⭐┃nospoilers_general

[hazy helm]

take the plunge

https://tenor.com/view/cat-zoning-out-cat-stare-black-cat-black-cat-tiktok-stare-gif-6568742496074847242

dont start it

[worthy lagoon]

@glossy blade Btw someone asked about the measurements of the STALKER figure in the physical edition

[mortal parcel]

can't deny original games graphics are dated and unmodded gunplay is dated as well

[pearl jacinth]

[hazy helm]

no its not going to stop ffs

[mortal parcel]

doesn't mean it's bad

[half bone]

the graphics aren't that bad
the rng shooting mechanics are

[mortal parcel]

but it's like saying Deus Ex 1 gunplay and graphics are peak gaming moments

[hazy helm]

in this house we stan clear sky

[sturdy zodiac]

Poor vasim

[half bone]

honestly if you look at some people

they have texture_lod set to 4.

[mortal parcel]

well, tbh, compare FEAR and SoC

yes FEAR is only small buildings, but still

[half bone]

dont get me started to how bad the sdk is

at least you dont have to recompile the entire map just for the spawns tho

[worthy lagoon]

Define outdated

[mortal parcel]

do you really wanna go in this kind of stupid rabbit hole?

[worthy lagoon]

Last gen graphics doesn't necessarily mean immersion

[remote crow]

Mods silence these hooligans

[mortal parcel]

when did I bring immersion to the table

[worthy lagoon]

As long as the graphics is not bugged it's fine

[half bone]

stalker soc is from 2007. and that is not "last gen"

they started developing it since 2001

[hazy helm]

Im tired of Immersion arguments when Imersion is nothing more than a false or true statement that denotes your complete focus on a task

[worthy lagoon]

Well, i don't see how it could be defined outdated while OG graphics is fine for the game

[glossy blade]

Approx. 20cm+ high, sth like that

[remote crow]

I literally don’t care about graphics as long as the game is good

[mortal parcel]

[remote crow]

ShoC makes me feel so good inside y’all and it’s a fact

[hazy helm]

satlker has some good ass graphics
unless its CoP
CoP

has bad graphics

its ugly

[worthy lagoon]

@pulsar bramble

[remote crow]

Nah it’s fine too

[half bone]

cop just used bad textures

cs used more i guess glossy textures?

[hazy helm]

it looks like drab slosh

[worthy lagoon]

eh, it's fine but i think they had to downgraded it after CS mess

[mortal parcel]

I don't care about the graphics much, I'm talking about random people from internet that never got into Stalker, or only vaguely at release. Booting SoC unmodded today is something compare to current graphics, that's all

[worthy lagoon]

But hey, i was used to play the game in 2010 with a Geforce 820M

[half bone]

at least the volumetric smoke is still there
i dont think anybody knows how to use fog volumes in the sdk

[remote crow]

With CoP I don’t care either. The only thing I care about is the experience it gives you. The music, characters, locations… it’s all perfect.

[hazy helm]

CS had some gorgrous lighting which heavely enchanced the overall atmosphere and graphics
the textures were comparable to SOC

[mortal parcel]

So do I, I played SoC at release

doesn't mean it look ass compared to nowadays standards

[worthy lagoon]

I am talking to Vasim regarding CoP

[half bone]

the lighting was changed a lot in xray 1.5
lighting in xray 1.0 wasn't even that good since shadows won't render more than 25 meters away

[mortal parcel]

old 3D games didn't age well

[half bone]

and they look really bad as well
while in xray 1.5 they look way better

[worthy lagoon]

Yeah i agree

[mortal parcel]

it's like saying Dungeon Siege or Deus Ex don't look dated, it's non sensical

[hazy helm]

the writting in CoP is very dry and boring
the story is one note
it isnt the best exploration wise
the AI is cut by like 9/10ths
the only thing it has to go for it is a good balancing and written quests

[half bone]

my stalker sdk weighs about
47.5 gb

[hazy helm]

[half bone]

literally half the size of gamma

[remote crow]

@glossy blade silence him

[worthy lagoon]

Might be me, but for me S2 could've had the same graphics of CS, i really don't care about the graphics as long as the gameplay and other stuff is good

For example, Lethal Company has an ass graphics, but it's very much enjoyable despite the graphics

[hazy helm]

reminds me I have Anomaly unpacked for when I decide to port TAZ2.0 to anomaly

[mortal parcel]

indeed, but that wasn't the original topic of the discussion, but ok

[half bone]

i just wish that stalker 2 has soc and cop like quests

[hazy helm]

it has a deliberate choice of gfraphics that enchance the gameplay just like Golden Light

[half bone]

we need taz 3.0 in misery xd

[hazy helm]

also bc Unity's HDRP SUCKLS HASS

[worthy lagoon]

Well, you talked about outdated graphics and gameplay like if it was a bad thing, it isn't

[hazy helm]

nha Taz3.0 aint good tbh

[half bone]

too tacticool?

[hazy helm]

too cut out and I prefer the old animations and weapon styles

[remote crow]

I loved it. It kept me at my keyboard lol

[worthy lagoon]

Yeah, just to prove that graphics really don't mean much, or at least for me

Ofc as long as it's not bugged etc

[hazy helm]

debating wether to rip a PT AR10 model to replace the Tarkov ADAR model in Taz2.0

Im sure there is one out there

[half bone]

anomaly uses black and white textures for its terrain

thats why their detail ground textures look soo good.

[silver pagoda]

Gamma server bigger because they give away stalker essentially for free and ripping off devs

i like gamma btw its good mod but be honest

[half bone]

its bigger than official tarkov server lol

[hazy helm]

dont tell the CMs I said this but every standalone mod is basically using a pirated copy of the game

[worthy lagoon]

Well, there's some truth to that

[hazy helm]

doesnt mean much really

[worthy lagoon]

Doesn't it use openXray?

[half bone]

gamma is just a modpack so i woudn't call it pirating

[worthy lagoon]

GAMMA and Anomaly specifically

[hazy helm]

how do you thjink they developed OpenXray sweetie

[half bone]

he bragged about it...

[worthy lagoon]

Exactly

[remote crow]

GAMMA AND ANOMALY 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[silver pagoda]

Gamma is good mod but calling it hardcore is beyond laughable, if you're hardcore be a man and play Tarkov

[half bone]

anomaly uses a very old version of openxray and that justifies for the bad fps

[hazy helm]

and yes Anomaly uses an old version of OXray

[remote crow]

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

[half bone]

wait till openxray 1.5.2 anomaly edition from oxr devs

[worthy lagoon]

Nah, just play NLC 7 or Goldsphere

[silver pagoda]

they are both good mods, regardless of your opinion

[half bone]

a lot of new features from openxray like bc7 (recent) directxtex (recent) are missing

[hazy helm]

can you IMAGINE if OpenXray CoC edition complete releases sooner than Anomaly 1.6 update and the earlier becomes the defacto go to for freeplay modding since anomaly modding sucks ass

that would be funny

[silver pagoda]

you might say you dont like them and thats fine but objectively they are good mods

[hazy helm]

we would be going back to the start

and making forks of COC

those would be great times

[remote crow]

Oh, I didn’t see your username

[half bone]

a lot of people would still be playing anomaly cuz "gunplay" matters

[worthy lagoon]

Eh, what's defined as "good" is honestly subjective

Because are mods

[half bone]

also bc7 textures allow for better lightmaps

[worthy lagoon]

And not games

[half bone]

which means better lighting?

[hazy helm]

tahts the thing
if it truly happened we'd get so many forks with new functions and niches it would be like a rennaisance after this drab centralized period

a true return to form Id say

imagination abound

[half bone]

im going to be afk for approx 15 minutes

[silver pagoda]

I agree but you cant objectively call them bad, they have tight gameplay, deep crafting systems for those who want to interact with them and in general they have a difficulty that most triple A games would never dare because they treat their customers like children, they still rip off devs tho

[hazy helm]

see ya later

[digital glacier]

They are good mods, but yes their current popularity does stem partially from the fact that they require no base game buy to be played, because the base game is included "for free" in a sense (but not exactly)

[half bone]

also i compiled xray lightmaps in 8k and 30k (dont ask why) and the quality is the same

because xrengine merges them

[hazy helm]

well yes you dont get much more quality just bc you blow them up
it also takes into account how theyre processed in engine

[half bone]

i guess bc7 texture format support for lightmaps (which openxray has now thankfully) would give us better lightmaps

[hazy helm]

why would you put 8k lightmaps...

