⭐┃nospoilers_general

[tired zealot]

I wonder how drippy the Pre order costume and ultimate costumes will be, I know the Devs said they are going for realism

so it wont be some Blue tiger skin from call of duty

[clever needle]

hope so

lmao

Is Cheeki Breeki in this server?

I would love to meet him

[ruby warren]

"Early bird skin" Better be a big bird costume

[clever needle]

whats the national bird in the zone?

[ruby warren]

Crow

[clever needle]

fr

a raven skin

[granite mortar]

Sids chicken leg costume

it was the earliest bird we saw in Stalker

[ruby warren]

Who needs a seva suit when we got this bad boy

https://tenor.com/view/muppetwiki-muppet-wiki-muppet-muppets-sesame-street-gif-7227232274436815283

[indigo marsh]

Black raven

[indigo marsh]

black raven black raven circling above the grave

[pseudo rivet]

I am a certified Wind of Freedom enjoyer

[indigo marsh]

Anarchism. Mother of order

Such a cool phrase

Freedom propaganda isn't too bad

[sand fiber]

АНАРХИЯ МАМА
СЫНОВ СВОИХ ЛЮБИТ
:3333333

[indigo marsh]

анархія мама порядку

[clever needle]

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits... None will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!

The World fears The Zones expansion. Join Duty and save the innocent.

Stalker, protect the world from The Zone. Join Duty.

[indigo marsh]

The radio propaganda for duty is significantly better

But the slogan(I only saw one) in spray paint in CS base is pretty cool

[sand fiber]

матiр порядку akchyually

honestly it sounds better in RU than UA

[indigo marsh]

Isn't мати and мама the same thing

[sand fiber]

yes but the original saying goes Анархия - мать порядка

[worn oar]

[indigo marsh]

Oh. it's мама in the graffiti in the freedom base so I just replaced that

[sand fiber]

мама / мать
is the same thing as
mama / mother

[clever needle]

Magpie

[indigo marsh]

I mean it's not UA because it's referring to the information in the EN version of stalker 🤓

Also it's mostly in English. This chat

It's just some words that are in Ukrainian

Or Russian for what nozar said

[lean quiver]

Is september 5...

[indigo marsh]

No

[sly matrix]

September 5th ain't real

Fake date, like 31st of february

[dim topaz]

Wonder how Ward and Spark will be different enough from Duty and Freedom to justify having them as separate factions

[broken latch]

We call those plot factions

Because by lore it might not make sense for any other faction to be at a certain place

And you have to have a faction that opposes the other faction

[dim topaz]

What do you mean by this

[solid dome]

Wassup Slyblaize

[worn oar]

Idk what you're talking about lmao

[worn oar]

Story compelled their existence

New factions are there because they are suitable for the plot

[indigo marsh]

Wdym? The words or what I said?

[worn oar]

It's also natural to have more factions and sub-factions appearing in the zone. That's what CoP ending suggests.

[celest goblet]

They seem to both exist specifically due to SIRCAA entering the picture. Though what Scar says about the "shining zone" already sounds pretty different from what you would expect from Freedom imo.

[solid dome]

Shush

You heard the screams in the distance?
DO YOU?

[worn oar]

Turning to free stalkers side suggests the appearance of new factions or sub-factions to reform certain factions goals

[solid dome]

Shut up, mane
Listen to the noise!

[dim topaz]

I just mean that if you took the story we have been given so far,and you replaced every instance of Ward and Spark with Duty and Freedom respectively, it wouls still make sense

[worn oar]

Idk tbh, I didn't read anything. I just threw an emoji like I always do lmao

[dim topaz]

Sub factions make sense but they don't appear to be that

[solid dome]

Man funk you all, I'm going back to my trunk

[dim topaz]

But their own separate entity

[worn oar]

All will make sense in time. What we know is so little and things tend to look other than what it seems

[dim topaz]

I guess so

[worn oar]

Well, you can classify thing when you have proper knowledge, and we do not at the moment. We can only wait and see how things go. We'll discuss lore and other things related to it after release.

[indigo marsh]

It was about some saying in the freedom base in CS and it was in UA and since you put that emoji I thought you wanted us to discuss it in UA_stalker/UA_offtop

🙃

[worn oar]

the definition of overthinking

[indigo marsh]

That's a foreign concept to me

Thinking I mean. Not the over part

[worn oar]

Well, it seemed so to me . You explained all that from one emoji that I randomly dropped

[indigo marsh]

The shorter explanation is that it reminded me of the off top thing gif you post in meme channels and it reminded me of that

🙃

[broken latch]

[dense hatch]

what

[indigo marsh]

NDA means non disclosure agreement

[dense hatch]

not that

just wondering why that's an NDA rock moment

[indigo marsh]

Maybe for a joke

That's my guess

[pseudo rivet]

Joke fr

Ngl, I'm still surprised by the unique CoP sniper rifles poll from a long while ago

There were a ton of SVUA-2 enjoyers, but the Lynx is honestly really good too

[midnight oar]

i think i never used sniper rifles in CoP, im pretty sure i mostly stuck to assault rifles and stuff like that

[pseudo rivet]

Both can be good, it all depends on your playstyle

[midnight oar]

for some reason i kept using the il-86 up to the lab in pripyat

[pseudo rivet]

Even assault rifles can be sniper rifles

IL 86 is goated fr

[midnight oar]

it was so bad, i think i might've swapped to the SG556

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, IL 86 is honestly really good

Whether upgraded for automatic fire or single fire

[midnight oar]

i got really tired of the constant jamming

[pseudo rivet]

Uh, how often do you repair your stuff?

[midnight oar]

keep in mind that i last played CoP like seven years ago (or atleast that certain playthrough)

[pseudo rivet]

Then now's the time to replay it

[desert prairie]

to be fair, weapon degradation is ridiculous in CoP. 60-100 rounds drops the condition by 30% or so in vanilla.

EDIT: Referring to auto weapons. Semi-auto and pump action require far less

[midnight oar]

true, time to reinstall the trilogy and replay them ...

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on the weapon you're using, obviously

[midnight oar]

it's time to finish what i never finished, clear sky

[pseudo rivet]

Even then, they don't degrade THAT fast

[desert prairie]

Just make sure you install something to deal with the horrible gunplay and it's suddenly not so bad

[pseudo rivet]

Not even the IL 86 when upgraded for automatic fire

[midnight oar]

nah man, i gotta experience the gunplay RAW .

[pseudo rivet]

Clear Sky is literally peak tho

[midnight oar]

it's what the devs intended of course

[spring apex]

just shoot single fire with il86 take it easy

[midnight oar]

my rifles? set on automatic
my sights? unused
my aim? hipfiring
my recoil? will go up

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, CoP IL 86 upgraded for accuracy is basically just a poor man's sniper when put in single shot

[spring apex]

like i said man take it easy its a cheap asf rifle

[pseudo rivet]

Especially with a silencer

[dense hatch]

gunplay is great besides the way they handled pistols not being usable at range

which is slightly annoying but not a huge deal

[desert prairie]

I tested it out on vanilla AK-74 in CoP. It took just under 60 bullets to drop 2 green dots of the weapon's condition which translates to 13.22%. Considering how many whif, it's really not much :/

[spring apex]

oh yeah that too

[pseudo rivet]

Upgrade the IL 86 for automatic fire in CoP. There's barely any recoil and it's pretty accurate

[midnight oar]

simply, just carry more

[desert prairie]

Like 2 AKs?

[dense hatch]

that requires using the IL86

[pseudo rivet]

Without upgrades, I assume?

[dense hatch]

also there's so little ranged combat early on when that's a big deal that I don't see the issue

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, great weapon

[dense hatch]

in terms of enemies besides zombies, which are a joke

[spring apex]

but hey AK's repair cost is non existent

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, CoP sadly only has real enemies in Pripyat

Kinda sad

[desert prairie]

All upgrades that didn't require Calibration tools.

