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[worthy lagoon]

ALRIGHT STALKERS, TIME FOR AN ANECDOTE

Mercenaries caught a Stalker, brought him to the well, dipped him to the waist head down, held for a minute, pulled him out and ask:

Got artifacts or money?

Nope. Again they dip him, pull him out.

Artifacts? Money?

Nope. Again they dip him…

Artifacts? Money? Stalkers patience’s running out…

Look guys, either dip further or hold longer. The water’s murky, how the heck am I supposed to find anything?

[dim topaz]

I will Catstrate myself

[worn oar]

Sure funny guy

[formal oak]

verify wolfs pregnant bunghole

[finite dragon]

Question about the "Dead Frequency" quest in Zaton: || Why do you turn the machine on in the end of the quest? Isnt this monolith tech? Should you rather destroy it? ||

[mighty steeple]

how do you spam if you can only type a message every five minutes? isnt that the most proabable reason for the timer in the first place? the server gets a huge influx of new users -> mods increase timer to make it more manageble. everybody knows that this is not ideal but for the people that are actually responisble for it not turning to a literal hellscape it probably makes their life easier.

[worthy lagoon]

A student at the final exam approaches the professor:

Profesor, I can't pass math. I had real trouble studying because I am so exhausted. I can barely sleep. Every time I fall asleep I dream I am in some sorta of wierd place, I think there is a radiation too. And I am backed into the wall and some sort of mutated creatures are ripping me to shreds. Professor thought about it and said:

You know if you pass this exam you might have just enough knowledge to become a Stalker... and from there it's not far from your dream to the reality. But I got a solution. I am going to fail you, and so you going to get kicked from the university, and you are going to be drafted into the Army... nothing to fear there, no wierd places, no monsters.

[wintry sorrel]

whats veteran like now after patches?

[coarse sparrow]

Legends, anyone knows what is "goldfish" depot on SteamDB for Stalker2?

[worthy lagoon]

A rookie and a veteran stalkers together on a raid in the Zone. Suddenly the veteran freezes in place, and in a whisper tells the newbie.

Very slowly, from here to the tree on the left… quietly… Go. Now! Well the kid seems to be smarter then average rookie, knows better than question a vet. Crouches down, makes his way to the tree, and starts making signs asking “what now?” The veteran speaks in normal loud voice.

Aha, I knew they lied when they said there is an invisible anomaly under this tree.

[jolly jewel]

What in the world happened to the visuals after this update? Everything is brighter and the colors look off

[gleaming ruin]

Game is running better after patches for me

[inner mural]

So thats where the army gets its recruits in soc...

[hallow wigeon]

I love the emmissions bc then I can farm all my friends for their stuff :3 like yes pls gimme your red broken pm and ak so very valuable

[slender perch]

same but not sure why

[flint saddle]

I can spam by sending a message that just reads "cheeki breeki" or something. Spam doesn't necessarily have to be repeated in quick succession to be spam, it just has to be low-effort and non-productive. The timer makes this sort of message more likely, as it's very difficult to have a meaningful back and forth with somebody with a timer this long.

[worthy lagoon]

A soldier got lost in the Zone for a few days. Uniform is ripped and dirty, hungry as hell, running out of ammo… basically getting desperate. Then, hey, couple of Stalkers on the horizon. He runs up to them:

Friends, comrades, brothers… please help! Stalkers say -That’s interesting. At the check point on Cordon it’s all “Bastards” and “animals”, and now it’s “friends” and “brothers”, yeah?

A military officer interrogating a stalker.

Do you admit that while been drunk you tried to sneak out of the zone, in the area of the military checkpoint 12, carrying unregistered firearm and items forbidden for export out of the zone? Stalker is getting tired, he’s been interrogated like this for 3 hours so…

Yes I admit it. I was DRUNK. If I was sober I’d never try to pass so close to you bastards.

*At the base a loose brick got dislodged from the roof of the building. Hit some guy and killed him. The crowd assembled and started complaining…

No one cares… old stuff is falling apart… no one's fixing anything… Just too many dangerous buildings now days… a man can’t walk the street without a brick falling on him. Then someone looks closer

Hey, that’s not a man, that a Zombie. A crowd’s complaining…

No one cares… monsters everywhere… no one is doing anything… Just too many zombies around now days… a brick can’t fall without hitting one.

[viscid blade]

That would be a catastrophe!

[indigo carbon]

@worthy lagoon 😘

[dim topaz]

Cat out of here, Stalker!

[loud sail]

can an experienced stalker come to advice to help some noobs plzzz

[near dove]

get good

[jade geyser]

nothing is free in zone, stalker

[formal oak]

no registered fire arm is useful

[static compass]

@worthy lagoon You telling those stories reminds me, I came across two loners sitting at a bus stop, one said "I think I'm gonna text the leader of the Ward so I can join them"
And the other one said
"Why don't you text a girl, man"

Had my jaw on the floor lmao

[hearty sorrel]

Micro patch? Steam downloaded something

[indigo marsh]

Is it still 5 min?

[kindred wind]

For some odd reason i was running everything on medium and getting mediocre performance, and then i changed everything to epic aside from Global Illumination and hair and now im getting good performance? lol

[muted valve]

so this chat is now just mods and helpers telling jokes at a rate no one can possibly respond to due to the timer? class 😛

[uncut sleet]

The environmental voice lines are so good. I don't know if they always were or if they just upped their game this time. Think the techs as a group are my favorite characters

[mighty steeple]

i will be honest i do not spend alot of time in discord servers so i might be just talking out of my ass but my intution would tell me that if anything the messages will become more thoughtful since people are forced to wait inbetween messages or they would instead not type at all. but im honestly just guessing at this point

[viscid blade]

You have lost a lot of wight recently, only 500Kb this last time 👀

[slender perch]

[knotty blaze]

Some people also dont know you can edit the message any time so if its one of the last ones just edit/add the missing text, no cooldown apply to editing. But it is good there is a long wait time, some people should not be allowed to spam things etc.

[formal oak]

im missing someone i never knew 'frogwares" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Anatoliyovych_Yezhov ❤️ 🥊

[calm mountain]

peepee poopoo check

[scarlet lintel]

new patch dropped

it is like insanely small though

why you acting like im insane a small patch literally just dropped and i installed it; check steam and you'll see update for it

[granite mortar]

cooldown should be rank-based

[tawny flume]

Why there isn’t a announcement for it idk

[sudden jackal]

Another patch dropped???

[dim topaz]

Novice 10 minutes plz

[primal salmon]

no politics please

[sly turtle]

Hey. Trader errand quests sometimes give more money than they say they do right now, probably a product of them increasing all quest rewards across the board. I accepted a "kill raiders" quest in rookie village for 1100 and got 2200. Just so people know. They seem very worth doing now especially if they are where you are already going.

[kindred wind]

So how come, i was struggling with performance so i put everything to medium, was still struggling so put everything to epic except for hair and global illumination and now im getting 75 fps from 35 fps?

[uncut sleet]

What does 🫃 mean? I understand what the symbol is depicting but not the intent. I've just been adding it in reactions because I think its funny

[formal oak]

the euro term for politics is a little different from the rest of the world . Not sure if the message comes across

[main ermine]

No PoLiTiCs PlEaSE

[mighty steeple]

see? my point has just been proved correct. @calm mountain just took the time to think really hard of the dumbest thing imaginable to say. (just kidding)

[scarlet lintel]

yeah a tiny patch dropped, i got no idea what it did given i havent played the game yet to see but on steam it just gave a patch; there is no patch notes though anywhere

[calm mountain]

See you in 5mins

[inner mural]

I wish people were abit more nicer on discord... i got banned on a discord chat for just complaining that some hacker in gta v online got me banned 😦 the reason? I didint know their "firend" was in the hospital and i was considered a evil person...

[stable isle]

The files changed are available here, again without notes, if anyone can make sense of it. https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/16592526/

[turbid monolith]

Does Weird Nut not spawn for anyone else?

[coarse sparrow]

housekeeping looks like

[plucky bough]

This update is just updating configuration filles for the codebase mostly. A tidy up. Doesnt look like anything affecting the game. Im just guessing based off the names of the files and a software background.

[uncut sleet]

But the format makes it actually kind of funny, like a text version of comedic timing

@inner mural its always a little suspicious to me when people are depicted as over reacting when someone 'just' does something, the disjoint details gives me even more 'hmmmmm' energy

[tardy sand]

don't pick it up and don't make it spawn, it will bug your save during emissions
WTF 5 MINUTES 1 MESSAGE?

[formal oak]

5 minute family🕰️

[primal salmon]

no politics please

[granite mortar]

its equivalent to all those L+Ratio copypastas
Basically it says you disagree with someone while laughing at them

[zinc apex]

i swear if gsc won't drop the a-life fix next week I'm going insane. even more

[plain minnow]

Well until Zalissya is fixed I’m gonna stash hunt

[hallow wigeon]

it won't be coming for a while. AI as it stand is increadibly cpu intensive and A-Life is only going to add fuel to that fire. I would say give it at least a month

[tame musk]

https://tenor.com/view/pour-one-out-for-the-homies-old-english800-gif-14309934

[slender perch]

petition to ban all 🫃 and 🤡 chatters.

[inner rain]

Hey, I have an issue with the Cuirass Exoskeleton suit. I've upgraded it to have +16kg weight limit but when I switch to it, no artifacts equipped on either old armor and the cuirass, it stays at 88kg?
Anyone else have this?

[sudden jackal]

Also, SoC so far is pretty good! I like the gameplay but the HUD and story log is kinda hard to follow. Might just be because I’m dumb :3. also sometimes the game crashes? But I’m playing in fully optimized settings and it runs like 230 fps.

@heavy obsidian

It’s an Alienware computer so it’s got a AMD Ryzen 780HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. Also has a KIOXIA 512GB and 15 GB memory.

[hot bridge]

nah the story is weird and dumb

[heavy obsidian]

What is your GPU, CPU, RAM?

[mighty steeple]

I got the first part done during 1.0.1 and the second part started working after 1.0.2. Im on pc game pass btw
@jovial monolith they have nerfed some mutants quite a bit so it should play a bit better

[jovial monolith]

did they unbeef the mutants? feels like it, thankfully. (5 MINUTE TIMER?)

[tidal adder]

can anyone tell me if the ai has been improved at all from the patch?

[faint raft]

Is there any confirmation from the GSC if we're gonna get dynamic shadows coming from flashlight and muzzle flash when shooting?

[halcyon portal]

no 🫃

[serene urchin]

Cheeki Breeki

[scarlet lintel]

I hopped on and I think the game is running better, although it could be a placebo and the game is running just as bad as before, idk though

Nevermind it is just as bad, this small tiny patch did nothing to help fix memory leaks and performance

[viscid blade]

annuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[formal oak]

do people still go to the "zone " as tourists irl or is it a myth? is the zone taken seriously? the internet isnt giving the answers

[granite mortar]

enable Vsync
the game runs on 32-Bit engine, dont let it take too much ram, the engine wont handle it
Also what seems to be the issue with HUD and Story?

[kindred wind]

I just met an Npc Bandit called Diddy, I love this game so much 😂😔

[tawny bobcat]

Minor inconvenience, but has anyone else had this problem on Xbox?
Every time I close out S2 and play it again at a later time, my inverted vertical axis gets reset. I always have to reset it, press X to apply, and I'm good for the entirety of that session, but anytime I close the game, it resets when I play again. 🤔

[restive zealot]

why can i not put an open colimator sight on a saiga d12? it says it fits it

[inner mural]

I also got banned in another chat, the reason? I was too excited to build my computer with the help of a firend... and the same person that banned me in the other chat was there! Like wtf man of course i was excited! It was my first build!

[primal salmon]

gazillions must no politics. #justiceforalife3.0

[empty lava]

Just finished the questline in the Heap and Richter didnt spawn in to have a chat. Is my save cooked?

[unique quiver]

So, uuuuhhh, for some reason technician from Zalissya is gone after I did some more sidequests

[storm escarp]

@glossy blade looks like someone left Resilio Sync's files (.sync folder) in release depot on Steam since latest nanopatch 👀
sorry for ping

[short totem]

Mb you have to upgrade your weapon to unlock the possibility. It’s same with Viper-5

[fervent summit]

So Alive was a scam?

[sudden jackal]

Just to reiterate, It’s an Alienware computer so it’s got a AMD Ryzen 780HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. Also has a KIOXIA 512GB and 15 GB memory.

@granite mortar

How do I enable Vsync? Is there an option in settings?

[tawny flume]

The 400kb patch that wasn’t announced fixes everything

[mighty steeple]

its the damndest thing. i got sent to jail once for showing the police why my basement smelled so much. i mean why come to me to ask for missing children and smelly basements if you gonna arrest me for answering smh

[turbid monolith]

Here in my save it doesn't even appear in its spawn location

[uncut sleet]

You got banned for 'being too excited'? I don't want to be too harsh, stranger things have happened, but it might be a good idea to reflect on what reasons the person banning you may have had and how they'd describe your actions. I doubt (got like 99% confidence) that they would say you were being excited, tbh I'm sort of reading 'excited' as a euphemism for 'spammed'

[formal oak]

p diddy owes me tree fiddy

[scarlet lintel]

Might just play stalcraft till they fix the memory leaks and performance to a good enough extent to where I can actually play the game smoothly without getting a 5 minute period of single digit fps randomly

[kindred wind]

Any sort of fix for input lag?

I’ve fixed my fps issue but now I have input lag

[humble swan]

Does anyone know why my game is so saturated with the new updates?

