⭐┃nospoilers_general

[nova matrix]

Yeah each mod pack is so massive and expansive that it's hard to find one that meets all your needs. But with so much conflicting paks, you kind of have to settle for 1 of the dozen or so megapack. Unless you know how to merge, but I ain't learning all that

[nocturne shale]

Bethesda's next game should be called "Here, you fix it"

[crisp ruin]

[raw warren]

Basically Stalker games lol

[dense hatch]

nah, fallout games have better music

[nova matrix]

I feel like fallout, kingdom come, cyberpunk, stalker, baldur's gate, are all in that same boat.... I couldn't play any of those vanilla without mods 😅

[worn oar]

[worthy lagoon]

No lol

[nocturne shale]

What was wrong with KC:D?

[exotic agate]

My huge issue with Stalker mods are that a lot of them leaned more on the hardcore side than I liked. And a lot of the vanilla-esque mods were really out of date. So it was hard to find a balance.

[tacit oracle]

I agree, a lot of the stalker mods fall towards the sweaty side

[craggy carbon]

Basically every game they’ve ever released

[nova matrix]

The terrible lockpicking, HUD, cleanliness, bow dot reticle, merchants, object collision, fast travel, combat so much more needed adjusting for me

[finite dragon]

Bethesda is love Bethesda is life

[crisp ruin]

[worthy lagoon]

Examples?

[nocturne shale]

So basically... The entire game for you, lmao

[granite mortar]

Youre just looking at wrong mods honestly
Theres a lot of good, relatively up to date mods that dont lean towards some wannabe survival crap

[worthy lagoon]

Some don't even need updates

[nova matrix]

Pretty much lol, mods saved that game for me. It is a great game though. Need to finish it before kcd2 releases

[jovial lotus]

I agree to an extent on some of those games... but imo baldurs gate 3 is fantastic vanilla

[finite dragon]

the only mods i really need for that game is the removal of slow mo and 1st person gathering

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[exotic agate]

OGSR, Radiophobia, Misery, Anomaly, GAMMA, and others I cant remember. I dont dislike them but sometimes they can be a bit much.

[nova matrix]

Idk the camera was terrible for me and unplayable. Native camera tweaks changed the whole game for me. Also the vanilla dye system and lack of hairstyles. Also, I needed more combat turns or else every encounter is like 30 minutes for the most mundane fight

[tropic sequoia]

Why does my radiation bar keep going up I'm not even beside anything radioactive can somone help?

[worthy lagoon]

OGSR is not hardcore and even if it's old it's good, Misery, GAMMA and Anomaly are bad mods

[tacit oracle]

check your artifacts

[summer cliff]

Artifact in an active inventory slot?

[nova matrix]

I downloaded a mod that removes negative effects of artifacts. And Yes, I'm a casual noob

[worthy lagoon]

You are missing mods like:

Goldsphere, Valley of Whispers, Wind of Time, RTTZ and its DLCs, Priboi story (old but gold), Spatial Anomaly, and so on

[worn oar]

I agree

[nova matrix]

Although I did that very early in the game before I had any gear and kind of just left it, probably be fine removing it now but 🤷‍♂️

[granite mortar]

Goldsphere
Path in the Mist
Valley of Whispers
Spatial Anomaly
Return to the Zone
Road to the North (for more rough open world experience)
Incubator
Dreamcatcher
Game of Souls: Beginning
Game of Souls: Excelsior
The Exception
Oblivion Lost Remake OR Vector of Alienation
Wind of Time
Messenger
Bad Company
Bad Company 2: Freemason

My beloved

[edgy scroll]

update in next year

[muted valve]

don't worry boys patch will be here aaaaaaaany day now

[exotic agate]

Ive not come across these at all in my lookings. Ill keep these in mind if I go back. I started playing Anomaly recently but taking my time with it. GAMMA is out of the picture for me just because its a lot of systems I dont want added to my Stalker experience. I mostly want to do free form Stalker stuff.

[tacit oracle]

autumn aurora is already on the limit of the sweaty end for me (still the one I would personally recommend if you want to play modded SoC)

[worthy lagoon]

Then if i were in you I would reconsider before saying most of the mods are hardcore and outdated

[nova matrix]

The damn dots on the screen from minimal radiation is literally a game breaker for me. Had to dl a mod that removes it, Gotta save my eyes man, my oled doesn't like that visual effect

I know now like few hours in the game that gear and pills remove it, but still early game it sucked

[granite mortar]

Free form as in no story?
In that case try Call of Chernobyl or Call of the Zone
Very vanilla esque casual mods
Good ones as well

[exotic agate]

Well the ones I mentioned are the more popular ones and are on the more hardcore side of things. The ones you said ive never heard of before when I was looking for mods.

[unkempt fern]

Playing gamma while stalker 2 is fixed. I like it once I turned the temp heal off. All those drugs were overboard like.

[worthy lagoon]

Well now you have some mods to try that will change your mind, these are actual STALKER mods

[tacit oracle]

actually omega with itemization and maklane's less loot doesn't look bad at all. I thought itemization was op but that's due to you seeing the buy price on the inventory, not the sale price. I tend to forget about that.

[worthy lagoon]

What

[muted valve]

a proper 80% of the story mods keep STALKER much the same as it is, just adding some flavor and some mechanics at times

[nova matrix]

So maklanes less loot works with both of those mods? Cool cool I'll have to try that tonight

[unkempt fern]

Some healing in gamma is temporary until you pop different types of drugs treated to different body parts. Extra layer of difficulty which is tedious.

[exotic agate]

GAMMA is puddle deep in terms of systems. None of it really interesting

[granite mortar]

Gamma being tedious inventory management simulator as always...

90% of the gameplay is spent in the inventory

[clear elm]

You take ibuprofen as well when healing. That is all.

[tacit oracle]

I mean you'd have to merge them after setting the load order but this guy does it quick and easy and seems to work just fine: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326
And yeah omega seems to have actual realistic weapon weighs. Not crazy about how high it gets the weight limit but I can always tweak it myself if it's one or two things really.

[muted valve]

everything is tedious in GAMMA, it's literally what it uses to compensate for having absolutely no story to speak of, just making everything incredibly tedious while keeping it as shallow as a puddle

[nova matrix]

Don't forget to get the Pillhead and Patches mod, fun addition

[unkempt fern]

I just like med packs a bandages. That's all I need. Only there for the gunplay, looting and crafting.

[worthy lagoon]

STALKER 2 will never be like GAMMA

You should've expected that

Or i didn't get what you meant

[granite mortar]

But it will never be peak like RTTZ either...

[muted valve]

i doubt that's what he was implying...

[unkempt fern]

That's okay. I don't want it to be. I never said it should be.

[worn oar]

Gork tweaks = easier veteran difficulty instead of playing on easy mode lmao

[tacit oracle]

I mean eventually there will be a gamma for stalker 2. It's inevitable. Like it or hate it it's one of, if not the biggest og modpack out there.

[granite mortar]

It sure is the biggest because Grok doesnt know how to repack

[edgy scroll]

modders will carry

[worn oar]

Even Gork denied it lmao

[nova matrix]

Stalker 2 mods will make it an entirely different game in 5 years. It's gonna be crazy

[heavy creek]

Its on unreal engine so I doubt original modders will jump in

[muted valve]

calling GAMMA an "OG" modpack is hilarious on so many levels

[tacit oracle]

I don't mean the gamma, but some milsimmy sweatlord pandering modpack will make its way to stalker 2 once the sdk is out.
@muted valve I meant "modpack for the OG games". I know it's not an OG modpack. But like it or not it is the premier modpack for the original trilogy, to the point that when drewski started streaming it the moddb servers went into full meltdown 'cause of the people downloading it.

[granite mortar]

Not really into freeplay
But for now probably CoC
Im sure Ill like OWA over CoC once 2.0 is out

But even then, Ill take a proper story mod like Freemason or RTTZ over any of these any day

[nova matrix]

Who is the best OG trilogy youtuber that does playthroughs with mods like that ?

[upbeat kite]

im really enjoying following mod, https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/273 especially in Pripyat.

[tacit oracle]

imo it's the best alife mod at the moment.
||which isn't saying much lol||

[granite mortar]

HugTV
Then Fladar
Honorable mention is Floki since he only does showcases, but then hes the only EN youtuber who covers mods in any meaningful way so...

[raw warren]

Why you hating on GAMMA lmao

[edgy scroll]

i think gamma is the GOAT

[worthy lagoon]

There can't be gamma if there are no mods to steal in the first place

[muted valve]

CoC is great, Doctor X's quest line or Lost to the Zone if you want a bit of a story, Warfare if you want faction warfare, anomaly with old world if you want a slightly different flavor, Anomaly if you have no taste, GAMMA if you have no taste and you don't even like yourself

[upbeat kite]

For sure, moreover carrying bodies full with wepons xD tension exist

[tacit oracle]

I'm not hating it, I'm saying it how it is: a milsim "hardcore" modpack that caters to a very specific kind of audience that probably likes to wear a plate carrier while playing

[unborn palm]

I’m sure someone will set up a CoC 2 at some point which will feed into anomaly/gamma/dead air successors and the like but that will be years

[edgy scroll]

are driveable vehicles possible in stalker 2

[unkempt fern]

I've enjoyed arma with the lads in the past but definitely not a milsim Airsoft enjoyer.

[crisp kernel]

I had two control emitters and I gave one to scar
Why do I have a second one?

[tacit oracle]

"possible" in a general sense? Probably. Available in the game right now? No.

[granite mortar]

2.0 isnt out yet
But it will feature Lost Alpha levels, probably some lighting more similar to SoC, it will be standalone, it will have CotZ quests (literally best freeplay quests to this day) as well as Rhons expansion for those quests

OWA 2.0 unironically has potential to be THE best freeplay mod

[edgy scroll]

i meant when SDK is out, since its unreal

[tacit oracle]

I mean there's cars for certain mods on the xray games so sure why not lol

[granite mortar]

Literally Call of the Zone

[worthy lagoon]

No

[unborn palm]

I mean for Stalker 2 sorry for the confusion

[edgy scroll]

is it normal to carry 60 bread in backpack

[granite mortar]

No
Every self respecting stalker carries at least 70

[edgy scroll]

i have 70 bandages instead and 15 medkits

[simple sequoia]

S2 is a great game to practice getting rid of your innate hoarder's instinct 😅

[muted valve]

Cowardice, I leave the base with 5 medkits, 5 bandages, 2 cans of food, one antirad, a knife and a watergun, be a real stalker

[granite mortar]

Only 15 medkits?
I usually carry 25 standard ones and 10-15 of army and scientific
Genuenly
Not even joking
On the other hand, only around 20-40 bandages

[edgy scroll]

the bandages actually heal decently lol

[summer cliff]

Yeah it's the only way to play, otherwise it's over after looting 3-4 stashes

[muted valve]

nah okay i'll admit i take actual guns, AR with +/- 150 rounds of ammo, shotgun with +/-80 rounds and pistol with +/- 80 rounds as well

[granite mortar]

Also around 600-1200 rounds of 5.45
Depending on what the game gives me

And also depending on which of the three games were taking about

[slender perch]

doki doki stalker 2 patch when

[summer cliff]

Stalker x Unturned collab patch when

[edgy scroll]

stalker 2 coop when, so you can troll friends near anomalies

[wraith lintel]

anyone know when the next patch is coming?

