⭐┃nospoilers_general

[thin wave]

i just delete games if i dont play them. Btw i need to format my pc before stalker 2 so everything is smooth

[spare cairn]

would it be cool to make a website that is a basic guide to everything related to stalker, with like easter eggs, caches, quests, and guides for like 100%

[glacial crag]

I do some graphic design and video editing as well as play games and 64GB is perfect for me

[dark sedge]

3 dabloons pal

[still onyx]

The game cannot use all 32gb as your system also needs some ram to run too

[dark sedge]

3 rubles pal

[reef raptor]

good luck with that man
I have plenty of storage left so im chill

[severe quail]

skibidi toilet easter egg in CNPP

[dark sedge]

hell yeah

[spare cairn]

I need to upgrade to 64gb, im starting to fill up with my projects

[severe quail]

21tb nas gang

[spare cairn]

lol, maybe i could learn to do some of that

[dark sedge]

S.K.I.B.I.D.I 2: Heart of G-MAN

[rotund gale]

[hollow plank]

Save some storage for the rest of us

[glacial crag]

For me it was night and day difference in terms of workflow

[lethal orchid]

Strelok dies btw

[spare cairn]

playing metro to get hyped? lol i did that when the trilogy was coming to console

[thorny junco]

Guyz

[lethal orchid]

They gave me an early key and I played the whole game

[spare cairn]

i def gotta do it

[lethal orchid]

Galanga

[dark sedge]

lies lies lies

[thorny junco]

When do we get email steam code for physical order people

[untold salmon]

can youhave sex with richter

[hollow mulch]

Day of release

[thin wave]

nooooooooo

[worthy lagoon]

tmrw or the 20th

[spare cairn]

he already dies in my call of pripyat playthrough idc lol

[thorny junco]

Guuung

[dark sedge]

I still need to replay stalker 2 master difficulty for the 409th time

[little quartz]

i will get for free and buy if i liek

[lethal orchid]

Yeah but only at night

[untold salmon]

hell yeah

[rotund gale]

[stray zodiac]

fellow sn850x enjoyer

[reef raptor]

I bought all of the 3 metro books and all of the 3 games a few weeks ago so I am doing everything metro related to pass the time
but yeah im at exodus right now and at the final book at the same time.. I finished exodus ages ago though so im trying to finish it on ranger hardcore with all achievements to 100% it! 30+ hours and I just got to the summer level lol

[little quartz]

huge fan of the OT so if i even remotely enjoy s2 i'll pay for it : 3

[spare cairn]

its been 6 minutes and i have beat the game in every language possible

[prime spade]

didn't know this was amazon support

[dark sedge]

alright pal

[thin wave]

best book in ur opinion?

[thorny junco]

Thanks, would anyone like a goldfish

[dark sedge]

i know stalker clear sky by muscle memory and heart

[thorny junco]

[spare cairn]

I played the hell out of it in January, good games

[glacial crag]

Also why are people wanting a longer day and night cycle in s2? I feel like spending an hour in each is more than enough

[little quartz]

cs is the best one

[dark sedge]

stalker clear sky will always be the best stalker game

[thorny junco]

Prime specimen right here who want a goldfish

[dark sedge]

in my heart atleast

[little quartz]

my only complaint with CS is the reduced mutant spawns

[warm forum]

It's 40/20 minutes day/night, 1 hour is a 24 cycle

[spare cairn]

stronger than me, i had one skill issue and used all the community hate towards the game as an excuse to uninstall and keep playing COP

[hollow mulch]

Basement dwellers

[glacial crag]

Oh is it??? My bad

[spare cairn]

im upset they removed the corvettes

[floral frigate]

Regret not playing thru all the games again before tmrw

[warm forum]

There'll be mods to change that though I'm sure

[swift drift]

Same

[hollow mulch]

Indeed

[warm forum]

People stress a lot about little things that can easily be modded / changed later

[spare cairn]

i cant wait to see the overhaul mods, if people can mangle Pripyat like that, god damn, we are about to have a new universe

[hollow mulch]

[glacial crag]

Yeah if it's only 20 minutes than I'll definitely be changing that with mods

[warm forum]

Seeing how the base game will be is much more important IMO

[maiden flume]

You've been promoted! Congratulations, you'll find your first check in the mail by the end of the week

[reef raptor]

so far, the final book is an absolute gem
I got to page 263 out of 500~ so I am half way through but so far I love it a lot

My tier list:

1. Metro 2035
2. Metro 2033
3. Metro 2034

[undone sun]

Is there some information about the XRay engine on internet? I wanna read about it ahahahaha

[reef raptor]

hell yeah

[finite dragon]

Guys start playing games in 20 fps capped now so stalker feels smooth when it launches in 2 days.

[spare cairn]

silly guy

[spare cairn]

actually hella smart, just start playing oldschool runescape or diablo 2, 24/7

[hollow mulch]

If I was on my old laptop 6700H / GTX 970M

[pearl ore]

I’m going to run it with no upscaling, see if my investments paid off.

[rotund gale]

whats your build

[pearl olive]

the one trick Nvidia doesn't want you to know

[dreamy gate]

Someone say Diablo 2? Baal runs anyone?

[spare cairn]

im gonna push the game to max settings to see if my pre built from best buy really works

[dark sedge]

please, let my computer be able to run stalker 2

[glacial crag]

Your PC will turn into an anomaly

[undone sun]

Its just that the coop conversation and the suffering of modding that in the 3 games started to get me interested in the game engine

[spare cairn]

ill run some diablo 4, i havnt play diablo 2 since i was 7

[royal stratus]

Im addicted to generated frames, cant go back

[pearl ore]

I got a 5800X3D, an RX7900GRE and 32 gb of RAM.

[spare cairn]

sell your organs if it doesnt

[hollow mulch]

Games kinda rely on that tech nowadays so good luck

[dark sedge]

sir yes sir

[raven estuary]

I know when playing this game I will be playing from time to time songs from sabaton who is with me

[hollow mulch]

Solid build tho

[dreamy gate]

Lmao you’ll be find.

[thin wave]

also u can play it on geforce now

[spare cairn]

the male body has an excess of useless ones, drink enough alchohol and that number increases

[reef raptor]

how to play stalker 2 at like 60 fps on a gtx 970 tutorial

1. play at 800x600!!!
2. lowest graphics known to mankind + go to the unreal engine config and turn everything downnnn
3. put fsr on the ultra performance!!
4. lossless scaling as the cherry on top

you can now enjoy stalker 2 being able to not see a thing from max 5 meters away

[pearl ore]

I usually get around 60 fps without upscaling
Edit: on UE5 epic settings

[spare cairn]

i have silly specs

[thin wave]

i played cp 2077 on geforce now and it is fine. I guess they upgraded it after these few years so it will be better than playing on ultra low 30fps

[glacial crag]

I wish we could have a message board on our PDAs in-game. Be able to message each other like how we're doing it now

[grave wraith]

i can almost guarantee a top of the line build will not need upscaling to run this game

[spare cairn]

Windows 11 Operating System
Windows 11 has all the power and security of Windows 10 with a redesigned and refreshed look. It also comes with new tools, sounds, and apps. Every detail has been considered. All of it comes together to bring you a refreshing experience on your PC.

Intel Core i7-14700F processor
Powerful eight-core, eight-way processing performance.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics
Driven by 8GB GDDR6 dedicated video memory to quickly render high-quality images for videos and games.

32GB system memory for intense multitasking and gaming
Reams of high-bandwidth DDR4 RAM to smoothly run your graphics-heavy PC games and video-editing applications, as well as numerous programs and browser tabs all at once.

2TB solid state drive (SSD) for storage space and speed

i copied this from the best buy website

[hollow mulch]

When it launches I’ll let you know

[glacial crag]

sameee

[grave wraith]

sounds good, i gotta wait a few weeks to get my new pc so that would be some nice info

[hollow mulch]

What you building ?

