⭐┃nospoilers_general

[lunar copper]

like nintendo

[orchid gale]

My fav indie developer is Nintendo

[dense hatch]

weird way to spell call of pripyat

[unreal grove]

Is game crashing for some people after the last update

[marsh gulch]

Old Nintendo was close. New Nintendo wants nothing more than to squeeze you for cash. They want to use the Italian to tug your nostalgia for as much as they can.

[inner mural]

tbh i really want this to be the voice of my PC in the future, https://youtu.be/fJfkYjrbPS4?t=84 i bet alot of people that loved star trek also agree with me lol

[lunar copper]

i'd let that italian tug me as much as he likes

[marsh gulch]

You can’t rickroll me wench. I was there when the spells were written.

[sand fiber]

got rid of all the RPG elements, less text, got focused too much on action without any exploration, no side-quests, basically no freedom compared to SoC

[marsh gulch]

Depends on who you ask honestly. I’m not a fan of any recent Nintendo game, aside from breath of the wild and TOTK.
But I’m a Zelda freak at heart.

[sand fiber]

nintendo was always like this, it's literally one of the worst gamecorpos, any good game of theirs was done in spite of the company

[inner mural]

https://youtu.be/hUSaz_jalls?t=14

[lunar copper]

echoes of wisdom was pretty sick.

[marsh gulch]

I just Stick to my old games.

Pokémon emerald on top tbh.

[celest blaze]

Clear sky has the most lore and freedom

[celest blaze]

HUH

[lunar copper]

don't you yuck my yum

[orchid gale]

the way Luigi looked at bowser in the Mario movie🔥🔥🔥🔥

[sand fiber]

no, it literally has no sidequests except for the repeatable ones
SoC isn't text-heavy, yes, but CS just doesn't have anything? half the dialogues with random stalkers are from SoC or builds, you can't even talk with traders now

SoC was definitely aiming to be more of an RPG with unique interactions and dialogues and unique quests, even if lots of it got cut in the end, CS just throws all of it out of the window

it was cool, it is what i want to see in stalker, but it's like, built on a framework of "here's two lines of text, get me the item from an ordinary location", which all of the other side-quests are built on

[celest blaze]

peak sky > call of cringe and shadow of mid

[celest goblet]

I do wish CS had better side quests. They are very forgettable for the most part.

[sand fiber]

when you did assassination quests for sidorovich there was this narrative line, one by one sid has been getting rid of certain people, it's basic, but there's also something more going on narratively
when you helped the dutier at the bar get his rifle back it was (either intentionally or not) tied to Frayer's A-life, it made things interesting
one of the quests i remember from the builds is where you had to wait for a specific time of day to kill a teleporting monolith guy at the bar, it's like, something??

this isn't anything remarkable, really, it's still very simple, but this is the problem, imo stalker should be just a straightup immersive sim, this is where they should've taken it gameplay-wise, more RPG, and CS is just... call of duty

[sand fiber]

this is why i love CoP, however nonexistent its gameplay might be, it takes effort to not just develop stalker's huge narrative potential but also create unique exploration situations

[quiet mountain]

good br games in 2024?

[sand fiber]

alas, 2005 SoC remains the best game of the franchise

[slender stratus]

You don’t like walking five feet to look for a detector under a bush?

[merry lichen]

where can i report a wierd bug in my game

[amber arch]

im finna just say one thing and one thing alone

balls

[sand fiber]

battleroyale? just play better multiplayer games man, like warframe

[quiet mountain]

i want to play with men

[sand fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/warframe-whispers-in-the-wall-albrecht-entrati-loid-entrati-gif-4638860566853218120

[celest blaze]

play warthunder and slowly lose your sanity as the snail crushes your will to live

[quiet mountain]

Warframe cool tho, had my fun with it some years ago, unironically like br games tho

[sand fiber]

how much years ago
the only good BR right now would be Apex, there's a skill barrier though

[distant lark]

got it thank you

[sand fiber]

warframe, besides tf2, is the only multiplayer game i have legitimate fun playing without a friend
i enjoyed sinking in 700 hours in apex, but only because i had a friend to play with, and it's not like apex is that bad either

[quiet mountain]

finna play crash trilogy

also bit of a boomer and dont like fighting the flash in every pvp game nowdays

[sand fiber]

nope, team fortress 2 all the way, 1200 hours :3
i stopped playing like a year and a half ago though