[granite mortar]

February 31st
Alife fix included

[muted valve]

i know but i'm not telling cause y'all can't behave

[summer cliff]

Wait I'll ask my uncle at GSC

[unborn palm]

Yeah I’ll usually pack no more than 5 of a given consumable, bandages excepted because they are so light. Usually have 10 of those and 5 kits. Ammo I try to stick to around 3 reloads worth total for long guns and a few more for pistols

I will also bring a reload or two of special ammo for each gun

[primal panther]

so, apparently there is a blueprint about this so called "shield of duty exosuit" anyone got any idea about how to get it?

[granite mortar]

There are already unofficial Stalker servers in Unturned
The game is also pretty fun in multiplayer, could make for a good Zone multiplayer experience

[edgy scroll]

okay sergei

[muted valve]

if you really wanna know check this site and search for "duty" https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

[primal panther]

oh and same goes for the spark exoskeleton and exosuits and the brummbar rad resistant slots for artifacts if anyone knows any tricky way to get them just tell

[granite mortar]

Yeah
Definitely
But you know
If the collab was lets say a new stalker themed map with less survival mechanics, that you could host just for you and your friends it would be pretty great
Altho a bit empty, they would need new types of NPCs and whatnot

[broken drum]

Yo, so I've been playing a while, and haven't really timed it. Could someone tell me how long night time lasts VS daytime in-game? I feel like Daytime is way too short

[edgy scroll]

can stalker players get a relationship

[granite mortar]

Well
Its getting late
See ya stalkerbros
And dont forget

Big Modder is watching you 🫵

[muted valve]

entire 24 hour cycle is 1 hour gametime, 8 hours night 16 hours day

[upbeat kite]

Only with mutants

[simple sequoia]

Buggy as it may be, S2 still beats all those multiplayer crafting games easily by sheer atmosphere alone. It's funny; I remember once yearning for zombies and crafting mechanics in video games, but now that they're everywhere, I'd rather just get lost in the zone, alone. ☢️

[broken latch]

Who uses pistols in stalker games??

[dire dagger]

yah i am

im gonna ban anyone talking about gamma

[broken latch]

Hell yeah

[edgy scroll]

apparently skifs PKM is actually not that bad @broken latch its for cutscene purposes lmao

[broken latch]

It annoys me that I can't remove it from my inventory

[dire dagger]

skifs pistol is like the 2nd best pistol in the game

[broken drum]

Skif's pistol is absolutely GOATED, bro. It's one of the best weapons in my humble opinion, and it has saved my ass from gangs of Flesh, blind dogs, and Snorks MANY times

[upbeat kite]

Let go carry bodies across Prypiat with knife in hand

[potent mica]

No because they are stalkers

[broken latch]

Where was the shotgun at

[dire dagger]

only pistol that could be considered better than skifs pistol is the APSB

since its got a way higher pen stat

[broken drum]

I unironically just don't like shotties. I mainly run SOFMOD and Lynx alongside Skif's Pistol.

[dire dagger]

if you use ap bullets apsb can shred even late game exo suit dude

[tacit oracle]

and the buket if this world was fair and it was treated like a sidearm

[primal panther]

try the unique grom

[edgy scroll]

so skifs gun is better than USP?

[broken latch]

Missing out on big easy fun

[dire dagger]

the fact that all side arms that fire 45acp are just trash is hilarious

[broken drum]

Completely valid. And I'll consider going over to a shotty after I make it out of this godforsaken swamp

[dire dagger]

it makes literally no sense

lmao

[simple sequoia]

Are there any full auto sidearms? I just wish I had a glock 18 or something to empty clips at trees in panic fire when a bloodsucker jumps from behind me 🤣

[dire dagger]

the mac 10 is full auto the apsb is 3 round burst so basically auto

[simple sequoia]

yeah but not a sidearm 😦 M10 is good for the spray and pray role, I really like it, but it sucks to waste a primary slot for it.

[edgy scroll]

minecraft ahh day time

[surreal pivot]

I do, her user is @grim7cyber

[dire dagger]

those are both side arms my dude

they fit in the pistol slot

[broken drum]

There's basically the Mac 10, which can get a silencer and extended mag. And a holo-sight, iirc

Also, @worthy zodiac I feel like the nights drag on forever. Right now, since I joined the server, it was 1am in-game. Pitch dark. Now it's 5am and STILL dark.

[dire dagger]

mac 10 is just kinda not good

which is so sad

[tacit oracle]

You can change the irl time ingame time as well as the sunrise and sunset times with a mod.
Not even a mod, you can just edit the cfg if you want.

[dire dagger]

apsb just mops the floor with mac 10 especially since it can get a 30 round mag

[edgy scroll]

bandits vs dual wield mac 10s

[broken drum]

Not on PC, my guy. I play on Xbox. I wouldn't even have brought it up as an issue if I could mod it. But alas, no mod support just yet.

[potent mica]

Yea I swear it feels like it's always night time.

[broken drum]

It potentially could. I know during a certain quest that I just completed, it was nighttime and an emission as well as some other goodies thrown at me, and I'm pretty sure it was scripted to be nighttime during the sequence.

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/max-payne-gif-21496419

[brave sand]

i got a real time mod where 1 hr in game is 1 hr irl and its awesome. you can sleep to pass the time and actually go for a walk without 3 days passing before going back to base

[simple sequoia]

argh, must one of the mods I use that "fixed" this 🙄 Gah.

[potent mica]

I don't hate it it's just odd it was so frequent that I noticed it

[tacit oracle]

I haven't checked the vanilla cfg but I could swear it's dawn at 4, morning at 6, evening at 20 and night at 00

[cyan ivy]

🫃

[dire dagger]

Why would they make apsb not a side arm lmao

It’s literally a burst fire ptm

With a giant magazine and way better stats

[broken drum]

I genuinely hope this comes to Xbox once mod support gets implemented

[simple sequoia]

I don't know about that apsb, probably not that, but the M10 is a primary.

[dire dagger]

The real version is full auto not sure why they made it burst tbh

[simple sequoia]

The mod I use makes them both full auto.

[hearty compass]

Gamer discovers balancing (jk i dont know why it isnt just full auto either)

[dire dagger]

Yes its likely done for balance as you could shred an entire room full of enemies if it was full auto

But it can do plenty of damage on burst fire already

[wise timber]

Has there been any comment on an update yet? Its been almost 2 weeks... dont wanna play until a-life is fixed

[inland knot]

Ok guys check screenshots

[dire dagger]

Likely gonna need to come back in like 3 months if you want a life

Wouldn’t expect it to arrive any time soon

[broken drum]

Can you translate please? I only speak English

[north violet]

Yeah I'm not a fan of how short day OR night are right now. Also night needs to be darker; we're in rural Ukraine for goodness' sake, it should be pitch black out like in the original trilogy. (The flashlight would need to be improved if they changed this.)

[simple sequoia]

"balance" - the fun killer.

[hearty compass]

There was a message in GSC answers, its coming soon™️

[dire dagger]

It’s been coming soon

[wise timber]

I cant tell if your mashing my taters or you're being serious

[dire dagger]

I’m being completely serious

[inland knot]

I just ordered Stalker 2 heart of chernobyl as a gift for myself W or L

[dire dagger]

The way it was described in the ign interview makes it sound like a lot of optimization must happen before a life can work

[tacit oracle]

alife is not going to be fixed in the next patch. But it should come out soon, and it will include some fixes to some of the alife elements currently present in the game.

[gloomy knoll]

C-Coming soon Rather than C-Con

[broken drum]

huge W if you are on PC, MASSIVE L if you're on Xbox, because gamepass

[tacit oracle]

It's also on gamepass for PC
But regardless I'll probably buy it on steam at some point.

[inland knot]

Huge W because i'm on pc

[north violet]

Yeah, one of the community managers said that the first A-Life improvements/fixes are supposed to come in the next patch, but I think I remember them saying they didn't want to make any promises in case issues arose during testing that pushed that stuff back.

[broken drum]

Ngl, I completely forgot that PC gamepass exists.

[wise timber]

Man gamepass is a godsend, I've saved so much dough bc of it. Indiana jones is peak too

[tacit oracle]

meh

[slender stratus]

not being able to harvest mutant parts isn't a spoiler

[dire dagger]

theres a mod that adds that

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389

[broken drum]

100%-ed it on Sunday. It's absolutely amazing and I plan on doing it again

[raw elbow]

I feel like thats something you should let people know. That way they dont waste their ammo

[dire dagger]

i mean i just installed the mod that converts veteran to master

got pretty tired of the sponge enemies

[slender stratus]

I am aware, I was more saying GSC will most likely add things like this as DLC and flesh them out more

[tacit oracle]

I just install a mod that reduces the hp pools lol

[dire dagger]

so master difficulty mod

makes the game harder in a less frustrating way

it makes it so you can deal a lot of damage but things can do EVEN more damage to you

a ton of enemies can one shot you

which i greatly prefer over mag dumping bullet sponge mobs

thats not real difficulty

[tacit oracle]

I strongly dislike oneshot mods in general.
I like it punishing but it's no fun to be caught on the open and some doofus nails you with 3 consecutive bullets from 100m

[raw elbow]

Thats cool. It just sucks that the AI can laser the player through bushes and track through cover

[dire dagger]

i do understand that this has to do with bullet penetration

penetration is WAY more important than damage is

[north violet]

Considering the concept art for mutant parts plus that one empty vendor stand in Rostok(?), I suspect that mutant hunting and parts harvesting will officially come at some point.

[dire dagger]

i hope so

[dire dagger]

its not like that but snipers and high caliber rifles will fuck you up

as they should

but

you can actually defend your self

[tacit oracle]

right, I dunno how much sweat it's going for, I tried the heart of misery mod today and the tutorial poltergeist could oneshot you with a bucket to the head, was like "ynow what, no."

[raw elbow]

If your not sweatin your not in the zone bro. Sike not everyone wants to sweat

[dire dagger]

nah thats dumb i agree

[inland knot]

But god damn i hope i get better internet this week (o2 technicians are supposed to connect my new wifi) because i genuinely dont wanna install 140 gbs on 3 mb/s speed

[dire dagger]

but the og games master mode is not like that

its just hard but hard in a way thats fun not insanely annoying

[slender perch]

Ward based, freedumb cringe

[north violet]

I hope that's something that's officially changed too. I understand wanting to simplify the difficulty options, especially for newcomers, but they could have easily adapted the system from the original trilogy for three difficulty choices.

I loved Master so much because it didn't even really nerf the player, it just removed or reduced your magic buffs and put you on a more even playing field with the rest of the game world.

[dire dagger]

duty and freedom basically do nothing in stalker 2

they kinda just exist

[wise timber]

@broken drum working on it myself, glad you enjoyed it. Some of MachineGames best work

[raw elbow]

I feel like I have some good internet. An downloading Stalker 2 still took time. Game is big asl

[dire dagger]

yah like if you ran at a dude with a shot gun with only a leather coat

he would one shot you

which made sense

did not feel unfair

[inland knot]

Ye i guess imma be playing on the second lowest setting my 1070 and my i5 6600 aint doing magic lol

[dire dagger]

6600 is gonna be screaming

your gonna take like an hour to compile the shader 💀

[north violet]

This is the big one right here.

Veteran difficulty in HoC:

* Increases the amount of damage enemies deal

* Increases enemy health pools and/or their damage resistance (Not sure if it's one or the other or both.)