[dense hatch]

it's one of the reasons why I prefer the other 2 games

[pseudo rivet]

Ain't no way I can believe that

[midnight oar]

i will do one thing to COP that might alter the vanilla experience, turn up the FOV because its so zoomed in

[dense hatch]

there's like no combat encounters beyond a handful of scripted ones for the first hour

*hours

[pseudo rivet]

Which is sad, seen how CoP is the most balanced when it comes to the weapons

[desert prairie]

I found it weird myself. Only started noticing when my crosshair started blooming too fast

[spring apex]

nah don't worry i did too

[dense hatch]

they're all just fine

[dense hatch]

AKM or the aku or whatever it's named?

[desert prairie]

AKM, the long barrel one

[pseudo rivet]

I've just used the AKM-74/2 in CoP and didn't notice anything like that

[spring apex]

increasing FOV and Hud FOV

[pseudo rivet]

Both upgraded for accuracy and automatic fire

[rotund widget]

By the way, it would've been neat if we had some light repair kits sold by technicians to fix our guns/armour during long raids (which, I assume, can def take some time with the size of S2 map & its seamlessness). Something around 10-20% restoration for few uses, just so we don't end up with a junk of equipment. But then again, it depends on how the equipment damage is calculated in S2: if it takes long before the equipment needs to be repaired + real negative effects of wear'n'tear only start to show at ≈50-60% — then there's probably no need in such repair kits.

[spring apex]

handling upgrade decrease crosshair blooming while moving

[dense hatch]

AKM has 800-1000 durability according to the wiki

so like 30 mags

[pseudo rivet]

Would honestly be handy for weapons like the IL 86, but we'll see

[desert prairie]

I went artifact hunting on the way to the mercenary Owl asks you to steal info from. By the time I got to them, my max accuracy was so bad I couldn't snipe them reliably due to RNG shots. Even with the scope and accuracy upgrades

[dense hatch]

I think the only part of CoP's changes that I cannot see be down well is the way it handles uniques

[dense hatch]

were you constantly firing?

[desert prairie]

tap fire

[dense hatch]

it should be usable for a while, esp with a scope

[pseudo rivet]

Haven't noticed so far, will check later. It does increase mouse speed though

[dense hatch]

unless you went through like 10 magazines it should've been fine

[spring apex]

[desert prairie]

AN-94 is more reliable for those situations cause it has a weird accuracy boost for the first 2 shots but I was still disappointed cause I grew to really like AKM in Clear Sky

[spring apex]

check on frasier

[pseudo rivet]

Then your gun must've been in a real bad shape beforehand, because the AKM-74/2 is pretty solid when it comes to reliability

[pseudo rivet]

Now THAT'S a gun that degrades fast as hell

[dense hatch]

the TRS only has like 600

SGI has almost the same health

[pseudo rivet]

TRs-301 is honestly pretty solid, not to mention absurdly light

[dense hatch]

it's fun

shame there's so little to use it on

[desert prairie]

From full condition. Like I said before, it went 2 green blips down in 60 bullets and accuracy was horrendous at that point

[dense hatch]

I might go check that real quick in a bit

[desert prairie]

Hang on, I'll go test it again, just to make sure I didn't mess something up

[indigo marsh]

Trs was pretty good in CS and SoC

[dense hatch]

that's only like 6% of its health

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds like mods at that point, because that just doesn't sound like it's true

[desert prairie]

13.2%

15 blips, meaning each is 6.66%

[dense hatch]

60 over 900?

did you repair it?

[desert prairie]

Only had CRP installed to fix Viper's ironsights. I'm not sure if it messed with condition

[dense hatch]

because that's just not accurate, because even at the worst possible rng that's only 7 percent

[pseudo rivet]

Might have, mods do B mods

Who knows

[dense hatch]

that's a mod change for sure

[pseudo rivet]

I just know from my own experience that it doesn't degrade that fast

[indigo marsh]

The viper with 9x18 mod is pretty good in CS

[spring apex]

is CRP packed in .db files?

[indigo marsh]

It does degrade pretty fast

[dense hatch]

I wish they didn't change the firing animation, it's just so weird to me

[indigo marsh]

I didn't notice anything different

[dense hatch]

did that send twice

look at it being fired in CS then in SoC

[desert prairie]

Does this channel allow images?

[spring apex]

no send it in screen videos channel we will see

[pseudo rivet]

Unfortunately not, but you can post in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[spring apex]

if not packed, to fix one viper iron sight you can copy the

gamedata/configs/weapons/w_mp5.ltx
gamedata/meshes/dynamic/weapons/(all the mp5 files) 

[pseudo rivet]

I simply just got used to it

[spring apex]

hell yeah, manually merging the files even with notepad lol

[pseudo rivet]

The only iron sights I do find annoying are those of the hunting shotgun

[desert prairie]

Just wanted it to showcase the ridiculous accuracy drop-off.

I fired 120 bullets and lost 2 blips of AK-74's condition. Crosshair went from fairly accurate to can't hit the wide side of a barn beyond 20 meters

[pseudo rivet]

That has to be PRP then, because I just tried it out a few minutes ago and I didn't seem to have any problems

[desert prairie]

Standing accuracy at 100% condition (15 blips) was higher than crouching accuracy after 120 bullets (13 blips)

Could be that PRP messed it up then.

In any case, the RNG bullets ended up annoying me enough so I installed Gunslinger.

[pseudo rivet]

Oh

Gunslinger

Guess that explains it

[desert prairie]

No, I installed it because the regular gunplay annoyed me

[indigo marsh]

Kill gunslinger

[pseudo rivet]

Kill The Strelok

[indigo marsh]

I should probably do a olr playthrough

[desert prairie]

Condition doesn't affect accuracy in Gunslinger from what I've seen. I can snipe enemies by using ironsights with that mod

[indigo marsh]

[pseudo rivet]

Samesies for me in Vanilla

[indigo marsh]

You snipe with irons in vanilla?

[pseudo rivet]

Absolutely

[indigo marsh]

What do you use?

And in which game?

[pseudo rivet]

Viper 5, CoP

But what you consider sniping depends on your perspective

[spring apex]

align the target with binocular> change to my TRs > ez headshot

[pseudo rivet]

Skip the binoculars tbh

[dense hatch]

one thing that bothered me about gunslinger is that combat is just kinda easier most of the time

[pseudo rivet]

You can do it just as well normally

[dense hatch]

And the combat isn't really hard to begin with

[spring apex]

because OP damages mostly

it kinda compensates it by slower animations

[desert prairie]

Mercenaries in Zaton, from the wall to the building. Takes me 1-4 bullets to drop a merc there, with Gunslinger.

In vanilla, chances are I would be lucky to hit one of those bullets cause of RNG.

[dense hatch]

what distance are you firing from?

[dense hatch]

oh no, I need to reload once in each fight

[pseudo rivet]

Like, landing headshots with this thing is easy, but it's mostly just having good aim instead of sniping from a distance, although that's entirely possible

[dense hatch]

stalker's combat feels best close up because enemies are so much more threatening close up

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds like mods fr, tbh

We are talking about the AKM-74/2 in this situation, right?

[desert prairie]

Yea

[indigo marsh]

Should I do another bandit run but this time with the trophy AKM and a conquest of should I do a loner run with the trophy AKM?

[celest goblet]

the AI doesn't work too well at long ranges

[pseudo rivet]

I haven't tested it on Mercs yet, but in the case of Bandits and Sunrise Bodysuit Stalkers, they die with one bullet with headshots and five with meatshots

[spring apex]

[pseudo rivet]

Up to you, AKM-47/2 is definitely great

[desert prairie]

They are not bulky, my shots just miss from that distance even when aiming center mass

[dense hatch]

are you accounting for the dramatic bullet drop?

