⭐┃nospoilers_general

[proven shadow]

Game is "hardcore" because thats what stalker is about.

Or at least thats what people who found about stalker after playing shit like Tarkov THINK stalker is about.
Lmao. Lol even

[indigo marsh]

Isn't that ACR?

[granite mortar]

becaue in highly dangerous and militarised territory guns have no value clearly

[granite mortar]

ACR doesnt exist, Goldpshere doess

[patent sundial]

Because some people like to eat sand paper and drink WD40 instead of enjoying a game

[warm linden]

why would you want that even in stalker, the whole point of traders is that they get people what they need and cannot access from within the zone because of high demand

[wheat panther]

please add path tracing to this game..

[pearl olive]

I always assumed it was to justify needing to spend 32 hours building a gun

[granite mortar]

I meant it like its the underappreciated game not everyone is chad enough to enjoy

[wheat panther]

please add path tracing to this game..

[north herald]

I say it, Grok is a weird dude

[still ridge]

Without changing stuff in the menu, by default you cannot buy weapons and armor

You need to find them and spend 20 hours to repair them

[proven shadow]

Idk bro I just skip that shit. Remove GAMMA economy. Remove arti's weapon parts trash.

Add a mod that makes it so you can repair shit at technicians (yes gamma removed technicians repairing shit..)

[still ridge]

I do that

I did that when I played it*

[granite mortar]

Brother
Do you think he caress about your opinion when he has discord server with 470 000+ people?
People need to have some f-cking respect, OP is Grok

[gaunt burrow]

kek

[warm linden]

Maybe I should stop playing stalker tbh

[north herald]

I dont care that he dont care lol

[pearl olive]

if you could buy guns in gamma no one would ever spend all that time building one... then they might have to shave 24 mods and 20GB off

[warm linden]

His server also isn't helpful, I got banned for asking for help with mo2

[proven shadow]

Gamma is just artificially "hard" but in the end if you are a stalker vet its not hard its just tedious.

Idk who has time to grind in a SP game..

[granite mortar]

you didnt get the refference :/
gimme a sec

[north herald]

im sorry

[indigo marsh]

Is the gamma server actually bad?

[north herald]

ahhh now i get xD

[gaunt burrow]

this is so dumb ngl. why do some mods have to overcomplicate so many things?

[nimble cipher]

edillon has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[still ridge]

I’m not immune???

[warm linden]

refer to my message about me being banned for wanting help with mo2

[patent sundial]

Because they chase fake realism, not accepting the fact that thsoe games were never realistic in the first place

[proven shadow]

Its not bad. Its just grok that is kinda defensive about his vision lmao.

That vision being make the game as tedious as possible.

He even hates on the mods made for gamma that make the game easier which to me is wack

[granite mortar]

I cant know
Im permabanned there
On two accounts...

[pearl olive]

This is the perfect description.. I had fun building a loadout in anomaly.. until I was done.. and realized I wasted my life

[indigo marsh]

Oh. It's shit then. Anomaly server wasn't bad.

[twin nexus]

Might be a dumb question boys but do the people in stalker speak in Ukrainian or Russian?

[indigo marsh]

But sounds like gamma is

[warm linden]

no idea

[sly tapir]

russian

[proven shadow]

Tbh I play it to larp as a tacticool guy xD.
Its not stalker but for what it is I enjoy it.

Still a better experience than tarkov (coming from a 3.5k tarkov player) lol

[proven shadow]

Russian afaik

[sly tapir]

but there are mods that introduce ukrainian voicelines, if im not mistaken

[indigo marsh]

I think it's vanilla

[worn oar]

Nah

[north herald]

Under the "Old World Redux Mod" You can see him how he was pis.ed because he didnt understand something why such mod exist if i remember right. Its even hidden because he got many dislikes on moddb

[twin nexus]

Is there a lore reason for this? Isn't Chernobyl in Ukraine?

[gaunt burrow]

both I guess? I mean Wolf in SoC mentioned bandits understanding Russian language which could mean that some of the Zone's residents speak Russian

[proven shadow]

Not really a lore reason afaik. Its just that russian is a more recognizable language I think.

Might be totally wrong tho so correct me if so

[gaunt burrow]

But there are Agroprom NPCs in Clear Sky starting their dialogue with "Here's a big Ukrainian welcome for you."

[earnest bear]

Wasn't it Russian in Ukrainian Accent (making it sounding strange for Russians)

[still ridge]

More people spoke Russian in Ukraine 20 years ago

That’s a factor

[proven shadow]

I have seen so many people who say they like gamma but dislike Grok so honestly idc anymore. Its just funny to me how passionate some people are about their supposedly "modular" mod lol

[north herald]

One of the devs on steam said that they might think about it to add some languages after the game release.

Would be cool if this really happen

[umbral jay]

I'm Loner, Duty and Bandit and maybe i will become scientist one day

[warm linden]

that would actually help diversify the game and make me feel its not empty

[still ridge]

The game is already going to be more diverse

[north herald]

yes true

[still ridge]

You saw the black stalker in the trailer did you not

[earnest bear]

Ukrainian whit proper subtitles would be good enough for me

[still ridge]

So many people complained lol

[north herald]

true, i will also play with ukrain audio and german subtitle

[warm linden]

this isn't the witcher 3, black people can exist in the zone

[proven shadow]

This is a sequel to all of the games lore wise there would be all kinds of people in the zone.

Im still curious if they will add women lol

[gaunt burrow]

diversity wasn't an issue even in OG trilogy tbh. you literally have Gordon Freeman's corpse, Ashot and Ara who are both Armenians, Georgian Vano etc etc

I honestly never got why so many ppl went apeshit after seeing that black guy

[proven shadow]

Who cares about diversity wear your fkin gas mask lol

[still ridge]

REAL

[north herald]

As long as the diversity isnt forced like in some netflix series i dont care. Im totaly with you why people complain that much about that part in the trailer

[finite dragon]

Grok has a crap personality. That’s that. He’s a good modmaker though. It’s so weird how 75% of all good mod devs have crap personality. Just wish he’d take a second to think before writing and try to not insult entire ethnic groups.

[still ridge]

LMAO

[finite dragon]

Still love Grok with all my heart, even for all his flaws… <3

[granite mortar]

fym 75%?

Demosfen and Grok arent 75% of modders

[proven shadow]

Tbh he is french so ofc he is arrogant

Jk jk

True af tho. In any modding community there are people who are fantastic modders but are arrogant as all hell.

Skyrim for example

[north herald]

i dont want to compare some modmakers with celebs, but mostly some people with great ideas and skills are difficult people

[rose moth]

Someone ported Cordon and Limansk into Pavlov VR

its pretty sick

[pearl olive]

you mean when it launches, Skif isn't going to be an androgenous, ambiguously pigmented nerdy person named Pat? some BS

[proven shadow]

Aint no way they wont give me a rainbow sunrise suit ?? HOW DARE THEY ??

[pearl olive]

I need Skif looking like the cover of Overwatch

[gaunt burrow]

Skif will be named MattPatt

real story

[indigo marsh]

Fr if I wanted to grind then I would play WT

[still ridge]

LEAST masculine sounding androgynous character

[gaunt burrow]

source: my headcanon

[finite dragon]

Just because we extensively memed about those two doesn’t mean they’re the only two. They’re not unique in that regard. I won’t name drop mod devs that are MUCH MUCH worse. Like they are actually despicable.

Or maybe I just had a lot of bad experiences with mod devs, idk… But Grok and Demosfen aren’t that bad when you start like really going through the wider community.

STILL RESPECT TO THEM!!

