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[untold salmon]

Tbf to lebedev

Scar should've died at the first one lol

He just out silly'd the zone

I really wanna know what his faction is all about

[finite dragon]

He is in a scientific one?

far too goober to be killed by the zone

Maybe some mebers of his faction are CS remanants

Since it would make sense due to their past

[untold salmon]

We don't know if it's sciencey, just that he opposes ward

[finite dragon]

I wouldn't be surprised if nimble is in scar faction

[untold salmon]

Nimble my beloved, return me oh sleepy little guy

[finite dragon]

what order do you guys think is best for the games? was thinking I'd do a quick run through of all three before release just to jog everything back into place

release sequence be damned, what's your preferred order?

[finite dragon]

Im just on the last game of my run

[hollow prawn]

God I love getting into a pistol fight with a Loner because I am too lazy to reload my Malyuk

[untold salmon]

I play in order of events, clear sky first, cop last, that's how I played it originally

[finite dragon]

that's my plan, then

I did it in reverse since cs is the longest

[raw pike]

idk about scientific, seems faith based in his trailer

[untold salmon]

Hell yeah

[finite dragon]

I think I can get all done in less than a week, ez

[untold salmon]

Scar? Are you thinking of strider

[raw pike]

Yeah Scar

[sleek hound]

Clear sky??

[untold salmon]

Scar doesn't seem faith based

[sleek hound]

Is it really?

[finite dragon]

Ye since i like doing faction wars

[raw pike]

He's going on about this "shining zone" that exists beyond the "dark zone"

sounds like near-Monolithic talk, which would fit with his double-emission exposure

[sleek hound]

I always thought cs was the shortest

[untold salmon]

Oh right, fair

[echo cave]

Clear sky glaze has been on the rise

[untold salmon]

Good

[sleek hound]

Clear sky was the only one that I actually beaten when I was a kid

[finite dragon]

You can pretty much do a speedrun route on cop and soc but cs is more tricky

[sleek hound]

I was too scared to ho through the labs on SoC

[finite dragon]

Due to how the upgrade works

[sleek hound]

So I saw online that cs was the least scary lmao

[finite dragon]

Labs still pretty much scary

[hollow prawn]

Nooooooooooooooooooo
The Anomaly ate my Malyuk

[raw pike]

"malyum"

[finite dragon]

"Marked One????? WHAT THE HE-" BOOOOOOOOM

[hollow prawn]

Listen all

Today has been the shittiest day of my crappy life so far

I am not even going to warn you

You know it all by heart anyways

Best thing in all of SoC

[finite dragon]

one of my favorite monologues

in gaming history

[hollow prawn]

My favourite part is how he goes from "might aswell warn you,im having a crappy day as always,no booze,I expect everyone to do their job right otherwise heads will roll" to "Listen all
Today has been the shittiest day of my crappy life so far
I am not even going to warn you
You know it all by heart anyways"

[plain canyon]

I guess the real stalkers were the friends we made along the way

or something like that

[sleek hound]

The artifacts on the swamp are supposed to respawn right?

[dim topaz]

Agroprom with the bloodsucker always scared th sh out of me as a kid. Same with Yantar and the zombies

[sleek hound]

both that agroprom bloodsucker and the bloodsucker nest on cop have been living rent free in my head since I was a kid lmao

[hollow prawn]

The Agroprom underground Bloodsucker is a certified classic

[dim topaz]

Even as an adult with the knowledge on how to kill them without letting them touch me, i always mentally prepare myself before Agroprom lol "this mf is coming right when I go past here"

[hollow prawn]

Pull a sawn off shotgun on it

[frigid monolith]

So. When is the review embargo being lifted

[sleek hound]

Ive seen ppl saying that theres a 50% of spawning a stone blood on the swamps, I started a new save 4 times already and its always a meat chunk

[sharp maple]

24 hours before is my guess - like most games.

[lucid pagoda]

It is annoying but keep going eventually you should get it. Clear Sky was definitely the most painful of the OGs to 100% with artifact spawning problems

[native ibex]

Kot?

[sleek hound]

just got it for the 1st time

Finished the all artifacts achiev, now I missing meat constructor, I thought the artifacts were supposed to respawn after an emssion right?

Ive been to the swamps a few times on my playthru but they never came back

[lucid pagoda]

word my strategy for meat constructor was to cycle new save for Stone Blood then speedrun to Yantar for that Eye (of course pop a save right before you travel there because artifacts are spawned upon first time map entry) and you should have picked up a Meat chunk & Soul along the way either between Garbage, Dark Valley, Agroprom of course don't forget to save before you visit any area for the first time

[lucid pagoda]

& then I'm pretty sure artifacts respawning after emissions is only in vanilla Call of Pripyat. I think that there is just a crazy long timer for artifact respawns in Clear Sky and maybe not everywhere can do so

[sleek hound]

oof i guess Ill move to CoP then, I wanted to 100% all of them before 2

[lucid pagoda]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/WyYSYFz0dR the gsc link it goes to is dead but this sounds about right

[sleek hound]

but play thru the hole game for a 3rd in a row might be to much for me lmao

dont wanna burn myself out befre 2 comes out

[hollow prawn]

Meanwhile me beating out SoC for the 3rd time and CoP for the 4th or 5th time

[lucid pagoda]

Don't lose faith in yourself brother was able to do so in a few added hours though of course drags on longer than you'd expect lol, My regular playthrough I set myself up grinding so hard having like fully upgraded Seva and whatnot was a trip to go back speedrun feel like I'm playing as a dirty renegade just doing bare minimum from place to place

[hollow prawn]

1 time was enough for me with CS

[tight roost]

Do we know what time they gonna Release it gotta know if I'm pulling an all nighter or not to start downloading it when it unlocks

[lucid pagoda]

Does feel good sittin here with Legends of the Zone at 100% completion ready for 2, probably gonna be a while before I see full completion on that though lol

[sleek hound]

I envy you man lol

[west dagger]

I’m hoping somebody adds a mod where we can have gloves and boots as equipment that affect gameplay like helmets or armor.

Dunno why but I’ve always wanted that for stalker when I play it

[thin garden]

Do you think my 3080 rtx + i7 11700k will do the job correctly or need to go with a 4080 rtx ?

[sharp maple]

what res?

[west dagger]

I’d imagine at 1080p you’ll be fine

Cause I got a 4070 super ti and an i9 and ima be playing at 1080p lmao

[lucid pagoda]

Call of Pripyat also has its fair share of 100%-ing annoyances having to make multiple saves for the sake of playing out different scenarios in favor of one side or another, and then some longer segments of having to replay based on specific achievements, keeping track of whose pdas I had to sell to who, and what side missions were prerequisites for others, etc was definitely a challenge in its own right too. Was a grind but so worth it at least to me lol, huge fan of the series but also Xbox is my favored platform so was ecstatic at revisiting them on console before S2. Admittedly I started this journey like back in June & was spending about a month playing each one, lol then actually went on and bought a steamdeck to play Anomaly when the news of the delay happened because I finished up CoP at the end of August and was soooo ready to stay in the Zone I'm gonna goon so hard on the 20th

[lucid pagoda]

also hoping for midnight local time release but currently says 11:00 a.m. on Xbox

[sharp maple]

yeah i think it's a global release

[thin garden]

1440p 2560x1440

[sharp maple]

DLSS and high settings, you'll be fine probably

or a mix of high and ultra

[thin garden]

I hope so !

I order a physical version il think i c'ant play day one but few days after

[broken latch]

In CS you have to be 3 hours inside the same level without leaving it or the timer resets

[worthy lagoon]

@pseudo rivet @loud gate ay

[pseudo rivet]

Ayy

[sharp maple]

surely that also means they can die to anomalies right?

[worthy lagoon]

Yes

[west dagger]

Free loot

[pseudo rivet]

This also means that you could act as a Bandit, wait for them to get an artifact and then pay for the artifact with lead

[ornate sand]

We are soo close i can taste the radiation

[loud gate]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561153801114091521/1079147268575346788/cattoastingexpanded.gif

[tiny olive]

Why is a Burer called burer?

Other mutants are self explanatory, but the burer is a weird case

Controller - can control minds
Snorks - gas mask -> looks like snorkels -> something something german
Bloodsucker - sucks blood
Chimera - appearance has multiple combined bodies
Pyrogeist - fire
Poltergeist - ghostlike, lifts stuff and throws around
Psydog - dog with psychic powers (can't do gangnam style)

Burer - ???
An...

anomaly?

Anomaly in naming convention?

Seriously why though?

Etymology?

[north flume]

Do we know a release time table yet?

[worthy lagoon]

Because it buries you under a pile of stuff

[lucid pagoda]

bure: a moderate yellowish brown that is redder, lighter, and stronger than Bismarck brown, bronze, or maple sugar and lighter, stronger, and slightly redder than cinnamon brown

[grizzled sphinx]

hey just pre ordered, should I be concerned if the game is hella buggy?

im still recovering from cyber punk 2077

[sharp maple]

seems like u answered ur own question.

[marsh cliff]

Does anyone find it weird that they list Arc A750 on the low 1080 30fps category tho
That card is 2 times stronger than GTX1060 lol

[granite mortar]

Much bildo

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[sharp maple]

either it didnt quite make it into to the next category, or intel gpu's run like garbage.