[pseudo rivet]

That is definitely odd, because it's pretty accurate in my experience

[desert prairie]

I tested it with scope as well, that's when I actually noticed how far off the bullets go from where I aim

[pseudo rivet]

In case it's upgraded and fully repaired, then it has to be mods

Because I can't seem to think of any other way it could perform that poorly

[desert prairie]

It wasn't fully repaired there. It was at 86.7% condition

Missing 2 blips

Those 2 blips went down due to a few encounters between Skadovsk and merc base

And AKM is one of the sturdiest weapons in the game. That's why the situation annoyed me enough to go install Gunslinger instead

[dense hatch]

that's a mod moment for sure

it shouldn't be that inconsistent in vanilla

[cyan canopy]

Never had problem in Vanilla Stalker

[pseudo rivet]

What do you like more, upgrading your weapon for accuracy or upgrading it for automatic fire?

[desert prairie]

Can't see anything about it in PRP readme. Then again, it's possible there are changes they didn't mention

[dense hatch]

it's likely

[cyan canopy]

Weapon Jammed,Worse accuracy? Who cares. This is 2000s eastern european jank games

[pearl jacinth]

i am the sta;lker

yhe shadow of chornboyl

[desert prairie]

In CS, AKM accuracy upgrades. Later a Sig 550 with RoF upgrades as backup.

In CoP, still mostly accuracy. Strelok's SGI-5k / Sig 550 with a few RoF upgrades later on.

[ruby warren]

The heart of Chornobyl was us all along

[dense hatch]

AKM is either changed or you are a statistical anomaly

[desert prairie]

My favorite weapon across all 3 games has to be the Fast Shooting AKM though 😄

[ruby warren]

Vintar BC my beloved laser

SA avalanche is cool too, but the VSS wooden stock makes me feel a certain type of way

[pseudo rivet]

If you ever return to CoP Vanilla, I suggest to upgrade the AKM-74/2 with every top option, convert it to fire 5.56 and to then put it into single fire. It'll kick like a mule, but that's what the Handling is for. Besides, the recoil doesn't matter when you'll kill everything in one shot and you'll have the grenade launcher as a back-up too

[desert prairie]

Does the conversion give it extra dmg?

[pseudo rivet]

In case you're going for automatic fire, chose every bottom option and keep it in automatic and as a 5.45

[pseudo rivet]

From what I've heard, it's better at piercing through armor, although I haven't been able to confirm this yet

As for 5.45, it's supposedly better at piercing through objects

[dense hatch]

I thought handling was mouse speed while holding a weapon

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah

So it's good for close quarters or to correct your aim while shooting

[desert prairie]

I deleted gamedata for CoP in case I go back to playing it at some point.

Should be vanilla then

[grim palm]

[pseudo rivet]

Oh, and definitely go with a PSO, NSPU or PSS scope if you're going for the single shot build, as those have the full magnification

Hope it'll help

[indigo marsh]

I am kinda split

On one hand I want to try the loners

On the other, a conquest would be cool

[indigo marsh]

Actually you know what

I can use hard saves

Just play loners first and then switch to bandits

And the 9x18 Viper kills

So loners with 9x18

And the bandits with the Trophy AKM-47/2

[dense hatch]

do/can NPCs use the Trophy AKM?

and if so, is it just like a normal AKM but with insane damage?

[indigo marsh]

Once I gave the trophy AKM to the guy who gave me the quest and he still used his other weapon

I did it twice. One with a guy who commanded a squad with 4 other people and a commander who was the last of his squad

The guy with the full squad had a Viper and the single guy had the Hunting Shotgun

[indigo marsh]

They both kept using the viper and hunting shotgun

[indigo marsh]

[worn oar]

[indigo marsh]

[worn oar]

[celest blaze]

[cyan canopy]

[pearl jacinth]

[finite dragon]

OMG
Faust

[pearl jacinth]

today i will point at myself then point at this man

[clever needle]

[gilded flower]

Faust Faust Faust
Where is Proffesor Kruglov

[clever needle]

@gilded flower

[gilded flower]

I'm taking cnpp and wishgranter if you didn't tell me an important thing

[clever needle]

Hey, idk if you know smth about oblivion lost but there is smth I want u to see

[gilded flower]

I played OL

[clever needle]

Check #🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[gilded flower]

saw that when I played Lost Alpha back to 2018

[clever needle]

The squares in the cinematics?

[gilded flower]

yea

[clever needle]

Ok

Should I worry about it?

[gilded flower]

in 1 case if you see what I gonna post at #📸┃screens_and_videos

[stuck pewter]

grupo de sangre

[woeful seal]

https://i.imgur.com/qDXNRbr.jpeg how do i get out??

goods of the shooter stash room

[sly matrix]

[naive fog]

[wraith socket]

I usually go for accuracy, since I'm more of a single shot person and I can pull the trigger as many times as needed. However, with shotguns I like to upgrade for faster fire.

[sly matrix]

accuracy for me because it makes my ammo count for more

[wraith socket]

I like to take the Quest Items from NPCs that I know are in risky areas. That way after I give them the Quest Item and get my reward, when they are killed, I can recover it as a trophy item.

[wraith socket]

Like my AN-94 for 5.45

[sly matrix]

In CS I actually use an SGI 5k for 5.45

for fighting duty/bandits

[wraith socket]

FN-F2000 for 5.56

[wraith socket]

I never really was a fan of the SGI in any of the games or Mods. I'm all about the Target Acquisition upgrade for the FN-F2000 and slapping on the Target Acquisition (red scope) on the AN-94.

[sly matrix]

yeah target acquisition goes pretty hard, I just wish the attachments weren't 100% locked behind faction-investment

[wraith socket]

True. In CoP you have to get Friend of Duty to get the red scope.

I tried CoC with I think AO of some variety and I was horrified they had removed the Target Acquisition scope and grenade launcher for the FN-F2000. Whoever made that Mod must really hate that rifle.

[sly matrix]

odd choice yeah

[worn oar]

Oh, Tejas is awake

[wraith socket]

I'm perfectly happy with the weapons as is in CoC and CotZ. I've tried other Mods that add more weapons but it is hard to beat the AN-94. That is one rifle I always had in CS and CoP. Sadly SoC doesn't allow the grenade launcher on it. Stuck using the AKM.

[wraith socket]

Just got off work.

I'm working 52 hours this week. 10 on Saturday.

[pseudo rivet]

IL 86, my friend

IL 86

[worn oar]

Damn

[pseudo rivet]

SGI-5k is amazing in CS and CoP, imo

[wraith socket]

I only use that when I'm broke at the beginning.

[worn oar]

What are you guys discussing ?

[pseudo rivet]

Single shot assault rifles

I'm suggesting the IL 86 because it's great

[wraith socket]

In the three retail games, that's always the most unrelaible gun that jams the most. That's the way it was made in the games.

[worn oar]

It's meh

You only use it when you have to

[pseudo rivet]

Just try it

[worn oar]

I did

Plenty

[pseudo rivet]

Upgrade it for accuracy and put it in single fire mode

[cyan canopy]

Black Ops 1 hand

[worn oar]

The IL86 ofc haha

[pseudo rivet]

Attach a silencer for good measure

[worn oar]

The jamming machine

[wraith socket]

The HK G36 has a variable scope and better damage than the FN-F2000, but the Target Acquisition scope is way more valuable. I'm really big into beating my own scores on farthest distance kill.

[pseudo rivet]

In mods

Nice

[wraith socket]

Yes, I can go back and forth talking about the retail games and my current favorite Mod "Call of the Zone" that really doesn't change much from CoP, other than letting you have access to everything.

Here we go, CoP with the AKSU upgraded to -113% recoil.

[wooden herald]

Holy crap, its Tejas. I remember you posting on the Stalker Facebook page more than 10 years ago. Glad to see you alive and kicking still.

[wraith socket]

I like to collect all the unique weapons in SoC, even if you can't use them for long if worn down, they jam.