[still ridge]

I am ALFA modmaker

I don’t need to ask permission

[granite mortar]

I (THE ALFAMODMAKER) AM NOT A LITTLE B*TCH TO ASK FOR PERMISSIONS
I TAKE WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT

[still ridge]

Rip doctor x

Should have been demosfen

[proven shadow]

Pls mr alphamodmaker dont take my addon

[north herald]

Do you think we'll see pictures of the fallen developers in the credits of Stalker 2? As a memorial. I think that would be great to honor them this way

[still ridge]

Probably

[gaunt burrow]

I think so

[indigo marsh]

From what I heard over at C Con, modding CoC and it's forks is cursed

[granite mortar]

[finite dragon]

Have any nu-GSC developers actually died? Names?

[still ridge]

Not sure about the new GSC but at least 2 or 3 of the old devs have

[granite mortar]

bro demosfen is fun guy
yes hes an asshole but hes funny

[north herald]

I dont know excatly, what i know that an ex clear sky developer sadly died in the war

[finite dragon]

Oh so everyone is just thinking about Ezhov who left 2008

Why isn’t anyone talking about how GSC pulled off a miracle in February and moved 180+ devs out of the country just as the invasion started? Why is everyone only talking about the one ex-GSC developer who hasn’t been with the company for over a decade…

[granite mortar]

shove the whataboutism up your ass billy

[north herald]

No matter when they were involved in the work of Stalker, they deserve to be named. Because they are one of the reasons where stalker is today and what stalker is for all of us

[gaunt burrow]

Can we not? please

[finite dragon]

You can cry about one guy. I will cheer for GSC saving hundreds.

GSC people have done A MIRACLE

Extremely underappreciated what GSC has done

[granite mortar]

@glossy blade Dear Sir Mol1t
Will Stalker 2 have a little text reading "Polished in Czechia" next to "Made in Ukraine"? 🥺

[proven shadow]

Can we not do both lol ?

[north herald]

This

[still ridge]

Tummy hurts. Any suggestions?

[gaunt burrow]

yes. Pray to the Monolith

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds wack as heck

[finite dragon]

Still haven’t seen people cheering on GSC’s efforts, even after multiple interviews telling stories about how they stocked supplies, prepared busses, bought air raid shelters and modernised them with modern amenities.

No, everyone rather just talks about one dead guy than 180+ saved.

[granite mortar]

Put both hands on it and in repeated patterns push onto it

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds wack as heck

[proven shadow]

Acetaminophen

[spring apex]

tf no trader or somethign?

[proven shadow]

Idk about this chat as I only lurk around but I have seen a lot of people praising the devs for even being able to make the game

[still ridge]

Traders exist but they don’t sell you weapons or anything

[granite mortar]

you have to repair your guns using most messy and least polished repair system known to man

[proven shadow]

I personally wish all the best to the devs because stalker will always have a place in my heart

[still ridge]

If you ask them for weapons they’ll call you crazy and say there’s a ban on the importation of weapons into the zone or some BS they made up

[earnest bear]

What?

[finite dragon]

Yeah they praise the game development, but don’t praise the massive efforts to save people. It’s like they do not care about the people, only game development.

[spring apex]

damnit artificial difficulty at its finest lol

[still ridge]

Correct

you need to spend at least 10 hours to repair a weapon

[indigo marsh]

We are collecting and selling highly dangerous substances in a dangerous zone which is protected by armed guards supported by the UN and is illegal to enter. But we can't sell weapon bc big daddy UN said no

[proven shadow]

Nah I disagree. Go to the subreddit rn (ik reddit ) and you will find people saying who cares about the game lets make sure people are safe.

Especially in the posts about delays

[earnest bear]

I personally haven't heard or seen about it

Besides the charity spending GSC doas and have done

[still ridge]

The UN is more useful in gamma then it is in real life

[finite dragon]

I bet they don’t even know about the stories.

[proven shadow]

The most unrealistic part is the UN having any power esp in the zone haha

[still ridge]

Exactly

It’s the UN lol what they gonna do send in “peacekeepers”?

[gaunt burrow]

people care moe about development of the game than they care about actual crimes against humanity

more

[pseudo rivet]

Power in the Zone or outside of it?

[still ridge]

Outside

[indigo marsh]

The last time the UN actually worked well was in 1991

[still ridge]

It makes no sense

[proven shadow]

Fk that send in the navy seals its bad out here

[gaunt burrow]

its just how it is

[proven shadow]

A 10 gun runs when ?

[still ridge]

Monolith supersoldiers vs Navy seals

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds funky

[finite dragon]

What if… Reddit post about the evacuation… MarkedMatt style…

[still ridge]

We did it Reddit

[pseudo rivet]

CoP style

[gaunt burrow]

I gave up posting on Reddit tbh

[finite dragon]

Collect a bunch of quotes with sources

[gaunt burrow]

out of ideas + less motivation than before

[still ridge]

Many of those people in the sub are brainrotted by mods and maybe haven’t even played the originals

(Heresy)

[proven shadow]

Idk my money is on the seals. Monolith get bodied by some mostly solo randoms in all 3 games.

[still ridge]

monolith don’t have air support

[finite dragon]

I don’t think it’s bad that people enjoy the games how they want to. GAMMA is a pretty nice way of playing the game and if people like playing it, let them play.

[celest goblet]

The reddit isn't the worst but as reddit generally goes there are a lot of threads I just find kinda tedious and it's hard to find the ones I'd actually be interested in without just scrolling all day

[proven shadow]

Monolith when I call in a 500kg from eagle 1 (hd2 refrence)

[indigo marsh]

Monolith does have ifvs tho

[still ridge]

You should never recommend a mod over the originals, which is what I see people do all the time on the subreddit

That’s all I mean

[granite mortar]

modrot is real

[proven shadow]

Reddit is just an echo chamber usually. There are some genuinely good posts tho.

If you say you dislike gamma you will be crucified tho

[finite dragon]

GAMMA is getting the exact hate like Misery did in 2014 and yet for some reason Misery was played a lot by a lot of people and was inspiration for a lot of further mods, like Anomaly, NLC, GAMMA…

[still ridge]

I played gamma too, I didn’t mind it once I changed all the needless BS though

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, a Monolithian individually is pretty scary

[earnest bear]

Actually discord is worse because it's just a long line of text and it isn't even Google searchable

[gaunt burrow]

Main characters are neither random nor are they some clueless rookies. Rumors about their deeds spread fast. 1 example

and Strelok was famous figure even in the beginning of SoC

[granite mortar]

You didnt say NLC exists because of Misery did you?

[pseudo rivet]

But if they want to attack them over at the CNPP, the Zone will just either destroy all the aircraft with anomalies or with Emissions

[gaunt burrow]

Scar lorewise is a literal superhuman

[pseudo rivet]

Real

[still ridge]

Curious, I wonder if anomalies exist in higher reaches of the atmosphere above the zone

[proven shadow]

All of the main characters have plot armour lets be real now. Monolith get bodied by them.
My money is on the seals

[still ridge]

I wonder if fixed wing aircraft could fly over anomalies, it’s not like helicopters which have a low service ceiling

[pseudo rivet]

No clue, although satellites flying over the Zone spontaneously combust, so I guess so

[still ridge]

Deggy is USS, ofc US special forces would body monolith

[indigo marsh]

I mean uavs have operated over the zone

[still ridge]

monolith is like zone Islamic state

[proven shadow]

That depends on how high the anomalies go

[still ridge]

exactly

[north herald]

Scar is the model of all the protagonists.

[gaunt burrow]

their "plot armor" can be explained by many things. Scar like I said is literal superhuman

whos skills increased after emissions

[finite dragon]

I hate the “customisable” argument. Same can be said with ZRP. ZRP is not vanilla friendly by default. It changes the UI, it changes quests, it changes texts (where not necessary). Yet NatVak constantly says that it can be changed back. Erm, excuse me, by default it’s not vanilla friendly and 99% of all players will not bother to go to the tool with the crap UI to change back to vanilla settings. And when I tried it, I couldn’t even revert every unnecessary change.

