⭐┃nospoilers_general

[sand fiber]

the bandit fight with Bes, with Seriy, the only fights (with humans) the game forces you into are wild territory, dark valley, and the endgame sequence

[pseudo rivet]

Almost 3/4th

[gaunt burrow]

Some of the Clear Sky locations aren't THAT action packed. In the Dark Valley (if you won't take Chekhovs second sidequest) you just have to kill 1 pseudodog and 5~ or so mercs

[finite dragon]

What about when you steal military documents

Or CNPP monolith fights

[gloomy knoll]

you can steal military docs via sneaking if I remember correctly

[sand fiber]

oh right

[pseudo rivet]

Yep, I stealthed that entire section, zero kills

[nimble cipher]

cheekibreeki. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

So you're telling me I didn't have to topple a government to retrieve some papers to Sidorovich

[still ridge]

Hey Crimson

[pseudo rivet]

It even seems like it was actually DESIGNED to be stealthed into

[pseudo rivet]

'Sup dawg

[gloomy knoll]

no, but its less fun then imo

[pseudo rivet]

Stealth is an option, violence is usually always the answer

[gaunt burrow]

Why would you NOT help Seriy considering that "Meet with Seriy " is a main quest? Average player doesn't enters the Garbage and ignores call for help

[sand fiber]

both dark valley and agroprom sequences were intended to have stealth routes, but both had escape sequences on cars after

[still ridge]

Are you an ft-200 enjoyer or a GP37 connoisseur

[gaunt burrow]

Many players, rookies included think that they HAVE to help him in order to advance further

[pseudo rivet]

GP 37

[finite dragon]

Dude I went thru the agroprom underground part where I escape thru a manhole directly into the military base and got spotted I think

[still ridge]

The new version, are you a Malyuk enjoyer or a Carmel connoisseur

[pseudo rivet]

It depends on the game, but my playstyle is usually just GP 37

[granite mortar]

Malyutka best atgm

[finite dragon]

I assume the game wants you to "find a way out" by going thru the manhole where you encounter the controller and not backtrack like my first time

[pseudo rivet]

What the what now?

[gaunt burrow]

And stealth? C'mon huh. 'Stealth' for majority is killing everyone who saw them

[sand fiber]

because you can, duh
you were arguing yesterday that i shouldn't count faction wars as CS action since it's optional

[gaunt burrow]

You might exclude stealth option completely

[icy prism]

xDDDD you will never get an answer to that

[finite dragon]

Stealth is sniper kills, nobody even sees you yet they still die

[gaunt burrow]

How is that the same scenario? You aren't forced to join ANY faction except Clear Sky

[pseudo rivet]

Or stealing the Agroprom documents without getting spotted and killing no one

[gaunt burrow]

While SoC makes it look like you HAVE to help Seriy to advance further

[finite dragon]

Yes

[gaunt burrow]

"Meet with Seriy" is part of the MAIN quest

[sand fiber]

you aren't forced to help seriy either, but in both scenarios players are encouraged to participate

[pseudo rivet]

You can just, y'know, kill them too... If you're into that or whatever

[gaunt burrow]

You are if you actually want to complete main quest and not fail it

[finite dragon]

Are you supposed to go thru the manhole for the stealth or like the hole in the wall by walking from X16 to that

[still ridge]

Two of the 3 new 5.56 guns we’ve seen

[sand fiber]

you don't fail the main quest by not helping seriy???

[indigo marsh]

They are both guns. The Carmel is made by IWI Carmel. If you don't type IWI in the beginning then you will get a place in Cali

[finite dragon]

Btw are there any underground parts that are Agroprom or X18 or the ecologist mission that I'm forgetting

[granite mortar]

Wait
ou cam go without killing them

[sand fiber]

It's an rpg, you can kill people and still get what you want

some may even say an imsim

[granite mortar]

imsim?

[finite dragon]

An imsim

[sand fiber]

immersive sim

[granite mortar]

Oh an imsim

[granite mortar]

Immersion is such a buzzword in stalker its crazy

[finite dragon]

It really makes me feel like a stalker

[sand fiber]

am talking about the rpg subgenre

[finite dragon]

The exaggerated swagger of a black teen

[finite dragon]

God does anyone remember this video game review

[sand fiber]

stalker kinda fails at being a light rpg/imsim but it definitelt can develop in that direction

[finite dragon]

I mean isn't Anomaly and Call of Chernobyl like sort of light rpgs?

[still ridge]

Actually, it can be chambered in multiple calibers

[granite mortar]

Bad mods
Bad

:(

CoC is okay actually

:3

[sand fiber]

No, god no, not in the slightest

They're freeplay sandboxes of non-RPG variety

i haven't played much mods but any of them that has a better a-life and more complex quests with different outcomes would qualify

[indigo marsh]

Nah the Tow 2b is better

[granite mortar]

Tow 2b is for idiots who cant keep aim

[unkempt dragon]

I do 😭

[indigo marsh]

[pseudo rivet]

It's an option, although stealth isn't really that big of an option. It's more like flanking

[pseudo rivet]

Need pic tbh

[pseudo rivet]

It's a possibility

[granite mortar]

I always just shot them all

[pseudo rivet]

[indigo marsh]

Oh your talking about WT

[granite mortar]

No
Generally speaking
Tow is for kids

[gaunt burrow]

I mean if you kill literally everyone who saw you thats also technically a stealth right?

[granite mortar]

stelth 100

[pseudo rivet]

Ah, so that's how the Raven Guard manages to be stealthy

[indigo marsh]

You play ussr which is the second most point and click tt

[pseudo rivet]

Okay, just looked up

[finite dragon]

Spoken like Raiden from Metal gear rising revengenance

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on how they perform, obviously, so I don't have a clear favorite for the time being

[celest blaze]

That's wild I avoided cheesing it

[finite dragon]

It's like going in the ZRP modifier, making it so that uniques don't deteriorate and getting the Tunder 5.45 from Sidorovich

[celest blaze]

Didn't you could do that tbh

[pseudo rivet]

Like, will we go with IRL accurate stats, tiered stats or balanced stats?

[celest blaze]

Irl stats would be interesting

[pseudo rivet]

Which also means it'd be tiered

[still ridge]

Here’s the Carmel in game

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, forgot, we've seen it before

[still ridge]

Don’t think the Vulcan-M can get a nade launcher

But HK416 should be able to

[indigo marsh]

They are both kinda ugly

[pseudo rivet]

Malyuk basically feels like a bigger SMG

Not sure how it performs, though

[finite dragon]

what's the name of it?

[still ridge]

IRL it is IWI Carmel

in game is Carod or Karod

[finite dragon]

got it thanks

[still ridge]

Good think we have the HK416

[indigo marsh]

Is there an m-16 A1?

Or any other m 16?

[loud gate]

Kharod

[wet lark]

I like it

Looks like a beast

[lilac lily]

The game will use fictionalized weapon names? ||||

[still ridge]

Yes

except Malyuk

Which is Vulcan-M in game, which is a real name

[pseudo rivet]

Vul-M?

[wet lark]

The malyuks pretty cool

The ukrainians had a bunch of old aks in their storage so they took the guts, slapped them in some modern polymer furniture and made a modern AR out of it

[half bone]

"Not enough tourists delight's."

[pseudo rivet]

Am I right to assume that the Malyuk is basically like a carbine-type weapon instead of an actual assault rifle?

[still ridge]

It’s just as much of an assault rifle as anything else

It’s a bullpup so the barrel is still long enough to be used at normal AR distances

[wet lark]

It sucks that bullpups are probably the future

[lilac lily]

Might piss off the same people who got buttmad over that reload in the trailer

[pseudo rivet]

I know, but yet it feels like a more short-ranged weapon than the Kharod

[wet lark]

Cause its shorter than the kharod

[pseudo rivet]

Not exactly, but yeah, seen the more compact nature and less room for attachments I suppose it's why I'm thinking that

[still ridge]

It was a double mag, it’s whatever

[still ridge]

Kharod is semi automatic

that could be partially why

[pseudo rivet]

Oh damn, that's wack

You sure it's not fully automatic or a burst-firing weapong?