[grave wraith]

4080 super, 9800x3d 32GB RAM in the Hyte y60 case

[hollow mulch]

Very nice

[spare cairn]

i was met with that when trying to buy the ultimate physical yesterday, i cried

[grave wraith]

from a 2080 super 9700k :^)

[hollow mulch]

Idk how I feel about your case choice but otherwise very nice

[pearl ore]

The 9800X3D got me foaming at the mouth

[raven estuary]

Well this would be one of the early messages….Big ugly sob at building in blank blank and his name is fluffy that loves hugs lol

[nimble cipher]

jubilation_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow mulch]

Bad man

[frigid anchor]

Friendly Reminder

[lethal solar]

does anyone know how big Stalker 2 is going to be? i dont fully trust steam's "160 gb"

[grave wraith]

LOL oops i said f it and got it cause it was free

[glacial crag]

I love my Hyte y60 case. One thing I would highly recommend is getting a custom side panel with vents for the GPU. Unless you're doing a custom water loop

[pearl ore]

Wolf is judge jury and executioner

[dark sedge]

make sure you vote guys

[hollow mulch]

Oh awesome

[grave wraith]

SAMEEE

[spare cairn]

is there a role channel? i wanna pick my factions

[grave wraith]

do u know where i could find that? might order it ASAP

[worthy lagoon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561149828503961600/1304155912780644352/lv_0_20241001003025.gif

[glacial crag]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1486764631/hyte-y60-custom-vented-side-panel?click_key=89972a36c28f00b89a95751e552583b656ff339d%3A1486764631&click_sum=9e33e982&ref=search2_top_narrowing_intent_modules_top_rated-1&sts=1

[dull hazel]

👍🏻

[prime spade]

150 gb's

[spare cairn]

that's diabolical

[grave wraith]

TYVM ❤️

[prime spade]

literally, it's massive, but not uncommon for a new game in 2024

[hollow mulch]

What’s even going on over there lol

[glacial crag]

NP

[ivory smelt]

soon 4090 isnt top of the line😅

[spare cairn]

its a massive game, it better be good, i got 2 TB

[fading fractal]

gonna start making some space

[pearl ore]

When I was a boy I had a full tower steel PC case and it weighed 45 pounds without parts

[prime spade]

I've got 800 gb's on my good SSD before I have to start unloading everything onto my shittier SSD

[raven estuary]

Ok will delete call of duty for this

[fading fractal]

thatll free up a few terabytes

[knotty ridge]

I'm so excited for STALKER 2 but I'm nervous if the current real life decade has particularly influenced the game, maybe not DEI-wise perse, but if it's going to impact the writing or atmosphere of the zone.
I kind of liked the washedoutness of the original trilogy, so I'm wondering if in conjunction with the beautiful greenery we see in S2 we'll see some of the older more yellowish-tinge bareness of the old Zone.

[grave wraith]

will be a sad day

[hollow mulch]

Pretty sure that’s how much mine weighs now

Or 40lbs iirc

[grave wraith]

@glacial crag do any of the patterns have better airflow or just preference?

[fading fractal]

I have a teragig M.2 and a teragig SSD and they're both filled

[ivory smelt]

after that day the requirements goes up

[pearl ore]

He’s a big boy, he eats his frames.

[dull hazel]

teragig baby lets go

[raven estuary]

War never changes quote from fallout

[worthy lagoon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1266969153709805588/1305762550918549534/watermark.gif

[hollow mulch]

What in the politico, relax my friend , everything will be alright

[ivory smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-sure-john-candy-ok-gif-15377612

[glacial crag]

It's really just preference. I got the slash option and it's working flawlessly

[lethal solar]

it better be worth it, my ssd is already screaming

[hardy turtle]

been playing call of pripyat coop with xrMPE, it's incredible omg

[worthy lagoon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561149828503961600/1304199840800182395/lv_0_20241107223718.gif

[grave wraith]

sweet def getting one

[drowsy estuary]

b-b-but then what will I do if I can't reeeeeeee about a random line of dialogue making something "unplayable" lmao

[fading fractal]

you sortof described going from Fallout New Vegas to Fallout 4

[pearl ore]

You can’t just say per - se and get away with it!

[knotty ridge]

yeeeee this is a good analogy.

[fading fractal]

Perchance.

[spare cairn]

coding is so much fun, i love making website

[glacial crag]

When you receive it be sure to actually read the "Before Installing" instructions. It's made of acryllic asnd can easily break if you're not careful

[raven estuary]

I bet there will be day 1 patch’s that will make it larger but hell is a single player game with a lot of assets and story detail compared to pay to win call of duty and other crappy online only games

[knotty ridge]

erm, what the sigma??

[pearl ore]

So you’re saying to get roughy with it, make it submissive.

[glacial crag]

[grave wraith]

will do. which glass panels do u remove to clean out the case? all of them? i usually use a computer shop vac

[obsidian trail]

You can finally send Images here ?

Nvm

[obsidian trail]

Untill Image perms are allowed here...

[glacial crag]

I just remove the main side panel. No real reeason to remove all of them unless you're installing a new AIO or something

[obsidian trail]

This chat will be gay af

[crisp ruin]

only mods and content creators do

[reef raptor]

[crisp ruin]

[obsidian trail]

Sounds pretty sus ngl

[grave wraith]

sweet thanks for the help dude

[worthy lagoon]

that includes you

[olive stream]

Hello everyone!

[crisp ruin]

[reef raptor]

anomaly trading guy ripoff

[obsidian trail]

Fuсk(you)

[glacial crag]

Np! Good Hunting.

[warm forum]

lmao

[lethal solar]

the hole thing kinda reminds me of Titanfall 2 with the fact it's a game focused on the single player with multiplayer as a secondary bonus

[hollow mulch]

Ha gayyyy

[pearl ore]

“Sidorovich, I’ve been waiting for this a long time”
Ashes lit sausage into One Direction brand ash tray

[obsidian trail]

Shut up

[hollow mulch]

[glacial crag]

UMAD???

[obsidian trail]

Anyways,Imma go back to the cooler chat room,cya later

[lethal solar]

hey

[ocean hornet]

hi

[hollow mulch]

:salt:

[cyan ivy]

Ffs why is there an update the size of the whole game

[severe quail]

does epic games have preload? heard something about they might have it already?

[olive stream]

How does one choose their faction?

[pearl needle]

i just bought more ram for my pc, it's coming tomorrow

[glacial crag]

Be willing to do unspeakable things

[hollow mulch]

You know you can just download more

[olive stream]

Oh my!!

[glacial crag]

I put mine in the oven whenever I need to upgrade

[visual nova]

Yeah... Not sure why the Xbox version is doing an update the size of the entire game more or less, even after you've completed the preload lmao

[hollow mulch]

Copying files

[crisp ruin]

ofc that's not real, don't try

[raven estuary]

Yep and that is one of the major things I like on this game because too many games rolled out a story that can last 4 hours but then the rest was online only so story 20 gigs then online 150 gigs

[visual nova]

@hollow mulch is that really it?

[hollow mulch]

Please don’t actually try to download more RAM, Issa joke

[olive stream]

Too late. I have 512gb of RAM now. Thank you!

[hollow mulch]

Possibly

[full fern]

Guys, does anyone know if Stalker 2 has night vision?

[cyan ivy]

Can you upload some for me

[native ibex]

The game launches 11:00AM Est? Whyyyy... could wake up and play it if it launched at 12:00AM

[hollow mulch]

Think it’s rare but I know nothing

[glacial crag]

I'd imagine so. Wasn't there a suit that had night vision in the old games?

[kindred hatch]

so disappointed in you guys

[olive stream]

Wake up earlier

[raven estuary]

My stupid response from me yes if you are playing in a dark room so the tv or monitor illuminates the room to see in the dark

[native ibex]

How's that help?

[full fern]

xd

[kindred hatch]

the questions about the game are getting even more brainrotten

[hollow mulch]

[lethal solar]

Stalker 2's singleplayer could easily have over 100 hours of content because while most open world games have barely any real playtime I could easily explore the zone without stopping

[native ibex]

You'll be bored

[glacial crag]

To better prepare for the Zone

[full fern]

I don't really know, but I would love for there to be NVG goggles, it makes perfect sense.

[spare cairn]

devs estimated 30 hours of nonstop main story

[spare cairn]

ehhhhhhhh, yes and no

[raven estuary]

Better board then hearing screaming kids all day on online only shooters

[worn oar]

Hell yeah! Time to live in the zone

[glacial crag]

Yeah I'd love NVGs as it's separate thing to be able to wear with any suit

[full fern]

yep

[raven estuary]

I got to do it…..the zone at autozone

[glacial crag]

GET IN THE ZONE!

[prisma goblet]

I hope for gamma 2

[lethal solar]

the waiting zone at the A&E

[worn oar]

I sentence you 999999 years of gamma nonstop

[raven estuary]

Waiting zone at airport tsa

[glacial crag]

[lethal solar]

waiting zone before Stalker 2 release because time keeps getting slower the closer it gets to wednesday

[native ibex]

We must pray

[livid valley]

💯💯

[indigo marsh]

You are pure evil

[raven estuary]

Yep and if it’s a mechanical clock the clicks get slower

[prisma goblet]

Joking I never played it

[olive stream]

Ive gotten so impatient I started working extra hours at work to pass the time faster ://

[worn oar]

Okay, I'll reduce it to only 99years !! Fine now?

[lethal solar]

and if it's a geiger counter the clicks get faster

[glacial crag]

Better

[raven estuary]

lol

[prisma goblet]

It doesn't work like that bro..

