⭐┃nospoilers_general

[lofty holly]

seems good to me

[finite dragon]

Hes burnt to death by a barrel fire, u gon hang ashes?

[sand fiber]

not really
originally they were more like half russian spetznaz and half foreigners

[misty herald]

But yeah, at least IRL, shooting someone in the waist is great because you shatter their pelvic bone, which cripples them completely, and their buddies can't put a TQ on it so they're probably gonna die

And a lot of vital veins and arteries run through it

[solid dome]

Hang the son of a gun upside down

[lofty holly]

other than completely obliterating their private parts

[misty herald]

Interestingly most of the Mercenaries wear American Blackhawk tactical vests and M40A1 gas masks

[loud gate]

It was deserved

[finite dragon]

wishing a bad day for ranjid

[sand fiber]

is great
they're probably gonna die

[solid dome]

Watchu on about peepers

[finite dragon]

[solid dome]

We should deal with the Wolf matter immediately before it turns to Sheep

@glossy blade What are the requirements we should fulfill for you to make a new trailer?

[misty herald]

Monolith's big advantage if they were a real life paramilitary force is that they have unbreakable morale, near instantaneous cohesion, and absolutely no sense of fear

[solid dome]

Monolith is Apple's experimental AI breathing in your neck

[lofty holly]

and have their brains melted

[misty herald]

Like being attacked by ants with guns

[gaunt burrow]

Monolith at its peak is capable of taking over some small country imo

[gaunt burrow]

Good armor, good guns. I'd honestly call them superhumans even

[lofty holly]

also you ever wonder how monolith is even alive that close to the CNPP

[gaunt burrow]

Basically they die when their bodies truly give up

[solid dome]

Monolith are holograms

[lofty holly]

like i get anti rad meds but that cant make sense

vodka makes 100% sense, no doubt lmao

[solid dome]

Monolith are a sick bunch terrorizing your nightmares

[hazy helm]

bc they need to server has an obstacle to the player, of course

[lofty holly]

the only monolith that scares me are the exoskeleton units

[lofty holly]

other than that ofc yea

[finite dragon]

True, just not the zone cuz if the military wanted, they would just shred them with artilery

[rapid umbra]

would love to see a film adaption of roadside picnic. im seriously surprised there hasnt been one, from my research there was going to be an american AMC show but it didnt look very good and neve raired

also they didnt make monkey look like a monkey lol

[gaunt burrow]

Honestly a good question. I think it most likely is C-Con shenanigans

[lofty holly]

tbh how tf is anyone alive in the zone at all

[rapid umbra]

thats where the wish granter is

[lofty holly]

the radiation, obviously the people with suits would suffer it less, would literally kill anyone in the zone

[rapid umbra]

its not impossible to survive. ironically, most of the danger comes from humans and mutants.

[rapid umbra]

radiation is a slow killer

[lofty holly]

yeah thats what everyone says lol but it never made sense to me

[hazy helm]

they arent
they are code

[finite dragon]

how painful is radiation sickness?

[hazy helm]

dont overthink stuff too far bruther

Stalker is Sci-Fi

[solid dome]

Worse than cancer, victims said

[lofty holly]

so C-Con is responsible for it all?

got it, the zone is really just the matrix lmfao

[gaunt burrow]

I mean if someone survived for a long time there gotta be a reason for that

[rapid umbra]

i dont think they called the chernobyl accident but i believe they created the zone. im probably mistaken tho

[finite dragon]

is it like your hair/skin peeling off andshit?

[gaunt burrow]

Aye. C-Con is directly responsible for the second accident, but not 1986 one

At least, thats the case according to C-Con representative

[finite dragon]

I always looked at it like post apocalyptic/scifi

[hazy helm]

its not Post Apoc

[lofty holly]

its apocalyptic lmfao

[finite dragon]

yeah yeah

[gaunt burrow]

I meannn only the Zone is so chaotic

The rest of the world is still normal

[finite dragon]

true, i alwayskinda saw it as like apocalyptic in the zone

[gaunt burrow]

Its not like Fallout where literally the whole world is a nuclear wasteland

[rapid umbra]

stalker is post apocalyptic

[lofty holly]

i also wonder why no one thought of ICBMing the brain scorcher and raiding the nearby CNPP for artifacts

[solid dome]

I don't have the brain power to talk to the chat atm, see you later

[sand fiber]

is it

[rapid umbra]

a·poc·a·lypse
/əˈpäkəˌlips/
noun
noun: Apocalypse; noun: the Apocalypse; noun: apocalypse; plural noun: apocalypses
~~ 1.
the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation.
"the bell's ringing is supposed to usher in the Apocalypse"
(especially in the Vulgate Bible) the book of Revelation.
singular proper noun: Apocalypse~~
2.
an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale.

[gaunt burrow]

ICBMing?

[lofty holly]

intercontinental ballistic missile

[rapid umbra]

2nd definition. the chernobyl aciddent and creation of the zone definitely fit "an event involving destruction on a catastrophic scale"

[lofty holly]

doubt a fighter jet would make it past the zone

[rapid umbra]

helicopters have been brought down by the zone so i dont think modern day armies would risk it

[lofty holly]

yeah

[gaunt burrow]

Well neither a normal stalker, nor big factions like Duty and Freedom would have a ballistic missile lol

[lofty holly]

only if sakharov was an aeronautical engineer

[rapid umbra]

also a bombardment on that scale would definitely cause increased military presence and maybe even more active military intervention in the zone

[gaunt burrow]

Also this yeah

[rapid umbra]

i think all factions would agree its not worth the consequences

[gaunt burrow]

Its speculated by some characters that the Zone is a living organism

[hazy helm]

Stalker aint Post Apoc
it could be considered Apoc,in progress,but Apocaliptic would require a bigger area than the Exclusion Zone to be affected
its all very contained for now

[gaunt burrow]

Shulga for example refers to it as 1

[rapid umbra]

its post apoc

[hazy helm]

the scale is what matters most when defining Post Apocalyptic categorically

[lofty holly]

yeah and they say any action that you do towards it just will get you slapped across the face with an emission

which makes sense tbh

[glossy blade]

I can't do that anyways

[gaunt burrow]

Zone being alive does make sense imho. For example: ever wondered why Duty controlled territories are dangerous?

[finite dragon]

can u give us something on 15/02?

[gaunt burrow]

Duty controlled Agroprom, back in CS. regular mutant attacks

[hazy helm]

Stalker being Post Apoc is as much true as is Stalker being an ImSim

[rapid umbra]

iti s an ImSim

[hazy helm]

it aint

[rapid umbra]

oooookay

[gaunt burrow]

Even Rostok wasn't fully safe. We could see blind dogs outside

[hazy helm]

ooooookay dude

[lofty holly]

loner camp in CS, duty base in SoC

[gaunt burrow]

I mean Agroprom Research Institute. It was controlled by Duty in CS, and by Military in SoC

Loner camp in CS was in another part of Agroprom location

[lofty holly]

yeah true

[gaunt burrow]

Ever heard about Shamans? @lofty holly

[lofty holly]

nope

[gaunt burrow]

They're stalkers who coexist with the Zone. They think weapons and electronics irritate the Zone

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/r0BBI8uOQS

[lofty holly]

oh wait you mean hermit?

