthroughs needed to have all done, everything the game could give

[cobalt nexus]

Let’s just be happy Stalker 2 is not published by Microsoft. They just keep putting out Ls

[worn oar]

Yep, even that. I literally explored every explorable place

[cobalt nexus]

Minecraft was the last good game they put out

[worn oar]

XD the guitar and the radio can be found in the garbage, not going to say anything more in case someone here don't want spoilers

[cobalt nexus]

Even buying Bethesda didn’t make things better. Anyone who thinks Starfield is going to be good is delusional.

[wise blaze]

yea. im hoping it will, but i dont know because I dont know too much about it

mods are broken with epic version apparently tho so

[cobalt nexus]

GOTY 2023 will be a fight between Zelda and ?

[wise blaze]

haha perhaps

[cobalt nexus]

You can even fly to a planet in Starfield. It’s a loading screen

[wise blaze]

thats not the only way to mod afaik tho

[hazy helm]

Zelda aint even running

'

[cobalt nexus]

Aren’t New Vegas mods separate from the launcher like Stalker? Meaning it doesn’t matter where you own it

[wise blaze]

I think so. but different places that sell them do different things with the files. GOG and steam for example. when modding GOG will have a file you have to patch that steam doesnt

[hazy helm]

no New Vegas modding is like a bunch of smaller mods taht do one thing,that you then download part by part

you only have like 2 big mods

Stalker mods are a lot more decentralised,like actual new games

that like one mod in a SEA of mods

Anomaly does addopt New Vegas style of modding,but that is one

overall,stalker modding is more based around new experiences made by modders

[cobalt nexus]

I couldn’t get misery to work of my GOG copy so I brought steam version

I always prefer GOG over steam.

[worn oar]

Dark valley yes, I'm a bit drunk so 🤷

It's the only place you find these collectibles

[hazy helm]

never did half life modding so

[worn oar]

Didn't really count them but you do the math. When I play, it's no less than 8hs a day for at least 2 weeks. I replayed the game until I got most of the endings so no less than 10 times for SoC and then mods came in and you know the rest

[hazy helm]

most of stalker story mods are more of their own thing really

you still have your weapon packs,and game overhauls]

but,most stalker mods offer new experiences

[worn oar]

I don't remember, can't say I had if I couldn't remember yk haha

I kinda had a sh&t microwave so I didn't have much of gaming options! But I loved the game and loved the story, so when I heard abt it having multiple endings, I just said okay imma get this challenge done for sure

[finite dragon]

wtf does this announcement mean, i think the translation is a bit off

[balmy hound]

There is now open voice channels + wednesday at 3pm german time there will be the launch of a mysterious mini-game.

[finite dragon]

german time? so that's like 9am here?

[balmy hound]

Just please tell me i'm not that crazy if I didn't see 2 gloves on the poster at first.

[finite dragon]

they should use <t:> discord stuff for time, it makes it says the time for people based on their system clock

[balmy hound]

2pm London time GMT+0...

Are you east/central/west coast ?

[finite dragon]

yeah it's 9am, i got friends in german time zone, im est

just saying they can make a discord event which would make it say it for each person or use the <t:>

[balmy hound]

I'm not an expert on programming, if you say so !

[worn oar]

I'm pretty lost here xD

[balmy hound]

About what ?

[solid dome]

Everyone talks about a Discord event. Dude, why I am out of loop?

[worn oar]

The event thing

[solid dome]

The Thing happened in 1982

Stalker, stop bully @worn oar

[balmy hound]

We'll just know more wednesday !

[solid dome]

You wot?

[balmy hound]

We'll know more about the discord event wednesday.

[solid dome]

Another one of those "Type this command and smap the chat to win roles"?

[worn oar]

Who's bullying me? Haha who dares bully a colonel

[solid dome]

You bully Father Krezzin.

[balmy hound]

Last time it ended with the release of a gameplay trailer, I wouldn't be so cynical

[solid dome]

In the name of Petruha and the Great Nimble, let the light in...