BC7

alright

I understand

[half bone]

they literally take like 6 seconds to compile

[hazy helm]

Im gonna go translate RTTZ

so I can get to Prossectors quicker

[half bone]

cs2 lightmaps take like 5 minutes in 1024x1024

at least they look a lot better... anyways goodbye

[worthy lagoon]

Yeah, but i can say it's not really like the STALKER experience of the OG games

[flint moth]

i just saw the trailer

[silver pagoda]

My brother in christ, its a mod

There is a literal Death racing mod for stalker, MOD

[flint moth]

The fact that the MC is an ex monolith makes SO much sense

"Who am I" "Why can't I remember"
Who else had these symptoms?
Every single brainwashed mf by C-Consciusness in the stalker franchise

[digital glacier]

Still better than the newer Need for Speed games

[flint moth]

I cannot wait for stalker 2

[silver pagoda]

[half bone]

so basically now we know skifs background

but about strelok not really at all

[mortal parcel]

Tell that to a good portion of stalker mods that are standalone

Also gamma is based on anomaly, so blame anomaly

[silver pagoda]

Thats an easy excuse to use, plus me telling that to all other mods wont fix anything to be honest, I guess GSC is generous enough

[mortal parcel]

well the engine leaked, nothing can be done about it

[mortal parcel]

it's like, you smack down all the standalone stuff, or none.

But at the end of the day, the popularity of mods bring much more people to the franchise

which are new people that buy the original games and might buy STALKER2 in the long run

[worthy lagoon]

They honestly could sue, but they don't

[hazy helm]

if you added a registry scan to see if the person has CoP or SoC key on their reg then like 65% of ppl wouldnt be playing standalones

easy to fool
but very few ppl would actually do it

[mortal parcel]

and people would just pirate the games

[worthy lagoon]

yeah

[mortal parcel]

[hazy helm]

they already do...

[mortal parcel]

didn't GSC got destroyed which lead to the leak anyway?

[worthy lagoon]

destroyed?

[mortal parcel]

like, cessation of activity

[worthy lagoon]

GSC did not cease to exist even after 2012

[hazy helm]

the engine leaked before GSC was dead

[worthy lagoon]

that as well

[hazy helm]

SoC engine leaks happened a year before SoC as well

[mortal parcel]

In 2009, GSC began work on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.[5] The company officially announced the game on 13 August 2010.[citation needed] During development, the company shrank from 200[7] employees to 50.[5] It had previously been the largest video game developer in Eastern Europe.[5] Financial services company Ernst & Young named Grygorovych Ukraine's "entrepreneur of the year" in February 2011.[5] On 9 December 2011, the Ukrainian News Agency, published a message with a statement from GSC Game World CEO Sergiy Grygorovych that the company had dissolved. Development of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 game was discontinued.[57] Grygorovych stated that he did so for personal reasons.[10] Studio spokesperson Valentine Yeltyshev said that the studio's financial situation played a minor role in the dissolution.[58]

[hazy helm]

GSC and leaks have a wide history

[flint moth]

interestingly in the trailer it seems that Skif was talking to 3 people.
1 Duty
1 Strider Monolith
and supposedly someone from the Ukrainian Government, that suit is waaaaay too fancy for the zone, has to be outside chernobyl

[hazy helm]

that guy wasnt from duty he was from ward

[torn bear]

can someone try to preorder the Ultimate Edition (PC) on amazon UK right now? product page says i can preorder it but i'm getting an error. when i try it with the xbox Ultimate i have no errors. would be great if someone could confirm it.

[flint moth]

huh? whats with the red?

also the Ak seems to be camoflauged, looks like red forest camo, monolith maybe?

[hazy helm]

this is ward

[mortal parcel]

xray source was released in august 2014 which was before GSC reformed at the end of 2014

[flint moth]

So Black Grey and Red is Ward

[flint moth]

Gamma dev in chat

make gamma not cook my testicles at 112 celcius when I use my lenovo legion 2019 please

Dude I have like, 3 things on my christmas wishlist and i cant afford it, i hate being poor

[hazy helm]

leaks of the engine and game were leaked before that,which is why mods were being made even before 2007

[flint moth]

stalker 2: releases.
4chan: Alright heres the entire engine dump, all the source code and go make mods.

[signal kayak]

does anyone have any idea when the table top stalker will release? i know it’s made by a different company tho.., but if anyone else here is interested in board games, give me a shout ^^

[worthy lagoon]

Weapons skin showcase, SP and MP will have dedicated skins

[half bone]

imagine if it was zelensky

[flint moth]

DUDE I WAS ACTUALLY WONDERING WHY TF IT LOOKS LIKE ZELENSKY

[half bone]

maybe it is him

[bold star]

Does anyone know if the full list of factions has been released for stalker 2?

[fast stratus]

im bored

[worthy lagoon]

He's bored

[fast stratus]

yeah

what should we do

get me to agroprom

[still ridge]

Which is presumably strider’s faction

The one he made after the events of call of Pripyat

[still ridge]

Safe to assume everything that’s in the originals, I’m sure clear sky will be mentioned. Plus the new faction “Ward”

[bold star]

Ahh I see, that's interesting as much as i'd love to see all the original factions being in the game ands expanded upon, new factions would also be nice

[hazy helm]

I dont think so
the cammo is too different

[toxic kettle]

hey vassim

[hazy helm]

hey

[still ridge]

Fairly certain it’s the same

[toxic kettle]

how are you man long time no see

[still ridge]

Perhaps just a different suit

[hazy helm]

doin fine

[toxic kettle]

nice to here

[digital glacier]

I think the CoP ending slides call that faction Noon, not Ward (besides, Ward's faction description doesn't fit Strider's faction description from those slides anyway)

[silver pagoda]

its lex fridman

[still ridge]

Tbf it is possible that they took some liberties and changed some stuff from the cop ending slides

[digital glacier]

Sure, but Strider's faction still isn't Ward

[still ridge]

We shall see
I’d like that to be the case as well

[worthy lagoon]

CoP does not say the name of the new faction

however, Ward is most likely against Strider

Ward are basically "Zone cops"

[indigo karma]

Just watched the strider trailer that was some good stuff

[still ridge]

The guy disassembling the AK is probably the leader of ward

[worthy lagoon]

yeah it's him

we've seen him in the PC Gamer magazine and 1st showcase trailer

[silver pagoda]

MY MEN ARE OUT THERE
AND I CANT EVEN BURY THEM!

@worthy lagoon Was it not you, who posted a gif of a pistol aimed at me when I sent PC Gamer show yesterday?

Pay up, you're welcome by the way

[worthy lagoon]

I hope we will se Degtyarev again, he's a very smart and capable character, after CoP ending he's technically a permanent observer of the Ukraine Security Service

[digital glacier]

You are correct, the name Noon for Strider's faction was in the ARG cipher, that's what I was thinking of it seems

[silver pagoda]

You little vagabond

[worthy lagoon]

yep

[silver pagoda]

you can stop now, anime makes me uneasy

[worthy lagoon]

good

[silver pagoda]

I give you 1 pass per day to use that yugioh card against me

[still ridge]

Wonder if that means he’s still undercover operating in the zone or just a guy sitting in a building

Tbh I’d imagine he’d return as an important character at some point in the story

[worthy lagoon]

Degtyarev even refused to get back to HQ he's definitely the type to never leave the field

[still ridge]

I’d reckon strider will be introduced early on and then have a more important role further along the main quest

[worthy lagoon]

I think Strider and Degtyarev still communicate with each other, or i really hope that in S2 they will both stumble in each other again

It's kind of a shame that Strider did not mentioned Degtyarev

[still ridge]

Ward seems like the faction that you follow the quest of for a bunch of the story but then ultimately have to make the choice of siding with them or betraying them

[finite dragon]

They should bring back that one friendly dog from Clear Sky

[worthy lagoon]

Also, from CoP ending we know that Limansk is under Mercs control, because Sokolov helicopter was hit by them when flying over Limansk

[worthy lagoon]

We have Noah's dogs

[still ridge]

Strider seems like one of the key characters tbh, which is really good, as I was hoping they would expand upon him and his faction.