[indigo marsh]

Even 1 second is torture. You must really hate him.

[olive stream]

And if it's a metronome the clicks gets as fast and slow as you like!

[worn oar]

Okay fine! I'll pardon him this time

[indigo marsh]

I didn't say that you should pardon him.

[prisma goblet]

Imagine If the game had NFTs

[civic blade]

10/10 would pay for NFTs again

[olive stream]

@prisma goblet its better than sitting at home with not much going on

[glacial crag]

I want a mod to feature Tommy Wiseau as a stalker that you come across and as you are approaching him he says, "I did not hit her. I did not. Oh hi Mark."

[worn oar]

I sentence you then instead! 1000000 years of Gamma, anomaly with gunslinger, and true stalker. Non stop, till the world ends

[dapper elm]

Will there be nfts

[worn oar]

Hell nah

[civic blade]

the nft is the gamma we played along the way or something

[prisma goblet]

True stalker is not that baaaad

[dapper elm]

No nft is 2024 is crazy work

[civic blade]

spend money by product consume next product ect

[rocky shadow]

@worn oar We are First GLOBALY on steam

[worn oar]

Not For True Stalkers in case you all wondering what's NFTs

[sacred igloo]

I did naahhhht

[worn oar]

[glacial crag]

That is why I'm avoiding Off The Grid like the plague

[lethal solar]

ENERGY DRINK REFERENCE?!?!?!?

[grave wraith]

i read on a ruski site that true stalker is adding A-life

[dapper elm]

Off the grid is goat for mfts

[raven estuary]

You here the message do not approach the check point then you run at full steam saying loot loot loot

[indigo marsh]

You can't defeat me Rahmi. I have a potato 🥔

[torpid yoke]

How much fps can you get on series s???

[worn oar]

I would sentence myself 10000 years of nonstop if I could

[grave wraith]

30 now, later will be 60 fps performance mode devs saifd

[torpid yoke]

30 max?

[prisma goblet]

There's no a life in the mod and it's one of its biggest flaws

[civic blade]

out of all the games...for some reason stalker gets so much hate for there being such a massive mod community and so much gatekeeping for the originals for some reason lol

[rocky shadow]

i have 40 cans home

[torpid yoke]

Great

[grave wraith]

yep! im not gonna give it another try until they add it

[rocky shadow]

maybe more

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-emoji-gif-25749073

Not potatoes

[ionic hornet]

Are links allowed here? I uploaded a bunch of pics of the UE contents to reddit.

[worn oar]

Noooo

[dapper elm]

Is that an nft

[civic blade]

yes...pay $50,000 usd now

[worn oar]

Sentence me with one you greedy toad

[rocky shadow]

you live too far bro.

[hazy helm]

anyway

[worn oar]

Go back to sleep Vasim

Based ping as usual

[rocky shadow]

i sent it here like two minutes ago and noone responded

[vagrant current]

Who is the person who deleted my message in #📜┃s2_suggestions I just want him to explain to me why

[sterile otter]

I don't think a lot of people use reviews to determine if a game has good mechanics that are enjoyable ...
They rather want confirmation and benchmarks to see how the performance is and how buggy the game is.

Its also just simply a red flag >.< at least in my opinion. To have Review Embargos so close to launch.

[glacial crag]

I'll give it a week and the CS2 is back on top again

[hazy helm]

no image perms

[rocky shadow]

i wrote it in text Basim.

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-and-serious-sam-croteam-gnaar-gif-26160540

[worn oar]

[crisp ruin]

GET REKT COD

[worn oar]

Skill issue

[rocky shadow]

damm. Looks like that

[ionic hornet]

This backpack is actually pretty sweeeeet

[glacial crag]

I'm just glad S2 is getting it's moment to shine!

[worn oar]

Next time, tell me about it, perhaps then we can beat vasim to the pin contest

[rocky shadow]

damm it RAHMI. WHo do you think i pinged in that message

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[worn oar]

Who?

[vagrant current]

Who is the person who deleted my message in #📜┃s2_suggestions, I just want him to explain to me why

[hazy helm]

I assume yours was about french dub

[rocky shadow]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[worn oar]

Skill issue! I admit my weaknesses

[raven estuary]

Look to the moderator for the channel

[rocky shadow]

fair enough

[dense hatch]

what was it

it was probably repeated

[worn oar]

I also blame Kuro for the mass pings haha

[rocky shadow]

@worn oar we both lost to the incredibely based Basim

[worn oar]

I missed yours cuz I though it was his

[vagrant current]

Yes, but why is it wrong?

[rocky shadow]

i see

[worn oar]

Check offtop and you'll see

[hazy helm]

follow the rules for posting in the suggestion channel, they are pinned
+
make sure your suggestion is not a repeat

we will remove anything that is not following these 2

[native ibex]

Will this game provide me with meaning and a sense of self actualization?

[dense hatch]

yet the strip club suggestion is still on there

[glacial crag]

HEY. That's a very valid suggestion okay?!?!

[crisp ruin]

[hazy helm]

its valid, however dumb it may be

actually

wait

[raven estuary]

Wow for real that is a random ohh what the heck type of suggestion lol

[sturdy sky]

Are we gonna be able to upgrade our edition to ultimate later on

[hazy helm]

I remember that someone had already recommended a strip club

before

[rocky shadow]

damm, thats what i call chaos

[sturdy sky]

If so, I'm gonna get the second most expensive and upgrade for the skins later

[raven estuary]

I heard there was to my memory

[severe quail]

you remember it because you yearn for it

[hybrid dust]

do we know the exact time when stalker 2 comes out? or we only know that its gonna come out on wednesday

[untold salmon]

we know now, 4pm gmt

[echo burrow]

I dont understand why xbox game pass can have preload but steam dont 😦

[vagrant current]

Okay I Will retry later thank

[fathom garden]

i have seen someone on youtube uploading a reel while his stalker 2 was downloading on xbox

[untold salmon]

piracy protection

[glacial crag]

DRM if I'm not mistaken

[raven estuary]

So far from all the messages and time zone map from developers it will depend where you live look at todays announcement on the Announcement tab in discord

[fathom garden]

ah now i understand

[ivory sinew]

They don’t. Only the console does.

[echo burrow]

Friend told me he has been able to predownlaod it. Ill have to ask him again

[glacial crag]

Yeah that's what they're asking

[round frost]

Just pre-ordered Ultimatium!

[north violet]

Will we be able to upgrade our game to the Ultimate Edition post-launch? The person who gifted me a pre-order only had enough for the Deluxe Edition.

[indigo marsh]

Huh

[ivory sinew]

If they’re on PC they downloaded a 10mb file, far from the 160GB for the game

[glacial crag]

I believe they have plans in the works for you to be able to

[ivory sinew]

That is in the plans according to #📜┃gsc-answers

[visual rune]

Why is everybody asking about the coop so stupid

[jaunty pebble]

The PC Game pass downloads the 10-20 mb placeholder to remind the app that it will download later

[raven estuary]

Hopes and dreams of folks

[severe quail]

will there be coop

[austere shuttle]

xdd

[dense hatch]

they didn't bother checking

same with the preload and physical edition questions

[glacial crag]

I wonder what the multiplayer will be like if it isn't co-op. I'm hoping it's not just a simple team deathmatch thing

[echo burrow]

You are right. just saw it via screen share.

[austere shuttle]

Imagine speed of downloading on release time

[north violet]

@glacial crag @ivory sinew Thanks you two, that's something I was worried about. It's silly, but I really want those cosmetics.

[jaunty pebble]

It will probably be simple team deathmatch

[raven estuary]

Will there be a chicken coop in the game

[dense hatch]

it's like the trilogy, so TDM

[jaunty pebble]

but we dont know what they are planning for it

[crisp ruin]

Lemme open up about this; from what I know Cyberpunk 2077's days, pre-load gives you encrypted files on your PC, to decrypt waits the time. But if you have some program to decrypt files, you can play early than waiting release day is. This is what happened when people started to leak Cyberpunk 2077 gameplays and lore, few days early. This is why Stalker 2 doesn't have pre-load due to what happened to Cyberpunk 2077. To stop leaking game early.