ZRP is not vanilla friendly. They should have done what SRP did and do a minimally invasive approach.

[still ridge]

Helicopters fly relatively low, which is why it’s curious

[indigo marsh]

A UN rq 4 was seen crashes around the middle of the zone between the center and outskirts

[gaunt burrow]

point is that none of the main characters are just some random clueless rookies

[finite dragon]

CoP drone

[still ridge]

Huh

[pseudo rivet]

A realistic answer would be 60 KM², both length and height, although we know that satellites spontaneously combust when flying over the Zone, so who knows?

[gaunt burrow]

and are more skilled than 98-99% of people in the Zone, and even in the beginning of their games they weren't rookies (lorewise at least)

[still ridge]

Do we know what happened to it?

[finite dragon]

Strelok molested it

[pseudo rivet]

No

[still ridge]

So true

I mean it’s intact to the point where it looks like a crash landing

[indigo marsh]

I mean marked one kinda was

[still ridge]

as opposed to falling from the sky after hitting an anomaly

[gaunt burrow]

gameplaywise yes, lorewise he was already veteran in the end of CS

that happened months before SoC

[indigo marsh]

But he had amnesia

[pseudo rivet]

He has the option of "I remember bits and pieces", so it kinda depends on what you say

[indigo marsh]

Yeah that makes sense

[pseudo rivet]

Strelok = Strelok, Marked One = Marked One

[still ridge]

Marked one, what the heelllll

[gaunt burrow]

he still never lost his skills tho

[still ridge]

This

Muscle memory/instinct

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on what you answer to Sidorovich

[pearl olive]

the Bourne movies are clearly based on scar

[proven shadow]

Lol

[pseudo rivet]

And, of course, your own gameplay

[still ridge]

Who would win, John Fallout or John Stalker

[gaunt burrow]

you forgot first impressions PDA entry?

[proven shadow]

The power of F5 and F9 is unbeatable

[gaunt burrow]

he still seems to remember some of the things

[north herald]

Johnny Guitar

[proven shadow]

John Helldiver

[still ridge]

Exoskeleton < power armor

Gauss rifle > Gauss rifle

[pseudo rivet]

No, it's just that this should be interpreted as being a bit after he woke up and already ran around the Cordon

[north herald]

Can we please have now september

[pseudo rivet]

No

[north herald]

😦

[pseudo rivet]

We don't want an unpolished game, after all

[still ridge]

Can we please have now new gameplay

[pseudo rivet]

Yes please

[still ridge]

GSC I kneel

I don’t want to wait until gamescom

[celest goblet]

Soon(TM)

[still ridge]

Even another mutant teaser would make me happy

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️ fr

[proven shadow]

When even is gamescom ?

[pearl olive]

maybe if we all ask real nice

[indigo marsh]

No. I want my summer vacation

[still ridge]

Bloodsucker or snork teaser

[still ridge]

Next month

[north herald]

Two weeks before release i think

[proven shadow]

Oh cool thanks

[north herald]

the nearer we are the longer it feels like to wait lol

[pseudo rivet]

Wonder how they'll implement the Screen Helmet, tbh

Model-wise

[still ridge]

Sphere 12 my beloved

[pseudo rivet]

Because I need that good ol'

Screen Helmet
Freedom Guard Suit

or

Screen Helmet
Bulat Armored Suit
Storm

loadout fr

[worn oar]

Same

I want to see that fr

[gaunt burrow]

Tactical Helmet and Wind of Freedom suit combo goes hard ong

[still ridge]

Sheee CS-3a and screen helmet for me

[proven shadow]

Bulat looks so sick

[pseudo rivet]

Except Hawaiian only sells the Screen Helmet, implying they don't actually use the Tactical Helmet

[still ridge]

I might do monolith armor and screen helmet tbh

[pseudo rivet]

CS-3a seems better as a combat suit, imo

[still ridge]

Monolith armor seems pretty sweet

[gaunt burrow]

yeah ik, I just use that combo sometimes

[earnest bear]

Speaking about stalker difficulty

How realistic is the degrading of weapons
Besides Cleaning I doubt a weapon would degrade significantly in the amount of time spent in the game
Atleast if you are not the Russian army and firing 30 000 -60 000 rounds of artillery Shells (bigger guns seam to have much more wear)per Day

[pseudo rivet]

Aye

[still ridge]

We don’t know if it will even be in game but we can hope

[pseudo rivet]

X

[gaunt burrow]

I kinda hate how rare Tactical Helmet in CoP actually is

[pseudo rivet]

But we'll see

[gaunt burrow]

only 2 can be obtained afaik

1 from Nimble another from one of the stashes

[pseudo rivet]

There's one fixed stash, so uh, you can get it super early

Also, nah, you can buy them too

[still ridge]

Tactical helmet is sphere 08 right

[pseudo rivet]

Aye

[gaunt burrow]

"The Tactical helmet can be bought from Owl after obtaining the achievements A Wealthy Client and either One of Ours or Boss." ahh

[pseudo rivet]

Hella

[gaunt burrow]

kinda forgor

[still ridge]

You can find it in Jupiter pretty easy

[pseudo rivet]

Don't think you need to kill the Chimera, but not sure

[gaunt burrow]

yep

[still ridge]

You can find it early game too

[gaunt burrow]

yes, one of the Jupiter stashes has it

[still ridge]

Relatively

[gaunt burrow]

plus Nimble's order

I rarely saw it on sale tho, even after a wealthy client and one of ours achievements

[still ridge]

I wonder how many unique weapons we will see in S2

[pseudo rivet]

Like, you can basically just get that one and you'll be able to do the mission with the Controller

[still ridge]

Cop had a bunch

Unique armor too

[pseudo rivet]

Honestly, I hope we'll get to see more unique weapons which are more like a sidegrade than a direct upgrade, like the Storm for example

[indigo marsh]

What do you guys think about the trophy akm?

[pseudo rivet]

Based gun, keep asf

[gaunt burrow]

Weapon for Chads

[granite mortar]

Cursed as hell but so chad at the same time

[still ridge]

Why not both

[pseudo rivet]

Like, in my eyes, if that thing had a custom model, I think it would look like the old AKMS-type model from the builds

[pseudo rivet]

Hella

[indigo marsh]

How is it cursed?

[granite mortar]

It fires 7.62x54
Thats 1/3rd longer ammo than AKM should use

[still ridge]

[granite mortar]

its busted
its like if a pistol used 9x39
cough cough

[gaunt burrow]

Big Ben is a thing

[granite mortar]

thats why I did the cough cough

[still ridge]

Isn’t there an automatic SVU

[granite mortar]

Theres a lot of cursed guns and I love them all equally

[indigo marsh]

If you had a AK that fired 7.62x 54 wouldn't you be excited other than for the price of ammo

[pseudo rivet]

IL 86, my beloved

[gaunt burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/im-just-not-smart-dan-markham-im-dumb-im-not-smart-not-that-smart-gif-16487319

[gaunt burrow]

Sniper VLA, my beloved

[still ridge]

Ft-200M my beloved

[indigo marsh]

SGi 5k my beloved

[gaunt burrow]

GP37 my beloved

[still ridge]

TRUE

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, I mean like, we talking about cursed guns

[indigo marsh]

It was too good

[pseudo rivet]

IL 86 got that dust cover on the barrel

[granite mortar]

Its okay
"smart" people are those who hate Clear Sky

[versed crypt]

Hello gang

[still ridge]

I wonder if it will get the grenade launcher in S2

[gaunt burrow]

hi man

[still ridge]

Visually all the guns are cursed

[versed crypt]

How's the day?