[worthy lagoon]

Noah's puppies defended stalkers against snorks

that part always made me cry

[obsidian trail]

You mean Noah's dog ? He's the only one.When I played CoP for the first time I killed Noah after he fired his warning shot

I soon realized I needed Noah alive to progress through the story and started a second playthrough

[finite dragon]

I mean, that tamed dog in the Clear sky base

[obsidian trail]

Idk about that one.I only visited the CS base twice anyway

Most of my time in CS was either in the Dark Valley,Garbage or Abandoned Hospital

[flint moth]

if cs is gonna be mentioned, hopefully the other cannon mentions from SOC will be too, dark stalkers, interception, etc

[obsidian trail]

GSC not adding the Sin faction in the original games makes sense.They didn't have a lot of money and time and all 3 games were released 1 year apart

And probably technicaly too

If Stalker 2 is gonna have the largest open world ever then there's clearly room for the Dark Stalkers

[worthy lagoon]

That's only in Anomaly, not Clear Sky.

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/see-nobody-cares-not-a-big-deal-its-fine-no-big-deal-gif-16076896

[hidden stratus]

Just stay away from anomaly

[finite dragon]

Oh...

I swear I could remember that dog in CS

[honest bridge]

There was never a friendly dog in CS

[worthy lagoon]

The only friendly dog is in CoP

Noah's dog

[honest bridge]

*Jesse's dog

Jesse Pinkman in the Zone

[obsidian trail]

No

[finite dragon]

damn it

[obsidian trail]

[hot reef]

r mercs a faction that r always mad at me? in call of pripyat

[honest bridge]

Mercs are not kinda a faction, they are...mercs as the name suggest. You may find a enemy mercs in the Zaton but also you can find neutral mercs in near the Yanov station in the ecologist bunker

[hot reef]

So if i kill the mercs in Zaton the mercs at the ecoligist bunker wont get mad at me?

[honest bridge]

Basically

[hot reef]

Oki thx for da info luv u

[fluid abyss]

Erm… Stalker is rated M for Mature

[versed crypt]

You're only allowed to do that if you start a war with Vasim in en_stalker about Anomaly

[hazy helm]

why is a 14 y old in the internet...

[carmine crest]

I was on the internet at 8/9, what does it matter .-.

[pseudo gazelle]

Yes.

It means your parents didn't stop you from joining the cesspool that is the Internet.

[carmine crest]

I grew up normal and played outside like normal kids do so I fail to see why it matters. I was not watching mind melting tiktok or vine, so that might be why.

[hazy helm]

😔 the problem

[versed crypt]

Don't know maybe this is time for a Vasim debate.

[carmine crest]

It might be that time

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/kanye-west-kanyewest-yeezy-meme-gif-22503154

[ember kettle]

Hey guys, does anyone know if stalker 2 will have any kind of online mode?

[finite dragon]

Does anyone know how to get both the second knife and binoculars in SoC?

Knife can be taken in Arena (without talking to Wolf first) and then by talking to him

But then Petryha doesn't spawn with binoculars anymore 😦

[worthy lagoon]

Agreed

[worthy lagoon]

Wdym

[finite dragon]

1 min, I will make a screenshot

[pale pivot]

im gonna eat u bro u better hide

[finite dragon]

nvm, I cannot even upload an image here for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[solid dome]

12 hours of good sleep

[amber tendon]

:)

[solid dome]

I slept through the day....

I'm armed and dangerous, so I ask, where is my
STALKER 3?!

[pale pivot]

2052

[pearl jacinth]

doubt it lol

[wheat gulch]

Can't wait for delay announcement!

[broken latch]

@ember kettle it will have a detachmatch

[broken latch]

You can in #💬┃en_offtop

[broken latch]

It's the same thing as "bread"

[broken latch]

On the north side of x18 there should be a lot of anoamlies and some metal thin structures with stairs, it has a guitar and a hand radio and few artifacts in and around it

I've never seen outside mods someone getting 2nd knife

But in soc and cs you can get binoculars from some npcs in cordon i think

[toxic vector]

Dragon dogma 2 has release day already but still no news for stalker 2

[pale pivot]

i mean ig more development time for stalker 2 to be good

[toxic vector]

well, i just hope it's still within Q1

[azure steppe]

Can't believe I just heard of stalker games and I'm 33. Just got the bundle. Man's it's a dream game iv always been looking for. Lolol.

Been stuck on it. Started with call of pyprat. Or w.e

[solid dome]

You found the right path, stalker

You were at a crossroad, my son!

[pearl jacinth]

welcome to the zone! leaving is impossible.

[azure steppe]

Yea I truly can't believe how good the game is. I use the nature mod. And gunslinger. That's it. But yea it's addictive. Iv Been wanting a game like that for years. Fallout I heard is similar. ..

I can't imagine how good the new stalker is going to be.

[pearl jacinth]

i feel like there's a bit less struggle in fallout

[azure steppe]

Ohh really... ok ok. I never played it idk why. I think the big robot characters threw me off I don't know lol. This game is more like.. Sci fi horror my type of shit

[pearl jacinth]

metro's more like it though, althought it's more of a linear game for the first two installments

[azure steppe]

Yea metro not open world tho with side missions ect. Right?

[pearl jacinth]

occasional side mission despite the first two games being linear

metro exodus is open world throughout multiple large maps though

(also with sidequests)

[azure steppe]

Ahhhhh ok ok. There's alot of small things tho in stalker that made a difference. Like wen them dudes get mad wen I have my gun out pointing it lololol

head shit kills. The realism

It's bad ass for such a old game

[pearl jacinth]

if you've got a vr kit, into the radius is a very good game that takes inspiration from stalker

a single playthough of that game lasted me about 40 hours

[barren junco]

No one probably knows this but if you do please let me know I've always been curious will the new stalker have Ukrainian voice actors as well with out having to switch localization, one of my favorite part of the stalker games was that I never really understood everything that was being said only very little parts I had learned

Would be really cool to have that again most likely there'll be subtitles paired with It as well which'd be nice

[normal tiger]

If only that game wasn't as grindy. Way too much inventory management and other absolutely mindnumbing bs to deal with at "home base"

Don't even get me started on how you reload magazines in ITR

[pearl jacinth]

into the radius is more realism yeah

[normal tiger]

If they had adopted the ALYX approach, I wouldve stomached my dislike for the rest of its tedium

[pale pivot]

[worldly yarrow]

I liked loading each magazine and arranging my loot.

Eating pine apples and cleaning my weapons.

[finite dragon]

my prediction date for stalker 2 is 23th February 2024 at approx 12:00 AM

[pearl jacinth]

feelin like strelok rn

[silver pagoda]

I WAS ATTACKED WHILE IN A JOB 🔪
I'VE GOT HIT IN THE HEAD
AND WHEN I WOKE UP
I WAS IN ALMOST NOTHING BUT MY BIRTHDAY SUIT
"HERE'S YOUR BOLT!"
WHY IN THE HELL WOULD I NEED A BOLT? :questionmark:
"TAKE A LOOK AROUND"
O P E N T H E D O O R
I'VE GOT NOWHERE TO GET BACK TO, HERMAN
OVER AND OUT

[silver pagoda]

BUONGIORNO

[worthy lagoon]

Go to sleep

[honest bridge]

Böndissa

[silver pagoda]

mfer its 9:44 in the morning

[silver pagoda]

Did you just call me a female farmer dude?

[honest bridge]

No it's just dialect for saying good morning

[honest bridge]

🗿

[worthy lagoon]

There, final sleep

[silver pagoda]

oh shit ok bro my bad good morning to you too good sir

[silver pagoda]

Bro why you salty 24/7 who hurt you

[coarse echo]

Stalker good game.

I hate it so much.

Will keep playing.

[finite dragon]

Hello. How are you?

[honest bridge]

Great

[jagged gale]

I played harder games

[coarse echo]

Very cool. Such as?

[jagged gale]

I could name Tarkov
Insurgency
Hotline Miami

Nice to see other people still playing STALKER

@coarse echo I recommend you Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5 and Vector Of Alienation

these mods recreate the beta of what Shadow Of Chernobyl was supposed to be
hell it literally is the OBLIVION LOST ITSELF RE-RELEASED unofficially

[coarse echo]

Oooh, very cool.