[sand fiber]

and started playing right after they stopped releasing proper updates, too
comic #7 is nice but i'd like, um, like a proper sendoff update with new guns and stuff x333

[quiet mountain]

whats the deal with tf2 matchmaking anyway

[upper turret]

Nothing beats trying to tab out of stalker only for it to freeze my pc 🙃👍 so cool all the time

[queen ice]

Too much yapping

Not enough Snorkin’

[sand fiber]

before it there was a quickplay system that would just connect you to a random community server, i personally don't think it's very good design-wise, but i can see the benefits

[dense pelican]

Hey!
I'm new to Stalker, and I'm thinking of buying the Ultimate Edition.
Does anyone know what DLCs are coming and to what extent?

[quiet mountain]

So in an official server it boots you and you have to match make with a new lobby after? Also most games that old community servers are a mess

[sand fiber]

they might kill me for this but they'll add a new location from the trilogy in the dlc, other than that idk :3

[dense pelican]

I see
thx

[celest goblet]

Only confirmed DLC is two story expansions, though that is basically all the detail we have. If you are new I would recommend buying the standard edition - If you wish to upgrade later, they plan to make upgrades from standard to the higher editions available later. For now you just get extra unique weapon variations and the ability to have spent twice as much money

[coarse sparrow]

dedicated servers with community admins are way better

[dense pelican]

So there are no assumptions?
I usually buy my games in the biggest edition, it's my thing

[quiet mountain]

alot of admins can be weirdos but ye

[celest goblet]

There is some potential info out there, but not really able to be discussed here because it is not official. If you are very confident you will want to play the expansions down the line, it is probably worthwhile.

[coarse sparrow]

either this or an incompetent and outdated anticheat \ report system, you can only choose one

[quiet mountain]

gotta love it

[queen ice]

Generators and Limansk, Generators is already modeled, kind of.

Limansk is heavily mentioned, and the bridge is sort of there, including a to Lymansk sign

[quiet mountain]

bring back cs hazard zone

[dense pelican]

thx🙏

[celest goblet]

Ultimate edition will come with any additional DLC beyond the two expansions too, but there have not been any announcements about what that may look like

[dense pelican]

good to know

[sand fiber]

i meaaaaaaan how good could it be really, it incentivized community servers yeagh but you can play them right now, uncletopia is fairly popular, and there are tens of micro communities scattered across the server browser

but you need someone hosting those community servers, and it's unlikely they'd be running vanilla settings, i think it was the main issue i heard about quickplay

maybe, maybe

i remember finding a site for a catgirl tf2 server, should've played there more :3333

[loud wing]

is a life good now?

[slender perch]

eh, good is subjective. it's in a much better state but not 100% fixed yet.

[loud wing]

fasho thank u

[celest goblet]

Yeah you are certainly going to have a better time overall with the gameplay experience after 1.1

[frank dew]

Hearing a Duty member say "Permission to raise spirits?" As their line before telling a joke is so cute, made me smile

Of course you can, you little goofball, let me hear it ❤️

[torpid wren]

||So glad that Freedom won. Duty can suck it.||

[frank dew]

Isn't this a spoiler?

[patent mortar]

Not really, you can see Freedom took over Rostok in trailer.

[frank dew]

Ah alright, I was worried for a sec, that's good

[raw acorn]

freedom getting high all day (chad)
duty wasting ammo all day (virgin)

[upbeat sandal]

I waited till the big patch 1.1.2 to play, and still felt frustrated, because Ai enemies can see me from very long distance in which I don't even see them; whatever move I make they know even if I sneak behind a house; also once they detect me, try to sneak away is in vain. How do you feel about the current states of Ai enemies, and does the "features" are expected from Ai enemies in stalker games? The kind of Ai enemies really put me off, and this is so disappointed given that I am a fan of Metro, and I expect the games to be that good. So far, feel kind of boring due to a long prologue with mostly walking, and Ai bugs.

[ornate rampart]

any mods online?

[patent mortar]

Yes?