[jaunty pebble]

So they might do whatever besides Co-op

[dense hatch]

the TDM might go hard, like the trilogy but more consistently active

[glacial crag]

True true. Different game modes like CTF and King of the Hill could be fun

[dense hatch]

artifact hunt should be fun

[glacial crag]

Yessss

[pearl olive]

This RAM I downloaded made my PC slower, tf

[glacial crag]

Or maybe like a VIP game mode where you have to kill their VIP

[untold salmon]

what ram

[dense hatch]

I'm not sure how they'd balance it to be fun

[visual rune]

Yeah sounds like you got a bad ram

[jaunty pebble]

but it sounds like it would be fun

[untold salmon]

exosuit + artifact

[pearl olive]

knew I should have downloaded the 2 sticks sequentially

[celest blaze]

Fr always one at a time

[dense hatch]

yeah but you could get some moron who steps immediately into a whirligig

[untold salmon]

i missed "downloaded" at first lol

[glacial crag]

That'd be hilarious tbh

[jaunty pebble]

thats the fun of it, VIP has to be aware of their surroundings

[granite mortar]

You have to download from russian and chinese websites
They still have fast ram in stock
Western sites are all sold out
The older the site looks, the better, because less people visit it, meaning more ram in stock

[round frost]

I need a Nervous Squirrel Ore-Some Volts to be in total immersion of the zone.

[dense hatch]

the first couple times, the 80th less so

[coarse sparrow]

guys, my friend on Xbox had to re-download his entire game preload from scratch today, big patch incoming?

[pearl olive]

ohhh yeaaa I did Western Digital thats an oopsie

[granite mortar]

Smh smh

[glacial crag]

The way to balance that is if they die like that as VIP, the VIP just goes to a different teammate

[dense hatch]

probably some last minute changes

[dense hatch]

so it's just TDM except there's one stronger player?

do you mean specifically dying to an anomaly

[glacial crag]

Not necessarily stronger but the VIP is the only way to gain points when defeated

[glacial crag]

Nah just any death

[dense hatch]

I mean the same problem still applies

[visual nova]

Legit can't figure out why the Xbox preload is doing a 135GB update after a 145GB install. lol

[dense hatch]

you could get unlucky and then people it picks are the worst teammates

[jaunty pebble]

probably a major fix or some changes to the game

[dense hatch]

probably some last min stuff

[glacial crag]

Well thats the fun and randomness of VIP. I had the most fun in that gamemode back in the Halo 3 days

[visual nova]

135GB is practically the size of the entire game, usually when you patch something it's not that insane.

[dense hatch]

could be an alien colonial marines moment

someone noticed something small that snowballed so they fixed it before launch

unlike alien colonial marines

[solid cosmos]

It's just replacing files that were already downloaded.

[untold salmon]

i forgot i get my money from ebay tomorrow

[dense hatch]

man I hope they release the version from a couple months ago

that'd be great, seeing it before they did some extra bug fixing

[coarse sparrow]

I am honestly surprised that final build hasnt leaked anywhere, good job GSC

[visual rune]

That's why no pre load lol

[safe pivot]

I've already found one guy selling "offline copies" of the game for 10€ on ebay though, wonder what his plan is and if he already has a crack

and yes i reported the profile

[dense hatch]

obviously a scam

[finite dragon]

It was a good call in hindsight. There are people who are playing early and showing off some bugs and saying that hurr durr this is cp2077

[visual rune]

Sound like bro selling the leaked 2021 version 💀

[dense hatch]

where

[finite dragon]

Just go through twitter lol

[dense hatch]

I don't use that app

[devout radish]

Does any think here the Steamdeck will run stalker 2?

[glacial crag]

The bugs can NOT be as bad as the bugs that were present in CP2077.

[finite dragon]

HoC is releasing on GoG, so there's literally nothing to crack

[solid cosmos]

Probably not.

[finite dragon]

hahahhaha no

[devout radish]

Haha ok, enjoying the SoC now on my steamdeck a lot

[copper haven]

Holy crap, Steam is letting me pre-load wtf????

[dense hatch]

so real

[worldly yarrow]

Tbf I played cyberpunk release day till I finished the game and had no issues whatsoever.

[fleet beacon]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-kid-happy-cant-wait-thrilled-gif-16188743

[dense hatch]

haters will say it's fake

[copper haven]

True

[fleet beacon]

2 more days!!!

[worldly yarrow]

But every stalker game had some bugs.

[robust tulip]

No coop for stalker that kinda SAD(((

[copper haven]

No coop YET

[dense hatch]

yeah but they're mostly not too bad

[visual rune]

I didn't see any at all

[still ridge]

Meanwhile they’re probably not even close to cyberpunk bugs

[robust tulip]

Check GSC answers

[copper haven]

Check what modders do

[dense hatch]

A lot of the issues of SoC are related to the development of the game, like the god awful freedom questline

[copper haven]

While playing as Skif can I eat that bolt he holds?

[robust tulip]

Bro official coop and modded coop is not the same thing

[north violet]

Yeah, Shadow of Chernobyl had a very rough development.

[copper haven]

You're right, modded is generally better. Example? Elden Ring Seamless Coop vs vanilla coop

[glacial crag]

You underestimate their power!

[safe pivot]

so the game will only be downloadable at 4pm on release day my local timezone then? ooof. with my internet the download will probably take 15 to 20 hours depending on the size

[dense hatch]

it's a shame nobody's made a SoC co-op mod because it's on x-ray

[worthy lagoon]

it's a different engine

[robust tulip]

They probably gonna add the same multiplayer gamemodes like in previous parts(((

[worthy lagoon]

there's the story though

in a xrmpe mod

[copper haven]

I think the big reason why is, it would be a waste of resources and time for the people with the skill and technical 'knowhow' to do for the older games.

[dense hatch]

finished

[dense hatch]

there's a CoP co-op mod

[copper haven]

xrmpe at least is still actively in dev. The newest version was released like a week ago

[dense hatch]

it's not finished though

[worn oar]

Yeah! It was release last week

[dense hatch]

wait which one are you referring to

I meant the SoC isn't finished, it ends at yantar if I recall correctly

[north violet]

I have heard that FromSoft has been paying attention to that mod and may rework their multiplayer system in future games because of it.

[copper haven]

And depending on how Stalker 2 goes on release and info comes out regarding modding for the game, it either will be finished or it won't.

[robust tulip]

Elden Ring and Stalker is not the same thing but i hope that wont cause troubles for modders

[glacial crag]

Oof, we'll be waiting for the good mods to release in like 10 years at this rate

[copper haven]

Miyazaki did mention something like that.

[grave wraith]

i beat all main game and DLC with that mod it was unbelievably seemless as advertised lol

[tall swallow]

elden ring had a coop to build off of, stalker wont

[copper haven]

Honestly such a good way to exp the game.

[nimble cipher]

jubilation_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[north violet]

Yeah I have a friend who moonlights as a V-Tuber/Streamer and he and the rest of my friend group have been playing through Elden Ring with that mod.

[grave wraith]

CRAP

[copper haven]

It has networking built in, it's built on Unreal which from my understanding is WAY easier for modders to deal with as the tools are practically "built in". I reckon it won't be a problem.

[grave wraith]

heck yea dude

[robust tulip]

That is a good point

[jagged grail]

a modded version of coop expanding what is already in the game is very different from modding coop into a game that doesn't feature it at all

[north violet]

You're banned now stalker...

*a single gunshot echoes in the distance*

[tall swallow]

i hope so

[grave wraith]

they took me out back like ol' yeller

[north violet]

Oh hell yeah, the loot in stashes and shit won't all be pre-set.

[copper haven]

I'm still unsure/not understanding of the pushback AGAINST people adding coop to the game. I know there were some people that weren't keen on the idea at all.

[north violet]

I wouldn't mind seeing CO-OP officially added into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 at some point, it's PvP multiplayer that I hate.

[dense hatch]

"atmosphere" or whatever

[robust tulip]

add coop for stalker is the best thing you can do to make it better

[copper haven]

PvP is over saturated market at this point.

[wanton kettle]

I think they should have it after a single playthrough is completed.

[copper haven]

Such a cop out argument too haha.

[dense hatch]

I honestly think something that's like after a couple missions

[raven estuary]

Please no red flags as Murphy law sucks

[north violet]

It also breeds really deplorable behavior and has a tendency to turn communities into cesspools of toxicity.

[glacial crag]

Man I posted a really good idea for coop in Stalker 2 and I got downvoted to oblivion on Reddit. Mistake was posting it on reddit

[dense hatch]

good news on the toxicity front

[copper haven]

Reddit will be reddit.

[dense hatch]

mistake was opening reddit

[round frost]

I mean unless you want to make a remote bomb, I wouldn't install this on a steam deck.

[copper haven]

I'm like hyper banned on that site unless I use a VPN and go thru the onion link. shrug

[raven estuary]

Only in Ohio meme comes to mind

[plush yarrow]

The mistake was thinking of Reddit, to acknowledge its existence

[fallen crater]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-marked-one-pda-stalker-soc-gif-11891098248306079922

[still ridge]

Reddit is redditing on rn. Review embargo allegedly closes 2 hours before release? RED FLAG!!!!

[latent echo]

2 days until I find out if my HDD will run stalker (may have long loading times) BUT ATLEAST I GET TO PLAY

[dense hatch]

oh mein gott

[north violet]

I've never really had a bad time on Reddit or even pre-Musk Twitter. It really is about the subs you subscribe to (Reddit) and the people you follow (Twitter).