But, does that mean including all the jank in the game? I'm all for "lore accurate" bugs as a meme, but not so much as a quality of life in gaming.

[finite dragon]

nice

[jagged gale]

"I'm all for "lore accurate" bugs as a meme" Keyword, Beta concept

it will be less memeful I believe but the ragdolls are hella janky it feels better than Shadow Of Chernobyl's

because it's I believe built on older builds of x-ray engine

[coarse echo]

Very cool.

Hm, well I'm pretty new to Stalker, so I intend to play the entire mainline series first.

[jagged gale]

you should really try out VOA someday

or OLR 2.5

[coarse echo]

What's VoA in a nutsack?

[jagged gale]

Vector Of Alienation

[coarse echo]

Yeah, I mean what do it do?

[jagged gale]

Ah VOA is pretty much similar to OLR 2.5 but it's probably kind of worse? It uses SOC animations for most guns and feels less similar to the old concepts but the storyline is more accurate than OLR 2.5 which is ironic because OLR 2.5 was the first and should have done it first

[coarse echo]

Basically, my play order is currently:

1. Mainline in order
2. Anomaly
3. Gamma

[coarse echo]

La mao

How many hours do you estimate it would take for Master playthrough?

[jagged gale]

Brother I am playing every stalker game on MASTER always because the trilogy KILLED the sense of difficulty for me

[coarse echo]

I am playing every single game on Master, though.

[jagged gale]

nice

[coarse echo]

Said it was the way Stalker was intended to be played, so I went along with it.

[jagged gale]

uuuh I suggest don't play Anomaly as a story game
if you don't have imagination you'll get hella bored

[coarse echo]

Does it have good gunplay?

If so, I can plug the gap in story using the mainline entries.

[jagged gale]

most folks here hate Anomaly because of how much idiots it brought the community
who think Anomaly IS THE REAL STALKER or Anomaly should overthrow to OG 2007-2009 stalker games

[jagged gale]

no comment coz I dunno how to describe it

[jagged gale]

dude the story in Anomaly are nothing but couple of quests
and GAMMA bro, that's a MODPACK for anomaly and not a mod itself

[coarse echo]

For an old game, SoC has very good gunplay.

So, I kinda expect it to go up from there.

[silver pagoda]

selva slav is biased against gamma and anomaly, they are good mods but not for story, its sandbox, crafting etc. Dont expect a story game from them

[jagged gale]

wdym I am biased?

I am literally the least anomaly opposing person here

[silver pagoda]

because you act as if anomaly and gamma are the reason morons exist in this world

[jagged gale]

oh ok nvm you have a point

[coarse echo]

I like Stalker's story, yes, but if the gunplay makes up for it then I'm still down to play it.

[jagged gale]

I mean wait, I thought everyone thought that

[pseudo gazelle]

Try to play Story mods after you've finished the trilogy. Goldsphere and Dollchan have better stories and quests than Anomaly.

[silver pagoda]

try out gunslinger mods maybe on 64bit engine

[coarse echo]

The OGSR engine?

[silver pagoda]

they change gameplay though, but story is still there

[jagged gale]

oh yeah Gunslinger for COP

[silver pagoda]

there is also OGSR + gunslinger for SOC, which I am forced to use because the trilogy crashes on my rig constantly

64bit engine fixes crashes for me (majority of them anyway)

[jagged gale]

damn

how come?

[silver pagoda]

4090 + 13900k does not like 32bit xray engine at all

even underclocked

[jagged gale]

I use 3060 + AMD 5 5500

[silver pagoda]

yeah its my rig, in my 2080ti and 12900k CoP plays fine

[jagged gale]

hmmm

[silver pagoda]

To play clear sky I need to use last fallout mod because it uses a better version of open xray for CS

[jagged gale]

The Oblivion Lost story concept was much darker than what we got today so I believe you will like OLR 2.5 and VOA

Anyways Anomaly isn't bad, but really I only recommend it if you have imagination to Immerse yourself

I plan reinstalling it anyway

[silver pagoda]

anomaly is good after you play og games and know the game

[jagged gale]

yu-up

[silver pagoda]

otherwise its just too confusing for new players

[jagged gale]

The bad thing about both of them is the navigation there are quests in the game that just don't show the marker of where you're supposed to go?

We get told where to go but still it's just that quests aren't shown their locations
in both OLR and VOA

[coarse echo]

Then it's a good thing I'm going mainline Master first.

I've got plenty of Rubles. What's the best early game weapon I can get?

I'm already at Bar, if that matters.

[silver pagoda]

Ι stuck with ak + scope + G launcher until I got an ASVAL From monolith personally

[solid dome]

I... am... I... I am.. .alive

[fast stratus]

HI

[fast stratus]

good

[whole harbor]

I want to have a drink with someone at 100 RADS

[jagged gale]

ok

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[worthy lagoon]

Your GPU will burn in 7 days

No more STALKER for you

[worthy lagoon]

You're not

[solid dome]

Come in

[solid dome]

Damn you, He-Man!

You will never rule Castle Greyskull!

[fast stratus]

today was a good day for me

[solid dome]

Terrible for me

[fast stratus]

whyyyyyyy?

[grave hearth]

my day has barely started

[silver pagoda]

it cant burn, arctic levels of cooling

[worthy lagoon]

I warned you

[silver pagoda]

good luck my boy, u wont succeed

[solid dome]

I can't find STALKER 2 on my PC, its missing, it is missiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing /awkward silence/

[fast stratus]

But it's not even released

[untold karma]

Hey

if i pre order physical edition will the game still be a digital ?

like will i get a code for a digital copy of the game like via steam or something n jsut receive all my physical items in the post

[hazy helm]

the PC edition comes with a steam code

[hot reef]

Is Garry gonna come to stalker 2?

[untold karma]

great because i want to pre order the physical ultimate edition but i dont even have a pc that can run the game xD but i want the bag n dog tag lol so i plan to buy the game then continue to put money aside for a PC xD

[fast stratus]

who's garry?

[hot reef]

the guy from call if pripyat that wants to go to Pripyat really bad

[fast stratus]

he is just like me

[hot reef]

Crazy

[fast stratus]

no im not crazyyyyy

[hot reef]

I dont mean it literally i just mean that its crazy

[fast stratus]

pripyat is beautiful

[hot reef]

Yes yes but the little thingys in coats i think they r Burers r pretty cringe

[fast stratus]

who?

[hot reef]

the lil dudes that r in coats and control ur mind

[untold karma]

ayo? 0-0

[fast stratus]

monolith or bandits? no worries

[hot reef]

they r Mutants not stalkers

google them on Wiki

[fast stratus]

ok.

BTW i love my new chrome theme

[solid dome]

Garry may not, not sure about Barry as well

[hot reef]

ok

what do emissions do in Call of pripyat? make more artifacts?

[old jungle]

yes

[hot reef]

Cool thx for da info :3

[fast stratus]

HI

[old jungle]

Hello

[fast stratus]

i found the powerpoint presntation that i created with your help

[old jungle]

nice, may I see it?

[fast stratus]

yeah

[fast stratus]

where should i send it

[versed crypt]

What kind of presentation is it?

[old jungle]

you can DM me

[fast stratus]

about stalker and the real life events

[versed crypt]

Interesting

[fast stratus]

yeah. but it is short

[hot reef]

Okay why r the Monolith praising the garbage of pripyat?

[calm fox]

Why have you left us oh monolith

[versed crypt]

Because Monolithians would praise toilet full of faeces if you told them the Monolith did it.

[glossy blade]

Based Monolith soldiers do not hesitate to follow the orders

[fast stratus]

They remind me of some people

[pastel zephyr]

Wait I'm really confused. On the website, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 physical edition shows its a pc version. Is it a disc copy, or will it just give you a key to the game? I will totally buy a super expensive physical copy of the game if I can get a digital key, but if it's a cd that I can't use I'll probably just buy a month or two of game pass.

[pale pivot]

That’s why there are cd keys

[pastel zephyr]

Either I'm stupid or that doesn't make sense, anyways it took a while but I figured out its a digital key included in the box if you choose the pc version, xbox has a real disc. Epic!