My favorite armor in SoC. Let's you carry 70kg and sprint.

[worn oar]

I always collect them all. Idc if I accidentally shot one and breaking it. I always have a stash dedicated to unique weapons

[wraith socket]

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CJrXZGJkKE&t=65s

You can get endless Sniper VLAs in SoC.

[gilded flower]

playing Cotz BUT HOW DO THE HELL YOU GOT THOSE OP ARTIS

[wraith socket]

Do you mean the SoC video? The game starts in May 2012. This video was recorded 10 months later in March 2013.

That's game time not real time.

[gilded flower]

I meant the artifacts

[wraith socket]

In the blue stash chest inside the 100 Rads Bar?

[gilded flower]

[wraith socket]

I'm not sure what the chair guy means.

[gilded flower]

emoji name : I'm fine

[opaque saffron]

Hi everyone! Sorry I don't want to intrude any ongoing conversation. I'm just back to the Zone after years having completed the first game. I just both an Xbox serie x only to play the two other chapter because of the controller support. Then I heard somewhere on reddit that they have polished SoC but still not the other one. Can any Stalker can point me where I can have more info on when they will do some polishing update on CS and CoP? I can't wait going back to the Zone! Be safe.

[wraith socket]

Did I answer your question okay? I'm not trying to be obtuse.

[wraith socket]

I don't mind people joining in at all.

I thought GSC was posting any updates for the three Console Trilogy games. Makes me want an X-Box just to try it out.

I have to upload a video. I'll be here in the background.

[frank egret]

Bro I modded fallout into stalker 2 and clipped an insane combat montage but it didn’t save

Gsc knows that’s what the games gonna be like

If so I can’t wait

[granite mortar]

The kill distance stat is such neat feature in CotZ
I only tried target acquisition once and it was pretty distracting but for long range kills it gotta be goated

[wraith socket]

I think 519 meters is my best record in my previous game. From the roof of the Fishing Hamlet, I shot a Monolith at the Sunken Village, aka Village Ruins.

[hazy helm]

Yea hopefully not that

[granite mortar]

Damn
Thats a lot
Almost unimaginamble

[wraith socket]

The thing is, I see all these popular Mods like Anomaly and Gamma that put tons of bushes and trees everywhere, making the visibility less than 100 meters. Then all the fog is added where you can't see more than 30 meters. I just don't get it.

I mean fog is a great atmospheric feature...then after 10 minutes I get bored with it.

[granite mortar]

Yeah
Thats a feature from Anomaly
They integrated some CoC mod that slightly edits maps and adds plants

[wraith socket]

My current game I've only managed to get 480 meters. Here is the video and proof, where I shot from and what I hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJyMzlTrTpw

I realize some people don't like videos where the maker is not yapping away about something. My videos I do not talk at all. Just the game and game sounds. I do write extensive notes or comments on most all of them.

I think the kill shot is about 11:26, where I shot a tushkano on the road next to the swamps, where I am in the crow's nest of the Skadovsk.

Don't mean to hog the channel.

[pseudo rivet]

FT-200m with silencer messes with my brains

Seen how it can't attach one in CoP

[worn oar]

The sniper SGI and the hunter got cut from the game sadly

[pseudo rivet]

Sniper SGI-5k is legit in the game

Not sure what you mean by Hunter, though

[granite mortar]

I think theres addon fir Anomaly that lets you see the bullet flight replay on long range kills
Porting it to CotZ could be great

[sleek yoke]

Any beta tests being run for this? Would gladly help out in ironing out any bugs and providing feedback

[gilded flower]

the most thing I want it to get ported to Cotz is Old World

[opaque saffron]

Hum... the only thing I find is this and it doesn't mention anything about what I heard.
https://www.stalker-game.com/en

[wraith socket]

May 29th is the last one I can find:

[opaque saffron]

Man, I feel a bit stupid to ask, could you please share me that link? Thank you. 😅🤟

[gilded flower]

STALKER 2 COMING SOON 2077

[pseudo rivet]

Afraid not

[wraith socket]

May 20th. These are the announcements by GSC on Official Stalker on FB but No links. I wonder where they are hiding them? I'm sure Mol1t would know.

I'm looking: https://www.stalker-game.com/en#trilogy

They've redone everything and I don't even recognize their website anymore.

It's just going to get worse the closer we get to Stalker 2. The Trilogy problems will be put on the back burner.

[dim topaz]

Bro at least a warning plz. I saw this and thought the game was bloody delayed again

[wraith socket]

The first line saying Xbox and PlayStation was the giveaway.

[dim topaz]

The wall of text jumpscare

[wraith socket]

Ha. You said bloody, like you're in the UK.

I don't mean that as bad, I just like words that people use that tell you where they might be.

[worn oar]

Oh sorry, mb, it's the storming SGI

[wraith socket]

Older Indian people too.

[worn oar]

The hunter suit is the unique version of the PSZ-9D

These are cut from the final game

[dim topaz]

I'm actually in Uzbekistan. But close.

[hazy helm]

At pax west rn yea

They have a demo there

[loud gate]

Pax West is over

[hazy helm]

Hm didn't it end today

[loud gate]

No, it ended three days ago.

[hazy helm]

Hm, shame

[granite mortar]

._.

CotZ is literally better OWA
Like
Porting it would have near zero positive impact

[gilded flower]

Static lighting got an improvement

there is a positive impact which fix the Static render glitchs in Cotz

[hazy helm]

Yuri will do anything but play a good mod

[gilded flower]

wdym

I play Cotz , Coc , I left anomaly from long time

[rocky trellis]

Marsh like areas with thick long grass or whatever vegetation makes for one of the spookiest open sky areas. But for sure not as great if can't see far anywhere. What's spooky about those is that you never know when you might get ambushed by mutants.

[sand fiber]

he said good mod

[pseudo rivet]

Ah yes, the Storming SIP

[pseudo rivet]

It's on the wiki, but I haven't actually seen it in-game, so I wouldn't know

[sly matrix]

Stash is a bit hard to aquire

I've done so in the past but never quite remember what I have to do for that one

Maybe duty members in the wild territories

[indigo marsh]

I usually take quests in areas that are safe because I want them to fail. The trophy AKM is the only one I don't do that for

For the 2nd CoP detectors quest ||I wanted to get the detectors without killing any of the loners and for the first squad they were already near some bandits was close to them after but the bandit squads were filled with rookies. But there was an area filled with mutants close to them and I tried baiting the mutants to go to them.That only worked with one guy and all my attempts for the others didn't work. I eventually just walked around with them and they came to the area filled with the mutants mentioned earlier and that killed another guy he came to a that was FILLED with zombies. And that killed the last guy. The one who had the detectors.||

[rocky trellis]

When I RP as a bandit, every area is dangerous to NPCs. Just pray you don't have something I want

Teaming up with Sultan for the stonks

(But if playing as an "upstanding" stalker, I ask them to escort me to dangerous locations 😂 )

[mortal geode]

I'm considering Pre-ordering the physical ultimate edition, was wondering when it'd be available, or what the price was.

https://www.stalker2.com/en/preorder/physical This one to be specific.

[indigo marsh]

I would have done that but that cost money

And also they were busy with finding Artifacts and said they couldn't go anywhere

[indigo marsh]

||Second squad was easier tho. They started outta svadovsk and I was walking ahead of them to scout for mutants and then I saw a chimera ||

And you know the rest

It's pretty easy to guess what happened

[rocky trellis]

just wait for them to finish finding that artifact, a bonus boon

[worn oar]

I did, and it's actually still ingame even now, but it's not registered in spawns and economy.

[worn oar]

GSC will notify you if the game becomes available. Just fill the form for now, and wait.

[loud gate]

#🖤┃s2-pre-order

[mortal geode]

lifesaver.

[finite dragon]

I eat Faust's fingers again.

[indigo marsh]

[granite mortar]

Im sorry but all freeplay mods except TeamLite are slop

[indigo marsh]

IWP?