[storm escarp]

that patch only removed debug-related files from release and dropped some app's hidden (with dot) directory (.sync which is connected with Resilio Sync)

[inner mural]

But i didint spammed the chat, eversince that day i never used discord much because i felt guilty about being on here i mostly use steam for everything but im slowly going over to discord being here gives me confidence atleast

[tawny flume]

Is that bad or fishy ? I’m no pc

[formal oak]

you cant spam a dirty stinking 5 minute wait chat . Slow release serotonin wannabe bs lol .

[azure sinew]

Is this satire

[fiery vault]

Confidence to use Discord? How do you people function in your day to day lives?

[rough flicker]

Restated my console like 10 times but my files aren’t corrupted no more, life is good yall 🙏

[mighty steeple]

This reminds me of the counter strike developer who talked about changing the displayed ping by reducing it by like 50 ms or something. the response was overwhelimingly positive dispite the fact that it litterally changed nothing. I don't now if this is what happened in this case but i do think it is useful to illustrate how off the mark and inaccruate player feedback can be and how alot of the times the player arent even able to identify actual issues. it is seemingly very diffcult to filter actual useful information from player feedback

[granite mortar]

yes, should be in settings
either Vsync or "max FPS"
he game cant use more than 4GB of RAM so you dont want it to generate more FPS than your monitor can display

[primal viper]

shoutout to stalker 2 for finally making me buy new internet, never would i think that i'd have to repeat a 150gb download 4 times after a game launch ..

[sudden jackal]

I have a 165 HZ. Monitor display so I hope that’s not the issue. But I turned it on just in case

[modest juniper]

its worth it for the A LIFE

[uncut sleet]

When you talk like this you are asking me to either believe that everyone around you is taking crazy pills or that you're intentionally leaving information out.

@mighty steeple haha oh that is funny, if you find a citation share it please? Doesnt surprise me though. Users are great at signposting a problem even if they are not in a position to correctly diagnose. I heard a similar story about some fps games weapon damage, they actually only changed the sounds (more robust, impactful noises) to resolve the underpowered weapon problem

[tight fern]

Does all artifacts effects stack?

[hearty compass]

what a-life

[modern junco]

Imagine spending real money to buy a game on steam and receiving finished product

[vagrant moth]

So I’ve reached the Down Below mission, if I want to continue playing and not finish the game yet should I do that before finishing the quest before? I ask cos it rewards you with 30k credits but then the mission would’ve already started

[gleaming ruin]

It’s when the mutants take forever to kill I think 👀

[tawny flume]

A Finnish product ?

[mighty steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yDM9XRK2lU&t=283s if you want a time stamp then 4:43 should be around the part where he discusses it

[primal viper]

did you ask them to change engine yet? :3 @inner mural has been begging for them to go back to x-ray engine for some time now...

[modest juniper]

i will ask them after they release patch 1.30.0

[sudden jackal]

Thank you for recommending SoC! So far it’s been pretty good, I really like it! I’m hoping though the other two games can be as open world as Stalker 2, but I see what you mean by the A-life, it’s kinda bummed me that Stalker 2 doesn’t have it yet.

[blissful dome]

Pvp is gonna be sick

[mighty sentinel]

Like a virgin

[dry cypress]

In PvP patch 1.76 it might.

[gleaming ruin]

IMO SoC is the best overall. CS and CoP have some improvements and cool new features and are great as well but SoC is peak

[rough flicker]

Why would the armor have multiple slots for artifacts 🤔

[plain minnow]

Oh joy the stash symbol on the map for the one at Abandoned Hamlet in the Swamps wont go away and I’ve looted it

[tight fern]

[turbid monolith]

Anyone else having problems upgrading weapons and armor?

[modest juniper]

uk a refund option exists right ? also i just noticed they removed the fffing ranking of stalkers

[ocean hornet]

fix a life or suffer my wrath

[fiery vault]

It probably wont be making a return. There is currently nothing in the game files that points to persistent NPCs, rather a 'lair system' that NPCs fight over and the lairs persist but not the specific NPCs

[muted valve]

kinda curious what your wrath looks like rn tbh

[uncut sleet]

How do y'all keep track of artifact locations? I get so mixed up haha, I've started using the custom marker as a visual aid. Like I'm Zaton and have zero recollection of the spots that had artis before, always felt like a surprise

Also @mighty steeple that was hilarious thank you

[dry cypress]

Just the SPSA-14 at the minute.

[inner mural]

Really ive seen some people really say "they should of used the x-ray engine!!!" Its crazy man

[digital fern]

never seen a finished/polished game on ue5 besides fortnite😭, does it looks like the game is even finished @worthy zodiac?

[slender perch]

just get better pc?

[woven shuttle]

ive been spending over an hour at different places trying to figure out how to open a door only to find out they only open during quests smhhhhh

[modest juniper]

@digital fern space marines 2 is on UE5

@fiery vault ugh that was such a good feature
@worthy zodiac i meant in general not stalker 2 specificly

[primal viper]

sounds like you really want x-ray engine back, just say it already lil bro

[mighty steeple]

there are probably some interactive map on mapgenie or somtheing online if you are interested but might be worth not using it if you want to find the locations by yourself. its is probably a real godsend in zones you have already explored

[thin parcel]

What was the 400 mb patch on steam for today? 5 minute chat cooldown?! Wtf?

[eager shard]

added goth girls

[sudden jackal]

Lmao, I like how bandits and dogs run away from me when I gun down their friends in SoC, this is pretty sick so far

[hallow wigeon]

might wanna spoiler some of that I fear

[analog helm]

The very first day space marine 2 released, I went to it's Steam store page and it automatically showed a guy streaming live playing the game.
For 10+ minutes the streamer was running around the map with all the characters and enemies textures gone invisible due to the bug and trying to hit/dodge all the enemies blind (and being quite successful I must say).
That was so funny 🙂

[uncut sleet]

Oh my god I've gotten like three or four hypercubes. One was great, two was funny, now its just getting silly

[tawny flume]

Tbh I haven’t left the lesser zone wait for more updates

[woven shuttle]

its the only maximum artifact ive ever found, and ive found 3 of them...

[silent herald]

Guys anyone know where to find the SVU suppressor, GP37 Drum mag and the Saiga drum mag pls ?

[ember birch]

https://youtu.be/-0DRkH3r15Y?si=xvyp13prENOAiMUg&t=95 and now you have confirmation

** A LIFE IS NOT IN GAME **

[modest juniper]

"all the mods on nexus are actually garbage" based dev true stalkers know moddb is where its at

[void stone]

I got a random compass yesterday, in the gravitationnal anomaly field south east of the northern checkpoint in the Cordon

[tawny flume]

Do artifacts respawn if they do is it in random places ?

[tight fern]

Does radiation emitted from artifacts cause damage to equipment?

[celest blaze]

Vanilla chads >

[fiery vault]

They respawn after every emission at most anomaly fields

[modest juniper]

lmfao what is this dev " we have a thing here that can spawn which i dont know how to do it but lets see" slavic devs

[zealous oasis]

stalker community singlehandedly keeping moddb alive

[ember birch]

english aint his native and as slavic, learning it is harder as it uses way different language systems

[celest blaze]

only mod you even need on moddb is cotz

[uncut sleet]

Just purely out of context that sounds about right, software is a thing that grows and becomes strange even when you're the only contributor

[finite dragon]

Anyone else stuck with a bugged "karim cyclops's PDA"? I cant get rid of it.

[last kiln]

I'm kinda sad that like, every third sidequest I do is bugged.

[dry cypress]

Be careful dude. Don’t wanna inform the community of potential game breaking bugs.

[formal oak]

them tools would ruin my fun because i would abuse them

[fiery vault]

@tawny flume Artifacts respawn after an emission. And so to do anomalies, as they usually change position. This is why (minor spoiler from the prologue) ||there is an anomaly that appears at and destroys the perimeter wall as you first enter the zone, after the emission in the prologue||

[modest juniper]

its not about his english i think @uncut sleet described the context better

@worthy zodiac https://youtu.be/-0DRkH3r15Y?si=p4q2YDa8s9sPAoWP&t=364 they have the A-LIFE FOLDER !!! emptyyy 😹😹

[violet oasis]

how has crashes been for everyone? haven’t had chance to play the new patches

[silver raft]

I've finally had 1 solid crash since launch and that was yesterday for me

[unique quiver]

No crashes so far, 50-70 FPS in average with sometimes falling to 15 FPS in populated sreas
So far I'm satisfied with what I have on my poor laptop

[outer aurora]

Any predictions on how high the score on steam will rise in a week or two? already went up like 5-6% in the past few days

[obsidian zephyr]

If they have a Christmas sale or something and they keep releasing patch fixes, probably a few more

[sleek maple]

How do you deal with those electrical anomalies that follow you around?

[formal oak]

i thought i was about to crash once this update but then it hung for about 5 seconds and recovered lol .(was going through mind screw second time fighting a Poltergeist stuck in a roof) You guys got very positive reviews on steam so thats a massive win

[celest goblet]

Feel like it will go up and down for a while before the bigger patches start releasing

[fiery vault]

Ive had no crashes and my frames have been 100-120 outside of main hubs, but Ive never really had any performance issues that other folks were having. Privleged to have an i9 12900kf and rtx 4090. Having the game downloaded on an SSD helps too, not sure why folks downloaded to an HDD. SSD is listed as a minimum requirement

[tawny flume]

I didn’t know rep play value sell them etc

[rose summit]

Examining an artifact completely bricks the game

[gleaming fiber]

I think it comes down to VRAM. Memory leak is still rough depending on your resolution

[modest juniper]

@fiery vault @worthy zodiac https://youtu.be/-0DRkH3r15Y?si=YJVXOKlhIHCmTl-2&t=409 omg there is a hidden ranking system maybe it will come back yess

[mellow dove]

anybody else has crash after death? My game crashes every time after death making it a bit unplayable since startup takes fairly long.

[warped swan]

That guy is not a GSC dev

[mighty sentinel]

Interesting video

[uncut sleet]

Relatively few on an xbox x, got a corrupted save in the field of red flowers (think I autosaved, died, and teleported around the same second?), the crashes were all easily recovered from because they happened right after successful saves lol. Only encountered one bout of choppy frame rate that was fixed with a reset. Overall pleased with how it is performing

[brittle rivet]

Just got a lead artifacts compartment

Feel like a boss

Less artifacts needed to counteract other artifacts

[sudden jackal]

These military guys at the start of the game are pissing me off, if I kill them will there be lasting consequences?

[obsidian zephyr]

A prepared cat

[violet oasis]

thanks guys! yh my fps has always been ok aside from the crashes which has been more then frequent and weird fps drops where my fps drops by over half in weird scenarios? will find out if fixed tho with these new patches

[formal oak]

kill all the festy ward war mongers whenever you have ammo to waste

[summer mesa]

I love this game but... I dont understand why heavy armoured soldiers use low durability weapons and get 10ammo with them

[static compass]

[dense elbow]

Lost of tree pop in on Xbox series x, I feel like everything is loading in front of me

[mellow dove]

can't play because of crashes. Crash everytime after death. So kind of a ironman mode. Too bad I already play on veteran so deaths happen a bit too often.

[outer aurora]

Everyone here was saying the reviews will go down even further and it went up by 5-6% lol

[umbral falcon]

a MARK I EMR (american dmr) just spawned in my hands, is that normal? lol (is it a bug? oh ok thanks hahahha ❤️ )

[static compass]

It happens lol

It's a bug

[lean quiver]

do you guys know if Kireina's mod merge is compatible with mutant loot

[maiden spire]

Praise the Omnissiah

[mighty steeple]

you have sadly been marked for death by the devs. i reccomend destorying every electronic device in your house and pray that they dont find you. (its a bug btw)

[static compass]

[light wigeon]

Hey guys did we find out what that little patch did today?

[uncut sleet]

I don't think the anomalies do enough damage. Im regularly surviving 2-3 hits, I feel like when the gravity ones get you solid you should die. Maybe some wiggle room for the orb one, but like 3/4 hp to be the price paid for misjudging the gap

[static compass]

Given the size, I'm guessing it's just a hotfix, but I'm not sure what for

[urban basin]

I mean, i saw a lot of youtubers i follow say its a mess in performance and stuff but nothing really happened

[viscid blade]

I believe that is because they screw up in patch 1.0.2 and added to the build the exe file they use tweak and test the build. The last patch removed it.

[coarse sparrow]

guys, do I understand the ammo system correctly? Normal < armour piercing < yellow ?

[hot veldt]

why does some of my gear when i try to upgrade it says technician cant install this upgrade is it a late game blueprint i have to find or is there something im missing

[uncut sleet]

Y'all, this game released on the 21st and I think its still November (no, december 1st). What are you expecting to happen? They've dropped two patches in this time. Go get a slurpee and chill 🤣

[celest blaze]

spoiler this next time

[pallid yew]

how do i use the blueprints for a technician?

[static compass]

[celest blaze]

spoilers go in here

[smoky lichen]

who called me

[urban basin]

I dont expect anything to happen i really like this game anyway lol

[gleaming fiber]

@smoky lichen Someone needs to fix you

[lean quiver]

Indeed, is a frigging mess

[torpid tree]

is weapon swapping to a broken one from my invetory a feature or a bug

[viscid blade]

I don't know, but with that name you will be called several times per day 😅

[static compass]

Bug

[prime nebula]

Sorry, but what kind of spoilers are we talking about? I did not mention any moments that could spoil the game.
Or did you consider the name of the quest to be a spoiler? Oh no, people find out the name of the quest hours earlier.