[gaunt burrow]

Well Hermit is a good example yeah

[lofty holly]

that dude has my respect

[gaunt burrow]

Apparently Chekhov also knows about existence of Shamans

[hazy helm]

plural,there are more than one,Freedom actively researches them and that type of happening,then release their findings to everyone in the world

p sad that in the sea of post-ironic memes and kids doing roleplay that the finer points and uses of factions were lost and were instaed boiled down to their most ridiculous extremes

[gaunt burrow]

"To tell you all I know I'd need much more than a couple of minutes. For example, one area in which we're conducting research is stalkers who intuitively feel the Zone. They never carry any electronics or metal weapons. They even say that weapons and electronics irritate the Zone - and in return it sends monsters to attack the people who carry them and sticks anomalies in their path. They reckon that to be comfortable in the Zone a man needs nothing but his own skills. Pretty much all of them have been warped by the Zone in some way, but they survived and even acquired some strange abilities! Some of them intuitively know the way through deadly anomalies, others can get out of the thickest forest, and I heard that a few of them even make monsters stay away from them. Rumor has it that one of those fellas settled down at Agroprom." That fella who settled down at Agroprom is Hermit

Generally concept of Shamans is something I wish to be expended

[lofty holly]

yeah

honestly people would pay literal gold to have that type of understanding of the zone

[gaunt burrow]

Couldn't agree more

[lofty holly]

they literally have the compass artifact built in themselves lmao

[gaunt burrow]

Clear Sky also had a very good understanding of the Zone

[lofty holly]

theyre like the better monolith tbh

[gaunt burrow]

According to Lebedev they want to coexsit with the Zone

Clear Sky is somewhat similar to Freedom

[sand fiber]

nah they're just on drugs

[lofty holly]

except no weed

[misty herald]

Stalker isn't much of an ImSim because almost all of the problems presented to you in Stalker are really only solved one way

[gaunt burrow]

Bruh

[gaunt burrow]

Tbh Freedomers can get quite serious when situation calls for it. Otherwise they would've gone extinct

[sand fiber]

wouldn't say so, i'd rather categorize it as a failed imsim

[gaunt burrow]

They do hold off mutants and Monolith forces and defend the Barrier

[sand fiber]

spiritually it's there, but mechanically...

[lofty holly]

theyre chill but when theyre high off their asses its another thing

[sand fiber]

why do people fall so easily for clear sky propaganda

it's literally shown in CS ending that they were wrong

[gaunt burrow]

Well everyone makes mistakes

Clear Sky also made 1, which was colossal

Them being wrong doesn't excludes the fact that they literally know about the Zone more than some factions like Military, Bandits etc

[misty herald]

I wouldn't even say failed ImSim

Since it wasn't intended to be one

[sand fiber]

it kinda was?

fundamental things like a-life were kinda imsimish

[misty herald]

I do think it's immersive and definitely a simulation

[sand fiber]

and imsims back in the day weren't designed with the "imsim" category in mind

[misty herald]

What makes an ImSim though

[sand fiber]

design philosophy more than anything

[rapid umbra]

freedom of choice, open levels with multiple ways to complete your objective, immersive gameplay

[sand fiber]

i mean, their whole philosophy is based off the wrong assumption that the Zone is "alive" and you have to appease it somehow

[lofty holly]

aight brain is shutting off

cya lads have a good one

[gaunt burrow]

If the Zone isn't alive, explain to me why Duty controlled territories are so dangerous and why Death Trucks are crashing so often?

Death Truck in the beginning scene of SoC was struck by a lightning, mind you

[sand fiber]

drivers have tummy ache =(

[gaunt burrow]

It didn't crashed because of some mutant or anomaly

Ok you're trolling at this point

Got it

[pale pivot]

I feel u Matt

Fell for the bait

[gaunt burrow]

Happens to the best of us

[sand fiber]

i mean, accident?

[gaunt burrow]

You meant to tell me that majority of death trucks crashing is just a simple accident?

[sand fiber]

as to duty controlled territories, mutant migrations were a C-con doing, as well as super-blowouts

[gaunt burrow]

Or the fact that sooner Dutyers kill mutants, the more mutants appear

[sand fiber]

uhhhh the zone is pretty dangerous? death truck lore doesn't make sense anyway, it's an S:OL remnant

[gaunt burrow]

Even C-Con Representative mentioned that the Zone is unstable

Don't you think that something is off?

[nimble cipher]

mystagogg has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gaunt burrow]

1984

[misty herald]

What is it with Eastern European servers and swearing

Anyway, Duty are fools

[pale pivot]

Stfu merc I eat u for breakfast

[gaunt burrow]

I honestly can see why they want to destroy the Zone, but it isn't even known if the Zone can ever be destroyed

Actions of Duty are simply making things worse

[pale pivot]

Have some GODDAMN FAITH ARTHUR

[misty herald]

You Duty guys don't even have the brains to make the Zone worse while getting a paycheck for it

[pale pivot]

The only check ur getting is the bill for ur funeral pal

[sand fiber]

uhhhhhhhhhhh do you know that if you kill a population of dogs in a selected area much more dangerous and bigger population of dogs will appear in that area short after

[gaunt burrow]

Krylovs dialogue: "Secret experiments for controlling consciousness carried out in Soviet times, can you believe that? Those guys made a lot of headway in their research - they even managed to instill simple commands into the minds of animals. That's what led us to suspect that someone, or something, can control mutants. Unfortunately, all of our data confirms this theory. As soon as we burn down a mutant den, they retaliate with a bloodsucker attack or a pack of pseudodogs. The faster we destroy them, the faster they come at us. I bet this is no simple coincidence... I don't believe in repeated coincidences. There's something behind all this - I'm certain of it."

[misty herald]

Good luck getting to me through the Army Warehouses

[pale pivot]

Words

[misty herald]

He's a Dutyer, he can't read

[pale pivot]

Dw we don’t waste our time with small fry anyway

[gaunt burrow]

Pay attention to the part where he said: as soon as we burn down a mutant den, they retaliate with a bloodsucker attack or a pack of pseudodogs

[misty herald]

I'll be over here enjoying my grilled Snork hands

[pale pivot]

I’ll enjoy my ||mysterious meat||

[misty herald]

Come put in an application with the Mercs when you start feeling like a man.

[sand fiber]

well yes that's why i said that C-con controls mutant migration

[misty herald]

We deny Dutyers on purpose so we can watch them crawling back to Rostok

[pale pivot]

Mercs only care for money. I bet if I pay a merc enough money they’d leave the “faction” if u can even call it that

[misty herald]

Damn right I only care about money

[pale pivot]

Tbh I only care for money too

Duty don’t pay me enough for this shit

[misty herald]

See that's what I'm saying

[pale pivot]

I would start my own faction

[misty herald]

I'm sure Sin will take you

[pale pivot]

Lmao sin

[misty herald]

Coolest faction patch out of all of them

[gaunt burrow]

Sin doesn't even exist in the trilogy

[pale pivot]

They’re just glorified monolith

[gaunt burrow]

Its not a canon

[pale pivot]

At least they were intended

[misty herald]

They're not even glorified Monolith

More just Uglier Loners

[pale pivot]

They’re cultists lol

[sand fiber]

uglier loners are bandits

[gaunt burrow]

Basically Sin and Monolith in the lore are basically just offshots of themselves. Cut one and deepen the other, that was the rationale behind them being cut

[misty herald]

I've never seen a UNISIG guy

[pale pivot]

Hmm makes sense

[gaunt burrow]

UNISIG also isn't canon, since it doesn't exists in the trilogy

Though there are few mentions of UN but thats another topic I guess

[misty herald]

Nobody cares

[sand fiber]

who asked you?

[gaunt burrow]

Vanilla Games fans and Lore lovers do

[pale pivot]

Wait til stalker 2 lol

[sand fiber]

[misty herald]

I live in dread of Stalker 2

Fills me with anxiety

[pale pivot]

I have expectations that we’ll see a much more global theme in stalker 2

[misty herald]

I just hope it's good

[pale pivot]

My only worry really is gonna be performance and visual quality

And I hope they didn’t water down the gameplay for the sake of the mainstream

[misty herald]

With VTM Bloodlines 2 being almost assuredly crap I am fearful of what STALKER 2 will be

See that's my biggest worry is that it will try to appeal to the lowest common denominator

[pale pivot]

Yea same tbh

[misty herald]

I also have a severe brain disease that makes me like the old shittier graphics of the original STALKER games so that's not a big concern for me

[sand fiber]

if it's bad just pretend it doesn't exist, if it's agonizingly fine spend half of your life obsessing over it
same if it's good

[misty herald]

If Stalker 2 winds up sucking I'll just go to the IRL zone

[gaunt burrow]

Real

[misty herald]

I hold out faith though

[gaunt burrow]

[pale pivot]

I’ll come with and ||hunt you down, merc ||

[gaunt burrow]

You do realize that graphics aren't most important thing, right?