[regal zealot]

I don't get it. It's already time. Where is my Stalker?)

[glacial crag]

I'll copy/pasta my idea here and see what you all think

[copper haven]

OMG my pre-load now says I can play. Hype.

[raven estuary]

Outside your house with a smile

[robust tulip]

atleast we have wokeness in STALKER 2

[north violet]

Oh my God, the panicking and conspiranoia is RAMPANT on r/stalker right now.

It's so bad...

[glacial crag]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gtxxg6/comment/lxs8f1x/?context=3

[round frost]

[dense hatch]

[north violet]

And an axe.

[robust tulip]

?

[celest blaze]

I love to see gamers panic and freak out tbh

[still ridge]

And Xbox too

[cobalt nexus]

You on PC?

[copper haven]

I'm so anti-woke I down boxes of Benadryl

this is a joke, don't take it serious.

[north violet]

Yeah, it's gonna be great when certain people see diversity in the Zone.

[dense hatch]

immediately hospitalized

[round frost]

What is the zone? It's the zone!

[copper haven]

Yea and I'm trolling, soz. I'm never serious.

[celest blaze]

[raven estuary]

Ether way cannibal or not there will be a unmarked grave lol

[wild wharf]

Honestly the whole Woke argument against S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is dumb

[copper haven]

I haven't seen anyone call this game woke...

[celest blaze]

The whole woke thing in general is dumb tbh

[north violet]

Like yeah, it's Eastern Europe, but a place like the Zone would have immense international interest, it'd be weird if you didn't see any kind of diversity.

[cobalt nexus]

We are being inclusive. We let console players into the zone

[wild wharf]

I mean tbh, ANYONE could go to the zone in search of their fortune

[dense hatch]

people spent like 5 hours talking about it yesterday

[celest blaze]

I've seen it called woke because there is now black people and women in the game

[robust tulip]

There is diversity in the Zone. You have stalkers and dead stalkers.....)))))

[raven estuary]

Ohh great here comes the train wreak of discussion

[wild wharf]

Yeah, basically my point in a Nutshell

[granite mortar]

Any argument against S2 is dumb
Except those about underbarrel shotgun

[waxen nacelle]

Everything today can be woke. That's the beauty. It doesn't have a meaning anymore.

[tired zealot]

Can we only enter one giveaway?

[celest blaze]

Is earth woke?

[dense hatch]

yeah

[north violet]

They should watch the documentary, there are black people and women in Ukraine IRL too.

[waxen nacelle]

As hell

[dense hatch]

it's goobers being goobers

[raven estuary]

I am not woke but broke

[cobalt nexus]

Imagine trying to cancel someone because they dont share the same opinion as you

[twin thistle]

lmao wtaf

[rich wagon]

Havent played any stalker game except a bit of gamma. What are the main differences between what stalker 2 is gonna be vs gamma?

[celest blaze]

Fr mfs think ukraine is like a white only country or something lol

[granite mortar]

Based

[celest goblet]

A little late but I found another interview/preview article that came out only just yesterday https://www.pcgamesn.com/stalker-2/interview-gsc-game-world

[north violet]

Sadly yes.

[celest blaze]

Gamers are crazy

[dense hatch]

closer to trilogy gameplay

[copper haven]

Anyone that thinks having POC or Women in media is "woke" is just racist and sexist. The term has a meaning and it's not "the inclusion of POC and Women."

[granite mortar]

The difference is that S2 is good

[rich wagon]

Havent played that either

[fathom garden]

i hope not , or else i will summon the legions of chaos to march from the eye of terror and engulf the world in the warp fire

[dense hatch]

try SoC, it's closer to that

[waxen nacelle]

Lol. How ret r ded have you be to think there aren't black ukrainians. Or women.

[steel cove]

Welp waiting till review comes out then getting it

[celest blaze]

Bro why would you play gamma and not the trilogy

[robust tulip]

Jokes about black stalker?))) in Shadow of Chernobyl

[rich wagon]

Gamma was free

[steel cove]

If it's amazing then taking day off if not I cry and go to work

[raven estuary]

New discussion how is the weather where you all live

[celest blaze]

Are you broke ?

[north violet]

That's what I'm saying, it's silly. It's 2024, we aren't all locked into our tiny communities anymore.

[dense hatch]

are freedom woke because they toke

[copper haven]

Glowie, like I'll tell you my location.

[granite mortar]

You can say retarded just fine here
You cant say fuсk tho

[finite dragon]

the whole triology is like 5 bucks

[waxen nacelle]

Some are. Mentally for sure.

[cobalt nexus]

We are heading towards a culture shift that is equal and opposite to woke culture. In the West that is. Eastern Europe have always maintained realness.

[kindred hatch]

WOLF IS DOWN

[robust tulip]

its dark and wet i live in Poland close to German border

[steel cove]

I got away with it once cause the Wolf was distracted

[kindred hatch]

PEOPLE ARE SWEARING

[rich wagon]

Whats with the attitude? I just wasnt appalled by the outdated graphics, gamma seemed more appealing and was aditionally free. Plus didnt know abt stalker since like 2 weeks

[granite mortar]

Nah
I can say that whenever I want

[dense hatch]

people very much dislike gamma here

[north violet]

There's at least one known black person in S2, I think he's a trader on the Skadovsk but I'm not sure.

[cobalt nexus]

Mum! Strelok was swearing!

[celest blaze]

No was more of a question as alot of gamma players seem to never buy the trilogy

[tired zealot]

That's hard to answer, since we don't exactly know stalker 2 is gonna be yet, people despise gamma though because it has warped their perception on what stalker 2 is gonna be. I think gamma is really fun, but I'm hoping stalker 2 is different, one major difference is gamma story is lacking, stalker 2 story isn't gonna be lacking lol

[kindred hatch]

therearealwayswaysaroundafuckenswearingban

[steel cove]

Your the lord of the kotsphere though

[granite mortar]

Because gamma players are annoying sect releasing brainfarts into any and every stalker server or forum

[steel cove]

Oh it changed

[waxen nacelle]

O tempora, o mores!

[round frost]

Wookiees

[raven estuary]

It’s cloudy and cold in Washington state

[copper haven]

OFFTOPIC

[robust tulip]

Yeah i know and that is cool now joke about black stalker have new meaning)))

[rich wagon]

I see, wanted to try out the trilogy too, how would you say the trilogy differs mainly from gamma?

[round frost]

E-Woke

[steel cove]

Gamma if it had main stories would be alot better that's my biggest gripe with it

[dense hatch]

I wonder why he's there if zaton is under bandit control

[copper haven]

WA state sucksssssss

[torn mica]

Christ what a dumpster fire

[rich wagon]

Makes sense

[kindred hatch]

you need to grow up and play the ogs (sincerely, a gamma player)

[north violet]

To be fair, less racial diversity throughout Europe should be expected because...it's Europe, but like I said, it's 2024 and we're not all physically isolated to our tiny communities anymore.

[dense hatch]

might be an actual way to interact with bandits beyond combat which could be sick

[waxen nacelle]

It is actually stalker, and not milsim Tarkov at home.

[granite mortar]

Simpler, faster paced gameplay, easier (less artificial difficulty), not as tedious, has actual story and handmade quests

[dense hatch]

such as them having a merchant again

[raven estuary]

Better than California

[north violet]

Gotcha.

[rich wagon]

Brotha i said nothing bad or good about any game, i just asked for the differences so i know what i can expect

[robust tulip]

i wonder if there gonna be any freeplay in Stalker 2)))

[copper haven]

Marginally

[round frost]

Even ewoks are on roids these days.

[north violet]

Washington state is cool, they've got Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon and Valve.

[robust tulip]

?

[cobalt nexus]

Gamma isnt Stalker. Its a survival mod that uses Stalker assets.
The main difference is Story. Stalker 2 has one that isnt slapped together.

[dense hatch]

wait where is he

[kindred hatch]

yeah nah i was just doing a meme, the stalker fanbase likes to argue a lot especially over anomaly and anomaly based mods

[rich wagon]

A good version of gamma basically 😅 thats actually exactly what i want

[north violet]

Nevermind, let's move on.

[raven estuary]

If I had to move it would be in the mountains in Vermont as it’s very nice there

[rich wagon]

😭

[copper haven]

I just got gamersupps in my eye fuuuuuuu-

[copper haven]

I'd go back to Georgia. I loved living there.

[dense hatch]

what flavor

[granite mortar]

Anomaly mods arent based tho

[waxen nacelle]

What about forplay? Sidorovitch romance when?