* Reduces player weapon damage to either 65% or 70% (I'm not sure which.)

* Turns the in-game economy into a giant middle finger aimed directly at the player and their wallet by drastically reducing selling prices and raising buying prices.

[raw elbow]

Bro if you upgrade your internet and you get better speed you could always try out geforce now. Thats what im playing on, and it does get fuzzy with the grass when looking at far distances on the ground. But Sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do lol

[inland knot]

I would install my 8400 or whatever the cpu is but my power supply cant handle it i need a new power supply

[dire dagger]

8400 uses less power what

also its not compatible with that socket

[copper haven]

did someone mention a-Life?!

[dire dagger]

yah me

[north violet]

It only made a difference in Shadow of Chernobyl since player damage was set to 100% regardless of difficulty in CS and CoP, but you still dealt 100% weapon damage on Master in SoC so it wasn't really a nerf.

Apologies, I'll stop going on about this, I'm just salty.

[edgy scroll]

god i love ||gamma||!!!!!!

[dire dagger]

huh

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-opinion-opinion-gif-22134945

[inland knot]

I love uranium and it's taste

[tacit oracle]

if you ever feel useless, remember that every settlement in stalker 2 has a doctor

[dire dagger]

fucken true as hell bro

me finishing the game with 250 med kits

i hate how if you try and look from outside a dark room

you can't see anything inside the room

until you go inside

but things inside the room can see you

very epic

btw the best mod of all time just dropped https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/866

[nimble cipher]

emitisdumb has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dire dagger]

based message

why bot delete

[north violet]

Well it makes sense if the moon is out, but I live in a rural area myself and if the moon isn't out it is PITCH black. Maybe it's that built in eye-adjustment feature or whatever making it look weird to me.

[dire dagger]

also https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/849

i do not understand why this was not the default

because just because 2 artifacts say they do the same medium amount of an effect

DOES NOT MEAN THEY DO THE SAME

2 medium weight artifacts can give different amounts of weight

[north violet]

Please GSC for the love of God put this in the game! Weak, medium and strong don't tell me enough! This is the same problem we have in freaking SnowRunner with tires.

Also please give us back that part of the inventory screen that shows our total defensive stats for each damage type; this was in the original trilogy and now it's just gone.

[tacit oracle]

I think gsc wanted players to feel things out more in this game instead of just looking at numbers. It makes sense particularly for artifacts imo

[tacit oracle]

It's pretty exaggerated in this game but I mean this can happen under the right circumstances (ie not always)

[dire dagger]

with all due respects thats a really dumb reason

[tawny comet]

I blasted a Burer in the face with a whole extended mag of Mac10. Felt guud

[dire dagger]

its probably to dumb it down cus numbers scary but

[fierce totem]

Bookmarking that mod for sure

[dire dagger]

when you make it so the actual effects of artifacts can not be seen in game at all its kinda stupid

unless all things with a medium effect mean the same thing DO NOT USE WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT

use numbers

do not make it so medium can mean one of 3 numbers of the effect thats dumb

could be 4 5 or 6

[tacit oracle]

I mean if you like numbers it's fair

[dire dagger]

the only ones you can actually experiment with are weight artifacts as thats a number you can see

any other artifact there is no real way to see which ones are better than others

[fierce totem]

numbers > vague words that could mean anything
This is such a weird ah discussion

[tacit oracle]

and radiation ones to see how much they counter each other
@fierce totem idk I like bars and figuring things on my own instead of just see number go up.

[dire dagger]

thats another thing how much do lead lined artifact containers actually shield

i know its not all of the radiation so how much is it

who knows game doesn't tell you

[fierce totem]

same goes for weapons. A bar that shows firerate? just give me the numbers so I dont have to waste my time comparing the fire rate of different weapons. Def installing that mod the second I start playing again.
@dire dagger you know of any mods that do the same for the weapons?

[tacit oracle]

yeah it is 100% right? I mean at least with the mod I played them with I was carrying a thunderberry and didn't get any radiation at all. It's not 100% on vanilla?

[west shadow]

Ur cooked bro ngl

[dire dagger]

the bars i got less of a problem with

becaus you can directly compare 2 weapons using the bars

and see ok this is better than this

artifacts theres no way to do that

[north violet]

To be fair I wouldn't want that realistic "Advanced Darkness" until the flashlight was improved and/or NVG was added. (Also please let there be a second generation NVG upgrade that gives us black and white night vison, I know it was a mod thing but it looked so much better than the green.)

[dire dagger]

far as i can tell no

because if i have 4 lead lined artifact slots and equip all of them

i will start dying from rad poisoning

unless i use a counter weight

[tacit oracle]

idk, maybe it's a difficulty thing, I was playing on normal.
Or, one of like the 10 mods I was running could be doing that as well.

[fierce totem]

yeah but follow the same logic here with me for a second. A full bar of rpm can mean any kind of firerate. both AK and AR416 have a full bar but both have very different fire rate. What's there to say there is any consistency regarding those bars? Dunno, I don't trust the bars no more now that I know medium can mean anything.

[dire dagger]

don't get me wrong an advanced tab

that would explain all the stats as numbers would be awesome

[dire dagger]

also theres the fact that you can upgrade weapons beyond the max level of a bar

HOWEVER

[north violet]

It'd be easier if we had that box in the inventory screen that showed us all of our defenses for each damage type (and stamina regen).

I need it.

[dire dagger]

as far as im aware upgrading it further does make the stat keep going up you just cant see it

[west shadow]

I don't trust those bars at all, think they half bugged, fire rate for example is super cooked

[dire dagger]

kinda agree

you can get handed a weapon with nearly max accuracy yet have like 5 upgrades that increase it even further

🤨

and i can tell you right now just cus its got max accuracy in the bar

does not mean its fully accurate

[west shadow]

Another reason why should just be stats/percentages and not graphics representing statistics for weps and armor

[dire dagger]

i mean it would be fine if it worked like it does in the og games

where it can tell you what percent of something the bar is full

so you can see ACTUALLY how accurate something is

[dense hatch]

like CoP

[dire dagger]

yup

[tacit oracle]

y'all just cranky 😜

[fierce totem]

the whole full bar does not mean full ''x'' is what's crazy to me and the low/medium/high/max being a fluctuating number. I don't like that at all :/

[dire dagger]

or just make the bars reflect the stats more accurately cus atm they just are not accurate

[west shadow]

Inconveniencing me to go into configs is not immersive or casual it's bad game design. This comes under QoL

There isn't even a gun range in the game to test either

Just make bars be accurate for normies and when you mouse over it's shows the numbers 5hed everyone wins

[dire dagger]

id say make artifacts stats numbers and make weapons stats have bars and number stats

perfect balance

[fierce totem]

weapon bars can work, just make them make sense. Ofc would still prefer numbers but it wouldnt be the end of the world

[west shadow]

To make the bars make sense you have to display numbers, how else would the player know what a segment of a bar represents

[near mortar]

is it worth killing trapper for his shotgun?

[dire dagger]

anyway its time for class so i must go good bye gamers

[nimble sparrow]

kill everyone

[fierce totem]

Bars can make sense if they actually represent the correct information. Let's say the vector has the highest fire rate in the game. Easily a full bar. Anything that shoots slower then that has less bar. Then take into account weapon upgrades etc that can be a different color of the bar and you got yourself a working system. Not a flimsy system that doesn't follow the same logic and rules

[prisma onyx]

I dont see a large amount of text, i see a grey blob that makes me sleepy the more i look at it

[west shadow]

Artifacts to scientists is an interesting idea

[tulip monolith]

no that is a really good idea, you could do it where when you first get an artefact you get vague stats but once you give it to the scientists you get the actual stats

[simple scarab]

Guys I have a really cool game idea. We claim lots of land and slowly let the snork population grow, granting the player infinite snorkussy.

daily snork posting done

[weary token]

IIRC gsc answers channel had this "weapon stat bar" bugged, they acknowledged it and working on changing/fixing that part

[tacit oracle]

I just don't see the obsession with having exact numbers and minmaxing things, but I guess I'm in the minority here. I know which weapons I like better 'cause I tried them and I like what they do better than others. Same goes for artifacts, I've never been driven to crying in a fetal position because "I d-d-don't know how much "medium" isss 😭😭😭"

[north violet]

The Facehugger and GP-10 (or whatever it's called) are definitely bugged; they're the only gas masks in the game with ZERO radiation protection and their radiation protection upgrades do literally nothing.

Additionally, all but two of the SSP-100 suits have ZERO innate Psi protection; they're scientific suits, they were always the one type of suit in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that had innate Psi protection, where the hell is it? (I also found that the SSP-99 doesn't have innate Psi protection either even though in the original trilogy it did.) All of the SEVA suit variants have it, what the hell is going on?

[olive jolt]

I always figured the most basic of info was shared by other stalkers through the pda, but I absolutely love the idea of bringing the scientists into it. It feels like they have less impact in this game compared to the others, but maybe im misremembering

[weary token]

yes, i was correct. GSC answered this: "we are investigating some ideas on how to make the info on weapon stats more understandable"

[simple scarab]

Welcome to the blocked club, he does that a lot

[north violet]

We had numerical values in the original trilogy, there was literally zero reason to change it.

For me personally I just like having hard numbers for things like this because it makes comparing easier.

[tacit oracle]

I think there's a merit to having bars, then again I don't live perpetually attached to the original trilogy so I guess I can judge both decisions without automatically deferring to "but it was like that before"

[halcyon briar]

I need to go to temple more because my first thoughts were on the color scheme

[simple scarab]

What used to getting blocked? Shiii im hella used to that. Get ghosted irl and now get ghosted on discord, this why snorks are the way to go

[north violet]

It's not so much about being perpetually attached to the original trilogy as it is being upset at a pre-existing feature being downgraded from its original iteration; giving us less information than before is not something I expect from a sequel.

I have no issue with using bars for things, the original trilogy used bars for weapon stats and at least in CoP your defenses for each damage type were also represented by bars and that was fine. (Though I think you could hold your mouse over those defensive stats in CoP but I could be misremembering.)

[slender perch]

we can tag team a snork one day hun

[tacit oracle]

"it's not being attached to the prevoius games, it's that I'm literally considering something different from the previous games a "downgrade" because it's different".
I get it if it's your personal preference that you want to know things exactly and minmax, though. That's fine.

[simple scarab]

omg first date goals????

[fierce totem]

you really woke up today and chose war didnt you?

[hexed pebble]

i love a good old wet and ready snork

[tacit oracle]

I'm calling it like it is, if I was on the other end I would have no problem in admitting I like something better because it's what I grew up with, just asking the same level of honesty from the other side.
(also there's no point in bellyaching about design decisions of a game for which you have mods that do exactly what you want to)

[halcyon briar]

you snark one snork and BAM, new mutants

[fierce totem]

yeeeaaaah staying away from this one for a bit. oh boy.

[prisma onyx]

I like stalker 2, what a groundbreaking masterpiece. I cant wait to see future patches thatll make an already great game even better!

[slender stratus]

[simple scarab]

The Ancient scrolls, it must be in a language I don't understand because I aint reading allat.

Sorry i had to :(

[peak basin]

Just had several NPCs that offer you repeatable side jobs like mutant hunting etc all bug out and have eternal side job quests open for them

[tacit oracle]

correct, most bartenders have radiant quests available.

[hexed pebble]

lol at u

[fierce totem]

Damn you really said all that without throwing insults? very good. Might not agree on every aspect but I respect what you wrote.