[loud gate]

Bloodlines 2 is shit in the trailers, Stalker 2 isn't. Don't think it's fair to compare these two.

[misty herald]

That's the point bud, I'm not concerned about graphics

[pale pivot]

Yea but I’d like to see the zone realized in the best fashion. We’ll see

[gaunt burrow]

I'd choose a game with soul, that has worse graphics than game with good graphics and no soul anytime

[misty herald]

I would prefer the graphics to be worse actually

[sand fiber]

what he doesn't realise is that stalker's graphics are very good actually

[pale pivot]

U can have both

[loud gate]

I mean, S2 will have benchmarking graphs anyway, so

[loud gate]

Most textures look better than nowadays games

[gaunt burrow]

Graphics still look fantastic imho

[misty herald]

The only thing that has my eyebrow raised about STALKER 2 is the sort of...cinematics of the trailers?

[gaunt burrow]

Especially graphics of Clear Sky

[loud gate]

[gaunt burrow]

^

[loud gate]

What's wrong with cutscenes

[misty herald]

Not a big fan of cutscenes personally

[finite dragon]

If it was, we wouldn't be all here

[gaunt burrow]

Fair

[solid dome]

Its like you drank the most toxic acid

[gaunt burrow]

Though graphics of the trilogy still are pretty fantastic

Hate typing on my phone

[finite dragon]

Dude, if stalker 2 looked like gamma, i wouldn't complain a cm

[misty herald]

The lighting system of stalker is unmatched

[sand fiber]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561139727638593566/1089314658109894788/anomaly.gif

[finite dragon]

I feel you bro

[loud gate]

I mean, I've seen people criticise Stalker 2 for having cutscens, but they don't realize the originals had them too lol.

They are infinitely better than just talking to a npc with a texbox above too

[sand fiber]

oh my god i now want S2 with cyberpunk-style cutscenes

[gaunt burrow]

🤝

[finite dragon]

Yk, its funny to say that, since my pc cant run it on the lowest graph settings

[solid dome]

I want STALKER 2 in her birthday suit

[misty herald]

I haven't played Cyberpunk

[solid dome]

Make love to me, baby

[misty herald]

I don't really want it either

[gaunt burrow]

Ayo

[loud gate]

No

[gaunt burrow]

Krezzing being Krezzin as usual

[pale pivot]

For a dolla and a sandwich sure bro

[sand fiber]

play it then

[gaunt burrow]

Krezzing

[loud gate]

Sleep Deprivation definitely seems as a possibility now

[solid dome]

The Krezzing Effect

[gaunt burrow]

As I said, I hate typing on my phone

Lmao

[pale pivot]

I hope stalker 2 has bbl I’m tired of seeing flat arses

[solid dome]

STALKER 2, take me home and do me a shoulder massage

[pale pivot]

Stalker 2 needs to have latinas

[solid dome]

Then drop me in the Agroprom Undergrounds hole

[misty herald]

Not really interested tbh, Cyberpunk's world never really drew me in

[finite dragon]

Nah, i dont think the freedomers are tired of bloodsuckers enough

[solid dome]

Chickas!

[finite dragon]

As a latino, i do support that

[pale pivot]

It’s really good bro u should give it a try. It looked super tacky to me until I tried it. It’s second to rdr2 imo

And rdr2 is my fav game oat so cyberpunk very good

[gaunt burrow]

Duty eating mutants: 😐

Freedom eating mutants: 💀

[pale pivot]

Duty eating ||out|| Latinas

[finite dragon]

LMAO

[misty herald]

I like my games with crunchy, older graphics

[solid dome]

I like my games like my women

[pale pivot]

Bro hates advancements 💀

[misty herald]

Like your Deus Ex, STALKER, Ghost Recon, R6 3

[nimble cipher]

aks_74m.enjoyer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pale pivot]

So u don’t play any game past 2016?

[finite dragon]

Wow i cant say sht

[pale pivot]

Shit

[solid dome]

Sure as shit you can

[misty herald]

I play War of Rights

[finite dragon]

Love u wolf, hope u never end burning on that barrel fire

[rapid umbra]

sux

[pale pivot]

How u gonna play war of rights and say u want crunchy old graphics. That game looks amazing

[finite dragon]

I meant shtty

[nimble cipher]

aks_74m.enjoyer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rapid umbra]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1r8oPEXqnhUVgkUkJNqEuF

[solid dome]

The Shit, The Shittest and The Shittier - Balaclava Gang

[finite dragon]

I hate this😔

[sand fiber]

dude your favourite game is rdr2

opinion invalid

[gaunt burrow]

If we're being serious then it's from some dumb screenshot of a Freedomer using Bandit dialogue. Due to dialogue being shared, the Freedomer said that he "had a craving so bad, even Mutants look hot". In fact, this is supposed to be said by Bandits

[solid dome]

@sand fiber Do your like your games like your men?

[misty herald]

It's just what I prefer, but I do love me some WoR events

[sand fiber]

no i like my games like my women

[gaunt burrow]

Clear Sky NPCs from different factions share a dialogue in a location

[sand fiber]

lesbian

[gaunt burrow]

💀

[solid dome]

Oh not a bi?

[gaunt burrow]

You do be you Nozar

[pale pivot]

I get what u mean I think but I mean idk

War of rights is fire

[misty herald]

It's just a preference of mine man.

[pale pivot]

I like to play any game really just as long as it isn’t some mind numbing mmo

Or tarkov

[misty herald]

You play WOR? What Regiment are you with?

[pale pivot]

Idk I played it a couple times with friends

I’m not part of any regiment

[misty herald]

Regimental events are where it's at

[pale pivot]

Know where I can find any?

[misty herald]

the WOR discord has a couple channels dedicated to regimental recruiting

Be wise about your choice though, a lot of the regiments kind of...suck

really, really badly

[pale pivot]

Which ones are good?

[misty herald]

What side are you looking to join

[pale pivot]

Confederates

[misty herald]

You're in for a bad time

The only CSA regiment that's any good is the 12th Virginia

[pale pivot]

Why that lack of good regiments for csa?

[misty herald]

Extremely poor leadership, poor discipline, lack of regular drill and training

I play in the Battle Line Network tournament and we recently played a match Wednesday, out of the 7 Regiments eliminated from the playoffs, all of them were CSA

12th VA is the best among them and they stand far apart from the others

[misty herald]

12th VA always make us sort of get into our A game because we know we're gonna need it

[broken latch]

@hazy helm isn't technically everyone who posts memes about weed breaking rules

[sand fiber]

do you hate fun?

[broken latch]

I hate repetitive memes

[hazy helm]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1025411363998273566/1136155377298329661/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif

I dont know

[broken latch]

#📌┃rules message

Rule 9

[broken latch]

Admin abuse!!

[hazy helm]

if you wnat to go on a murder brigade agianst memes ask mcculkin

[misty herald]

I hope STALKER 2 has more food items with animations

[hazy helm]

I hope stalker 2 doesnt have consumable animations for most stuff

[misty herald]

From the trailers it looks like the Zone now has chestnuts and shallots

Glad the STALKERs are now eating better than extremely suspect bread, sausage, and canned pork

[feral sequoia]

hey guys

[scenic basin]

hey guys

[young swallow]

hey guys

[broken latch]

Who

[hazy helm]

Mol1t I mean

IO need sleep

[feral sequoia]

hey man

[young swallow]

hows your day

[feral sequoia]

pretty good you?