[still ridge]

Except Gauss rifle because it’s sick AF

[pseudo rivet]

Lefty asf

[indigo marsh]

I used SWR for CS and CoP so not really

[gaunt burrow]

all good, how's yours?

[indigo marsh]

It's the only bug fix you need

[still ridge]

You didn’t do a vanilla run?

Vanilla weapons have that old charm, first play through isn’t even bad in vanilla

[granite mortar]

hello

[gaunt burrow]

this beauty isn't appreciated enough

[granite mortar]

are you stocked on drinks?

[finite dragon]

OP

VLA best rifle tbh

[indigo marsh]

Yeah for SoC and CoP

[pseudo rivet]

Not appreciated enough? Literally everyone likes the Sniper VLA

[indigo marsh]

I only used fov changer for CoP

[finite dragon]

VLA special assault rifle best

[gaunt burrow]

I mean I rarely saw people actually mentioning it in this server

[finite dragon]

I like to assault stalkers will the VLA special assault rifle

[indigo marsh]

It's basically like console modding

[still ridge]

What about Streloks SGI

[pseudo rivet]

Weird, I always see people using that as their end game weapon, no matter what

[indigo marsh]

It's only anims and weapon redesign

[pseudo rivet]

Doesn't exist in SoC

[still ridge]

I mean in CoP

[gaunt burrow]

Strelok's SGI do be OP

[still ridge]

It’s considered an end game weapon yet I never really use it lol

[gaunt burrow]

@pseudo rivet Sniper VLA only has 34 mentions in search bar wtf

[still ridge]

It can take you to the end game anyway

[gaunt burrow]

and many of those mentions were made by me

[pseudo rivet]

I personally like to upgrade it for sniper fire, seen it's ability to attach a SUSAT scope. The increased damage especially helps, too

[still ridge]

If only the GP37 had its grenade launcher

[indigo marsh]

Strelok's SGI has 39

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, in CoP, most weapons are equally usable except weapons which have a direct upgrade to it and the AC-96/2

[gaunt burrow]

GP37 453

not surprised about that 1 though

[pseudo rivet]

IL 86 232

[still ridge]

GP 37 is a base weapon though

not a unique

[indigo marsh]

What's the most searched unique weapon?

[gaunt burrow]

Vintar 1723 mentions damn

[pseudo rivet]

Probably Storm, as that's an actual word

[gaunt burrow]

Storm 1,281 results

[pseudo rivet]

Hella

[gaunt burrow]

FT-200M just 139

[still ridge]

Underrated

[pseudo rivet]

FT-200m alright, but not entirely my cup of tea

[gaunt burrow]

real

[pseudo rivet]

Feels a bit stiff somehow, although it's a great jack-of-all-trades

[gaunt burrow]

sniper VLA only having 34 mentions though (now 36)

hurts

[pseudo rivet]

Big Ben 147

[still ridge]

Tide 55

Underrated

[pseudo rivet]

SVUA-2 6 times, legit only me

[indigo marsh]

Try svu instead

[gaunt burrow]

loool

Alpine just 24

[indigo marsh]

192

[pseudo rivet]

SVUmk-2 50

SVU 193

[gaunt burrow]

SVD 714

PMm 3,610 results damn

[pseudo rivet]

Lynx 91

[gaunt burrow]

and I thought Vintar was most searched 1

[pseudo rivet]

March 1088

[gaunt burrow]

Alpine just 24 and March 1088

[pseudo rivet]

But, like, most of that is literal

[gaunt burrow]

Steppe Eagle only 33

[pseudo rivet]

Steppe Eagle 31 for me

[indigo marsh]

Are you searching only in this channel or all of them?

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, great that it's supposed to be a sniper pistol, but it honestly doesn't do its job as a sniper pistol

[pseudo rivet]

All

[versed crypt]

Been messing around all day, finally going home soon

[pseudo rivet]

Now, here's a tricky one

Cutter or Frasier?

[gaunt burrow]

Frasier imho

although I rarely use both of those guns

[pseudo rivet]

Cutter 98
Frasier 14

💀💀💀

[indigo marsh]

Cutter can be used as a word

[pseudo rivet]

Real

[indigo marsh]

a light, fast coastal patrol boat.

[gaunt burrow]

oops (deleted that SS in this chat due to valid reasons)

i'll send it in DMs instead

[pseudo rivet]

Balance IL 86 absolutely zero

[indigo marsh]

It shows one for me

[pseudo rivet]

Same with Lightweight IL 86

[indigo marsh]

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, me

[indigo marsh]

[indigo marsh]

My name isn't me its iNever_

and i am not you

You are you

[pseudo rivet]

I am me

[celest blaze]

Obakan only got like 12 mentions

[finite dragon]

Nah, cracker!

[worn oar]

Wack

[lethal orchid]

Cracker gun

New skadovsk trader can't sell it to you or it'd be racist

[loud gate]

He's not even at Skadovsk

[cunning onyx]

Ps5/Xbx versions ever coming devs?

[lethal orchid]

What?

[worn oar]

Game will be available on XBOX S and PC on day one

[lethal orchid]

Is he even in zaton

[worn oar]

PS5 will follow once the XBOX consol exclusivity period is over.

[loud gate]

That's the Shevchenko

[worn oar]

That's the other ship, most probably (shevchenko)

[lethal orchid]

Huh

Do we know which faction? Free stalkers?

[worn oar]

Yeah!

[loud gate]

He's a Loner

He has a cloak on, but you can still see the Sunrise suit

[lethal orchid]

Do you think the Yaniv station is still politically where it's at?

[loud gate]

I think that Yaniv has no Freedom/Dolg anymore

[lethal orchid]

Maybe they're all free stalkers yeah

[loud gate]

and is purely a Loner settlement.

[lethal orchid]

Neat

[worn oar]

Same. I believe that duty and freedom influence within the zone withered away in favor of the ward, and SIRCAA. It all feels like the early days of the zone but slightly different in terms of zone population

[lethal orchid]

It's cool how much has changed

Rookie village is still the same

Well we don't know if Sid is alive

It's only 10 years after CoP right

[sonic flax]

I know this is an aside but I believe Dolg will be called Borh in HoC.

[finite dragon]

Playing CS and I found a stash that says about how this guy saved up loot and put it in a safe and is planning to sell that for his son's medication. I open up the safe and see a shotgun and 20 slug rounds

How broke was he?

[sonic flax]

besides, Yaniv is likely neither occupied by Duty nor Freedom

[worn oar]

Give or take

[finite dragon]

That's like 440 roubles

How much is that in dollars?

It's literally 5 dollars and 8 cents

[lethal orchid]

@finite dragon the rubles in the zone are different

They used to be old soviet currency but I think that's changed with s2

[finite dragon]

In what economical peril was Ukraine during CS that a guy has to go to the zone to save up 440 roubles worth in 1 shotgun and some slug shells to buy his son medicine

[lethal orchid]

There is a very limited amount of said soviet currency so it's a lot more valuable

[finite dragon]

How much would that transfer to usd

[lethal orchid]

It's supposed to be kinda ambiguous

[worn oar]

Yeah! The new currency is not ruble.

[finite dragon]

I'm just guessing that his son's medication was worth 20 dollars

[lethal orchid]

The market value of everything is obviously different too, because a single antirad is worth a crap ton more than outside the zone

Hard to calculate

[finite dragon]

It's a hunting shotgun

[lethal orchid]

I dunno

[finite dragon]

It's like the 2nd worst weapon in the game

[indigo marsh]

*best

[loud gate]

Not the case.