[simple scarab]

Sorry it happened or im happy for you!!

[wise geyser]

We getting the update tomorrow boyyyyyyssss!!???/ likely not but we can hope 🔥🔥

[peak basin]

well not anymore for me mate, can't even ask them for it cuz i got an "incomplete" quest with them, although i just turned it in.

[north violet]

I don't mind it being different, the problem I have with it is that we're being given less information than before. Weak, medium, strong and maximum don't relay the same level of information to the player as hard numbers do, especially when there are different numeric values within those weak, medium, strong and maximum ratings.

I have the same issue with the tire ratings in SnowRunner because their stats are shown in the same way despite the fact that tires with the same same ratings have different traction values; one tire is objectively better in mud than the other despite both having an "Excellent" mud rating.

Anways I need to leave for the night, so thank you at least for not being an ass about having a different opinion than me.

[tacit oracle]

oh, I misunderstood then. That sucks.

[peak basin]

Sidor got locked out, Hera from Duty, Scientist in Malachite... Barkeep asked for a Petal and im like 90 hrs into the game im yet to see one , kept farming fire anomalies but the most obtained artifact for me is the Thunderberry

[fierce totem]

we get another media ping for sure

@north violet even worse is that MEDIUM is a fluctuating numerical value meaning MEDIUM and MEDIUM are not the same MEDIUM. Same goes for the bars on the weapons. bars and words would be fine if the logic behind them would make sense and is consistent. With numbers you dont get that confusion

@worthy zodiac agreed. Just getting it out there since some people seem keen on throwing left hooks where no left hooks need to be thrown

[orchid gale]

It’s me, I’m the snork

[simple scarab]

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[north violet]

Exactly my point!

Oh God it really is like the tires in SnowRunner!

[slender perch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDZSxPU2TUk could you

[fierce totem]

yup, logic applies only if the object is the same object. Which makes the bars and words almost useless imo.

[orchid gale]

I gotchu

[prisma onyx]

Have they always been called snorks? I thought it was snorker, because they are the ones who snork, snorkin it all over the zone

[simple scarab]

I hate when I am at a campfire and they snork over to me, snorkin it

[slender perch]

mask dont cover the mouth, thats all im sayin

[tacit oracle]

it's all teeth in there though 😬

[north violet]

At least for me, it's not even about difficulty or "hardcore-ness".

I genuinely liked a lot of the immersive/hardcore features that Misery added and that Anomaly/GAMMA took from it, but there were also some that I hated because they turned the game into a tedious slog.

Having more information available to me as a player helps to cut down on that tedium; I don't have to spend time speculating about what artifact, gun, or suit is better, I can just look at their stats and know at a glance what changes I'll see if I equip/use it. Cutting down on tedium in small ways like that really adds up in the long run and just leads to a better gameplay experience.

I want my vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 experience to have that balance of immersive/hardcore features and tedium-cutting, and if GSC is able to adjust certain things to be more like the original trilogy, I think we'll be able to get that.

[lime hornet]

Skif voice actor doing AMA on Reddit

[fierce totem]

when are the snorks doing an AMA on reddit?

[simple scarab]

The questions I have for them....

[north violet]

Okay I'm actually leaving now, apologies.

Have a good night everyone.

[lime hornet]

The controller did a AMA.

[hexed pebble]

is the m416 the weakest gun in the game or something

[tacit oracle]

I mean at least with maklane's gun mod not by a long shot, idk how it is in vanilla
I remember quite liking it in the prologue

[fierce totem]

It's garbage, swap for something better as fast as you can

[hexed pebble]

its taking me 50+ AP bullets to kill exos

[tacit oracle]

lol

[fierce totem]

yup, change it out. Moment that happenned to me I changed to something else and I haven't touched that gun ever since. Such a shame cause it looks so damn good in game

[tacit oracle]

I really really liked the ||clusterfuck||. Shame dedicated snipers are kinda not worth it

[near mortar]

should i use the saiga or the spsa 14?

[feral agate]

Sleep well!

[torpid viper]

Is there a mod to increase the variance on gun damage when looted? Kinda lame only ever finding guns with like 30% repair status

[finite dragon]

Where can I go to upgrade the wanderer suit. Thx in advance

[white nova]

The one you like

[hexed pebble]

does anyone else randomly get random weapons spawned on them

[urban basin]

Yeah lol

[hexed pebble]

is it a psi thing or bug

[dim topaz]

Ilike that they didn't play it safe with stalker 2 whatsoever. Instead of making some generic story they went balls to the walls with the main plot, even if I disagree with some decisions, you can clearly tell a lot of love and effort went into making it

[west shadow]

yeah I see your argument is more for what you believe to be immersive right which is fair enough

[west shadow]

Agree thats super weird, I havent played much with science suits personally yet

[tawny comet]

The sleep system is useless at 4 days required for the icon to pop. What was the decision behind that?

Must be all those energy drinks he chugs while carrying 80kg of loot back and forth. Keeps him up like a night owl

In reality, why not make designated spots to camp out , similar to locations that have emission protection. Whenever you get too tired, it would show where the nearest spot is. Or just switch to 2 days maybe?

[dawn pine]

day 14 no new patch

[slender perch]

soon babe soon

[rotund siren]

And radiation overdose

[fierce totem]

Wanna riot together?

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/crunchycat-luna-cat-smirk-smile-gif-9301919548442205824

[near rune]

oh Monolita, where is patch \o/

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-preacher-games-stalker-gif-19391373

[grand hatch]

Hello. This is my first S.T.A.L.K.E.R game. And I love it. XBOX SERIES X user. Very new to all of this.

[grand hatch]

I wish they gave the option to chose which slav you are. Like a sticker next your name. I'm Croatian/American

[rotund siren]

Optimization, optimization, optimization...

[west shadow]

Croatian is considered Slavic?

[woeful crater]

hard to do when you had to meet a deadline

[rotund siren]

Understandable. I wish they would fix the fps drop in settlements.

This game will be in peak state in a year I think

[tardy crane]

Probably been asked already but is AI-life back yet

[dense elbow]

what percentage of the game is finished?

[rotund siren]

No it is not sadly. Mutants, bandits and stalkers spawn out of nowhere

[tardy crane]

What

[sleek trout]

hows the a-life fix going

[potent mica]

How would we know?

[rotund siren]

Come back in a year when the game will be properly polished

I think the devs needed another year to get this just right.

It's not cyberpunk level situation, but it will be better later. Right now it's a diamond in the rough

[grand hatch]

@west shadow yes Croatian is Slavic. So is Serbian and Slovenian and Bosnian and Ukrainian E.T.C

[near rune]

is this that kind of "im irish" American thing

[grand hatch]

@near rune no. My mom and Dad's parents came from croatia

[near rune]

cool, i'm not sure what picking what type of slav you are would do for the gaem though

[grand hatch]

@near rune no I was just saying I think it would be a fun little icon next to anyone's username. Like a Ukrainian flag. Or polish flag.

[near rune]

OHhhhhh LMAO sorry i got confused ye thatd be cool . Im asian so the only relevance is nuclear threat curries

[slender perch]

finally spent 1 million coupons 😎

[noble surge]

It's nowhere near as unfinished as some people want to make it look, but the unfinished parts are really unfinished lol

[mellow locust]

Hamster and co. are happy

[dire maple]

Is it just my skill issue or the npcs are so hard to kill damn not even veteran

[near rune]

aim for the head

[dire maple]

Even at the head it takes 2 3 hits

[potent mica]

If they don't have armor headshot from pistol should take 1 shot

[grand hatch]

I'm trying to get the Dead Sponge artifact and not having much luck 😥

[static compass]

Which detector are you using?

I recommend the bear detector

[mellow locust]

can someone tell me what the difference between "flatness" and "bullet range" is? because both seem to increase the range so what is the gameplay difference of them?

[wary grove]

I think flatness reduces bullet falloff (edit, i think i had that wrong, Flatness probably makes the bullet faster and bullet range reduces bullet dropoff)

[winter aurora]

Goddammit

[solemn nova]

ye...just had a side quest in Cordon, in the dialogue, the dude says he's sending over coordinates to some locale, but nothing happens

[noble surge]

I got a radio transmission from a town (not Zalissya) requesting help. I rushed there and there was absolutely nothing happening. Bar lively, stores open lol

[solemn nova]

they just wanted to lure you over so you would spend your hard earned koupons there

[noble surge]

Sad state of scammers in the Zone these days

[solemn nova]

tbh it feels like the game is maybe 50% done, but I'm still loving it lol (got almost 90 hours)

[noble surge]

Also still loving it but having to avoid certain areas / quests is pretty annoying when the game is otherwise really built for organic exploration and progression

[finite dragon]

Everyday without a life is a day I lose my sanity

[arctic lichen]

Everyday without the monolith is a day I lose my sanity

[languid sigil]

How many stalkers would be going to that base?

[mellow locust]

man the game freezes on gravitaional anomalies are so annoying

[hushed veldt]

Then use armour piercing rounds.

[mellow locust]

yeah if you don't use armor piercing on armored enemies. I mean ... whats unbalanced about it. Its like saying dark souls is too hard and you don't use the upgrade system for you weapon

[west shadow]

Super interesting!

[west shadow]

tbh this could be a really neat little mod, we already have faction patches (modded in) why not our country patch, imagine killing a stalker and seeing they from the same country as u, feels bad man , but so immersive

[thorny junco]

Where’s dat a-life update

[west shadow]

they cooking it rn, its highest prio apparently

[torpid viper]

What is the PC bind to change firemodes?

[west shadow]

i think its x (yes im staring at this chat)

[near rune]

a life is gonna make me take my life blyaat

[steel bay]

B for me & I haven’t changed keybinds

[toxic vector]

does using armor with higher than 2 bars of psi protection makes you immue to controller attack without using psi block?

[shy spoke]

It's B, I only learned that in the prologue because I hit it out of reflex from so many hours of COD only to be surprised when it actually worked

[shrewd summit]

Are there any areas/quests that I as a new player should be aware of? Relatively spoiler free?

[noble surge]

The game begins to break down after you visit a shockingly clean place as part of the main story. This happens after you go through a swampy area.

[shrewd summit]

Bummer… good to know though. Thanks!

[grand swallow]

does anyone know where to download someone else's saves

[tacit oracle]

howlongtobeat classing the game as 35 hours to complete the campaign, you'd have to damn close speedrun it to get that time 💀 💀

[noble surge]

I'm approaching 70 hours and should just be over the halfway mark lol

[left fable]

I really really hope stalker 2 comes to ps5

[tawny comet]

A-Life or it might B-Death

[sly matrix]

How about C-limbo though?

Or D-incarnation?

[tacit oracle]

If it does I hope they do dualsense integration and they bring it to PC as well 🙏 😭
I don't play FPS with controllers usually but dualsense makes it worth it

[arctic lichen]

I'm going to commit great crime.
I'm going to bust topic, about G A M M A

[inland knot]

Whats that

[tacit oracle]

it's how hip young people say "they are working on the patch on highest priority"
Then you say like "sibidi toilet rizz demure"

[inland knot]

Oh thank u lol

[remote oak]

did they fix zalissya ||monolith|| bug?

[granite mortar]

You dont say "Oh thank you lol"
Did you even read what he said?
You say "skibidi toilet rizz demure"

[inland knot]

Hell nah i ain't saying that 😭

[clear token]

So like I have tried everything with the sawmill mission and I can’t fix it

[inland knot]

Skibidi toilet rizz demure is that what u want?