[worn oar]

Oh Father, I'll never bully a loner 😔 I like loners. If I ever tried to bully someone, it'll be a stalker form freedum

[solid dome]

Come to me trailer? It wasn't connected in any way for all we know

[balmy hound]

You're right, it wasn't connected, but it's a sign there should be more of Stalker 2 very soon, we're closer to the Xbox showcase.

[worn oar]

Meh, xbox

A good win for fortnities

[solid dome]

Son Rahmi and Son Legend, we are almost near the source. The fountain of faith, love and prosperity. Open your hearts and welcome the change. Hope comes first!!

[balmy hound]

It's just a pretext, of course PC rocks

[worn oar]

Ik

[wise blaze]

if there is nothing by the end of june id be mostly suprised. if theres nothing by the end of july, I will be very surprised. if theres nothing by september, I will not have any hope

[worn oar]

I'm saying it's coming for Xbox and that's s big win for fortnities

[solid dome]

@balmy hound How will you celebrate another gameplay trailer - popcorn, vodka or shrooms?

[worn oar]

The only comfort is that the game will have better sales

[solid dome]

Pick one

[balmy hound]

I'm thinking

By elimination, popcorn

[solid dome]

Popcorn means you retain your consciousness. Vodka means you retain your consciousness but lose touch with the reality. Shrooms means you trade your consciousness to the devil and you don't want to ever think about what happens with the thing.

Short plot explanation

3 endings, man

[balmy hound]

I try to keep a healthy way of life, i'm perfectly OK with your explanation

I usually never drink alcohol

[sharp otter]

Test injection

[solid dome]

Aight, I'll go rewatch the last bit of the Chernobyl Tapes cuz I had to skip last time.

The actual documentary with once lost footage of the catastrophe, horrible stuff you can see in there, all done by HBO

It is

See you laters, chadders

My fellow chads

[balmy hound]

See you !

[finite dragon]

pirate it

😭

ive used it for a year and no viruses

trust me bro

[balmy hound]

I remember reading the documentary book The Supplication, by Alexeevich, it was the saddest thing I ever read. I hope that documentary is not as hard.

No the book is legally not free...

The TV mini-series Chernobyl was mainly based on that book.

[hazy helm]

!tempmute 491363278685995008 7d promotion of piracy

[nimble cipher]

Avery#0132 has been muted for 1 week

Reason: promotion of piracy

Muted until · Jun 5, 2023, 8:26 PM

[hazy helm]

tos

[fallow frigate]

[worn oar]

Smited

Wolf is ruthless

[hazy helm]

the japanese cartoon or Victor Tsoi

[worn oar]

Him and randij, except he only says one sentence

[balmy hound]

The real question is who doesn't know about Kino

[pearl jacinth]

[balmy hound]

I don't think any Kino song was in the original game, but I remember that 28 days later song in the Complete mod of SoC, and I felt completely immersed by it.

In addition of the musics by Mooze of course.

For the whole trilogy he made 3-4 decisive masterpieces.

Pretty sure it's on Youtube

Never used spotify my whole life I admit

Youtube actually

[sharp otter]

How

[sand fiber]

you either die a pirate or live long enough to ban for piracy

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/lizard-silence-insolent-whelp-discord-meme-shut-up-gif-27382393

[balmy hound]

Well, i'm off for today, good night everyone !

[hazy helm]

guud night'

[solid dome]

Just finished it, some parts like what the radiation done to people's physics, are like taken out of a sci-fi book. Inhumane stuff. It's well presented.

[worn oar]

[solid dome]

@worn oar How do we prepare for the Xbot Confurference in advance, we have to set our minds in the right position right?

C-Con our minds to be able to sustain the information processing part. Should the information overflow our cognitive system, we'll pass out and lose momentum.

Yes?

[solid dome]

Have we lost Colonel Rahmi in a radio interference?