[finite dragon]

Hey Matt since you're the expert

[gaunt burrow]

hoi

[finite dragon]

Is the first bloodsucker encounter in CS where the bloodsucker jumps around like a DBZ character

Is that like a bug that sometimes happens or intended.

I really don't wanna fight flying bloodsuckers

[gaunt burrow]

you mean that moment when bloodsucker takes the poor Dutyer?

if you're referring to that moment it's scripted

[worn oar]

Noah the nuttcracker

• "Go to hell" *

[cunning onyx]

Oh I meant Stalker one XD

[worn oar]

Ah ?

[cunning onyx]

Uh the stalker collection... remaster.... thing. XD They said before launch a "Next gen" upgrade would happen.

[worn oar]

@gaunt burrow @loud gate did GCS say such thing? I don't recall it ever happening lmao

[sonic flax]

And you know this how?

[loud gate]

Later this year, the team will release a patch for Xbox Series X|S version that will bring additional graphical enhancements and other features - says Bocharov

If you're wondering: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/03/06/xbox-partner-preview-stalker-trilogy/

[loud gate]

The devs have confirmed it remains the same as in Trilogy.

[worn oar]

Well, that's news to me

I just heard from you guys

[cunning onyx]

I wounder if its still happening. Theyve been pretty much silent on the trilogy since "mod support"

[worn oar]

Oh wait, I think I did hear of it, but never thought it was official until now

Fish memory fr lmao

[loud gate]

yeah, and that was 2 weeks ago.. so long

[fast stratus]

I'm glad stalker creators are from asia

[loud gate]

huh

[celest goblet]

I assume it'll happen when it's ready. We did not get a lot of fanfare ahead of mod support launching

[sonic flax]

Alright, so they get rid off most Russian naming conventions etc besides the names for the original factions?

Weird choice but that's up for them to decide of course

[loud gate]

They've translated mostly everything to Ukrainian, thankfully. Even the "Monolith" or stuff, which is nice. But not this.

[fast stratus]

I'm so glad gsc game world is Asian

Wait wait

[loud gate]

They probably think it's too iconic, in a way. So it's not really the end of the world.

[fast stratus]

Sorry
I mean east European

Because there is no esg ranking

[loud gate]

Upgrade your Windows.

[lethal orchid]

Me when I'm wrong

When did europe get so big

[broken latch]

[worn oar]

[celest goblet]

I suppose the names are very recognizable to anyone who has played the trilogy

[loud gate]

It would be a bigger change than the one of Monolith, so I'm assuming that's why they didn't go with that change.

[patent sundial]

Ok, so I did some more testing and I am 100% sure why CS won't launch and SHOC will run only on static lighting is because some sort of weird issue with the bin files

I have no idea what it could possibly be, but there is no other explanation - nothing gamedata related for sure

[deft stirrup]

what are u even running on

[patent sundial]

Laptop - Win 11, i7 12700h, 3070 ti, 32 GB RAM

[deft stirrup]

why u not run CS

[patent sundial]

It's something related with the binaries, but no idea what exactly

Because just now I decided as a last chance to download Open XRay for CS and see if it will even boot up - and it works perfectly fine

[granite mortar]

Do you have DirectX, .Net and C++ repacks?

@hazy helm

[patent sundial]

I do, all of it

[delicate chasm]

there's a Marsh Creature that can jump out like that too at a squad on the Swamps

[patent sundial]

I mean, again, the games worked flawlessly for me just 2 months ago, now they refuse to cooperate

Unless I use either OGSR for Shadow Of Chernobyl or OpenXR for CS

Call Of Pripyat has no issues running

[granite mortar]

Crazy

[gaunt burrow]

I forgor

fish memory

[granite mortar]

I am just a fish

[lethal orchid]

Rostok GG

[granite mortar]

Rostok my beloved

[gaunt burrow]

Rostok goated map

[north herald]

Rostock goated german city

[loud gate]

shoutout to all my homies who didn't vote for Dark Valley

[lethal orchid]

dub

true best map

[gaunt burrow]

Army Warehouses map underrated as heck

its one of my favorite maps

[umbral jay]

Also wild territory for me, both are goated maps

[lethal orchid]

The fights were cool

[gaunt burrow]

never really loved that map much

i consider it as the Zone's Detroit

[lethal orchid]

ironically wild territory was most memorable to me from gamma

because I kept dying

I hadn't played the trilogy yet and didn't know what good stalker gameplay was

[worn oar]

My alt Matt

[lethal orchid]

lmao

complete tie

[gaunt burrow]

loool

first time seeing draw in polls

[north herald]

Cop had the best themes

[umbral jay]

I also hate this area when travelling trought it but still some places are cool

[gaunt burrow]

LOL another draw

[lethal orchid]

we already knew strider

[loud gate]

Ok..?

[lethal orchid]

although his character is revealed a lot more in the trailers

10 years of growth

[loud gate]

Who doesn't vote Faust and isn't loyal to Monolith, Mol1t shall purge

[gaunt burrow]

[loud gate]

We may be blind
But it is you who cannot see

[umbral jay]

No female revealed yet

[deft stirrup]

Stranger/presumably strelok

[gaunt burrow]

We may love Clear Sky, but it is you who regularly gets killed by Vist

[umbral jay]

ATTENTION, STALKER !

[worn oar]

Hard choice, but Richter is special somehow

[loud gate]

Interviewer from ETZ

Trader from Skadovsk. Or barwoman

[still ridge]

Clearly it’s strider

[pseudo rivet]

Richter fr

[deft stirrup]

why no one talking about mr stranger

[worn oar]

Strider is also cool, but Richter feels like your zone brother. I don't think anyone can beat that

[deft stirrup]

funnily enough we havent seen a second character acompany the protagonist-in other entries

[gaunt burrow]

he's a mystery for now

all we can do is speculate and theorize about that character

[deft stirrup]

=

[gaunt burrow]

i don't buy it tbh

maybe Strelok's doppelganger or something

[celest blaze]

Same the hairline alone

[deft stirrup]

look now strelok rich he could have a hairline transplant

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-halpert-face-yeah-ok-then-sure-gif-19576862

[deft stirrup]

i mean its been a decade he should have grown some hair

[gaunt burrow]

I mean Strelok in CoP literally wanted to destroy the Zone. Even if 10 years passed there must be some reason why he would start being fanatical about the Zone

I just don't buy it

[deft stirrup]

[elfin echo]

Is getting the exo in CS worth it,since i can't afford a sprint upgrade for it?

[deft stirrup]

sprinting< jumping and walking

[gaunt burrow]

imho no

[elfin echo]

The bulat is better then?

[deft stirrup]

its good if you suck at hiding behind cover

[worn oar]

I have a theory

[deft stirrup]

if u max out an exoskeleton u become a god

[worn oar]

Well, all that depends on what ending is considered canon

[gaunt burrow]

CS-1 Body Armor is the best if you fully upgrade it

it'll have 60 bulletproof-ness then

but generally I still prefer SEVA tbh

[deft stirrup]

it cant be any of the bad endings

[gilded glacier]

I was raised on stalker clear sky, and I enjoy entire trilogy

[gaunt burrow]

we already know what ending is canon tho

[elfin echo]

I'm not a huge fan of the SEVA

I prefer having more armor

[worn oar]

We do, but not really the case

[rose moth]

im too broke to afford SEVA, so i use sunrise suit

[worn oar]

CoP had many variables

[gaunt burrow]

SIRCAA is a thing, so his good ending slide in CoP is canon as well

[proven shadow]

Imo best possible ending in CoP is canon but thats just my opinion

[gaunt burrow]

Striders good ending slide and Strelok's good ending slides certainly are canonical ones

plus Skadovsks good ending slide too (one where bloodsuckers are eliminated)

but we still don't have any closure about other ending slides

[proven shadow]

I hope the slide with the next gen medicine being possibly developed after you did the quest is canon
Ngl

[worn oar]

My theory goes as following:
Strelok for me is dead/killed by SIRCAA.
Dalin was the one who ordered that, and gave the ward the mission to find the culprit (to make it look like he had no hand in it).
The stranger is also dalin, the version of him that went nuts.