[still ridge]

I didn’t know until I just looked it up

it’s semi auto for the civilian market

[pseudo rivet]

All civilian rifles are

[wraith sonnet]

there is never enough

[still ridge]

We still have the glorious GP37 and HK416

[pseudo rivet]

I need IL 86

[still ridge]

Trueee we haven’t seen that

We’ve seen MAC-10 and M1A

[covert slate]

i'm just surprised that there's going to be a revolver

[still ridge]

Lotta new weapons

me likey

Wait… it’s not M1A

Mfw it’s an M14

[granite mortar]

What you doing with tbe picture bruh

[loud gate]

Kharod is a fully automatic weapon

Not "semi"

[still ridge]

In game it is?

IRL it is not

[elfin echo]

Man the military in SoC are pathetic

[still ridge]

Image don’t work

[loud gate]

image work for me

[tulip vapor]

Army Warehouses in Announcements vid. Man they really are bringing the whole zone back

[loud gate]

As you can see, the Kharod has two firing modes. But maybe, the full auto is an upgrade performed by a technician.

[loud gate]

The Bloodsucker Village looks so good

[tulip vapor]

Holding out hope for limansk

[loud gate]

Does it work now ?

[paper dust]

It doesn't work for me.

[tulip vapor]

Looks fine here, try reloading

[indigo marsh]

Works fine for me

[still ridge]

Probably just bad connection on my end

[paper dust]

Gonna relogin.

[indigo marsh]

But clicking on it makes it get an error

[indigo marsh]

Does it say failled to load the image. Please try again?

[loud gate]

I will resend in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[paper dust]

Ok it works now.

[elfin echo]

Why is the military in SoC so trash

I just began playing and they go down easily

[wet lark]

What revolver is it

[covert slate]

my guess is a heavy magnum

[paper dust]

They are corrupt but they aren't weak

[covert slate]

you can see it on the latest trailer in the upper left of the video with that guy we think might be Beard

[paper dust]

Military at CNPP was actually putting up a decent fight against Monolith guys.

[still ridge]

It’s a mistake then. Irl the weapon is not full auto

[covert slate]

@loud gate ay man you got that image of that revolver on hand?

[wet lark]

Is it full auto for military?

[still ridge]

It’s a civilian weapon

[elfin echo]

Nah i just took out a spetsnaz patrol easily

[loud gate]

It's not a mistake, the full auto is an upgrade performed by a technician then.

[indigo marsh]

The guys at the other checkpoint are a lot harder to take down

[loud gate]

I confused it with another weapon, but no, you are right, it's Semi at its base level.

[paper dust]

Yes because playing as a literal terminator is a good indicator of how strong or weak military is (or other factions).

[wet lark]

Ah okay

[elfin echo]

We'll see about that

[loud gate]

No

[elfin echo]

I guess my expectation are too high then

[paper dust]

Main characters have plot armor. Of course everyone can be killed easily.

[loud gate]

@covert slate Not sure what Reolver it is, but I think it may be a 357 Python

[elfin echo]

Yeah i just thought that the military in the early game would be a pain in the ass to deal with

Thought i would have to avoid them at all times

[tender torrent]

M21 EBR silent MW2 2009

[wet lark]

The guy with the rack if guns behind him?

[covert slate]

hang on i'll post it in #📸┃screens_and_videos

there

[covert slate]

yeah i was thinking a 357 too

[wet lark]

Thats badass

Man I would love to go through the zone with a 357 colt python and blow peopled heads off

[paper dust]

New guns are always welcomed.

[wet lark]

Especially revolvers

I love revolvers so much, i dont care the impracticality if they have a colt python im using it til endgame

[paper dust]

Love revolvers as well.

[half bone]

even though we pretty much have the same levels (plus with some new ones), they're just so different

[wet lark]

I mean it was 20 years after the last game

Itd be dumb if it were 1:1

I really hope we have more factions and locations, maybe the zone expanding?

[still ridge]

Ofc we gonna get more locations, the map is 64 square kilometers

[paper dust]

So many unfunny memes in #🤨┃stalker_memes

People need to start posting something that'll actually be funny.

[still ridge]

I only use this channel and announcements

[peak ridge]

I can't wait to mod Stalker 2 into an even more immersive experience.

[still ridge]

[still ridge]

Chances are you won’t really need to

[chilly scarab]

lmao

[peak ridge]

Why?

[still ridge]

Because it’s already going to be immersive

there won’t be any “gamma 2” or “anomaly 2” haha

[wraith sonnet]

hope its like the trilogy. dont really want a super survival game

[still ridge]

It’s closer to the trilogy than it is to mods

That’s for sure

[wraith sonnet]

thats nice. i dont mind more modern stuff added in, but anomaly and gamma kinda take it too far into survival.

[peak ridge]

Mmmmh, there is no such thing as "It's already going to be immersive" when we are speaking of mods.

[still ridge]

[peak ridge]

And I don't expect something like GAMMA 2, but surely some people will start to post mods like the graphic of Bodycam

[elfin echo]

So SoC is really fun

Look forward to finishing it

[paper dust]

It absolutely is

SoC is a masterpiece of a game. I'm loving Clear Sky as well.

[agile olive]

I don't know about that...

[elfin echo]

So why do people hate on CS

[paper dust]

I assume its lack of skill on their part.

[still ridge]

Bandwagon

saying CS is bad because other people said it was bad once a long time ago

That’s mostly it

[paper dust]

Good point also. Sheep mentality.

[elfin echo]

that's all i needed to know

The game can't be bad

[paper dust]

If you lack skill it might be bad for you.

Luckily, I don't have that issue

[elfin echo]

I don't have such issues

[pseudo rivet]

Because people who didn't play the game tell others it sucks, thus continuing the same cycle over and over

[celest blaze]

^

Clear sky is the best stalker game and alot of folks ain't ready to have that conversation

If I had to only replay one game in the trilogy it would be clear sky

[celest goblet]

It would still be the original for me, but CS is a respectable choice

[spring creek]

it's the first one i played because i wanted to play them in chronological order
no other game in the series has more personality to me
not the most engaging story, but it's good context for the other games, and the radios at duty and freedom are just the best thing

[wraith sonnet]

i would probably play Call of Pripyat

not dissing on clear sky, just like CoP more

what i will diss on is the accuarcy of early game guns in SoC and Clear Sky because holy cow i cant hit stuff

clear sky really wanted to focus on upgrading and you can feel it in the beginning

[naive fog]

CoP has godly side quests

Ye I have a fully upgraded Obokan in CS rn and it can't hit shit past 15 metres

[stuck pewter]

i think CoP is only fully enjoyable after youve played SoC

parts of the plot just dont make sense without the previous game

[naive fog]

Of course it's necessary to play the games before CoP tho who plays the games from the newest down?

[spring creek]

heh
someone on here did

few days ago
their friend told them to do it

[naive fog]

Oh ye

[stuck pewter]

i keep seeing people say that CoP is the best starting stalker

its a surprisingly popular take

[naive fog]

Damn

Imma just leave before I get too annoyed it's too late for this

[stuck pewter]

lol

[spring creek]

i kinda get it if you wanna enjoy an unmodded stalker for the first time
because the other games have mechanics like that weird accuracy or how little damage enemies take from anywhere other than the head, and most new players aren't keen on that

[celest blaze]

Its deff an adjustment

[stuck pewter]

i am firmly against modding for your first playthrough

i see it as equal to playing anomaly instead of the trilogy

[wraith sonnet]

SoC is my reccomended first stalker game

[stuck pewter]

SoC is the most stalkery stalker game

[celest blaze]

Upgraded GP 37 in cop is beyond strong it melts everything and is crazy accurate in tap fire

[thick lichen]

helooo

[wraith sonnet]

hello stalker

[celest blaze]

Monolith stood no chance lol so easy to dome 5+ monolith at a time with that gun

[hazy helm]

it should be everyones recommendations, as it is the first to be released and thus the best one that introduces to unniverse and players in it
CS and COP assume you know whats going on

[wraith sonnet]

definatley. allow you to understand the zone very early on and what to expect going forwards.