[tired zealot]

Well gamma has like a shmillion mods, hmm, gamma adds a few more zones, adds gunslinger which just makes guns more realistic with nods and bullet types, changes the ai a bit, makes healing and food have animations n stuff, there's alot gamma changes, but gamma is a freeplay mod so it like takes away all the cool cutscenes and dialogue

[granite mortar]

Its not like gamma
It actually plays closer to Quake I would say

[copper haven]

This time it's The gamer farts 9000 one or whatever cringe name they gave it.

[raven estuary]

Yea I like the dry heat not humid heat

[kindred hatch]

not to you they arent you pheasant

[rich wagon]

👀

[granite mortar]

They arent based to anyone who likes stalker for what stalker is

[dense hatch]

it's over

[round frost]

Anomaly is the best, I prefer it to Gamma. Gamma is over cluttered.

[robust tulip]

We slavic people are not racist.... we just hate everyone equally XD))))))

[north violet]

That's actually the Appalachian Mountains if you didn't know.

[copper haven]

Gonna get pink-eye

[merry tiger]

everything

[granite mortar]

So is Anomaly
Its literally the same thing except one is bit worse

[dense hatch]

it's ABSOLUTELY over

[tired zealot]

So wait can i participate in multiple giveaways I'm scared to like undo my give away on the physical edition lol, but the boardgames sounds cool too

[kindred hatch]

you are wrong i love the ogs and i also love gamma for different reasons how many times do i have to explain the concept of subjectiveness to you simpletons

[copper haven]

I've had that ONCE in my 30+ years of life and I was in my mid-twenties when it happened. It was TERRIBLE.

[north violet]

Might as well bring up MISERY which is the grandfather of mods like Anomaly and GAMMA. (And is also part of what those mods use as a base.)

[robust tulip]

I hope they have option to disable yellow paint

[raven estuary]

True as i was traveling through west side of the mountains during summer

[reef raptor]

they do

[kindred hatch]

argument inbound

[copper haven]

They do, but I do wonder, what's the issue with yellow paint?

[north violet]

They did, that's been confirmed.

[queen monolith]

I'd be surprised if there weren't at least some characters from outside the Zone
Not only would it provide an "outside perspective" to the Zone, but it could also make for some interesting storytelling

[robust tulip]

THANK GOD

[rich wagon]

So i assume, you could say, stalker trilogy is more like dying light? When it comes to how quests are and stuff

[dense hatch]

I had it when I was 16 during a stageplay

[grim palm]

[granite mortar]

Slavic people when the neighbouring slavs have one different word:

[round frost]

Yeah, I know. Gamma is just a modded version of Anomaly.

[north violet]

I only ever had pinkeye a couple of times as a kid. As far as I know I've never had it since.

[dense hatch]

try navigating a stage when you can't see without being in pain

[loud aspen]

stalker soup

[reef raptor]

some dont link it because it just keeps telling the player where to go which can ruin the fun for some
I personally hate it in a game called dying light 2 which is about parkour
STOP telling me where I have to go with every ledge and fence painted yellow let me freely parkour anywhere

[dense hatch]

ain't it also in dying light 1

I never really noticed anything like that

[civic blade]

ehh doesn't bother me much tbh since when you strip away all the guard rails suddenly the experience becomes insufferably frustrating not knowing where to go either

[wanton kettle]

It's actually a strategic move if the game scores high it gets attention and then the game releases and it sells more as it's fresh on the minds of first time buyers

[reef raptor]

I dont remember dl1 having ANY yellow paint

[raven estuary]

To my memory did the developers add the option to remove it?

[granite mortar]

Never played dying light
Stalker is FPS game with RPG elements (gear progression, quests) and horror elements
It has pretty good NPC simulation called Alife where stalkers roam the world, killing mutants, getting into fights with other groups, sitting at campfires telling jokes..

[late yarrow]

It's never been there and it doesn't need to be

[copper haven]

As long as the game lets you grab onto anything vs only grabbign certain things that's fine. I know I have seen games that don't ahve the paint and you THINK you have freedom but you don't and there is zero guidance as to WHAT you can interact with.

[reef raptor]

for dl2? never sadly

[queen monolith]

you called?

[glacial crag]

dude the backpack from the ultimate edition is such high quality. Much better than what people got from the Fallout 76 collectors edition

[raven estuary]

Ok

[kindred hatch]

omfg hnghghghmfff

[reef raptor]

yeah good point but for games like stalker it doesnt need yellow paint.. allow me to be an idiot instead of telling me where to go (but it makes sense for those who are not familiar with stalker/want to have it easier so the devs adding a toggle is a HUUUUUUUGE W

[grim palm]

[ornate moon]

E

[robust tulip]

Yeah)) True)) Sometimes i regret that i know or at least understand that many slavic languages

[north violet]

I look forward to the day I have the money to upgrade from Deluxe to Ultimate.

[raven estuary]

The curse of canvis bag that was the same as a trash bag from Bethesda

[wanton kettle]

Grab onto your ankles

[rich wagon]

Sounds cool, i assume gunfights are tactical? Like not too easy and not just running and gunning?

[cobalt nexus]

Theres 100s of great stalker mods that better than gamma. Gamma is not peak stalker or mods. Its just very popular because some big creators pushed it. There are many on here that hate it which is why you get reactions. Comparing gamma to stalker 2 is asinine. They are very different and you may be disappointed.

[merry tiger]

tactical? hell no

[nimble cipher]

rabbitbreeder has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[civic blade]

yea if S2 is anything like the previous games you have to take cover this isn't CoD

[granite mortar]

No
Its like Quake
Fast moving around, flanking, mag dumping..

[tired zealot]

Co op co op idc what anyone says venturing into the Zone with my brothers would be fun af

[rich wagon]

I have now decided to change my preorder to ultimate edition.

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-the-boys-gen-v-no-homelander-no-gif-5144619848989128837

[dense hatch]

the running and gunning is the fun part

[north violet]

GAMMA especially is really popular amongst the Western "tacticool" side of YouTube gaming channels i.e. OperatorDrewski.

[tired zealot]

Based

[grim palm]

[copper haven]

Wolf is singling me out, he's prejudice.

[granite mortar]

Fuсk drewski honestly
His consequences on this community are untreatable

[dense hatch]

SoC could be made immediately terrible by adding a cover system

[robust tulip]

Look im not a kid i want to scavenge and explore. I dont want Dev to tell me " look kid there is ladder... you can climb it" or "look yellow backpack/box" you can loot it

[raven estuary]

Ideas for stalker 2 dog whistle to summon mutant dogs and do it inside enemy camp lol

[dapper elm]

NFTS?

[kindred hatch]

every time it is a classic

[dense hatch]

also skip CS apparently

[reef raptor]

I have 400 hours in gamma and I loved it to bits. I liked the difficulty and the grind and I am aware stalker 2 wont be close at all to gamma and im happy about that. I also played the original games and I obviously get why a majority of people hate on gamma but at the same time, allow gamma enjoyers to appreciate it (those who understand stalker 2 wont be like gamma.. those who do hope and think stalker 2 will be like gamma you can hate those )

[civic blade]

a chimera NFT

[glacial crag]

Stop asking about NFTs

[cobalt nexus]

I dont hate it. I play it regularly but mainly as a punishment when I do bad things

[somber hawk]

"This Game Is The INSERT BUZZWORDS Ever!!1"

[dense hatch]

did he ever walk back on that?

[finite dragon]

whats even more funny is that why would you chose GAMMA insdtead of EFP if you wanted tacticool thingy

[digital frost]

i wonder how the multiplayer will work

[dense hatch]

EFP has mags integrated

[north violet]

Did he do anything other than help grow Anomaly/GAMMA's exposure? I almost never watch any of his vids.

[granite mortar]

"pLay trUe sTalKEr, itS beTTeR thAn ClEar Sky"

[robust tulip]

no coop from devs

[dense hatch]

you have to remove them manually, along with some other honestly terrible features

[cobalt nexus]

Old school tdm etc

[dapper elm]

Hey guys do you think multiplayer will have some sort of nft inclusion?

[tired zealot]

Drewski is the only reason I played the og trilogy, he has done good getting stalkers name out there

Keep gatekeeping while he's gate opening

[queen monolith]

Aren't there already games for tacticool?

[ornate moon]

military blueprints can i sell them or are they quest related, i read something about turning it in at the barman

[dense hatch]

are you done yet

[glacial crag]

Stop

[rich wagon]

Dude this game would actually rip @ss as a mmo

[finite dragon]

Clear Sky is peak stalker

[granite mortar]

He exposed his tarkov clown fanbase to it

[civic blade]

Anomaly, Gamma, and EFP have this weird mixture of mostly static ejecting shell casings and a couple weapons using 3d models from Gunslinger which is why I stick to IWP

[north violet]

Plenty, I have one in my library and one other on my wishlist.