[celest blaze]

that was a big spoiler next time read the channel you are in before asking

[uncut sleet]

Ask in the spoiler chat, then.

[celest blaze]

#☢┃stalker-general

[static compass]

[gleaming fiber]

Anomaly

[bronze otter]

Why is everyone in rookie village gone? All the traders? Is this a new bug?

[slender perch]

[near dove]

When John Stalker said "it's stalker time" I knew this game was different

[celest blaze]

game of the decade

[static compass]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of PEAK

[celest blaze]

PEAK

[urban basin]

Maybe not a lot of people care about it tbf

[static compass]

🫵

[light wharf]

Hello

[fiery vault]

How do you get the date wrong

[azure glade]

i dont understand the people that critict stalker, its PEAK

[woeful pier]

PEAK false advertising

[mighty steeple]

on funny note: i have gotten so fed up with my brother because he just endlessly wanders and loots stuff for like 20 hours so ive told him i will start spoling the story if he moves to another region hes not supposed to be in yet. i wanna discuss stuff damn it

[static compass]

[uncut sleet]

Tbh I don't really feel the passage of time like other people seem to, so in my case 'how' is 'quite easily and often'.

Also @mighty steeple I feel so personally attacked

[tacit oracle]

like, I know it's not gonna do squat but it's so weird that almost 2 weeks after release nvidia still doesn't support optimization for this game.

[main ermine]

So we don’t get to know what the tiny patch was?

[viscid blade]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[formal oak]

nvidia is in a alleyway with a needle hanging out its arm after overdosing on silicon

[near dove]

P.E.A.K.E.R 2: Peak Of Chornobyl

[bronze otter]

Did anyone else rookie village have all the traders de spawn?

[celest blaze]

id ask in #☢┃stalker-general

[urban basin]

Or amd

[fiery vault]

Sidorovich appeared in your ass

[light wharf]

Is anyone else having issues with fps drops on the RTX 4060 ti? This problem is extremely annoying.

[stuck pagoda]

Going out from a 4h session, what is this tiny download on Steam ?

[static compass]

Hey, @dry cypress stop with the emoji spam plz

[ornate anvil]

Skiff pistol best gun.

[nimble cipher]

kreaom has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[static compass]

Wolf'd

[dry cypress]

But it’s funny. Apparently.

[vestal rampart]

Is radio and radiation the same game mechanic?

[static compass]

Gets spammy eventually

[static compass]

Ye

[exotic crescent]

we live in the matrix, since the review score from stalker 2 on steam I am convinced.

[tacit oracle]

I mean I'm having frame drops on a 3070, mostly on settlements. Apparently it can be related to the "hair" graphical setting but sometimes it looks like you just need to pause the game and give it some time to catch up to all it's got to render. I also just had it on the cutscene with Solder.

If I was a betting man, I'd say it looks like a humongous VRAM overhead out of... somewhere.

[formal oak]

its great hearing people with better gpus than u having a hard time . its like "sucked in" you spent money 😄 matrix is real. humans are too dumb to figure out how to lithography small silicone chunks

[nimble cipher]

verdiac has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[uncut sleet]

Right? Theres a reason we mostly make very simple (on an individual level) machines out of them

[urban basin]

Its like this in most gpus

[eager shard]

oi modders i need portable radio modded in so i can listen to bangers while i drink vodka and eat sausage

[dawn imp]

The game is amazing but it’s kinda sad that a game that came out in 2024 doesn’t support ray tracing

[static compass]

Sleep Token radio when? I've been asking

[bitter chasm]

How can I get out of the Agropromm dungeon?
I found a ladder, but it was closed by a hatch..

[hollow mountain]

did anyone else have to redownload all 122 gigs with the update

[copper haven]

Didn't know how much I hated chairs and movable objects till this game lmfao.

[prime walrus]

it will probably be done at some point. will refresh the game in a few years i expect, imagine what that would look like. unreal

[placid gate]

Good video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHhuii497SI

[finite ingot]

why tf does it say for my update that im missing space when i have 34 extra gigabytes left and the update is 11 gigabytes?

[tacit oracle]

I read a performance comparison from some gaming site saying that a 4090 was having a tough time keeping it above 50 fps on epic at 4k (with no framegen) so

[slender perch]

eyes cant see more than 1080p anyway

[formal oak]

has anyone perfected walking backwards on round stuff? u can do the porky pig and ride stupid animate objects

[manic frost]

Was their an update today?

[hardy bear]

Can you launch yourself deep rock galactic style. Instant fast travel right there

[uncut sleet]

While running I got skipped through a round gravity anomaly, could be an ingredt

[urban basin]

Wdym this game has raytracing on all the time and cant be deactivated lol but its software raytracing

[hollow mountain]

only 11? its making me redownload all 122 gigs and i dont know why or how to make it not do that

[analog helm]

You make it sound as if devs wouldn't keep improving the game unless someone keeps criticizing it...
However, for me it's clear that GSC treats the game like their own baby and they will keep improving it regardless of what people say.
And the positive reception of the game only means that they gonna have more resources to implement their ambitions, which I think is awesome.
They have always been a studio that bites more than they can chew.

[shrewd bison]

Ue5

[dawn imp]

Even a game from 2015 had full on ray tracing it’s sad that this new game couldn’t fully implement it

[placid gate]

I'll be so honest all you need is frame gen, I have a 3060ti and with frame gen it basically doubles fps (thats how it works) to 90-120, no input lag whatsoever it just has a bit of mouse smoothing. The optimisation sucks but all you need to make it feel good with a mid-high tier card is frame gen. I'm confident that itll be optimised in the future

@analog helm very true, even in the 2000s the reason SOC took over half a decade of delays to come out is because they have always been very ambitious and bite like crocodiles when they chew like humans

[torpid tree]

does anyone have the climbing ledges mod idk how to use it

[viral apex]

WHY I HAVE TO WAIT 2 HOURS FOR POST A MEME IF I DIDNT POST ONE YET? 😭

[crude bison]

Too many spicy memes were posted

[finite ingot]

its pretty stupid yeah

i needed 160 extra gigs for the 1.01 update which didn't finish so now it's taking up my space and that's why I'm left with only 33gb left which yet again isn't enough because newer update wants more space too bro, uninstalling this sh*t its stupid

literally taking 300+ gbs and still wants more

[static geyser]

guys does anyone knows if GSC trying to fix softlock in the mission "Subtle matter"? I got one and after searching the office my goal doesn't change

[wraith root]

Which detector is better? Hylka or Bear?

And also a Veles shortcut maybe?

[formal oak]

intergalactic planetary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g 😄 u wanted 1998

[tacit oracle]

Is your problem installing it?
If the problem is installing it, there's installation instructions on the page, but you should also be able to install it with Vortex, as long as you install support for stalker 2 first.

[fiery vault]

I normally carry both. Hylka for whipping it out to catch any far off artifacts, then the bear to actually retrieve it

[woeful pier]

average framegen enjoyer

[potent mica]

I'm surprised none of the streams I watched had anything close to what happened to me in the game when I was exploring. Enemies spawning aggro'd on me from behind or sometimes right near me. So perhaps this doesn't happen enough to annoy people that the spawn system needs some refinement at least until A-Life is worked on

[outer aurora]

Noise about what?

[torpid tree]

i have it installed it just doesnt seem to work, i cant climb over the vans and stuff as in the videos

[urban basin]

About a life i guess

[nimble cipher]

speedy9604 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[formal oak]

i cant read computer?

[tacit oracle]

I've had problems installing mods manually with this game, even after triple checking the paths. I don't normally use vortex, but in the case of this game I recommend using it to avoid pathing problems. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to check if a mod has been correctly installed, but there's a chance this might be the cause of the problem for you.

[slender perch]

cutest trader in the zone?

[winged river]

Bloodsucker trading my ammo and med packs for kisses

[placid gate]

I know theres been a lot of talk about Grygorovych but considering he was CEO when the previous 3 masterpieces released, I don't think there's a chance they just abandon this game. ALSO the fact they have to uphold microsoft standards now. All of the issues currently present are solveable given enough time, which they didnt have for one reason or another. Despite everything the game is more than playable especially after these 2 patches

[storm escarp]

kisses are not allowed, only back slapping allowed

[wraith root]

I have also seen some people getting Veles somewhere early mid game, do you know how they get it? Or any stash having one of these lying around?

[uncut sleet]

Eh, it has systems that are working to make the zone feel lived in, which is one of (perhaps the) highest purpose of a-life 1.0 anyway right? I don't think they have anything to be taken to task for here given they haven't dropped the project. Tbh I feel like the fanbase wants the same implementation as the previous version and will interpret any deviation as a broken promise. It makes complete sense to me that the game is doing well in steam and not here

[urban basin]

The fanbase already made ton of noise and keeps making it on this sv and on the steam forums tbf i dont think they will ignore if they already they are working on it

[outer aurora]

@urban basin @worthy zodiac My guess for the high review scores and not so much buzz online about Alife as compared to on here or reddit is that its very much a thing stalker veterans care about. I have a ton of hours on the trilogy but even for me its only a minor part of what makes stalker special, so it being broken doesnt really diminish my enjoyment of the game, probably the same for others.

[wintry hearth]

what was today's patch? i dont see notes

[winged river]

Bloodsucker sempai teleports behind you and glomps you ~uwu~

[fiery vault]

I dont know, but ask this in #☢┃stalker-general

[edgy scroll]

lets go first legendary artifact @unique rivet thunderberry

[unique rivet]

What'd ya get?

HOW DID THE SLOW MODE GET WORSE???

[urban basin]

Yeah i loved the old games a lot but i never stopped to see how the npcs act or the ai with A Life so its a minor thing for me if the game is fun
I only care about performance fixes and then they can add a life 2.0
But i can see why people cares lot about it

[winged river]

I'm a first time Stalker player and I'm enjoying it quite a lot, although I did find the game quite obtuse for the first 4 or so hours. Other than crashes still happening around every 30mins/1h and some systems *still *feeling obtuse (like factions), I can definitely understand it getting good reviews. If A-life gets added that will be awesome, but it isn't affecting my enjoyment of the game cause I've not experienced it before

[outer aurora]

@worthy zodiac So far theyre doing good work with the patches. Even if the game is good with alife broken and is getting good scores, theyre not giving signs like they're just gonna leave it broken. Hang in there.

@urban basin I do like seeing random squads or monsters fighting, and imo CoP did it best with random squads being able to escort you somewhere for a fee or free if youre going in the same direction as them, but other than that I love stalker because of the atmosphere, the setting and the story by far.

[placid gate]

what a weird response, instead of saying "this guy" you say "go open the game and look at the credits"

[dense hatch]

are y'all done yet

[hollow mountain]

would highly recommend the older games if you havent played them. lil bit janky but still some of the most fun ive had gaming in years

[novel gust]

The spawn system makes me mad

[edgy moth]

I'm soft locked in the quest with varan, can't give the pda...

[potent mica]

Wouldn't mind it if they didn't spawn in already knowing where you are

[dry cypress]

WOAH WOAH WOAH! Spoilers!

[copper otter]

a life is in the game and has been restored with mods, if you dont believe me go check the game files for yourself

[uncut sleet]

Factions are spawned and even interact without you in a player visible fashion. That is the core value of the a life feature, creating a zone with plausible activity for the player to be impacted by or to observe. They have a minimal functioning feature here, even if much of additional work isn't actually functional yet. Background persistence is an implementation detail - neat, but not truly critical to the feature.

You should give them some grace considering the 2+ patches already right after launch. I don't think you should so badly want to stress people out that are already demonstrably doing what you want .

Separately big yikes on your whole attitude around praise and motivation, that does not seem pleasant to carry.

[winged river]

Yeah I recently rewatched a review (Mandalore Gaming) for the first one and it still looks good, I'll probably get around to it at some point. FPS aren't usually my first choice of games, but I do love a game that does atmosphere right. Slavic games especially can do atmosphere so well (if sometimes leaning a little too heavily into nihilism)

[analog helm]

"Stalker 2 doesn't have ANYTHING working on the background, persistent or not" - this is literally false and has been debunked multiple times by some recognized moders, who has done a lot of testing and investigation.
There is a very ambitious system in the game, which very complicated and because of that - very buggy. It is so difficult, that it intervenes with the Director (the local online simulator) and completely breaks it. And the verdict is, that if they wanted, they could have just implement much simpler "random spawner" and it would just worked better for the release (though, that wouldn't be A-Life) and fewer people would complain. Yet, they've chosen to go with their ambition (as usual) and that's how we got here.
Here, take a read: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h2dk04/a_weeklong_investigation_into_the_alife_20_system/

[daring atlas]

Hy anyone have thet issue, that random wep is appier in the 2 wep slot?

[hollow mountain]

the old stalkers especially have great atmosphere. even just wandering around and exploring gives some great vibes. cannot recommend enough

[dense hatch]

man why can't we go back to arguing about if the SKS is a good idea or if they should add a new pointless caliber that acts the exact same as one already ingame

@north violet they ain't real

[north violet]

Why all the secrecy? Can't you just tell us who this person is?

@dense hatch Thank you, I don't remember ever seeing that name in the opening credits either. I only just got here and started reading and am like "WTF is this person talking about?