[naive fog]

Ye

Or if you wanna be a real one read roadside picnic, watch Tarkovskys Stalker and then SoC

[hazy helm]

unneded

[naive fog]

Ye

But still bonus points if you do

I loved roadside picnic but it would've been so much better if it was longer

[hazy helm]

Monday Begins on a Saturday was probably their best work

[naive fog]

Strugatsky and Glukhovsky gotta be my favourite authors

Peak

[celest goblet]

Definitely my favorite 20th century sci fi authors

[naive fog]

Same

[hazy helm]

Stanislaw Lem is tied Id say

[naive fog]

2035 went a bit too much into not wanting anything good to happen tho

[hazy helm]

well Lem is tied with the Strugatsky bros

I woujldnt call Glukhovskys works to be on par with them

[naive fog]

Listening to a Polish guy go hard on the voice acting in a Metro audiobook goes so hard

To my Polish bros Krzysztof Gosztyła goes hard

Absolutely amazing guy

Brings out all the emotion and everything

[celest goblet]

performances can certainly elevate an audiobook

[naive fog]

Ye

[naive fog]

He's old enough so he voices all the characters well but he brings out anger so well

[jaunty junco]

This is why I love good audiobooks, specifically good audiodramas (i think is the word)

[umbral brook]

hello is there any info on how multiplayer will look like?

pvp or pve?

[elfin echo]

That's me baby

[spring creek]

hello!

[elfin echo]

Hello there

[spring creek]

oh damn you weren't even far off the conversation XD
i just forgot the name and remembered you being Duty :p

[elfin echo]

i enjoyed CoP before starting with SoC

[elfin echo]

Yeah i found my new best friend in the military

I love the military

I'm neutral in the duty-freedom conflict

[spring creek]

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa57wx6yjayg91.jpg%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3De0928a6d0a8624c3cde409aed8b60d0e18f2a5a3

[elfin echo]

My duty is hunting bandits

[naive fog]

It's funny that people forget bandits are all pieces of shit and not just funny cheeki breeki

[spring creek]

https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED935/639ed1a8b1bbe.jpeg

[elfin echo]

Well i'm not so naive,i know them for what they are and i will do my duty to eliminate them

[naive fog]

That's my current bandit kit:

#🔮┃fanart_and_cosplay message

2nd pic goes hard

[elfin echo]

Agree

You look like J-12 from COD

[naive fog]

?

I play old cods bro idk

Cod 2 was peak cod

The Soviet campaigns were so good

[elfin echo]

That was my first ever COD,played it on my dad's laptop nearly a decade ago

[slow crescent]

I like BO2. CoD 2 is valid af

[naive fog]

Based

[elfin echo]

I've only ever played COD 2,COD 4,COD MW2 and COD MW2019

[jaunty junco]

Anything before MW2019 was good to me, except AW

[elfin echo]

Never had the most interest in the series

[naive fog]

Cod 1,2, original MW2 and warzone 2

[slow crescent]

I like the multiplayer. Especially 1v1s on nuketown.

[elfin echo]

Oh yeah i also played COD warzone with my friends

[celest goblet]

i played a lot of 2 MP back in the day

the modded servers were crazy and fun

[naive fog]

MW2 fцcked up the AKS-74Us iron sights tho 💀 You aim it like if you were aiming an under barrel grenade launcher

You don't even use the rear iron sight

[celest blaze]

i miss og mw2

[naive fog]

AKS-74U irons were horrendous tho 💀

[celest blaze]

oh 100% awful

i was a scar/m16 main

[jaunty junco]

two words to bring horror to the minds of a MW2 player, akimbo 1887s

[naive fog]

Nuh uh stay away pls

No akimbo sweats in chat

[jaunty junco]

commando pro with m9 knife attachment anyone?

[celest blaze]

oh shoot no perms but i used to tach knife with commando pro

cursed gif name sorry

[jaunty junco]

i remember using a UMP-45

that was my main, slap a holo and suppressor on that

[celest blaze]

akimbo model 1887s

[celest blaze]

I can see it ump was really strong

[jaunty junco]

I just liked the shape and noise lol

[celest blaze]

id pay good money for og MP servers to come back

FAL was fun too

[jaunty junco]

I always pick weapons based on if i like the sound and general design of the gun, never meta

more fun that way

[celest blaze]

yeah meta chasing is boring i still used 1887s after the nerf cuz flipping the shotguns wasfun to watch

[jaunty junco]

If i were playing nowadays id soley use an LMG, i remember using the RPD whenever I did back then

[celest blaze]

lmgs went hard haha id go for the classic barret 50 with an acog

[jaunty junco]

core memory was me destroying my brother at snipers 1v1 on terminal and he threw the controller when I used the .50 lol (didnt spam, just kept 1 shotting him, and i guess the fire rate)

[celest blaze]

man terminal and rust were so fun for 1v1 i miss gaming from back then

[jaunty junco]

Terminal infected then glitching your way on top of plane was goated

[tacit herald]

is there a suggestion channel for the discord?

[naive fog]

Yes

[tacit herald]

where is it

[naive fog]

Above en_stalker

[tacit herald]

i know about #📜┃s2_suggestions

[naive fog]

Oh you mean for the discord

[tacit herald]

yes

i shoulda made that more clear, my bad

[naive fog]

Then no, I've seen suggestions added about the discord that have stayed there but mine got deleted within 2 days of posting it

Preorder channel got added but not role for rank 100 : (

[tacit herald]

):

[elfin echo]

I wish there were more LMGs in stalker

[naive fog]

Only PKM is necessary

[elfin echo]

Yeah but i want more variety

[naive fog]

If anything they should add the PK, PKP, RPK, RPD and the PK-2000

[elfin echo]

Not that i would use them,but still

[naive fog]

That's what variety you get

You don't need anymore

[elfin echo]

Yeah...

[feral panther]

beahhh

[lone oracle]

Not yet bro

[tacit herald]

where can i find a SEVA/suit with a closed-cycle respiratory module in cop

and where can i find a good amount of artifacts

[stuck pewter]

who can you buy specialized suits from

[celest blaze]

Nimble on the Skadovsk@tacit herald

[tacit herald]

is there somewhere i can get one without spending rubles?

ammos expensive

[celest blaze]

Not sure tbh you could always hunt some artifacts if you do quests for eco you can get the best detector in the game that makes hunting easy

[stuck pewter]

i think nimble is the only way iirc

the scientists might also give you one if you do their questline but i dont remember

[tacit herald]

found one from that guy in skadovsk for 28000

[spring apex]

besides nimble, owl will also sell seva with much cheaper price. but required to got achievements first

[tacit herald]

also why does beard buy artifacts for more than the scientists? is there a lore reason? or just because

[spring apex]

he got nasty connections and clients outside the zone, so theres good reason he buys with higher price

"I have major customers outside the Zone who regularly order specific artifacts, which must be delivered within a specific period of time."

illegal business yearns higher price than legit ones like scientists

[tacit herald]

neat

[granite mortar]

People at Jupiter sell it too iirc

[spring apex]

oh yeah hawaiian too

same rule as owl, achievements needed

[steel mica]

Guys if i will buy stalker All three games can i mod them like Gamma is it possible to get this type of visuals and Mechanics in the Game ?

[sonic ravine]

Ummmm skibidi???

[granite mortar]

No

Hopefully not

[mighty iris]

hey, i just joined because i wanted to check if the tdm servers for soc are still alive?

[granite mortar]

Pretty sure they are

[mighty iris]

do i need some sort of special client to join?

