⭐┃nospoilers_general

[autumn badger]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-of-wall-street-lets-goo-gif-11742735383203550293

[gaunt burrow]

There are tons of stashes with OP guns and lots of ammo

[loud gate]

WE DID IT, LET"S GO

[gaunt burrow]

Balance basically doesn't exist in CoP

[glossy wave]

You think the episode with armor going through Pripyat the other year will be referenced in S2?

[gaunt burrow]

You can literally get Vintar in Zaton

[toxic creek]

Gratz on being featured!

[amber zealot]

It was less focused on the survival aspect. I kind of expected that given, that you already start with pretty good gear in CoP. I can see how one feels like the traditional stalker formula has been deviated too much from. I didnt really feel that way

[pale pivot]

Where can I find it?

[crisp ruin]

#📺┃media

[silk sparrow]

in the zone STALKER

[gaunt burrow]

CoP generally improved a lot of things as well

Addition of 100 tips in loading screen was nice, side missions were actually diverse and enjoyable (not like sidequests in SoC and CS, where you have to kill X person, give someone X item etc)

[hardy bear]

loved that trailer, good job

[pale pivot]

Bro the dog lmao

[gaunt burrow]

You could even find information from 2 hunters (Trapper and Gonta) about mutant hunting and info about anomalies from Pilot and even do quests about artifact hunting

[pale pivot]

GSC gotta take notes fr

[gaunt burrow]

how cool is that?

[hardy bear]

would love to get a doggi companion

just to have it killed off to remind us that nothing persists in the zone

[loud gate]

Thanks

I speak on behalf of the whole team

[amber zealot]

I felt the main missions were also better made. With the other games I never really got a break from main missions. CoP told you when you can wait with the main quest and do side quests instead.

[worthy lagoon]

happy? @silver pagoda

[amber zealot]

Also the side missions felt more alive. With each mission (set) you find out more about the zone and the people living there

[gaunt burrow]

Exactly. Side quests in CoP were a lot more diverse

[hardy bear]

I do love how they promote the community made stuff

[gaunt burrow]

You can choose not to rush through the story in other 2 games but many people still do

there's a lot of things to explore in all 3 games

even NPCs might have interesting dialogues

[keen rune]

I haven't even finished finding the 5 stingrays because there's a lot of side quests where Beard gives you

[gaunt burrow]

@keen rune kill Tuna on sight

[hardy bear]

it's fun chatting to other folks that the game doesn't directly point you towards

[gaunt burrow]

all my homies hate Tuna

[keen rune]

There's 2 tunas, which one?

[gaunt burrow]

The one that tries to take Altered Wheel artifact from you

Also 2 Tunas? you sure?

[keen rune]

In this Discord yes

[gaunt burrow]

Oh XDD

[hardy bear]

oh man, listening to some campfire songs and when 'he was a good stalker hits'.... it's really something else

[gaunt burrow]

I thought you meant in CoP

[keen rune]

I immidieately killed Tuna when he tried to rob me, I didn't believe his friend was in critical condition, straight up blasted him on sight along with his loner friends

[gaunt burrow]

If you give him that artifact then he'll give it to Beard

[keen rune]

"There's no friendship in the Zone" so anyways I started blasting

[gaunt burrow]

and achievement called "Pioneer" won't get unlocked

[keen rune]

I'm doing the side quest of finding 3 Veles detectors, I only have 1, so 2 more, after that I'm doing the shady business side quest so I can get the good ending for Beard

[gaunt burrow]

1 can be found in Kopachy village (at the excavator nearby, under the seat)

There's some chance that Hermann will sell you that detector as well, after you obtain Research Assistant achievement

[keen rune]

I heard somewhere that Owl sells you a Veles detector but not sure if that's true

[gaunt burrow]

I think that Owl will start selling Veles after you achieve friendly reputation with Stalkers. Not really sure tho

[keen rune]

I'm still trying to figure out if I should do the side quests for the good ending for Beard or go to the Stingrays since I need 2 more and go to the coords.

[gaunt burrow]

Main quests will wait. Do side quests for now

I usually do main quests after completing all the sidequests

[amber zealot]

Yeah thats true, but the game doesnt do as good of a job at telling you, as CoP

[icy prism]

I hope we get to see something from STALKER 2 today.

[solid dome]

Always did, always will

[solid dome]

We will, 0 seconds of footage

[silk sparrow]

just got online and already negative

[solid dome]

Same

[granite coral]

I don't think so but we'll see.

I'm thinking of buying GSC but need much money for it you know

[pale pivot]

For everyone’s sanity, do NOT expect anything from this dev direct from Xbox. It’s mainly covering first party Xbox exclusive titles, not timed exclusive 3rd party titles like Stalker 2

[solid dome]

For everyone’s sanity, do NOT watch the Trash. Spam STALKER 2 in the chat, memes, copypastas, anything positive.

STALKER 2 OVER THE SHITS

[soft moss]

Hello, do we know any retailers for physical edition purchase?

[broken latch]

#🖤┃s2-pre-order

[keen rune]

We'll probably not get news until valentine next month

[hardy bear]

the delay announcment before was probably their way of saying that they aren't showcasing anything during it

[keen rune]

Nah they ain't dropping anything today

[flat gate]

whats up pimps

[solid dome]

Wussup playas

[finite dragon]

wussup geeks

[solid dome]

Wazzup geezers

Ayo homes

[solid dome]

Whats crackin?

[keen rune]

Crackin that next trailer date ( in 2 months)

[broken latch]

Wouldn't no trailer mean more time to finish the game? Meaning less delays?

[keen rune]

Ilaman is writing a whole essay fr

Well I wish GSC can have better communication from here on out instead of releasing trailers every month that lasts 30 seconds, I can't complain though, they're doing a good job.

[solid dome]

No

Every department does its own work

[finite dragon]

wussup dead stalkers i guess ur wishgranter just lied to you ow! you got brainwashed again and became a monogeek 🫵 by the , ofc you gonna follow the same path 🤓 trying to reach the wishgranter rather than destroying the whole C- trailerless , heh krezzin was right about these monogeeks 🫵 , now you have drink shittty vodka and eat rusted breads of the outdated zone to survive another 8 months just to reach the lie granter , and get braiwashed again

[solid dome]

Work on the formatting, you lazy bonk

[calm bough]

[keen rune]

You asked GSC for a new trailer, remember?
It's only 30 seconds
Decided to drop a trailer, after a month waiting?
The entire chat and I were discussing the next date
But we can't seem to fit all the dates together
Maybe you can figure out the final date
It reminded me...that we used to believe in the Q1 date
I took just one awkward glance at the monitor
And my whole world plunged into that final release date
I'm sorry Mr. M
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
That was the day, that GSC decided to release a trailer
I felt as if I've finally awaken from a trailer-less long year
And through my monitor, I saw the 30 second runtime
We have a simple choice
Sit back, and wait for another 30 second trailer
Or take a chance, and get control of GSC's hidden trailers
Only I, didn't choose that runtime
Unlike you.

@solid dome Genius eh?

[solid dome]

No you fked up the plot

[keen rune]

Watch my theory be correct

[half cedar]

230 days 2 hours 25 minutes and 40 seconds!

[granite coral]

Hey guys

[pale pivot]

Good mornin

[granite coral]

Evening in here

[pale pivot]

What’s your theory?

[granite coral]

My body is ready for Stalker 2 (8 months away)

[loud gate]

Hello

[granite coral]

Ho ho ho 🥳

[loud gate]

231 days left

[half cedar]

230! 1 day less

We're so close

[granite coral]

So it will release tomorrow

[glass sable]

clear sky just gave me fentanyl

[keen rune]

Shadow of Chernobyl gave me PTSD from finishing the game at 11 PM

[solid dome]

AT LONG LAST GSC GAME WORLD
DECIDED TO LIFT THE CURTAIN ON
THE RELEASE DATE FOR STALKER 2
THAT IS SEPTEMBER 5 2024
DEFINITELY A MIRACLE ON ITS OWN
I MAY BE SOMEWHAT DOUBTFUL
BUT WORD IS OUT ON THE STREET
STALKER 2 IS EIGHT MONTHS AWAY

My first original copypasta

Copyrighted entirely
Try and steal,
be sued to the ground

[pale pivot]

Yo guys just made a copypasta

AT LONG LAST GSC GAME WORLD
DECIDED TO LIFT THE CURTAIN ON
THE RELEASE DATE FOR STALKER 2
THAT IS SEPTEMBER 5 2024
DEFINITELY A MIRACLE ON ITS OWN
I MAY BE SOMEWHAT DOUBTFUL
BUT WORD IS OUT ON THE STREET
STALKER 2 IS EIGHT MONTHS AWAY

[solid dome]

Expect a subpoena soon

[granite coral]

I already playing Stalker 2 right now

I'm from the future!