[finite dragon]

Do the main missions take me through all the zones or should I do some exploring because I wanted to visit the old brain scorcher but it seems I’m not going to be pointed there 🤷‍♂️

[static compass]

Sometimes you just have to explore

[edgy scroll]

pseudogiant going up the stairs is kinda scary

[jade geyser]

can someone make mod to replace knife with some kind of dildo, I wanna penetrate bloodsuckers with it

[static compass]

[junior rose]

saints row 3 player spotted

[hollow mountain]

so i cant say f*ck but you can say this imma kms

[outer aurora]

What are you doing outside of Rostok, smh Freedom members these days

[pseudo rivet]

Fuck

[unique rivet]

dont respond to mod bait! They're just trying to cheat you out of your 12 message/hour allowance!

[dry cypress]

They have a different colour name. That’s why they’re the exception.

[pseudo rivet]

So true

[static compass]

Got the perms

[finite dragon]

Wolf is racist

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, Wolf is zombified

[nocturne shale]

Sidorovich role and renegades, scamming checks out.

@pseudo rivet Freedom? Isn't that a fancy word for furry?

[pseudo rivet]

Don't forget the Freedom and Janny role too

[umbral falcon]

just got an VS Vintar now lol

[cyan violet]

It's just to mute the stalkers complaing about 14 - 8gb

[dense hatch]

ain't real, nobody cares

[pseudo rivet]

Damn, chat still has 5 minute cooldown?

I'm so sorry for you guys

[sweet belfry]

ur mom

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-mom-gif-23133121

[ancient jasper]

It's a bug. When the game spawns NPC's it also spawns them weapons, s9metimes it accidentally spawns those weapons in your inventory.

[vivid sinew]

So another non existent A Life evidence. Check mate

[hollow mountain]

dont you mean scamorovich? literally all that mfer was good for was taking your rubles

@worthy zodiac og a-life was great. the only fps i had played before that was cod and far cry and i was so amazed when i saw what alife actuallly was

[umbral falcon]

yea its the 2nd time it happens near poppy fields haha. Both decent DMRS that they arent supposed to have lol. (they only got shotguns and viper and stuff)

[analog helm]

I've never said that "the current version of the game is ANYTHING like A-Life 1.0". I just pointed that you made a false claim, by saying "there is no background system, just a random spawner", because there is - it just feels completely messed up.

[finite dragon]

They should give us the option to kill whoever we want fr & let us join factions

[leaden oak]

Traders are borked in my game 😦 no more mods installed, and it was good for a while. But now I can't trade anything. Mouse over anything that stacks in the trade windows and it crashes. Exception Access Violation... /sigh. Guess I'll wait for them to sort out whatever the hell is going on...

[pseudo rivet]

Did you report your issue to #s2-support?

[sour verge]

Bro someone PLEASE lower the cooldown by like a minute atleast

[uncut sleet]

No, I get you, I am aware of how a life works and have read that one redditors observations. The point I am making is narrow: there are many ways to achieve the goals of the alife system so crying foul because 2.0 doesnt look like the implementation you've already seen isn't fair.

[indigo marsh]

I will. Fuсk

[dense hatch]

they were replicating CoP, the game with the most restricted and shut off a-life

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, I'm asking if it can be lowered. It's legit brutal rn

Although Mol1t isn't online currently, so it may take a while

[formal oak]

not cool enough to cool down

[north violet]

Or at least lower the cooldown on an individual basis for those server members who are known for good behavior. (If that's even possible, I'm not sure how in-depth the moderator tools can get for Discord.)

@pseudo rivet What about McCulkin, or does he not have the perms for that?

[pseudo rivet]

[warped relic]

||on the quest Visions of Truth, after killing faust its telling me to search his body but its nowhere to be found, aside from a bunch of dead Monolith troops who are somehow named Faust.||

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, I can ask McCulkin as well, hope he'll respond

[nimble cipher]

_phosphorescence_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan violet]

make a new channel stalker-tears

[pearl jacinth]

veterans can say the evil word now ?!

[ancient jasper]

Yeah it's a little annoying sometimes because instead of putting it in my inventory it will swap an equipped gun into my inventorying and give me some broken gun and if I don't catch it in time I get into a fight and go to pull out my Ram-2 and instead I have a SVD-2 and I am really confused. 😂

[pseudo rivet]

Everyone can

Watch

"Ward"

[finite dragon]

Cheeki breeki donki

[pseudo rivet]

There we go

[uncut sleet]

Thats how we get rookies!

God I want to be able to directly impact monster spawn rates.

[pseudo rivet]

Thank you, McCulkin

[gritty knot]

How many hours have youse spoken about A life today

[granite mortar]

No..
Dont be fuсking silly
Nobody can say the word "fuсk"
Thats illegal
We would get fuсking Wolf'd

[north violet]

*Wolf materializes in the real world is standing directly behind you*

In all seriousness, you wouldn't happen to know what the 400kb update on Steam was for would you.

@neat roost Praise McCulkin, long may he reign!

[pseudo rivet]

Zero

[tulip flame]

Did they nerf unique weapons? Feels like most of the ones like the monolith ones are 100% the same with some difference camo only, Thought they would be better or at least have some difference but so far they all go to the vendor.

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1310032302193115167/Agro-Underground.gif

I'm honestly not following the whole HoC patch thing, so I wouldn't know

[sour verge]

Do boozer jobs increase bandit rep? If you can increase rep with them anyway

[nimble cipher]

weewdiedrich has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pseudo rivet]

RIP

[granite mortar]

Lmao
Get fuсking Wolf'd

[north violet]

They were never nerfed, they were only ever reskins as far as I know.

[tight fern]

I didn't believe artfact farming was possible but it actually works. Been reloading 3 times and had 3 different artfacts

[tulip flame]

I see. Ohh well free cash it is!

[trim shore]

I think I experience worse performance and VRAM allocation after patches. Most funny thing is that stalker 2 is first game where I see connection between low performance scenarios and glitches. When fps go below 30 NPC in town start jumping, teleporting, even their body parts are being separated, physics and animations go wild. Really strange behaviour. My 8700K and 2060 super never felt so old. Always performs +- like consoles. Not here.

[finite dragon]

I’d give him a sloppy wet kiss and cheeki his breeki😋

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, I believe the Monolith weapons are just skins

[indigo marsh]

No. Only those chosen by Wolf.

[craggy carbon]

In my opinion you focus too much on the simulation side would be of the game instead of enjoying what it does good. Plenty to do, good combat, lots of content and a decent story. The incessant whining for a feature that was mostly prevalent in anomaly and gama is goofy now. Yea ai could use work but its still a good time right now.

[dry cypress]

This server is an actual joke along with half the fking clowns that feed off it.

[pearl jacinth]

i am wolfs' biggest opp

[nimble cipher]

lvlart has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[uncut sleet]

First, dont be scared its just a game. Itll be ok.

Second, yeah I would also like a persistent layer (or some form of persistence ala rimworld), that is the thing I want.

I just don't think we've been underserved or deceived at this point. And I don't think wanting something is an excuse for inflicting obligations or acting like we've been wronged.

[gritty knot]

Edgy asf

[muted valve]

nah man i wanna be blown away by an AI director that gives me a zone filled with randomness and great stories on top of all the content already in there

[finite dragon]

I’ll fart on you

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1188461429683134565/1311348835947122708/dalinlike.gif

[gleaming fiber]

You sound bitter

[formal oak]

some kind of a democracy

[quartz wind]

it's posts like this that have this place set to 5 minute chat cool down good job

[indigo marsh]

He looks so dead inside

[pseudo rivet]

Absolutely devastated

Head of SIRCAA 👍

[north violet]

Lol, that facial expression: "What is this hand gesture?!"

[pearl jacinth]

an innocent creature

[craggy carbon]

Theres still tons of instances of small stories peppered across the map in points of interest. You dont need a simulation to make that happen. It would be cool and im sure we will get it but it doesnt make the game not worth it.

[granite mortar]

[dense hatch]

10 second cooldown when

[finite dragon]

Exactly bro the pdas alone have been interesting to look into & the story is ⛽️

[cyan violet]

some of you need to sit at a camp fire and get out your guitar

[pseudo rivet]

Ah, I remember the days of 1 second cooldown

[indigo marsh]

It would be cool to see artifact transmutation from amk. Anomalies of different kinds upgrading an artifact. Some of them reject the artifact, while others don't. And you can get recipes for quests and stuff.

[late juniper]

Please god make 10 second cooldown

[muted valve]

i was promised a "The advanced artificial intelligence system will compel the stalker to utilize a tactical approach against numerous enemies, challenging and keeping even the most hard-boiled players engaged. A-Life 2.0 life-simulating system builds a holistic live environment where player's actions have an impact on the world of the Zone." and damn do i want one!

[pseudo rivet]

I want to ge-ne-ra-te anomalies

[pearl jacinth]

6 hour cooldown when?

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[edgy scroll]

zelensky

[gritty knot]

If all their looking for is peristent AI then their just gonna miss every single other good aspect of the game which there is a plehora of things to do anyway, everythings that been said has already been 69x over at this point youd think we were the actual devs here hahaha

[cyan violet]

you guys have cd?

[granite mortar]

You know what would be peak?
If you had a gravity gun
And if you picked up and shot an artifact with it, it would spawn an anomaly on impact
||It exists in Creature in theMist mod, its kino as hell||

[indigo marsh]

I only have experienced a 10 second cooldown in this channel at shortest

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds hella kino

[finite dragon]

I wish but they were heavily under made but ima cop it once it’s in my local store

[dense hatch]

10 seconds was perfect

[late juniper]

I want to display the anomalies I catch in a lil room at one of the settlements

[pseudo rivet]

Back when the server was smaller, yeah

[uncut sleet]

What is kino?

Also that would be hilarious, A++

[craggy carbon]

And toxic

[pseudo rivet]

You know what'd be funny tho?

[formal oak]

if ward could be shot at random without them tanking bullets and acting like hard c*nts

[indigo marsh]

This server gained 30k people in a week

[pseudo rivet]

You know how there are guns with gravitational artifacts in their barrels to increase accuracy and what not? Add that to a grenade launcher and make it an underbarreled grenade sniper

[pearl jacinth]

no slowmode

[pseudo rivet]

Or a Bulldog 6

[uncut sleet]

Do crates ever regenerate? Wondering if I can look at how ransacked a building was to determine if I have already rummaged through it

[finite dragon]

I wanna wip around in one of their APCs 😭

[granite mortar]

It is
I shot a Crystal into group of unsuspecting soldiers
Also managed to land a Gravi near some dogs

@uncut sleet Kino is usually used when talking about stalker mods, it means cool, soulful or based
Generally its just something great
It cam be bit hard to explain perfectly, but if you ser few examples of when its used, you understand quickly

[pseudo rivet]

One hell of a kino "kino" explanation, dawg

[indigo marsh]

Only the renegade channel is still closed down
I checked and all the other ones were reopened

[pearl jacinth]

your mother is kino

[granite mortar]

Others hide in their chats
But renegades rule the streets
RENEGADIS GODS IF ZONA

[azure stratus]

anyone know how to fix your scope being messed up and zoomed in?

[pseudo rivet]

Reported to Mol1t

[leaden oak]

yep

[indigo marsh]

@pseudo rivet your CoP run you can't use stashes and you can't loot stashes right? Or is it the not using it part?

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/your-mom-your-mom-is-so-nice-i-hope-she-has-a-nice-day-your-mom-is-so-gif-22134595

[worn oar]

[smoky lichen]

what?

[pseudo rivet]

Then let's hope it'll get fixed

[finite dragon]

Unattach then re attach the scope

[pseudo rivet]

Not looting any stashes

[fringe idol]

only real solution is dowload safes without this softlock

[granite mortar]

Oh my god
The AMK gods have blessed us
A-life is real

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1171602505382236231/1271151328609177680/4012430ace6c963248f20d13c9aa55f38b5097d9.gif

[pearl jacinth]

I'M GOING TO EMISSION YOU 🟥🟥🟥 !!!

[indigo marsh]

And you can use stashes?

[finite dragon]

There you are! I’ve been looking all over for you😡

[pseudo rivet]

Can't use them if I don't loot them

[zenith sapphire]

How are the patches doing for yall?

[smoky lichen]

bro i'm sleeping don't bother me pls

[granite mortar]

Can you also not take stuff from the Skadovsk and Yanov chests?
Those that get filled with meds and ammo I mean

[loud void]

Has anyone else been having issues with music not working or messing up since the patch?

[pseudo rivet]

Damn, that's a nice challenge actually

[formal oak]

irish cheese

[indigo marsh]

In AMK autumn edition, the fast shooting AKM is replaced with Strielok's mosin

[chilly bronze]

bro F a-life, im waiting for B-life

[viscid blade]

Obvious advice: change your f*cking name if your don't want to be annoyed...

[finite dragon]

Fine. But you better wake up soon. The zone misses you🥺

[pearl jacinth]

[granite mortar]

Ngl
Mosin is cool
But its hell lot of a downgrade compared to AK
Especially in Stalker

[indigo marsh]

I thought that was already included in the challenge

[gleaming ruin]

Not sure if it’s me getting further in the game or the update but I’m having audio issues pretty frequently. Performance has improved since the update though

[pseudo rivet]

No, I meant stashes as in actual stashes

[finite dragon]

Is the Seva suit still the best for anomaly/rad protection?

[dense hatch]

is it worth playing

[indigo marsh]

The spelling mistake made it funny

[indigo marsh]

Amk is great although it adds some dialogue with NPCs not in SoC. But it adds really cool features and think it unlocks the 'word that shouldn't be said in en_stalker'.