[ornate rampart]

can you check if my question from #📜┃ask-gsc got an answer?
I can type it here if it helps

ty for the random spoiler stranger btw
edit: yeah, not you Jayko, the other user

[patent mortar]

Unfortunately no. If you're wondering, Community managers are currently busy reading feedback and passing bug reports to developers these days. Thats why Mol1t rarely answer questions anymore.

I didnt see that as I was typing.

He was actively answering questions before the game was released.

[celest goblet]

They still do small batches of answers sometimes but not as many right now

[ornate rampart]

edit: yeah, not you Jayko, the other user
the chat cooldown is messing with my replies timing

[patent mortar]

is ok

lol

[ornate rampart]

I see, thanks for helping anyway. I'll just wait until I see other questions replies and if it doesn't come up I'll just repost it a week later

[grand obsidian]

Is anyone elses game borked since the last update?

[frank dew]

Yea funnily enough, before the first major update I never really experienced any of the bugs, both physical and graphical that most people have but after this update I have been

[grand obsidian]

lol same!

[patent mortar]

Keep em bug reports coming brothers. https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308753015355740181

The more bugs reported, the more fixes will be implemented.

[celest goblet]

It is one of the most helpful things they can have for finding the root causes

[coarse sparrow]

||Did you really think there is a spoiler here? Happy Holidays Stalkers!||

[patent mortar]

Darn, mute for 3 days it is.

[tacit oracle]

Yes ||No||

[gritty knot]

[tacit oracle]

you can't nest spoilers 😦

[gloomy knoll]

You cant snork spoilers.

[gritty knot]

Dont know why people still continue to put spoilers in here even when their blanked out, airheads man

[indigo marsh]

| |In stalker 2 you play||

[tacit oracle]

pls ban 🙏 😭 😭

[gritty knot]

[grave verge]

Good Morning babies

[tacit oracle]

good morning hun

[timber saddle]

what if I pirated stalker but I feel really bad and want to support the devs

[tall swallow]

buy the game 🤷‍♂️ you analyzed your own conscience

[gloomy knoll]

Imagine pirating a Game you can get for less than 10 bucks a month via Gamepass

[unkempt quarry]

Steam has a very generous refund policy. Pirating games is only acceptable for people from countries where a game is 25% their salary. If you're in a first world country you're being a POS pirating a game

[tacit oracle]

you could sign up for gamepass as an interim solution

[celest goblet]

Either game pass or wait until the game is affordable for you and buy it then

[gloomy knoll]

Much More affordable than Gamepass seems unlikely until a few years pass

[celest goblet]

More a matter of if you want to pay for it once or for each month you wish to play, can end up costing less long term

[gloomy knoll]

Fair, but rn it seems more affordable to get it via pass until MP is added

[tacit oracle]

I like playing with strict weight limits and having to use stashes as intermediary storage but if I don't find one nearby all the bodies have despawned by the time I get back 🥲

[glass arrow]

Does the balancing update work? Can you play veteran without mods and kill bloodsuckers before 30 buckshots?

[patent mortar]

Yes

[tacit oracle]

I mean I'm playing veteran and bloodsuckers can take a couple shots but definitely less than 30. Using omega though.

[frank dew]

Artifact slot I had on my armor is gone after I unequipped my artifacts to avoid a tesla?

[tall swallow]

damaged armor lose their upgrades

[tacit oracle]

huh

god damn shotgun sniping is real lmao

[gloomy knoll]

Finn the loot corpse still works semi Well

[tacit oracle]

what

[gloomy knoll]

In the old Games i used to stash everything. And i mean EVERYTHING i dont need immediatly Into a corpse and drag it to the nearest Trader

Now they have A Limit to them hence why it works semi well

[patent mortar]

Hmm yes... PDA.

[tacit oracle]

oh damn!

well I mean part of why I reduced my weight limit is 'cause I feel like my skif's having too much success in being an absolute loot goblin but I could have used that strat to lug everything to a stash, gotta keep that in mind

[quiet mountain]

Game drops to horrible fps after around the same amount of time after my save, any tips? Handed mastiff quest in a bit ago

[tacit oracle]

If nvidia you can increase (or uncap) the shader cache size on the nvidia control panel. You could also try to simply reduce a few graphic options.
stk2 would also probably help if you aren't running it (though I dunno how effective those engine.ini edits are after 1.1)

[scenic gorge]

My pain is immeasurable right now. So I’ve been playing for the past few hours and I made some serious progress past the mission “in search of past glory” and there was this bug during that mission where this controller got stuck idle and I think from that point on the game stopped making saves and letting me save and just now I had crashed and when I go back to load up it send me back to that room where I’m staring at the controller idle. He’s haunting me.