[keen rune]

Send proof

[granite coral]

[keen rune]

I'm expecting Ice Spice to be in the Zone so she can GRAHHH the Zone and make the Zone cause another emmision

[pale pivot]

You not even the fart 💅💅

I’m a baddie fr 💅

[finite dragon]

please killurself

[covert slate]

[keen rune]

Zone doesn't accept baddies

[crisp ruin]

Who does it

[keen rune]

So your existence to the Zone is nil

[crisp ruin]

[granite coral]

The Zone accept sexy women!

[quaint trout]

I'm quite sure the zone doesn't discriminate - at least i am sure most anomalies dont know the difference between a human and a bolt >.>

[loud gate]

[granite coral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fwox-bjpOU

Xbox Event Stream

[solid dome]

I'll steal Ice Spice for myself

I'll do unspeakable things with her

[hazy helm]

NO!
You get village grandma who make good soup

[solid dome]

[granite coral]

[solid dome]

Who do you see in the chats?

[granite coral]

Are you talking about someone we know?

[solid dome]

Check back in a sec

[granite coral]

Someone said Stalker 2

in the chat

[solid dome]

Wth, who?!

[granite coral]

Yeah it was me

There are rumors there will be 5th game during the show

It might be Stalker 2

[solid dome]

Sex Villa for Android

[granite coral]

I developed this game

Stalker 2: Sex on the Beach

Stalker 2: Sex is always With Me

[silk sparrow]

what else?

[granite coral]

Stalker 2: I'm talking bullcrap I know

[solid dome]

Shadow of Retardtree: Long Way to Heaven

Mafia 4: Budget Sopranos

[granite coral]

[solid dome]

Sensua's Perioid 2

Pukeowed

Sarah Bond's Bikini Bottom

[silk sparrow]

can you develop: Stalker 2: Q1 Release

[granite coral]

Of course I can

[silk sparrow]

thanks

[granite coral]

Stalker 2: Will be out tomorrow Evening

You're welcome

[hidden stratus]

Finally damn

[granite coral]

They are showing stupid games on the stream...

[hidden stratus]

You been watching for the whole 2 hours?

[granite coral]

Just started watching 15 min ago

What a crap games they are showing lol

[loud gate]

Hopefully 1 second of S2 in the gamepass ad

[versed basin]

are you calling yakuza a crap game?

[granite coral]

Yakuza is fine btw

[hidden stratus]

I tried one of them once, had no clue what was going on

[versed basin]

good answer, you just saved your life

[granite coral]

I prefer to see 00000.1 milisecond

[loud gate]

[hidden stratus]

Hopefully we get another singular frame of bloodsucker like we did in the Game of the Year event

Also the stream hasn't technically started there is still 45 minutes left

[versed basin]

Its gonna start right when I need to go to the store, i'm gonna miss the non-presentation of stalker 2

[hidden stratus]

Yeah haha, im just going to put a timer for 40 minutes and occasionally check this channel to see if there was any type of reference to the game on stream

[granite coral]

35 min to go

[pale pivot]

I almost know for a fact that we won’t see stalker 2 so I’m just excited for that Indiana jones game and avowed

Even tho avowed has that nasty over the top neon lighting

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT STALKER 2 RELEASE DATE, REMEMBER?
ITS A LONG WAY OFF
DECIDED TO DROP RELEASE TRAILER AFTER TOMMYLOVE'S VIDEO? FOR REAL?
MOL1T AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING HOW TO TROLL 100 RADS BAR DISCORD
BUT WE CAN'T QUITE SEEM TO GET A GOOD PLAN FOR IT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BELIEVE IN Q1 2024
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD LOOK AT THE RADIO NUMBERS AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STOC
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY GSC UPLOADED OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE TRAILER
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF DESPAIR WAS GONE
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COPIUM
AND THROUGH THE MONITOR, I SAW MOL1T POST ABOUT 5TH OF SEPTEMBER
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET GSC TO RELEASE A NEW DEMO
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT DATE
UNLIKE YOU

[pliant spire]

Is the original trilogy even supposed to be available on steam still? It’s literally impossible to launch cause of bugtrap and there doesn’t seem to be any official patches

[hardy bear]

I didn't have any issues when I played it. Must be something it doesn't like about your system

[hidden stratus]

Its just you bro

[pliant spire]

Mfw I pirate game delete game to buy it and then game doesn’t work after I buy it

[pliant spire]

It isn’t tho there are ppl in this server who ask for help on it constantly I was looking through here yesterday

[nimble cipher]

R3#1015 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hidden stratus]

I've only seen one other guy with this issue, I thought it was you. You said you pirated the game?

[pliant spire]

Before I tried to buy it it worked when I had it pirated

[half cedar]

See if you can mod it. AFAIK there are xray engine fixes, but I've never needed em for the OG games, they're just included for Anomaly

[pliant spire]

Now that I bought the original trilogy on steam they no longer work cause of the third party software integrated with the steam release

[half cedar]

Pirated ver maybe had some sort of patch?

[hardy bear]

are you getting any error messages?

[pliant spire]

Just bugtrap saying xray engine couldn’t launch

Bugtrap wasn’t even a thing in the pirated files

[hidden stratus]

Any error code?

Those usually tell you how to fix the issue

[pliant spire]

Just the file name for the X-ray engine

[hardy bear]

Do you get a UAC pop up when booting it from steam?

[pliant spire]

You mean like giving access?

[hidden stratus]

Might be using the old files for the pirated version

[hardy bear]

yeah, for instance mine always pops up saying it requests permission before it boots up

[pliant spire]

Yea mine does too

[hardy bear]

so I take it the error appears after that

[pliant spire]

Then I click yes and it instantly crashes without opening anything else

[hardy bear]

tried a steam file repair?

[pliant spire]

Did that and uninstalled and reinstalled all 3 they all have the same issue

[hidden stratus]

Just hardwipe your entire pc from top to bottom. Stalker is more important than your important files

[pliant spire]

😭

[hardy bear]

you sure you've wiped off everything related to the other copy?

[pliant spire]

Yeah I deleted it a while back

And it was like on my D drive which isn’t even the same one I have this one on

So idk how it would interfere

[hardy bear]

hm

[hidden stratus]

Doesnt account for cloud storage

[hardy bear]

not much else I really know to suggest, in this case I could only recommend the usual troubleshooting steps

[hidden stratus]

Yeah I dont know any other possible solutions

[pliant spire]

Yeah I’m not on my pc atm but I was just seeing if y’all knew anything I found some other fixes online for like steam settings and presets for the game that could mess it up

Apparently the issue is with the game cutscenes or smth idk but if you skip the intro and also do skip prefetch it just works but I’ll have to see

[hardy bear]

yeah I'm at a loss, since it worked right out of the box on my end. Maybe it dislikes your operating system, gpu drivers perhaps

[pliant spire]

Probably dislikes my res for the opening cutscene since I’m on a 32:9

[hardy bear]

mayhaps

[versed basin]

that definitely could be an issue

for stalker, normal or modded, I have solved almost all crashes with lowering res and settings to minium, even consistent crashes and bad saves

[flat gate]

My family is kicking my woman out today because of lies

We at least had some fun time today before she goes home

Im still going to go visit when i can its not far

Xray engine is notorious for crashing like gameembryo

[granite coral]

They are showing Stalker 2!!!

But it is the Strider trailer 🙂

[hardy bear]

cool

[granite coral]

@loud gate @solid dome

[hardy bear]

it's actually a really nice trailer

[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

[loud gate]

Where?