[unreal raptor]

could there be any more medkits/consumables in this game?! I'm dropping 30/40 every time i go out for the excess weight. Basic medkits heal my entirely so there is never a need for the high level ones, same goes for rad meds, just drink a beer and I'm off. If it was set at about 10% of what it is now it would be fair!

[formal oak]

mosins are the sexiest rifle that exists

[coarse sparrow]

guys, how do I check what kind of blueprints I am picking up? currently its pretty frustrating that I have no clue what did I just picked up? are devs aware of this?

[restive zealot]

it pops up and tells you and when youj go into upgrades it shows up in yellow

[reef raptor]

the diamond exoskeleton has better stats especially upgraded I believe.. I've had the seva suit for a while then I switched to the liberty exoskeleton and it is so much better imo.. especially once you find the blueprints for better rad, thermal, electro etc. protection

although the seva suit is a GREAT suit.. (not the SEVA-D, etc.)

[inner mural]

you know, i miss the ssg like in the old games :/

[finite dragon]

Ohhhh okay thank you. I totally forgot about exoskeletons🙏

[pseudo rivet]

Disagree

[coarse sparrow]

they show up yellow only on gear that you CURRENTLY have, and the pop up is literally 5 secs long

[split coyote]

whats it mean when a trader's icon is green or red

[reef raptor]

you are welcome! If you want to know where most exoskeletons can be found uhh

Click here to reveal the location of most exoskeletons: ||Prypiat. There are around 5 I think in buildings, etc.||

[loud void]

Seems like the music keeps cutting out and just stops working alot of the time since that last patch....also 5 min wait?! Thats INSANE. Edit my bad, it's down to 2 now OH JOY

[rugged hedge]

Could someone assist me? I might be a bit behind on the symbols used by different factions. I found someone wearing what looks to be a digital winter fatigue, their patch has a trident in a diamond shape. Who do they belong to?

[uncut sleet]

When the product as a whole is unfit, either because it is ill-matched or of substandard quality, those are the traditional times to leave poor reviews or get refunds.

Want to be crystal clear on a point since you muddied the waters with the classic 'voicing your concerns'; it is OK to share your desires and fears, it is not acceptable to ask others to withhold honest praise for leverage or otherwise engage in manipulative or deceitful practices.

And with the 30 or so hours of playtime I have I'd say the 'when' you could cry foul would be 'never'. If they never pushed another patch I wouldn't fault you for being disappointed, but it still wouldn't justify being ungracious about the whole thing.

And honestly, have you considered the personal and professional stake they must feel in this project? They're still working at a time you'd traditionally be taking a well deserved break. So I don't think you need to play taskmaster - they will get the message if you confine yourself to expressing excitement over alife 2.0 (or fear that it'll get left behind like kevin mccalister or whatever you are feeling).

[finite dragon]

Bet thank you. I haven’t got that far yet I’m still around malachite but once I hit Pripyat I’ll look them up

[pseudo rivet]

Patch doesn't exist, but white camo sounds like Monolith / Noon

Ah wait, is it this?

[reef raptor]

haha you can go right now if you want!
I am also in Malachite and I decided to explore the whole map for 20 hours or so since I am currently soft-locked and I cant continue the story so for the past 4 days I have been exploring and man it was worth it

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1304780851707641919.webp?size=96

There

[feral pewter]

Hey all, was wondering if I could get a mod's opinion on rules around self-promotion. Pretty sure I just finished the first challenge run for the game, at least what got posted publicly.

[pseudo rivet]

That's Noon

[late juniper]

So noon are former monolith guys just trying to get their lives back?

[pseudo rivet]

Heya, I'm afraid self-promotion isn't allowed in here

[pseudo rivet]

Basically, yeah

[finite dragon]

Damn really? I thought the game worked like the other ones and had to progress to unlock new areas lol. Do you know if there’s a quest that takes you to the brain scorcher? That’s my favorite place in the series because of all the zombies 😂

[pseudo rivet]

What hype does to a mf

[reef raptor]

Not sure :p I am soft-locked at this quest: ||A Minor Incident|| but yeah no, you can go there if you want.. just bring medkits, ammo and other things lol

[feral pewter]

Sweet! Just wanted to know! Thank you 🙂

[gray turret]

🫃

[coarse sparrow]

its a bit head scratching that ubislop gets stable 80-90 Metacritic scores while stalker 2 on PC has 73, gaming journalism is dead

[finite dragon]

Hell yeah ima do that right now then

[late juniper]

I’ve always wanted a faction like noon, I love it

[reef raptor]

Alrighty! be careful and remember to F5 every 3 seconds lmao
Good luck, stalker. 🫡

[pseudo rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOAJu4CrBUU

[umbral falcon]

wear and tear "external sources". what does that mean? when i meele with gun or something else? (oops wrong chat)

[finite dragon]

Thank you boss will do❤️ is there psi radiation active around it?

[fiery vault]

idk (sorry bad english)

[reef raptor]

nop, its safe to go to prypiat

[loud void]

Launching without a functioning a life system just simply wasn't ok no matter what due to the importance it has on the core of the game itself. If they havnt been making false claims about how a life 2.0 works then they deserve all the negativity and critisism directed towards them by the playerbase becuase thats means none of us have actually got to experience the game as it was designed! All the other issues the game has had are totally 100 percent fogivable and understandable....but releasing a STALKER game with the a life system bugged so bad that the ai you do get to experience is on par with the same level of effectiveness as enemies from quake 2 !

(For the record i think they were honest about a life 2.0 and its feature set)

[formal oak]

im a guinea pig hehe

[finite dragon]

They know about the current a life feature missing and will be implementing it after they polish out the rest of the bugs👍

[loud void]

Ontop of that, considering g how bad performance is for most people, and the fact the ai is so thoroughly bugged, we can't even know if performance will improve or get worse once they implement their solution to a life 2.0. It could very likely tank performance

[dense geyser]

anyone know about this 400kb update? dunno if im late to the party or not

[jade dagger]

Do we know when second patch is dropping on console?

[dense hatch]

I'm not sure how much longer they could've delayed it tbh

[formal oak]

dont hate me for leaving this for kcd2 when it comes out

[late juniper]

Understandable

[loud void]

I'd hope they would lol, but the main issue now is wether or not it will even be the same a life 2.0 they hyped up for years, or if its just a cheap imitation of the original system becuase of the limited power of consoles couldn't handle it and now they are panicking trying to find a way to make it work good enough that they can't be sued for false advertisement.

[dawn imp]

2 min cooldown is better then 5 min i guess

[ebon creek]

sircaa is actually just unplayable

[ivory aurora]

Do you know if there is a cigarette mod?

[finite dragon]

Worst part is tho once they add a-life it’s going to cause another strand of bugs so it’s going to be quite a long process before we get the finished product we expected 🤷‍♂️

[eager shard]

who expected finished product

[formal oak]

the product we dont deserve

[pseudo rivet]

I didn't

[ivory aurora]

I don't understand what they are talking about, what product?

[dawn imp]

Can you give me the helper role so i dont have a cooldown anymore

[ebon creek]

I at least expected something playable not a buggy pile of trash that you cant even progress in.

[pseudo rivet]

No

[hoary nymph]

delusional ppl

[finite dragon]

Ur right i should’ve known to spend 60usd on a betta test. Silly me😔

[late juniper]

I’m just happy we got anything, it’s been over a decade since CoP and we should be happy to have anything remotely functional or this fun

[marsh pond]

price of a take away

[loud void]

Everyone should have....they paid 60 bux and it didn't have early access attatched to it. This is the sort of thing only acceptable for early access.

I'm still playing the game (playing it right now) but I'm playing it mostly so that once a life is out, I will have enough experience with the game to properly appreciate and evaluate it and what adds to the experience.

[spice shoal]

I do totally agree that this game should have been released in early access. It is in no way a finished product, though it is still fun in it's current state.

[formal oak]

i would have near payed that price to shit talk in this discord

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds worth it, tbh

[hexed wolf]

Should I refund then?

[pseudo rivet]

Up to you

[nimble solar]

GotY even with bugs stalker is awesome

[dawn imp]

I got the game for 7 usd on steam lol

[eager shard]

110 euros didnt make a dent

[ebon creek]

YES, until they fix the game

[pseudo rivet]

You can also wait for patches

[marsh pond]

its your money, you do what YOU want with YOUR MONEY.

[finite dragon]

Everyone’s got different standards but hell at least the devs are making the effort to fix the dumpster fire they created 😂

[pseudo rivet]

Fr

[spice shoal]

Totally up to you, sadly though it def seems like this is gonna be (another) one of those games where it more closely resembles what was advertised 6 months to a year after launch.

[modest juniper]

maybe its his moms money

[formal oak]

i hope lots of bookers and pocaine were invested its party time gsc

[dusky cosmos]

Anyone knows, why with Compass artefact equipped I am getting more physical damage than without it?
Do we have same issue as in SoC and other parts, when 60% protection suit + artefacts actually gives -% protection?

[loud void]

But I have a feeling it's not even gonna be as good as the old games version, and it will be missing things. Thats been the case for every other aspect of the game such as not having night vision or binoculars....in a stalker game...the first one to have the entire map area from the three previous games in one seamless map...yet THIS is the game they decide that "I never used binoculars in the game so noone needs em....also nah noone wants or needs night vision or thermal....also low crouch thay should have been prone an everyone knows this....yeah let's not include that either"

[mossy ivy]

Hi, anyone know a way to turn off radiation sacreen effect?

[primal salmon]

drink vodka

[modest juniper]

why do i have a feeling they gonna add binoculars and nigh vision in some weapons pack dlc 🤔

[elfin venture]

we finally have the technology to realistically simulate night vision, instead of just applying a crappy green filter, and it's not there

[finite dragon]

Please don’t say that. The fact there’s a “season pass” hurts me enough 😭

[rugged hedge]

Apologies for the late response, making dinner. That's the exact patch, I thought it was monolith at first but it was the checkpoint between the Lesser Zone and Wild Island which might make sense but idk

[uncut sleet]

No, I really do understand that is how you feel. I'm not telling you to feel differently. But if you still don't understand then I'll assume the fault is on my end 🤷

@loud void I disagree; that system is really cool but it isn't the only cool thing in the series or even the coolest thing. Further what is present scratched much of that itch; I've used roaming bandits against monsters I couldn't handle, I see monsters and factions that make sense for where on the map I am, I waited for rescue when I got treed by too many blood suckers, I used terrain and repositioned to gain the edge against too many bandits.

Dont get me twisted, I want the version of a life where the zone is effectively a darwinian fish tank to sandbox around in, but this system is already (in its damaged state!) giving me a lot of what I got out of the old system. It makes all the talk of failure seem hyperbolic, bordering on histrionics 🤷

[loud void]

Wether your in defense of GSC or not, the points i made still stand. Its a very concerning pattern that does not bode well for a life 2.0. I hope to god I'm wrong but thats unfortunately the writing on the walls.

[formal oak]

work is done here come back next year 😛

[dense hatch]

CoP barely has a-life and people call it the best game

[primal salmon]

Alright, so got back in zalyssia, many things got fixed, thats a good thing. But its so dead empty, that I came back to garbage area.

[analog helm]

Don't forget to nominate the game for Steam Awards first

[modest juniper]

damn the more i think about it the more it makes sense ? if they drop those 2 in some weapons pack or some dlc no one would notice and this issue will be swept under the rug

[celest blaze]

If folks played CS they'd know it's got the best alife

[loud void]

Im Just saying don't get your hopes up that it will fix everything. I've been down this road too many times before with games. Doesn't mean you should angrily uninstall the game and get out the pitchforks an torches, but rather the devs shouldn't be surprised by fans reactions and to not be surprised when a life is "fixxed" but it's nerfed so much compared to previous games that it's just depressing to see such a pretty game fall so short where it matters most.

[finite dragon]

Nothing beats the classic SoC experience.

@modest juniper there’s already rumors of skins for guns so I wouldn’t doubt if they threw some bs micro transaction like that out 😭

[formal oak]

zalyss never got attacked if you blasted enough of the ward scum... they cant even compete with my old shotgun

[dense hatch]

there's not NEARLY enough retrospective CoP hate considering a lot of the stalker 2 issues are carried over from CoP

[elfin venture]

CoP was the game where I saw the most A-Life in any Stalker game, I think we were playing different games

[primal salmon]

worst in trilogy, but a-life was on top

[celest blaze]

best in the series CoP is overhyped

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, PEAK Sky

[obsidian zephyr]

Cool, they made a good change to the cutscenes (this on Xbox SS) they look pretty now

[celest blaze]

🗣️🔥

[wide owl]

Question: why is canned food twice as heavy as grenades per unit?
carrying around dinner weighing more than my guns

[modest juniper]

it wont be so much bs if they put in something thats better in the pack right ? like the ability to play with some secret unknown faction and have weapons themed for them bro i would spend 20$ on that

[silk tree]

YAY 2 MINTE SLOW MODE
@pseudo rivet dont ya dare

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/hd-smirk-gif-7206957141966421326

[celest blaze]

CS > SHoC > CoP imo

[loud void]

That one was missing alot ofnthings the later games added. Clear sky was the one where it all clicked imo.

Call of Pripyat was the best though. It had the size that made the dynamic faction wars seem believable

[pseudo rivet]

Although CoP balance is PEAK

[dense hatch]

a-life is limited not crossing areas, and unique NPCs don't travel along with movements being limited to roads, all the interesting encounters are scripted such as the artefact hunters or the sidequests, and there aren't even any natural human enemies for the first 2/3rds of the game

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[finite dragon]

Hell yeah, I don’t mind the micro transactions if it adds content other than just cosmetics. They could totally add a whole new section of the zone to explore with a faction like you said and make some big bucks off it

[celest blaze]

CS with CoP balancing would be even peaker

[primal salmon]

CoP is the best. Period.