[celest blaze]

Cotz???

[finite dragon]

[indigo marsh]

"I am blind yet it is you who cannot see"

[finite dragon]

[granite mortar]

Eh
Quests gud
But overall teamlite better

[indigo marsh]

What's so good about Teamlite?

Have heard a lot about it recently

But it just seems like buildo CoC

[celest blaze]

Nothing on cotz

[granite mortar]

Its freeplay with actual lore
Its basically story mod with the story taken out

[indigo marsh]

So... A mod?

[granite mortar]

So freeplay
But good

[indigo marsh]

I should try that after OLR

[celest blaze]

Still not canon lore though tbh

[finite dragon]

I don't particularly know what the mod players are talking about, so I'll silence.

[celest blaze]

Cotz on top

[indigo marsh]

I only got to the ||controller in the cordon roof|| in VoA

[granite mortar]

They stole that idea from Jekan frfr

[celest blaze]

Can't wait for November

[indigo marsh]

CoC is Call of Chernobyl, which is a Freeplay mod that combines maps of all 3 games. CotZ is Call of the Zone, which is CoC with dynamic quests and some cool new mechanics. OLR is Oblivion Lost remake, which aims to restore content and concepts for SoC back when it was still called Oblivion Lost.

[indigo marsh]

That's the simple version of the mods

[finite dragon]

Wow! amazing! There are a lot of them ~😯

I wish I could play the console version.

[jovial monolith]

I’ve been playing stalker SoC for the first time ever (first time playing stalker in generel) and ngl I’m obessed😭 it’s so fun

[cyan canopy]

good

SoC my beloved

[jovial monolith]

I didn’t think a game from 2007 would have me hooked like this ngl, game also has jumpscared me atleast 10 times

The portion where you encounter the first stomping guy? I was STRESSED

[fast stratus]

Guys im going to the place which I told you before that it looks like irl stalker

[cyan canopy]

did you complete Agroprom Underground quest?

[jovial monolith]

Yeah I did

[cyan canopy]

what worse mutant you encounter there?

[jovial monolith]

I ran from that one😼

[cyan canopy]

which one?

can you describe it?

[jovial monolith]

The one that pulls your mind

[cyan canopy]

Controller ehh? its actually easy to deal with it

just shoot it through its head

[normal ocean]

So are there any additional bugfixes in "Legends of the Zone"?

[jovial monolith]

By far the mutant that got the worst jump on me was in the city with the invisible mutant

[cyan canopy]

Bloodsuckers?

[normal ocean]

Like the broken Clear Sky Artifact respawn timer

[jovial monolith]

But the telekineses in x-18 had me on my toes bro

[jovial monolith]

Prolly yeah, they look like they would do that

[cyan canopy]

Poltergeist

did you try shoot it?

[jovial monolith]

Nah it just kinda kept happening but it never did damage

I thought it was just a level thing, was something I could shoot in there?

[cyan canopy]

yep you can shoot it

its kinda annoying if you let them lives

[jovial monolith]

Is it invisible cause I saw nothing lmao

[normal ocean]

Yup

[cyan canopy]

their forms is like flying electrical thing

what about Snorks? the one act like L4D Hunters but with GP5 Gasmask?

[jovial monolith]

Ohhhh I thought that was literally just a moving electricity anomaly

[jovial monolith]

I’m tired of mag dumping them :(

[cyan canopy]

try aim it through head

[celest goblet]

Bring a shotgun if you have issues killing them with rifles

[jovial monolith]

I do, they just move a lot

Usually I switch to my shotgun in my inventory yeah

[cyan canopy]

hmm Spas 12?

Buy or Looted by Bandits named Poker?

because Poker Spas12 is better

[jovial monolith]

Nope, double barrel

[cyan canopy]

Cheeki Breeki guns

[jovial monolith]

Haven’t found a spas 12

My main gun atm is the fast shooting ak74 with a sniper scope and grenade launcher attached

[cyan canopy]

Great weapon starting

but of course you need buy a lot of ammo for it

since it drains your ammo like candy

[jovial monolith]

I have like 300 shots most of the time

Though I’m in the tunnel after x-18 and having ammo problems

It’s where I left off last night

[cyan canopy]

Tunnel?

are you got the documents yet?

[jovial monolith]

Wdym

I mean probably yeah but I don’t remember

Last thing I did was turn off the brain scorcher

[cyan canopy]

ohh you almost complete soc right?

did you talk with Guide yet? because thats important guy

[jovial monolith]

I don’t know how close I am
to completion

[cyan canopy]

check your PDA task

[jovial monolith]

I just know I’m in the tunnel after x18

[jovial monolith]

Not at home

[cyan canopy]

wait hold on? X18?

[jovial monolith]

Yeah, where the brain scorcher is? Where ghost dead body is

[cyan canopy]

thats X16

[jovial monolith]

Ah

[cyan canopy]

not X18

[jovial monolith]

Potato patato I was tired last night lmao

[cyan canopy]

and its not brain scorcher

its Miracle Machine

[jovial monolith]

Miracle machine?

[cyan canopy]

thats the name of it

the brain thing in the labs

[jovial monolith]

I’ve heard the machine called brain scorcher like all game or am I crazy

[cyan canopy]

its same mechanics which is Zombified stalkers but|| Brain Scorcher is most advance when bordering the Centre Of The Zone ||

[sand fiber]

brain scorcher is the thingie at radar

(SoC red forest)

[jovial monolith]

So there’s two layers to zombifying people? Or different things that do it I guess

[sand fiber]

no just two different machines

[cyan canopy]

both little bit had same mechanics which is deep fried your brain

but Brain Scorcher is top of it since ||its possible to recruit fresh Monolith troops by it ||

[jovial monolith]

Ah I see

[cyan canopy]

you will learn after you completing the game and got the True Ending

[jovial monolith]

Actually side question, how do I get the gun the guy dropped in the dark forest when running and it was like a gift for being a good soldier or smth? Because it’s wayyyyh out of the map, the marker atleast

[cyan canopy]

since STALKER lore is deep like Marian Trench

[cyan canopy]

hmmm

[sand fiber]

dark... forest?

[jovial monolith]

I know the lore to the first and kindove second game

[cyan canopy]

you mean Red Forest right?

[jovial monolith]

I guess

[sand fiber]

oh my god are you playing anomaly

[cyan canopy]

what soldier though

[jovial monolith]

Yeah red forest

[jovial monolith]

No

[jovial monolith]

You get the mission in the bar and the guys like devastated

[cyan canopy]

AHH that

just kill him if you want too

if you really want some money or being psycopaths in games

[jovial monolith]

Lmao I wasn’t gonna turn in the wuest if it’s a good gun, I just literally cannot figure out for the life of me how to get it

[sand fiber]

ughhh you mean the quest where you have to find a lost gun for some dutier?

[jovial monolith]

Yeah, not the family “rifle” one though

[sand fiber]

a guy named Friar has it, he's either in Dark Valley or Agroprom/Undergrounds

[jovial monolith]

Dark valley is what I was thinking of

[jovial monolith]

Alr thank you, for some damn reason the map marker is like 6 miles away from any actual map

[sand fiber]

oh he's probably transitioning between locations then

you have to wait methinks, though this marker is unreliable

[jovial monolith]

It’s been like that for hours lmao

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[jovial monolith]

WOOO

[celest goblet]

The map marker for that quest is never where he actually is, except for maybe the moment he spawns in. But yes I always find him in Agroprom underground where you fight the bandits on your first visit

[normal ocean]

Not played SHOC in awhile but is true there's a finite amount of RPG-7/rifle grenades in the game?

Based on what I hear, it sounds like they're only available from non-respawning NPCs and stashes in vanilla

[quiet crest]

Can a stalker teach me how a gun works?