[broken latch]

Stalker 2 will never be anomaly

[feral sequoia]

hades you are very unfunny

[misty herald]

Yeah but I like immersive eating and healing animations

[scenic basin]

hey gays

gang gang

[broken latch]

I dont

[young swallow]

Have you am the?

[misty herald]

Wierd

[broken latch]

You know what's weird

[misty herald]

The Zone?

[broken latch]

Insisting that anomaly is canon

[feral sequoia]

you is no okay?

[misty herald]

What's weird is still being upset about that

[broken latch]

Welcome to stalker community

[misty herald]

what's the HR language tag mean? Hungarian?

[broken latch]

Croatian

[misty herald]

Aaaaaaah

[broken latch]

HR - Hrvatska

[misty herald]

Good old Croatia making bullpups affordable

[broken latch]

They do?

[misty herald]

Yeah, Springfield VHS

Designed and built in Croatia, one gun magazine in America called it the "Croatian Sensation"

[broken latch]

The only mention of Croatia in America I heard is from simpsons

Was some bit about an old car made up of tank parts

[misty herald]

Springfield Armoury sells two Croatian-made weapons in America designed by the same guy, the VHS, which is a Bullpup rifle, and the XDm

Oh and also the Hellcat

[umbral jay]

what the hell is this game ?

[broken latch]

Only hellcat I know is a car

[misty herald]

The Springfield Hellcat is a tiny compact pistol for carrying concealed

[hazy helm]

extremely buggy and incomplete "muh taticool entry denial,room clearing" game
my friend sent me that

[pale pivot]

Is it operator?

[hazy helm]

yes

[misty herald]

Tactical barbie milsim games have become the new Open World Zombie Survival with crafting

[rapid umbra]

its either operator (new tac shooter idk much about) or ground branch (EA tac shooter by some guys from the old rainbow six dev team)

[rapid umbra]

white teenage boys love them im afraid

[broken latch]

Only stuff about Croatian guns I know is that mostly zastavas were used

[hazy helm]

EA at least Vetos and QA's their new releases
Operator just pushs out basically Development Builds

but hey

[misty herald]

I have Ground Branch and like it enough but it's eeeeeehhh

[hazy helm]

MUH TATICOOL

[broken latch]

But that was like 30 years ago

[misty herald]

It's okay-ish

[rapid umbra]

stop whining

[hazy helm]

there is a difference beetwe
this game is EA
and
this game is literally broken

[rapid umbra]

early access not electronic arts you idiot

[broken latch]

!warn 978759344948674660 don't call other hard R

[nimble cipher]

evalya has been warned

Reason: don't call other hard R

[hazy helm]

Ground Branch is the first
the second is Operator

[misty herald]

based

[hazy helm]

I dont mind

[pale pivot]

Ground branch is good for an EA game

[rapid umbra]

i found it quite boring but im sure itll be good eventually 🤷 i dont thik any of these new era tac/milsim shooters have much value, even Ready or Not (which is probably the best one out there right now) is painfully repetitive and boring and has no charm at all

[pale pivot]

I love the customization

[misty herald]

Updates take an agonizing amount of time but I like it so far

[broken latch]

If you want tacticool, play arma 3, not stalker

[pale pivot]

Yea bro…

[rapid umbra]

xD no

[misty herald]

I typically play it with my friends where we recreate the equipment we own IRL and take on various scenarios

[broken latch]

Your opinion is meaningless

[broken latch]

Like Airsoft?

[misty herald]

Like real weapons

[rapid umbra]

id love to play slow pased tac shooters in vr but on pc its just rather boring.

[pale pivot]

They got rid of the Iraqi patch as the latest update and it sucks cus I represent america and the iraq flag on my uniform

[broken latch]

Like real boolets

[hazy helm]

Arma 3 is Military Autism
not Taticool

[pale pivot]

[broken latch]

What's the difference

[misty herald]

I don't wear national flag patches on any of my gear lol

[hazy helm]

there is a difference beetween a femboy triangulating radio frequences adn a fat slob buyign gucci gear to hand out eviction notices

[misty herald]

I do wear the bright red Bravo tag for identification though

[broken latch]

https://tenor.com/view/theyre-the-same-picture-the-office-pam-the-office-us-gif-20757621

[rapid umbra]

arma 3 isnt tactical at all let alone tacticool, its very janky and archaic

[rapid umbra]

this guy is so mentally diasbled 😭 😭 what is he talking about

[hazy helm]

you could say...Im...what was the word?it started with r...

[broken latch]

@rapid umbra you have anger issues

[pale pivot]

It’s just modded to hell is all that’s why ppl like it so much

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/kuzco-kronk-confused-confus-pas-compris-gif-22358034

[rapid umbra]

arma 3 sux but reforger looks good

[hazy helm]

we play stalker,and we talk online,we all do

🫵 you are like us

[solid dome]

All games sux and Krezzin needs medical treatment

[misty herald]

@pale pivot Doing night ops sucks though because I don't have working night vision yet lol

[broken latch]

NOOO

[broken latch]

Krezzin needs s2

[pale pivot]

Irl or gb?

[solid dome]

Precisely

[misty herald]

IRL. I do have a big bag of PVS-14 parts but I need a bunch of stuff like a battery pack and rubber gaskets to make it function

and the battery pack of a PVS-14 unit costs like 270$

[rapid umbra]

just play airsoft dork

[broken latch]

Maybe if you ask Mol1t nicely, he'll give you the demo

[pale pivot]

Damn man that’s awesome

[hazy helm]

he is

[misty herald]

I've got 3 image intensifier tubes of dubious quality, and that's the most expensive part of any night vision optic device. The tubes alone cost like 1,500$

[hazy helm]

thats the joke

[pale pivot]

I wonder how it really feels to wear nvgs irl

[pale pivot]

Holy shit

[misty herald]

It's pretty wild, you can see all the stars in the sky and get kind of hypnotized by it at first

[pale pivot]

U must be selling crack or some shit to afford all that

[solid dome]

He pimp

[misty herald]

I just have an okay paying job and good spending habits and financial decisions

[pale pivot]

“Okay paying” = 6 figures a year

[misty herald]

lolllll

no, I'm just a welder

[pale pivot]

Oh what type?

[misty herald]

Yes

[pale pivot]

I’m thinking of being a welding engineer

[broken latch]

What type?

Yes

[rapid umbra]

why

[pale pivot]

Well I already am a civil engineer but it’s not super good

It sucks in america. It’s super slow moving

[misty herald]

All processes, aluminum, carbon and stainless steel, cast iron, brass

[pale pivot]

So u do MIG?

[misty herald]

I do

[pale pivot]

Damn man how’s the pay

Is it good enough for me to pursue it?

[misty herald]

If you're already an Engineer I don't know why you'd wanna be a welder

[pale pivot]

I’ll be a welding engineer so I’ll be designing plans and basically telling welders what they’ll be welding. Sorta like the relationship between a mechanic and a mechanical engineer or an electrician and an electrical engineer

Plus I’ve already taken most of the courses that are in the welding engineering curriculum since most engineering majors overlap classes

[misty herald]

You will be instantly and immediately hated by the Welders as is tradition

[pale pivot]

I know them bros I’m chill lol dw

It’s only an extra year worth of courses I have to take to get a double degree

[misty herald]

I mean if that's where you wanna go, do it.

[pale pivot]

Civil engineering is stagnant as shit bro

[misty herald]

But YEAH! Night vision is extremely expensive

[pale pivot]

Lmao

What sorta guns u own

[misty herald]

AR-15, AKMS, Beretta 92X, Makarov (Bulgarian), Mosin Nagant (Izhevsk, 1943), M1 Garand, Kar-98 (Spanish), Type 99 Arisaka.