[granite mortar]

Intels cards are slowed down by drivers, the performance will probably be better with drivers adapted for the game

[marsh cliff]

Hopefully tho

[dense raft]

Intel gpu's have bad drivers and run like garbage

[marsh cliff]

I do feel a bit skeptical on Stalker 2 performance tho
I feel like It could likely to run like ass due to optimization tho

[sharp maple]

sounds about right

[marsh cliff]

But hopefully they will prove me wrong

I mean Dead Island 2 System Requirements infos technically look pretty much the same with Stalker 2

Dead Island 2 also says gtx1060 can only run 30 fps and 1080p on minimum settings

But when you actually play that game...GTX1060 can actually go above 60fps without using any upscaling technology

[frigid monolith]

dead island 2 is highly optimized

[grim palm]

[marsh cliff]

Yeah they did an insane job on optimizing that game
UE4 btw...But barely any traversal stuttering

It does use a lot of GPU memory tho. But that makes sense because the graphic of the game is nearly photo realistic

[frigid monolith]

Ofc it will run like shite. Its the stutter engine 5 with baked in lumen

[marsh cliff]

Damn.....So no preload for Steam

Ahhhhhh. 160GB no preload wtf

[frigid monolith]

yeah.... Thought the same..

[abstract needle]

5 days leeeets gooo

[young plume]

For anyone still looking for collectors/ultimate edition !!! German Amazon still has pre-orders. I’m not sure if it’s allowed to put random links in here so I’ll be careful here. German urls end with .de

[marsh cliff]

The more It's getting closer to the release day...The more fishy It starts to feel for some reasons
Don't get me wrong. I love Stalker 2. But something ain't right with the benchmarks, System Reqs and the preload thingy

Man...Just be good. It's the one and final Game I've been looking forward to this year

[abstract needle]

you prob have ptsd from cyberpunk

people have played this game and said there are no problems

[marsh cliff]

Everyone has PTSD from Cyberpunk haha

[abstract needle]

[stray zodiac]

btw speaking of performance, GSC fork of UE is based on 5.0 right? is there possibility that they did not backport performance improvements from 5.4 5.5?

[blissful dome]

Took the day off on Wednesday, got a bottle of smirnoff and gonna take a shot whenever I gotta in the game lol

[humble pivot]

It was running good on Xbox so it's promising

[marsh cliff]

5.1 I think
But GSC heavily customized UE5 for their own uses to the point they call it UE5 GSC themselves too

They said it in one of the interview

[native ibex]

Guys

[stray zodiac]

i dont like these media statements as they are often misrepresented by public, especially assumptions about what the heavy customizations mean

[native ibex]

Can we get some weird mutants? Docile, even

[loud vale]

optimized to me will mean a rtx 3060 can run it high settings 60 fps

[frigid monolith]

No preload might be to prevent pirating or any other sort of crascking/leaking... Yeah. Im also still very skeptical bro

[marsh cliff]

😭 Optimized to me means when you can run a game just fine on Native

[native ibex]

No, that's more in the $6000 range, maybe come back after you've borrowed from Papa Todd Howard

[stray zodiac]

wrong, anything u download on steam = encrypted, released game = decrypting while downloading, preloading = just downloading and not decrypting, key to decrypt preloaded files is released on release date

[sharp maple]

optimized to me means i can run it at 4k 360 fps at ultra settings with a gtx 770.

[native ibex]

Based

[marsh cliff]

Optimized means they should have stick to UE4 and stay the f away from UE5
UE5 ew

[signal bronze]

Everyone is definitely going to have to run either FSR or DLSS to get a decent frame rate in this game from what I saw from the Benchmarks at 1440p max settings with a 4090, i9-14900k, 64G Ram on Native you would get 75 FPS, but with DLSS up to 145 FPS.

[stray zodiac]

i like visuals of UE5 but damn the performance is awful

[signal bronze]

I was hoping to run the game at native on my 7900xtx but I guess thats not happening ☠️

[native ibex]

Ass

[stray zodiac]

especially on ue <5.4 as that brought some improvements

[loud vale]

I have an xtx too, depends on what resolution

[sharp maple]

max settings as well, we don't know the difference in performance between med/high and ultra.

[loud vale]

I hope for 90 fps max settngs 1440p

[native ibex]

Think it'll be a low settings and high resolution for me

[marsh cliff]

Almost every single UE5 game runs like garbage but Fornite lol
But I mean Fortnite is made by Epic who created UE5...So It's no brainer It will run well
Still the majority of UE5 games on the market run like garbage

[signal bronze]

But 75fps native only with the top of the line system is wild.

[native ibex]

It's definitely abusive to the consumer

A remnant of many a neglectful Ukrainian upbringing

[signal bronze]

4090 is quite a bit faster than my 7900xtx, so i'm guessing i'll be running at 1440p high settings and some level of FSR

[marsh cliff]

It's so rare these days to see an optimized game lol
The latest one is Dragon Age Veilguard which I heard, is very optimized for PC overall

[native ibex]

That's actually an interactive sermon, but

[sharp maple]

one of the only decent things about it I've heard lol

[zenith sapphire]

Is lossless scaling gonna do any good for the game?

[stray zodiac]

u mentioned fortnite and thats where developers criticism comes to play, EG is releasing UE tech based on fortnite, or its usage, stopping support of some standard HW optimisations and instead relying on those fancy lumen tech, nanite, generated LOD levels (that sucks)

[frigid monolith]

Probs heavy ghosting

[frigid monolith]

well then...

[marsh cliff]

😭 And You know what is more ironic
I've heard they're planning to make UE6 in the near future lol

[stray zodiac]

https://steamdb.info/blog/steam-download-system/ its explained here very well

[signal bronze]

I'm thinking max settings will add some type of ray tracing so thats probably what will cause huge performance hits.. i'm going to definitely be disabling any RT options.

[native ibex]

I do hope for AI agent-driven optimizations.

[stray zodiac]

i asked if benchmarks included RT, did not get an answer 😦

[marsh cliff]

Properly built-in Software UE5 Lumen which is very taxing for PC in general

Hopefully we can turn it off which would save up a lot of performance

[native ibex]

6090 only, 15fps

[tough anvil]

They told me they cancelled everything. Ultimated Physical NL

[stray zodiac]

UE4 can look amazing, frostbite looks amazing and has goodlike performance

ue5 is a potato

[signal bronze]

UE5 requires nasa spec level computers to run ☠️

[marsh cliff]

I've heard someone from Steam got banned for asking are these system requirements and expected performances meant to run with upscaling and FG tech lol

[frigid monolith]

Max settings is almost always very gimmick.. Just run high

[zenith sapphire]

Gonna have to mod SoC graphics into the game to get good fps.

[sterile spruce]

fox engine is great, just remember mgs5 and how well was optimized

[signal bronze]

grayzone warfare runs like ass too and thats ue5

[native ibex]

Hey, those graphics are enough for @granite mortar

[sterile spruce]

or decima from death stranding

[young plume]

Putting it out there again. Seemed like no one really noticed

[marsh cliff]

Tim Sweeney Gaming industry biggest scam
One single man singlehandedly destroys the gaming industry by releasing an overhyped, piece of turd technology

[native ibex]

Yeah, but backwards studio forgot ultrawide support. Half Life 1 has that crap.

[sterile spruce]

i played death stranding with rtx 2060 on 4k with easy

[stray zodiac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXg3wUmzwQ
look at visuals vs fps, look at whats possible

[sterile spruce]

now i will play stalker 2 on 1080p with 4070

[signal bronze]

Black ops 6 looks suprisingly good on max settings and runs perfect with high frames. Not sure what engine they use though

[sterile spruce]

hehe but i dont mind just give me stalker 2

[frigid monolith]

Never understood why people have to run ''Ultra'' You can barely tell a difference and ''Ultra'' cuts your fps in half.

[stray zodiac]

cod uses their in-house engine for ages

[sterile spruce]

agree

[sharp maple]

IW engine, basically the cod engine

[marsh cliff]

An heavily modified version of IW engine
Pretty much a relic at this point

But still mile better than Bethesda Skyrim Engine lol

[sterile spruce]

anyone heard about Ray of Hope?