[dapper elm]

Just asking the important questions here

[tall furnace]

We’re closing in

[ornate moon]

goddamn @granite mortar you a big boi here

[dense hatch]

without drewski this server would be admittedly smaller but I guarantee gamma wouldn't be an immediate trigger for half the active folk

[merry tiger]

"gatekeeping" sure buddy

[tall furnace]

Cannot wait!!!

[drifting marlin]

Lmao when my girlfriend thought I was playing soccer all day 🤣 in anticipation for soccer 2

[pearl olive]

Drewski got filtered by Vova Vist and he knows it

[granite mortar]

Drewski is retard and should be ignored when talking about anything even remotely related to stalker
Please understand that you are extremely rare case

[robust tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-heart-of-chernobyl-сталкер-сталкер-2-stalker-stalker-2-gif-8450232287162546621

[glacial crag]

We've already answered your question though. No there wont be any NFTs now stop asking

[dense hatch]

Vova Vist absolutely filters so many people

[cobalt nexus]

I used to recommend true stalker until i realised its actually Untrue stalker russian agenda

[tall furnace]

I’m kinda scared

[rich wagon]

I would die for a mix between this game and gray zonr warfarr

[merry tiger]

saying that gamma did bad things for the community (that's also true) is not gatekeeping

[tired zealot]

Hmm you clearly missed the other day where he flamed someone for being hypes for stalker 2 because he never played the originals, that guy loves to play elitist gatekeeper

[dense hatch]

I can't wait for the rework by not shitters

[granite mortar]

I liked most of the stuff
Too bad the story suck so bad

[north violet]

I was exposed to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the traditional way: advertisements and articles in gaming magazines.

Remember those fellow old-people?

[pallid sky]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gudwet/they_said_we_are_the_only_true_loyal_community/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Guys Stalker 2 is at no 1

[tall furnace]

Swear gamma people annoying ngl

[copper haven]

The similarities between the Stalker community and the Souls games communities is shocking.

[raven estuary]

Where is a bot command with auto responses to these kind of questions lol

[dapper elm]

Have you ever been interested in nfts? I’ll DM you some information

[merry tiger]

we are talking about gamma bro

[north violet]

Ended up asking my dad to buy SoC for me, and the rest is history. Even though my computer at the time couldn't run the game well at all, I just fell so deeply in love with it.

[copper haven]

I'll sell you a NFT of my nutz for 50k USD. Trust me bro, it's worth 100k USD.

[tired zealot]

And I'm calling @granite mortar a snob

[winter jay]

I find people who can't stop talking about how much they hate gamma and anomaly even more annoying

[cobalt nexus]

GZW will be adding Stalker like content once the exclusion zone is accessible. Its based on Roadside Picnic too.

[robust tulip]

Jake?

[merry tiger]

"clear sky don't looks like stalker"

[real sedge]

Any leaked benchmarks other than the Nvidia frame Gen one?

[raven estuary]

From State Farm

[torn geode]

Gatekeeping is good actually

[rich wagon]

Oh , forgot about that! Will probably be long tho.. took them a year to get night ops in

[tall furnace]

Facts

[copper haven]

It's a slippery slope.

[north violet]

I'll admit, I do like watching gameplay vids of GAMMA and Anomaly, but after playing Anomaly (and its predecessor MISERY) I know I don't enjoy the experience.

[dense hatch]

it's a nonexistent problem made into a problem by everyone involved

[reef raptor]

the duality of the stalker server/subreddit

1. gamma haters
2. gamma lovers

there is NO in-between

[merry tiger]

"stalker 2 will never be good like gamma"

[granite mortar]

Finally
Some fuсking respect

[merry tiger]

these are the things that i always see coming from gamma fanatics

[north violet]

I'm an in-between!

[queen monolith]

Curious, what did drewski do?

[dapper elm]

Does it have a little hat on it or something I could take a picture of my own ballsack if thats the case

[robust tulip]

im in between)))

[reef raptor]

ok I was wrong hello first in-between

[copper haven]

As someone that hasn't played Gamma and have no reason to, I disagree. However I find it funny to watch them argue back and forth.

[fluid abyss]

This is STOC! Go talk about Grandma somewhere else!!!

[winter jay]

Nuh uh, in that case you're clearly a gamma peepee rider

[north violet]

Helped boost the popularity of GAMMA.

[rich wagon]

People in this chat made me a gamma hater and i am thankful but ill probably still play it

[grim palm]

True Stalker is a lesson in how not to tell a story. Yet I gotta commend them for how their weapon modification were reflected in the models. That was a good little detail I enjoyed

[finite dragon]

"this game doest fake survival type videos"

[tired zealot]

He made a video about how gorgeous and fun gamma is, this vexes gamma haters

[cobalt nexus]

EZbench, Black Myth and GZW are good places to benchmark if you want an indication of how S2 might run

[tall furnace]

I need my sniper bruh

[dense hatch]

he made like 6 and has some bad opinions, enough to be vilified

[pearl ore]

I heard for every story transition in that game they had the MC get knocked out lol

[copper haven]

Yea I put a special digital signature on it that has a special hash that links to that picture and that picture only so if anyone screenshots it, they still don't have the originl 1's and 0's.

[dense hatch]

also for the sidequests

[torn geode]

Gamma haters wouldn't exist if Gamma fans weren't so dumb

[winter jay]

He made a popular video and some stalker fans hate him because they want their community to stay relatively niche and underground.

[drifting marlin]

Anomaly could be good if it was streamlined a little better

[reef raptor]

I played gamma a few months ago for 2 months straight getting like 400 hours and again I get why people hate it and why people love it. I am not going to defend gamma as the best stalker or the TRUE stalker or whatever. It is a fun modification for me and that's it, nothing else. The true stalker is the actual franchise, not a modification. Does that make me a gamma lover who has common sense..?

[queen monolith]

I have no idea what "looking like Stalker" is supposed to mean

[merry tiger]

anyone remember the youtuber that literally said "you can skip the original games, they are outdated, you can just jump straight to anomaly"

[dapper elm]

Bet I’ll dm you some information

[raven estuary]

Thumbs up if you read this message before more talk of nfts over takes this message

[reef raptor]

lmfao

[merry tiger]

because they think stalker is basically misery

[tall furnace]

Snorks?!!?!?!

[finite dragon]

pretty much this

[copper haven]

That's a take.

[fluid abyss]

I stg tactical shooter fans are like train fans, they love games with hundreds of obscure models that aren’t even that fun

[dense hatch]

he also made an extremely mediocre fan film

[signal bronze]

Davai Mochi!

[granite mortar]

Yes
If it happens more than four times in 20 hours its too much for me

[fluid abyss]

Heresy

[grizzled smelt]

Is the United States aware of the zone ? Have they ever send agents into it ?

[dense hatch]

that's pretty much it I think

[tired zealot]

To be fair I just watched 2 of his videos about it, thought gamma looked fun, went on a rabbit hole, played the og trilogy, read the book, watched the movie, became infatuated with stalker, idk what opinions he said, if he straight up says 'yeah only gamma is good the og games suck" then I could understand the hate

[worn oar]

[cobalt nexus]

I hate it when big creators say “dont play the originals just play anomaly/gamma, its all three games put together with mods” its a lie.

[robust tulip]

AAAA ja moslinu pajmal!!!

[manic perch]

The irony is they both deserve each other 😂

[fluid abyss]

I wanna see a USA faction so bad

[finite dragon]

lets not talk about the wendingon tacticool, slop

[tall furnace]

Bloodsucker goon cave?!?!?!

[winter jay]

Just loiter around for 20 hours after you get knocked out, problem fixed

[copper haven]

The united states runs the world and has since World War 2. Of course they know about it.

[glacial crag]

The faction would be called "Tourists"

[pearl ore]

I mean it would be funny if they made it a game mechanic and your guy just gets brain damage. Maybe even have a doctor diagnose you with CTE.

[torn geode]

Or when content creators say "the russian fallout"

[robust tulip]

There is no oil in the zone

[fluid abyss]

RAHH 🇺🇸 🦅 🦅

[reef raptor]

this gave me an idea

[coarse sparrow]

like Sam in Exodus

[merry tiger]

true, what anomaly have from the original games besides the maps?

[tall furnace]

They sell mini nukes

[merry tiger]

literally nothing

[winter jay]

They want to find a way to control the time-space anomaly for infinite oil dupe

[finite dragon]

whats funny is that CoC also have the maps

[fluid abyss]

But way more because the world isn’t ruined in stalker

[robust tulip]

or Freeman in SoC

XD

[raven estuary]

So anomaly and Gama had a child would they be called zeta?

[pearl ore]

Or Gordon Freeman technically

[tall furnace]

What factions yall joining??

[torn geode]

Americans would be the only type of people who would not form a faction because they had similar ideas, but simply because they were from the same country.