[pale pivot]

Even if there was a disc they include a cd key on the inside of the box

If it’s a pc disc

[pastel zephyr]

That makes sense now. I'm young and have never bought a physical computer game before.

[broken latch]

Psy antenna

[broken latch]

Code

[glossy blade]

PC pre order goes with a Steam key

[green isle]

hi all, is anyone aware of any online shops in EU that still have the ultimate physical edition available for preorder ? I think i went through the entire list from the preorder channel and all those seem to be out of stock 🙂

[obsidian trail]

Deadly anomalies,dangerous mutants,anarchist,Bandits and the worst of them all:women.None of them will stop Dutys triumphant March towards saving the zone and the zones homosexuality

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY GOOD LUCK CHARM, REMEMBER?
ITS AN EMPTY SHELL 🐚
DECIDED TO PLAY SOLDIER?! WITH ME?!
DMYTRO AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN PUZZLE WE FOUND IN THE ZONE
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET ALL THE PIECES TO FIT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BE PUPPETS
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD STEP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STRIDER
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY THE PSI FIELDS WERE TURNED OFF
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF MONOLITH WAS GONE!
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COMA!
AND THROUGH THE SCOPE, I SAW THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER FALL
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE! 🕴️
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER EMISSION
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET CONTROL OF THE ANOMALOUS ENERGY
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT PATH
UNLIKE YOU

[torn bear]

contacted game-legends, gameware and amazon germany+uk. seems like there wont be another wave of physical ultimate editions. they all said the same: just hope that people gonna make a refund and be lucky enough to get one of these..

[obsidian trail]

"YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY GOOD LUCK CHARM, REMEMBER? hmm_cheeki
ITS AN EMPTY SHELL shell
DECIDED TO PLAY SOLDIER?! WITH ME?! GigaKek
DMYTRO AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN PUZZLE WE FOUND IN THE ZONE checkthepins
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET ALL THE PIECES TO FIT Wahh
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT stare
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BE PUPPETS apostle_eu
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD STEP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS banchou_zoomin
IM SORRY, STRIDER kekpray
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.... LOL
THAT WAS THE DAY THE PSI FIELDS WERE TURNED OFF smile_strelok
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF MONOLITH WAS GONE! hand_1_eu hand_2_eu
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COMA! oracle_eu
AND THROUGH THE SCOPE, I SAW THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER FALL pepe40k_reeee
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE! levitate
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER EMISSION emissions_eu
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET CONTROL OF THE ANOMALOUS ENERGY shaker
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT PATH O_gigachad
UNLIKE YOU F_sidorovic"

[broken latch]

Please no more of this spam

[pastel zephyr]

Cheeki breeki

[finite dragon]

Truly a

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moment

[obsidian trail]

Shut up Merc

Monothot...I like that nickname.
Also...

Good evening Strelok-sama :3

Monothot,thanks for the nickname Strelok-sama

Jokes on you I actually want to be beheaded by big strong men(It's nothing sxual,just something I like as a hoby)

[pale pivot]

Bro 💀

Imma start using that

[pale pivot]

Are you acoustic?

[frigid yacht]

Guys i just saw the bew stalker trailer

WE GETTING SOMEWHERE

[pale pivot]

RAAGHG

WE GETTIN SOMEWHERE YALLL

[obsidian trail]

Do I look like an Instrument to you ?

[pale pivot]

Are they acoustic?" According to the Urban Dictionary, 'acoustic' is an intentional mispronunciation of 'autistic,' and it is frequently used in response to actions deemed "ridiculously stupid or ignorant" by the commenter.

Nah ur actually restarted

[normal tiger]

mofos in here have UP Syndrome

https://tenor.com/view/black-man-down-syndrome-rizz-gif-13021584249069787017

[finite dragon]

whats a mofos

[obsidian trail]

So in order to get the true ending of Shadow of Chernobyl I have to:
-Grab Ghosts documents after turning off the PSY-emissions
-Head to Streloks lair to meet his partner
-get to the CNPP and enter the underground lair
-Insert the code
-fight a bunch of Monolith soldiers
-refuse the C-conscience thing
I want to re-play SoC and am asking since the first time I played It I got the "I wish for the Zone to disappear" ending

[worthy lagoon]

That's gay

[rose flint]

Is there a date yet when NA will be able to pre-order the ULTIMATE PHYSICAL EDITION? I really don't want to miss out.

[pale pivot]

When I say so

[obsidian trail]

No I'm not gay.I'm entirely 100% straight I just like being treated that way that's all

I swear

[wheat gulch]

Still no gameplay video

It is ogre

[pale pivot]

u like being manhandled by big strong men? thats kinda gay bro

monothot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjDMwsbaSd8

my fav trailer

[obsidian trail]

No It's not gay.It's just a hobby that enter in sometime

[pale pivot]

mhmm

[obsidian trail]

Please belive me.We Monolith members are the straightest in the Zone.The voice of the Monolith told us to appreciate women.

[pale pivot]

We're not gay! proceeds to tongue kiss the next guy over

monolith are known to be the gayest dudes around

#💬┃en_offtop message

[broken latch]

🏴‍☠️ not in the seven seas of pirates

[obsidian trail]

That's not true ! As a Monolithian myself we do not perform any gay activities.Kissing the homies goodnight =/homosexuality

[worthy lagoon]

Sure

[obsidian trail]

[broken latch]

[wide aspen]

gorgeous freeman

[obsidian trail]

Enough about the debate why I'm not gay

I'm currently re-playing SoC and gonna try to get the true ending

Wish me luck boys >w○

[sand fiber]

uwu

[broken latch]

[hidden stratus]

Is the Stalker 2 website working for any of you?

I used the link from youtube

[fossil fiber]

Yes, it works

[hidden stratus]

Must be something on my end then, been a black screen for days now, probably the browser.

[fossil fiber]

Try to clear browser history including cookies

[obsidian trail]

Thank you NozAr-sama

uwu

[hidden stratus]

Worked thanks, wanted to show someone something a while ago. Not like there is a chance the physical edition getting restocked

[fossil fiber]

Maybe when we get the final release date but it's hard to say

[hidden stratus]

We are technically 3 months away from release, it would make sense for there to be a restock this month because of holidays but if not then it dont look like we will.

Its mainly the figurine that got my attention. Though it does not say anything about the size of it

[fossil fiber]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[hidden stratus]

Oh wow I missed that, that is a decent size. Thought it would be more around 10 inches from the pictures

[fossil fiber]

Dm'ed you how the figurine looks like in real life. You can see the size of it relative to a energy drink can

[remote crow]

Has anyone else been able to preorder the physical edition yet?

[mossy verge]

How is it currently? This time it's set for April

[rapid umbra]

i love when russian stalker vids get translated but they still keep things like modpacks being called assemblies lol

[toxic kettle]

typical russian slang

sab ke sab kha marjate haey bae ?

[solid dome]

I have a wish, can you do anyhing about my wish @pearl jacinth @sturdy zodiac ?

[pearl jacinth]

idk

[solid dome]

For Xmas I want to wake up in the morning and have STALKER 2 booted on my PC

Aight?

[pearl jacinth]

don't worry, i know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows john gsc.

[solid dome]

Blaasphemy

I am cancelling my contacts with you, Weew

No more I endure your silly jokes

[pearl jacinth]

my dad is THE s.t.a.l.k.e.r. he give you beta access

[finite dragon]

hello. how are you?

i want to choose a faction. which one should i choose?

[tiny olive]

Let the faction choose you

Good Hunting

[finite dragon]

seriously, i want to change my faction and don't know which. any advice?

[tiny olive]

Normally, i go with Clear Sky or Mercs

Monolith are intense, but only at early, honestly

[finite dragon]

i don't remember but is there a us, russian or chinese faction?

[tiny olive]

If you want pure poverty, go zombified.

[tiny olive]

No lol

[finite dragon]

i chose the mercs faction, i will be a mercenary, but a noble mercenary like guts from berserk. fighting to protect people against monsters

[tiny olive]

M in Mercs is Money

[finite dragon]

how do i change the faction?

never mind, i found it

i am officialy a merc

[solid dome]

4️⃣ 🇩 🇦 🇾 🇸

[fast stratus]

hi

[fast stratus]

to what?