[gilded flower]

ah..my head is rn killing me

[gilded flower]

but call of the zone got a good quest lines

and Call of Chernobyl got a good story too if you play it

[fast stratus]

It fires bullet

[granite mortar]

For random freeplay quests standards, yeah
Also CoC has no storyline, its literally just visiting bunch of labs with no order

[gilded flower]

but you know the endding is kinda hot

you gonna fight a huge amount of monolith to go to generotors

then when you almost destroy C-Con
You gonna get teleported back to wish-granter and fight 10 waves of green ghosts

[still ridge]

No, no it doesn’t.

[granite mortar]

Booooooriiiiiing

[still ridge]

sandbox mods do not have good stories

[gilded flower]

okey whatever

[granite mortar]

Except for RTTN

[gilded flower]

as if Cop MAIN STORY was good

[still ridge]

Truuuueeee

[granite mortar]

Road to the Peak my beloved

[still ridge]

I stopped playing because I can’t open the doors in lab x-18 and I can’t clip through them either

[sand fiber]

it waaaas :333

[granite mortar]

[sand fiber]

play goldsphere or smthing idk

[still ridge]

Bruh

[sand fiber]

your standards for a good story are clearly uninformed

[granite mortar]

Rel rel

Peaksphere

[still ridge]

There’s minimal direction in CoP which is great, but in mods like CoC and Anomaly there’s hardly any direction at all

It works in CoP, it doesn’t work in most freeplay mode

[gilded flower]

Call of Misery : you're here to suffer

[granite mortar]

Yeah thats because CoP has goal and actual quests
Freeplay mods are random and game knowledge isnt rewarded in the slightest

TeamLite has handmade quests, no?
Entire C-Con is shilling that thing

[granite mortar]

Nah
CoM is peak
You can do mutant gambling
Just go to a random mutant spawn point, wait for them to show up, quicksave and finally, quickload until you get the mutants you wanted

[still ridge]

First play through of CoP is awesome

I def dropped like 40 hours on the my first time playing

[gilded flower]

We're forcing you to play Dead Air and Last Days

[still ridge]

Now that I think of it I probably 100 percented it

Or close to it

[granite mortar]

Jokes on you
Dead Air isnt THAT bad
And Last Day... Well, thats just Anomaly
But better

[hazy helm]

you can say anomaly is better than last day but the bar is not high

[gilded flower]

then , we're forcing yall to play SOCGA

[granite mortar]

Nah
LD better

[granite mortar]

If your stinky gunslinger tries to get anywhere close to my SoC installation I will break your kneecaps :3

[hazy helm]

like damn, this 500grams of shit is better than this kilo of shit

its still shit

[gilded flower]

Stinky , how about I Gunslinger your GoldSphare

[granite mortar]

Yeah but what if you want to use it as fertilizer for your garden?
Then the kilo is better

[granite mortar]

You try that and Ill lock you in Demosfens basement

[still ridge]

ALFA modmaker

[gilded flower]

I can cope unlike yalll

put me in grok basement and he won't even like to exist anylonger

[still ridge]

Put this guy in grok’s basement NOW!!

[granite mortar]

[still ridge]

Bro what mods did demosfen even make

Lost alpha right?

[granite mortar]

Demosfen

[granite mortar]

Thats Dezowave

Demosfen only made a mod called Demosfen

[still ridge]

Embed fail

[still ridge]

Wow

[still ridge]

What about the stuff he stole? 🤣

[worn oar]

[cyan canopy]

(not) True Stalker

[worn oar]

Stalker 2

[granite mortar]

Thats why I wrote "made" in Italics

[midnight oar]

Semi-True Stalker?

[cyan canopy]

Fake Stalker

[granite mortar]

Man these retards gotta start judging mods by more than graphics

[cyan canopy]

people these day only cares about "good" graphics

[granite mortar]

Why dont they just go play real life smh
The gameplay stinks but graphics are peak

[cyan canopy]

true and calling old games "crap" is worst insult ever

[desert prairie]

Is it normal for the ||crying|| Burer in ||X8|| to lock himself after I open the door for the first time?

[granite mortar]

Does this mean Im canonically Strelok?
Give me few more years and my hair will look like his

[cyan canopy]

V hair cut

[granite mortar]

Yes

[worn oar]

You'll need more than years? Perhaps a couple of lightning bolts hitting a truck you are being transported in

[granite mortar]

I want to get a truck one day
But not ZiL-130
Getting that here would be ass

[gilded flower]

I'm saving this

[celest goblet]

Some old games are still peak

[oblique thistle]

I'm replaying CoP and I'm having a great time

[indigo marsh]

CoP feels like a really good story mod

[worn oar]

I screenshoted it from Facebook

Also, I found a new artifact

[indigo marsh]

Wait Chymo is famous?

[worn oar]

Highly radioactive

And canon

You'll all see it in stalker 2

100%

[gilded flower]

THIS IS MAJOR DEGTIERV USS..I CAME HERE IN THE ZONE TO LOOK FOR FALLEN GOOBERS.. THAT'S MY MAIN STORY

[worn oar]

@broken latch

[indigo marsh]

Called major Deggie

And people don't suspect he is military

[finite dragon]

❓

[indigo marsh]

Catoactive

[finite dragon]

Wow! cute cat.

[granite mortar]

yes

im literally the alfamodmaker

[indigo marsh]

That's Susel tho

[oblique thistle]

Do not question the almighty Chymo

[normal ocean]

NGL I am half-surprised there isn't a Clear Sky mainquest overhaul mod considering how many exist for SHOC

Making it be less of a SHOC retread.

[lethal orchid]

its because you can't make peak any better

[oblique thistle]

CS is peak

[quiet crest]

yes thank you stalker

the bullet goes in magazine, and then gun eat out of magazine like baby, and says thank you by killing enemy. my ak is my baby, but a very deadly baby that kills enemy

[normal ocean]

I imagine they had time crunch but I wish CS used more of the cut areas from SHOC like Dead City

[granite mortar]

WRONG
Susel is false god

[cyan canopy]

Bayun in Tuxedo suit.

[worn oar]

[broken latch]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-meme-gif-4079065483340370050

[solid dome]

Once more and youre out

Whats Grokkin'? @granite mortar

[granite mortar]

errrm
What the Grokigma

[solid dome]

Holy Grok, what Grokappened?

[granite mortar]

something very Grokful

[solid dome]

Um, what in the Grok is Grokkin' with Chymoman? @worn oar

[solid dome]

You're being very Grokubtle about it

[granite mortar]

DAHHH
Its Grokwind time

[solid dome]

Grokxplain please

Somebody Grokill me on the case please

[granite mortar]

[fast stratus]

Your in Monolith?

[indigo marsh]

Disinformation campaign by GAMMAlarpers

[clever needle]

Windows Vista = Windows 7

[fast stratus]

Yes

Guys... Let's invade sweet baby

[broken latch]

Could you clarify that

[fast stratus]

Let's protest against it

[normal ocean]

No

[quiet crest]

Yes.

[fast stratus]

Have you find wish granter yet?

[quiet crest]

No

[fast stratus]

If you find it wish one thing for me

[quiet crest]

?

What would that be? Anything for a fellow.

[oblique thistle]

Eradicate all bitches

If I can't get one then none can

[pearl jacinth]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

that boy skif WILL be leaning. big win

[fast stratus]

Wish that I can have so much money I could buy Activision and shutdown every cod from 2019 to 2024 and remaster back ops one and two

[oblique thistle]

The core strength training will be crazy

[quiet crest]

That may aswell be my own wish. Great minds think alike, and thus, this will be done.

[pearl jacinth]

core workout:

twenty sets of Q E Q E Q E Q E Q E

[fast stratus]

Yes I agree, or I could buy those woke companies and fire woke devs

[quiet crest]

That aswell.

[fast stratus]

I would remove dustborn from stores too

[quiet crest]

What is a dust born?