[copper haven]

wtf is a faction

[granite mortar]

I dont mind getting knocked out because in many mods it pushes the story forward
In True Stalker it was just overdone

[dapper elm]

The one with nfts

[winter jay]

The one with the coolest equipment

[fluid abyss]

Whichever one lets me own bloodsuckers as pets

[tired zealot]

Fair, idk I ended up forming my own opinion and coming to conclusion that I must play the og trilogy first, I can see how most fans would just ignore that and go straight to gamma, which is a bit sad, but I think it's fine to enjoy both the trilogy and gamma

[untold bay]

this is incorrect

[robust tulip]

MONOLITH

[tall furnace]

Get him!!!

[winter jay]

I thought you were talking about clear sky tbh

[granite mortar]

He did get braindamage
Thats why he died to Thermite offscreen even tho he could have wiped floor with him

[robust tulip]

Freedom?)

[untold bay]

@torn geode trust me Americans would find a way to disagree with one another

[copper haven]

NO WE WOULDN"T!

[tired zealot]

I'm interested in the new factions, but imma play free stalker for a bit for sure

[finite dragon]

you get knoked +20 times

[warped roost]

Theres no stalker 2 at the game awards?

[fluid abyss]

Or loners

[merry tiger]

the way of how people see the lore or the factions

[torn geode]

Nope

[cobalt nexus]

You wont be free to join any faction from the start. Its not anomaly

[copper haven]

How can it win an award with it not being out...

[lost vault]

Hi, tell me - is it the best idea to get acquainted with the universe of "Stalker", namely from the 2nd part?

[granite mortar]

Yup
Add sidequests on top

[pearl ore]

It’s more of a CTE awareness game than a stalker game then.

[merry tiger]

like people thinking that freedom like make things with bloodsuckers or that mercenaries are americans or "nato faction"

[warped roost]

Maybe for sth like most anticipated game?

[copper haven]

Elden Ring DLC would smash that title.

[rich wagon]

Is kt gonna be like you have to wirk your way in through quests?

[finite dragon]

speaking of anomaly, the only anomaly mod that seems somewhat intresting its the ANTOLOGY one

[tall furnace]

Sniper!!!!!!

[finite dragon]

or it would be if it wasnt filled with bugs

[warped roost]

Nah the Elden Ring glazing has gone too far

[winter jay]

Enough of these knock outs. It's time for someone to man up and knock me up

[queen monolith]

what kind of sense does skipping the source material even make???

[copper haven]

It's ok to be wrong.

[raven estuary]

Ohh I just love that default statement well things are going wrong in the world let’s just blame
Americans lol

[tired zealot]

To be fair you are right, gamma does warp my perception of canon sometimes, but some of the additions are just cool fits to the world faction like UNISG or events like instead of blowouts there's psystorms

[torn geode]

No it's not

[robust tulip]

You received a quest to capture a female bloodsucker from a group of scientists for a special "study" XDDDD

[merry tiger]

the games are outdated bro, they are trash, just play gamma bro

[deft lake]

[patent wolf]

all this hype reminds me of cyberpunk release. LMAO!!!!

[fluid abyss]

TRUE!

[warped roost]

Fr

[cobalt nexus]

Game awards are corrupt. Its rigged this year so Sony can win with Astrobot. Its for mainstream normie games. Stalker 2 doesnt fit this and its why we love it.

[rich wagon]

DONT SAY IT 😭

[winter jay]

I like how Silksong isn't even nominated for the most anticipated release, because anticipated release implies the game actually coming out.

[merry tiger]

gamma is the only updated way to enjoy and play stalker bro, trust me

[patent wolf]

remember what comes next LOL.

[lost vault]

=((

[warped roost]

☝️☝️☝️ this

[queen monolith]

Don't jinx this

[tall furnace]

I wonder if we can hire mercenaries or go on group missions

[kindred hatch]

me when people clearly havent played the games and heard the mercs speaking english in american accents

[dense hatch]

[deft lake]

[rich wagon]

You owe me 5 bucks if stalker wins

[robust tulip]

Nope you must play prev games too

[winter jay]

Arcane reference

[patent wolf]

[dense hatch]

IT'LL COME OUT EVENTUALLY I SWEAR

[copper haven]

When we (The USA) has it's hands in so much world events, I can see why people do. shrug

[grim palm]

Only thing to do is eat snork fingers

[queen monolith]

is that actually what he said?

[limpid hearth]

Its cool that xbox got already thrid preload update and pc gamers nothing - kinda fair from GSC 🙂

[deft lake]

It's worth trying at some point, just remember that they're poorly optimized compared to other games of it's time.

[torn geode]

Stfu

[merry tiger]

that's a joke, but basically that

[tired zealot]

Is it because 2 is coming at near the end of the year ot doesn't count? Or maybe they don't wanna affiliate with a potental political issue having a Ukrainian game? I was hoping black myth, Ellen ring ,and stalker w would compete for goty lol

[dense hatch]

they're on console they need this

[deft lake]

Side note, damn, I want some roles. :(

[winter jay]

Even the Elden Ring community didn't cope so hard with their game not coming out after teasers. It's over. Hollow Knight has fallen.

[deft lake]

Can confirm, former console player. If we don't get pre-load we're waiting an entire day for it to install.

[robust tulip]

mm delicious toes)))

[raven estuary]

True as we pay for a lot of aid around the world but if we say we will pull the aid they come running to us to the point of kissing our feet

[copper haven]

Astrobot is pretty good though, takes me back to when they dropped Little Big Planet and that was a blast.

[warped roost]

Its cuz on pc it would get pirated in an instant

[limpid hearth]

how, with steam encryption?

[finite dragon]

GOG version

[lost vault]

I understand

[finite dragon]

since drm free

[cobalt nexus]

If anything I hope Stalker 2 brings original and anomaly/gamma fans together. That would be better than any awards

[reef raptor]

@fluid abyss ok you beat me I like that one more 🤝

[winter jay]

Steam itself says that it's DRM is kinda bad and shouldn't be solely relied on.

[tall furnace]

Do we know if the game continues after main quest ends?

[robust tulip]

ask Xbox players)

[tired zealot]

I'd be really surprised if the winner isn't black myth or elden ring dlc, black myth had a scmillion concurrent players, and elden ring had memes for like 3 months straight about the dlc lol

[deft lake]

I don't have access to the role channel. D:

[winter jay]

It would be stupid if it didn't. I don't want a Fallout New Vegas dam situation.

[fluid abyss]

Hehe

[waxen nacelle]

No, end is end. I think it was answered by GSC.

[copper haven]

They changed the rules just for Elden Ring DLC, it's winning something that's for sure.

[kindred hatch]

i keep saying this fanbase could be unstoppable if everyone united

[dense hatch]

god I hate normie as a word

[warped roost]

Fr

[waxen nacelle]

Yea. Duty and Freedom united.

[rose flare]

i hope, anomaly/gamma fans glaze them both so hard

[kindred hatch]

if we could manage to stop being zombified we could take over the world

[boreal crescent]

Something a normie would say

[reef raptor]

especially since I literally have OCD you dont know how pissed off I get when games do something like that so I literally suggested (and you came up with a better suggestion) something that would screw me up

[finite dragon]

so they went back to SoC-CS style instead of letting you play like in CoP

[dense hatch]

it's so pathetic sounding to say

[lost vault]

and who can I tell about my proposal to improve the game, with a repeated theme at the expense of voice acting?

[dense hatch]

even casual is better

[deft lake]

Oh. I'm missing the Novice role.

[kindred hatch]

someone has the name "broken sigma"

[tired zealot]

There is a suggestion channel, although with the game.coming in 2 days good luck haha maybe a future update

[dense hatch]

THEY AREN'T REAL

[copper haven]

What the Sigma?!

[robust tulip]

only MONOLITH

[somber hawk]

@warped roost

[hardy turtle]

what about ligma

[merry tiger]

ok normie

[somber hawk]

@tardy frigate

[copper haven]

Will there be double crouch in Stalker 2?

[dense hatch]

it's over

[torn geode]

Ok virgin

[robust tulip]

what is ligma?

[deft lake]

Nope. I think it's a level based role.

[somber hawk]

ligma balls

[queen monolith]

ligma joe

[rose flare]

duty ftw

[tired zealot]

You know who else has a double crotch... MY MOM!!

[hardy turtle]

this chat is taking a dark turn

[lost vault]

Russian Russian voice acting is just what I want to offer as an add-on for the game, since without Russian voice acting, the whole atmosphere of the game breaks down. 🥲

[somber hawk]

stop NOW

[deft lake]

[kindred hatch]

which mod do i have to hawk tuah to get some motherpissin roles around here

[raven estuary]

Boredom at its best