[sharp maple]

which was also originally based on id tech 3

[sterile spruce]

they are trying mix ue5 and xray

[signal bronze]

That explains how their games are always optimized i guess

[sterile spruce]

mutant engine

[stray zodiac]

holy moly the starfield engine made me angry, constant loading screen, animations and other annoying stuff thats otherwise non existent since 2010

[marsh cliff]

In house game engine is the best
Sadly It will take a lot of time and company resource to even make one

[zenith sapphire]

That sounds terrifying, but id love to try it

[marsh cliff]

Then you have to account for the fact that with every new dev gets hired, they have to teach them to use the in-house engine

[frigid monolith]

Its still their ''creation engine'' after all

[signal bronze]

ue5 + xray = minus -50 fps ☠️

[stray zodiac]

dont think u can "mix engines" 😄

[sterile spruce]

https://youtu.be/5BmCbXrDRXw?si=64RUy-T4phQmB1AQ

[zenith sapphire]

With how anomalous the xray engine is i wouldnt be surprised if they really did figure out how

[marsh cliff]

more days...And we all shall learn if Stalker 2 runs like shit or nah

[stray zodiac]

nah it genuinely doesnt work, i dont have experience with game development, but im still software dev

[sterile spruce]

yeah modification and implememtation on duty

still cool idea

[signal bronze]

i'm putting my money on it will run like crap based on the benchmarks seen so far and i'm sure I will spend hours trying to tweak the settings to get the right balance

[zenith sapphire]

First handful of mods will probably be patches and optimizations if the worst happens

If we get the modkit day 1

[stray zodiac]

ultra low performance mod

[zenith sapphire]

Potato mod would go crazy

[sterile spruce]

hehe i dont care, just want go to the zone again hehe

last night i went to update mode, update bios, driver, oc ddr5

i am even thinking about cryosheet for more oc for cpu

[marsh cliff]

Could be
But I mean The benchmark was made with all settings cranked to highest which could potentially tank performance a lot in exchange for lil "Graphic Improvement"

[sterile spruce]

zone is calling me

[marsh cliff]

I still want to see how the game would perform on med/high or even low too

[stray gyro]

If the Nvidia benchmarks are accurate then it's pretty bad, seems to be heavily CPU bottlenecked

[zenith sapphire]

A lot of newer games, not even just ue5 seem to have that issue

[frigid monolith]

In red dead 2. If you go from high to ultra shadows. It looses you about 34 fps

[sterile spruce]

will be fine all, relax guys

[marsh cliff]

True
Barely any difference between RTX4080 and RTX4090

[sterile spruce]

medium high are almost the same

[frigid monolith]

Keep in mind. ''Ultra'' settings

[zenith sapphire]

Yeah either way we'll get to go back to the zone

[sterile spruce]

epic is wasting energy

[frigid monolith]

fr

[stray gyro]

Yeah it might be due to RT, but still the rest of the specs for other presets are not great either

[marsh cliff]

🔥 Either ways...We're all burning our PC with Stalker 2

[granite mortar]

More than enough
SoC still looks good

[sterile spruce]

we had 14 years to brace ourself and build something nice

[zenith sapphire]

Ima run it on windows 95 and see wtf happens

[sterile spruce]

oasis is hard to get remember

[granite mortar]

No

[blazing wraith]

Trully open world with Alife and its on UE5. Yeah, this is gonna chonk some CPUs

[sleek hound]

@lucid pagoda I GOT IT

I just ran through all the areas save scumming

[lucid pagoda]

Hell yeah man the holy light of the Monolith shines upon you

[frigid monolith]

Man. There's a lot of drama going on rn. Steam and twitter. For false banning. Spreading misinformation etc.. wtf

[marsh cliff]

[frigid monolith]

I just want this game to succeed.

[sterile spruce]

me too so i preorded ultimate edition

give them support

[marsh cliff]

I mean even with the worst case scenario which the game runs like garbage...We still can just refund and wait for patches IG

Not my thing. But It is what It is

[sterile spruce]

modding comunity is big so

[frigid monolith]

Just like silent hill 2.. I refunded that game.

[zenith sapphire]

Og silent hill 2 is where its at

Clunky controls but its actually playable

[sterile spruce]

was playing it with 3060ti

[north herald]

I still excited to see the series s version. After seing the requierments.

[signal bronze]

series s, 720p, low settings, 30 fps

[marsh cliff]

I think it will be lower than 720p

Not native

[hollow plank]

Morning

[warm forum]

144+FPS > 60FPS
Will lower settings for more FPS cause smooth gameplay is everything qq

[north herald]

RTX4070 Super 12 GB
i7-9700K
32GB RAM

im excited to see how it will works for me

[zenith sapphire]

Ima try it on high with lossless scaling

[signal bronze]

7900xtx + 7800x3d + 64G DDR5 and I think i'll be running 1440p, High settings, with FSR on Quality capped fps at 90 for consistency.

[hollow plank]

4090 4k max with dlss mwuahaha

[west dagger]

We seem to have about the same so hopefully it runs well

[north herald]

I hope at least for 1080p 60 fps lol haha 😄

[zenith sapphire]

Anyone else gonna be running it on sub-par hardware?

[west dagger]

My money says yea it’ll run atleast 120+ on high 1080p

[warm forum]

RTX 4070 Ti
i7-13700KF
32GB RAM

My PC and I are ready (I hope)

[granite mortar]

I cant decide if its even worth trying

[zenith sapphire]

Im praying for my 2060 to push through it

[warm forum]

Even if it does run extremely poorly they'll optimise and if anything else mods will improve it

[north herald]

Sounds great, i guess we will be save atleast to play it.

[hollow plank]

Play it on xbox you'll have a better experience

[warm forum]

^ That's actually a good shout if you're on really bad hardware

[hollow plank]

Or Geforce now

if your nets good

[zenith sapphire]

True but I cannot give up the modability on PC, if it runs crap ill refund it and get an xbox copy if anything

[warm forum]

I think I heard mod support will be a thing for xbox too

[north herald]

Maybe the first run with xbox? The first mods wont be huge i guess.

[hollow plank]

Heavily limited mods on console though

[zenith sapphire]

Mod support is always a bit held back on console compared to pc, depends on the modkit

[hollow plank]

Don't expect major overhauls ect

[wind plaza]

Hello, is is possibile to buy the collectors edetion for PC to buy everywhere ?? in germany it all sold... 😦

[zenith sapphire]

I already preordered so theres no going back lol

[wraith socket]

Are you kidding? Stalker 2: Heart of Groknobyl. @granite mortar

[hollow plank]

Same waiting on GMG to give me my key

[obtuse quartz]

Everyone wants their key to finally type it into Steam etc

[frigid monolith]

Same. But 5800X 3D

[hollow plank]

GSC needs to wake up their publishers

[frigid monolith]

Ebay für Halsabschneider Preise

[obtuse quartz]

Maybe send a bloodsucker after them to ensure fast email

[warm forum]

The main thing that withheld me from purchasing physical is retail store and publishers are often horribly slow

I need to play the game the second I'm able to we've waited long enough ;-;

[hollow plank]

I'll send my mo... nevermind I will be patient

[wind plaza]

so sad...

[obtuse quartz]

You actually get a key before per email if physical ordered (reprints)

[warm forum]

Ahh fair enough in that case

[obtuse quartz]

No no go on

[hollow plank]

Lol

[warm forum]

I'll settle for digital ultimate edition can always buy collectible stuff later on

[hollow plank]

Everyone waiting for their keys unless you bought through steam

[signal bronze]

just waiting for preload on steam

[hollow plank]

Ain't happening

[shadow cloak]

Hey does the game drop the instant it turns Wednesday?

[potent bluff]

Can't wait for smile Skif....Just 5 days left

[marsh cliff]

Skif face reveal

Long lost Strelok twin brother

[obtuse quartz]

Good luck, its confirmed it wont happen

[hollow plank]

No it will release in time zones, some websites are saying 4pm for me but where have they got this information from

[signal bronze]

well lucky i got a 1gig internet connection

[hollow plank]

Big brain move

[shadow cloak]

Yeah I got conflicting information as well

[hollow plank]

Best wait for confirmation in the next few days

[obtuse quartz]

Well i need at tops maybe 2 hours to load but still enough

[hollow plank]

My daughters birthday on release day so will be preoccupied but i'll be sure to sneak in a quick settings change and a little test!

[obtuse quartz]

Oh good luck with that

[signal bronze]

priorities

[hollow plank]

Mentally prepared, physically no

[signal bronze]

stalker 2 before kids

[warm forum]

^^

[obtuse quartz]

And watch the time otherwise you will sit for hours

[warm forum]

Tell her you'll have to skip her birthday this year

[hollow plank]

Sing happy birthday and close the door

[warm forum]

It's the only way

[obtuse quartz]

Tell her this day is like christmas and you need to play s2

[hollow plank]

She's only gonna be 6 so she's not interested in stalker 2 yet

[obtuse quartz]

Damn

[hollow plank]

otherwise i'd say its her present but i need to play, then she can watch

[obtuse quartz]

She gonna be ready for stalker 3

[ashen coral]

"yet"

[sterile spruce]

would be great to if we could download it day before, so i can go to work and on back home voila

[warm forum]

Gotta teach them young no better time than 6 years old to get into stalker

[signal bronze]

"I'm feeling awfully tired kids, just going to have a nap for a while"

[wraith socket]

Provided by @signal bronze

[obtuse quartz]

But teach her to never fall for the 800 gauss rifle!!

[warm forum]

DLSS doing god's work

[obtuse quartz]

Im still scared about my cpu

[magic oasis]

So 5 days away....are we going to get any videos of this before it launches? to show off some stuff some reviews maybe...

[hollow plank]

4060ti oooosh

savage

[warm forum]

People see those performance graphs and freak out, not realising those are on max settings in 4k

[crimson remnant]

you know, the last time I was going this crazy over waiting for a game to release was metro exodus just a few years ago lol

[hollow plank]

1440p

[warm forum]

Oh I misread too LMAO

[obtuse quartz]

Same

[magic oasis]

I will be playing on geforce now so hoepfully should run fine for me 🙂

[obtuse quartz]

Hopefully it was with RT

[hollow plank]

I know i even went to the dark side and prepurchased through Epic store

[west dagger]

You poor thing

[warm forum]

EPIC STORE?!

[hollow plank]

Ended up getting the pc enhanced on steam for a couple quid years later

[crimson remnant]

the year of exclusitivity to EGS was killer for me

[warm forum]

Anything but that 😭

[obtuse quartz]

Damn an emission with RT on gonna end up frying PCs

[west dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/ffxiv-louisoix-final-fantasy-gif-15070709

[hollow plank]

Borderlands 3 aswell, i'm a schmuck

[signal bronze]

Ain't no one gonna be running on max settings, native 4k unless you have a 5090

[obtuse quartz]

Exactly!