[tacit oracle]

I just realized, nobody makes noise while they're moving.
I was trying to figure out why does the ||sphere|| mission feel so weird 'cause I keep bumping into ipsf all the damn time

[waxen seal]

Literally unplayable

[leaden wing]

idk if we will get patch b4 christmas

[sweet belfry]

doubt

[tacit oracle]

I mean it's not unplayable but it numbs your awareness a lot if your enemies aren't yelling random stuff all the time.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tacit oracle]

no YOU be well 😤

[dark peak]

We don't got a stalker 2 mod chat, what gives?

[tacit oracle]

who even mods stalker games

[dark peak]

Yeah thats lame

[tacit oracle]

I think they haven't made a "modding" channel 'cause there's so many and usually they have their own discord communities but idk

[spring tinsel]

Anyone notice the rpd in the traders desk in the sultansk?

[arctic lichen]

Skadovsk* 👺👺

[tacit oracle]

...why does the krinkov have better accuracy than the 74s? Shouldn't it be the other way around? 🤔

[rare gulch]

I suspect we will once they release the official tools

[dreamy tree]

Has the patch been released?

[hallow flare]

are we gonna get the roadmap before Christmas or after Christmas?

[coarse sparrow]

yeah 35 hrs as if u only literally run to orange quest markers

[cunning grotto]

In the next 14 days, that's all info we have.

[runic spire]

So...... January?

[muted valve]

nah they didn't say december what year it'll be december 2026

[summer cliff]

Humanity won't live for that long

[muted valve]

nonsense, humanity is doing fine, you're simply bombarded by articles and headlines solely designed to make you worry so you click it so they can sell ads

[summer cliff]

Im jokin, I won't live for that long, as I live in Ukraine

[muted valve]

all wars come to an end eventually

[wraith socket]

No Spoilers chat is in red. Spoilers chat is in green. Just a reminder if you do not know. You are in the red zone. Thanks.
BUGS? PLEASE REPORT HERE:
https://support.stalker2.com/

[summer cliff]

I'll be the one to end as I prolly get conscripted next year but okay that's not allowed here

[nimble cipher]

duckslayer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[balmy burrow]

I am still wait to play the game. I played like 3 hours to check the vibe but a lot of stuff need to be fixed

[tacit oracle]

ok thanks for letting us know
keep us updated please

[gloomy knoll]

After a good nights Sleep I am Back

[tulip monolith]

I am also back after sleep

[tacit oracle]

you guys sleep?

[mellow locust]

There are so many players just holding out buying the game until they fix it more. Tons if players who already bought the game and decided to wait too that's why we have like 10-20k players instead of 100k. I really hope they are giving us something before christmas that will give people a good time

[west shadow]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[summer cliff]

They're weak

[gloomy knoll]

I have a week Off Work of course i Sleep then

[boreal mica]

Meanwhile me: 100h in game, having a time of my life.

[tacit oracle]

I don't think there's a single person that wouldn't want the game to be fixed right now, no idea why we keep seeing the same shit day in and day out

[muted valve]

nah the player count went down cause people like me finished the game

[normal shore]

nah the player count went down cause me and my multiple personalities don’t have much time to play nowadays

[boreal mica]

I mean I don't care. The lack of a life isn't that big of a problem as the "ugabuga a life when" tribe cries about. And it's the only major problem rn.

[summer cliff]

I have around 120 and finished it for the first time. Waiting for all the patches to replay it later. Great game

[boreal mica]

You can't say that, they will throw rocks at you

You aren't allowed to have fun without a life in the game

It's illegal

[dark peak]

I clocked 150 on my 1st playthrough, on my second now with mods but watch now they will patch it and break them

[opaque parrot]

Waiting to see what the next update brings us

[tacit oracle]

I must have like 130 hours and furthest I've gotten is just past ||sircaa|| (not for a lack of trying).
I've restarted a game now to try some rebalance mods out see what I like better
Not gone outside of the mission areas unless for cordon (I wanted to say hi to ||sidor||)

[dark peak]

I stayed on the beaten path for awhile and once I did finally break away, also to head to cordon the game got pretty messy. Guess the test runs didn't explore much I dunno

[gaunt sky]

Hello! How is everyone doing, so far I haven't finish the game and I am at 53 hours now, I am just running this issue about the fps I hope the fix the fps issue on the xbox series s soon

[normal shore]

I’m at 120 hours, about 50-75% through the story (||at Malachite for the second time||) and having an absolute blast.
Game is fantastic
But I know that it’s illegal or considered trolling to enjoy the game without a life so I’m just enjoying it on my own pace

[finite dragon]

Same, haven't progressed much in the story but have been exploring. I'm at 150 hours.

[boreal mica]

Nah, I grant you a certificate for having fun in the game, so it wouldn't be considered trolling. Just show them this message.

[tacit oracle]

are the blue chests (like the one you find on the ||roof of the correctional facility||) safe to store your stuff in?

[tulip monolith]

Im also enjoying the game at my own pace.
But im kinda waiting for the next patch and doing the life things lol

[boreal mica]

Ye, the first time I rushed and finished the game after 70h (it's possible to finish the game, game breaking bugs which doesn't allow you to finish the game are looms of lunstics), and now I'm 30h into the second approach and haven't moved much with the story.

[boreal mica]

Definitely for the short time, because I've used them as a quick stashes in mid habar runs, but didn't keep the stuff there for a long time.

[sturdy blaze]

I constantly get 150-200 fps but get random drops to 11fps every 2 minutes.i love the game but cant play, any advice?

[boreal mica]

I can't believe that I'm in the middle of conversation with the people who actually enjoy the game.

[boreal mica]

Meanwhile me at 70fps max

Ah sorry

I saw 111 fps

[nimble cipher]

rainerzufall800 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

I'm doing 3 separate playthroughs, one evil, one good, and one grenades only mixed

[arctic path]

Did my first run in like 70h, waiting for the new patch to do a second one, cuz (spoiling an area) ||Prypiat experience was kind of meh ||
I feel like once you start the final quests the game is rushing you toward the end

[tacit oracle]

"grenade" is the best moral alignment

[gaunt sky]

I don't know if its because I am playing on Veteran but I think grenades doesn't deal a lot of damage as I imagine

[fervent pawn]

i play stalker on pc and the loading screen at the beginning is so long, can anyone help me?

[boreal mica]

Like loading shaders?

[finite dragon]

3 reasons: old PC, you're playing on a hard drive, or you installed stalker on your operating system drive which makes it slower

[arctic path]

It depends of your gpu but there again, I recently upgraded my 2070 to a 4070 super, an it takes more time to load shaders

[boreal mica]

The only advice I have for you is: when the shaders are loading go make yourself a cup of tea, walk the dog, take a nap, cook the dinner and the game should load up.

[tulip monolith]

That almost sounds like your vram is maxing out then reducing load. On Nexus mods some of the popular mod is a performance mod that fixes the issue for the most part like this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

But the others do it slightly differently, you could give that one a go. And if it still persists you may need to drop some settings and playing around with it a little.

[normal shore]

Same

@tacit oracle once you’ve visited a stash, the bag/chest remains forever, so you’re free to use it.
I’ve been ferrying tons of guns from the Duga region to Rostok, at some point I had a small series of “depots”, bags filled with dozens of guns, grenades, drinks of all sorts, along the path. Each time I came across some loot, I stashed it in one of the bags … and each time I was heading to Rostok, I did the tiny detour to pick up some of the stuff to sell it.
It’s been maybe 70 hours, and all my stashes are still there.
And both Eugene and Ragman turned into sinkholes, that generate koupons

[sturdy blaze]

Can u dm me those links

[gaunt sky]

I've never tried that, I was afraid that maybe the owner of the stash would steal it

[tacit oracle]

I use that one in combination with this one https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9 (they can work side to side)

[boreal mica]

To be honest, there is no reason at the moment to collect guns from bodies. I've got like 150k coupons without taking guns from bodies. Just the special ammo, bandages, found armors.

Also I have fully upgraded equipment

[tacit oracle]

I'm using like two mods to reduce loot lol, and I'm also editing omega for the weight limit to be lower. I was trying to see if there was a mod that disabled the interconnected stashes as well, but alas

[normal shore]

It’s like in CoP, once you visited a stash, it’s available to you

[gaunt sky]

Sweeet thanks for letting me know!

[normal shore]

Interesting
I’m selling pretty much everything, and using upgraded expensive gear, I constantly repair, and do barely any missions from bar tenders. I’m in a good financial situation, but I’m not sure that stopping to sell guns would be a good move.
What difficulty ?

[boreal mica]

Stalker

[raven light]

a another day without update😭

[boreal mica]

So what

It's still playable fun game.

We are having nice convo here

[raven light]

someone got mad

[tulip monolith]

I havent played around with that one. I use a different one thats a bit more aggressive as in when I load into the game I kinda have to stay still for a hot second for everything to load in lol

[gaunt sky]

Have you tried Veteran? And if you have did you spot any big differences?
This is my first run and I think enemies have a ton of health but idk if thats on normal difficulty too

[boreal mica]

Yup, cause I'm tired of "no patch today" crying since the premiere.

Instead of playing a fun game

[tacit oracle]

I've played on both stalker and veteran and in veteran essentially everyone takes more damage. I think it also affects sell prices.

[tardy plume]

It does I’m pretty sure which is kinda stupid

[boreal mica]

Nope. I'm more of a landscape man, I like to enjoy the experience of exploring, chilling in a game.

[tacit oracle]

I'm cool with it lol, I think I've nerfed my game's economy like 4 different ways

[gaunt sky]

It affects the selling price in a good way or bad way?

[tacit oracle]

I think you just sell for less and buy for more. Afaik it's like in the OG games, really

[tulip monolith]

enemies in the stalker series have always been a bit bullet spongy

[gaunt sky]

I had the feeling that the prices were unfair

[arctic lichen]

A bit is an understatement

[tacit oracle]

I mean considering you can just do a 20 minute stroll and come back to a settlement with a sack full of weapons and food I think the prices in the base game are pretty damn generous, even considering like 75% of the guns you come across are unsellable

[tulip monolith]

sidor have been making bank since shadow of chornobyl.
"oohhhh thats a cool looking gun....HOW MUCH????"
"oh I found this weapon I got 2 because I brought off sidor lets sell the spare to him" "I'll buy it for 500 take it or leave it"

[left fable]

I agree i love dual sense i really hope it is added as well maybe by the time it comes to ps all the issues will be ironed out

[static cloak]

Ah what I would do to have access to modding

[tacit oracle]

it bothers me how dumb the AI is, but using novichok's AI it breaks a ton of story encounters 'cause they can see and hear you through literal concrete

[tulip monolith]

I have found that no matter what AI can spot you way before you spot them.

also with controllers, I cant play games on keyboard and mouse for long because I have RSI/carpel so most of the time I play video games with a controller.

[tacit oracle]

yeah but at the same time sometimes they'll pop a corner and stand there looking around while you're crouched in front of them
I originally installed novichok's not for the extra detection, but the extra reflexes. It does make them a bit quicker on their feet to figure out what's happening and reacting accordingly.
I even tried just removing the increased perception out of the mod and use the rest, but if you do the AI just runs away and never stops lmao

[tulip monolith]

for AI I use maklane zone overhaul and NPC combat overhaul , instant long range aggression fix.