[granite mortar]

Iirc Rahmi, Cromson and Mozi sometimes organize gamenights there

[granite mortar]

No
Just plain old SoC and internet connection

[mighty iris]

through the console or?

pretty sure theres no multiplayer button on the main menu

[granite mortar]

Pretty sure there is a button

[mighty iris]

yeah youre right

anyways, how do i enable tracers in soc?

just got back into it and i remember tracers being a thing

not sure if i have the wrong build or smth

[granite mortar]

No idea
Im pretty sure ive only seen them when using scoped guns

[mighty iris]

oh thanks

[timber violet]

@loud gate Good comparison video! was fun to watch

[hazy helm]

modding stalker is starkly different from modding anomaly, no

[dapper finch]

Call of Chernobyl reworked Call of Pripyat to be a modding platform that led to Anomaly and subsequently Gamma. The trilogy are not good modding platforms other than for total conversions.

And as far as I'm aware none of those are anything like Gamma

[warm linden]

nimble

[hazy helm]

neither is anomaly but ppl still do it no?

[tacit herald]

I already got one but thank you

[timber violet]

fellas, 69 days.

[dapper finch]

Anomaly is a great modding platform?

[hazy helm]

I wouldnt say so no

[dapper finch]

It's by far the most adaptable platform with the most addons

And unlike CoC the addon scene isn't dead

[hazy helm]

no not really, its just that talented ppl put up with anomalies downsides, there are far better options for moddability

[dapper finch]

Ubiquity is important in itself

By modding I mean as a player

[hazy helm]

?

[dapper finch]

building a modlist not making a mod

[hazy helm]

thats...not modding

kind of weird

[dapper finch]

That is also called modding. Modding your game...

[hazy helm]

would you consider modding, as downloading and unpacking your standalone mod?

[dapper finch]

Making mods and using mods are both called modding

Sometimes using mods requires making mods 😛

[hazy helm]

unless your modlist making strategy for anomaly is the same as merging SoC mods, I dont really see that, thats pretty damn weird

but as I was saying

[dapper finch]

Not really for stalker, more for other games

[hazy helm]

Anomaly isnt really a good platform for mods, you have way better ones

[gloomy knoll]

I would consider downloading external files that I add to my game to add, for example, new gameplay elements / Different skins / Higher graphics etc as modding your game too.

[dapper finch]

Like?

[hazy helm]

CoC is a lot easier to work on especially since you can just fork the engine, it is compatible with standard tools for modding, OXR is probably the best for modding right now as it features loads of tools to streamline workflows and test stuff, you could also use AXR if you want to integrate with original engines

[dapper finch]

But CoC addons are dead

[hazy helm]

people still make addons for CoC based mods and still make CoC forks to this day, I dont know what youre talking about

the last big project I can recall off the top of my head is DAR2, and many CoC offshoots get support and constant mods

[dapper finch]

CoC offshoots sure, but why'd you say CoC then?

[hazy helm]

I said CoC based mods

that means, forks or offshoots

[dapper finch]

OXR only has one addon from this month lol.

[hazy helm]

?
what do you mean

OXR is an engine to build mods of

[dapper finch]

Yes I'm talking about a mod platform to build a modlist on...

A modlist NOT a mod

[hazy helm]

Im talking about mods, making mods

modding tools and modding capability

[dapper finch]

And you already knew I'm not lol

[hazy helm]

why are you putting, modding, on the same weight as, making a modlist, thats what I dont understand

when you talk about a certain games modding capabilites, you never mean like, a modlist, you mean the modding support

[dapper finch]

Because the word modding is used to mean that. Maybe it's not common for stalker but it's completely normal for say, bethesda games or minecraft.

[small forum]

Is there any way or any existing weight map of stalker?

I dont even know what I want but I been looking for an attempt at converting the cordon map into a weight map for importing in perhaps unreal engine 5

[hazy helm]

yhea its really, especially since in stalker you dont make modlists, its only really a thing for anomaly

[dapper finch]

And CoC and its offshoots like you said

[hazy helm]

not really, many offshoots work as a unit and not, a modlist creator, thats not how it works usually

[hazy helm]

do you mean like, the map textures? the terrain textures? models?

[dapper finch]

Sure but I rarely like default modpacks

Like gamma I'd have to do so much to to find it bearable

[small forum]

I think I need the structure itself of the map not the texture perhaps

I want to recreate in a 3D environment the cordon map

[hazy helm]

just unpack your game files and load the level into blender, export as a obj

[drowsy schooner]

Amyone here know if SIIRCA is just another evil company or will the story be more complex than that? It feels like they are the antagonist of S2

[small forum]

Okay thanks Ill check that

[dapper finch]

@hazy helm What's DAR 2 btw?

[hazy helm]

Dead Air Revolution 2, a mod for Dead Air that adds 200+ quests to the game, i think thats the number

[dapper finch]

ARG implies that they're evil.

[drowsy schooner]

So no good intentions at all?

[dapper finch]

We don't know enough to say

[drowsy schooner]

I was thinking if you could side with them. Would be cool if they didn't make SIIRCA one sided

[dapper finch]

I get the feeling they're meant to be like a mirror to the Monolith faction.

[drowsy schooner]

From the trailer I thought thar they were just some scientists that want to study the Zone and use it for greater good

[dapper finch]

Dissect and export the zone for the world outside instead of revere and contain it.

[drowsy schooner]

Damn that is pretty shady

[dapper finch]

I wouldn't be surprised if they're The Group.

[drowsy schooner]

What's that?

[dapper finch]

The people who pulled the strings at the start of the zone

[drowsy schooner]

You mean C-con

[dapper finch]

Some ended up as C-Con. Some defected to form Clear Sky.

[drowsy schooner]

Oh

[dapper finch]

C-Con is specifically the people in the pods and their influence on the noosphere

The X-labs, Jupiter Underground etc were The Group

[drowsy schooner]

Is SIIRCA operating outside of the Zone? I can't see there being super clean and big buildings existing inside of the Zone

[dapper finch]

I think they're outside and their arm in the zone is Ward.

Could be wrong though

[drowsy schooner]

So Skif was outside of the Zone when he met ?

[dapper finch]

No idea, but the Strider trailer implies that Skif is brainwashed. Maybe he doesn't even know.

[small forum]

Like lets say I have the file k00_marsh.db0 do I unpack this file?

[hazy helm]

pins in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[steel mica]

what you guys think will stalker 2 gonna get somthing like gamma has ?

[dapper finch]

Completely crazy idea here... what if Skif is still Strelok but forgot who he is again 😛

[steel mica]

even if through modding its fine

[dapper finch]

If the modding ability is there, people will make it. The demand is there.

[steel mica]

yes

[dapper finch]

But don't expect the game itself to be like that. This is a sequel to the original trilogy.

[hazy helm]

wdym

[steel mica]

like crafting is very much required in GAMMA guns are so immersive everthing the GAMMA has

[hazy helm]

no, Stalker 2 def wont be like that

[dapper finch]

Yeah don't expect the overcomplexity of the more hardcore stalker modding scene.

[steel mica]

i have just completed BS in GAMMA now i cant able to figure out what to do next in thr game how will i going to travel to zaton for the next mission no place is safe for me right now in the north

[hazy helm]

I dont play gamma, I dont know what to tell you

[steel mica]

fine no issue

[worthy lagoon]

Guns are so immersive

Every single gun and suit you pick up is broken or magically breaks as soon as you touch it

But yeah STALKER 2 won't have crafting like in GAMMA

[broken latch]

Mfs when north is actually dangerous like it's supposed to be

[steel mica]

yes

[worthy lagoon]

What

[mighty iris]

why cant i install zrp

[hazy helm]

what seems to be the issue

[mighty iris]

dont know

just know it doesnt show that its intsalled on the main menu

i think its the fsgame

the text kinda moves after i replace false with true

[hazy helm]

make sure you changed the line in fsgame and taht you put the zrp files in gamedata

[mighty iris]

did all that\

[hazy helm]

then its installed

[mighty iris]

it says on the readme file that it should say its installed on the main menu

after the soc version

if only i could upload a screenshot here

[broken latch]

Good

Zrp = heresy

[broken latch]

#💬┃en_offtop you can here

[dapper finch]

It's funny how the discord mirrors the zone with monolithians

[lilac lily]

What did you mean by this
Half the GAMMA players can't even string together a coherent sentence. The zombification process is completed

Out of the box it won't have any of the dumb tedium that mod has, and I don't think it'll get something soon after launch

[steel mica]

ok

[dapper finch]

General rule. If you've played a Stalker mod but never played Stalker itself, your expectations for S2 will be very very warped.