And i need to log into ff14 soon lol

[stray gyro]

Money is always an option when you can't compete with an objectively way better store

[hollow plank]

Give me dlss and i'll be a happy man

[obtuse quartz]

They are gonna sell like warm bread in the morning on sunday but im quite happy with my 7900xtx

[warm forum]

Medium to High settings, 1080p at 165fps is peak

[west dagger]

Chad

[warm forum]

My eyes will burn if I have to play at 60fps I can't do it

[hollow plank]

Got some bad news, it'll be 45 loool

[obtuse quartz]

Nah make it 59 to be extra

[hollow plank]

69 at least.....Nice

[warm forum]

I'll take low settings over high settings to get solid fps

[obtuse quartz]

Im quite happy if i reach 1440p high and 60fps

[warm forum]

I envy people that don't mind framerates, saw a guy play anomaly at like 20-30fps max and said it didn't bother him

[blissful peak]

I have a 4090, runs all games at 4k just fine. Let's see how it's gonna be with stalker

[nimble cipher]

pbsravendanilo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[opaque parrot]

Aaaah

My Pc won't hold max settings

Gonna go install SoC and kill Wolf now

[hollow plank]

native 4k gets 52.4 which isn't bad considering cyberpunk get you sub 30

with a 4090

[opaque parrot]

i7 9700, 16GB RAM, RTX 3060ti

Dude only thing I have enough of is HDD space

[hollow plank]

Hopefully SSD space

[opaque parrot]

Have 500GB left of space on SSD too

But for some reason I install my games on HDD most of the time

[cerulean mica]

I wonder how many people have missed that they definitely need an SSD...

[hollow plank]

That's how it is for most games these days

[mellow locust]

My god the more I read the questions and answers by the team the more hyped I get. I wanna die

[hollow plank]

Don't do that, you won't be able to play

[cerulean mica]

@mellow locust This would be the worst timing to die, stalker.

[mellow locust]

But I don't know if I am able to take it anymore

[hollow plank]

Take it! take it hard! xD

[cerulean mica]

Pro tip: Go play some videogames. Metro? Stalker? CP2077?

[signal bronze]

That's how i've been thinking every day I go for a drive leading up to the release day. 'must not die' 😅

[frigid monolith]

which one?

[hollow plank]

Drive slower or drive wearing a zorb

[mellow locust]

The amount of content and possibilities

[hollow plank]

crash helmet even

[hollow plank]

55% done with red dead 2 so been chipping away at that

[signal bronze]

I couldn't finish red dead 2, not sure why.. maybe i should give it another go

[west dagger]

You should

It’s a beautiful game with beautiful….everything

[hollow plank]

It's slow going unless you focus purely on story missions, my Arthur keeps talking about needing money when he has 6.5k which back then, he'd have been ballin'

[hazy helm]

well its a rockstar game, cant expect too much

[signal bronze]

Just got bored and stopped playing all of a sudden.

[hollow plank]

Was so jealous of this card when i was starting out, had the 4850x2

[signal bronze]

This is probably showing my age but i still remember my voodoo fx graphics card back in the day.

[hollow plank]

First card was a standard 4850 for me

[hollow plank]

Alright Grandad sure you remember, now let's get you back to bed!

[signal bronze]

"back in my day" 👴

I'm so old I played red dead 2 in real life

[wraith socket]

This is what I played Shadow of Chernobyl on in 2007. It didn't even have a fan on it.

[pseudo rivet]

3dfx?

[signal bronze]

yep thats the one

[pseudo rivet]

@dire dagger
MOOD KINDRED

This guy is obsessed with 3dfx

[hollow plank]

He's still playing on one, has high hopes for a good time with stalker 2

[pseudo rivet]

[signal bronze]

will get an easy 1 FPS

[cerulean mica]

1 FPH

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, well, good friggin' luck

[hollow plank]

Just think some day someone is going to say this was my first graphics card and it'll be the 4090

according to reddit anyway

[cerulean mica]

In 10 years everybody will say "back then we had our own gaming PCs at home"

[signal bronze]

Can imagine in the year 2050, people looking back at 2024 and saying "can't believe i thought those graphics looked real"

just like how i saw ps1 graphics thinking wow so realistic haha

[hollow plank]

In my mind it's still good

[clever notch]

So...the steam page goes to a 404 on this, but do ALL of the pre-order digital versions get the weapon skins, extra content, etc.

Because I'm in a weird place where I'm not gonna pass up on extra stuff, but I also want a physical copy. $400 is a lot...even if I get a reprint later

for my shelf, of course

[hollow plank]

of course

[pseudo rivet]

To be fair, in 2050, every game will have way too much bloom, everything looks like plastic and reflects all the light

[signal bronze]

In 2050 we'll have gaming pc's implanted in our heads for sure

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[hollow plank]

I'm sure there will be RTX 3 by then and all games have a high chance of causing PTSD

[verbal slate]

Cool fact, the Voodoo series was top of the line cards in the early 90-2000s and was then purchased by a small company called Nvidia, you may have heard of them.

[hollow plank]

Devs be rattling at their desks, lines won't be as straight but we'll be happy cause were mentally unstable(sort of like today)

[pseudo rivet]

In my opinion, C&C3 still has the best lighting, even if it's an RTS

[hazy helm]

ehhh...

[dim topaz]

This card is peak aesthetics

[hoary venture]

I wonder how CPU heavy this game will be, especially on single thread.

[hazy helm]

we have had better lighhting in RTS's....

[dim topaz]

Golden cooling ribs bro insane

[pseudo rivet]

I disagree with C&C4

[obtuse quartz]

Still my fav RTS to this day

[pseudo rivet]

Which one do you have in mind?

[hazy helm]

Ancestors Legacy or the Homeworld Remakes

´for example

[pseudo rivet]

It IS the best traditional RTS up to this day

[hazy helm]

sorry

Red Alert

🫵

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds like a 4x

[hollow plank]

C&C 4 you mean lmao

[clever notch]

@pseudo rivet sorry, I wouldn't ask if the official pages didn't have a 404 broken link...in order to get all the extra in-game stuff, do you need to pre-order the digital version of the ultimate edition? I don't mean only some of it, I mean all of the extra digital stuff.

[pseudo rivet]

As in best?

[hollow plank]

was a joke

[hazy helm]

Ancestors Legacy is medieval CoH style
Homeworld is an old space 3D RTS

[signal bronze]

GDI or NOD 🤔

[hoary venture]

Usually UE5 games aren't too CPU heavy but this game might be different due to A-Life 2.0, open world and whatnot.

[clever notch]

I saw that the collectors vs ultimate, the collectors is missing some suits and guns (at least, on other websites that have info from the pre-orders)

[pseudo rivet]

Oh, I almost hoped someone shared my love for C&C4

[hazy helm]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/244160/Homeworld_Remastered_Collection/ @pseudo rivet

[clever notch]

the steam page doesn't say and goes to 404 links.

[hollow plank]

Definitely not i'm afraid

[pseudo rivet]

As long as you pre-order any edition, you'll get those skins

[pseudo rivet]

Brotherhood of Nod for sure! If you do go with GDI, I'd say stick to Steel Talons because Steel Talons rule

[pseudo rivet]

Sad

[crimson remnant]

I submitted something in #📜┃s2_suggestions and it got deleted within like 15min, whats up with that? All I did was suggest ghillie suits and wraps

[pseudo rivet]

Duplicate suggestion

Guess it was shadow realm'd

[hazy helm]

ghillie suits has already been suggested

[west dagger]

A mod will simply be made for it surely

[crimson remnant]

sry, only stuff I saw was a deleted user from 3 years ago and something about ghillie cloaks. I was suggesting ghillie weapon wraps to go with the ghillie suits, which nobody else had done yet

[pseudo rivet]

Like, if someone made C&C4 into a Renegade-like, that would honestly be peak

Only problem is how to make artillery work

[crimson remnant]

i just want to wrap my ak and my mosin in grass

[west dagger]

In time

Modders will make it happen

[granite mortar]

Is this so-called "mosin" in the room with us?

[hazy helm]

🤷‍♂️ modders can do a lot but that dont mean we cant ask for it

[crimson remnant]

i can't forsee a mosin not being in a stalker game

[west dagger]

Yea but we got 5 days left 💀

[crimson remnant]

modding on steam deck isnt a fun experience

[granite mortar]

It never was in any

[west dagger]

I’m hoping they focus on optimizations b4 adding more shit

[crimson remnant]

man ive played anomaly so long the mosin has registered as a vanilla weapon in my mind

[hazy helm]

bro is using a steam deck lumao

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-peanutbutter-gif-19330449

[granite mortar]

Modrot
Stage 5
Worst kind

[crimson remnant]

living that 30fps, 800p Fsr3.1 ultra-performance framegen life

[obtuse quartz]

Oh yes

[pseudo rivet]

Too bad EA killed C&C

I will never forgive them

[crimson remnant]

wdym, c&c rivals mobile is a fantastic game

[west dagger]

Can’t wait to play doom in game on the pda

[celest oracle]

What's up stalkers

[foggy sage]

For me tonight, nothing beats smoking a cigarette under the moonlight, no lights in sight, cold silent air with campfire tunes playing softly.