[willow yacht]

why are bloodsuckers immune to anomalies? I ran into a field of gravity anomalies and it just ran straight through them without setting any off. Is this intentional?

[pseudo rivet]

So true

[modest juniper]

is clear sky the faction a thing in stalker 2 ? if not they could add them as dlc but with story if without a story then its bs

[celest blaze]

i dont think we will ever see them again sadly

[rugged bison]

any one else monolithian device for mission an act of mercy not spawning at all

[pseudo rivet]

Nope, Clear Sky is dead as hell, which was 100% fully expected

[dense hatch]

so true!

[loud void]

I've tested this myself but did you know, sleep deprivation isn't even in the game! Also I've yet to see a single bullet ricochet....there's so many little things the old games had that are just missing for some reason. Like the stat screen on the pda showing faction relations....animals don't actually hunt anything, they also don't drag their kill back to their lair to eat like the old games....also no kill cam to watch yourself get eaten or dragged away, or comically destroyed by an anomaly

[pseudo rivet]

And if you thought Clear Sky was alive, tell me who supplies you with copium. I need a good deal as well

[primal salmon]

No a-life, no faction wars, no night vision goggles…. Literally a GOTY…

[celest blaze]

to be fair faction wars was in only one game

[elfin venture]

It made artifacts meaningless imo. I was playing it on Master and the only artifact I had in my inv was the Jellyfish, which I didn't bother selling because I already had more money than I could ever spend

[gritty knot]

👓

[finite dragon]

Unfortunately I don’t think so. They are just completely missing and there are no remains of them in the swamp. But i hope they add joinable factions and higher reputation impacts to things bc right now all the side bs has no affect on gameplay 🤷‍♂️

[smoky lichen]

Tell me whyyyyy

[modest juniper]

its possible to do what anomaly did just not as cheesy

[pseudo rivet]

I'm specifically talking about weapon and armor balance. (Almost) Everything is useful

[uncut sleet]

The through line that I evidently failed to communicate is that I really don't care about the specifics of your desires but the way in which you communicate them is rude and unpleasant. And yes, asking others to withhold praise in pursuit of an agenda is manipulative.

[formal oak]

benzos arent fun

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/fleetwood-mac-little-lies-stevie-nicks-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie-gif-16272416

[hybrid rose]

load in
turn too fast around a corner
game crashes
😭

[celest blaze]

i'd love if they did make a return as they are my favorite faction but i dont want it cheesy

[dense hatch]

the gameplay is overall worse, 2 escort quests, the way uniques are done, upgrades being mostly pointless for weapons, the lack of proper new big game mechanics besides emissions, bigger less detailed and varied maps, worse visuals than CS, a lack of human combat in the early game in general, worse music+combat music, 1 new weapon, and everything about the main quest

copied from earlier but I still stand by everything here, also about CoP

[loud void]

All ai just has the most simplistic motivations, and have no sense of preservation. They never retreat, they try to fake it with animals but they just run away and turn right back around to run at you, and repeat this same behavoir. If your unreachable the ai just surrounds you and does nothing else regardless of what creature it is....its a HUGE step back from the previous games an games in general

[weak delta]

A-Life

[elfin venture]

I can agree with that

[modest juniper]

maybe they switched locations ? the swamps became pretty exposed and clear sky were all about hiding from the masses

[smoky lichen]

Tellll me whyyyyyyyy

[uncut sleet]

Oh man, kill cam. You're right that is missing. I feel that sudden and brutal death as a consequence of a misstep is a core part of the experience, and kill cam communicates that perfectly.

[finite dragon]

Real shit. I absolutely hate the fact that I’m having to go in solo every fight. Sure it’s cool and convenient in some scenarios but I wanna fight beside my stalker bros and experience BIGGER battles like the ones in CS

[loud void]

If you stay in one place for too long the broken ai system just starts spawning group after group of enemies. Every 6 to 12 min something will spawn in an invisible radius around you.

[primal salmon]

Yeah, but what makes S2 special ? Theres nothing. We dont even have a spine of the game (alife), just bare ribs. I mean, graphics are cool if you got a high end rig.

Story, I mean… One dude took your shi to another one, then that dude lost it to another dude, and that one gone somewhere, so you need travel further to find THAT dude who probably lost your stuff to another dude…. Thats deep.

[dense hatch]

again, CoP did it worse

[smoky lichen]

Ok guys I'll give you what you want

Ask Me Anything ...

[elfin venture]

this reminds me of that one time my buddy Matt lent his copy of GTA IV to another classmate

[celest blaze]

better then cops main story imo

ukranian airforce somehow didnt think that anomalies moved after emissions

[rugged bison]

how to use th uetool to spawn a mission item

[indigo marsh]

Imo Clear sky had artifacts that were too rare while CoP had it too common. If the respawn time was less for the artifacts were less for clear sky it would be perfect.

[formal oak]

do you smoke bongs?

[finite dragon]

CoP was dull but I’d choose that over S2 any day with how dead the game feels rn. Even tho I love the graphics the gameplay is just so bland atm

[celest blaze]

S2 will be peak as the devs polish and fix things

[true oxide]

do u guys know how to fix low level fatal error crash??

[smoky lichen]

please don't abuse alife😭😭😭

[modest juniper]

i wouldnt pick cop over minecraft you cant be serious

[dense hatch]

CoP has the worst main quest by a COUNTY MILE

[rigid hearth]

SO guys
Do you think the next hotfix or Patch
is gona finaly fix fix the Zalissa quest? XD

@dense hatch What was the MSQ of CoP again?

[azure stratus]

pray

[rugged bison]

i have to spawnin a mission item cause the games broke and wont spawn it in ive tried to reload an old save and nothing and im in the spot it would be in

[celest blaze]

i was actually disappointed i was like is this it ??

[rapid fox]

i managed to finish the zalissya quest after the couple of patches but i think i'm in the minority. anyways this game has been awesome 30 hrs in

[nimble cipher]

omgwtfbbq1419 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

thank god CoP sidequests were awesome

[primal salmon]

I hope so

[fiery vault]

i will NOT tolerate CoP slander

[elfin venture]

I like CoP for its sidequests and the sense of community with the stalkers in the center of the Zone

[true oxide]

COP got me into stalker

[modest juniper]

the problem with CoP is that the story is not about the zone really or strelock its about the millitary and what happened to the choppers in SoC and CS i liked the millitary CoP ruined their image for me

[celest blaze]

same i want to have faith

[pearl jacinth]

me, in the future, resisting the urge to name my son Strelok:

[smoky lichen]

I warned you!!!!

[finite dragon]

We should not be slandering cop period with the way s2 is rn🤣

[rugged bison]

ok so wait you want me to be scared cause i have to cheat in a game to go further in the story line cause the item wont spawn

[loud void]

Wtf was that?that entire huge post i typed was deleted...becuase of something called "zaelgo?!" Wtf is that?! It has a bunch of wierd symbols above the letters too....wtf does that mean?!

[dense hatch]

find helicopters, 2 escort quests, worst reveal in stalker history

[formal oak]

cop stands for cheap over powered peripheral vision poofter lol

[celest blaze]

if there is CS slander i will slander CoP

[pseudo rivet]

Same

[rapid fox]

the true challenge is defending HoC rn

[pseudo rivet]

And I love CoP balance

[celest blaze]

[spare marlin]

do corpses persist enough to store items on for a time so I'm not overweight

[primal salmon]

S2 story reminds me of my dragons dogma experience

[elfin venture]

you used lookalike unicode symbols to bypass the automod

[indigo marsh]

Or instead of having it 4 hours of staying in one location, have it be 4 hours but instead of needing to stay in one location it can be overall.

[pseudo rivet]

Clear Sky PEAK Sky

[smoky lichen]

Ok bro

I'm gonna spawn 10 BLOODSUCKERS behind your back

GOOD LUCK

[celest blaze]

🗣️🎙️ PEAK SKY

[zealous oasis]

the faction wars thing from cs was cool but thats really its only redeeming quality, such a rough game vanilla

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/kirby-mike-kirby-yelling-microphone-kirby-planet-robobot-gif-25917184

[finite dragon]

Faction wars and a-life carried 🗣️

[modest juniper]

artifact hunting too

[primal salmon]

I am only at the garbage location, but for now, every trilogy game has a better story imo. May change in the future.

[formal oak]

no body likes mondays you know it was coming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc****

[elfin venture]

the bandit attacks on the loner base in Army Warehouses got annoying real quick

[nimble solar]

People will be calling clear sky the best game but then complain about AI in stalker 2

[dense hatch]

CoP having 2 actual locations and one small one is by far the worst part of it

[scarlet lintel]

Gotta hope the next patch will make the gsme playable 😔

[celest blaze]

this honestly

felt like a minor dlc

[tired zealot]

did Yall see that clip of a enemy AI like ducking and weaving under bullets? has that happened to anyone? that looks awesome

[smoky lichen]

okay guys

I'm gonna spawn 1 thing for each of you in real life

Pick wisely (no goth girlfriends allowed)

[nocturne shale]

Damn. I'm out then.

[zealous oasis]

yea i thought it was fake until i experienced it

[rapid fox]

how about an ALTERNATIVE girlfriend

[celest blaze]

??

[loud void]

See wtf is that? I can't even paste what it said to me?! @loud void, zalgo! is not allowed here! 😡 i had to erase all the crazy stuff an retype it...this is definitely a false positive of epic proportion and it would be nice to know what specifically triggered this

[finite dragon]

Jar of pickles

[primal salmon]

I am down bad for a goth bloodsucker

[formal oak]

amy winehouse? army warehouse whats the difference ?HEHEHEHE

[tired zealot]

The Zone

Also @celest blaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lau6WDHNY8Y look at this enemy like bob and weave bullets like a G, im telling ya stalker 2 after A-life and AI fixes is gonna be super impressive

[dense hatch]

because it's basically just a dlc except they're selling it for $20, series should be lowered in price at some point, at least CS is cheaper

[loud void]

https://imgur.com/a/WitPXsx

[celest blaze]

holy i've never seen this

[zealous oasis]

it only happened to me once but i was mind blown, was likke ok guess ill just die now

[elfin venture]

Symbols from non-english and non-latin alphabets are often used to evade automod, which is why they're detected as zalgo. Change your keyboard layout to English

[celest blaze]

i agree 100%

[finite dragon]

HERESY! The emperor would not approve brother!

[nocturne shale]

what the blyat? This is sick.

[smoky lichen]

pls stop using clown emojis

[tardy crane]

You're not funny anymore

[formal oak]

"beer for my horses, whiskey for my men" or ... "Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them."

[pearl mauve]

Not sure this belongs in advice but how does the mark I feel when it's full auto converted?

[loud void]

english is the only language i speak! i dont even know HOW to use those symbols! i wouldnt care if i hadnt put so much time an effort into typing that long message on my phone just to have it nuked for literally no reason other than it glitching out lol.

[celest blaze]

i do wish there was a way to see how many clown reacts were made since stalker 2 released

[warped relic]

Good god damn, this Visions of Truth quest is broken beyond belief.

[hybrid rose]

mutants are absurd here. i have dumped 500 rounds of 5.56 into one and it has not died.

i've been hitting it with, i'll say about 75% accuracy

normal difficulty btw

[tired zealot]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm skill issue

didnt tehy just nerf mutant health

[restive zealot]

skill issue, they already nerfed them once because of normies crying'

[daring storm]

It's calmed down in here slightly which is nice to see.

[finite dragon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/11vb8n9/haha_bloodsucker_meme_very_original_and_funny/

[celest blaze]

naw they were just unbalanced

[nimble cipher]

therat0540 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

some of the first mods were mutant rebalances made by grok from gamma and that modpack is harder then S2

[loud void]

is zalgo some sort of foriegn slang or something? and if so, how did the automod think i even typed that?

[primal salmon]

If you tell me that bloodsuckers were ok before nerf…..

[formal oak]

what were u doing to them

[pseudo rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153910891347968/1295490720345493605/wolf_ping_eat.gif

[elfin venture]

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

[zenith sapphire]

Unspeakable things happening between me and the bloodsuckers 🍌

[daring storm]

You don't kiss your dog? Weirdo

[hybrid rose]

fighting a two headed thing that's ripping me apart. been set back like 15+ medkits. i'm wearing bulat armor that shrugs off all other damage types

also i killed the beast, it only took SIX HUNDRED ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION

my massive stock of 9x18 saves the day again

[celest blaze]

chimeras are no joke

[primal salmon]

I dont wanna meet em

[celest blaze]

same 💀

[wintry sorrel]

is there a way to unlock quick access 2 and 4? i hate having to hold down f1 or f2

[celest blaze]

heard they were scary af

[warped relic]

Have you updated to the latest patch? I killed a chimera yesterday with around 200 rounds of 5.45 on veteran.