[small forum]

Stalker just uses the AAR license right? 🤔

[hazy helm]

What

[small forum]

All Rights Reserved

[lilac lily]

The mods for it in the first few weeks will be small stuff like real weapon names and classic SFX, maybe some light visual reworks, economy changes etc. GSC probably won't enable making large overhauls and adding new storylines soon after launch since they've got DLCs to sell first

[hazy helm]

Read the guidelines

[small forum]

Where 😭

[hazy helm]

In their website

[small forum]

Ohhhh dang

[hazy helm]

Or in the pins in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[small forum]

Can you directly link it because Im not sure if I got the right thing

[naive fog]

Hey

[paper dust]

@gaunt burrow you would know. How come Monolithians have so much weapons and armor?

[hazy helm]

https://modio.stalker-game.com/FAQ_2024_v.1.3.pdf

[gaunt burrow]

Monolith before the trilogy used to be a stalker clan. It can be assumed that they already had decent weapons:

"I heard a stalker clan by the name of Monolith that was supposed to have gone missing reappeared. One day they stopped messing around, like everyone else in this place, and all made a move for the center of the Zone to look for the Wish Granter. Nobody heard a word from them for a long time, and now they're back. Thing is, nobody is all that happy to see them, because all they do is shout moronic slogans and attack everyone on sight." - Dialogue of Random Army Warehouses Loner NPC in Clear Sky

Second thing is that even rookies know that they gotta get better equipment before going deeper into the Zone:

"For now I'm just gaining experience and saving up some coin. As soon as I have enough, I'll buy me a good shooter and armor, and head straight for the center of the Zone. Rumor has it some guys already made it there and found the Wish Granter. That's where I'm gonna go. And when I find it, I won't go wrong with my wish, you can bet on that!" - Dialogue of Cordon Loner in Clear Sky

And lastly, C-Consciousness Representative said "From the moment the Zone was formed, many people have tried to get to its center". Many people seem to think that Brain Scorcher only turns people into zombies, but it seems that it was also capable of converting them to Monolith:

"Brothers, as we were patrolling the outskirts of the Dark Forest we came upon an unfaithful loner. We did not kill him, seeing as he was already on his way to conversion, although he was still half-way in his animal state... Such is the wisdom of the Monolith: once again it revealed to us the true countenance of our enemies." - PDA entry called "A convert in the Black Forest"

We can speculate and theorize that Monolith faction has a mysterious supplier but trilogy never confirmed or even implied that

About their suits - there can be more than 1 answer.

It's interesting to point out that Monolith suit was located in lab X-18. Either the faction stashed them there, or they were here before. A possible explanation could be that such suits were used by guards of the secret facilities in the Zone before the 2nd disaster.

Yantar loner NPCs in Clear Sky mention very interesting things in their dialogue:

"I heard a whole faction went missing in the Zone. You ever heard of Monolith? Well, they used to protect the Zone from others, but they made a move towards the center right before the Emission. Nobody has heard from them since, but recently some real aggressive stalkers have been attacking from where the Scorcher is, killing everyone and asking no questions. I know because I saw them myself around the military warehouses, and I reckon they might be those same Monolithians who disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me, because their uniforms looked real similar." Other than a fact that Monolith faction of the trilogy had members from older Monolith who wore similar uniform, dead bodies of Monolithians in Clear Sky, that are scattered over the Zone very well could be the dead bodies of older Monolith faction

[small forum]

Thanks

[mighty iris]

cant finish yantar

i mean i can but its a hassle, the scientist that needs to test radiation cant go through the door half the time

[worn oar]

Good work wolf

[mighty iris]

so no one knows what this issue is about?

[celest blaze]

fr honestly

all standalone mods should really encourge folk to play the trilogy first '

[compact ridge]

Can you help me

[celest blaze]

with ?

[compact ridge]

I’ll tell you the short version

Fan light on I come back after going to the toilet I’m trying to find the button to turn light off and I see fan shake violently

Not sure if eyes play tricks or if there is something in my room

[elfin echo]

Imma try out mods after doing the trilogy

[celest blaze]

hopefully just eyes playing tricks

[celest blaze]

based way to do it it makes you appreciate things more

[compact ridge]

But I should be asleep it’s 12:30

I normally go to sleep at 11:30

[dapper finch]

The only mods that might make any sense to play first are things like OLR.

[loud gate]

[broken latch]

You haven't told us much besides saying you installed it

[restive shell]

Hmm. Do scopes or silencers affect accuracy in CS?

[calm bough]

[naive fog]

Na I'm doing the Duty faction wars in CS after doing the Loner one and now to take the Garbage I gotta kill loners I hate this shit

I guess I gotta wait for them to be killed by bandits

But they have exos so idk

[celest blaze]

Loners got exos now?

[naive fog]

Ye

[celest blaze]

Oh jeez lol

[naive fog]

I'm a bit late game rn, Imma be goin to limansk soon enough

[celest blaze]

Limansk was fun so much fire fights

[dapper finch]

Lure enemies to the loners and lure the loners out of cover 😛

[celest blaze]

There's also a grenade launcher you should grab in limansk aswell

[naive fog]

Ik

[rose heart]

Snork me daddy

[celest blaze]

I used it in deserted hospital and hit an invisible wall and blew myself up

[naive fog]

Bro there aren't enough enemies only a couple in the bandit base who will not leave

[dapper finch]

Sorry the faction war is kinda borked.

[naive fog]

In the hospital I always used the red forest PKM with the 2000 round box, against the Heli it died in a couple seconds

[celest blaze]

Based honestly haha I suffered through it with an as val and obakan

[worn oar]

[dapper finch]

Nice guns, just not for limansk

[restive shell]

When's the midpoint overall in CS?

[naive fog]

Miracle machine id say

[dapper finch]

Yeah Yantar

[naive fog]

It's pretty universal

[restive shell]

I'm just now meeting duty guys and still looking for Feng lol

Or what his name was :p

I've spend way too much time having fun helping loners kill bandits in garbage.

[elfin echo]

You can join factions in SoC?

[worn oar]

Nope

That option was supposed to be in game but never made it through

However, it is still possible to join freedom if you do some specific steps.

[elfin echo]

Shame

[worn oar]

Nothing will change but the game relations tho

[elfin echo]

Yeah i know

[dapper finch]

Just walk north to join monolith

[worn oar]

To join death*

[elfin echo]

Nah i prefer the military

[worn oar]

Security service

[dapper finch]

I played so much of SoC Complete back in the day I'd forgotten you couldn't join factions in regular SoC

[gaunt burrow]

Only Freedom, but that wasn't intended

[elfin echo]

Ehhh i'm not a fan of freedom,nor am i the biggest fan of duty

[dapper finch]

Wait what, SoC Complete is getting updated

Like... now

I picked today of all days to mention it 😄

[pseudo rivet]

If only you could play the game as a Military Stalker

[dapper finch]

Nice equipment regardless 🙂

[elfin echo]

agree freedom especially is great for looting 5.56

[elfin echo]

i mean there is Degtyarev,who is a former stalker as well as part of the military

He technically counts

[pseudo rivet]

Although he's undercover. I'm talking about an actual Military Stalker

[spring apex]

rahmi for some reason i can't type a code here to help #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

nvm, i find a way around

[elfin echo]

I just found a merc suit in the starting village

[elfin echo]

Same,though how would the story be,i'm pretty sure stalkers aren't fond of the military in general

[celest goblet]

One of the classic early game benefits if you know where to find it

[pseudo rivet]

Indeed

[elfin echo]

yeh,i read some stuff on the wiki about the suit since it popped up while trading with sidorovich

[celest goblet]

There are a number of things early on that reward you for looking around carefully or exploring

[elfin echo]

Yeah i gotta take a look at the stashes

Mercs look like the SAS

[elfin echo]

I'm thinking of how it would feel if you played as a military stalker or any member of the military(without being undercover)

[cunning onyx]

Has anyone else gotten REALLY bad stuttering on ps5 since the last patch?