Last night was cool with the rain drizzle and the clear sky showing the moon, and the screech owl towards the end of my cigarette.

Stalker 2 can’t come soon enough.

[celest oracle]

So what's with the system requirements thing? Is it really with Dlss fsr?

[clever notch]

I laugh at all the people whining about no pre-download, just do what I did and get SCREAMING fiber optic internet, hah. I get about 200 MB/s download, sometimes a bit more like 230 MB/s. Big B, its 1750 mb/s. I'm just teasing, but I really do recommend it

[west dagger]

Some of us live with family

[pseudo rivet]

Shush mobile gamer

[foggy sage]

I’m not even worried about it, there’s nothing competitive to fall behind in anyways.

I’ve got good internet now, but even when I had 1.4mbps I didn’t freak out over no preloads lol.

[celest oracle]

I currently playing the series, as when they came out I only finished Call of Pripyat, but never finished the first and second game. Last night I finished the first one, now it's clear sky time.

[west dagger]

Anyways idk what dlss or fsr and why it’s good/bad

I simply game

[cerulean mica]

"Why are you poor? Stop being poor!"

[warm forum]

It's that easy though just stop being it

[clever notch]

I don't recall that being my problem, haha (I'm just teasing guys, I'm lucky in that I live across the street from a GIGANTIC major US university, most places can't buy internet this good if they wanted to. I do pay kind of a lot for it though)

[foggy sage]

I have poor friends who upgraded to Starlink and are paying about what they did for crap DSL though, and it’s like a thousand times faster

[finite dragon]

Imagine a MP game like Hell Let Loose but completely VR

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man2-spider-man-j-jonah-jameson-tobey-maguire-peter-parker-gif-26416399

[finite dragon]

Or better yet Stalker VR,

[hazy helm]

bait used to be believeable

[finite dragon]

extremely hype realistic, you do EVERYTHING you would in real life, make friends blah blah

[cerulean mica]

Starlink is great if it's the only option but it's no real option is you're gaming online

[finite dragon]

then that bro dies, and even though he's code, it still weighs heavy on your soul because you dropped your mag, you didn't reload fast enough, and he got his throat ripped out by a rabid dog

therapists be like

[hazy helm]

yhae except there are no companions in Stalker 2

[west dagger]

Wdym the bottle of vodka is my friend?

[hazy helm]

dunno what kind of vietnam fantasies you have tho

[finite dragon]

thinking about this

something something by 2050 there will be brain PCs

[west dagger]

We already got neuralink

[finite dragon]

And the possibility of trauma if things get too fr

[clever notch]

I'm not lying, though... I have my own modem and router I custom configured top down, I have more than one PC (I use the spares as dedicated game servers) that I built, and everything in my house is on wired ethernet (cat8, I can do 5 GB/s internal transfers). I'm not kidding when I say, a major, major US university/supercomputer center is literally across the street from my apartment.

[finite dragon]

alright Elon

[clever notch]

I do pay A LOT for it

[hazy helm]

how nice for you
however
people live in many of places, many of them not serviceable by optic

[finite dragon]

THERE IT IS

[hazy helm]

its a nice story

very great story

[finite dragon]

some would say the best story

I certainly think it's an amazing story, yes

[hazy helm]

however if those cables arent on the ground, then its just a story, and even I can make those up

[clever notch]

In my own defense, I DID say I pay a ton for it in my first message, hah.

[hazy helm]

it is pretty funny ppl talk about optic as tho it is a common thing in the world when it is pretty new

[foggy sage]

Has anyone else come across a musician named Estas Tonne while listening to campfire music? This guy is amazing

[finite dragon]

Uhhhh Michelle

I have not run across this Estas fellow

[dim topaz]

5 days... So close yet it feels so far

[west dagger]

I only got work this weekend then it’s 7 days of freedom

American freedom not the weed smokers freedom

[finite dragon]

see I'm mad that I'm not getting work, my manager is shafting me fr, but that's a story for another time (she doesn't like me)

[dim topaz]

Maybe she has an agressive crush on you. Have you tried asking her out

[small vector]

https://finalbossbundle.com/products/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl-reprint
Has anyone gotten there preorder code from Final Boss Bundle yet ??

[clever notch]

...would you believe me if I told you, there is actually one fiber internet package (Same provider) above mine, that offers 5,000 mb/s (which is 625 MB/s). over a half of 1 GB per second. I'm not crazy enough to pay $500/mo though. @hazy helm @finite dragon

[finite dragon]

She has a boyfriend and almost certainly hates my guts

[silver pagoda]

A GOOD MAN IS ALWAYS ON TIME FOR LUNCH
WHO SAID IM A GOOD MAN?
RICHTER, THE GUYS FROM THE DETENTION CENTER...
AND ME, SCAR.
SO YOU'VE SEEN AN ANOMALY, OUTSIDE THE ZONE?
THATS WHY IM HERE.
I'VE HEARD THE RUMOURS, BUT NEVER FIRST HAND
AND IVE GOT A FUNNY FEELING....
THERE'S MORE TROUBLE TO COME
THIS IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE ZONE
BUT THERE'S ANOTHER, THE SHINING SIDE
ITS HERE ALL AROUND US, BUT WE CANNOT SEE IT
I WONDER WHATS OUT THERE, ETERNAL SPRING?
THE KLONDIKE OF ARTIFACTS?
A NEW HOME? OR OUR HEART'S DESIRES?
WE WANT THE SHINING ZONE TO REVEAL ITSELF
OOOOH! SH*T'S GONNA GO DOWN AT THE INSTITUTE, HA-HA!

[finite dragon]

in fact several people I work with are childhood friends of her's, and she treats them like absolute shit xd

anyways, enough bellyaching, time to play Clear Sky

[warm forum]

I think it is indeed time to play Clear Sky

[finite dragon]

wish da dad gum server had vc channels

[tidal sleet]

Does anyone know if Stalker 2 will perform good on handhelds? Preferably the ROG Ally X

[cerulean mica]

Yes, we know. Based on the requirements you won't be able to enjoy it.

[tidal sleet]

Not even on Turbo mode which can put out 1080p at 60fps?

I'm just curious because I don't know how the Z1 fairs against actual PC processors

[cerulean mica]

Not even in Mega-Mode. Even with FSR 3 you would need to upscale from 240p

[west dagger]

Go to a website that tests your hardware based on the games requirements

[thin garden]

Is it a good deal too sell a rtx 3080 oc édition for a 4080 rtx ?

[cerulean mica]

And at that point, you're not even playing the same game anymore

[hazy helm]

its a handheld, its prob going to get toasty and cap its perf, 1080p is being very optimistic, especially considering GSCs specs are using upscalers

[cerulean mica]

Isn't a good deal defined by you telling us the price so that we can answer?

[tidal sleet]

I'm new to all this so I appreciate the comments, guys online can be right dicks about it

[cerulean mica]

I'm just honest.

[tidal sleet]

So what would be your recommendations based on the game specs?

Should I frame cap etc aswell

[west dagger]

buy a pc

[cerulean mica]

You can always try it and judge for yourself if you can bear with 15/20/25 FPS and a blurry mess of an image.

[thin garden]

In can have a 4080 for 950$ and sell mine fort 450 $

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/3dfx-voodoo-logo-intro-gif-16257456

[hazy helm]

if you wanna do a handheld? prob lower the resolution

[cerulean mica]

So 500$ for an upgrade just weeks before announcement of new gen? I would save the money, wait for 5080 announcement and you can still get rid of your 3080 for 300

[tidal sleet]

Yeah I've got the Ally X, I don't expect absolute top tier performance or visuals from it but it plays some games absolutely brilliant and others are no different than console

[cerulean mica]

Yes, but we're talking of a UE5 open-world game with pretty beefy requirements for desktop already.

[cerulean mica]

Oh, by the way: I own a 3080 and I'm waiting for 5080, too

[tidal sleet]

I've got a PC and I know 100% it's not gonna cope with it

Crap monitor aswell

My PC can play games but I do online selling/live streaming as a job so it's mostly for that

[cerulean mica]

Three easy solutions:

• Grab the steam version and test it for 2 hours on yourself. If it sucks: Refund the game
• Grab one month of PC Game Pass and get it there for testing. You have a Windows-based Handheld.
• Get a Geforce Now subscription and enjoy the game maxed out via Cloud on any device you have (PC/TV). If you have a wired connection and at least 50MBit you should be fine

[short canyon]

I wonder if S2 will have something akin to artifact activation, since it is a vanilla thing from multiplayer

[alpine ibex]

Aint nobody got time for that

[tidal sleet]

Nice! I already use Game Pass anyway and I'll have a look at the GeForce subscription

[cerulean mica]

You're not the one I'm adressing this reply to

[vast flicker]

Ayoo Hogwart Legacy is on Unreal Engine 4 and has dlss + frame gen so i think the performance will be comparable (maybe even better cuz S2 using UE5)

My pc runs it at maxed graphics + RT on DLSS Quality + FG stable 75fps.

(My pc spec: 3060 12gb, R5 5600, 16GB RAM)

*Also using Loseless Scaling works with ingame frame gen and it makes x4 more fps = 300)

[alpine ibex]

I mean just get a steam version 🤷

[waxen cobalt]

Exactly what I'm doing! I already have the PC Gamepass and I'm just waiting for the release so I can renew my GeForce Now subscription. Had done some test runs to see about input delay beforehand. I am quite surprised by the responsiveness

[finite dragon]

Not everyone can run said steam version

[tidal sleet]

I mean just reply when your being addressed is easy enough

[alpine ibex]

Not how it work.. by the end of day it developed who have to optimized

[alpine ibex]

It an open group chat..