[pale pivot]

Jesus Christ

That’s like 10k worth of guns

[gaunt burrow]

Least armed American:

[pale pivot]

Bro got an arsenal 💀

[pale pivot]

ITS OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[misty herald]

The Arisaka still has the Imperial seal on it too

[gaunt burrow]

FREEDOM 🦅

[misty herald]

made in Nagoya city, still has the monopod and anti-aircraft sights

[pale pivot]

Honestly have no idea what that is but sounds like u got a beauty

[misty herald]

Bolt action service rifle used by the Imperial Japanese Army

[pale pivot]

I wanna actually own my first gun very soon what should I get? My price range is max 6000$

For practical and cool purposes

[misty herald]

Practical purposes is AR-15 and a Glock

It's boring but it's what is practical

[pale pivot]

What about something that won’t bore the hoes tho

I like lever action rifles but they aren’t very practical

[misty herald]

Get whatever you wish, it's a free country

[pale pivot]

I might go with a shotgun

[gaunt burrow]

"God created men. Colonel Colt made them equal"

[pale pivot]

Damn that’s tuff

[gaunt burrow]

I'd go for Colt Revolver tbh

[misty herald]

I really want one of those LR-300s that appear in STALKER

But those are unobtanium IRL

[pale pivot]

Unobtainable?

[misty herald]

Yeah, they're extremely rare and very cool

[pale pivot]

Damn they look sick

20K?!!

[misty herald]

Like I said

[solid dome]

God created Krezzin and made his biggest mistake

[gaunt burrow]

Bro wtf

Thats some next level self hatred

[misty herald]

I don't know HOW so many LR-300s got into the Zone

[finite dragon]

krezzin thinks he is that guy , and i think the same

[solid dome]

I often hate myself

[finite dragon]

why

[pale pivot]

I think they’re only in anomaly

[solid dome]

I suffer those episodes of mental illness, maybe thats why

[pale pivot]

I don’t see any info on them being in the trilogy

[finite dragon]

we all suffer from that but still hating urself can be used as a source of energy , depends how we deal with this things

[misty herald]

the LR-300? They're in every trilogy game

it's called the TRs-301 in the game

[gaunt burrow]

TRs is in all 3 games yeah

[broken latch]

Ah yes the silver m4a1

[pale pivot]

Ohhh yea

[misty herald]

the LR-300 is cool and unique because unlike most AR-15s, it can be fired continuously while the stock is folded

[pale pivot]

U can’t do that with an AR?

[broken latch]

Why would stock influence that

[misty herald]

Nope, most AR-15s use a buffer tube to reciprocate the bolt that the stock is built around

[pale pivot]

So when u fold it that buffer tube gets what?

[misty herald]

When you shoot an AR-15, the hot gasses from the exploded powder trabel up a thin gas tube to push the bolt back, kind of like on an AK

[pale pivot]

Yea

[solid dome]

@glossy blade Make a new trailer and I'll shower you in gold, you have savings for the rest of your life, no need to work, you can spend infinitely on whatever you want

[misty herald]

The Bolt Carrier Group (BCG) flies back against the buffer tube, which is essentially a spring contained within a tube in the stock, and the spring pushes the BCG back forward to load another cartridge in the chamber

Most AR-15s don't have a folding stock for this reason

LR-300 is unique in it's capability to fire witha folded stock for engineering space magic reasons

[pale pivot]

So u can’t fold the stock due to the tube being in the stock

And if u fold it the mechanics fails

[solid dome]

You two get a room, you talk tubes, sounds funky

[misty herald]

Which is why a folding stock isn't really common on AR-15s

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT STALKER 2 THE GAME AWARDS APPEARANCE, REMEMBER?
ITS AN EMPTY HOPE
DECIDED TO NOT SHOW UP IN TGA? WITH ME?!
MOL1T AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN DATE WE FOUND IN THE DOCS
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET A CONCRETE TIME TO FIT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO SCHIZOTHEORY CRAFT
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD LOOK IN THE ROADMAP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, MOL1T
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY THE STOC PINGED US IN ANNOUNCEMENT
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF DELAYS WAS GONE!
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COPIUM
AND THROUGH THE MONITOR, I SAW EVGENIY CONFIRM FINAL STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE!
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER DELAY
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET MOL1T TO GO TO TGA 2023
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT DELAY
UNLIKE YOU

[solid dome]

You asked him about STALKER 2

[pale pivot]

Ahhh and if it is it can’t support continuous fire

[solid dome]

You tasked him with STALKER 2
You basked him with STALKER 2

[pale pivot]

You shat on him with STALKER 2

[misty herald]

which makes the LR-300 cool

[gaunt burrow]

Is it September yet?

[solid dome]

You spat him with STALKER 2

[pale pivot]

So just for that added mechanism they charge up to 20k? I mean it’s cool but damn

[misty herald]

Well it's also because so few were ever made

[pale pivot]

You beat him with STALKER 2

[solid dome]

Which god we beg for STALKER 2?

[pale pivot]

Ohh so they’re rare

[gaunt burrow]

Makes sense

[solid dome]

You treat him with STALKER 2 footager

[pale pivot]

I thought they were rare due to the new mechanism driving up the price

[solid dome]

#STALKERLIVESMATTER

[misty herald]

Extremely

[gaunt burrow]

#STALKERLIVESMATTER

[pale pivot]

#STALKERLIVESMATTER

[gaunt burrow]

#RENEGADESLIVESDONOTMATTER

[pale pivot]

#CAPMF

#RENEGADESARELITASSHIT

[solid dome]

And the movement is on

[misty herald]

I've seen more Miniguns at gun shows than I've seen LR-300s

[pale pivot]

#MOL1TISHURTINGOURMENTALHEALTH

[misty herald]

that being, I've never ever seen one IRL

[solid dome]

[gaunt burrow]

Damn

[pale pivot]

Damn

That’s actually crazy u must live in a proud gun city or something

[solid dome]

Molit is Jigsaw and wants us to play his game

[gaunt burrow]

Real

[pale pivot]

I live in the most ||sissy blue leaning sack of sorry balls city|| and I have to deal with this terrible regulatory laws

[misty herald]

If you're wondering how the LR-300 achieves it's unique mechanics, it's from the buffer spring actually wrapping around the gas tube, rather than relying on a more conventional buffer tube design

[solid dome]

We have 215 days to figure out how to release ourselves from captivity

Guh damnt

[pale pivot]

Damn that makes sense will the newer ar models adopt this mechanism?

[solid dome]

We have to break free

[pale pivot]

Ah shit I dropped the key bro

[solid dome]

Fight our inner devils

[pale pivot]

Sorry man we’re stuck in here

[solid dome]

Smash the chains

[misty herald]

I mean one has, the SIG MCX uses the same principle to make a folding stock

[pale pivot]

U want me to uhhh smash the chains or SMASH the chains

[solid dome]

Break a leg

[gaunt burrow]

#STALKERLIVESMATTER

[solid dome]

Call the Police

[gaunt burrow]

#RENEGADESLIVESDONOTMATTER

[misty herald]

The SIG MCX being developed into the XM-7 rifle, being adopted by the U.S Army today

[pale pivot]

Sig

[solid dome]

Sue our enemies

[gaunt burrow]

[solid dome]

Imbue our swords with poison

[pale pivot]

Sue gsc for hurting our mental health

[solid dome]

Go back to the Skeleton Cave to fight the remaining of the Devils Servants

Beat Mephisto

Gaming history retold

[gaunt burrow]

Might be me but it doesn't really seem compact

[misty herald]

I used the TRs-301 (LR-300) all the way through in Call of Pripyat

[pale pivot]

GSC when they delay the game for the 20th time

[gaunt burrow]

Design is kinda meh

[misty herald]

I personally don't really like them and a LOT of US Army guys don't like them either

[solid dome]

We are 215 delays away from playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl

[gaunt burrow]

I can see why

[misty herald]

They kind of have a valid reason my guy

[misty herald]

The general complaints have been that they're extremely heavy compared to their older rifles among a slew of toher problems

the benefit being that the ammo the XM-7 uses obliterates body armour with ease but 5.56x45 NATO M855A1 rounds are fine as is

[pale pivot]

Ofc but we like to tease them abt it

[solid dome]

You know every time I say -- We are XXX delays away -- I'm dying on the inside

I don't know why I'm hurting myself so bad

[misty herald]

Problem being with the .277 round that the XM-7 uses is that it's kind of

[gaunt burrow]

Aha

[misty herald]

Well, we designed it in response to a problem that turned out to not really be a problem but it's good to have

[gaunt burrow]

For a rainy day?