SOC seems to lag and stutter for about 1 second at random now much morei n fights.

[velvet schooner]

if s.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 requires rtx to play

i cri

[celest blaze]

It won't since its coming to consoles aswell

[worn oar]

[loud gate]

It does not.

[celest goblet]

As of right now the requirement is a 1060, though we will see if it is updated before release

[finite dragon]

Stalker 3 nimble main character

[amber plover]

is it possible to launch Anomaly from Steam? did a quick Google and apparently you can place the files in the CoP folder and launch it from there, is this true?

[hazy helm]

why dont you just use the non steam game trick

[amber plover]

im lame and like to see number go up on playtime

[finite dragon]

Same

You can use that to brag tho

[amber plover]

just got done playing the games in their "original" state and after watching videos and the like about Anomaly i presume im gonna spend a long time playing it so would be nice to see the play time track

[finite dragon]

I think it doesn't do that

Not sure tho

[worn oar]

uh?

[amber plover]

something to do with taking all the files out of the CoP folder and replacing it with the Anomaly ones and renaming the launcher so Steam thinks its opening CoP

[finite dragon]

Ohh

That prob works then

[lethal orchid]

I thought there was some trick with registering a game with an unused id

[amber plover]

after digging through the steam community page you can just add anomaly as a non steam game then change a txt file so it tracks the playtime

[silver pagoda]

COME TO ME
AFTER YEARS OF WORK
A GROUP OF 100 RADS USERS MANAGED TO TAP INTO......
THE COPY PASTA
THE EARTH'S MEME MACHINE
AN ACHIEVEMENT COMPARABLE AT BEST TO MONOLITH VIDEO BY NIKOLAI
DIED IN EN_STALKER
SHOT BY UNFUNNY LONERS
FOUND WITH A BAN AROUND HIS NECK
THROWN OFF BY mod_KURO 🇮🇹
TORN APART BY mod_VASIM
YOU CANNOT KILL COPY PASTAS
JUST AS YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THE SKY UP ABOVE
I AM PASTING
BUT IT IS YOU, WHO CRIES LIKE A KID

[sand fiber]

play better mods :3

[wild wharf]

Hey guys look, it's Krezzins Little Brother!

[silver pagoda]

@loud gate this mfer bro lol

[wild wharf]

What? Is it not true?!

[loud gate]

[silver pagoda]

if u were true monolita soldier u would know i am the OG copypaster, KREZZIN IS AN USURPER, LET ME HELP YOU TO SEE, SLAYER

[wild wharf]

Uh huh, that is totally correct Mini Krezzin

[silver pagoda]

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

[worn oar]

Brotherman, can you react the baldy smile for me I don't have Nitro and it suck :kek:

Not there

Yes

Love you brotherman

[elfin echo]

I like to call the mercs SAS larpers due to their uniforms

[timber violet]

friends, only 69 days to go

[junior creek]

68 and 4 hours 😉

[restive shell]

is the caliber 9-18 upgrade for viper worth it at the beggining?

[granite mortar]

Anomaly is overrated piece of hot garbage

[celest blaze]

I'd play call of the zone and other mods before anomaly/gamma/efp

[covert slate]

very much so yes, 9x18 is way more common than 9x19

[granite mortar]

Id play Thorny Way
Its really decent and pretty close to the trilogy

[indigo marsh]

Isn't the part 2 for that not translated?

[granite mortar]

yes, but part one i good enough to introduce you to stalker modding

[verbal osprey]

What about call of Chernobyl

[granite mortar]

boooooriiiing

[covert slate]

Call Of The Zone is a fork of CoC that has way better dynamic quests

[indigo marsh]

I like the fact that you can get mugged

[verbal osprey]

Okay I’ll have to give that a look then

[celest blaze]

First time I got mugged in cotz was funny lol

[granite mortar]

CotZ is peak freeplay

[covert slate]

yeah it's got some nice little backstory behind some of the missions

[indigo marsh]

The only part I hate about it is the binoculars being tiny and to the top right

[covert slate]

i wouldn't know since i use SWR for it

[indigo marsh]

That's a bug but I don't feel like fixing it

I use AO3

[stuck pewter]

mercs look like ASS

[paper dust]

Shut. Mercs are DRIPPED.

[paper dust]

Stop sniffing lead first.

[stuck pewter]

i am the twenty second in a long line

[elfin echo]

Military is drippy especially spetsnaz and the military stalkers

[paper dust]

Military stalkers - yes. Spetsnaz's drip is pretty weak imho.

[elfin echo]

Mercs are just wannabe SAS

[elfin echo]

Quiet merc

[paper dust]

Shut your mouth, you 18 years old conscript

[elfin echo]

As if i would listen to someone who would shoot his best friend for a crumb of bread

Greedy ass mercs

[paper dust]

I would do it without a second thought

Money doesn't smells.

[paper dust]

As if military isn't corrupt LOL.

Mercs at least are honest about their love of money.

[elfin echo]

You see we like to play fair,so we're corrupt to give you mercs a chance

[paper dust]

What even is that excuse lmfao.

[elfin echo]

To show you how goated we are

[paper dust]

Goated in what? Being incompetent and corrupt?

In those 2 aspects you guys are indeed goated.

[elfin echo]

And what are you goated at?Dropping 5.56 ammo for my character

I really do love the 5.56 you guys drop,in fact i hunt mercs just like how i hunt bandits

[paper dust]

Why including main character? Strelok also killed a lot of you guys yk

[elfin echo]

Not as many as your guys

[gloomy knoll]

I found freedom boys and military to be easily farmable. Never bothered with the mercs bcs I found them to be less important

[paper dust]

Storywise he only killed like 10-20 mercs in the Wild Territory. While in Agroprom alone he killed at least 20 soldiers.

[elfin echo]

I prefer hunting freedom

[nimble cipher]

cheekibreeki. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tender torrent]

S2 could be perfect in 2025 I think maybe

[paper dust]

Not even including Agroprom Underground, Lab X18 and other places.

[gloomy knoll]

Only if he messes up the stealth tho.

[paper dust]

Stealth is absolutely broken.

[elfin echo]

stealth?Who does stealth in stalker

[paper dust]

So I'm not even including it as an option.

[gloomy knoll]

Weak, you can do it stealth

[paper dust]

Besides its not like people are actually bothering with stealth. At least, majority of people.

[paper dust]

Doesn't mean I'll do it, though. Its absolutely broken.

I could do it but I won't. Too much hassle.

[elfin echo]

i don't like stealth

[gloomy knoll]

But then you can't claim that he HAS to kill the entire military base then if he could very well avoid them

[paper dust]

I can because c'mon, majority of players simply killed them.

Except minority of people no one else is even bothering with it.

[gloomy knoll]

Doesn't invalidate the fact that it works

[stuck pewter]

its probably canon that strelok snuck through agroprom

[gloomy knoll]

Just because the games are not actively advocating for it, doesn't discredit the fact that you can get it

[stuck pewter]

its a 1v30

his plot armor isnt THAT huge

[paper dust]

Strelok also killed like hundreds of Monolithians in Sarcophagus alone.

If he managed to do that then he for sure could take all those Agroprom soldiers.

[hazy helm]

it is funny to stealth the military outpost at agroprom

[gloomy knoll]

SoC stealth in cordon military base anyone?

[elfin echo]

I don't like to sneak around,i prefer to shoot my way through every problem

[sand fiber]

it doesn't, stealth is broken in SoC and nonexistent in the following games

[paper dust]

"Not huge" yeah, sure. Him surviving crash of death truck, Ghost REFUSING to abandon him, Doc healing him when Strelok was almost dead. C-Consciousness somehow not realizing that they already had him.

Thats not just a huge plot armor. Thats a huge ass plot armor.