[waxen cobalt]

My computer will definitely not run the game, but I wanted to try how bad it would be. With Gamepass I won't have to go through the refund hassle and 90% of the time, the refund doesn't go to my bank account, but to steam wallet, so it's more an issue than a solution

[tidal sleet]

I'm genuinely trying to ask questions to people who will have a lot more knowledge than I do, I don't need the youtube answer to it (which is usually something offensive, cheeky or derogatory)

[crimson remnant]

I'm hoping this will run better than the usual UE5 games considering its a custom build by GSC made to handle the open world and run on consoles well

[alpine ibex]

Huh pretty sure they run the same game just different platforms

[vast flicker]

with Lossles scaling you don't need any optimalizations

[finite dragon]

Frostpunk 2 is UE5 and (admittedly a few optimisation updates) runs great

[alpine ibex]

Game have fsr, use that 😆 🤣 lossless are for game that dont have any fsr support

[cerulean mica]

Valve and Steam are pretty fast these days and a refund takes 3 clicks and you're always asked if you want the refund on your account or your Paypal/bank so this is a non-issue. I'm refunding 5+ games a year these days.

[crimson remnant]

you're not wrong but its graphical load is also MASSIVELY lower and a lot less demanding

[vast flicker]

Yeah fsr is frame gen, but loseless scaling can be used too to make game even smoother

[waxen cobalt]

Yeah but clicking UNINSTALL is much faster than support > request refund > not receiving money on my bank

[vast flicker]

And it works perfect with Unreal Engine games

[waxen cobalt]

Well, here in Brazil, most of my refunds go straight to the steam wallet

[finite dragon]

Fair point. Just seems like UE5 needs finaggaling more then anything and I’m sure with 4+ years dev time it’s been messed with enough

[north iron]

Imagine being Brazilian

[north iron]

I feel sry for u bro

[waxen cobalt]

It could be a bank issue with steam, but my point still stands.
Why would I waste time opening a refund request on steam, waiting for the funds to arrive TO MY WALLET, if I can just click UNINSTALL on gamepass? Get me?

[crimson remnant]

ue5 runs fine if devs take the time to optimize it. the problem is most devs nowadays rely way too much on fsr, upscaling, framegen, dlss, etc... they use the highest quality asset for everything and don't think about where it's logical to cut corners while not losing fidelity but boosting performance. I hope gsc is different

[cerulean mica]

Guys... wtf 😄 It's not about you. I just listed three options for a guy who's not sure if the game will run on his hardware...

[tidal sleet]

Easy as that my friend! Exactly how I'm gonna treat it if it doesn't run to a playable level for me

[waxen cobalt]

We're used to it already lmao

[frigid monolith]

fr

[waxen cobalt]

And I replied that it would be helpful to me. Do you have a language barrier or what

[north iron]

I'm even surprised you can understand English, you guys can't even speak proper Portuguese

[waxen cobalt]

RIGHT? LMAOOO

[frigid monolith]

recent german reviews said it runs very smooth and even call it goty contender etc

[round frost]

Bly at

[north iron]

Not the expected reaction but I'll take it

[crisp ruin]

[wraith socket]

Let's not get snippy here Stalkers.

[frigid monolith]

[round frost]

[north iron]

I ain't not stalker

I'm a monolyth guy

[lean quiver]

steam forums is wild right now lol

[warm forum]

[tidal sleet]

Same as in here lol

[lean quiver]

nah...

[round frost]

Yeah, I bet lol

[hazy helm]

it always was

[lean quiver]

no but now there's like an active war going on

[crisp ruin]

[north iron]

U motherbucker

[cerulean mica]

You sure about REviews? 😉

[wraith socket]

You're really pushing it.

[north iron]

I don't trust them until I can actually see them

[waxen cobalt]

Take reviews with a huge grain of salt

Black Myth Wukong and Dragon Age Veilguard are here to prove this

[north iron]

Ur the one insulting my faction

[deep quiver]

flashing lights lights lights

[hazy helm]

14y old girl when she gets a zodiac sign

[deep quiver]

monolith glazer detected
total monolithian termination
IMMINENT.

[north iron]

Are they bad?

[wraith socket]

Yes, your Faction, not you. Be more civil to other people here. Don't make me use my other tools besides words.

[waxen cobalt]

I mean, you insulted my whole country, and I took it nicely lmao

[north iron]

Oh no

[crimson remnant]

Watch out, the purple name is gonna run to the mods and get your wrist slapped for using euphemisms in the m-rated game server

[deep quiver]

dw bro he's just the average monolith glazer

man only gets the monolith memes and nothing else

[north iron]

Man, I'm joking arround

[deep quiver]

i hate the monolith.

[north iron]

Even the Brazilian took it well

He was cool

[deep quiver]

if i see a monolithian, irl i will jump him with 300 homeless men

[west dagger]

Pizza

[jaunty pebble]

It was always messed up

Like I say, GSC should just lock it completely

[crimson remnant]

so more monolithians?

[warm forum]

Steam forums are a cesspool lmao

[hazy helm]

Always have been

[warm forum]

^^

[deep quiver]

i will make sure the homeless men have psi protection

[jaunty pebble]

Yea

[round frost]

I'm going to be a bandit, working my way up in the arena for fame and glory, spending my money on Cossacks vodka.

[deep quiver]

im THAT much of a hater for monolith

[lean quiver]

Well at the very least steam forums is not an echo chamber so there's that

[north iron]

Skiff is a monolythian

[deep quiver]

then i will throw a grenade at my feet

[crimson remnant]

ex*

[hardy bear]

Even that apparently isn’t true

[deep quiver]

the monolith are my number one OPPS

[hardy bear]

To my dismay. Just a misinterpretation of the trailer content

[north iron]

He came back tho

[deep quiver]

i'll slide on monolith patrols all day

[west dagger]

Zone pizza……

[round frost]

Exploring the zone with the only purpose to find the best Cossacks vodka stash ever.

[north iron]

Ok, but sterlok is a monolythian

So, it's the best faction

[deep quiver]

i will throw a grenade at my feet again

[radiant jewel]

Idk if i should play gamma whilst waiting for release for fear it'll skew my expectations

[hollow prawn]

Why is the Monolith not attacking them?

[north iron]

You know what faction really sucks tho?

[hollow prawn]

Monolith traitor?

[west dagger]

Sin

[north iron]

The mercs

[hollow prawn]

Renegades and Monolith

[lean quiver]

try True Stalker mod

[wraith socket]

Look what they gave him to look at in his hands.

[hazy helm]

Just play New Arsenal 7

[hardy bear]

Depends what else you’ve played. If you’ve not played anything, speedrun the games for context and to get a better feel for how it will play

[hollow prawn]

💀

[west dagger]

Mercs are simply corp backed loners

[north iron]

Fr

[round frost]

I've played Gamma a lot but decided to redo a vanilla playthrough of SoC to go back to the source.

[west dagger]

The chad merc

[deep quiver]

we work for big pharma

[hazy helm]

he has no source for this as usual

[lusty fable]

Do we have preload yet? 👀

[deep quiver]

god bless money and amazon prime

[west dagger]

It’s not happening

[hazy helm]

Not in pcs you won't

[north iron]

Why be a Merc when u can be a loner, or better yet a monolythian

[lusty fable]

Preload or riot

[west dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/armstrong-made-it-up-gif-25653819

[hazy helm]

Riot it is

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[north iron]

Gil with that

[round frost]

Yeah, loaded it already on my PDA

[crimson remnant]

Burh they literally said they straight up just can't do a preload for PC. Xbox preload was the best they could manage

[west dagger]

I do hope the master key attachment goes on more than the sniper rifle

[lusty fable]

Poor excuse

[hardy bear]

I want to put one on a shotgun

[waxen cobalt]

Shotgun with shotgun attachment, please

[west dagger]

God PLEASE

[snow quail]

After all this time a few days more doesn't sound like much, but man it feels like another decade to wait

[north iron]

Gsc : it's just not possible.
Fans: why not you stupid bastard

[crimson remnant]

literally incapable of making it happen. quite literally cannot do it.
"that's not an excuse"

[lusty fable]

It's not incapable lmao steam as a very good preload feature

[north iron]

But for real now, they will probably preload a day before

[west dagger]

Maybe it’s not an issue of steam dingus

[north iron]

They are just playing hard to get

[lean quiver]

Uh but is pre load a difficult thing to add?

[granite mortar]

"Stop arguing and go move the Sun two meters to the left you lazy сunt!" ahh moment

[crimson remnant]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[snow quail]

If it had preload we would be watching footage on TikTok 5 minutes or less after preload opened.

[granite mortar]

Its difficult thing to keep in working state

[hazy helm]

we wouldnt but ok

[waxen cobalt]

I don't think the issue is difficulty, but security. GSC doesn't want to risk it. They only allowed preload on Xbox due to being the safest platform

[lusty fable]

Like I said, poor excuse. Steam can preload

[limpid hearth]

spam suggestions

[regal sapphire]

what is preload

[waxen cobalt]

And if they added Denuvo with the preload, it would be the worst thing ever

[hazy helm]

tahts not how steam downloads works

[granite mortar]

Preloads are easy to crack, as such no preload is much safer bet than risking having your entire game leaked

[north iron]

Not really, plus who even watches tik tok?