[tacit oracle]

yeah near every overhaul uses maklane's better gunfights

[tulip monolith]

its not perfect but for now its a lot better than it was lol

[tacit oracle]

even with it it's annoying to see enemies being able to nail you several times in full auto when skif is unable to hit two shots on the same guy at any distance whatsoever

[left fable]

Which is the best original stalker game im a newcomer and im wondering whats the best bang for my buck

[noble surge]

I think the consensus is just not Clear Sky? Not sure though

[muted valve]

that just sounds like a skill issue tbh

[dreamy tree]

What is going at GSC? No roadmap, no patch for weeks now. It seems the developers are slowly abandoning the game, I hope that is not the case since it has a lot of potential.

[tacit oracle]

you can get the three original stalker games for a good price, if you need to pick one you'll probably have to go with call of chernobyl since it lays out the franchise and the other games don't make a whole lot of sense without it. The best game out of the three is call of pripyat since it's the more polished one.

[arctic path]

I might be out of the loop but why is Clear Sky so bullied ? Like story wise I prefer SoC but gameplay wise, clear sky take the win (of course CoP is the best for me )

[orchid gale]

Patch today! Y’all hype?

[gaunt sky]

What? There's a patch today?

[tacit oracle]

afaik it's the messier from a technical standpoint (and that's saying something)

[muted valve]

Yup, patch today!

[grave verge]

I think I will patch my underwear today. It's time.

[noble surge]

I also vaguely remember Clear Sky making changes around how certain weapons worked and felt even if it was supposed to be set in adjacent timeframes

[arctic lichen]

Leave it with the holes

[heavy pine]

Is the patch actually today? Officially confirmed?

[arctic path]

Maybe I played it too much with mods , I only did Clear Sky classic once and it was like in 2012 or smthing

[tacit oracle]

500% confirmed, it'll drop in 5 minutes, please check in 5 minutes if not dropped yet

[orchid gale]

YES! It’s going to include A-Life fixes too it’s going to be awesome!

[tulip monolith]

I played all 3 OG games with the respective ZRP patch and played them like that. I still prefer SoC

[gaunt sky]

I never understood what A-life means

[rapid river]

How do you guys know it's today? (The patch)

[arctic path]

Found the information on a dead monolith's pda, so it must be true

[tacit oracle]

it's just a fancy term for the background simulation and npc persistence system from the first game.

[orchid gale]

Basically it’s out of view AI management stuff in the most simple way I can put it. Stuff doesn’t just spawn in randomly

[gaunt sky]

Well that sounds cool! Thanks both of you

[muted valve]

well you see we've collectively gaslit ourselves into believing it's today so it must be true

[vivid skiff]

It ain't today

[orchid gale]

Yes it is

[tulip monolith]

its more or less a director AI
so imagine skyrims/oblivions AI where NPCs have their own routine, but when outside of the players view only their movement is tracked so they can get half way across the map pretty quickly and be alive. But imagine theres another AI that directs the NPCs, so their encounters with others are simulated when outside of the players view. So an NPC could run across half the map but they'll potentially run into other NPCs.

thats from my understanding, I could be wrong.

[short totem]

Hey, do you feel having enough custom markers? Cause I ran out of them and now have to loot my stashes across the zone to be able to leave any more own stashes.

Is there mb a mod for increasing the custom markers limit?

[little bane]

Are you gentlemen planning to release an update for this game anytime soon? The last patch was a hundred years ago

[bitter kindle]

It’s 220 am here 🧟

[mental mirage]

nah, COP is the best, even though i am blind, but it‘s you who cannot see ☢️

[muted valve]

@glossy blade patch when? roadmap when? 😛

[orchid gale]

Yes there’s a patch today

[gaunt sky]

Do you know if the update will fix the fps issue on consoles such as xbox series s? I've been having 30 fps all the time

[tulip monolith]

see I prefer SoC because of the story and gameplay, has more mystery to me.

[tacit oracle]

They just released the patch but unfortunately the patch was patched so we have to wait for it to get unpatched so we get the patch 😔

[vivid skiff]

You are playing a console you cant expect above 30 fps especially for an open world game like this

[ocean hornet]

fixma life+

[raw warren]

@glossy blade What should our expectations be for the first iteration of A-Life fixes?

[little bane]

any patch notes available?

[orchid gale]

I honestly don’t know if the Xbox series S can be saved tbh.. the rules surrounding Microsoft release stuff has been making it hard as hell for the devs to deal with the A-alife issues because the game must be the same playable version across all platforms

@little bane it’ll release with the patch

[ocean hornet]

@glossy blade sorry for tagging but please clarify when we can expect a patch. its been more than 2 weeks.

[muted valve]

wow y'all shouldn't ping community managers for no reason it'll get you banned

[tacit oracle]

one can hope

[vivid skiff]

Yea i am close to uninstalling the damn thing, loosing my wan't to play it

[orchid gale]

I’m waiting for three people to get sniped

@vivid skiff bro just play a different game, other games exist

[mighty sentinel]

@ocean hornet double exposure is the worst lis

[little bane]

Indiana Jones is great, just finished it and now back to Stalker

[ocean hornet]

agreed it was terrible

[tulip monolith]

and its probably why this next patch is taking as long to come out, because they have to spend time trying to sort out the xbox version. I do hope they get it working on xbox for those who can only play on it.

[gaunt sky]

I forgot about that game, I should give a try after finishing stalker 2

[glossy blade]

Patch is cooking, once we are 100% sure with a date I will share it, most likely in #📜┃gsc-answers

[empty gorge]

atleast tell if its today or not so modders can stop for today or not djees.
edit : most modders are waiting on an update to work on the mod updates
edit 2 : @short totem yeah we figured as much else they drop at evening/night eu hours

[vivid skiff]

Told you lot it's not today 🤣

[short totem]

It would already be shared if that’s the case.
Patch is NOT today nor tomorrow apparently.

[ocean hornet]

i mean if he doesnt even have a date yet its most likely not today

[little bane]

It is pretty short, main story is just 13h. I spend almost 40h because I wanted to clear all secrets. In Stalker I have played 90h and I am not even in half of the game 😄

[chilly bronze]

this year?

[tacit oracle]

"man this 2 minute slow mode is lame"
keeps pinging gsc staff

[gaunt sky]

Sameeee, I was doing side missions all the time, that after 20 hours I done like 4 main missions lol

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/jolly-posting-jolly-christmas-merry-ltg-gif-18217581716871329871

[orchid gale]

Yeah it is definitely not helping especially because of the series S, if it was on the one x only I could see the patch moving a lot faster

[signal bronze]

Patch getting released on Christmas day. Source: Santa 🎅

[little bane]

I hope this patch is big and fix many things and also add stuff. It have been 2 weeks, I can not image if it would be just a minor fix

[worthy lagoon]

@brazen silo See? I responded now

[gaunt sky]

Santa is a Monolith

[brazen silo]

Ahh, hello

[empty gorge]

patch -> roadmap -> dip -> resurface mid jan -> update 3rd week jan.
a whopping 2-3 alife fixes in 2 months

[raw warren]

This year?

[orchid gale]

So amped for the patch today

[short totem]

It will be big and so will break some other stuff and you’ll be waiting for a patch to patch a patch

[tulip monolith]

definitely, its cool that console gamers get to play this amazing series. But yeah hopefully they come up with a solution for xbox.

[chilly bronze]

Year this?

[worthy lagoon]

Yes

[muted valve]

we should get GSC an airfryer so they can cook faster

[little bane]

They fixed Zalisja mission in 1.0.2 and broke it in 1.0.3 I had to use commands to fix it XD

[noble surge]

Zalissya fixed
Every gun shoots canned food
Bloodsuckers can talk
SIRCAA reflections improved by turning off all lights

[orchid gale]

Give server inv

[worthy lagoon]

What?

[mighty sentinel]

My girlfriend releases publicly the day after Christmas

[short totem]

Yeah I’m so sorry for them, didn’t manage to save it cause of bugs and had to run away from my problem

[orchid gale]

Crimson said I should join your server

[gaunt sky]

I love this game, I've been getting in a lot of battles and idk if it only happens to me but during those battles I sometimes get emissions alerts and it just straight epic battles trying to survive and search for a shelter

[worthy lagoon]

He's not from my server, he's from a GFL server

[little bane]

I lured monolith soldier from a nearby village to open the door and then used command to kill npc inside the house so I could start conversation with the guy xd

[tulip monolith]

oooo thats a cool encounter !!!
I havent had any emissions yet.

I was going through an abandoned farmstead and had bandits around a camp fire, then some boars rolled in and after I done searching around a pack of dogs decided to march down the main road of the farmstead like they're in a wildwest movie xD it was great.

[noble surge]

I tried to do this without UETools the other day and it was really funny to see everyone marching randomly inside lol

[orchid gale]

[gaunt sky]

Mine was when I was going to ||wild island|| for the first time, and I fought a lot of ||bloodsuckers|| and ||dogs|| idk if that was programmed like that but it was hella epic lol

[tacit oracle]

I've had emissions but they've been pretty milktoast for me, except that one time the game directed me to an unreachable shelter

[gaunt sky]

At the end I died trying to get inside of the main mission cuz one dude kept talking to me on the door and I couldn't get in and died by the emmission, all my efforts for nothing 😭

[short totem]

Once I had a task to kill some bandits. When I almost reached their location an emission started - and so I ran to the closest shelter.
Surely my targets went just there. They didn’t manage to trick the death
The Zone gets you when it gets you, one way or another

[granite mortar]

Hate elves
Rock and Stone forever!

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress-2-tf2-scout-christmas-gif-15287794072855897823

[tulip monolith]

at the start of the game, I was doing a mission and something was rolling in so I ran as fast as I could back to the town because I thought it was an emission, but it was actually a storm lol

[raw warren]

A-Life 2.0

[gaunt sky]

I am always scared of storms, it just looks like it could always be an emmission, it just makes me feel anxious all the time lol, still it doesn't stop me from leaving the settlements

[tulip monolith]

it does especially when other stalkers are talking about emissions lol

[gaunt sky]

There's someone posting links on the channels @dire dagger

[tacit oracle]

"I used to be a stalker like you but then I took an emission to the knee 😩 "

[dire dagger]

Purged

[tulip monolith]

the person also has the not so great symbol in their bio lol

[gaunt sky]

Which enemy do you think is the most annoying one?

[tacit oracle]

burers, no contest

[granite mortar]

Lumen
Lumen is my worst enemy

[gaunt sky]

I think dogs or the big rats are the worst, The dogs goes so fast and lands a lot of bites, while the rats seems to have like low gravity when it bites and just leaves lol, also never heard of lumen

[vocal hornet]

Is there any way to see the real reason for the crash? I find it incredible that it simply says access violation

[tacit oracle]

lumen is the software based lighting engine unreal engine uses. It's very very resource hungry and a big reason for the bad performance of the game.

[tulip monolith]

for me its definitely the dogs usually in a pack of at least 5, they all attack from different directions as well. When I see some I either try to run away or try to find something to climb onto and take them out from there.

[raw acorn]

i just use skifs pistol to pop dogs and rats

[sterile brook]

Sadly UE5 is still being heavily worked on and has a lot of performance improvements not just for Lumen but Nanites and CPU performance improvements with every new version, but this game is on UE 5.1 and getting the necessary improvements would require them to move to 5.4 which is probably not a trivial change by any stretch of the imagination, especially when working with a custom fork of your own. I'm sure once they've dealt with more pressing issues we might see them move to a newer UE version and we get some noticeable performance improvements.