[loud void]

pretty sure mods can look and see the exact message that triggers the automod so you prolly wanna look into it. this automod is annoying enough without having to worry about it just randomly deciding for seemingly no reason that "nah this massage is being deleted"

also i HATE that crap....i garantee you i didnt do anything like that

[formal oak]

did you meet the ass hat in the swamp? he really needs to f**k off

[elfin venture]

I'm not a mod, maybe @pseudo rivet can look into it

[finite dragon]

I had to use 2 grenades 4 AR mags and rpg and 8 shotgun shells to put one down😟

[primal salmon]

Ive always been scared of chimeras in trilogies, but I hope devs are not going to nerf em

[celest blaze]

💀

[hybrid rose]

i cant even curse because of the tempermental automod. language in the game isn't even allowed in the server about the game 😭

[tired zealot]

I got so excited because my steamp started downloading something for Stalker 2, Ithink its just my cloud syncing or somthing, I thought there was an update ;p

[split vector]

If anyone is still having issues with the end of “In search of past glory” the devs are looking Into it.

[loud void]

if you can, DM me the exact message as it appeared in the automod. the only thing i can figure is a type was autocorrected to something miesspelled. i type really fast and sometimes it will "correct" words with incorrect spellings becuase my thumb hit the checkmark where the word suggestions are on the touchscreen keyboard, but even still ive never type a single "zalgo" type word in my life

edit, just saw your not a mod lol

[pseudo rivet]

To be fair, Wolf is zombified

[formal oak]

chimera and the storm coming in gave me ptsd hard i had to circle a tree with the c*nt for a good few hours before realising i am not sane (shotgun reload shitting my pants)

[pseudo rivet]

Imagine using the Storm as an actual assault rifle

Couldn't be me

[finite dragon]

That brain scorcher is no joke (wait that was ghost)

[pseudo rivet]

Turn that thing into a 3 round burst sniper rifle

[daring storm]

Awww man now my game just freezes up 😢 First time it's done that.

[hybrid rose]

just killed two guys named vlad screamer

on the same team

right next to eachother

maybe they were twins

[celest blaze]

if only we had AN-94

2 shot hyperburst goes hard

[primal salmon]

they screamed to each other’s face when drunk

[mint viper]

I need to know if killing a certain character has any consequences

[pseudo rivet]

We do

||In the Trilogy ||

[celest blaze]

[warped relic]

Let's spam the devs with this request lmao

[vocal vapor]

Why is Stalker 2 called Stalker 2 when it’s actually Stalker 4?

[celest blaze]

the fan in me says yes but the helper says no

[loud void]

one good thing i can say about the game is how emissions work. you can be in a building that works as shelter, but if you stand in a doorway thats open you will take damage during the burst only if your in the doorway, as if its like gamma rays or something

[tired zealot]

alright now that 1.02 has been out for a bit

Yall reinstall any mods? I assume even with the optimzation patches, installing a Engine mod woulld further improve stability and frames

[finite dragon]

This would be the only gun I’d use 😫

unless they balance the ak🙄

[celest blaze]

i used it throughout the whole trilogy it was so good

[pseudo rivet]

Because of the Trilogy, with HoC being a new entry into the setting

[hybrid rose]

PSZ-12V Bulat now at 84% after a gunfight and the chimera encounter 😔

[primal salmon]

Devs told me, bmp2s will be playable in upcoming dlcs

[celest blaze]

finally a real chimera counter

[mint viper]

Can someone please help me. It’s on the quest wishful thinking but I don’t wanna spoil anything.

[celest blaze]

id go to #☢┃stalker-general for this

[fallen tangle]

is it not best just googling for a stalker 2 wiki. They're categorised so you don't have to spoil you just click where you're at

[finite dragon]

Right now I’m rocking the spitfire & god damn does it need a buff

[gritty knot]

I want to be able to dual wield rpgs in this game

[primal salmon]

why you need gauss gun if you got skif’s pistol

[loud void]

only mod that stopped working for me was the mutant loot mod. it broke ALL text in the ENTIRE interface. even main menu lmao.

also have you guys looked at a controllers eyes real closely in this game? they are haunting

[copper jewel]

IMO game feels too easy on hardest difficulty now

[loud void]

its still VERY upsetting that they didnt enable ragdoll collision with other ragdolls....games have been able to do that with no impact to performance for about a decade now....really wierd to not have this enabled....the assetts are so high quality but then you see stuff like this ruining the immersion https://imgur.com/a/SfbrPdo

https://imgur.com/a/pTLlS5U

[dense hatch]

bitcoin miner

[gritty knot]

Its 1000000 percent got to do with optimisation when the games shitting in the bed on my pc then theres an issue

[primal salmon]

bloodsuckers needs a little buff

[copper jewel]

and its alittle to easy to make money now again IMO

[loud void]

that would imply a much bigger issue, becuase if that has an effect on a modern games performance, then someone has made a VERY big mistake somewhere else lol.

[formal oak]

need time for the old ticker to settle down between raids the friggin munchkins at the ranger station just straight up left me for dead cleaning up the mess they made

[silver portal]

what is the patch that came out like 2 hours ago?

[gritty knot]

Aye better steady down sir or youll end up in an early herse

[loud void]

to be fair though, even this game at its worst is still better than bethesda at their current best though....i think we all can agree with that....also we need the ability to pick up an move small objects that are physics enabled, like chairs,bottles, stuff like that the same way it works in bethesda open world games, by holding down the interact key while aiming at the object and being close to it. ive had more than a few times where a chair got in the way in a doorway and i couldnt get through or the ai couldnt

[tired zealot]

fallout 76 after all their updates, its atleast a halfway decent game to play with friends, other then that yeah current bethesda is kinda mid, Starfield looks boring af, Im hoping they cook with elderscrolls 6

[tacit lintel]

What the actual f*** is the duga mission with the ward?

It's spawning about 3000 enemies every two seconds and I can't get faust to spawn, if I walk too far I die, if I stand still I die, if I walk I die

[loud void]

plus it would be fun to be able to throw things other than bolts into anomalies...like literallly anything lol. id start dragging all sorts of random objects to an anomaly just to see what it does when i chucked it into one.

[cosmic finch]

Sidorovich deleted scenes

[light wigeon]

Please hotfix my Weird Water artifact so I can stop looking for it. It's been like 5 hours.

[formal oak]

pull up sideways and ready to be cremated

[mint viper]

I’m looking rn and have been it’s a bit hard to find the specific info I need

[loud void]

well. they already admitted they wont be changing engines for elder scrolls 6, and thats the source of most of their problems....still cant believe how shoddily designed starfield was. there was literally no point to flying in space becuase you cant actually FLY to a planet, the only way you can land is by clicking on a location on the map,and then watching a cutscene regardless of situation, and your ship just ends up becoming a home base that pretends to move but really doesnt (in any meaninful way) it still has to use a ton of loading screens for nearly every interior

[faint helm]

not possible to use mods using vortex? always complains about deployment and im literally unableto apply any

[twin condor]

You'll find it soon Bud

[plain minnow]

Be wary of Burers with RPG-7s

[finite dragon]

BGS excels at making shoddy games; that’s not unique to SF

[formal oak]

old school run-escape bot

[twin condor]

Bro this happened to me the other day, I was so confused as to what tf happened.

[loud void]

Oblivion was amazing for its time. Bethesda used to push the bar on a technical level and did alot of things noone had done before, thats what made their jank excusable and charming in alot of ways...but by the time skyrim came out, they were WAY behind everyone else on a twchnical level.

[formal oak]

we can only blame ourselves for shittily raising the next gen even though we didnt

[still ridge]

LMAO that’s dope

[tame spire]

Skyrim may not have pushed the technical side of BGS’ games but the world design and the tangibility/detail of environments is still unmatched to this day imo

Say what you will about the Creation Engine/Gamebryo but UE5 and other mass market engines could never hope to achieve the level of granular detail seen in Skyrim or FO4; see Outer Worlds

[plain minnow]

It had 3…..

[tired zealot]

meanwhile No mans sky has like seamless transitioning between space and planets

[formal oak]

i think ai wrote that game for itself

[faint helm]

used a skip shader loading, worked ytday. doesnt work anymore lol... so annoying

[tardy crane]

2K to my name after repairing all my gear 💔

[loud void]

And star citizen had it since 2013 and elite dangerous has had it for like a decade now and it actually has full sized planets thats appearance from space matches its appearance on the ground. No mans sky fakes that entirely despite being seamless landing

[split vector]

I FOUND A WORKAROUND FOR A BUG. On In search of past glory if it isn’t working make sure to have armor that has a helmet and can be modified by the techs. I was wearing the diamond exoskeleton and it wouldn’t work to progress. I put a helmet in my inventory and it unbricked the save even without having it equipped.

[nimble jetty]

have the devs mentioned anything about motion blur on console? playing without it with an inconsistent framerate feels pretty jarring

[tame spire]

Not that I’m aware of but in the latest Digital Foundry Direct they said that DF was in contact with GSC and I believe that was one of the issues they brought up to them, fwiw

[nimble cipher]

omgwtfbbq1419 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

Oblivion was a just about a downgrade in every way from Morrowind and BGS has been continuing that trend.

[marsh frost]

is anyone else still getting access violation crash after patch?

[tame spire]

this guy definitely hasn’t heard of the high elves

i saw a mudcrab the other day. horrible creatures.

[formal oak]

copy paste that for me wolf? oh nah wolf dont care about us boo hooo wah sob sob cry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4Czv1j3F8

[loud void]

The sound issues are much worse since that last patch. The music keeps cutting out and even Ambient sounds are cutting in an out....that didn't happen before at all. It sounds like a scratched up audio cd skipping right now >.<

Except it was the first game to ever render a forest that actually looks like a forest,and was the first open world game to have a physics engine that applied to every object in the game, and it was the first game of its kind that was able to display huge view distances thanks to their cell approach,but your not wrong that they downgraded ALOT of other things like the armor system and being able to equip all of the pieces separately, and most importantly the dialogue system was nearly removed entirely thanks to it being adamant that EVERY NPC MUST BE VOICED. Literally removed the rpg aspect of participating in the conversations

[gritty knot]

Anytime i jump on a table in stalker kicking all the bottles off it makes me want an interact button so i can smash bottles over cheeki breekis

[tame spire]

also can i just say this is the first time I’ve opened this chat and not seen people tearing each other’s throats out about a-life this or patch that. are we finally able to have normal conversations in here? is this what it’s like?

[sour helm]

i have a quick question, is anyone else experiencing constant crashes at slag heap or just me

[hollow tinsel]

we need a life

[formal oak]

how does the anchor feel wolf? is it a comfortable fit?

[dense hatch]

no

[finite dragon]

A Life will come sooner than people think. I’m pretty sure we will see some partial implementation before January.

[tame spire]

Technically Far Cry 1 was a wide linear game ala STALKER or Halo but Far Cry 2 definitely did all of that with a huge open world map, though it released the same year as Oblivion

[steady arch]

What is that patch about on steam?

[smoky totem]

far cry 3 was the best far cry out of all the far cry’s to this day btw

[loud void]

But at least oblivion got rid of that horrible combat system. Swinging a weapon in first person and having it "miss" cuz of dice rolls was just beyond infuriating. If it were turn based it would make sense but that one thing alone...I couldn't stand it and it turned me off of the entire game....i basically bought morrowind becuase it was one of the first games to showcase a bunch of brand new video card hardwarw features of the day such as realtime reflections on the water! I bought it just becuase if the reflextions lmao. Thats why oblivion was the one that hooked me instead.

Half life 2 and far cry 1 weren't anything close to open world, they relied exclusively on sperate levels.

[finite dragon]

GSC is working round the clock and this isn’t just a ‘video game’ for them. We already have some mods that replicate parts of the system.

I don’t think it will be fully implemented till February or March, but I definitely think we will see some updates to it before Jan.

[tame spire]

Tbf, not trying to start a debate again pls, now that the first two patches have dropped I’m feeling pretty optimistic that they are in fact working on supporting the game long-term. I suppose we’ll have to wait until the roadmap in December to see.

@smoky totem you misspelled “Far Cry 4”. Pretty common mistake!

[nocturne shale]

False. That honour goes to two.

[gritty knot]

Half life games are a tech demo for the source engine so thats why all of that was in the game aswell to show off how complex the engines physics could be.

I wonder what hl3 will innovate on😫😫😫

[loud void]

Two has more neat hardware features that got nerfed heavily in future games like the fire propagation system and destructible foliage. But three had the better story and structure

[fiery vault]

tech demos with insane world building lol

[copper jewel]

rip everyone on xbox

[formal oak]

get gaben out of bed lol

[nocturne shale]

3 did have the best villain of them all, I agree.

[primal salmon]

Let hope we will not get dead gaben before gta6

[stable holly]

anyone know any mods that helps with the heavenly lighting from outside windows and cracks etc when inside a building?

[loud void]

Anyone here old enough to remember when Duke nukem forever was first shown off in 1998 and was blown away...then they showed it again in 2003 and blew our minds three times as hard? Seems like it's been forever since I got that hyped for a game lol

[gritty knot]

Anything pre 2010 valve did was gold man. I miss valve games

[smoky totem]

Gabe’s busy finding the next m4a4 howl skin

[queen ice]

Gaben is the one person I’d trust with immortality

[finite dragon]

brooo I just discovered you can do back stab sneak attack kills ins S2 that’s sickkk

[late beacon]

how to launch the game without it crashing every time

[tame spire]

2 is good don’t get me wrong but FC4 hit the perfect balance between sandbox and story, FC2 was too committed to the simulation and to capturing an incredibly nihilistic and depressing world to be as fun as the other games, Far Cry 3’s story felt too “dude it’s like, deep and stuff because he’s like, the same as Vaas now because violence and stuff…”. In comparison, Far Cry 4’s story is perfectly in tune with the gameplay and the constant theme of “absolute power corrupts absolutely” is captured far more effectively than in FC3, imo

[formal oak]

build the last of the iron lions

[loud void]

It was my first western rpg and I was around 13 years old so that whole concept broke my kid brain an i just we t back to playing quake 3 lmao. A big part of what I love about gaming is experiencing the new technology and techniques developers come up to utilize them, i live for those advancements

[queen ice]

You have to do your daily prayer to the Monolith.