[gritty knot]

[scenic gorge]

I literally can’t progress.

[gritty knot]

So anytime you kill the controller and proceed forward your game will crash aye?

[scenic gorge]

He’s unkillable.

[tacit oracle]

have you tried loading a prior save?

[gritty knot]

You also could just download the dev tool and ghost past him

[scenic gorge]

It’ll send me back 4 minutes more but it’s worth a shot. Hopefully I can get past this and it’ll grant me the ability to save

[tacit oracle]

game makes a ton of autosaves. If that one doesn't work I'm sure there'll be another one bare minutes before that.

[gritty knot]

Loading a save usually will fix a intermitten bug like that. Had a bug earlier where my game would drop from 120 to 90 through ads randomly at one point in my playthrough, but loaded literally 10 minutes piror and it was fixed

[scenic gorge]

I’m just devastated 😂 but I’ll give it a go.

[gritty knot]

Id get into the habit of auto saving aswell man every so often helps with annoying bugs where you dont need to load back ages ago. Ive been doing it since fallout new vegas man every rpg is the same it seems🤣

[nova matrix]

You get your localization figured out? I realized my project items or patches weren't showing cuz I didn't install one of the omega additional files, dled it but never put it in my ~mods folder 🤦‍♂️

[scenic gorge]

Yeah it’s saving again

[tacit oracle]

lmao yeah I just had to download the community localization mod for some reason, wish I found out before I restarted my game of 10 hours in an effort to sort it out

[nova matrix]

Yeah I've seen that mod, good to know can revert to that mod if it happens

[tacit oracle]

there's no indication that you need that mod in order to get descriptions working but there was a patch right that day so I assumed it was a possibility.

[nova matrix]

Yeah I've been using omegas additional file United localization which works but yeah it may not work for everybody depending if you've merged other mods not included in omegas, etc

[tacit oracle]

oh so there's also an omega file that sorts that out? Good to know.

[orchid gale]

Shoot him more

[tepid zinc]

wish I could play with a friend on this game 😮‍💨

[nova matrix]

I was wondering why my frames drop a bit in Red Forest then I googled it and yeah basically that's a feature for that area apparently 😅

[tacit oracle]

imagine having friends

[lunar copper]

my sleep schedule is so effed bruh 😭

[nova matrix]

Yeah my brother doesn't play this game but we love coop open world games like FC5 and Dying Light, and this would be right up our alley

[gritty knot]

Welcome to the jungle

[patent mortar]

try playing Stalker Call of Priyat co-op mod

[tepid zinc]

I just got shadow of chern, might buy those other 2

[tacit oracle]

what is sleep-ske-dool

[patent mortar]

no its free

it counts as standalone mod

There are plenty of standalone stalker mods you can play for free

[lunar copper]

i used to know but then i spent half the day yesterday in a marijuana fueled nap and now im awake at 1:00 am. i've forgotten what one is.

[nova matrix]

I have 4 days off and I just napped at 1pm to 3pm and 9pm to 12am so I feel that

[tepid zinc]

are they coop too?

[patent mortar]

theres a co-op standalone mod for shadow of chernobyl called Shadow of Co-op

[tacit oracle]

I work nights so I've been from waking up at 20h three days ago to waking up at 16 to waking up at 8 and today I was meant to readjust to nights but I woke up at 5 so I'm going to have to take a nap in the afternoon.
This happens pretty much every week.
I've been on this "schedule" for at least 5 years.

[tepid zinc]

are we living the same life? I napped so much today cause I have 5 days off lmao

[nova matrix]

It's funny how you nap as toddlers then get a sleep schedule then when you're a full time working adult You slowly transition back to a nap schedule

[tepid zinc]

150gb download would have been so worth it if it was coop

[nova matrix]

Just play dayz, but yeah no story or anomalies so not as fun

[zealous pumice]

Play the stalker server

[lunar copper]

this is what i do. most fun one can ever have with stalker

[nova matrix]

Nice, just looked at that, really cool.