[solid dome]

I'm out of the chat chamber

[gaunt burrow]

Wait

[solid dome]

Peace out, playas

[misty herald]

Well, the .277 was developed during the 2017 Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program which like all the other failed Next Generation programs before it was trying to replace the U.S Army's M4, M16, and M249 weapons.

[gaunt burrow]

Aight bro, cya

[misty herald]

The problem at the time was that the Pentagon wanted to develop weapons capable of defeating the newest generations of Chinese and Russian body armour

[solid dome]

Summon me if need be

[gaunt burrow]

Wow, interesting

Since when did development of that program started?

[misty herald]

This was because in testing the 5.56x45 NATO M855A1 rounds fired by the M16, M4, and M249 were actually having problems punching through acquired samples of modern body armour used by Russian and Chinese forces. And this program started in 2017

[gaunt burrow]

Understood

[pale pivot]

Cya playa

[misty herald]

However the XM-7 proved to not be very popular but it's important to make these advancements

I think the last time we did something like this it produced the HK XM-8 rifle

a highly modified variant of the G-36

[gaunt burrow]

Old weapons getting outdated and new ones getting created

Such is the cycle

[misty herald]

the XM-8 turned out to be an improvement on the M4 rifle but the Army determined that it wasn't so good as to spend the money on replacing the entire stock of M4s and M16s

[gaunt burrow]

So XM-8 Rifle just got added to the stock without replacing M4s and 16s?

That would make sense to me

[misty herald]

XM-8 was never adopted

It remains an extremely cool but unfortunately also extremely rare rifle on the private market

when the U.S military has the letter X in front of something that means it's eXperimental

However, some XM-8s have been seen used by members of the Malaysian special forces unit PASKAL

[gaunt burrow]

Tbh its pretty sad. All that money governments spend on creating destructive weapons could be spent on noble causes

I guess human nature will never change. Still sad that we're basically killing eachother since the beginning of time

[misty herald]

Ohhhh man don't get me started on the OICW program

[gaunt burrow]

Afaik it was cancelled, right?

[misty herald]

Yup, with a ton of extremely cool technology left undeveloped and forgotten

Worse still was the program to develop the much hated UCP pattern of camouflage

How many billions? 3?

[gaunt burrow]

The guns do look cool tho, can't deny that

[gaunt burrow]

No idea tbh

[misty herald]

Billions of dollars spent adopting a pattern that was universally hated, only to be replaced by a pattern that did work

with the punchline being that the pattern that did work was IN THE SAME PROGRAM

[gaunt burrow]

Bruh moment

[misty herald]

This is how Multicam came to be

interestingly, in canon nobody uses Camouflage other than Monolith, the Military, and Freedom

I am not counting the buck wild shit Clear Sky uses as camouflage

[gaunt burrow]

Clear Sky armor looks very nice imho

One of the best looking armor for me

Anyways I'm going to sleep. Pretty late here

[misty herald]

my only issue is that they wear bright blue and white "camo" which, I get it, but

[gaunt burrow]

Have a good night man

[misty herald]

Yup! Goodnight dude, see you later

So nobody can spam and the chat is readable

[finite dragon]

@kind breach

[misty herald]

Yeah can we get some moderation here to clear this trash out?

[kind breach]

already banned

[misty herald]

cleared hot, thanks

[finite dragon]

Trying to raid

most likely

[misty herald]

Fellow Merc

[finite dragon]

I don't got image perms so I can't drop a merc image 😭

[misty herald]

Everyone loves the Boys in Blue

[kind breach]

except this guy

[misty herald]

Should have paid better than the client

[finite dragon]

Is that the military dude from cop

you know the one you got to do a mission for to get him that suit

[manic vector]

IS the open world going to be seamless basically no loading screens????

[pliant fox]

What's the difference between the terms "Anomaly Field" and "Archanomaly"?

Do they mean the same thing?

[misty herald]

I vaguely remember him from Shadow of Chernobyl

You had to escort him or something

[pure peak]

Man

Clear sky is goofy. “Hold the point until help arrives” stfu

[misty herald]

Clear sky was certainly unique

But there's a reason the faction wars feature wasn't present in CoP I guess lol

Personally I feel like Faction Wars needs a very, very advanced AI to function properly

Because a lot of the time it feels like there's no real strategy or tactics to it

[broken latch]

THIS IS KRUGLOV FROM SOC

anomaly is rotting your brain

[misty herald]

You know what gun I relied on a LOT in SoC? The L85

[broken latch]

That gun is rubbish

[misty herald]

You're responding to the wrong Merc lol

[broken latch]

You guys are ctrl c+v of each other, feels like talking to same people

[misty herald]

IRL? The SA80 is not the best of weapons for so, so many reasons. In SOC it was okay

I picked it up in the Army Warehouses and just kept using it

[broken latch]

Why not just pick up the Vintar from army warehouses

[toxic vector]

the sniper TRs301 is in army warehouse

[misty herald]

I like the way the SA-80 looks

[broken latch]

Which is ass compared to Vintar you get

[misty herald]

the IRL SA-80 though holy moly

[broken latch]

Like most of the unique weapons or armor spots in stalker make no sense

[misty herald]

It had a hilarious problem where the plastic was extremely variable in quality and would be different colours on the same rifle, the buttstock would crack, the handguard would get very, very hot, and if you loaded more than 28 rounds in it's special magazine the spring would break

[broken latch]

@misty herald did you play triology

[misty herald]

Yup.

[broken latch]

Basically like Skyrim, best example tbh

[broken latch]

Who is wolf

[sand fiber]

skyrim has loading screens

[broken latch]

Yeah, and it's from 2015

[sand fiber]

what

[misty herald]

Nearest I remember he's like the first quest giver in SoC

[broken latch]

What else

[misty herald]

I think I remember him sending you on a mission against the bandits in that broken up building in the Cordon

[toxic vector]

5.56 is lighter and more common than 9x39

[misty herald]

An important quest, illustrates that STALKER is not like Half Life

And if you run into an enemy base half cocked you're going to get shot to pieces and die immediately

Also does an excellent job of simulating how much the Makarov sucks IRL

[broken latch]

But 9x39 weapons do more damage and their ammo is more commonly found up north, and you find enough 9x39 ammo in south Parth of the zone that you don't even have to loot corpses for ammo at north part of the zone

[misty herald]

My reasoning is a lot more simple lol

I've always liked the SA-80 for it's unique look

[broken latch]

Just buy the thunder off of Sid before first mission

[toxic vector]

the TRs301 is only gun with picatinny rail in SOC afaik

[broken latch]

You can only buy it before the first mission and it's very costly

Unique groza, uses ak ammo

I forgot ammo names so we'll just call them

Shotgun, ak, trs and Vintar

And pmm

[broken latch]

Did you find Gordon freeman in soc?

[misty herald]

Yup

In my English version of the game there was something wierd, the crazed stalker in the Army Warehouses marsh shack had an American accent

and I think that was the only one in the whole game

[broken latch]

He didn't sound American from what I remember

What version tho

[misty herald]

It was on the English steam version that I got a million years ago, lets see here....

[broken latch]

Idk I played both on 1.0005 and 1.0006

Maybe you were on 1.0004?