[granite coral]

They showed the Strider trailer 2 min ago

[loud gate]

oh IGN

Nice

[granite coral]

It was said the game will out in Q1 😄

[hardy bear]

f

[loud gate]

So where is it??

[hardy bear]

ign are just posting some b-roll, the actual show hasn't started yet

[granite coral]

They didn't edit the trailer lol

[loud gate]

Funny, GOG uploaded Strider without any release at the end, but I guess IGN is just too lazy

[worthy lagoon]

It's the pre stream

[granite coral]

Yeah maybe we can see it when the show starts

[hidden stratus]

Is it a sign?

[worthy lagoon]

No

[tiny smelt]

We need copium emote

[hidden stratus]

Okay..

[pale pivot]

They just want to put out content for the pre stream

To keep viewers or whatever

[hidden stratus]

I know, im just fooling myself here thinking that a trailer will show up on the stream

[granite coral]

2 min to go

[loud gate]

Remember TGA 2022? Yeah, that had one second of new S2 material. I will cope

[granite coral]

Let's go!

[hidden stratus]

Is that a new Fable or a remake, never played the original

[versed basin]

imagine MS shows the delay trailer again, to make sure everyone knows

[hidden stratus]

That would be pretty funny not gonna lie

[flat gate]

The new fable reboot looks like rubbish

[icy prism]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT STALKER 2 RELEASE DATE, REMEMBER?
ITS A LONG WAY OFF
DECIDED TO DROP RELEASE TRAILER AFTER TOMMYLOVE'S VIDEO? FOR REAL?
MOL1T AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING HOW TO TROLL 100 RADS BAR DISCORD
BUT WE CAN'T QUITE SEEM TO GET A GOOD PLAN FOR IT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BELIEVE IN Q1 2024
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD LOOK AT THE RADIO NUMBERS AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STOC
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY GSC UPLOADED OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE TRAILER
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF DESPAIR WAS GONE
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COPIUM
AND THROUGH THE MONITOR, I SAW MOL1T POST ABOUT 5TH OF SEPTEMBER
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET GSC TO RELEASE A NEW DEMO
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT DATE
UNLIKE YOU

[granite coral]

One guy is in the chat typing Stalker 2 Hopium 🙂

Krezzin is that you? 😄 @solid dome

[flat gate]

Yes

[icy prism]

me too

[flat gate]

Honestly dont care its gonna be later just wish we could get a demo that would scratch everyones itch

This game looks like itll be my new addiction

[loud gate]

Avowed releasing in Fall 2024, lmao. That's not happening.

S2 is the biggest game of the year and it release in September, ggwp avowed

[hidden stratus]

Yeaj I cant think of other titles as big as Stalker. If the game isn't a flop like GSC keeps delaying it to avoid then theres a good chance it could win GOTY

[pale pivot]

Square Enix is pretty cool Ig

[hidden stratus]

I've really only played their Just Cause games

[hardy bear]

I can't think of anything else coming out this year that I'm at all interested besides s2

[hidden stratus]

TSQ might really be the only contender

[keen rune]

HOLD ON WHAT TRAILER

@granite coral was stalker there on the vent?

[granite coral]

They just showed the Strider trailer

[hidden stratus]

Yes! Strider trailer! Coming Q1!!

[keen rune]

Breh we got the Strider trailer sob

[pale pivot]

WOW this Indiana jones game looks so good

One of my fav franchises oat and this looks so good

[crisp ruin]

Sorry to breaking to you... But director of the game is Todd Howard.

[pale pivot]

It’s mostly Emil that ruins Bethesda games

Todd Howard is a pretty decent exec just maybe not the best for rpg games

And this Indiana jones game doesn’t look to be an rpg

[stable crow]

So I came back to staker chernobyl

and the game is really good once you git gut.

[icy prism]

ahhhhhhgggggggggggggg

no stalker 2??? fck

[hardy bear]

well they already told you what they'd be showing beforehand

[calm bough]

[hardy bear]

mana was a surprise, sure. But I doubt they'd do an in studio look right after delaying it

[hidden stratus]

Got to see the strider trailer again, as if we haven't seen it hundreds of times

[pale pivot]

We all just gotta wait

But I’m super excited for Indiana jones. That looked so fire

[hardy bear]

looked decent

[hidden stratus]

If Indiana Jones doesn't make an appearance in S2 I dont care for it

[finite dragon]

Geeks

[hardy bear]

might get me to try uncharted actually

[pale pivot]

Uncharted is so good

[keen rune]

Dude Unchafted is goated

[hidden stratus]

Time to hop on the cryogenic pod until september

[pale pivot]

This is gonna be Xbox’s uncharted basically. But Indiana jones is more goated than Nathan Drake

[keen rune]

Everyone has their preference, Nathan Drake is only known for its intense action

[pale pivot]

Indiana jones is just more goated. It’s INDIANA JONES MOTHAFUCKAAAAA

God I’m so excited for indy

Entering my top 5 most anticipated games in my list

[pliant spire]

i fixed the bugtrap for soc there is actually a beta for stalker in the steam settings that fixes is but it broke smth else and told me to reinstall im gonna see if it works

nope says im missing stalker shadow of cherboyl/gamedata/configs/system.itx. even after reinstalling

worked after another reinstall 👍

[hardy bear]

hit your head against a wall enough times and it'll break through

[solid dome]

You guys enjoyed your STALKER 2 spot in the Xbox Defect 2024?

[solid dome]

Call me when they pull Emperor's Tomb 2

[silk sparrow]

I loved ESO 1hr promo

[earnest bear]

let me guess nothing?

[silk sparrow]

hellblade 3 eur on steam

[round arrow]

Any idea on if the backpack in the physical is actually a backpack?

[keen rune]

It is a backpack, actualy backpack.

[round arrow]

Nice

[solid dome]

Actual backpack, nothing else is known. If you want to know more, pre-order and pray to God (your money wont go to waste)

[silk sparrow]

oh great so hellblade is a schiza game

[sturdy zodiac]

"game"

[silk sparrow]

3 eur well spend

[solid dome]

Hellblade? You mean Senua's Period: Evil Fetuses 2?

[silk sparrow]

30min in to the game and only schiza and her face

now i know why they put so much motion face technology in hell blade 2

[solid dome]

They renamed the game long ago, dude

Dispute with another company

[silk sparrow]

idk. for me it says hellblade

now im watching gamba in africa. they can gamba juice/noodles/milk

or nothing

[broken latch]

Oh god I'm having fallout pre order flashbacks with their bags

[solid dome]

How much you estimate the bag itself costs?

It's a backpack like every other, backpacks are universal

[broken latch]

The material scandal

[normal tiger]

I thought it was particularly amusing that MS/XBOX didn't even alter the pre-show trailer for S2, showing us a now invalid Q1. Thanks for the reminder and kick in the nuts, MS lol

[finite dragon]

I'm super tempted to buy the ultimate edition but I'm concerned about the quality

Military coins, do they mean built like actual challenge coins?

[nimble cipher]

sixtyninefortwo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

Damn

[broken latch]

!

[broken latch]

@glossy blade

[finite dragon]

Anyways, point being if they can just show us how it's built I'll spend the money rn, but with the way things go with these types of things I'm hesitant probably like the rest of you

[glossy blade]

Hey, what is your question

[broken latch]

This

[solid dome]

You for real?

[solid dome]

NDA basically, brotherman

[glossy blade]

They are tokens

[solid dome]

Military coins?

[broken latch]

Like car washing tokens?

(I don't remember any other kind of tokens)

[solid dome]

Fellas, this is STOCtown, not Civilization VI server.

[glossy blade]

you can check the website, it shows approx. how it looks

[pale pivot]

apologies just showed up to this convo. Shows what?

[broken latch]

I think he wants to know what material it's made out of

[silk sparrow]

military tokens

[finite dragon]

Ayo how's the build quality of everything?

[silk sparrow]

its like dog tags

[broken latch]

Preorder stuff

[glossy blade]

military's tokens from physical edition

[solid dome]

Wasn't Ultimate only offering dogtags?