[solid dome]

You seriously serious?

[fast stratus]

Yeah. 4 days to what???

[sturdy zodiac]

I got a wish too, I wish you'd stop pinging me about this.

[fast stratus]

I also have a wish. I wish I can buy stalker

[solid dome]

Dead ass? I pinged you 3, 4 times tops in total for a year. I wish we can talk ST2 instead of bashing each other.

[solid dome]

Geoff Keighly coming out as a gay a.k.a. TGA 2023 a.k.a last gaming event for the year a.k.a. our portal to Hopelandia

[sturdy zodiac]

Not trying to be hostile, just a simple request.

[solid dome]

Deals a deal. No more pings from me whatsoever, you'll never hear from me in your DMs, you lost a friend-from-the-Zone. Not even a medkit I'll throw at you when you bleed out in Limansk, wolves will do you good.

[fast stratus]

i got it

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY GOOD LUCK CHARM, REMEMBER?
ITS AN EMPTY SHELL 🐚
DECIDED TO PLAY SOLDIER?! WITH ME?!
DMYTRO AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN PUZZLE WE FOUND IN THE ZONE
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET ALL THE PIECES TO FIT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BE PUPPETS
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD STEP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STRIDER
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY THE PSI FIELDS WERE TURNED OFF
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF MONOLITH WAS GONE!
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COMA!
AND THROUGH THE SCOPE, I SAW THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER FALL
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE! 🕴️
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER EMISSION
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET CONTROL OF THE ANOMALOUS ENERGY
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT PATH
UNLIKE YOU

[solid dome]

👌

[gilded sentinel]

4 days to rogue trader of course

[solid dome]

In other news... 4 days to go ROGUE ON OURSELVES

[fast stratus]

wow

[fast stratus]

It's the final countdown

[valid pagoda]

Ping him again bro, for old time sake

[mighty spear]

Finaly could preorder the Stalker 2 Physical Ultimate edition. I cannot wait ❤️

[obsidian trail]

Good afternoon boys

uwu

[mighty spear]

Le hello there uwu!

[solid dome]

No chance, pal

I, instead, ping meself - @solid dome

[green isle]

gratz, where'd you find it ?

[mighty spear]

It's on preorder on a french online shop 🙂

It also has other versions available

[green isle]

awesome, but which shop exatly 😄 i went through the entire list and none of these shops in any country seem to have these available any more 🙂

[obsidian trail]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/738588944605773965.png?v=1&size=48&quality=lossless

Hewwo

:3

[mighty spear]

https://www.fnac.com/a16698383/S-T-A-L-K-E-R-2-Heart-of-Chernobyl-Ultimate-Edition-PC-Jeu-video-PC

Here's a link for you my friend! 🙂 It's on preoder. You only pay when it's sent ^^

[mighty spear]

What's up? :3

[obsidian trail]

I'm very good Dr. Freeman

[mighty spear]

Glad to hear. And glad to see you got the nod at Half-Life :3

[obsidian trail]

Ofc.Ever since I got HL1 for free I've been enjoying the series even more.

I always have fun in the multiplayer

Good afternoon Strelok-sama

https://tenor.com/view/soap-gif-27178121

[mighty spear]

Great to hear! Half-Life is life 😄

[obsidian trail]

Fr.Half-Life has more life than modern games

[mighty spear]

Definitely. I replayed it again for the 25th B-Day. Always the masterpiece ❤️

[mighty spear]

:3

[remote crow]

Silence

[obsidian trail]

[torn bear]

amazon uk has the PC Ultimate Edition in Stock. Pre-oredered a moment ago

[fast stratus]

I gonna pre order when I get the money

[toxic kettle]

why so quiet ?

[remote crow]

^

[torn bear]

would prefer another delay over a broken game

[normal bobcat]

Yeah

thats understandable too

[torn bear]

yeah at amazon uk

[remote crow]

Hmmm

[torn bear]

@remote crow https://www.amazon.co.uk/S-T-L-K-R-Chernobyl-Exclusive/dp/B09DJFZGZ1?th=1

[fast stratus]

im downloading stalker mod on minecraft

[slender crown]

im in x10 in soc and i dont have any bullets, any ideas?

[deft flume]

Use knife

or break some crates u might find some bullets

[slender crown]

i came back to the bar

[deft flume]

yea it's better that way xD

[solid dome]

Silence, you furbrain

[solid dome]

Christ, help the poor man retain his common sense

[stark steppe]

Cant wait for S2 to never come out because its that good

[whole hull]

Ey Mol1t, Can you tell us if STALKER 2 will have more or less RPG elements than the original trilogy?

[jagged gale]

too good for this world 😭

[remote crow]

Eat

[bleak glen]

Greetings from Montenegro, Stalkers. Let me ask the admins. I ordered and pay for the ultimate collector edition STAKER 2 XSX, here in Montenegro. Can you tell me when I can expect the package 📦 which date is planned by the publisher? I'm looking forward to grabbing it 😊

[mighty spear]

Stalker 2 is expected to be released during first trimester of 2024. That'll of course depends on many obvious factors though and we have yet to receive any confirmation.

[broken latch]

It will be stalker

[bleak glen]

Thank you for your prompt response. When I saw this Ultimate collector, I immediately fell in love. I immediately bought it at our local store that is offering that bundle on presale. Best collector pack for all time, congratulations for this pack and idea

🇲🇪

[mighty spear]

Glad I could help! I preordered it too! Let's wait for the great day now ^^

[bleak glen]

I agree

[finite dragon]

I wanna buy a collector's edition but they're all out of stock everywhere

This is what years of waiting does 😔

Well except that one in Germany which costs 290 something, unopened

I remember there being one for 50something some 6 years ago but I guess the Stalker 2 hype snagged it

[solid dome]

Then what do we play for the rest of our lives? Grand Online Scam VI?!

[stark steppe]

[solid dome]

I don't want to be Strauss Zeldick's... stripper!

STALKER 2, please.

Molit not saying anything whether they be on the show in couple of days literally makes my brain rot

[finite dragon]

is swiss cheese like the cheese with holes

[pearl jacinth]

yes

[finite dragon]

woah

why does it have holes in it

[pearl jacinth]

idk ask the swiss

[finite dragon]

chrizmas

[remote crow]

S.A.D. by MoozE makes me go to heaven

[solid dome]

R.A.D. by GSC makes my life complete

A rad game b bad ass game

• Krezzin, 2023

[finite dragon]

fr lmao

imagine GSC adds stalker to PS5

would be cool

[hidden stratus]

Heard it will be a timed exclusive for Xbox/PC.

[solid dome]

Trashstation 5? You seen how the hardware on the new model looks? Cheapest sheit on Earth

It won't even be able to boot Stalker 2's intro, my boy

[hidden stratus]

As someone who came from trashstation to pc, it's not that bad. Most ps users play on their tv anyways so they prob wont care abt the performance

[finite dragon]

That GSC for you

[solid dome]

🤔

[finite dragon]

Hello. How are you?

[fluid sphinx]

Man I'm so hyped for stalker 2

No drm, gog release, system requirements aren't too bad, trailers all look good

We need that release date announcement tho

[slender crown]

black raven, black raven

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY GOOD LUCK CHARM, REMEMBER?
ITS AN EMPTY SHELL 🐚
DECIDED TO PLAY SOLDIER?! WITH ME?!
DMYTRO AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN PUZZLE WE FOUND IN THE ZONE
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET ALL THE PIECES TO FIT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BE PUPPETS
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD STEP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STRIDER
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY THE PSI FIELDS WERE TURNED OFF
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF MONOLITH WAS GONE!
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COMA!
AND THROUGH THE SCOPE, I SAW THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER FALL
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE! 🕴️
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER EMISSION
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET CONTROL OF THE ANOMALOUS ENERGY
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT PATH
UNLIKE YOU

[finite dragon]

Guys, the game will have multiple choices right? Like multiple endings and stuff. What if Strider is crying because the player chose the bad ending?

What if the player decided to become the Shadow of Chornobyl?

[west harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[fervent beacon]

If i kill saharov in SoC with a bug can i loot the items he has to offer or they will just not be there?