Slava Monolita bratan.

[nocturne shale]

Angry Duty noises

[lean quiver]

yes their loot weights you down

[gritty knot]

Talking about being amazed by games when i was kid doing the hl2 puzzle with the plank of wood and bricks amazed me man🤣🤣

[tame spire]

Clint Hocking, the guy who directed Far Cry 2 (and now Watch Dogs: Legion) is a great designer of ambitious gameplay systems on a holistic level, but they often fall flat when actually playing the game due to implementation.

[formal oak]

its not the console peasants fault that they see stalker 2 and immediately relate it to far cry. u would do the same as a console peasant

[nocturne shale]

Never been a console peasant so cannot compute. Or, can actually.

[loud void]

Has anyone yone tried to starve to death in the game yet? I'm gonna go fix myself some dinner and ima leave it on an see if it happens

[fiery vault]

if youre playing S2 on a Series S, youre broke as a joke

[lean quiver]

Games these days focus only on graphics instead of those sweet interactions and physics, a shame.

[copper jewel]

yeah being able to go to nexus and fix the game in a few clicks is pretty great

[celest blaze]

some people dont wanna spend thousands on a pc like i did

[coarse sparrow]

Any word from devs when edition upgrade options will go live on Steam?

[formal oak]

i love all microsoftwares lol

[celest blaze]

are we really doing the console pc elitism thing in almost 2025 💀

[tame spire]

tbf the Series S is the only way some people can play games due to budget, but it actually ends up being more expensive in the long run because digital games stay expensive whereas physical ones usually get very cheap when pre-owned and the S lacks a disc drive. Really sucks.

[finite dragon]

Nothing yet

[loud void]

I started in the early 90s,basically the literal birth of the pc gaming industry. I remember the release of doom 2 quite fondly, and when quake came out, it was the first time an fps game (besides descent) had polygonal enemies and weapons. Before that, they were all 2d sprites and the game engines weren't technically actually 3d, just a very convincing fake....and lemme tell ya it BLEW US AWAY

[vocal vapor]

After you grab an artifact from a location is that it, or will a different one respawn after a while? And if they do anyone know the time limit?

[formal oak]

dont get mad that you have a gtx 1070 soldered to your board i didnt do that you can now use game pass. wheres my bluteotth

[fiery vault]

Series S plus 3 full priced games is the same price for a series X

[loud void]

I was so lucky to experience that era of gaming, as we will never again experience such drastic leaps in technology that the 90s and early 2000s had. The jump from 2d to 3d was....ya just had to of been there lol. I still remember counting the number of "3d games" I had when talking to friends lol.

[rose grotto]

how does upgrading a weapon effects the repair cost? like if i throw a rail on an ak is the repair cost gonna be higher?

[celest blaze]

some people just wanna game cheap and casually and nothing wrong with that

[finite dragon]

It’s okay bro do whatever fits ur budget and what you feel most comfortable with but i do highly recommend upgrading to the x. Being able to buy discs at a low cost, upgraded storage and performance is worth the extra $200USD

[nocturne shale]

Definitely nothing wrong with it. I just hate that consoles hinder game development.

[celest blaze]

id argue shareholders and bad devs do more

[tame spire]

oh yeah i agree completely, i don’t own a Series S, I’m just advocating for people who may have gotten one thinking it was a cheaper device

[formal oak]

cheap and casual like your mum... its not consoles fault that the slavery exists..blame Microsoft its not micro hard

[celest blaze]

like my entire setup desk pc and all cost about 5 grand but im not out here shitting on console users because i chose to spend so much

[coarse sparrow]

There is also a side quest

[loud void]

I literally can't even imagine what that would be like...when I was a kid the graphics were so primitive in games that often times I didn't even know what it was trying to represent, and my imagination would take over then when I grew up and found out what it actually was, my mind refused to accept it lol. You prolly never had that issue cuz visuals were always good enough to represent the things they were trying to display.

[nocturne shale]

They share a portion of blame, yes. However, most games have a lot of cut content due to console processing power. It was painfully obvious that Stalker 2 was designed as a console game first.

[celest blaze]

you could argue mircrosoft and consoles are the reason we even got stalker 2 tbh

[finite dragon]

Makes me miss the old Halo days now I play games and feel the graphics are what carries a lot of these games rather than the content itself😔

[formal oak]

Stalker2 Gameofthe year dot com

[quasi glade]

The weapon wheel and all the issues with key rebinding 😄

[still ridge]

It is

Literally

[coarse sparrow]

Did you guys nominate Stalker 2 for steam awards?

[loud void]

The lighting system is another big indicator....you don't see most games on pc with raytracing having such blotchy and limited raytracing....cyberpunk 2077 has path tracing support ffs lol

[celest blaze]

i just find the PC community kinda cringe for thinking they are better then someone because they chose to spend more money

[finite dragon]

Microsoft’s funding is 85% of the reason they were even able to publish S2

[formal oak]

u could argue the xbox shouldn't exist 😛 dont blame me game ass pc users need to kiss gabes fat bunghole now

[celest blaze]

eh such things are beneath me

[slender perch]

[nocturne shale]

I agree. The whole argument is stupid. I just think consoles should have their games developed seperately. I'm tired of having games gimped because sup-par hardware can't run it.

[celest blaze]

to be fair series X is stronger then alot of peoples pcs here lol

some folks got old pcs

[formal oak]

pc is silcone chip melted sand made into thinking machine hah real big smarts

[vestal phoenix]

Oh my goodness this chat has turned into a literal mod and helpers circle jerk. What a joke.

[loud void]

If anyone actually thinks that way it's a personal problem lol. The one true grievance pc players do have is how much the console market has affected the pc gaming market as it's mostly been negative. Before every game was multiplatform, pc was its own world that was on the literal cutting edge of tech, where developers were doing things ONLY possible on the high end systems people were using.

Nowadays we spend the same amount of money but the best we can get is just fancier looking yet still fundamentally limited games.

[celest blaze]

i agree with this

[celest blaze]

👍

[nocturne shale]

Hard to argue with that with some of the configs I've seen lmao

@loud void I too, agree. Spot on.

[slender perch]

💋

[gritty knot]

Watching the hl2 documentary gives me hope for the future in regards to valve in general because thats one of their statements about games focusing too much of graphics rather than physics. A proper physics based engine would outperfrom games without it in terms of innovation. Thats what we need but in the industry, more interactive engines. Seems like weve been stagnant for years at this point

[celest blaze]

i am excited to see what stalker 2 will be like down the road

[formal oak]

can we fry this piece of quartz and sand cheap?
into cave painting lithograph me so big smarts i wasnt an alien..
time doesnt exists lol

[faint helm]

im finding a bunch of locked places. Like just a container with a door and is also locked. Are these like Stashes u can only get to when u get a key from someone ? or find one ? or do we get likc lockpicking later ? im leaving behind so many of them and i keep forgetting half already ....

[smoky totem]

PC and Console Gaming is always gonna go back and forth, RN it feels like every release is going to need constant upgraades to a PC to play, meanwhile consoles are going to provide more stable gameplay for a while. And i'm sure eventually pc's will catch back up and we'll get the next gtx 1080TI Super that will last 10 years it just sucsk rn we're in the need an upgrade every 2 years to play the new games portion it's a cycle

[finite dragon]

This omg. Make physics important again!

[celest blaze]

HL2 goated

[finite dragon]

HL inspired so many games it’s insane. Valve will forever have a place in my heart

[loud void]

Ironically the same thing happened to vr gaming. It was pc exclusive and then once the quest came out and people bought it like hotcakes, it made developing a pc vr game financially unfeesible by comparison. Now the best pcvr games can get are psvr2 ports...which we aren't even getting! Like resident evil 4 remake vr,resident evil 7 and 8 vr modes, all exclusive to Playstation.

Comparing bone labs to boneworks always makes me so sad...sucks to invest literally thousands of dollars into vr to have every developer abandon it in favor of stand alone devices. You think console gaming has limited pc gaming? It's NOTHINF compared to how severely standalone vr affected pcvr.

[nocturne shale]

You actually don't. The problem is a lot of people are unwilling to adjust settings on their game and chalk it up to "optimisation" or don't know how to optimise their PC. Especially with the influx of people buying pre-built with zero PC knowledge.

[primal salmon]

Is it me or zone lack on monster numbers outside important objects (buildings, bases etc) ?

[gritty knot]

There is a few things you could do to ensure longeivity with your bulid, vram, ddr5 etc. Although every other year theres some new tech out

[formal oak]

minecrafte lacking

[finite dragon]

Absolutely and when you do encounter mutants in the wild they are blatantly scripted to spawn super close to you lol

[modest juniper]

its december roadmap when ?

[smoky totem]

Yes you are right you don't, but personally, I do not want to play new games on medium settings on a card I spent 500 dollars on and a cpu i spent 230 dollars on (for example) you know what I mean? obviously you have to take into memory speed and stuff like that but yea

[quasi glade]

december

[loud void]

My pc build from 2015 is still able to run the newest games decently so I dunno what he's talking about unless he's buying the literal cheapest pc that barely works and upgrading it every year instead of just buying one decent system

[tawny flume]

The system that makes the game seem alive is dead it’s not working

[pastel roost]

Everyone hates on the PC platform till they get a decent one rofl😆

[primal salmon]

Did you reached garbage location ? I was shocked how boring devs scripted that bloodsucker after you opened kingpin’s weapon box (and overall many other scripted places) 😭

[nocturne shale]

And that's exactly what I'm talking about. I spent 1000 on my GPU but I'm not expecting to be able to max out games in 10 years time. Lmao.

[formal oak]

i cant right click on monster and make it friend mum hates me for it....☠️

[finite dragon]

No one hates on pc😂 just people who complain about spending more than the average console requires which outweighs the pc fan base by a long shot which causes a lot of these big devs to optimize towards consoles over pc

[loud void]

Honestly most people can't even properly appreciate the differences pc allows for these days necuase there are almost no games developed from the ground up to compare to console experience.
The original crysis was literally an entire generation and a half beyond the best consoles of the time

The only thing that comes to mind is star citizen but it's still in development lol

[gritty knot]

Pcs are depreciating assets theres no doubt about that, but what helps turn that around is proper optimisation for games. Imo the reason we see high vram usage etc is due to optimisation issues or somewhat that could be triage to be better.

But i spent 2k on a pc in febuary which would probably be worth half that in a couple years, its the nature of the beast

[hot veldt]

omg i finally killed a chimera and omg we thought blood suckers were balanced horribly the mutant took me im not even joking 50 shotgun shots to kill

[formal oak]

chimera is when the ptsd actually starts to deep fry and you lose your shit properly its mind numbing lol.i spent way to much tine trying to leave the swamp with a shotty

[pastel roost]

I built my PC in 2019 and I've only ever upgraded my SSD and RAM

[finite dragon]

Yeah I’ve gotten a little farther than that and it doesn’t get better. The whole combat system feels like a paved road of scripts

[craggy carbon]

I fight a lot on the roads in between POIs i dont know I agree with this. Its ok to have downtime to explore because bullets and your gear getting damaged is not easy to keep up with mid-late game

[nocturne shale]

People fail to realise that PCs are not "plug and play" devices. They require maintenance. Optimising. And obviously, upgrading every so often. If you don't want to upgrade, then adjust settings. If you don't want to do that, then that's a you problem, not a game problem. Or just get a console which IS plug and play.

[loud void]

Most people don't even notice the difference between 16x anistropic filtering while consoles still use 8x at the most despite this having 0 impact on performance on pc since the 2000s.

Most people will even choose games with more primitive visuals and rendering tech simply becuase it looks more like what they are used to or expect

[smoky totem]

This especially on a laptop, I picked up a 3K$ laptop because carrying around my tower with me everywhere I go/get sent to is not realistic, the laptop is way more transportable this thing is a monster of a laptop but that’s besides the point. My laptop will prolly be worth maybe a thousand bucks next year and probably WILL be playing everything that comes out on medium, which is, kind of sad I was hoping it would last longer but I guess that’s just how it is also, @nocturne shale isn’t that bad tho, don’t u want your stuff to last as long as possible? In terms of being able to run stuff on high/ close to max settings

[quick grotto]

How do you recharge the weird bolt

[pastel roost]

I have a PS5 but I can't run it at 144hz either, and that's a deal breaker for me these days

[modest juniper]

a pc should have the same life cycle as a console so about 4-5 years ? even thats streaching it if u want 60 fps on max

[formal oak]

sony is th only console that should exist

[nocturne shale]

Of course I do. And because I have knowledge in tech, it does. However, that is the issue with technology. It's constantly evolving.

[slender perch]

i bet skif is a console enjoyer

[solid cosmos]

He's a 3ds sorta guy

[urban basin]

Yeah, but in cases like stalker 2 the minimun requirements they posted cant even run the game

[celest blaze]

scar is a chadboxer user

[late juniper]

As hell naw, they won’t do a bloodborne remake or sequel, they suck

[loud void]

This is also what makes high end pc gaming so magical. Experiencing the literal cutting edge of humanities artistic talents. Gaming is the only art form that literally combines every single aspect of our entire societies creative and artistic talents into one singular thing.

You can only experience that when it's new and the hardware your using is just as new. It just isn't the same 10 years later.