[zealous pumice]

Just had 3 crashes in a row when in the merchant menu 😆 one was a full system crash

[nova matrix]

Damn I haven't had any crashes since the patch surprisingly. What's the crash report say

[zealous pumice]

Idk, I can't read them properly cause I'm too dum but I've removed every single mod in the hopes it's just one of those

[lyric cave]

stalker 2 has honestly completely devastated my sleep schedule, i've played nonstop ever since the a-life update dropped ☠️ but i'm on christmas break rn so it's fiine xdd

[nova matrix]

Probably try lowering graphic settings, or turning off / changing upscaling setting from dlss or FSR or turning off frame gen setting if you use that

[zealous pumice]

Was running fine before the update, I use dlss and I have frame gen off already I'll see how it goes now with the mods deleted

One happened when I clicked move from inventory to stash on 2 weapons in quick succession and it just flatlined 😂 one i was upgrading a weapon and the other happened when I exited the dialogue options

[nova matrix]

Used to happen to me too using DLSS + frame gen but you're not using that so I'm not sure. They did do a fix for 30xx cards specifically in my case which fixed it

[brisk prairie]

did the game just get another update

[zealous pumice]

What's better btw flatness or bullet velocity?
@nova matrix yeah not sure that's why I'm thinking it might be a mod but I'll find out

[lyric cave]

i think the only time i've had the game legit flatline on me is when i talked to arnie after the fourth arena round, it just froze and my PC started screaming until i shut the game down from task manager😭 no idea why

[tacit oracle]

no

[brisk prairie]

its downloading something around 10gigs for me

[nova matrix]

Flatness is less bullet drop,
Velocity is faster bullet

[tacit oracle]

that would be the update that was released like 3 days ago my g

[zealous pumice]

Yeah is there simulated ballistics in this or is it hitscan. It's for the as val so think I might go for flatness

[brisk prairie]

i already downloaded the 1.1.2 patch the day it came out tho

[lyric cave]

1.1.3 just came out

[daring ember]

New patch, thank you!

[nova matrix]

Ballistics, no hitscan

[tacit oracle]

There are simulated ballistics, to an extent.

[crude bison]

stop the patches please they’re too much

[keen ether]

Dang, a palworld update and a STALKER update on the same day?!

[smoky totem]

@worthy zodiac i told u they would keep updatying the game ad they care about it just gotta b patiet, LETS F U CKIG GOOOOO

[brisk prairie]

oh it was actually a new patch thought i was kinda going crazy

[lost folio]

Did Diddy do it?

[lyric cave]

next patches coming in early 2025 don't worry bubby

[crude bison]

that’s too soon

[ashen compass]

paaaaatch!

[nova matrix]

Did it come with notes

[tacit oracle]

they have to patch the game
there's too many patches

the duality of man

[outer aurora]

Last patch of the year, they deserve some rest now

[lyric cave]

linked in #📰┃announcement

[weak shuttle]

I wonder what GSC will do after STALKER 2 is considered "Done"

[split aspen]

When the zone becomes real

[outer aurora]

Multiplayer, expansions, DLC, Stalker 3 hopefully

[zealous pumice]

Dlc probably

[nova matrix]

Wow they officially put in the skip shader compile in the settings, so using the mod was safe all along 😂

[ashen compass]

It'll be like GTA 5, constant stuff being added for a decade

[lyric cave]

modding tools (supposedly coming out early next year), multiplayer, DLC, in that order most likely

[split aspen]

Stalker 3 is just gathering up every Stalker 2 player and hucking them into the exclusion zone with PSM's

[royal storm]

New patch hell yeah

[zealous pumice]

Update not on gamepass yet???

[outer aurora]

0% Condition PSM's and one bottle of vodka each

[weak shuttle]

Stalker 3 involves fans cosplaying with real protective stuff and actually going to Pripyat / Reactor #4

[nova matrix]

Usually takes like 6 hours or more Microsoft to certify... But a couple of the patches were at same time so we'll see

[split aspen]

Immersive

[keen ether]

its not even Tuesday...