[finite dragon]

My brain is permanently scorched

but in the good acid fried way, not the dumb monolith way

[pearl jacinth]

me when the brain scorcher scorches my brain

[narrow tartan]

@hazy helm So, there's more things that might make the ISG still maybe canon

PDA entry in Shadow of Chernobyl call "The Chronicles of Egghead Globalists"

[oblique thistle]

Every time i see a pda message with "egghead" in it while playing anomaly i would try my best to kill them out of spite

[limpid spade]

is new game still december

[oblique thistle]

November

[finite dragon]

i just played it and it was subpar to anomaly

[solid dome]

Moovember

[solid dome]

Stalker 2?
How was the gunplay?

[finite dragon]

Was lacking compared to Anomaly or Tarkov, the bullets didn't go straight

[solid dome]

No tracers too? Not even proper recoil simulation?

I am cancelling my pre-order, fk this

Enough is enough

[cobalt nexus]

Lacking compared to Tarkov? That games a dumpster fire made by stalker fanboys

[lost frost]

how could they? not enough realism is the worst now i will be sure to avoid stalker 2

[cobalt nexus]

Best to avoid it if you are expecting Anomaly realism and survival. If you want a sequel to Call of Pripyat then Stalker 2 will be it.

[lost frost]

lmao i know what to expect

im gonna buy it

i havent played gamma in a while

ive been playing mods for SoC recently

i will probably love stalker 2

[cobalt nexus]

Nice. Gamma is pretty nice atm. I prefer story mods of the original games though. Stalker has its hooks in me now, I try other games but it’s not the same

[prime spade]

question, why does stalker 2 have 90 curator reviews on steam when the game isn't even released

[lost frost]

call of the zone (a freeplay mod) caught my attention because of its side quest system

im just playing a bunch of stalker before stalker 2 comes out

[oblique thistle]

Aren't you only allowed to share information about the game to the devs only?

[cobalt nexus]

Not long to go now unless it gets delayed.

[cobalt nexus]

I think they are probably full of bs

[oblique thistle]

Wdym

[lost frost]

just joking i think

[oblique thistle]

My lawyer advised me to not continue this conversation

[finite dragon]

The Grygorovych brothers said it's okay for me to talk about it here

[cobalt nexus]

Lol. Anyone who claims they have played an early build are either lying or very dumb. Anyone who has actually played it won’t talk about it.

Don’t break NDA

[finite dragon]

That's not true, I am not lying or that dumb

[cobalt nexus]

Sorry I shouldn’t have said dumb

[finite dragon]

GSC forgives you

[cobalt nexus]

If you are in fact testing then don’t talk about it and delete any footage or screenshots.

[finite dragon]

well I hope the people that dm'ed don't share either

[solid dome]

Acister, if you didn't know, is a beta tester for GSC

Not many of them are active here

Just a quick FYI: this is a setup, you are part of a prank gone wild. Before a mod takes me serious and warns or bans me.

[finite dragon]

I've had a few drinks tonight so I'm having more fun than I should and maybe talking too much but no GSC are online other than me being a beta tester so what the hell (also part of what Krezzin said)

[solid dome]

We conspire best in the morning

Innit @finite dragon ?

[finite dragon]

Sure morning is important beta test time

[solid dome]

It's a bad way to joke, however. You never know if we may turn beta testing Stalker 2 for GSC when its too broken and we have to report bugs to them to issue tons of hotfixes. My God!

[finite dragon]

I wonder if they even are playtesting

[solid dome]

@finite dragon #🔍┃ask_gscarchive message

Oh sweet. SWEET!

[finite dragon]

lol, just in that channel tho right?

[solid dome]

👆

So now when Molit replies to any of our questions with a question, we can't answer.

How cool is that...

[finite dragon]

I'm so excited for the event on Wednesday that I can't think straight

[solid dome]

When, is the question...

Time, give me time, exact time, HH:MM:SS

⏰

Gimme clocke

[oblique thistle]

Well you should really not be talking about it or else you'll have to make your dms closed

[solid dome]

He can't close his DMs, his door is always opened in case he forgets where the key is

[oblique thistle]

I mean

What's the other option?

Request dms right?