[pale prairie]

I AM the call of pripyat

[finite dragon]

Wait I thought Sakharov was immortal

Eh, modbrain. Well, I don't think so

[fervent beacon]

With a bit of luck and a bug he is not

[pale prairie]

also to my knowledge, no. but i could be wrong

[fast stratus]

i have no moneyyyyyyyyyyy to buy stalkerrrrrr

[fast stratus]

i am heart of chernobyl

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[finite dragon]

Just download more money

[pale prairie]

Download ram

[fast stratus]

Yeah that was helpful 🗿

[finite dragon]

Always glad to help!

[fast stratus]

How can 8 download steam giftcrads

[finite dragon]

it's just a compressed gaming laptop made to hold cd's!

[hazy helm]

at least it has a cd player unlike your new pc

[gaunt burrow]

[broken latch]

4 confirmed endings

[gaunt burrow]

Will we meet main characters of previous games?

[balmy hound]

Yep, it's way confirmed Mätt.

[hazy helm]

hopefully not

[gaunt burrow]

[gaunt burrow]

lol why?

[hazy helm]

they already botched up strelok in CoP
I have no confidence whatsoever that tehy can do it well
besides,they work best as a legend,a myth,not a character
strelok the pathfinder
scar the mercenary
they are at their best when they are storys hushed under a campfire with vague proponents of truth

heightens the mistery

[balmy hound]

Last trailer was with Strider, a former character if you didn't know

[gaunt burrow]

hmm makes sense tbh. I see your point

[gaunt burrow]

haven't seen that trailer yet but I do like Strider. Glad that he'll be in Stalker 2

[balmy hound]

It's all fresh : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNGbS0fY80s

[gaunt burrow]

Very good stuff right there

[worthy lagoon]

Strelok based on CoP ending is a key character for the giv or sircaa, so we will surely see Strelok

[hazy helm]

tahst exactly the problem

I would not mind if they retcon him out of CoP

[worthy lagoon]

I would mind

I want to see how bald he became

[gaunt burrow]

Speaking about Strelok, am I the only one who thinks that he should've been more equipped in CoP? I feel like he should have had better weapon(s) than just AKM-74/2

[gilded sentinel]

He doesent know

[obsidian trail]

What If the player decided to become anomaly

[gaunt burrow]

Then you better Clear Sky

[fervent beacon]

Is there any good way to get some ammo in cnpp i didn't have enough SoC

[solid dome]

Wish for more at the Wish Granter, the chinese one will provide you cheap ones at affordable price

[fervent beacon]

That was a good one👍

[solid dome]

Chinese Wish Granter do be cool

[fervent beacon]

But like is there any way to actually get boolet in CNPP SoC

[solid dome]

Not if you didn't stock up on ammo beforehand I guess

Roll back to a previous save and buy enough, dude

CNPP do be impossible to do without enough ammo, if you aren't into cheating ofc

[gaunt burrow]

Facts

[fervent beacon]

Thats the fucky wucky i made i didn't hard save anywhere

So now

[hazy helm]

you should be feeling the shortness of ammo by CNPP where you would most logicvally start scavenging and conserving ammo in a more difficult management fight

its a good dungeon

[fervent beacon]

Eh 22 ammo on IL86,2 rockets on rpg-7,and 3 VOG-25 doesn't feel so good i might say

[hazy helm]

my brother's taking the RPG
based

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[fervent beacon]

What can i say i love the rpg-7

[hazy helm]

by scavenging I mean relying on ammo you find in cropses as well as weapons

[fervent beacon]

Thank

The stalker discord wisdom shall help me

[fervent beacon]

It's funny how you can shoot rocket

That eradicates enemies, what can i say you don't get to do that in a lot of games

[solid dome]

You screwed up, Jesse

[fervent beacon]

Now it's time to cook

[broken latch]

Loot corpses

You shouldn't be spending more then 1-4 bullets per person

[fervent beacon]

Maybe i should kill the snipers in the spawn area? I killed one and he gave 10 bullets and a broken sniper rifle,Perhaps there will be one that has a semi-broken one?

[jagged gale]

Why are you such a liar

you should spend 2 mags tops of 8mm on a trenchcoat bandit
to the chest

[fervent beacon]

And make holes in his dead body🤨 .

[jagged gale]

you can't

[fervent beacon]

Sadly

[jagged gale]

I hate this
somewhat only Max Payne 3 and Chernobylite gets this right

[obsidian trail]

Having a PC that can insert both a CD and USB is truly a gaming setup

Mine can do both

[broken latch]

What kind of pc nowdays cannot take a usb

How do they use a mouse and a keyboard

[pearl jacinth]

excellent

[jagged gale]

Stalker is retconned enough as it is due to clear sky
mainly speaking about the maps and fang

[obsidian trail]

I want to see how strong Strider became after he left

Before he left ,he once pinned me against the wall and chocked me

[hazy helm]

stfu

[obsidian trail]

I tried to keep a serious face but couldn't.Strider-sama is simply the best

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-hyde-stare-sam-hyde-gif-26166704

[honest bridge]

[onyx prawn]

have yall noticed that in the recent video strider uses a dragunov, while in call of pripyat he had svu?

[old jungle]

Yes, I did notice

[onyx prawn]

there are only two options

either he used a different weapon before cop

or forgor💀

[broken latch]

Why are you comparing soc and cop

[old jungle]

He could simply have changed weapons, stalkers probably do it often

[onyx prawn]

wdym

[broken latch]

You compared trailer soc to cop gameplay

There's been some time between those two events

[onyx prawn]

you keep saying soc

that's why I got confused

[broken latch]

Trailer depicts strider on top of cnpp during soc

[onyx prawn]

yeah I'm just saying I noticed that

[old jungle]

I think there is not a lot of time between the end of SoC and the beginning of CoP, but we don't know for sure

[onyx prawn]

not that much probably

you can tell by the dates on pda in each game

I'm sure both cop and soc happened in 2012

[old jungle]

SoC starts on May 1st 2012. Cop starts on August 3rd 2012.

[broken latch]

Yeah but under the influence of monolith, monolith probably orders which and what soldiers to go where and probably even tell them to leave snipers at the sniper nests

[gaunt burrow]

We also don't know in which month did canonical ending of SoC happened

I really doubt that Strelok could go all the way to the Sarcophagus in just few days lore wise

[onyx prawn]

ok now olivius in coc is bugged

he only sells a bandag, all of his stock is gone

[old jungle]

Yes, I agree

[hazy helm]

You remind me of the guy that plays the stalker games in real life time
So he spends like 50 hours in cordon?

[pearl jacinth]

holy shit?

[gaunt burrow]

There are around 18 locations (if you're going by canon ending). You mean to tell me that 1 human, even though he's very strong and experienced stalker speedrunned all those dangerous locations in just few days? That doesn't even make sense lore wise

Obviously main characters are unstoppable in the game but they need break, sleep etc etc

[hazy helm]

Went and checked
Tejas says he likes to spend 80 hours in cordon

[gaunt burrow]

Are you going to engage in a discussion or just make fun of my messages?

[broken latch]

A month passed between him raiding aprogrom and waking up with amnesia

[hazy helm]

I'm not
I genuinely am not
I'm trying to remember what was tejas reasons for doing this
This ain't a joke tejas is real

[sturdy zodiac]

Dude just wanted to learn the secrets of the zone

Do some people watching, learn all the intricacies.

[pearl jacinth]

did he just walk around the rookie village in circles after doing everything

[sturdy zodiac]

No, I think I remember a post where he was saying that he'd just watch stuff happen

I wish I had that kind of patience

[pearl jacinth]

freedom and duty at their biggest war yet

and this dude's just chilling in the middle of the battlefield like

imagine if the ai in stalker 2 is able to catch on to people doing this

[hazy helm]

He does videos for YouTube of CoC
He's on his like 200+ vid
I respect the guy

Lord know I wouldn't be able to do it

[gaunt burrow]

Btw I understand he destroys the C-Consciousness, but then he goes and lays in some grass? Where? Or is it just a dream, a hallucination caused by exposure to psi-waves generated by the Wish Granter?