[misty herald]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ7pZmwlJQ4

Here's the video with him speaking in that accent

[broken latch]

He just sounds like a well educated slav

[misty herald]

Sounded American to me when I was playing

Wierdly I didn't run into any mines

And I just bolted on through

[broken latch]

Idk, people in Balkan that are like 11/10 good at English speak like that crazy stalker

[misty herald]

Jesus, last played August 2020

[broken latch]

I think they are marked by iron bars sticking from ground

[misty herald]

Clear Sky last played 2015

[broken latch]

You struck me as a tacticool only played anomaly type of stalker fan

[misty herald]

I think you have a deeply unreasonable and histronic reaction to Anomaly

There's also nothing...tacticool about Anomaly? what?

It has the same degree of attachments on weapons that all the games had

It just has more of them

[broken latch]

People usually mod the hell out of it

Or use gamma modpack

https://tenor.com/view/взгляд-2000-ярдов-война-war-soldier-gif-3632617944134077161

[misty herald]

I like Anomaly

And if people mod it further whoooooo cares

[broken latch]

Only positive thing about Anomaly is that it's very very optimised and less spaghetti code I guess

I think I had more FPS in anomaly then in cop or cs

[misty herald]

More weapons, cut content mutants and factions?

Choosing your own start?

Extremely customizable experience?

[broken latch]

It's really dull and boring experience

It's like adding vanilla sprinkles to a vanilla ice cream

[misty herald]

I don't see it

[broken latch]

Wdym

[misty herald]

I get what I want out of it

[broken latch]

Anomaly is just a upgraded version of coc that now has conflicting lore that doesn't make sense and a cheap copy of trilogy quests

[broken latch]

Legend returns does it better

[misty herald]

I've never ever really cared a whole lot about the Main Trilogy's storyline or Anomaly's for that matter

[broken latch]

Adds cool mechanics like if you play as sin you can wear other stalkers skin to disguise yourself and you have to take out faction leaders

[misty herald]

I'm there for the extremely oppressive atmosphere, the firefights, exploration, and feeling like a Mercenary out making money

[toxic vector]

thing i dont like about Anomaly is it uses Misery economy

[misty herald]

The economy in Anomaly is so brutal lol

You can change it to make it better but goodness gracious

I love sneaking across half the zone, risking my ass to shoot someone in the dome, to do that whole odyssey in reverse for the equivalent of 76 dollars

[broken latch]

You're exploring everything that's been explored in triology, firefights feel the same, atmosphere worse somehow and roleplaying as Merc is an okay experience at first but just get dull

[misty herald]

I just simply don't agree with you lol

refer above to my unreasonable and histrionic comment

[broken latch]

If you wanna explore more maps, I suggest stalcraft. It's a mmorpg stalker themed but with Minecraft look, free on steam. Despite looking like Minecraft, it looks very good and has really interesting maps that would make sense for stalker universe

[misty herald]

Minecraft look? No thanks

[sand fiber]

lmfao

[misty herald]

Look matey we are obviously not going to agree with eachother here

[toxic vector]

that game has cheater problems

[sand fiber]

yeah that's cool too bad anomaly sucks at that

[misty herald]

seems like a pointless discussion to have

Not really accomplishing much, just keeps going around in circles

[broken latch]

Major balance issues too

[misty herald]

Iiiin any case

Love exploring Limansk

too bad about the natives

[broken latch]

Limansk is really cool

But the never ending monolith spawn

I have wasted at least 40 mins before realising it

[misty herald]

Reaaaaally earning those nice screenshots

[broken latch]

Have you seen their maps

[misty herald]

What was that one map that they were going to use for a vehicle driving section but cut

[broken latch]

Like all maps

[sand fiber]

uhhhhh darkscape?

[misty herald]

Nah it was a special one

DARKSCAPE

[sand fiber]

there was also this very unfinished vehicle section between dead city end garbage iirc

[misty herald]

Darkscape was meant to be a big vehicle section but it got cut because it was shit

[toxic vector]

i hope stalker 2 would be a seamless open world like witcher 3

[sand fiber]

nah it was cut because the vehicles were cut

[toxic vector]

or cp2077

[broken latch]

Lore wise military used it for vehicles

[sand fiber]

not because of its quality

[misty herald]

I never minded the map transitions in the Trilogy games or Anomaly

[sand fiber]

it is

[misty herald]

Gameplay wise it was me hoofing it looking desperately for any kind of cover while an Emission was coming

[toxic vector]

semi open world is available in the time when hardware isnt strong enough, now we have open world game like RDR2

[broken latch]

Just say when you're talking about anomaly, it confuses me

[misty herald]

Looking at the wiki it seems like there were quite a few road sections

Watching the HBO chernobyl series and getting flashbacks to fighting in the same locations in STALKER lol

[solid dome]

STALKER 2 will consume our souls straight from the cup of blood

STALKER 2 will be the Monster Truck ride of our lives

[red basin]

How big are Ultimate Edition items?

[solid dome]

You never ask how big...

If the lady likes the experience, its big enough. Lmfao.

[misty herald]

Being an Anomaly player, especially a Mercenary main and seeing photos of Poliske back in it's prime is also wild

[solid dome]

Poliske?

[red basin]

I'm waiting for a real answer because I want to take it

[misty herald]

Poliske is the city that the map Dead City is based on

in Anomaly, the Mercenaries make Dead City their base of operations

[solid dome]

Anomaly can eat my ass

[misty herald]

Alright then

Lol I just realized the knife in the Trilogy games are all (similar to) American M9 Bayonets used for M4 Carbines

A solid choice but an interesting one for a Ukrainian like Strelok and the other protags

[solid dome]

What if Strelok has augemnted vision...

[finite dragon]

Not my fault that sokolov wears it to in cop 😭

[misty herald]

I love that suit

There's an IRL version of it but it's unobtanium

[finite dragon]

I like the merc seva suit

[finite dragon]

damn that sucks

[misty herald]

Merc Seva is definitely one of the best

[misty herald]

Antibelok-5 is the name of the suit

[finite dragon]

That and duty seva suit

[pale pivot]

Just so u know people do not like anomaly or gamma in this server lol

[misty herald]

As for your mainline mercenaries, they seem to use blue parkas and BDU pants with Blackhawk Omega Elite tactical vests, PVS-15 pouch on their side, some kind of black drop leg holster, and M40A1 gas masks

[misty herald]

They can cope and seethe about it I guess. If they can't talk about it without being children I don't have to listen to them lol

[pale pivot]

The hate boner usually stems from the super annoying fan base in anomaly and gamma that think the definitive stalker experience is anomaly or gamma or whatever

[misty herald]

It's definitely not that

[pale pivot]

If people treated anomaly and gamma as just mods separate from stalker, then most people would be fine. You’ll always have people that’ll have a hate boner for anything but most people hate the anomaly players that thing stalker anomaly is the best stalker game when it isn’t even canonical or an actual stalker game

It’s also insulting bc some of those people haven’t even played the trilogy

And they make assumptions that anomaly is the best of the series (it isn’t even part of the series). Anomaly is basically a massive stalker mod that runs on a modified version of the engine.

[misty herald]

On the same token I think people allow their fandom for the original trilogy turns them into emotional children like with Star Wars fans

[pale pivot]

True both sides can be very insufferable. I like anomaly and gamma. I also like the trilogy

[misty herald]

They have their ups and downs

[pale pivot]

There will be a bunch of angry folks when stalker 2 comes out and it doesn’t play like anomaly or gamma

[misty herald]

I am eyeing Stalker 2 cautiously for different reasons but I'm not gonna declare anything until ive played it

[pale pivot]

There’ll also be a bunch of angry folks when stalker 2 comes out and it doesn’t play similar to the og trilogy

[misty herald]

I typically play older games but Stalker 2 will be an exception

[pale pivot]

Same I’ll be picking it up from game pass so I don’t drop the 70 dollar price tag

[misty herald]

since the Zone was such a huge part of my high school life

I'll pay the 70 bucks since it was being developed while the sky was falling so GSC has earned the money

[pale pivot]

I only got into stalker about a year ago from anomaly lol and I’ve loved it ever since

[pale pivot]

I mean I already have game pass so

[misty herald]

Ohhh man, god, trying to think back to when I first got into STALKER

[pale pivot]

I’ll def buy the game if I like it for the mods

[pale pivot]

Lol a trip back in memory lane

[misty herald]

I think it was...2010? It was in the early 2010's.