[still ridge]

??

[proven shadow]

It makes the world of the zone less bleak

[gaunt burrow]

I'm thining that Stranger will be a leader of "Problesk" - a group that is opposing NIICHAZ

[deft stirrup]

[worn oar]

Glimps? Nope I don't think he is

[gaunt burrow]

Any theory works at the moment. But I think that changing Strelok's iconic hairline to Leon's hairstyle would be a rather weird decision

Stranger ordered Skiff to assassinate someone. That someone could be Strelok, who was working for NIICHAZ. Strelok knew more about the Zone than almost anyone else, his knowledge was very valuable for NIICHAZ, which is considered to be an enemy of free stalkers, like the Stranger, who as I mentioned, is speculated to be a leader of group which opposes NIICHAZ

[earnest bear]

https://youtu.be/gmrN7GrckWg?si=TBWj-JTIitTtIeoN
this video suggests stalker is way more political than even i would have guessed

[loud gate]

Steam page stopped saying months and now is 7 weeks until S2

[finite dragon]

Not a huge fan of Clear Sky

[granite mortar]

based Valve

[granite mortar]

Crow of judgement 🐦‍⬛

[loud gate]

https://tenor.com/view/borzoi-ok-gif-27704540

[proven shadow]

Clear sky had the most action of the 3 games imo so depending on what you want its either the best or the worst of the trilogy lol

[finite dragon]

The grenade spam I have no problem with it's the fact that bandits somehow can tank up to 15 viper shots to the chest

[indigo marsh]

See this is why you need to use .45 ACP. 9mm is a peashooter. (Joke)

[old jungle]

Personally I don't think the Stranger asked Skif to kill somebody. He did order an assassination, but Skif was not the one to carry it. He just happened to be there when it occurred.

[finite dragon]

Wait hold on

Does this even matter in clear sky? Does this do the same damage regardless? Is that the joke?

[proven shadow]

45 is too weak. This is why you use the Big Ben 9x39 deagle LOL

[finite dragon]

Too weak, use knife instead

[worn oar]

Ordered is not the right term for me. It might end up being as you say, but I really think the footage we saw about dalin was a flashback

Idk why

But that's how I feel

[indigo marsh]

The joke is that some people say that 9mm is useless as a self defense round and you need to use .45 instead

[worn oar]

I might be wrong tho

[rose moth]

a bullet is a bullet

[nimble cipher]

stpd3vrt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[granite mortar]

oh yeah
9x18 is same as 14.5x114

[proven shadow]

Tbh 9x18 is useless. 9x19 is pog ❤️

[rose moth]

it will kill you either way

[rose moth]

take that back

[indigo marsh]

Not if the bullet is a bullet that heals you

[finite dragon]

No it won't, my massive pec muscles will stop the bullet

[rose moth]

9x18 is the goat

[rose moth]

lol

[proven shadow]

9x18 is just as shit as the pistols firing it

[elfin echo]

I don't even use pistols

[indigo marsh]

12.7mm is the best

[proven shadow]

Both irl and in game

[rose moth]

9x18 is makarov food, my fav handgun

[indigo marsh]

If Vova vista was given that the population of the zone would be 0

[loud gate]

But I think that changing Strelok's iconic hairline to Leon's hairstyle would be a rather weird decision
Special so people don't recognize him. And yet not confirmed, but I am 99% certain it is him.

[granite mortar]

no
7.62x45 is

[elfin echo]

I prefer 5.56

[still ridge]

Idk man kind of schizophrenic

[deft stirrup]

5x45 and 12x70 :

[celest goblet]

It would be an interesting change for Strelok, since in CoP he still seemed to be interested in destroying the Zone

[still ridge]

There’s nothing that suggests strelok is a zone fanatic

[deft stirrup]

people go crazy

[gaunt burrow]

That would be weird ngl. Because the Stranger says to Skif that Zone couldn't be free unless he died. We all know that the person who is most involved with the Zone is Strelok

[granite mortar]

its 5.45x39 actually

[proven shadow]

Tbh its hit or miss. I have seen some good PMs out there and some really bad ones. Imma be honest tho I prefer the tokarev if I had to choose a soviet pistol

[rose moth]

lets hold a poll

[gaunt burrow]

Strelok's knowledge literally created SIRCAA

[still ridge]

This is more likely

[finite dragon]

Does Stranger even sound like Strelok?

[gaunt burrow]

so he for sure would know more than even Dalin

or other higher ups

[worn oar]

My old theory

[loud gate]

again, Strelok could have changed since CoP. It's been a decade.

[rose moth]

tokarev is good too but PM is sexy af

[proven shadow]

Fair fair

[gaunt burrow]

yes but I don't see anything that would change him THAT much

[finite dragon]

Really hope Strelok isn't dead he doesn't deserve that

[gaunt burrow]

and especially anything that would turn him into a fanatic

[proven shadow]

Strelok is a chad

[old jungle]

look at how you changed in 10 years

[indigo marsh]

Aim for the head

[loud gate]

Yea, it's very possible. Besides, just look at the evidence.

[indigo marsh]

And also it's because bandits are

[finite dragon]

All his friends got murdered, he was brainwashed, handed a bad pistol and expected to take down bandits with a bad pistol

[deft stirrup]

same scar chin every facial feature is very similar

[gaunt burrow]

evidence for me suggests that both Skif and that Stranger guy were talking about Strelok

[loud gate]

Do you know the evidence?

[deft stirrup]

plus they are wearing similiar armor that stranger and strelok

[proven shadow]

^ this

[finite dragon]

Yeah let God decide if the random bullet spread from this shotgun/ak krinkov variant forgot what it's called/pistol/viper is gonna land or not

[proven shadow]

Everyone is wearing a sunrise suit bro its iconic

[elfin echo]

you'll have to tough it out and save up money for upgrades

[gaunt burrow]

Ok let's see: Strelok knows the Zone more than majority. He is literally the reason why SIRCAA got created in the first place. He had the information that COULD allow the army to DESTROY the Zone

and there's this stranger saying things like

[deft stirrup]

strelok has the same armor as stranger its just too obvious

[elfin echo]

If you haven't went broke buying ammo and medicine since they cost a lot

[gaunt burrow]

"she couldn't live while he's alive"

[loud gate]

He looks very close to Strelok, features very close facial resembles, especially the scar on his cheek. GSC confirmed he's someone from the old trilogy.

[finite dragon]

Wait isn't clear sky supposed to be more realistic in a sense? Because of how radiation and bandages work

[proven shadow]

The armour strelok wears is a sunrise which is very common and basically iconic for loners. Not much of a proof of anything imo

[celest goblet]

I think it is entirely possible, given the time gap, I just am not to the point where I would bet on it yet

[indigo marsh]

That's your problem. Your using the ak74u

Also use DB instead

[finite dragon]

What else am I supposed to use after getting to Cordon? The gauss rifle?

[deft stirrup]

no? did u not watch the endings each ending he wears the same suit

[loud gate]

Again, he could see the shady side of SIRCAA, and learn the true nature of the Zone, it could have changed Strelok

[indigo marsh]

You get a free AK when you start the game

[loud gate]

If he's someone from the old trilogy and not Strelok, who would he be?

[indigo marsh]

Unless your using SRP

[proven shadow]

Endings of what ? SOC ?