Tokens, lol

[pale pivot]

Ahhh I see thanks habibi

[silk sparrow]

yes

[finite dragon]

Assuming it's military tokens it'll be like challenge coins

My guess

[solid dome]

@silk sparrow What are them Gs discussing?

[glossy blade]

it is basically same

I guess

[solid dome]

Hmm

Gent said coins, which is faaaaaaaar

[glossy blade]

Not sure about the terms, I am not really familiar with them

[finite dragon]

So thin metal?

[glossy blade]

They are not called coins

[silk sparrow]

military tokens its dog tags. in real military it would be ur blood group ur name and surname

[glossy blade]

they are called tokens on the website

[solid dome]

What if they b plastic, lol

[silk sparrow]

Limited edition and above have this

[finite dragon]

Man I'ma flip for over 300 lmao

[solid dome]

@glossy blade I am preordering only if the editions have your signature engraved on a piece of brick.

[solid dome]

[finite dragon]

Ultimately the guys behind the franchise are fantastic, so I'm pretty hopeful they'll be honest about this

[glossy blade]

Need to check

[silk sparrow]

it cost like 10 eur to make

[glossy blade]

I'm preety sure we had them at Gamescom

[silk sparrow]

i would be more interested in patches and zonemap

[broken latch]

Supreme brick signed by Mol1t?

[silk sparrow]

u can see leaked map https://www.stalker2.com/_nuxt/img/assets/pages/preorder/retail/retail-l-items.jpg

[glossy blade]

https://www.stalker2.com/en/preorder/physical you can click expand button and explore how it looks

[gaunt burrow]

Does Vova Vist have 1?

[gaunt burrow]

I'm only accepting his token

[pale pivot]

What material are the military tokens made of?

[silk sparrow]

i just posted link

[glossy blade]

don't tell others

[finite dragon]

Ohh

[glossy blade]

some metal, I guess, can not double check it at 12PM, guys sorry

[finite dragon]

Probably metal, not expensive to have them stamped

[silk sparrow]

just call CEO to ask what material it is

[pale pivot]

Alright I’m hoping it pure silver

[glossy blade]

at least they do not look like gold

[pale pivot]

Never mind that I want pure platinum

[silk sparrow]

100% uranium

[broken latch]

3d printed

[gaunt burrow]

Metal or silver I think

[silk sparrow]

most likely its aluminium

[broken latch]

Metal? Like music genre metal?

[pale pivot]

Probably a silver alloy to decrease cost. Maybe a silver iron 10/90 alloy

[gaunt burrow]

Maybe

[finite dragon]

Tbh they should make stalker branded cigarette containers and Zippos

[gaunt burrow]

I thought telling cringe jokes was my thing

[nimble cipher]

sixtyninefortwo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gaunt burrow]

1984

[finite dragon]

I'm going to be banned

[broken latch]

Don't make me start with Matt jokes again

[finite dragon]

I can't help my vulgarity

[broken latch]

For bad word warnings no

But if you try to bypass filter too much, then mute

[gaunt burrow]

Does it MATTer?

[broken latch]

You don't matter (get it) ( it's a joke)

[gaunt burrow]

[silk sparrow]

is zone map laminated? im gonna use it outside

[broken latch]

It looks like it's gonna be the same material as posters

From what I see

[silk sparrow]

same material as tokens

[broken latch]

Gold gilded

[finite dragon]

GSC has a unique opportunity to make some of the coolest merch

[silk sparrow]

coolest thing here is figurine and artbook https://www.stalker2.com/_nuxt/img/assets/pages/preorder/retail/retail-u-items.jpg

map also very cool

[finite dragon]

I'm really digging the lamp too

[silk sparrow]

maybe its cool too

[gaunt burrow]

Damn theres even Zone Permit. Cool stuff indeed

Finally we saw glimpse of it

[silk sparrow]

u trolling right?

[gaunt burrow]

[silk sparrow]

[finite dragon]

It's all great in concept

Just comes down to execution at this point

[gaunt burrow]

I'm in a good mod

Tons of cringe jokes incoming

[silk sparrow]

also how big is figurine or lamp

[gaunt burrow]

Visuals are fantastic tho, jokes aside

[silk sparrow]

also does artifact glow ? in picture it glow

[broken latch]

Then it glows

[finite dragon]

It's a lamp

[silk sparrow]

noo. artifact in stalkers hand

[finite dragon]

Oh probably

Pretty sure that's borderline standard now

[gaunt burrow]

That Stalker Figurine seems to be wearing SEVA

[finite dragon]

That backpack is hot

[silk sparrow]

im pretty sure it wont be usefull IRL

[finite dragon]

Kinda but also a gp5?

[finite dragon]

No doubt

He kinda sick if they bulk purchased surplus bags and threw that in

[silk sparrow]

oh digital gets artbook

this is nice

[gaunt burrow]

@silk sparrow what do you call Sigma males shadow? A Shadow of Sigma

[silk sparrow]

here we go

also i wonder how real they are with 2 expansions

[finite dragon]

@glossy blade y'all should consider releasing Cossack's vodka haha

Charge 30+ USD per bottle

[finite dragon]

I mean it is GSC

[silk sparrow]

they had stalker energy drink

[finite dragon]

Yeah it's pretty good

[covert slate]

i hope that eventually the artifact container lamps would be sold by themselves

[silk sparrow]

if game will be successful they should drop merch

[finite dragon]

This is going to be their biggest release to date

Might be what pushes it to the mainstream

[covert slate]

especially since it's coming to a console

[silk sparrow]

also mugs/cups and similar stuff

[finite dragon]

Shot glasses 🤘

[silk sparrow]

like blizz shop does

[covert slate]

except with none of the missing fridge milk

[finite dragon]

Goatwhore has great merch,flasks, lighters,shot glasses, dug outs,

They could totally do the same

[fluid abyss]

ok normally idc about #📺┃media bs but this time its pretty funny ngl

[silk sparrow]

ngl the metal 500ml cup military style in physical edition would be damn good

i would trade a lot of stuff in it

[distant sparrow]

Heart of Copium

[finite dragon]

Wdym?.

[keen rune]

It will but on Ebay, but expect it to be pricey

[covert slate]

that's why i want it from the source

[dusty sable]

Will the physical Ultimate Edition be available in New Zealand at some point?

[solid dome]

Its for illustrative purposes, not the actual map

[solid dome]

Goatwhore?

[keen rune]

In 8 months yes

[finite dragon]

Its a band

[solid dome]

Jesus Christ what are we breeding down here on Earth...

[dusty sable]

Awesome, thank you

[finite dragon]

I mean Ukraine has some pretty extreme stuff too haha

[gaunt burrow]

Everything

[compact ridge]

best clip of the day

[keen rune]

You wouldn't believe the things we would cook here in the states...we cook taxes faster than than we steal oil from Middle Eastern countries

[misty torrent]

Anyone know why Task icons are not showing on the map ?

[worthy lagoon]

Which task

[solid dome]

[misty torrent]

Its just a side mission

[solid dome]

Anomaly

[worthy lagoon]

Game and which task

[misty torrent]

Anomaly, Find a TOZ-34 Bizon for hips client

[worthy lagoon]

You are supposed to find it

Good luck

[misty torrent]

Just keep walking around the whole map ?

[keen rune]

I assume there's a task marker on your PDA?

[misty torrent]

There isnt one thats what im saying, It says there should be task icons on the PDA

There is none

[worthy lagoon]

Anomaly gameplay

You can buy such a weapon as well, if someone sells it

[misty torrent]

So no missions actually have markers ? i have to guess where everything is ?