[hazy helm]

the design of the waste processing facility shows that stealth was def cared for

[stuck pewter]

stealth is definitely present in CoP

[sand fiber]

dark valley was intended to be a stealth mission, too, with specific scenes playing out n stuff

[paper dust]

Stealth in SoC might work after countless retries.

And even then there isn't any guarantee that it'll work.

[sand fiber]

but it didn't really make it to the release version

[hazy helm]

if you arent skillless then agroprom should be easy

I use it for when Im playing hardcore mods tho

[stuck pewter]

stealthing agroprom on a first playthrough is impossible

the "skill issue" is not having the layout, routes, and spawns memorized

[paper dust]

^

Exactly. Thank you.

Stealth being broken in the game got nothing to do with skill.

I could prepare and successfully perform stealth but on the first try?

I doubt that anyone can perform it successfully on the very first try

[gloomy knoll]

Ngl when I played other games that had stealth involved I didn't succeed on the first try often either but of doesn't invalidate the fact that stealth is present and can be used

The arguments went from "it's broken" to simply "if you don't know first try it's broken"

[paper dust]

It can work, its simply a matter of preperation.

And matter of dedication and luck, also.

Doesn't change the fact that its still broken, though.

[celest goblet]

It's not really built intended to be your primary approach

[paper dust]

Agree.

I doubt that literally anyone actually managed to perfom successful stealth on a very first try, during the very first playthrough.

|| People who stealth in stalker also drive normally in GTA games ||

[restive shell]

oh damn the gravi secret in the swamp. super neat

[paper dust]

You can also find Scar's Vintar at the Swamps.

[worthy lagoon]

Femboy NLC 7 player

[stuck pewter]

so me

[paper dust]

You literally radiate more femboy energy than people you call femboys 💀

[restive shell]

and it was super close too. awesome

[hazy helm]

for NLC7 youre supposed to kiss the generals ass so that you can pacifist it

you dont want to catch the black mark now do you

[restive shell]

do silencers in clear sky reduce accuracy?

[gaunt burrow]

According to Wiki, yes. Screenshot sent in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[restive shell]

yeah i feel like ill not use them then ;p

stealth isn't really good in stalker games from what i see

[granite mortar]

[gaunt burrow]

My definition of stealth is killing everyone who saw me

[granite mortar]

Anyways

Renegadis gods of zona

[restive shell]

https://tenor.com/view/hitman-agent-47-gif-14272709568167148934

[gaunt burrow]

Degeneradis Gods of Zona

[restive shell]

damnit

[granite mortar]

[gaunt burrow]

@solid dome haven't seen you in STOC for a while. What's up man?

[indigo marsh]

Silencers in clear sky made me less stealthy

I was sniping the duties in the red forest during my bandit run and they almost instantly located me when I was using the silencer and then I tried without them and they weren't able to find me

[finite dragon]

Sure you didn't accidentally grab the loudener

[gaunt burrow]

"Sniping the Duties" OMG? Inever Freedom supporter confirmed?

[indigo marsh]

I am no friend of freedom

The only thing good about freedom is that they are nice to steal from

[gaunt burrow]

[indigo marsh]

All the good easy loot

[finite dragon]

Opinion on ecologists

[indigo marsh]

Eehh

They kinda stupid

[finite dragon]

Y

[indigo marsh]

So your telling me Sakharov met Strelok a couple times but during the time of SoC forgot about him

It's less than a year

[gaunt burrow]

I like them but hate Vasiliev

[finite dragon]

He wore bandages I think

So he didn't see his face

[gaunt burrow]

Although to be fair Vasilievs panic was pretty understandable

[indigo marsh]

Honestly without sakharov they would be a cool faction

[finite dragon]

They gave me a cool headset

[gaunt burrow]

There are plenty of possible explanations for the fact that he doesn't recognize Strelok, but the closest we have to an official explanation is included in the design document of the original storyline of the prequel, where it's said that Strelok's face was bandaged at the time:

"Strelok, whose face is still covered with bandages, comes to Sakharov and tells that he is planning a trip to the CNPP."

Of course, it's not really canon, but it still works.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MLgoD3sgaOHdEDWKOV8xZUNjpXEirfkS/mobilebasic

[indigo marsh]

My head canon is that since he spent a lot of time near the MM, he lost the memories bc of that

[floral wraith]

Greetings Stalkers!

[gaunt burrow]

Strelok not getting recognized in SoC isn't really a plot hole

Sid for example didn't know Strelok personally:

"Yeah, I've heard of a stalker by that name. Rumors is he's one of the few who went to the center of the Zone and made it back. Still, we got so many of these legendary stories about stalker heroes that I can't really guarantee anything. At any rate, I've never dealt with him personally. It seems he has his own trading channels. Anyhow, just ask the folks here in the Zone and you'll be sure to learn a lot more." Clear Sky confirms that his words are true, because during CS events it was Fang who had a business with Sidorovich and not Strelok.

[tacit herald]

how do i increase my rep with duty in call of pripyat

[finite dragon]

Kill Freedom

[gaunt burrow]

Assign Dutyers to guard scientists bunker, tell Shulga about Magpie, Give him Tachenko's and Morgan's PDA's

[tacit herald]

k

wait who are tachenko and morgan

[finite dragon]

Morgan is the guy from Red Dead Redemption 2

[gaunt burrow]

Morgan = corrupt Duty quartermaster

[tacit herald]

k

[gaunt burrow]

He appears in transaction mission

[tacit herald]

the 1 at the start of the game?

[gaunt burrow]

Tacheko = founder of Duty

[gaunt burrow]

Aye. He had a business deal with bandits

[tacit herald]

bro i dont even know what i did with his pda lmao

[loud gate]

You said corrupt 2 times :(

[gaunt burrow]

Lol

[hidden stratus]

Bring Sin back into Stalker, but keep UNISIG we dont need it.

[gaunt burrow]

Sin is goofy aah faction

[loud gate]

Easily could have just said Dolg once

[loud gate]

Bring Sin back into Stalker
No, God please, noooooooooooooooo

[hidden stratus]

Then rework them into actual psychopaths.

[finite dragon]

Isn't the official (or original) idea of Sin like really dumb?

[loud gate]

If Sin was to be reworked into a good faction, the only resemblence it would hold would be its name lmao

[hidden stratus]

Into something more sinister like the Skinner Brothers from RDR2.

[finite dragon]

How are you gonna be an orthodox Christian, then read scripture, see the literal christian prophecies happening in Ukraine and think "Yess this is holy the zone is good and holy."

[gaunt burrow]

Implying that they weren't schizos before?

[finite dragon]

They even had the orthodox cross in their logo too

[gaunt burrow]

I dunno man. They were already pretty psycopathic

[finite dragon]

Like it don't correlate bro

[gaunt burrow]

Sin is basically even more schizo Monolith

[nimble cipher]

brandon.5 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hidden stratus]

9/23/24

[finite dragon]

What would make more sense is if they were like really pushy people that think the zone is evil and they're trying to save as many people thru their religion

[hazy helm]

Father Diodor doesnt censure

[finite dragon]

Basically being anti-monolith and seeing the monolith as the anti christ

That would make sense and be somewhat coherent, probably still quite a shit faction but I ain't no writer

[gaunt burrow]

None of that goofy shit pls

Like genuinely, what even is appealing in Sin?

Some half mutant half human dudes that are more schizo than Monolithians

[hidden stratus]

Tbh just the idea of something else to fear in the zone, but human.

[hazy helm]

in the HD models, they use a skull bandana
thas why most ppl like em

[finite dragon]

They were abandoned to flesh out the monolith even more

[gaunt burrow]

Yes. Very good decision on GSC's part

[finite dragon]

Def the right choice

[hidden stratus]

I mainly want the idea of Sin in the zone, another 'bogyman myth' told at the campfire that gives stalkers another reason to sleep with one eye open.