[odd bridge]

Good news for your internet pipes, 7.4 gigs instead of over a hundred on steam

[lost folio]

Tuahsday

[zealous pumice]

I'll buy it on steam...when the sdk is released 😆

[nova matrix]

Yeah same. But Ive been regretting playing it on gp with how many damn patches they've been releasing, an unprecedented amount

[zealous pumice]

Yeah i feel that 😆

[outer aurora]

Heard somewhere that UE games have to be updated based on compartments, which is why the last major patch was 110 gigs, ah well

[odd bridge]

Praying for the miracle of an SDK actually making basic functions easily moddible instead of still needing hand made insanity mods. Of course, buckshot is already tracer rounds in S2 so I won't need to make an insane hand edit for that to amuse me like CoP

[lyric cave]

every time i think about modding the game they drop a new patch LOL

[nova matrix]

Let's hope they don't need a hotfix for this patch like last time it broke my saves.... Glad they fix shader compiling though seemed to be a major issue

[zealous pumice]

I wouldn't until it's stable or the sdk is released tbh, I had that problem and now I've just deleted all my mods

[royal storm]

Where do I go to see patch notes?

[tacit oracle]

I'm trying to adjust the carry weight on my game and its' driving me insane, plus I have to launch the game every damn time to check if what I'm doing is working
Like, I'm not really sure why mods can't just declare what they're changing instead of having to make an entirely new cfg every time.

[outer aurora]

Yeah even since the major patch, i had to run the game 4 times in order for the shaders to properly load and not get stuck or softlock everything

[cosmic finch]

Elves at GSC hard at work fixing y'all shader issues

[nova matrix]

Yeah weight mods are weird because you need to reset your weight load with an artifact or gear to reset it and it's kind of fickle if it works or not

[quiet sapphire]

I have the same issue, sometimes first run, sometimes 3 runs to make it start

[zealous pumice]

You increased your shader cache now? Makes it quicker

[odd bridge]

I am still in stubborn vanilla man first run mode, though seeing a ladder I can't climb during a jumping "puzzle" almost drove me to better climbing then and there. MY daydream is the same for every game with ammo and durability. "Stop. Spawning. Sniper squads. With broken guns and not even a single spare mag between them all!"

[tacit oracle]

no and I mean beyond that, carry weight is spread across 2-3 different cfgs on top of it

[nova matrix]

Interesting, Makes sense why some mods break it or doesn't work at all

[odd bridge]

I can find a mod that reduces or turns off repair costs. I can find a mod that reduces or turns off player durability loss. I can't find "Stop having a three way firefight where literally twenty corpses only have two yellow condition primary weapons. Ps PLZ 1 spare mag minimum in their pockets"

[outer aurora]

Quick tip for anyone that gets softlocked during shaders and cant exit stalker 2 or close it, press the windows key + tab key in order to open up a new desktop instance, in it press ctrl + alt + delete for Task Manager and close stalker 2 from there, then just return to the first desktop you had and its all gucci, bit confusing but easy to learn and saves me a lot when games softlock.

[tacit oracle]

and I'd just delete the .paks and revert to vanilla except you can't because omega modifies a bunch more stuff on those .cfgs so it's that or nothing, and for some reason I can't quite get the values right 'cause I'm sure there's a modifier somewhere in another .cfg as well. It's a mess.

[muted valve]

just imagine the enemies had the exact amount of ammo needed for the duration of the fire fight they were going to have with you, plus a few spare 😛

[nova matrix]

I found one way back in the first day of modding that doesn't affect any conflicts in .cfg mod, but they patched it soon after but the author kept it in his old files, I'll never delete that mod since it doesn't conflict with any other mods lmao

[odd bridge]

I have enough spare looted ammo I discovered the stack size is 900 bullets for an increasing amount of ammo types. It still bothers me. every game. zero jam enemies shouting as they call of duty into the sky "I love realism!"

[lyric cave]

oh lord the durability in this game is indeed too much though 😭 i hate having to patch up my stuff every time after a mission or whatever

[outer aurora]

There's mods for that already i think

[tacit oracle]

I just reduce everything: loot, economy, and wear on both armor and weapons

[frosty hound]

I'm still downloading 1.1 ....

[bright otter]

It's worth it A life works significantly better than before

[nova matrix]

Bro got that Uganda internet speed

[muted valve]

i honestly think the repairing economy wise is pretty balanced rn, i don't mind basing my trips around bases where i can fix up my stuff but i can definitely see why people want field repairs etc, wouldn't want to see it in the base game though

[frosty hound]

Cuban internet speed, certified worse

[outer aurora]

I like the fact anyone can play with whatever parameters they want due to mods, have a buddy that loves stalker and played mostly Anomaly and in stalker 2 he is running around enjoying the zone with some mods like mutant loot, ignoring main quests for the most part and some tweaked parameters. Good on him.