[pale pivot]

Damn man I must’ve been like 8 years old

[nimble cipher]

mystagogg has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pale pivot]

Oops

[misty herald]

burn in hell wolf

I played SoC and it was the first firefight that got me hooked and hooked deep

When you go save Nimble in the Cordon and take on those Bandits

The atmosphere, the gunplay

[pale pivot]

Yea there’s really nothing like it

My first was call of Pripyat and that was amazing

[pearl jacinth]

i wonder what discord user @gsc.gameworld is doing right now

[pale pivot]

@azure nimbus hola

[misty herald]

My obsession got to the point where I was doing quite literally criminal nonsense like the Stalker Challenges, wherein we would accomplish various IRL challenges based on what STALKERs would experience

[pale pivot]

Damn that sounds amazing

Not an obsession brother but a passion

[misty herald]

Penultimate of this was camping out inside an abandoned mall for a weekend

[pale pivot]

U camped inside an abandoned mall? Jesus I’d be terrified

[misty herald]

It was okay, the homeless people living inside were pretty chill and the only tense part was hiding when cops would come to sweep the building

I was....16 I think

[pale pivot]

Bro 😭 u was bouncing around with homeless that’s crazy

[misty herald]

Not really, just people trying to get by like most others

I just handed them some money, some food, explained what I was doing and they got a kick out of it, so I just hung out with them for the weekend playing guitar until it was time to pack up and leave

[pale pivot]

Yea I understand it’s just that the homeless around here are pretty crazy so idk

[misty herald]

that was the Loner Challenge on Veteran difficulty

[pale pivot]

Lmao

That sounds pretty cool damn that’d be a good story to tell ur kids

[misty herald]

Yeah nah I'm not telling them that shit

What I did was EXTREMELY illegal especially because I had a gun on me at 16

[pale pivot]

Lmao my friends dad had a crap ton of guns and he’d let us play with them (not a good idea to let two 18 year old teens play with guns)

He had a lever action that felt soooooo smooth it was insane

Never felt any gun like it. I absolutely love em

[misty herald]

I was wearing an olive green field jacket, jeans, army boots, a Polish MP-3 mask with the hose and big coffee can filter, a bread bag that contained my Makarov pistol and ammo, and a czech rucksack that contained my food and other supplies

Extremely stupid

[pale pivot]

Bro was really in the zone lmao

Id run the opposite way if I seen someone wearing all that

[misty herald]

Yeah I made my way there at night, crawled down a hill, ran across the parking lot, and squeezed my way into a bent up hole in a loading bay garage

and like that, I was in

Again, don't do this

Especially not as an adult. Had one thing gone wrong or a cop found me it would have ruined my life

But it's an example of how deep in the STALKER sauce I was

[pale pivot]

Did u go with a group?

In no way would I have went there by myself

[misty herald]

Solo

True Loner

[hidden stratus]

That media channel isn't bolded.

64 days since last trailer

3-6 months between trailers

Up to 186 days

122 days until potential trailer

216 days left until launch

It's getting delayed again

[misty herald]

Oh, another thing I like about Anomaly is the radio on the PDA

But I don't expect GSC to shell out the fat stacks to license all these songs

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[misty herald]

You too brother man

[glossy wave]

I can’t wait for someone to mod NATO troops into a STALKER game like the military in SoC but Apache’s instead of Hind’s

[misty herald]

That would be...strange

[glossy wave]

I guess that’s kinda like Marauder or whatever it’s called

The U.S. looks like evil Duty

[misty herald]

You mean that weird RPG?

[glossy wave]

Yeah Warlockracy did a video. I can’t believe the author has such an inferiority complex.

[misty herald]

Also god the Hind is such a weird aircraft

[glossy wave]

From what I heard it was supposed to be a combination of an attack and utility helicopter like a true flying IFV and it sucks to this day

Not even like a gunship flying IFV but a box with guns on it

[misty herald]

It can transport troops

[glossy wave]

To their deaths

[misty herald]

but not a lot of them

[glossy wave]

“We need only two things: the Quran and more Stingers.”

[misty herald]

I would disagree that it's a bad design though

[glossy wave]

It’s one of those “good enough for the previous war” helicopters

[misty herald]

And an affordable cost option for countries without a big military budget but still need something that can lay down the volume of fire the Hind is capable of

I mean mercenaries operated the Hind D all over Africa

[glossy wave]

Unless you’re facing American MANPADS technology

[misty herald]

But sometimes you aren't

It got a modernization package by South Africa too

And the M60 Patton is still getting upgrade packages

[glossy wave]

By Western countries

Or the Allies only club

[misty herald]

(careful that we don't drift into politics eh?)

[glossy wave]

It’s not enough for concurrent conflicts and it’s creators could only dream of affording replacement platforms and modules

[misty herald]

I mean, there are replacement platforms

Huh, apparently there's one Mi-24 on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona

[glossy wave]

One thing I will say though I have a soft spot for those Korea-Vietnam era Patton models

[misty herald]

I also remember one documentary about the Liberian Civil War where Mercenaries flying Mi-24 Hinds were pretty instrumental in operations

[glossy wave]

There’s several dozen Mi-24’s and Mi-17’s on display in the soil of Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Israel, etc.

[misty herald]

I think you're laying into your point a little too aggressively my man

[glossy wave]

Fine

I’m too much of a NATO loyalist

[misty herald]

That all gets into politics that isn't the purview of this place

[glossy wave]

I know

[misty herald]

Am I the only one that never particularly found the pistols useful?

[pearl jacinth]

you too

[misty herald]

Okay I'm gonna say it

I want to try bacon cut from a fleshpig

[misty herald]

I am 100% certain it's amazing

[gaunt burrow]

Morning

[celest heart]

hello there

[finite dragon]

hello. how are you?

[gaunt burrow]

I'm fine, thanks. You?

[finite dragon]

learning for the final exam

[gaunt burrow]

Good luck

[broken latch]

Hes usually seen without the helmet

And you can tell the difference by grpahics

[gaunt burrow]

Bruh

[finite dragon]

thanks

[gaunt burrow]

How can someone mistake Kruglov for Sokolov when Sokolov is without a helmet while Kruglov wears one?

Theres also a hugeee difference in graphics

[gaunt burrow]

Only in Jupiter Underground mission Sokolov wears a helm

[broken latch]

Anomaly players

[lofty holly]

sokolov?

https://tenor.com/view/mgs3-sokolov-mgs3compact-edition-revolver-ocelot-gif-23086153

embed faliure

[broken latch]

https://tenor.com/view/jesus-ballin-mars-bars-gif-19910027

[gaunt burrow]

Embed fail. Laugh at this user

[lofty holly]

woe is me

[queen perch]

Yo I'm playing 1 rn and I swore I put a m4 in the stash at the barkeep

Does loot despawn after awhile

[broken latch]

No

If you put them in boxes no

I don't think they even despawn if left on the floor

[gaunt burrow]

If you put your loot in those blue boxes no

loot will remain in personal boxes forever

[queen perch]

Is the one in the barkeep a blue box?

[gaunt burrow]

there's a blue box in 100 Rad Bar yes

[queen perch]

Okay dope

Wonder what happened to that m4 I had then

[broken latch]

You probably sold it or left it on the ground and it glitched out

[broken latch]

Wait literally m4 or the TRs001

[queen perch]

TRs001

I didn't know the name but it's the one that looks like the m4

[gaunt burrow]

Yeah, you must be referring to TRs 301

[broken latch]

I always forget that odd name

We should rename it to silver m4