Lowkey never understood that part where everything suddenly feels normal

[pearl jacinth]

maybe the dude just kinda

walks until he finds grass LOL

destroys CCON
"i could really use some grass rn"

[gaunt burrow]

Lore accurate Strelok

[hazy helm]

I know there is a cinematic that a lot of mods like to use where after strelik kills the C-Consciousness the lab begins self destructing and strelok grabs a tank and drives away from the CNPP,I dunno if that's fan made or not

Don't remember now

[pearl jacinth]

where did he get the tank

[hazy helm]

The army

[pearl jacinth]

the army grunt that hid in the tank when strelok hops in and immediately starts operating it

[gaunt burrow]

Strelok knowing how to operate a tank doesn't seem too far fetched tbh, considering he already knows how to use every weapon in the Zone

I always assumed he was in the army before, maybe even in Spetsnaz

[pearl jacinth]

he had to be taught how to use the PDA

assuming the pda tutorial as canon

[pearl jacinth]

maybe he played a bunch of video games

[gaunt burrow]

[pearl jacinth]

i like how all these mod authors unanimously decided that cinematic goes hard

[hazy helm]

BC it unimaginably does

Have you seen it

Shame I can't find it BC I don't remember the mod
All I can find is shitty gamma and anomaly videos

[broken latch]

It was cut content

They probably cut it because it pretty much destroys the whole zone

[obsidian trail]

And CS isn't too fat behind SoC ?

[slender crown]

is it actually possible to get a exoskeleton suit in soc without spending 10 hours griding for money?

[broken latch]

Stash or cnpp

[gaunt burrow]

CS started in September 10 of 2011

[slender crown]

whats cnpp?

[obsidian trail]

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

[slender crown]

well im heading there and i have bad items

[obsidian trail]

Good luck then

[slender crown]

нет....

[gaunt burrow]

@slender crown before going there I suggest you to buy ammo and better equipement

[slender crown]

for better equipment i need money

[gaunt burrow]

It'll come very in handy trust me

[slender crown]

i have a good gun with bad condition

wait do weapons despawn?

[obsidian trail]

No

[gaunt burrow]

Afaik no

They'll just remain on the ground

[obsidian trail]

I'll convince my brothers and siblings to let you in

[slender crown]

im about to be rich i did the brain schorcher mission and killed every monolith im gonna sell their guns

thanks, tell them strelok coming through with or without their will

[gaunt burrow]

Man tbh money shouldn't be an issue in Shadow of Chernobyl at all

There are artifacts laying around literally everywhere

[slender crown]

i need 200 artifacts to buy a exoskeleton

[gaunt burrow]

Only game where getting money is somewhat challenging is Clear Sky

[gaunt burrow]

Why do you need Exoskeleton specifically?

[slender crown]

coolest armor in soc

[gaunt burrow]

Imho Skat-9M military armored suit will do the job

Or SEVA

[slender crown]

i have freedom armor currently

[gaunt burrow]

Also Exoskeleton will make you slow as hell and valnurable to atracks (you won't be able to sprint with exo as well)

Attacks* mobility is important

[tulip plover]

Yo guys, is there any information about if stalker 2 will be playable as 2 persons in the story mode?

[broken latch]

Dw you'll loot tons of stuff on your way there

[slender crown]

is worth going to meet the guide?

[gaunt burrow]

It absolutely is

[broken latch]

It's required for the true ending

[obsidian trail]

I've already told Charon and he agreed but you'll be watched strictly

[broken latch]

And they sell for like 800

You can complete soc without buying any gear

[gaunt burrow]

Yeah but still, if there was 1 thing I never had trouble with in SoC it's money

[broken latch]

CS is the only one with money issue

[gaunt burrow]

Agreed

[broken latch]

Cop is literally throwing cash at you

[gaunt burrow]

Yeah lol. I had so much money in the end of CoP that I literally didn't know how to spend all that amount

[pearl jacinth]

who even animated it

[gaunt burrow]

CoP generally wasn't challenging at all. Only keeping your companions alive parts were bit hard but that's about it

[pearl jacinth]

they are a legend to the zone

[broken latch]

GSC

[broken latch]

Those damn snorks on master difficulty were annoying

Constantly one shotting strider

[gaunt burrow]

True that

[pearl jacinth]

only one of mine made it through the pripyat underground lol

[gaunt burrow]

RIP XD. I was always reloading my save everytime my teammates died

I was always aiming for the perfect ending so couldn't afford to lose even 1 teammate

[broken latch]

If they all survive you get more interactions

[pearl jacinth]

im not gonna lie i was NOT expecting strelok to just kinda barge in

dude came outta nowhere

[gaunt burrow]

Mans for real showed up like he was meeting friends lol

Can't believe that I haven't noticed it before but Strelok is one of the very few characters that appeared in all 3 games

Second one is Nimble

[pearl jacinth]

main character energy

[gaunt burrow]

Pretty much

[pearl jacinth]

he literally WAS the main character for a whole game so

[pearl jacinth]

imagine if he just kinda turns up on S2 lol

[gaunt burrow]

Nimbles story is very interesting also

I wouldn't mind if he'll have his own game but sadly that's very unlikely to happen

[pearl jacinth]

strelok is anomalous lol

going by chronological order;
first we hate his ass, then we ARE him, and then he helps us because idk he's bored or sumn

[gaunt burrow]

Strelok is definitely goated

Also like how cocky he was in Clear Sky

[pearl jacinth]

the way he was RUNNING during that one chase sequence at the bridge lol

i don't think ive seen someone lean down so far when running

the chase and the immediately following bridge fight is probably one of the most memorable sequence of events in gaming imo

[gaunt burrow]

Bridge part is one of my favorite ones in the whole trilogy ain't gonna lie

[pearl jacinth]

it's like something out of a movie

[gaunt burrow]

Was sniping the bandits with Vintar like crazy XD

[pearl jacinth]

it felt like the music got more aggressive as i was slowly but surely running out of ammo

[winter comet]

I can't believe it took me this long to realise it, but Sidorovich's English VA also does the voice for the Volksgrenadier unit in Company of Heroes 1.

https://youtu.be/hCTS0jhWO8M

[obsidian trail]

And you only have to do that during the Pripyat1 mission

I honestly didn't do It during the Monolith ambush

[solid dome]

Hey, fellas

Can you help me out?

[winter comet]

Clear Sky was super brutal for me on my first playthrough, in part because of all the BSODs I had, but also because every time I managed to get an artifact and sell it all it got me was just enough to repair all the the gear that got worn down for me to get it.

[obsidian trail]

https://tenor.com/view/emu-otori-emu-fuiyu-gif-683680914669575247

[solid dome]

Can you help?

[obsidian trail]

With what ?

[solid dome]

I am looking for The Room with the PC STALKER 2 is installed on, I can game

[obsidian trail]

Sure,just wait until Q1 2024 and It will arrive

[solid dome]

Which one of those 100 rooms STALKER 2 is in!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[obsidian trail]

uhh

the 69th one

[solid dome]

It has double lock

[obsidian trail]

oh

[obsidian trail]

Use the Gaus rifle

works on everything

[solid dome]

And what if a trans boss is behind that door, I don't wanna witness the horrors!

I shoot myself?

[obsidian trail]

Uuuhh...use RPG-7

[solid dome]

RPMmG-700 to the rescue
Ultimate mayhem!
Destruction beyond limits!
Shocking damage!

[obsidian trail]

Who needs Mat Pat when we have our personal Mat Pat at home

https://youtu.be/yG5vxGhp_R0?si=MGYZdmB4QKXQS5pN

[solid dome]

Wake up, people, wake up, 2 days to the big show hosted by Gayoff Keighly

[hidden stratus]

What show?

[solid dome]

Gayoff's

The Gnarly Awards

[hidden stratus]

oh

[solid dome]

Most Anticipated Game for 2024 has to, must appear on the show, otherwise the show is useless

Real men express interest in anomalies in The Zone, not LGBT activities in Vice CIty

[cobalt nexus]

Vice City is 2025 and is console only. PC probably 2026. We will still be playing Stalker 2 so it matters little

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[gaunt burrow]

Likewise

[cobalt nexus]

Good day

[solid dome]

Will always be playing ST2 cause GTA is for kids

[fast stratus]

Me tooooooooooooooooo

[opaque parrot]

If there's anything I've learned with Aliens Colonial Marines back in the day, it's never trust AAA companies until release and never preorder

[cobalt nexus]

Yep going to be quite a ride