[loud gate]

Because he looks EXACTLY like Strelok.

[finite dragon]

I am

[elfin echo]

yeah but only 30 rounds

[gaunt burrow]

even if he would learn about true nature of SIRCAA that doesn't necessarily means that he would suddenly start loving the Zone

[indigo marsh]

There is ammo in the main base of renagades

[loud gate]

and learn the true nature of the Zone

[gaunt burrow]

He lost his best friends, got brainwashed and survived a lot

[wraith sonnet]

who knows what happened to be honest, it has been 10 years after all

[gaunt burrow]

I can't personally see how he could forgive the Zone

[old jungle]

not suddenly but over the course of a decade

[deft stirrup]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[finite dragon]

Can't tell if you're trolling or not

[gaunt burrow]

Zone is what you consider it to be

its subjective thing

[finite dragon]

Does there exist a farm south of here selling the gauss rifle for 800 roubles?

[pseudo rivet]

The Zone is a test

[indigo marsh]

Also upgrade the guns so they can actually shoot straight

[wraith sonnet]

10 years can change anyone and who knows what has happened in those 10 years.

[elfin echo]

i couldn't find any 5x45

[pseudo rivet]

It is where you can even find yourself

[loud gate]

What I mean is see another side of the Zone.

[elfin echo]

thankfully i scavenged some ammo from the soldiers in cordon

[proven shadow]

The zone is: an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions.
"a pedestrian zone"
🤓

[indigo marsh]

It's good for close range until you get any money for upgrading your gun

[deft stirrup]

u can just tell me these are not the same person #📸┃screens_and_videos

[granite mortar]

5.45x39*

[loud gate]

The scar on the cheek and GSC saying it's an old character is the biggest give away of all time

[finite dragon]

What about the chaser?

[finite dragon]

The stranger is scar?

[deft stirrup]

there is no doubt its almost concrete that THAT is strelok

[finite dragon]

No way the stranger is scar guys

[deft stirrup]

hell no

[deft stirrup]

the scar strelok has a scar on his face

[gaunt burrow]

What if it's actually Strelok's doppelganger?

[elfin echo]

🚿

[gaunt burrow]

Valerian type beat

[wraith sonnet]

guess we just have to wait until the game comes out

[finite dragon]

Scar is Strelok ?!?!

[pseudo rivet]

Where's the scar? Can't see it

[loud gate]

He does not look like Scar.

[indigo marsh]

It's good for muties and can be useful against NPCs if you get a pellet to hit the head (unless your using darts or slugs)

[indigo marsh]

Shotguns are best used in close range

[pseudo rivet]

Don't use slugs or darts, tbh

They're basically useless

[deft stirrup]

use only if u have a toz 34/hunting rifle

[indigo marsh]

Slugs worked well for me

[elfin echo]

oil up

[pseudo rivet]

Still useless, tbh

[loud gate]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[finite dragon]

Wait guys just get the stranger's hair and put it on strelok

[pseudo rivet]

Saw, so the rumors might be true

[finite dragon]

Just cut off his hair in Photoshop

[elfin echo]

He prolly saved up enough money for a hair transplant

[old jungle]

in the devs diary we see him without his hair

[pseudo rivet]

Scar seems to be different, though

As well as the eyes

[deft stirrup]

scar looks way older then strelok

even bandits call him "old man"

[granite mortar]

[pseudo rivet]

Not that Scar

[indigo marsh]

It's pretty good with the upgrade that only lets you use slugs and darts

[deft stirrup]

brown eyes

[finite dragon]

What does the stranger look like without hair

[deft stirrup]

[solid cosmos]

I think Strelok is the dude in the suit who is yelling at you in one of the trailers.

[pseudo rivet]

Which is the most common color

[gaunt burrow]

brown eyes fr

[granite mortar]

wait how good is the Trophy AKM when it comes to accuracy? Is it better than TRs? Because that one is pretty atrocious

[pseudo rivet]

Ultra Chad

[deft stirrup]

is a snipe rifle

[old jungle]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[granite mortar]

I really want to do a run where I use it as main gun but I cant stand ARs worse than TRs

[deft stirrup]

ammo issue

[still ridge]

He doesn’t look like strelok either

[granite mortar]

well yeah
5.56 sucks ass

[deft stirrup]

no

[pseudo rivet]

Good weapon fr and ammo is easy when you get to the Red Forest

[loud gate]

He is also not modeled after the actor who played him there, so

[earnest bear]

One question what is the approach wen I should run out of bullet's?
The Knife is pretty limited in use

[granite mortar]

yeah I know about red forest

[deft stirrup]

7.62x54mm

[loud gate]

which is the usual case with the other characters like Richter or Korshunov

[granite mortar]

7.62 gud
5.56 western slop

[old jungle]

indeed

[loud gate]

Mf, he does 1 to 1

[pseudo rivet]

To get ammo

[elfin echo]

no it doesn't

[granite mortar]

okay in 20 minutes clear sky will be downloade
yippeee

[still ridge]

Crazy take

[deft stirrup]

look corpses and use guns stalkers use in that map the most

[granite mortar]

it does

[still ridge]

How does stranger look like strelok

[pseudo rivet]

Agree with Edillon, doesn't look like Strelok

[still ridge]

Does anyone else think this

[elfin echo]

that's what someone who hasn't used 5.56 would say

[granite mortar]

yeah Edillion doesnt look like Strelok

[deft stirrup]

if big guy spartan mozi say it tru with good evidence i believe

[proven shadow]

He doesnt at all imo. That aint strelok

[pseudo rivet]

Not to say it couldn't be him, but he doesn't look like him at all

[granite mortar]

it sucks
5.56 is overrated and absolutely biased ammo in games

[still ridge]

No disrespect mozi but I think you’re the only one who thinks he looks like strelok

[proven shadow]

Unless they do cosmetic surgery in the zone. Then that is strelok lmao

[granite mortar]

performs unrealistically often doing more damage than 7.62x54

[elfin echo]

cope

[elfin echo]

5x56 my beloved

[granite mortar]

5.56*

[still ridge]

5.56

[gaunt burrow]

That Stranger guy is clearly a merc. That's how he could he afford to look so good in the zone

[deft stirrup]

whats the knife's caliber

[gaunt burrow]

[elfin echo]

shush

[granite mortar]

dont shush me peasant

[still ridge]

8 inch

[elfin echo]

hsuhs

[granite mortar]

Stranger is Ara

[pseudo rivet]

OG-7V warhead, my beloved

[proven shadow]

30 mike mike from a apache my beloved

[deft stirrup]

if it really isnt strelok its probably sidorovich -just joking

[old jungle]

If it's a returning character and not Strelok, then who?

[finite dragon]

Yeah the stranger (bald pic) and strelok look very similar

[granite mortar]

Nitro

[still ridge]

lmao

[finite dragon]

It's Nimble about to annihilate every faction except the military

[pseudo rivet]

Nitro is a Duty sympathizer

[gaunt burrow]

real

[loud gate]

I will remember you on release @proven shadow @pseudo rivet @gaunt burrow

[pseudo rivet]

Alright

[old jungle]

no way

[granite mortar]

Nitro used artifact to grow anomalous hair
now hes one with the Zone

[proven shadow]

Yay pls do ❤️

[granite mortar]

spirit of the Zone

[pseudo rivet]

See, the question is, if it's an old character, did that character actually have a custom model or not?

[deft stirrup]

nitro is strelok's cousin

[proven shadow]

I wont remember this convo lmao

[granite mortar]

Nitro is Charon

[deft stirrup]

pin this

[loud gate]

@hazy helm do it for me

[old jungle]

For me the only other person it could be is Venya the journalist but he was not in the originals.