[hazy helm]

spam suggestions so they can be deleted? damn

[hazy helm]

Steam downloads preloads with AES256, you aint cracking that kot

[lean quiver]

uh does it really matter if a game leaks with less than 5 days to release

[crimson remnant]

i think you literally just don't understand how these things work lol. please, go ahead and tell us why this is possible and the developers of the game are wrong for saying they can't do it

[granite mortar]

I am

I will crack ChAES

[warm forum]

I'd guess the encryption and crack it first try

[lofty fern]

yes! last of us 2 leaked like a week before it came out and people were not happy at all

[waxen cobalt]

To GSC as a business, kinda does.

[north iron]

Maybe they are lying

[waxen cobalt]

Can I grab my tinfoil hat now?

[hazy helm]

very much so yeas

[north iron]

I said maybe

[crimson remnant]

leak = crack = pirating = big no no

[waxen cobalt]

That's why I asked

[round frost]

Distilled by the GSC company, the Cossacks-brand vodka is a clear distilled liquor composed of water and ethyl alcohol. Vodka is made from a fermented substance of either grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet molasses. Vodka’s alcoholic concentration usually ranges between 35 to 70 per cent by volume. It is an extremely popular drink in the Zone, arguably even more than energy drinks, as it removes radiation and "smooths the rough edges" of a stalker's life.

[radiant jewel]

So can ai stalkers find and pickup anomalies? Idr what they are called

[west dagger]

It’s actually wild that Russia could easily spoil the game to antagonize and whatnot if there’s a preload 💀

[lusty fable]

I think YOU don't understand.

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/gato-joia-gif-27503164

[north iron]

English phrase

[hazy helm]

english only

[granite mortar]

[solid dome]

6 days till I shoot myself seeing the game runs at 10 fps

[hazy helm]

[crimson remnant]

you make a compelling argument my friend

[radiant jewel]

?

[waxen cobalt]

We already had one situation like that yesterday

[granite mortar]

Pick up anomalies

[waxen cobalt]

Bro came from the future saying the game is bad and whatnot and tried to dissuade people from buying it lmao

[north iron]

What?

[radiant jewel]

I genuinely can't remember the name of them lol

[lusty fable]

Steam encryption won't get cracked and game is drm free anyway so will be cracked day 1. Stop being a bootlicker

[hazy helm]

yknow we can see edited messages, the before and after

[west dagger]

Bless auto mod and logs

[radiant jewel]

My brain says artifacts but I don't feel that's it either

[granite mortar]

It is

[lofty fern]

vencord has that feature too lol

[waxen cobalt]

A-Life?

[north iron]

Damn

[warm forum]

All you have to do is endure the 10fps until you see the frogs.. then you can observe them in all their beauty 🐸

[radiant jewel]

I was asking if ai stalkers can hunt and pickup artifacts ^^

[granite mortar]

And according to Mol1t
They can

[snow quail]

Gonna be a hard sell as many people have been waiting and supporting this long. Some people just ain't real bright

[radiant jewel]

Oh dang nice!

[hazy helm]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[waxen cobalt]

Yup they can!

[solid dome]

C'mow, man

[granite mortar]

GSC copied OLR confirmed
Glory to Hi_Flyer

[waxen cobalt]

Not sure if the sold artifacts will be available for us, though

[crimson remnant]

if pirating was a massive concern they would have probably cited that at some point. but also, steam getting "cracked" was not even what I was talking about there

[warm forum]

Me killing every stalker to see what artifacts they've stolen from me

[hybrid atlas]

As a Russian who bought game more than 3.5 yrs ago I want to agree with no preload on Steam. Most part of Russian gamers will pirate the game like they did in a past

[crimson remnant]

damn, I missed arguing with people on the internet. really makes the office job fly by

[north iron]

How do you do that tho?

[limpid hearth]

Release time will be at 18 UTC+1?

[hazy helm]

nay, GSC copied AMK confirmed
may bthey be blessed by the godfathers

[naive fog]

[hazy helm]

bot logs

[lusty fable]

You're just another GSC bootlicker

[north iron]

Oh your a mod

[hazy helm]

yhea

[radiant jewel]

So if they can take artifacts, do artifacts respawn randomly?

[granite mortar]

Glory to AMK team (and Hi_Flyer)

[north iron]

Gz bro

[lofty fern]

lol

[granite mortar]

After emissions

[warm forum]

With blowouts yeah

[hazy helm]

artifacts respawn after a emission

[radiant jewel]

Sweet thank you guys!

[waxen cobalt]

When they go grab artifacts, can we follow them with stealth and kill them to grab it instead?

[hazy helm]

I advise you play the OG games
bery guud games

[west dagger]

Probably

[granite mortar]

No problem
Now go post a silly cat picture in #💬┃en_offtop

[warm forum]

I love banditry

[crimson remnant]

naw but at least I can come up with arguments other than "reeee shut up, bootlicker"

[naive fog]

Based

[tidal sleet]

No wonder the gaming industry is struggling when they see chats like this, the amount of over exaggerated hatred towards even other community members astounds me never mind the actual developers etc

Id love to see even 0.1% of this chat go and develop a game in Ukraine with everything going on, we should be grateful this game even got finished no matter how it runs, if you've paid for this already you know how to refund obviously because some of you are the type that would criticise a million dollars if it was sitting in front of you

Peace out, enjoy being horrible idiots (for the most part) Thanks for all the sensible advice for those who gave it

[warm forum]

Why risk your life when you can steal everything from others who've risked theirs already

[north iron]

Your kinda sus bro, almost like you don't like stalker at all

[finite dragon]

Stalker high seas pirate gamemode confirmed?

[west dagger]

What mutant would make the best topping for a pizza

[crimson remnant]

Do I wish there was a pre-load? Absolutely. Do I have my problems with some things I've heard about the game before it's even launched? Totally. Do I think you're being an unreasonable goober? Also yes.

[north iron]

Flesh

[finite dragon]

Bloodsucker. That calamari would be amazing

[west dagger]

[hardy bear]

I know I’m just chilling lol. Perfectly fine waiting one more day, just want to talk about something else for a change

[west dagger]

I bet those rats taste VILE

[waxen cobalt]

I agree. The first thing he writes when arriving at this chat is something like "GSC should feel the wrath of cancelled preorders"

Like, they literally wish for the company to fail with the game

[north iron]

Bro don't take online chats seriously

[round frost]

What are you talking about. Anyway, didn't see anything of the sort since I joined back.

[snow quail]

They are in for a surprise, if the game is only half as good as it look it would still be better then many others and do just fine.

[tidal sleet]

I'm not, I can make an opinion based on my judgement, some people in here are as toxic as the exclusion zone lol

[north iron]

Maybe he is a citizen of a certain country that won't have access to the game

[tidal sleet]

Most likely

[granite mortar]

[round frost]

Think I miss something, drank too much Cossacks.

[lusty fable]

OK master of all. Explain why preload isn't possible from a technical perspective. I'm waiting.

[finite dragon]

bro you’re STILL going on about that oml

[tidal sleet]

Think you belong on Reddit pal with all the other trolls

[west dagger]

Somebody needs to shut this green goober up

[north iron]

Most of the times I am just goofing off on the chat, if people take it seriously they gonna have a bad time

[crimson remnant]

bro you can't just rearrange the words in my argument when you can't come up with an answer for your own

[round frost]

Kane is in a hurry.

[north iron]

Go back to your hole

[lofty fern]

im gonna throw bolts at you like you're an anomaly, they already sent the reason

[finite dragon]

Even if you’re genuinely excited for the game Jesus Christ you’re gonna be able to download and play it same as everyone else. A preload is just that. It’s not amazing content

[north iron]

Can't u wait 5 days?

[waxen cobalt]

I'll give you a better one. It's GSC's game, they can do whatever the fk they want. You're entitled to nothing, don't forget that. You don't own anyone, you're not a slave trader. Good bye

[wraith socket]

Can you all stop bickering? Talk about the game not each other. That's the toxic part.

[lusty fable]

So u can't answer. Cool

[tidal sleet]

My message wasn't aimed at you! Although I have noticed some people are in here to wind people up and probably won't ever play the game

[west dagger]

That got a giggle out of me

[snow quail]

Who cares what the reason is, knowing it isn't going to change anything. It's GSC's choice. Go play COD or something already.

[granite mortar]

I want Old Concept to be good
But then
It wont be bildo
Its joever

[lofty fern]

bo6 zombies is very very good and feels like a mix of the old and new go grind that nebula camo

[north iron]

In the game stalker 2 heart of Chernobyl, guys like @lusty fable die first

[tidal sleet]

Think you need to message others aswell? I'm voicing my opinion or is that not allowed over the toxicity of some members in here I've been in this server 15mins and it's already difficult to stay a part of

[hardy bear]

The game comes out in less than a week, after a decade in development, I don’t think a 1 day’s difference is too bad between launch and when you get to play it

[lofty fern]

true

[warm forum]

We're taking the Skadovsk boat to the atlantic ocean with this one!!!

[crimson remnant]

Homie if the answer was simple, GSC would have given it. I have limited knowldege here. If I had to venture a guess, Epic is a bottleneck here as it doesn't allow preloading. They would probably have to change something internally and run two separate builds of the game, one that supports pre-loading on steam and one that runs on EGS.