[worthy lagoon]

For such tasks to find stuff yes

[broken latch]

@misty torrent toz can be bought at flea market in garbage

[fiery berry]

I can’t wait for this to be in the bedroom lol gonna be my bedside lamp

[keen rune]

I assume GSC will sell them individually...as a marketplace of sorts

So Stalker backpack, Lamp artifact, etc will be individually sold in the near future, 2025 possibly

[fiery berry]

I pre ordered

[broken latch]

Don't think so, it would render pre orders useless

[hardy bear]

Cause it’s not find the toz, it’s find a toz. You go out into the world, find one, any one, and bring it back

[fiery berry]

Agree

[hardy bear]

Just like if you get a ‘find zombie hand’, there is no specific hand to get. You find a hand and bring it back

[broken latch]

In clear sky when tasked with bringing back items you only get a marker to where to bring them

Same with soc finding mutant parts

[hardy bear]

Cause those ones are to retrieve a specific item. Like in clear sky I’ve been asked to fetch a specific item. But anomaly is just different

[broken latch]

Anomaly is a mod

[keen rune]

Same in CoP, when asked to find parts, you don't just find specific parts and there would be a marker, it's just finding random parts and bringing em back

[hardy bear]

No way

[keen rune]

[broken latch]

"anomaly is just different"

Just felt weird

[hardy bear]

Well whatever you imagined I meant probably isn’t what I actually meant

Was just answering a question on how it works In the mod :>

[broken latch]

Don't think they've played triology so kinda useless

[hardy bear]

I assume lots of people haven’t

Which is a shame

[misty torrent]

I would play the trilogy but i cant get the ZRP bug fixes mod to work, so i skipped to anomaly

[keen rune]

I'd like to believe Anomaly is just an expansion to CoP since it apparently expands the story after CoP at least what I've heard or just rehashes the storylines

[gaunt burrow]

In CoP there are toolboxes

[midnight oar]

anomaly's story is very interesting

monolith is back

[misty torrent]

Also anomaly is free

[midnight oar]

both the miracle machine and the brain scorcher are back up somehow

[keen rune]

Sounds like retconning

[midnight oar]

anomaly starts in 2019

def not a retcon

[gaunt burrow]

Not canon

Also Monolith was never really gone (at least in the vanilla trilogy games)

[midnight oar]

eh, it was severely weakened

[gaunt burrow]

In CoP they were weakened yes, but Kovalsky mentioned that they're getting reinforcements regularly

[keen rune]

Is Anomaly even considered Sub-Canon? lore wise

[hazy helm]

Anomaly is Anomaly

[midnight oar]

that's weird, both machines that turned people to monolith are down

[hazy helm]

why is there consideration to begin with

[gaunt burrow]

Strider and his squad are the only Monolithians at Yanov; thats why they regained their free will back, but same doesn't seem to apply for Monolithians in Pripyat, cuz in Pripyat they could be strengthened in faith through their Preachers and makeshift antennas. These are just assumptions, but the fact is that Monolith still functions during Call of Pripyat events - they still are the most numerous faction in the game, and Kovalsky also mentions that those in Pripyat receive regular reinforcements from the CNPP:

"They’re fanatics, pure and simple. I don’t know what’s spurring them on but they’re constantly looking for a fight. They don’t retreat even if they’re outnumbered and outgunned... And that’s pretty rare for this place. It looks like they’re getting regular reinforcements from the CNPP."

[midnight oar]

huh

[gaunt burrow]

Just because C-Con was destroyed and Scorcher was turned off doesn't necessarily means that Monolith went excinct (although it surely weakened the faction)

Extinct**

[hardy bear]

A lot seem to still want to behave like their mind controlled selves even after it was turned off

[gaunt burrow]

Aye. They could still be receive orders from those antennas

[midnight oar]

still, i wish anomaly actually tackled the post-brain scorcher shutdown world

cuz it seems pretty interesting imo

[gaunt burrow]

ALSO, do keep in mind that the C-Consciousness representative mentions that they have created an entire network of such devices. Other emitters that surround the center and which we don't see in games may still work and might be able to convert their victims to Monolith

[finite dragon]

Hey guys. Did anyone had a pre order from Amazon UK from ultimate PC edition? I got a message tody saying that it was canceled. But when I try to put a pre order again, just gives me an error

[midnight oar]

i dont reside in the united kingdom so i can't help

[keen rune]

It's def not cancelled, I'm not from the UK, but here in the states they're not cancelled, must be an error, but I can assure you pre orders aren't cancelled here.

[finite dragon]

Do you know where in US ultimate edition is available?

[keen rune]

It has an interesting story, it just feels retconned in a way, and so far the "Living Legend" quest is rather odd I'm currently starting Anomaly

[broken latch]

You sir are an absolute lunatic, you don't even need zrp

And why to the shittiest mod

Why anomaly

[hazy helm]

Anomaly isnt Stalker
its a freeplay mod,its own thing,own story,own gameplay loop and such

and I can tell you this

Anomaly's story sucks
but that was never the main point

so it doesnt matter

[midnight oar]

true

[keen rune]

Well it's not here in States but we can fill out a form that gives us the option to wait, but I can assure you they're not cancelled, just assume they're delayed, and we'll ship out pre orders soon close to release date

[hazy helm]

if you want a good freeplay mod with good stories dependant on factions you choose,play legends return

[midnight oar]

im tempted to play one of those stalker soup mods for the luls

[hardy bear]

Soup mods?

[finite dragon]

I'm in the states too.. I know the game ain't cancelled, it's just that Amazon cancelled the pre order itself. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Guess gotta wait..
One of the few games I actually wouldn't mind splurging for ultimate and it's a pain to find lol

[hazy helm]

Soup Mods are mods that have Narodnaya Solyanka's story as a base,from memory

[keen rune]

Amazon is just waiting for the release date, it ain't cancelled just delayed, but I'm sure you'll be able to pre order soon in between the next few months.

[broken latch]

Aren't soup mods just clusters of mods

[finite dragon]

Well, thanks anyway👍🏻 let the waiting continue lol

[broken latch]

I can't find anywhere when you went on a full rant why anomaly was bad, with actually factual points

[hazy helm]

nha,ppl don't have a clear jot down of what it means in the west but what it emans is
a 'soup' mod means it's based on Narodanya Solyanka

[hazy helm]

2 years ago

make a copy pasta

I dont care for repeating myself

[misty torrent]

Everyone has told me to use ZRP, all youtube videos aswell

[hazy helm]

its an uninteresting mod

[broken latch]

No no, it was a month or two ago

[hazy helm]

my big wall of text was def a year and a half ago

[broken latch]

I bet they also told you anomaly, lesson learnt. Dont listen to the internet

[hardy bear]

After having played vanilla and touched anomaly, I think I can guess what it was you said

[misty torrent]

I am enjoying anomaly

[broken latch]

This one happened a week or 3 before why you hate cop strelok

[hazy helm]

SOC is completely playable in modern hardware withoutn ZRP which makes changes to the games content for,reasons
they are minimal enuff for most ppl to recommend it be either they are are just dialogue or are just after the games completion but the mere fact it adds stuff barrs it from being a patch,its a QoL mod
in rare cases,ZRP is needed,but these are rare cases

[broken latch]

It's dumb to play anomaly if you want to play the triology

[hazy helm]

I dont care tbh
Anomaly is just a CoM fork with stripped down mechanics

theres thousands of mods Id rather talk about than yet another mediocre to bad CoC fork

could be worse

could be playing Last Day or CoM

[hardy bear]

I managed to get through the whole thing without it, what does it actually do?

[midnight oar]

i played SHOC vanilla and it ran just fine, plus i didn't crash a single time

[broken latch]

Literally just bug fixes

• bed roll

[misty torrent]

do you all use mod organiser ?

[hardy bear]

Bit like the Skyrim unofficial patch then

[keen rune]

Only modded game I play is Anomaly, I'm a vanilla kinda guy, well that except Gmod but whole purpose of gmod are MODS

[midnight oar]

mod organizer 2?