[dim topaz]

I thought they were only cut because of time constraints

[hidden stratus]

Anomalies and mutants are predictable

[floral wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[gaunt burrow]

Theres already a canonized myth about Dark Stalkers

Told by Ashot in Clear Sky

[finite dragon]

Mutants and anomalies don't even seem that dangerous compared to hostile ass factions

[granite mortar]

No

[finite dragon]

Fym no

[wild wharf]

Hey! What did we do to you?!

[granite mortar]

That faction patch is fan made

[finite dragon]

Ohhhhh

[wild wharf]

Hello there House Cat

[hidden stratus]

I know very little of Dark Stalkers. I don't even read the text in the games anymore

[gaunt burrow]

"Rumors? Alright, here's a little bedtime story, and it's about dreams, too. You ever tried sleeping deep inside the Zone? Well, I suggest you don't even try, because the horrors you'll dream of are beyond imagination. I heard a couple of stories about it: one guy had his heart rupture while sleeping - a terrible death. Another guy woke up but lost his wits for good - all he does now is hide from some dark stalkers he keeps going on about. So that's the rumor. If you really need to get your head down then you need a special helmet with a thin wire mesh on the inside. They say all military stalkers have them and they sleep like babies, no problem."

[granite mortar]

Damn
Profasser fell off

[tender torrent]

it could be the opposite in S2

[gaunt burrow]

This one @hidden stratus

[wild wharf]

Hey! I did not fall off! I just realized the truth! The Monolith shall save us all!

[floral wraith]

No

[elfin echo]

It's funny how OP the knife is in SoC compared to CoP

[dim topaz]

Tinfoil hats confirmed

[hidden stratus]

Thank you Lore Keeper. But that just sounds like the zone nightmares affecting people's mind.

[finite dragon]

Snorks canonically are mutated humans that aren't smart enough to use guns so they need to form packs, Bloodsuckers for some reason screech which completely throws the element of surprise away

[granite mortar]

Will you ever release your archives publically?

[finite dragon]

Dark Stalkers? Guy getting afraid of them? Wow GSC planned the trailer in advanced wtf

[gloomy knoll]

Causing panic? Want to get the heart pumping quicker to have an easier time sucking them dry?

[gaunt burrow]

You mean like all screenshots?

[wild wharf]

Good Question, you are actually starting to ask the good, reasonable questions

[gaunt burrow]

I got hundreds of them at this point. Dunno how long thats gonna take

[finite dragon]

It's actually a harder time sucking their blood if they stab you or shoot you while you try

[granite mortar]

Well Im not sure what all you have
Seems like you have .txt documents too

[wild wharf]

I bet all my rubles this man has at least a terabyte regarding this info

[finite dragon]

Wait gold up repeat that

[gloomy knoll]

That is if they manage to do so

[finite dragon]

Repeat that but slowly

[granite mortar]

Roubles*
TerraByte*

[covert slate]

[wild wharf]

Oh Monolith, The cat has now become the Kotnerd

[finite dragon]

Hey rephrase that bro

[wild wharf]

How could this be possible?!

[gloomy knoll]

Why should I

[granite mortar]

Its "oh monolith"

[gaunt burrow]

Few documents I got from Reggash. I mainly got screenshots and already written dialogues themselves

[finite dragon]

Nahh didn't know you were into that

[gloomy knoll]

It is your mind that's making it difficult.. Not mine. They end up like a shrivveled raisin.

[granite mortar]

Damn
Release pls :3

[wild wharf]

... goddamn it you're actually right, AGAIN!

[finite dragon]

THEY WHAT NOW

[hidden stratus]

Zimbabwean trillions*

[gloomy knoll]

They are sucked dry of their blood

smh this guy here

[finite dragon]

Sucked dry???? 😫😫

[wild wharf]

Uh, freind I think you're just thinking dirty

[gaunt burrow]

I genuinely don't mind, but I feel like I'll get punished for spamming the chat too much if I do that 😂

[finite dragon]

Nah look at the other messages bro

[granite mortar]

Im always right
Because I never left

[wild wharf]

Never Left what?

[finite dragon]

I re read it thrice to think it thru

[gloomy knoll]

In the context of a blood sucker, being sucked dry is NOT the pleasurable idea.

[granite mortar]

Your mom waiting

[gloomy knoll]

You thinking it would be is your thought process, not mine.

[wild wharf]

Alright that's it, Prepare to get fed to a Chimera

[finite dragon]

What abt freedom

[granite mortar]

Chimeras are technically very very mutated cats
They my buddies

[gaunt burrow]

70 folders of CoP dialogues, 80 folders of CS and SoC dialogues

And in many of those folders there are a lot of dialogues too

[wild wharf]

Alright then, Prepare to get fed to the Local Snork Population in Yantar

[finite dragon]

Is it possible to outrun pseudogiants?

[gloomy knoll]

You should be yeah, just need to spam X once it does a ground slam

[granite mortar]

How is it organized?

[wild wharf]

As a Former Ecologist, possible, if you are also french, definitely yes

[gloomy knoll]

damn this guy pulling the 'french retreats' card

[granite mortar]

GiO made alm the Snorks run for their lives

[wild wharf]

Oh yeah, the snorks abandoned the zone after Gio Arrived, along with Bloodsuckers

[hidden stratus]

Just dump a couple of mags into the pseudo giant and send it to sleep.

[gaunt burrow]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[granite mortar]

Fr
So lame
Especially when theres so many things we can make fun of france for

[wild wharf]

So in that case, I am feeding you to the horde of Pseudo Dogs

[finite dragon]

Why do French people think they're superior

[gloomy knoll]

Monlith must be German or British if he makes fun of the French like that. As a fellow German, I can understand it

[finite dragon]

I kick puppies

[granite mortar]

Because they won a single war 200 years ago

[wild wharf]

... Alright can we all agree that we should temporarily have a truce and hunt this man down?

[finite dragon]

Craziest thing, they were led by a guy who hated France in his youth

[gloomy knoll]

Phantom, you a freedom lover?

[indigo marsh]

Wait, I thought he was the other monolith preacher.

[finite dragon]

Napoleon was born on Corsica which is an island that France bought, he was born a year after France bought the island. Which is crazy since he became like a Corsican nationalist and hated the French

[wild wharf]

I am, I had a character Arc and left the Ecologists

[finite dragon]

And they won because of him leading them.

[granite mortar]

Hate country
Take control of it
Make people love you
Unite rest of europe against you
Piss off
Cause german unification by your actions

[gloomy knoll]

Germans should've learned to never trust a small dictatorial man

The French learned the hard way before

[finite dragon]

And the only way he managed to take control of France was because the monarchy was stupid and caused people to hate them

Guys would Kanye be able to lead Austria Hungary to victory in WW1

[granite mortar]

Screw Austria Hungary

[finite dragon]

He'd probably give a shoutout to a certain german soldier

[hazy helm]

!warn @floral wraith self advertisement

[nimble cipher]

ricksoawesome3381 has been warned

Reason: self advertisement

[hazy helm]

a lot of these today huh

[gaunt burrow]

Lmfao

Ok this is hilarious

[indigo marsh]

Who?

[granite mortar]

Kanye

[gaunt burrow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Kanye_West

Kanye admires Hitler

And Hitler was just a soldier during World War 1. Go figure

[pseudo rivet]

Real

[granite mortar]

Thats cool and all

But where is Kanye East who admires Lenin?

[gaunt burrow]

Admiring Hitler is everything BUT cool 💀

[granite mortar]

I meant its interesting fact

You know
Something not everyone knows
Even tho its been everywhere

[gaunt burrow]

Thank Monolith you meant that

[pseudo rivet]

To be fair, Kanye does see himself as a God, yet calls himself a Christian

[granite mortar]

Yeah I just suck at phrasing

[gaunt burrow]

Was getting worried for a minute there hahah

[hidden stratus]

Someone call Nevada, im never setting foot in that place.

[gaunt burrow]

Yeah I have trouble with wording my thoughts sometimes as well

Can relate

@pseudo rivet when level 100?

[pseudo rivet]

Believe I'm 1/4th away

[granite mortar]

🥳

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, almost 3/4th filled up

[gaunt burrow]

Awesome