[still ridge]

They said it’s a returning character?

[loud gate]

If it's important enough to hide the identity, then yes.

[loud gate]

Yes. They did.

[pseudo rivet]

What if it's an old character who just had le goofy-ass NPC model

[deft stirrup]

gunslinger

[granite mortar]

Its Barkeep
Black hair and stuff

wants to save the zone to keep profiting of off it

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, but how much did they change bro? We legit don't know if he's edited or entirely overhauled

[gaunt burrow]

Stranger in trailer is stalker fanboy explaining to western audience why the zone is important

[deft stirrup]

here is theory they changed his apperance so he looked more fresh and less recognizable so people dont 100% know its strelok

[pseudo rivet]

I know

[old jungle]

was in #ask-gsc right?

[pseudo rivet]

It'd be against what Strelok from the Trilogy said, but w/e

[deft stirrup]

i dont have that channel

[pseudo rivet]

Everything can be retconned with "Oh, that was a lie lmao"

[old jungle]

it's long gone

[deft stirrup]

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhy

[pseudo rivet]

Krezzin

[gaunt burrow]

I honestly do not want that Stranger to be Strelok ngl

[pseudo rivet]

Same

[deft stirrup]

ai do

[gaunt burrow]

Like in CoP he wanted to destroy the Zone and helped the army

[pseudo rivet]

Legit

[gaunt burrow]

and suddenly in S2 he would be like "Zone is important and must be protected"

[loud gate]

idr

[deft stirrup]

u cant change fate🫵

[old jungle]

I think it was because otherwise we would have the source

[pseudo rivet]

Unless we go with that whole Heart of Chornobyl theory

[broken latch]

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorpdrive-gif-13032160313165045319

[pseudo rivet]

'Sup

[still ridge]

Imo he’s more likely to be the person stranger killed

[granite mortar]

7.62x45 (not 54, 45 okay) and 9x39 are the only good calibres

[old jungle]

10 years is not suddenly

[granite mortar]

also 7.62x25

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, but the 180 in ideology would be hella weird, tbh

[indigo marsh]

It's 556 45 and batteries that are the only good ammo

[deft stirrup]

The Zone works it's ways

[elfin echo]

agree 1000%

[gaunt burrow]

I mean yes but the thing is that we HAVE to see the characters progression. I doubt S2 will show us and tell us everything that happened in those 10 years

for Strelok it's not sudden, yes

but if in S2 he will already be like that then its sudden for US

[old jungle]

At the end of SoC Strelok said he does not know if he was right or wrong, and in CoP he said he's still not sure about some things. He could later have come across more information that changed his mind.

[gaunt burrow]

the audience, who got used to old Strelok

[loud gate]

It can be easily explained with flashbacks. Like Strider

It makes the situation itriguing, because you know who he was, but Skif doesn't

[gaunt burrow]

even just few scenes of him learning about SIRCAA's true nature wouldn't be enough for this 180 in ideology imho

something even more grandiose, if you know what I mean

[pseudo rivet]

Unless we looking at the Heart of Chornobyl theory and Strelok figured he needed help

[loud gate]

What happened to him doesn't need to be explained in two scenes. Dialogue with him, other characters, documents, cutscenes, heck - folklore maybe

[gaunt burrow]

something that will give audience all the closure of why he turned the way he did

[gaunt burrow]

ye that doesn't seem like a bad idea gotta admit

[loud gate]

There would be no surprise there may be even SIRCAA scientists having stuff to say about him

[pseudo rivet]

Question is, did they also change the voice actor?

[gaunt burrow]

this to me always implied that Strelok is now ready to help the army take over the Zone and even destroy it

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, not like it means anything with Strelok having multiple voice actors, but still

[gaunt burrow]

"Now I know what needs to be done to make sure that my friends did not die in vain"

that line is a pretty big giveaway

[loud gate]

His Russian VA which was cut, who actually plays Korshunov in UA and also facial model for him now , is different from OG

If we consider he is Strelok

[loud gate]

Hah.. funny. Before the switch to the scene with the Stranger, Curly-Vitya says "there is no friendship in the Zone" and Skif says "agreed"

[jagged grail]

Where?

[polar orchid]

are the methods for unlocking each ending for SoC dependant on a variety of factors or key moments?

[jagged grail]

All the retailers. are all of those retailers in the roo, right now?

[loud gate]

This may be clever forshaddowing from Editor, it's common stuff to do

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[old jungle]

yes maybe

[polar orchid]

which is it? lol

[pseudo rivet]

Like, different factors. Zone reputation, amount of wealth, who you've killed, etc.

[polar orchid]

interesting

[old jungle]

I took it as Stranger may have first been perceived as a friend by Skif but it turned out otherwise

[pseudo rivet]

Same

[gaunt burrow]

I gotta admit, I always disliked this "no friendship in the Zone' saying. I mean, friendship even in the Zone does exist

Ghost, Limansk bandit

[indigo marsh]

What's this discussion about?

[gaunt burrow]

Trapper

[proven shadow]

I would go as far as to say friendship is one of the things people truly have in the zone

[pseudo rivet]

Stranger from the very first teaser of HoC

[old jungle]

Also it's interesting that Skif said that when he appears to clearly be friends with Richter. Perhaps somehting bad happened?

[granite mortar]

I love Trappers missions, I hope S2 will have similar ones

[indigo marsh]

What about him?

[gaunt burrow]

about Stranger guy

that was shown in trailer

[pseudo rivet]

People speculating he's Strelok

[loud gate]

Richter is friends with Skif clearly in the Trailers. It's up to the player how he percieves the Zone in the game - you will have to make decisions

[still ridge]

I was going to say, hopefully richter won’t betray our protagonist.

[indigo marsh]

He looks younger than strelok

[gaunt burrow]

yes but that line makes it look like there can not be true friends in the Zone (at least that's how I always interpreted it)

and even in trilogy that wasn't the case

[loud gate]

The Zone is how you percieve it to be

[pseudo rivet]

"Come come, friend! Let me teach you Haggling 101!"

[gaunt burrow]

[still ridge]

[gaunt burrow]

"Around here pretty much everyone is a brother to me, and the rest are trusted friends I can rely on"

[still ridge]

Unless you count the monolith brotherhood

[gaunt burrow]

Ashot is literally me fr

[pseudo rivet]

I guess all those Stalkers showing up as green on my minimap are all not really my friends, either

[granite mortar]

whos Yar then?

[pseudo rivet]

Probably me

Seen how I'm gramps around here

[gaunt burrow]

@pseudo rivet fr

[granite mortar]

epic

[pseudo rivet]

Literally me

[sly cedar]

I'd wager the Zone makes and breaks friendships equally. People who used to hate each other will work together and develop bonds struggling against the anomalies and mutants, then other people will stab their own brother over an artifact.

[gaunt burrow]

Ye good point

Truest friendship is in the Zone

[pseudo rivet]

Dev Diary said that Freedom and Duty will never see eye to eye with each other

[granite mortar]

wait what does ABR do?

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, Magpie did that, but that goes against the Stalker Code

[still ridge]

Giving him to ganta is better than reporting him to freedom

[gaunt burrow]

you can still tell Gonta about Magpie even if you reported him to Freedom tbh

but in that case Gonta just gives you 1k RU/SR

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, I'd rather get the Friend of ... achievement than just 2k more RU

[gaunt burrow]

Man of Balance fr

[pseudo rivet]

Pretty meh, tbh

[still ridge]

Hear me out, friend of duty

[pseudo rivet]

Friend of Freedom

[gaunt burrow]

Man of Balance fr

[sly cedar]

Make Clear Sky worse.

[still ridge]

[granite mortar]

okay
vanilla it is then