[tidal sleet]

He won't even have it installed, Warzone takes up too much space 😅

[north iron]

Do you guys think there will be a mutant that looks like a orc in game?

[waxen cobalt]

If pseudogiant hits the gym, we might have it

[hardy bear]

We are all excited here, besides, that difference is only meaningful if you choose to watch other people on YouTube day 1, if you avoid content surrounding it then you playing it a day later won’t be any different

[lean quiver]

Russians

[wraith socket]

This isn't a debate. I've asked you nicely to stop all this fighting. Anyone reading our words should be smart enough this applies to everyone, not just you.

[north iron]

Bro, please refrain from talking about other stuff other than Stalker 2 heart of Chernobyl special pre order edition gone gold

[lofty fern]

☝️ actually its only 41gb according to the download on steam

[snow quail]

You giving awful lot of credit towards people there.

[hardy bear]

That’s the launcher only, the actual game is like an extra 90

[silver pagoda]

no DRM dawg

[north iron]

What's DRM?

[snow quail]

Evil stuff

[west dagger]

Designated rifle marksman

[crimson remnant]

I don't agree with the guy on much but to his credit, Cp2077 didn't have DRM and it had a preload.

[north iron]

Noice

[tidal sleet]

Address others then, it just looks like your picking me out the bunch

Your not doing a good job "addressing everyone" only replying to one person....

[round frost]

We don't know yet but most likely 72 hours before release.

[silver pagoda]

CP2077 had GOG DRM even on steam for unpacking

[north iron]

Lol, u a little confused

[west dagger]

I know what I said

[warm forum]

All this arguing over the preload is so pointless, it's either gonna happen or it isn't, but it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen regardless

[crimson remnant]

digital rights management. basically anti-piracy stuff. most commonly denuvo, which barely works, and mostly hurts game performance

[crimson remnant]

gog literally does not allow DRM on their games

[lusty fable]

Nah I'd lead the monolith mate

[north iron]

It won't have denuvo right?

[clever notch]

Well, I have some happy news. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get it through in time, but I am now a proud member of the Ultimate Physical club for S2. ❤️ Congrats to all the people that made this wonderful project come true. I'll see you out there, STALKERS!

[crimson remnant]

if its on GOG it wont have DRM as GOG does not allow that

[spiral stump]

I think Molit had already said everything yesterday

[waxen cobalt]

Nope

[silver pagoda]

Bro you clearly dont know, so please google and stop wasting time

[spiral stump]

Even earlier

[crisp ruin]

Yea

[north iron]

Hehehehe

[spiral stump]

It's literally pinned

Just open the pinned

[crimson remnant]

allow me to DM you on why you are a certified goober

[waxen cobalt]

GOG is DRM-Free. Stop spreading misinformation

Literally comes with an OFFLINE installer

[north iron]

But stalker will have drm

[marsh linden]

The main problem is build leak, I guess. When you preload the game, you have all game files but no exe file to launch it, but it's easy to make when you have build

[crimson remnant]

no. because it is releasing on gog. which does not allow their games to have DRM.

[waxen cobalt]

I don't think so, but I cannot confirm, so source: Trust me Bro

[north iron]

We saw it on the trailers, you can even put a under barrel shot gun on them

[finite dragon]

“Avast ye loner and fear me artefact!”

[warm forum]

Lmao

[silver pagoda]

Ok nerds, CP2077 uses Galaxy DRM on online installs, aka when you download the game, please educate yourselves and stop wasting my time, I am the president of a country, yet I am still wasting time on clueless people about ''wahh wahh why S2 has no preload waah waahhh I programmed a day off my work wahhh wahhh''

[west dagger]

I literally just got an email from gog an hour ago saying they don’t use drm 💀

[silver pagoda]

You are not important, and preload is not important, deal with it and go do something else

[north iron]

Noice

[waxen cobalt]

President of what? Morons? nice

[gaunt basin]

Woah watch out we have a bada55 here

[warm forum]

Literally though people acting like earth is gonna implode on november 21st and they only have 1 day to play stalker 2

[north iron]

Guys, pls talk about stalker 2 shadow of Pripyat

[crimson remnant]

gog galaxy has a "drm" in the same way that steam has a "drm." as in, encrypted downloads. gog games do not allow DRM software. it is only present on the launcher. buy straight off the site and you won't have a DRM.

[waxen cobalt]

Some people here are actually made out of sugar and one day after release, it will rain inside their houses

[silver pagoda]

Listen bro, I have a bunch of angry peasants from my country here at my presidential office crying about taxes, I dont have time for you, CB2077 uses galaxy DRM, either deal with it or make a complaint form to my secretary

[north iron]

Bro no one cares

[west dagger]

What is this prune colored goober on about

[crimson remnant]

president of suhgonda

[crisp ruin]

[silver pagoda]

Long story short: Stalker 2 cant be preloaded because it lacks DRM, there is nothing you can statistically do about this and you are not important, call your boss and tell him you will be flipping burgers on 20th and you wont take the day off, now excuse me I need to drink some wine

[crisp ruin]

Let's talk about something else than that topic

[north iron]

Ok

[crisp ruin]

gud

[silver pagoda]

YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY GOOD LUCK CHARM, REMEMBER?
ITS AN EMPTY SHELL 🐚
DECIDED TO PLAY SOLDIER?! WITH ME?!
DMYTRO AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING ABOUT A CERTAIN PUZZLE WE FOUND IN THE ZONE
BUT WE CANT QUITE SEEM TO GET ALL THE PIECES TO FIT
MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT
IT REMINDED ME THAT WE USED TO BE PUPPETS
I TOOK JUST ONE AWKWARD STEP AND MY WHOLE WORLD PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS
IM SORRY, STRIDER
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
THAT WAS THE DAY THE PSI FIELDS WERE TURNED OFF
SUDDENLY, THE VOICE OF MONOLITH WAS GONE!
I FELT AS IF I WAS AWAKENING FROM A YEARS-LONG COMA!
AND THROUGH THE SCOPE, I SAW THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER FALL
WE HAVE A SIMPLE CHOICE! 🕴️
SIT BACK, AND JUST WAIT FOR ANOTHER SUPER EMISSION
OR TAKE A CHANCE, AND GET CONTROL OF THE ANOMALOUS ENERGY
ONLY I DIDNT CHOOSE THAT PATH
UNLIKE YOU

[north iron]

Do you guys think there will be more than one energy drink in game?

[gaunt basin]

Bros mind is lost to the zone

[waxen cobalt]

Ahh so you're that guy that keep spamming the wall of text

[crimson remnant]

ok but one more thing
are we sure this guy isn't hurrikanes alt account?
ok im done

[crisp ruin]

Faust's Love Letter to Strider

[north iron]

I would really like to have like a monster energy drink in there

[lofty fern]

unrelated but i just finished watching that 35 minute deep dive they released a few months ago and it just makes me more confident in the preorder i placed last week

[lusty fable]

Steam encrypts preloaded files

[west dagger]

I bet it’ll be a mod

Gotta get me my white monster

[hardy bear]

You hadn’t seen it before?

[lofty fern]

no, i was wondering where people got extra footage from lol

[north iron]

Judging on ur profile I'm not surprised

[hardy bear]

Oh my you were missing out

[crimson remnant]

alright im heading into my faction chat, that's enough internet arguing for the day

[lofty fern]

?

[hardy bear]

That and the dev commentary they showed at gamescom were what made me hopeful

[lofty fern]

i watched the hour long documentary and that made me preorder

[north iron]

It would also be cool if u could like build a camp in game with like a tent

[round frost]

I've waited for more than 12 years so I don't mind waiting for the installation to be done.

[hardy bear]

God that making of documentary was heartbreaking

[lofty fern]

i was already intersted in the game before they anounced 2

[north iron]

And then you could fish too

[silver pagoda]

I am very happy for no preload just to see you all seethe and mald over such an insignificant fact

[craggy jewel]

my pc bout to sound like an e85 ls7 tryn cold start trying to run this on minimum settings

[north iron]

Ok Mr. President

[north iron]

I mean, look at that pic

Looks good

[late yarrow]

Let me get a show of hands who’s ready to play STALKER 2 on PC Wednesday???

[clever notch]

I am

[lofty fern]

🙌

[craggy jewel]

im not ready my pc is gonna recreate the reactor 4 meltdown

[graceful pebble]

🙌

[clever notch]

I cant wait to stop Anarchists and Bandits

[lofty fern]

what specs u got ?

[solid dome]

Hello. Are you willing to donate to Krezzin to buy SSD? DM ME.

[north iron]

Depends If I can finish the download that day

[waxen cobalt]

Same here! I'll be riding Geforce Now for this one

[crimson remnant]

steam deck gang

[west dagger]

Kill monolith
Kill renegades
Kill military
Kill bandits

[north iron]

Hmm

[craggy jewel]

geforce now looked enticing but my internet is very slow im just gonna raw dog and see what happens

[lofty fern]

wait so are the system req they posted WITH or WITHOUT upscalers, since ive heard both and idk what to believe

[crimson remnant]

with.

[waxen cobalt]

Giloxe do you want do join the Monolith? You can ask a mod and they can give you the role, so you can unlock the faction-specific chat

[round frost]

[lofty fern]

maybe they shouldve added that as a note somewhere on the picture then ?

[round frost]

[graceful pebble]

"yes"

[obtuse quartz]

with upscalers