[oblique thistle]

A horrific creation

[normal ocean]

A pretty bad game I hear but I don't keep up

[oblique thistle]

One the C-Con is even afraid to touch

[fast stratus]

Also with infinite money I would likely buy gsc gamewold and release stalker on disc for pc.

The characters are so cri ge that I can't even look at them

[quiet crest]

You have my vote.

[oblique thistle]

Where the hell can I find meat chunk in CoP 😔

[fast stratus]

Nice

[fast stratus]

Butchery

[oblique thistle]

Aight

[worn oar]

@pseudo rivet

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1276585980823994452/ooooh.gif

[worn oar]

[pearl jacinth]

there should be one where it's the entire navy seals copy pasta

[normal ocean]

Still crazy to me that they brought back Scar

[finite dragon]

HoC's Scar also has the madness to draw a heart mark on the wall in someone else's blood.

[solid dome]

Wassup, Samz

[normal ocean]

Not much

Playing BO6 beta

[normal ocean]

I do wonder if he's going to mentally messed up from all the emissions he's survived

[solid dome]

Sheesh, another one in the CoD pit

[normal ocean]

I am enjoying it

[normal ocean]

buggyness aside, I find camping with an LMG to be surprisingly effective lmao

[finite dragon]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[broken latch]

https://tenor.com/view/threat-gif-11155022380224690678

[normal ocean]

Oh yeah, dude has scorched brain and I'm looking fowards to it

I am curious what'll happen if he meets Strelok, like is going to basically "activate" like a Monolith sleeper agent

[fast stratus]

Monolith is based

[nimble spruce]

Just a silly goose

Absolutely vibing in the bright side of the Zone

Feels like he will be involved in some big choices regarding Zone’s fate

I wonder if it will come down to a choice between all three of the previous protagonists

So Scar would be pro zone, degtyarev anti zone and strelok somewhere in the middle

[sand fiber]

i hope stalker 2 lets you kill Sergiy Grigorovich

[finite dragon]

I eat Faust's fingers again.
I've to make that gif.

[solid dome]

I hope STALKER 2 does Sergiy Grygorovych foot massage

[sand fiber]

i hope stalker 2 laughs as it rips through our sinful forms

[pseudo rivet]

@desert prairie
I just tested out the AKM-74/2 in CoP (Vanilla). It took 75 shots for it to lose its first bar of reliability. Combine that with single-fire and accuracy upgrades and you've got a really durable weapon

[normal ocean]

So like Pathologic kind of?

[nimble spruce]

Didn’t think about it initially but kinda, yeah

[normal ocean]

Personally I'm predicting a "Make a new C-Con" ending as a "sacrifice" to contain the zone

[nimble spruce]

Sounds so boring though

[sand fiber]

that's not like Pathologic at all

[nimble spruce]

Like just maintaining the status quo

[normal ocean]

||Where you, others, possibly needing new people as aging/such would probably kill you eventually in even in stasis as a constant sacrifice to contain it, I do admit it's probably a bit boring but I can see it.||

[normal ocean]

Three protagonists who all have their own idea of what to do, only difference is Stalker 2 in thise case would have a 4th protag for the actual choice.

[nimble spruce]

Mfw they pull a “it was just a dream” on us and it turns out it was all Strelok’s drunken delirium while he’s dying from liver failure

[sand fiber]

i mean people having their own ideas is all media ever

[normal ocean]

Yeah duh, I'm not saying it's unique to patho

[granite mortar]

quicktime event bossfight
if you fail he drinks pepsi, beats you up and drives off into sunset on roller skates

[grim palm]

[worthy lagoon]

Deggy

Even Skif has his own ideas

It's normal

[normal ocean]

I have no idea what that means

[worthy lagoon]

[untold karma]

Good afternoon

How's it going

[normal ocean]

Enjoying the Black Ops 6 beta

[indigo marsh]

Build and release marked one

Or rather Messer and marked one

[opaque parrot]

Tell me about it, for the love of God

[gilded remnant]

Can't wait to buy the roadside picnic book

And read it🤯

[naive fog]

It's a good book just a bit short imo

Very good book though

[normal ocean]

Enjoying it mostly, it's the free beta

[dense hatch]

how's the zombies?

[normal ocean]

Not available

[lean quiver]

Imagine if the anomalies were as deadly as the ones in Roadside Picnic

[naive fog]

People would finally walk and not sprint around memorised anomalies and radiation patches

||also imagine the web anomaly in game. You walk through a door and die a day later lol||

[dense hatch]

it'd be the same without permadeath

[celest blaze]

suprised cheekibreeki would cover pro Ztard russian nationalist garbage ( anomaly custom )

just saw his video lol

[celest goblet]

His video went up like the day that knowledge started spreading around. So just bad timing

I mean I guess IDK if he would care either way

[clever needle]

He judges the mod, not the people behind it

[celest blaze]

both should be judged

plus anomaly mid

[desert prairie]

Sounds about right without mods. Still, accuracy drop for just one or two bars of durability is terrible

[karmic vale]

Stalker anomaly ngl has its good additions

Tbh the story is unique and actually is entertaining

[cyan canopy]

not.. really

[karmic vale]

It is interesting to see how with such limited resources they managed to make use of the falling down in x-18 animation 3 times

[cyan canopy]

is like reboot version of all three games

[karmic vale]

Its good as a refresher

You play all three games, your forget , then you remember

Although the game is filled with (in my opinion) unnessecary items that take file space. (Looking at the drugs, different types of cigarettes,cigars, vodka, junk items, gun parts, the unnessecary addition of different shaders, the also very unnessecary addition of mechanics that cause crashes to occur on frequent ocasions)

The old world addin basically highlights what i love most from the og games

Not the 4k ultra hd (crappy looking) high file storage space taking abomination that anomaly is

Not to mention the degenerate modders adding the so called “jizz gun” in the addon section {its real and i said that live on somebodies twitch}

[lethal orchid]

Lmao wdym

The story is bootycheeks

[dense hatch]

it's a "best of" collection of quests for the living legends questline

aka just most of the scripted sections with minimal scripting

and the sin questline was kinda meh

[karmic vale]

Yeah i agree

The sin questline would be better if lowkey it didnt crash

[dense hatch]

I liked how it used limansk but it was a little annoying at times for stuff like that

crashes, "find the PDA on the random unmarked corpse"

[lethal orchid]

Admittedly I didn't get that far

[karmic vale]

I found a way to get past it

But once i got to the limansk hospital it all went to crap

I saved as many times as i could

I saved in 2 minute timespans . Because anytime more then 1 to 5 minutes it will crash

[rose moth]

Best mod pack for COP, go

[lethal orchid]

Spatial Anomaly

[dense hatch]

CoP complete

[karmic vale]

Nice

Call if pripyat and shadow of chernobyl imo can be played vanilla but cs crashes upon start up so you are forced to mod it

[indigo marsh]

For most people it doesn't (Unless windows 11 user)

And it is not supposed to happen

A large amount of people who have win 11 have issues with CS

[dense hatch]

CS is also just kinda unstable

[indigo marsh]

After playing it with and without SRP, I felt that instability of Clear sky was exaggerated. But now I feel a bit lucky

[dense hatch]

SRP helps but I've had more issues with CS freezing compared to crashing

freezing is the main issue because crashes aren't a huge deal

[indigo marsh]

I have had one crash with CS unprompted but the rest were anomalies

Like the flame one.

[dense hatch]

ohhh

I just had issues with grenades randomly freezing the game when thrown

[indigo marsh]

But it usually worked even when I entered the flame. Just some minor freezing

I think that was a graphics issue tho more so a clear sky issue

[dim topaz]

I loved it when I had to wait in the swamp for ages because CS wouldnt start capturing territories, only to later look it up and find that you need to KILL A FRIENDLY SQUAD in order for the game to spawn one that's not bugged

Classic Clear Sky moment

Or when the bunker in Yantar wouldnt open even after killing all the zombies nearby

[pearl jacinth]

hello zone. its ya boy.