[hazy helm]

adds mechanics and an entire freeplay mode after the true ending
most mechanics added are disabled,but the freeplay?that stays you cant turn it off
it also changes a few lines of text that change context for lore

[hazy helm]

MO2 does not support Stalker

[broken latch]

Don't try to change the theme while we shame you for choosing anomaly to experience the trilogy

[midnight oar]

it kinda works for anomaly

[hazy helm]

neither should you use MO2 for games where you play a minimal ammount of mods

[hazy helm]

MO2 has community patched Anomaly support
it does not support stalker

[hardy bear]

I think the only ones I ended up getting was some hd texture stuff

[hazy helm]

you can brute force it just like any other,but it isnt optimal and will see you run into problems

manually installing the mods is best

and most intuitive since,it really is just drag and drop

[broken latch]

Someone made a mod organiser for coc, it was simple and easy. Don't remember the name but perfect for testing addons even on stalker

Only problem it would always copy and paste the files so it took a moment

[hazy helm]

there merely is no need for mod managers when all youre ever going to manage is 5 mods max

anymore and youre going to crash due to files overwritten p much

[midnight oar]

found it i think https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/downloads/jsgme

[broken latch]

I agree under 5 is no need but when going above with new mods it's nice to have a tool to help you figure out the issues

[broken latch]

Yeah that one

[hazy helm]

the entire stalker community is based around individual secular Fan Game's so if you are playing mods,youre most likely playing a stand alone or a secular kind of mod that doesnt interface with any other

example being you cant merge AA2.1 with Stranger by simply installing in a Mod Manager

[hardy bear]

I would actually be interested in trying misery at some point

[hazy helm]

you are required to do actual modding if you want that

[broken latch]

Misery shotguns are so dumb

I mean dead air

[hazy helm]

I wouldnt recommend it,it p much originatted the entire bad survival simulators

[broken latch]

It's all the same

[hazy helm]

of nowadays

Anomaly itself,comes from a line of Misery Inspired mods

CoM,Call of Misery,is Anomalys antecessor

CoM was hot garbo

[broken latch]

I think there's been more misery forks then one piece episodes

[hazy helm]

bc it was a cynical port of Misery 2.0 mechanics on CoC with no balancing

Last Day was worse bc it was unbalanced,annoying shit

Anomaly is a lot more merciful tahn its parents

[hardy bear]

Although only cause it’s one of the mods I hear mention of the most

Don’t really know much about what each of the mods specialise in

[gaunt burrow]

What mods would be anomalys parents?

[hazy helm]

if youn want that survivalist itch scratched?Id rather say play Autumn Aurora 2

[midnight oar]

@gaunt burrow ^

[gaunt burrow]

Ah just noticed

[hazy helm]

its based on Misery 1.x ,Misery 2 added a lot of redunduncy and made the game straight up bad
Misery 1 looks,not bad honestly

Autumn Aurora is just a smooth ass ride with difficulty too,it doesnt feel bullshit and doesnt feel annoying but its still hard

[broken latch]

Matt? Like materialisation?

[hazy helm]

gunplay is great and isnt down to you see first you kill first

[gaunt burrow]

Aha

[broken latch]

I just noticed a weird pattern whenever someone mentiones anomaly you start talking about all of this

[gaunt burrow]

Man Vasim how many mods you played in total wtf

[broken latch]

(he owns moddb)

[gaunt burrow]

Meanwhile heres me who never played any mod lol

[hazy helm]

Freeplay Start a mod from 2008 can be attributed to largely spawning the entire detached Freeplay mod genre,despite other mods existing even before
CoC was a Freeplay Standalone mod that grabbed what was done before and put it in XR1.6 with all maps strung toether
CoM was a Misery 2.0 mechanics port to CoC
Last Day was a successor to CoM
Anomaly was made on top of Last Day cutting a lot of the shit from it and getting an old version OXR

[keen rune]

Play Anomaly

[broken latch]

I will do bad things if you say that again

[midnight oar]

play the Men of War: Assault Squad 2 Stalker Mod

[hazy helm]

based

and stalker pilled

[broken latch]

Why would you say pilled

[midnight oar]

im pretty sure the mod isn't even translated

[broken latch]

That sounds so weird

[keen rune]

True Stalker fans whenever they meet False Stalker fans

[hazy helm]

I wonder if the guy who was making it is still in the C-Con server

[midnight oar]

when i played it, i just pressed on a random squad

[gaunt burrow]

Real

[keen rune]

Because they're zooted out of their minds while influenced under LSD

[hazy helm]

yhea hes still there

cool dude

[broken latch]

Maybe professor chaos knows something about it

[hazy helm]

I checked hes still there

[midnight oar]

i remember playing a STALKER RP server in Gmod

[broken latch]

Gmod takes a god machine to run

[midnight oar]

it was SOOOOOOOOOO boring

[broken latch]

Roleplay

[keen rune]

DM me that server whenever you find it, I'm in need of some Stalker mods for my Gmod

[midnight oar]

pretty sure the server is gone now

[gaunt burrow]

F

[keen rune]

[midnight oar]

i got some mods, give me a sec

[broken latch]

Just go to Roblox stalker rp @keen rune

[midnight oar]

GRAH............ can't post too many links here

[keen rune]

DM me em

[broken latch]

#💬┃en_offtop

[finite dragon]

Bro my game keeps crashing

[broken latch]

What game, where@finite dragon

[finite dragon]

Soc, every time I open inventory if the dead

So I can't loot anything rn

I'm trying to buy the exo so being able to loot is pretty important

[gaunt burrow]

Weird. Never had that issue

[gaunt burrow]

Do side quests for Barkeep, Voronin, Lukash, Sakharov and even for Sid, if you aren't too lazy to go to Cordon

[broken latch]

Is it on all bodies or just specific

[gaunt burrow]

Money isn't really an issue in SoC

[broken latch]

Just pick up a exo along the path to cnpp

[hardy bear]

I think I might have heard of that one before actually

[keen rune]

I wouldn't reccomend buying an Exo, I suggest looking for the exo suit somewhere along the CNPP, redacted

[broken latch]

Maybe don't spoil

[finite dragon]

All bodies

[broken latch]

If you wanna run, use skat9 or ssp-99m suit, 2 best armors with running ability

[finite dragon]

Mighty appreciate it haha, replaying after 13 years

[broken latch]

Install zrp (zone reclamation project, also known as stalker complete)

[finite dragon]

Don't remember much of the story

Just that x18 scarred me as a child

[broken latch]

I hated my first time there

Red forest turns boys into men

[gaunt burrow]

Biggest issue I have with SSP is that it makes you look like Among Us character 😭

Stat wise its very good tho

[finite dragon]

I don't even remember this

Just finished x16

How far am I away lol

[broken latch]

You're pretty much going to red forest and then you can either go back for true ending or brute force to endgame with bad endings

[gaunt burrow]

You're in late stages already

[finite dragon]

Damn

[gaunt burrow]

ALSO

[finite dragon]

Still feels like I'm just at the start of mid game

[gaunt burrow]

I recommend you to go to Cordon and talk to Guide

[keen rune]

Unless if he wants to go all the way to guide^

[gaunt burrow]

And then meet Doc after talking to Guide

[finite dragon]

Starting area?

[keen rune]

I just brute forced the true ending...illegally...i'm confessing my biggest sin...I didn't get the true ending legit

[gaunt burrow]

Aye. Very first location

[finite dragon]

Aight thanks for the tips guys 🤘

[gaunt burrow]

Doc will reveal a huge secret

So pay attention to his dialogue

[finite dragon]

You are strelok

[broken latch]

No

You're an agent

[gaunt burrow]

You're Strelok AND C-Con Agent. 1 doesn't exclude another

[broken latch]

And marked one

[finite dragon]

I hope those aren't actually spoilers 😭

[gaunt burrow]

Marked One is more OP than Strelok

[keen rune]

Er...

Lads you just ruined the plot for this man.

[finite dragon]

Bro hit me with the psy waves to forget 😭

[gaunt burrow]

Shit

[keen rune]

@gaunt burrow hit this man with a bolt and he'll forget

[gaunt burrow]

Didn't meant to man, I apologize for that

[finite dragon]

Ayo y'all hear that s2 is going to have multiplayer?

[keen rune]

Just you wait until you play Clear Sky, because things are gonna get lorey when you play that

[gaunt burrow]

Have a vodka

[broken latch]

All stalker games have multiplayer

They are just called network instead of multiplayer

[gaunt burrow]

Clear Sky fans when Dirty Sky fans walk in:

[broken latch]

DIRTY DEEDS DONE CHEAP

[finite dragon]

Are the servers still active?

Might try it out after I finish the game

[broken latch]

Yes

[glossy wave]

Which game should I start with

[hazy helm]

Shadow of Chernobyl

[glossy wave]

Should I mod it first?