[tacit oracle]

I'm trying to lower the maximum carry weight from omega and I cannot find a way to do it god dammit.
I've already edited a "max inventory mass" variable but it's still at 100 and it's driving me nutty

[rapid river]

It would be so fun to see the game in a UE4 version just for fun

[tulip monolith]

apparently it was originally on UE4 and microsoft made them move to UE5

[sterile brook]

the result would probably be a worse looking game that runs much better

[urban basin]

Ue5 looks really pretty thats the only good thing about it in games

[bronze patrol]

Is there any info on the roadmap?

[rapid river]

I mean the textures could be worked on a little bit and I think everything would be alright.

[ocean hornet]

you do it then, just for fun

[summer cliff]

Nah no 5.4 in any of the recent patches. Perhaps in a year or two when they get all the fixed and dlc ready

[sterile brook]

The lighting and effects would suffer the most, and while I definitely think in some places the lighting is absolutely horrible in this game, there are places where it is done properly and the game looks incredible

[sterile brook]

Basically, I would assume once things settle down and they can focus on the DLCs they will start preparing for an engine upgrade as well, but who knows, they could already be working on it slowly, it could be a lengthy process

[rapid river]

Man I love the stalker community

[weak leaf]

Bro, gauss gun bug is hilarious, why would I think that the second time it would work

[summer cliff]

In order to upgrade to the new version of the engine, old version of the engine must work perfectly with the game which isn't a thing rn. Updating to a 5.4 would just more issues on top of the existing ones

[craggy carbon]

UE5 Bad

[rapid river]

We shouldn't forget about the multiplayer mode planned for the future as well

[sterile brook]

Indeed

[summer cliff]

Indiana Jones graphic requirements are ridiculous, I almost had a panic attack just by looking at them 💀

[tacit oracle]

looking forward for the devs to have to stop improving the core of the game because of all the people whining about the mULtiPlAYeR eNaBLeD items they bought with the expensive editions

[tulip monolith]

is it that bad? im going to have a look 1 sec

[nimble cipher]

_tryninjaarti_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[summer cliff]

Rip to bro.

People who complained about stalker 2 requirements didn't take a look at indiana jones

[tacit oracle]

I run it at the same exact settings as stalker 2: 1440p, medium preset, balanced dlss (quality makes it lag like a mofo with the big cityscapes and whatnot). I would say you can expect the same exact performance from it than from s2.

[summer cliff]

Why are the requirements so crazy then? I can run stalker 2 with my 3070ti in 1080p with close to no issues on medium-high, in Indiana Jones 8gb VRAM is a MINIMAL requirement

[tacit oracle]

idk, didn't look at the reqs 'cause it's just free to try for me on the gamepass lol. It's true that the game keeps screaming at me that there isn't enough vram on my 3070, but medium and balanced dlss is ok for 1440@60. This being said I only played the first level before getting bored, so maybe it gets worse further on.

[worthy lagoon]

UE still sucks

[raw warren]

Yea shoulda used xray

[hexed pebble]

its crazy how much harder games are to run without much more visual quality than 10 years ago

[tacit oracle]

god dammit, looks like max carry weight is baked into the savegame for some stupid reason. Guess I'm stuck with 100 carry limit unless I restart the campaign.

[summer cliff]

Bro what? Visual quality has improved greatly

[muted valve]

just get proper artifacts max is 140

[quasi glade]

No

[pseudo rivet]

Except Batman Arkham Knight and Renegade X

[vivid skiff]

Shhh it's all part of the plan, you really think you deserver to have your PC components hold up longer than 2 years, Now shut up and give them your money....

[tacit oracle]

1. the quality is there, it's just not in the models anymore but instead on the ilghting and more intangible things, so while it looks better, it's not as clear cut as it was in the n64 era.
2. you can make it look much better without being so resource intensive, it's just that ue5 is kinda not very well optimized.
   @muted valve I'm aiming at lowering it, 100 max is kinda silly imo.

[tulip monolith]

it does, I dont like UE. But its the reality we live in unfortuantely

[summer cliff]

Not every developer can afford making their own engine, i just hope UE would get more optimized in the future, or else we are going to enter a new reality of crazy demanding games for no reason

[hexed pebble]

every new game needs to be downscaled then reupscaled to achieve 60+ fps on the best cards now. I do mean more in the last couple years games have gotten stupid hard to run. Look at RDR2, came out 6 years ago but runs like butter and doesnt come with stutter or visual artifacts. You can look back further and find games that look just as good as recent games and can run much better without AI upscaling

[tacit oracle]

I mean remnant 2 is ue5 and it doesn't have crazy requirements, it just forgoes using lumen which is the right move at the moment I think.
Still looks dope imo.

[worthy lagoon]

UE won't be better optimised, and on the long run UE is more expensive, big dev companies are lazy to make their own engines

[summer cliff]

Rdr2 had crazy high budget and a huge development team, I don't think it's comparable to most other studios. Maybe Ubisoft can afford something similar, but they never care enough to produce one high-quality product, focusing instead to make tons of shit

[worthy lagoon]

If you notice almost every UE game uses TAA, Lumen etc which will force you to use DLSS and framgen, true money for Nvidia GPUs

[pseudo rivet]

Yo Kuro, why don't you make your own engine? Make something the community actually needs

[cedar current]

So who wishes GSC didn't use UE5 for the development of Stalker 2?

[pseudo rivet]

Plenty of people

[worthy lagoon]

I am not a developer, but i can pay to have a STALKER 2 with xray engine

[tacit oracle]

easy, he's lazy

[tulip monolith]

games today now just look like how I was playing my xbox 360 way back in 2006... on a CRT

[pseudo rivet]

Myself included, but it B wat it B. Reason was it was chose was because it was easy to pick up and to mod

[vivid skiff]

That engine was fantastic as most custom engines normally are

[worthy lagoon]

Xray engine is not that difficult to mod though

[pseudo rivet]

Okay, can you make a mod for me?

[worthy lagoon]

Anime mods?

[cedar current]

X-Ray was fire and look at what the modder have done with such an old engine - if they just updated, Stalkers 2 would be in a fantastic place.

[pseudo rivet]

No

[worthy lagoon]

That's all i can make

[pseudo rivet]

Skill issue

[worthy lagoon]

But eh, i believe that GSC did a blunder with using UE instead of X-ray engine

Probably Microsoft pushed them to use UE as well, still a blunder though

[vivid skiff]

UE5 the famous saying applies, "Jack of all trades, Master of none" Maybe they were forced to use it by Microsoft, wouldn't supprise me

[tacit oracle]

I'm not sure if the problem was xray or the games itselves but all stalker games have been a mess from a technical standpoint. Call of Prypiat is the only one that kinda sorta ran well and it's still a mess.
Of all the options and engines available to gsc, "making xray 2" would be one of the worst to pick imo.

[worthy lagoon]

Uhm no?

[sterile brook]

I don't think most of you understand why studios are moving to UE5. A lot of them work on multiple projects at the same time, and using UE5 is much better for them instead of using their own engines because UE5 can do a lot of different things, you can make any type of game you can imagine in UE, and do it well at that, UE5 is also paving the way for new, pretty things, and its only a matter of time before it settles down and we get more consistent performance and hopefully faster workflows for developers, more games, faster, better.

[worthy lagoon]

SoC and CoP always ran well

Even on release

[cedar current]

I have to take a break until A-Life is fixed, traveling 3km ingame and not hear a gun fight in the distance or come across any NPC was a bit of a DAMN moment. Fingers crossed we get the new update so, because I love this game.

[worthy lagoon]

CS had more issues at release, that was because it was very rushed

[worthy lagoon]

Cash for Nvidia and Epic, cheaper on the short term and easier to hire ppl that know how to use skills instead of hiring senior/creative engineers that are capable of developing an engine, and can advertise the "super realistic graphics" despite running at 5 FPS on native

[pseudo rivet]

Well, most PCs at the time of CS' release weren't even able to handle the game properly. That's why the graphics got downgraded in CoP

[tacit oracle]

I was surprised to learn that darktide is not ue5 but autodesk.
But yeah UE5 is the new unity if you want to make a game that looks better than unity lol

[tulip monolith]

have you seen the rumoured/leaked specs of the 5000 series of cards? lol

[worthy lagoon]

Nothing new, just a new Nvidia scam since most of the AAA UE5 engines are broken

[dire dagger]

And run 5x worse

[vivid skiff]

No but if these cards get any bigger they gonna snap the bus

[worthy lagoon]

I would put a stand that says "I don't give a fuck about super realistic graphics"

[normal shore]

10 is pretty good
If there are so many stashes around, maybe try to regroup your stuff and sell a bit of it … especially since we have the magic yellow box, shared amongst all bases

[worthy lagoon]

8 GB VRAM scam

[zinc apex]

💯 i played about 20 hours but can't take it without a-life. It doesn't feel dynamic, everything is either static or empty

[tulip monolith]

one of the rumours is that the 5090 is double the specs of the 5080 and it just goes down from there.

[vivid skiff]

My 3080Ti that i still have now Started to droop as soon as i put it in, had to use a bracing arm, wild

[dire dagger]

Friendly reminder the arc b580 runs stalker 2 at 60 fps

And is only 250 bux

[dire maple]

I really wish they have a UI that represent stalker theme and not just basic ue5 UI

[dire dagger]

And it’s got 16 gigs vram

[tacit oracle]

thought they weren't coming out til next month

[dire dagger]

Nope there out now

[cedar current]

But in the same light - I was playing The Division 2 the other night and the level of detail in that game is nuts and it runs so well. Plus I can turn AA off, which on a 2k plus monitor make every game look super crisp.

[dire dagger]

And there better than every other budget card on the market atm

[near dove]

Nvidia? more like NOVidia

[sterile brook]

Not sure what nvidia has to do with this, but false either way, yes easier to onboard new staff, no need to maintain an engine yourself, but you'll still owe money to epic, the main benefit is the flexibility it offers in more than one department. I think CDPR showcased this recently, they are adamant to prevent another cyberpunk launch scenario, im sure if they wouldn't move to UE5 if they were worried about that, it just requires a bit of tinkering and working together with Epic to accomplish certain things and eventually those things also make it to the open source engine itself and aren't just built for specific projects/companies

[tacit oracle]

damn, 325 bucks where I am. Still a downright steal at that price.
I just think my 3070 still has a year or two in it.

[worthy lagoon]

That's why i said on the short term, i already said the problem with royalties

They're still lazy and prefer short term spending

Still UE sucks

STALKER CS Xray engine>UE5

[tulip monolith]

theres an indie dev on youtube who is basically waring against UE

[worthy lagoon]

Good thing that nowadays I don't care anymore about AAA games, i only play HD2 occasionally, i mainly play Girls Frontline 2 or other games

[tacit oracle]

Man, gsc should definitely hire you, I'm sure stalker 2 would have no problems whatsoever if you were the lead dev.
Maybe it's not too late, maybe you can unlazy them and make a new engine in time for the next patch.

[near dove]

UE5 is all well and good but when every game is on it they all kinda merge into one and the traversal stutter sucks lol. Remember when nearly everything was on UE3 and everyone looked bulked up and plastic?

In house engines were always more interesting imo, the Sony ones, Fox Engine for MGS etc.