[hits an absolutely INSANE whip and nae nae]

[karmic vale]

I have windows 10

[opaque vortex]

I stopped playing clear sky on ps5 cos it either always crashed or bugged out when you get ambushed by 2 bandits looking for fangs pda shame cos I was enjoying it up until then

[lilac lily]

From what I've read it was pretty unstable on launch, but most of the problems were fixed afterwards

That's where the reputation comes from, CS is also the most crash happy out of the three from my experience

[granite mortar]

What monster would ruin peak sky with stinky mods

[pearl jacinth]

odd; i haven't had any issues.

(windows 10, gtx 1070, amd ryzen 7 3700x, 32gb ram)

[rose moth]

guys i think my school is holding a talent show and i want to play he was a good stalker

[pearl jacinth]

go for it

[rose moth]

lol i really want to, i need to find out the date

[pseudo rivet]

It's nearly identical if not entirely identical, actually

[tacit otter]

I had I think one crash on my CS playthrough on PS5.

[worn oar]

[wraith socket]

What doors do you need to open?

[wraith socket]

My first game of Call of Pripyat was 880 hours.

[rocky trellis]

I spent a lot of time just having fun not worrying too much about the main quest. Hunting artifacts, occasionally some night hunt of "big" game (blood suckers, Chimeras, Controllers, Burers or whatever I happen to find), exploring around, doing every side quest

Although blood suckers are not too hard to kill in close combat, it's always kinda spooky how quickly roles of hunter and hunted can get swapped

[worn oar]

Morning stalkers

[worn oar]

Trolling?

[rocky trellis]

It's always a good morning when a blowout happens at night. A good day!

2 hours later...

"Shit shit shit 2nd blowout!" Always fun to scramble to try and find a shelter 😂

Hopefully that stays the same and not only scripted blowouts.

Although, having both scripted and random blowouts would be fun

[oblique thistle]

Good afternoon stalker

[rocky trellis]

What? Afternoon? Tis is not possibru!

[pseudo rivet]

@wraith socket
Decided to climb that work of art and get up the ladder on that building in Pripyat. It was hard to do but I eventually managed to do it

It's weird how the ground textures of the areas out of bounds are actually accurate to the PDA's map

[red spruce]

GAMMA players spending 13 hours carefully adjusting their 372-part modpack (it now crashes 4 times a session instead of 5)

[naive fog]

Don't forget about the game just not even wanting to start after tweaking the mods

[red spruce]

In the meantime, Trilogy players get 120FPS on a Block of expired cheese

I love hating on GAMMA in the morning

[worthy lagoon]

Play Legends Return

[cyan canopy]

me too

kill Anomaly Custom and GAMMA

[red spruce]

Oh hi there Kuro

[naive fog]

Honestly tho Climbing and making your own hideout is cool. Still tho I've been off gamma for months now

[cyan canopy]

guys,wanna hit player active time like Raising The Bar (Half-Life) was for Stalker CoP?

damn my cat stepped on my keyboard

[naive fog]

[worthy lagoon]

Hallo

[rose moth]

.

guys im going to bBuild an akm

[granite mortar]

Its not hating if its reasonable

[rose moth]

im gonna do it and yall aint stopping me

[granite mortar]

Trophy AKM?

[granite mortar]

You can literally do that in OWA with single extra addon

[naive fog]

Holy shit looks like I'm going off to find it

[normal ocean]

So turns out Black Ops 6 has a "Strelok" laser for the AK

[worn oar]

He's off duty

Probably asleep

[normal ocean]

Wonder if that's a possible STALKER reference.

[hazy helm]

its not

Strelok means Gunslinger

[worn oar]

Nope

[normal ocean]

Yeah I know but I've not really seen it used outside of STALKER

[worn oar]

It's basically as vasim said. It doesn't mean out strelok

[normal ocean]

Especially since it's the only attachment that actually has a non-english name as far as I can tell.

[hazy helm]

thats like saying Pistoleiro is a stalker ref

and maybe you havent seen it used outside stalker bc you dont read or see eastern lang stuff?

[normal ocean]

I don't but BO6 is an english language game.

Half-Life didn't invent the name "Freeman" but STALKER still uses it to reference Half-Life

[earnest dawn]

Does anyone know when Stalker 1 is going to get fixed? My game is still crashing when I to enter Prypiat

[hazy helm]

as if BO6 and other games dont use transliterations to spcie up names

as opposed to putting everything a laser N1 and laser N2

[normal ocean]

They didn't tho

All the other lasers have generic names.

Literally for the magazine types, it's "Fast Mags 1" and "Fast Mags 2"

Obviously I can't say for sure but this is the only transliterated laser for the AK.

Others are just "Steady Aim Laser" and similar generic names used on the other weapon types

[hazy helm]

that is like calling every single game with a specific gun a reference to another bc you cant be sure
the name strelok is generic, it is not exclusive

[dim topaz]

I want a katamari damacy mod for stalker 2

[cyan canopy]

[latent flame]

Zaton overrun? Finally, food for AK.

[glossy blade]

[granite coral]

Beard let's gooooooooo!

[normal ocean]

I guess helping bandits in Zaton is canon now /s

[loud gate]

[loud gate]

why would it be?

[cyan canopy]

huh?

Beard is Loner side dude 💀

[loud gate]

Bandits took over Skdavosk

[normal ocean]

I'm joking since since it says bandits were out of control

[hazy helm]

good

[normal ocean]

Beard literally had to leave it seems.

[cyan canopy]

finally

[normal ocean]

I don't know if Skdavosk is in Stalker 2 but it would be interesting to see your former "safe area" complete with a container from COP as instead basically a base you raid

[ornate rampart]

it was one of the 2 possible outcomes, yet can't blame people to think stalkers would keep it, since it's the most common route for CoP 1st playthrough

I took that route too

[hazy helm]

skadovsk sucked

[cyan canopy]

nah screw Bandits

[ornate rampart]

and have yet to do a 2nd one as bandits

[fresh geode]

heresy

[normal ocean]

I can't wait to do Clear Sky bandits when I play it again! (I'm not)

[loud gate]

Lore-wise, it doesn't really make sense for Degtyarev to help anyone.

[hazy helm]

Bread couldve literally used the Ranger Station, the Waste Processing Facility or the depot close to the circus anomaly, the old barge is literally the worst place to have a hub in

[fresh geode]

ohhh..in that regard i agree

[main tangle]

Skadovsk is confirmed to be in S2 yea from the Time of Opportunities Trailer

[ornate rampart]

kinda? he needed info on where to find the landing helis and had to adapt and do work for others, like owl etc

[normal ocean]

I am curious if Vehicles will return, not usable ones but the STALKER series sorta got rid of enemy vehicles.

SHOC had APCs and Helicopters, Clear Sky just had one helicopter and Pripyat had none if I recall.

I'm not expecting to get in an APC blaring bandit radio as I run over dudes but I am wondering if we'll face off against any.

[hazy helm]

CoP had helis just not ones you shot at

you wont be able to drive any vehicle

[cyan canopy]

is it Zaton merged with Great Swamps?

[normal ocean]

Yeah I'm not expecting driving on the player's end but NPCs could use the BTR/Hind.

[main tangle]

yep

[loud gate]

No, not really

[ornate rampart]

I hope we won't get any vehicles tbh, because it's like sucking out the feeling of travelling just for QoL purposes

[main tangle]

yeah not exactly merged

[cyan canopy]

thank god

that probably lore problem when merged eachother

[hazy helm]

they already said they wont add drivable vehicles

quite a while ago

[loud gate]

It's more of like..
You have Swamps and Zaton who make Great Swamps

[ornate rampart]

yeah, I hope that stays, was just saying

[normal ocean]

As I said lol, I'm not expecting player vehicles, I'm just curious about enemy vehicles since those do exist in the previous games.

Clear Sky Hospital moment.