[broken latch]

I think Nikolai (youtuber) makes events and plays it with his fanbasr

[broken latch]

Either vanilla or add ZRP if you get crashes

[hazy helm]

A vanilla run is recommended for first playthrus but if you are having trouble running it ZRP may fix problems

[gaunt burrow]

Start with SoC, then Clear Sky and lastly CoP

[glossy wave]

I love the one video with the Olympia gameplay

💅🥤ANARCHISTS AND BANDITS-DANGEROUS MUTANTS-WILL NOT STOP DUTY!!! 😎

BEGONE THOT! 🛻⚡️< dangerous anomalies

I really just want to jump into the latter games for the smoothness

[gaunt burrow]

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits, none of them will stop duty in its triumphant march towards saving the planet. Join duty and save the innocent.

[glossy wave]

Shadow is kind of grainy and my screen is a bit big

It’s a 1440

[keen rune]

I think his channel is being switched...somewhere in an announcement today

[hazy helm]

SoC is the best starter to the series as it provides the best segway into the universe,mechanics,world and lore

[glossy wave]

I mean I’ve watched gameplay

[gaunt burrow]

^

SoC will help you understand Stalker universe

[glossy wave]

Warlockracy

Autistic Pole-Russian Ho!

[gaunt burrow]

It even has encyclopedia which other 2 games doesn't have

[hazy helm]

it is still recommended as a lot of gameplay is built upon in the latter ones but we cant force anyone
for reference,the order of play is
Shadow of Chernobyl->Clear Sky->Call of Pripyat

[glossy wave]

I mean I can’t wait to boot up my computer and start at the next opportunity

[gaunt burrow]

Lore wise CS happens first tho

[glossy wave]

I’ve heard so much about the franchise and the perfection the fans have added over the years and it’s always looked enticing the same feeling I got seeing Fallout 3

My childhood was a long time ago

Like I heard there’s a mod that combines all the games?

[gaunt burrow]

Stalker games don't really require strong PC

[glossy wave]

Like a TTW

Well it doesn’t matter mine will do trust me

[hazy helm]

it is advised you play all the games before jumping into any big mods
and I say this from experience,there is no mod like that

also

[glossy wave]

Ah well that’s a relief actually

Less I need to play around with

[hazy helm]

stalker modding is based on making larger,secular fan game-like mods rather than smaller modular mods you build
more so like youre playing a new game instead of modularly making it

[glossy wave]

Hmmm

So really just play the OT at my own pace and wait for 2

[finite dragon]

I was told it's best to play them in order?

[glossy wave]

That sounds easy enough I’ve been playing scav FPS’s for years

CS adds too much context to SoC

[hazy helm]

yhea,the games arent hard and you should get thru each ina week at a calm pace

[hazy helm]

that is the release order,the best order to play them in

[glossy wave]

I’ve gotten runs of games down to a science I diagonal hop everything

[hazy helm]

SoC is the best base for knowledge,CS expands greatly on SoC and CoP serves as an extension,a side activity

[gaunt burrow]

Generally its good to play them in release date order. SoC will help you understand the Stalker universe perfectly

[hazy helm]

you gonna elavator jump thru the game?

[glossy wave]

Like a memory challenge from a fantasy game

[gaunt burrow]

Although lore wise CS happens before both SoC and CoP

[glossy wave]

Git gud by completing the thread

[hazy helm]

CS is very very closely tied to SoC's story thus its recommended to play SoC first

[solid dome]

I WAS ATTACKED WHILE GRINDING ANOMALY
I'VE GOT HIT WITH GAME OVER SCREEN
AND WHEN I WOKE UP
I HAD NOTHING ELSE BUT MY STARTING EQUIPMENT
"YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED THE VANILLA EXPERIENCE YET!"
HOW IN THE HELL I WOULD HAVE NOT COMPLETED THE VANILLA EXPERIENCE YET?
"LOOK WHAT YOU ARE PLAYING!"
"INSTALL VANILLA!"
I'VE GOT NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENS, GROK
OVER AND OUT

[glossy wave]

I know the gist of it

[hidden stratus]

Those are the same people who want to turn S2 into Tarkov

[glossy wave]

||You are Strelok and the (at the time negatively viewed) government wants the wish thing|| right?

[hidden stratus]

Eh, close enough

[hazy helm]

Id say play SoC,it will give a much deeper insight into the plot and lore of the games

[finite dragon]

Could've sworn it was soc, cop, cs

[glossy wave]

Those scav PvE hazard PvP games are kinda just eh entertainment for guys that want to play Modern STALKER/RE/Fallout/whatever like a self contained CoD deathmatch

[hidden stratus]

I just logged in, you haven't played the original trilogy?

[hazy helm]

SoC-2007
CS-2008
CoP-2009

[glossy wave]

Just to get that daily slav war fix

[finite dragon]

Wow

[glossy wave]

No I’ve been waiting for years I just got my first build

[finite dragon]

My life is a lie

[misty torrent]

Stalker with pvp and tarkov extration game modes would be amazing

[glossy wave]

I though Clear Sky came first when I was young

[hidden stratus]

Thats dope, they are good games, just do not play them on easy mode it will ruin the experience

[glossy wave]

That’s why Tarkov exists people just want something magically STALKER and molded to their niche wants

[hidden stratus]

You haven't played stalker if you dont quicksave every 5 mins

[glossy wave]

Fallout fan. I know.

[misty torrent]

what do you do in the orgiginal stalker games after you complete them ? theres nothing todo

pvp changs that

[finite dragon]

Idk, could fall into the same hole that those fortnite games fell into

[hidden stratus]

Yeah i've always hated that, no way into free roam. Hopefully S2 changes that

[finite dragon]

Battle royale I think they're called? Don't think stalker is the right franchise to chase a trend

[glossy wave]

Someone like me would want a reactive Fallout style community building game

[misty torrent]

Stalker could have an extration gamemode with anomalys like tarkov, and loot is the economy. I think it would work great

[finite dragon]

Could see it as an MMO type game, just without the shit balancing

[glossy wave]

Like you work to tame the zone as if you were in Fort Aradesh in Van buren but that’s not what STALKER is fundamentally

It’s all story, putting up with shit and picking your fights

[hazy helm]

well yes
SoC and CS are story games
CoP lets you do freeplay aftert story end and its a complete joke

awful

[glossy wave]

The fun is in the little inconsequential delves you get money from

[hazy helm]

not that CoP is that great to begin with...was a fun DLC

[glossy wave]

So the bigger fights feel more earned

Then you finish it when you’re absolutely ready and that’s it

Real Bethesda hours

Like any game is going to revolve around the story taking place and once you finish it everything’s gone the zone feels empty like it should be there’s no irregular mercs and commandos running around looking for magic cancer trash

[hazy helm]

no...CoP just has no offline A-Life

and nothing for you to do once your back

uinless you have unfinished side quessts

meaning you have a very barren overworld with nothing fun to effectively fgioght or see

since the 3 maps serve as very very poor change of scenery

[glossy wave]

2000’s rpgs

[hazy helm]

CoPs freeplay mode sucked by design of itself

and SoC and CS dont have a freeplay mode

[glossy wave]

Ah well I hope 2 has that modern oomph to it where there’s not just NPC’s sitting around in bumblefuck whether that’s supposed to be a camp with more people in the background or nothing at all you don’t know

[hazy helm]

SoC and CS has tghat

CoP to an extent has that as well

but the pop cap is so low it feels empty

SoC and CS completely simulated NPCs and Mutants in its own and other maps

so youd see a lot of randomity and stalkers

[glossy wave]

You go to your objective and a cutscene plays that’s just a vaguely visible sprite of a guy with shadow shading added and the environment is incomprehensible but he has an object and you cannot figure out what he’s talkings about like it could be the shape of the environment next to him

So you see the HD close up years later and what do you know there’s the guy all his features and the mcguffin

Sad experiences

[hazy helm]

what

[glossy wave]

Just old games

[misty torrent]

Has anyone played True Stalker ?

[glossy wave]

When I was a kid world design confused me because I couldn’t process what I was seeing. There could’ve been a location described and it starts off or dumps you out at a random location so you assume that’s where you are

[hazy helm]

yes

[misty torrent]

Anyone good ? worth playing ?