[solid dome]

Have yourself charged with battery, break in, etc

Todd, do you have anything in common with Godd Toward?

[oblique thistle]

I am Dogg Goward's uncle

[finite dragon]

This is true, when you're in the Heart of Chornobyl, the key can go missing at anytime. I prefer to be careful

[oblique thistle]

Good day Mr. Tester

[finite dragon]

I'm just glad I can faithfully help direct the sequel to be like Anomaly, it's destined successor

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[lunar basin]

Be well, Ranjid.

[finite dragon]

@safe badge will you be joining me in the MP test tonight of S2?

[hazy helm]

nice trolling

[pseudo rivet]

UN canon, ISG canon't

[finite dragon]

when we talk about the 3 stalker games. which ending is canon for each game?

[oblique thistle]

Brain scorcher off

[amber tendon]

c-con - destroyed

1st raid to cnpp was failure, resulting in strelok disappearing and clear sky dying

and at the end marked one escaped zone with the officer

[oblique thistle]

What i wanna know, is that what happens to the monoliths after the brain scorcher's off, are the monoliths operate like a hivemind where if the source dies do they get back their minds back or nah

[amber tendon]

although last one I don't know

[finite dragon]

how can i make each canon ending?

[amber tendon]

we didn't get sequel

[amber tendon]

you ignore wish granter

meet swamp doctor

follow his instructions and destroy control room

[oblique thistle]

Wish granter is just those kinds of genie in any movie featuring one

[finite dragon]

can you tell me in private please so i have the messages saved?

[oblique thistle]

Always a dark turn

[pseudo rivet]

SoC: ||Likely C-Com destroyed, kinda hinted in CoP||
CS: The only ending
CoP: Depends on S.T.2

[mild kernel]

release date

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[amber tendon]

2023

[mild kernel]

not satisfactory

[pseudo rivet]

In that case, tell GSC to rush their game

[fallow frigate]

2027

[mild kernel]

you should tell them yourself

[pseudo rivet]

I'm not the one who's impatient

[mild kernel]

You are boss of the company

[midnight tiger]

Yes to SoC

All of CoP is based around that

[pseudo rivet]

CoP's canon ending now depends on S.T.2

[midnight tiger]

Ya but I mean the whole plot line of CoP is based around that SoC ending

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[midnight tiger]

Strelok straight up tells you he did it iirc

[pseudo rivet]

Hints at it

[balmy hound]

Thank you for your feedback Krezzin !

[amber tendon]

@solid dome do you have a second?

[oblique thistle]

What happened to the monolith boys

Are they free like strider and his men or what

[worn oar]

Duty will establish a signal filtering device soon enough. We'll be fine, just visit the bar and join the testing days before the event

@solid dome

[worn oar]

The general gathered us to an emergency meeting. Sorry just finished stalker

[amber tendon]

Col. Rahmi, there are rumors spreading around this mysterious event and people say you've participated in it before , what is it about?

[worn oar]

Which event exactly

If it's the server event, the rumors were wrong haha

But I think details will be posted soon

If it's Xbox event, I'm know a lil

Some news or a showcase is predicted to take place there

Naturally, a game developer wouldn't skip such big event without participating, especially that the game is having an Xbox release. It'll be good for business and I suppose GSC will make good use of it. Stonks up hehe

[amber tendon]

I remember one of community managers wanted to host a pvp in stalker clear sky or something

wonder if it's related to latest announcement

[worn oar]

The event is all about bringing attention to (mostly) games close to release.

[amber tendon]

well duh

[worn oar]

Ah then you are talking abt the discord server event

[amber tendon]

oh

[worn oar]

I believe you saw extra tags in many profiles? They got that from these kind of events

[amber tendon]

oh no I know where you got tags from

[worn oar]

Not the ones I have

I mean the ones like swamp lurker, expert scientist etc..?

Some extra stuff you know

If you already know then tell me what you need to know exactly

[amber tendon]

#📰┃announcement message

[worn oar]

Haha I'm pretty lost bro 🤣 didn't sleep well last night