[worthy lagoon]

I haven't said GSC is lazy, and i am not a developer since i already have a different job that i enjoy more

[dire dagger]

He knows nothing about coding

[worthy lagoon]

But maybe if @pseudo rivet was there he would've helped with the lore

[tacit oracle]

you still must be very talented to be sitting on your ass and determining why things are and what they need to do to solve it with the simple, succint beauty of 3 words.

[worthy lagoon]

Lmao what?

Like, is it provocations or what? Have you missed my point that i said i would've preferred xray engine? It's a personal opinion and I've never said it would've fixed everything lol

[vivid skiff]

LMFAO yes, don't think, don't discuss, Just smile and agree, everything is how it should be.

[worthy lagoon]

I am sure a good bunch of people would've preferred a different engine as well

[worthy lagoon]

I would love to have a job where i have to sit and do nothing

[boreal mica]

Hey, nothing special here, ofc it is a known fact, that Kuro is insane and he sometimes sounds like an out of mind.

[tacit oracle]

it's not a provocation, it's just a long winded way to say that I think you don't know what you're talking about, and that it's very easy to just yap about shit when that is the case.
Nothing against you personally, I just think you're being sanctimonious without the savvy to back it up

[worthy lagoon]

Isn't that you just did to me?

[vivid skiff]

And what do you know? Ottomic?

[near dove]

Gonna need the slowmode off please so I can see where this is going quicker

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/big-ears-cat-big-ears-cat-cat-with-big-ears-gif-27709709

[worthy lagoon]

"Or so i heard"

But fella you need eyes to read

[celest blaze]

I love that one

[pseudo rivet]

Can't help with the lore if they want to write fanfic

[tacit oracle]

Not really, no. You just admitted to be talking out of ignorance. I'm just pointing it out.
Anyway, not going to be arguing about it.

[pseudo rivet]

You can't tell me what to do 😡

[dire dagger]

This is why I never comment on game development topics

[worthy lagoon]

Bro you're the one that started the argument and I've just stated my personal feelings about how i feel regarding UE5 and games that keep using UE in order to market "super realistic graphics" that in the end will run bad without upscalers, framegen and forcing TAA lol

Since i also spend money on it

[celest blaze]

UE5 is mid AF I'm disappointed that cp2077 sequel is going on UE5

[tacit oracle]

But anyway, on the topic of annoying stuff: why is skiff's knife a bayonet but can't be affixed to anything? Is it stupid?!

[pseudo rivet]

I suggested the use of bayonets as well, in light of the mutants. Sadge

[vivid skiff]

Man didn't you know there are some people out there where difference of opinion doesn't exist, no point in arguing logic against them, you will just loose.

[pseudo rivet]

How many of the suggestions actually did get added in the first place?

[tulip monolith]

everything is going on UE5. Theres a lot of AAA games announced for UE5 including The Witcher 4

[celest blaze]

💀

[worthy lagoon]

I really wish my job would be sitting on a chair and do nothing though

Sitting on a chair is already good enough

[celest blaze]

I'd rather creation engine 2 lol

[pseudo rivet]

Samesies

[worthy lagoon]

God no

[pseudo rivet]

Be careful what you wish for

[worthy lagoon]

True

[celest blaze]

Let me write lore and I'll reintroduce clearsky

[pseudo rivet]

Legit tho, how many of the suggestions actually got added?

[celest blaze]

I'm curious tbh

[pseudo rivet]

Because I'm thinking nothing

[celest blaze]

You think it was just a channel to keep folks calm?

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[worthy lagoon]

Maybe sleep deprivation and water

That's all i can think of

And animations

[pseudo rivet]

Because that's what they said before as well

[twin pulsar]

Update? News?

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[worthy lagoon]

@pseudo rivet can you make STALKER lore but mixed with C&C4 lore?

[pseudo rivet]

No, as C&C4 takes place in 2076 in a world the Second Disaster never happened in

[vivid skiff]

Not today or tomorrow Mol1t pertty much confirmed that

[neat zealot]

2 Weeks since Last Patch 🥲

[worthy lagoon]

Add time travel and different universes

[pseudo rivet]

Besides, if C&C4 Renegade X does become a reality, I'm going to throw the original lore and storyline into the dumpster

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, well, that's kinda a thing, although never explicitly mentioned. I could work further on that though, yes

[summer cliff]

Then the next patch is going to be twice as powerful

[raw acorn]

just wondering but did anyone ever notice that the no spoiler screenshots and video channel is misspelled?

[pseudo rivet]

🖥️🔥

[tacit oracle]

it's fine no?
lmao no it's not fine, I read it like 3 times and didn't catch it

[vivid skiff]

Maybe it's not maybe it's meant for spicy D'k and Beef Curtain pics

[dreamy tree]

You better consider releasing the patch during the Christmas Hollidays otherwise I am afraid it will be too late to save the game, judging by how much the player has plummeted on steam db.

[raw acorn]

hot skif screenies ONLY 💯
hah saw it get edited just now

[worthy lagoon]

https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/history/

Some people are too lazy to check if the devs are working on the next patch

[pseudo rivet]

Or don't know about this site

[summer cliff]

I know bro, send it to the guy who asked instead

[worthy lagoon]

I sent it to you so you can spam the link to them everytime they ask

[tacit oracle]

Bait's lazy too. Everyone's lazy today 😪
(not talking about messages immediately above but don't want to tag the message in question either)

[dreamy tree]

Or you know they could just answer with concretes dates here instead and in other official social media channels. Other than relying on players to check some obscure metrics on steam db.

[raw acorn]

yes, everyone knows the most important builds of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 are "porcupine", "green flesh", "goldfish", "bubble" and "green"

[vivid skiff]

Female shaved head minority stalkers when?

[worthy lagoon]

It's a bug patch i don't expect them to release a date since it really varies on the bug and depends if they are also working on a life and performance as well, balancement and testing too

It takes time

You could do something else in the meantime, like uhhh playing HD2

[dreamy tree]

It has been suggested several times for them to release beta branches to the players, so we can help them beta test the game. I am not sure why they can't do this.

[raw acorn]

no developer gives dates for their patches, atleast no game i've played

[worthy lagoon]

Because they don't want to lol

Not every time you get what you ask for

[vivid skiff]

Because it has to function on Series S as well, i think thats why it's taking so long

[worthy lagoon]

Besides, no one is going to die if you wait a couple of days, and there are holidays too

I don't expect the game to be fully fixed in this upcoming patch either

[dreamy tree]

Hence the reason why from a marketing point of view would make sense to release during the Christmas Hollidays, people will be home and playing games.

[worthy lagoon]

These things simply take time, they're not going to release the next patch in a year

[worthy lagoon]

Don't expect that, it's bug fixes not an update that is supposed to implement new mechanics etc

It's pretty obvious isn't it?

[raw acorn]

impatience like this is what caused BF2042

[dreamy tree]

What is obvious, no one here is rushing them. People are just giving them suggestions. We all want the patch to be good and features like A-life to be fixed.

[tacit oracle]

bro talking like the patch is done and it's just a matter of pressuring them into releasing it

[arctic galleon]

I experienced the weapon bug when you revive the azimuth access key on a certain mission and complete it and return then swaps your good weapon for a ruined shotgun

[worthy lagoon]

You are saying the same things over and over that you have not discussed about anything else since you joined

[dreamy tree]

What I am supposed to talk about? Your anime avatar? The only thing you do is to mute people who have different discourse from yours. There has been a massive exodus of people from discord because you keep banning or muting anyone who voices divergent opinions.

[mighty sentinel]

Am i the only one who has pre ordered the game but realised the game needs more time so they just wait

[near dove]

I would like to suggest that the next patch has a life

[vivid skiff]

I played 5 hours and stopped, now i am waiting

[patent mortar]

A-Life improvements yes

It'll be in the next patch.

[tacit oracle]

Anything else, or, failing that, nothing at all please.

[dreamy tree]

I post like 10 messages a day, you on the other hand appear to live here.

[arctic galleon]

Anyone else?

[worthy lagoon]

What a nice way to derail my point, a good suggestion is being patient and talking about something else since there are offtopic channels too, instead of uhh y'know being repetitive and saying the same things over and over being impatient despite the fact that the devs are working on it.

And no, there has been no massive exodus, unless you have a different perception of the number of members that have joined vs left the server and the ones that are active.

I'd say that a good amount of people had enough with these repetitive comments from the same people in this chat

[tacit oracle]

all the more reason to listen to what I say 😏

[raw acorn]

my guy, you have been playing elite dangerous for TWENTY HOURS, and you're dissing someone for talking on discord a lot???

[dreamy tree]

That is because they are afraid to say anything which goes against your narrative and banned. Tell me it is not.

[vivid skiff]

I dunno about that, My opinions also differ and i am still here, unless everyone has me blocked

[worthy lagoon]

Whatever makes you feel better~ But again, your perception of reality is quite different

[muted valve]

this is all really cute but A-life when tho?

[tacit oracle]

lil bro, if that was the case you'd have been banned ages ago
You being able to talk on this channel are proof that you are wrong.

[urban basin]

There has been a lot of people who kept trying to fight the mods and they havent been banned tho

[worthy lagoon]

If i really was what you said then I would've banned @tacit oracle lol

Get banned get banned 😭😭 @tacit oracle

You have a different opinion😭

[raw acorn]

this guy has been playing elite dangerous for TWENTY HOURS are you good?

[arctic galleon]

No one answer, instead fight like children

[dreamy tree]

Lmao, that is true.

[near dove]

Elite dangerous bangs

[celest blaze]

Kuro is based and fair

[tacit oracle]

I mean I've had weapons spawn in my hand (and the one I had on that slot be sent to the inventory), but not be replaced with another. Not sure what else there's to say, it's a well known bug.

[worthy lagoon]

@celest blaze

[urban basin]

Answer about your weapon bug?
Its a pretty common bug nothing we can do about it sadly
It happened to me a couple of times

[dire dagger]

Don’t promise them that

[arctic galleon]

No worries, cheers

[dreamy tree]

Thargoid invasion is almost over, so it is actually good now that FDEV woke up from their slumber and decided to treat the game as a live service.

[raw acorn]

this is true but 20 hours is a bit much imo

[patent mortar]

Mol1t confirmed it.

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[dire dagger]

Oh

[muted valve]

i can even confirm from very reliable sources that the sidorovich romance quest line is in fact in the next patch as well

[tulip monolith]

I use to play elite dangerous back in 2016 and I accidentally met 1 of my old guild mates the other year at uni.

[daring storm]

The next patch is also bringing in ninjas stealing peaches.

[tacit oracle]

I must've played like 2k hours of elite dangerous, but I quit it for a while and now I don't want to keep playing the guy I had, but don't want to delete the save either. And you can't have extra save slots. So I haven't touched it since like 2018

[tight topaz]

mol1t confirmed this
#📜┃gsc-answers message

[daring storm]

@random violet speaking of ninjas lol

[random violet]

:D

[simple scarab]

Alright guys the English Skif VA would like a Snork as a pet, Snorkussy stocks are up to the moon!

[tulip monolith]

...what happened?

[tacit oracle]

have you ever noticed how much Skif chickenwings it when he sprints? I was looking at the shadow and it's p hilarious
like it looks like he's lifting his elbow above his head for no good reason

[ocean hornet]

helo wen can we expect a patcg

[muted valve]

when you learn to behave