[hazy helm]

its a mid mod,the story is cool up until Chapter 6 and the gamelplay is whatever,the gunfights arent good on account of using Gunslinger
but its a fun mod regardless,highly polished and well acted sidequests and concepts abound,prepare to backtrack A LOT

[misty torrent]

Cool might give it ago

[finite dragon]

Have people finally solved the debate if GSC has a good PR team

[timber verge]

Don't start it,please.

[finite dragon]

That's 90% of this channel

en_gsc_smash_or_pass

[glossy wave]

Not gonna entertain the hysteria

[timber verge]

I mean it would not solve anything.

[glossy wave]

I want no corporate burdens in forums for the games they happened to make

[timber verge]

I guess this year will got something more unique in terms of PR as we have launch date.

[glossy wave]

Oops my Duty is showing

[solid dome]

I went about through the whole labyrinth

I found the secret room after 5 years of wandering

Conclusion?

PR team is extinct

It was a hoax we been told we had one

[sweet belfry]

staaaaaalker

GSC HR team

[covert slate]

if i had a dollar for every time i got recommended a video on GAMMA with a weapon inspect thumbnail i'd have enough to fund the advertising from now until Stalker 2's release

[sweet belfry]

yeah

[hidden stratus]

Would do more in a week than what GSC has done in 3 years

[solid dome]

HR isnt the same as PR

[sweet belfry]

yes I know lol

[solid dome]

Nukeman bussin

[mild owl]

hey guys

anyone believin september?

[solid dome]

Fair to say, I do

September exists

[mild owl]

[solid dome]

Q3 2024 baby

[covert slate]

of course i do, why else would it be on a calendar

[solid dome]

It could be a hoax

Print error
Misconception

Never you can know when someone will jinx it

[covert slate]

lousy Smarch weather

[half cedar]

Oh wow! Only 229 days 12 hours 17 minutes and 20 seconds left till Stalker 2!

[hidden stratus]

That's not a lot of time if you think about it. Just play SoC 366 times and by the time you are done S2 will be out. (Not accounting for basic living necessities)

6 hours should be enough to eat, poop and pee within 229 days.

[half cedar]

Oh u right. I'll just optimize my gaming chair setup to include the infamous bucket

[broken latch]

115 times actually

[slender crown]

i dont mind a delay but, im gonna start college when stalker 2 comes out

[hidden stratus]

My bad I thought SoC was 15 hours

[hidden stratus]

Its going to be awful and you are going to hate every minute of it

[slender crown]

i dont think its gonna feel like stalker, i think its gonna feel like a metro game

[broken latch]

Average vet playthrough is like 2 hours

[hidden stratus]

Average person would complete it in 15. Doubt we got many vets here nowadays, I bet many haven’t even played it

But anomaly is a different story for some people

[broken latch]

Good 50% of the server

Even more

[hidden stratus]

Especially with the attention the series somehow received no thanks to the marketing team

[broken latch]

"For some"

It is literally different

[half cedar]

Anomaly's a nice and customizable alternative

[finite dragon]

hello. how are you?

[broken latch]

Alternative is a wrong word for that

Alternative would be winter edition mod for soc

[bold sphinx]

Little less if you skip some parts and speed along

[broken latch]

Ye

Game takes 12mins minimum

Or whatever is the current speedrun record

[hardy bear]

Took me 25 hours first time round 💀

[toxic vector]

any modders try to add more weapon pack to true stalker mod?

[broken latch]

Well it was your first time afterall

But it's not a race

Best to experience everything at normal pace

[hardy bear]

I often find myself spending a lot longer than most since it’s fun to really pay attention to the details

[pliant pier]

Same 💀

[forest snow]

Will the Stalker 2 physical ultimate edition copy be a Disc or digital? And does anyone know if it’ll be on steam and include all the DLC from the digital editions?

[pliant pier]

Digital, the code will be on Steam and should include all the DLC (i'm not sure at 100% for the dlcs but there's no reason you dont have all the dlcs)

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT STALKER 2 RELEASE DATE, REMEMBER?
ITS A LONG WAY OFF
DECIDED TO DROP RELEASE TRAILER AFTER TOMMYLOVE'S VIDEO? FOR REAL?
MOL1T AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING HOW TO TROLL 100 RADS BAR DISCORD
BUT WE CAN'T QUITE SEEM TO GET A GOOD PLAN FOR IT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BELIEVE IN Q1 2024
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD LOOK AT THE RADIO NUMBERS AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STOC
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY GSC UPLOADED OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE TRAILER
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF DESPAIR WAS GONE
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COPIUM
AND THROUGH THE MONITOR, I SAW MOL1T POST ABOUT 5TH OF SEPTEMBER
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET GSC TO RELEASE A NEW DEMO
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT DATE
UNLIKE YOU

[forest snow]

Hopefully they will but thank you 🙂

[pliant pier]

No problem !

[hazy helm]

does he know?

[broken latch]

does he know?

[hazy helm]

I do wonder how hard it would be to remove the scripts managing Gunslingers features

do you need to recompile the databases or just pass empty scripts?

[finite dragon]

man..i sure hope i can get the physical ultimate edition

[hardy bear]

Oh dang, Nikolai’s having a rough time with YouTube claims it seems

[hazy helm]

i forgot,isnt he doing a Secret Trails 2 video?

[finite dragon]

Right?

[worthy lagoon]

He got demonitized

Because he got reported for supporting terrorists organisations

[hazy helm]

i know

[hardy bear]

Which is crazy.
Subbed to his new channel anyways

[finite dragon]

Ayo what?

[jolly cedar]

Hello.

[hardy bear]

Hello, hello!

[broken latch]

Made monolith Muslim edit or something for the stalker Bosnian video

[crisp ruin]

I've seen those on r/balkans_irl also Caucasian verison on other subreddit

[half cedar]

I guess Monolith are a real terrorist organisation

[broken latch]

We don't mention that here stalker

[keen rune]

Right, spoiler free ofc

[broken latch]

Leaks in general

[keen rune]

Will keep in mind, my bad

[granite coral]

Hey guys

[crisp ruin]

[half cedar]

Hey Daddy ✨

I mean... Hello Father 🧐

[granite coral]

[finite dragon]

Damn, this games opsec is as waterproof as a strainer

Every 5 minutes there's a new leak haha

[loud gate]

Hello, my lady

How is your day, bratanman?

[granite coral]

Hello my Sister

[half cedar]

Haiii sisteers 🌈

[granite coral]

It is trash as always 😃

I mean monotous

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[loud gate]

[broken latch]

It's not easy, there's a new type of virus that stays even if you do a clean install on your pc again

I heard they can be found on russian forums or something

Scary stuff

[hardy bear]

feels good having not seen any leaks so far

[icy prism]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT STALKER 2 RELEASE DATE, REMEMBER?
ITS A LONG WAY OFF
DECIDED TO DROP RELEASE TRAILER AFTER TOMMYLOVE'S VIDEO? FOR REAL?
MOL1T AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING HOW TO TROLL 100 RADS BAR DISCORD
BUT WE CAN'T QUITE SEEM TO GET A GOOD PLAN FOR IT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BELIEVE IN Q1 2024
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD LOOK AT THE RADIO NUMBERS AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STOC
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY GSC UPLOADED OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE TRAILER
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF DESPAIR WAS GONE
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COPIUM
AND THROUGH THE MONITOR, I SAW MOL1T POST ABOUT 5TH OF SEPTEMBER
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET GSC TO RELEASE A NEW DEMO
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT DATE
UNLIKE YOU

[hardy bear]

aanother one

[half cedar]

I'll date you if you're not careful

[pale pivot]

Maybe GSC will release a demo eventually

[regal sapphire]

god dam it

[loud gate]

This is so good lmaooo

@worthy lagoon @vernal magnet @silver pagoda Part 2 incoming

[silver pagoda]

Gman is my minion

[worthy lagoon]

na we wait for the new trailer

[silver pagoda]

you need copyright permission to use my copy pastas, where is my money?

[keen rune]

Unlikely, as GSC hasn't even released the demo to us