[lyric cave]

modding the game is far from viable rn though 🤚 which is why i can't wait for them to release actual modding tools LMAO

[tacit oracle]

I am supremely annoyed at the fact that an automatic weapon can barely get through a couple of mags before it starts jamming (in vanilla, using omega rn)

[nova matrix]

It's only balanced now if you have mods with it like carry weight, mutant loot, or project items. Vanilla it's really challenging to just carry 2 or 3 guns that sell for 5k and it cost 15k to repair your 2 main guns

[frosty hound]

I want to have an actual mask overlay

[odd bridge]

Are you also a member of the "Vilak's jamming three times during a single mag, at over 90% durability" club?

[tacit oracle]

I've barely ran the game vanilla honestly but I had enough with the viper

[muted valve]

not at all, it was only during the most extreme main missions that i didn't run a profit, without any mods

[royal storm]

Of course why would they fix endless rain bug, only PC stuff 😒

[nova matrix]

What was your main source of getting money, selling artifacts or ammo?

[outer aurora]

Artifacts by far

[odd bridge]

I was fighting a bloodsucker at the time. Good thing I had a spare Viper to open up my bag and dig out mid fight, the ultimate weapon, because double barrels with slugs are a joke. The only DLC weapon I have used was the monolith pump action, used once, to kill a bloodsucker on the way to put in item storage and admire.

[muted valve]

selling guns, i never sold any ammo and only a handfu;l of artifacts, usually kept them in storage for those sidemissions that need you to find an artifact

[odd bridge]

Selling ammo with the mindset of "I'll be rich enough to BUY ammo anyways!" runs into the reality of "oh no, many vendorts are ammo hipsters. Why are you even selling an integral when you either sell no 9x19, or only a few boxes of AP 9x19, based on the phases of the moon?"

[nova matrix]

Ok yeah if you do hunt for artifacts I can see the economy being a little more balanced. I haven't spent much time hunting artifacts and I just hoarde them.

Guns take up A LOT of weight and uograding/repairing like 2 guns totally costs more than the sales of like 5 guns

[lyric cave]

i'm a purist in the sense that i never use artifacts, i always just sell them so i'm never really out of cash

[odd bridge]

"oh boy, the 9x18 burst pistol for sale!... I see you also don't even sell 9x18, why are you like this? Yes I have over 1,000 spare, my question remains."

[nova matrix]

I really should sell them but with mutant loot money is pretty decent now so Ive become an avid collector... Now I just want a home base with a display to put them in lol

[odd bridge]

Crazed Section Skiff leaping from the bushes shouting at bandits "Have I told you about the practical and financial benefits of the PSZ-7 suit!?" when not feeling like paying thousands of pizza points for repairing a 95% durability seva.

[lyric cave]

i've only really ever used artifacts only in soc to never run out of stamina, but otherwise idk what to even use them for. i like to fight enemies by sticking in cover and just dinking them in the head or luring them to me and mowing them down, so i don't really need too much HP or protection

[odd bridge]

If they didn't remove psi resist artifacts from the game (we used to have them), I would probably be using old reliable PSZ-Does not need a blueprint or mutually exclusive choice between a water bottle and carry harness more often. even with no lead pockets.

[zenith yew]

No a life fix L

[tacit oracle]

I don't use them but I don't sell them either so they end up just sitting on my loot chest 🤷‍♂️

[muted valve]

usually when I go out, i just run along a few stashes, have a few fights, pick up all the yellow guns i can find, especially late game where they have a lot of integral a's, m701 snipers and those mark 1 rifles it's bank you can make. i leave the base with 30-35kg, come back with 105kg with weight artifacts, then you have half a dozen mark 1's / M701 supers which each sell for like 7k not even counting all the integral a's and pistols, and with 2 or three fights if you dont wildly tank stuff or spray bullets it'll cost you like 20-30k to repair, diamond exoskeleton etc

[drifting niche]

Who tested new patch?

[obsidian crypt]

Taste is good

[lyric cave]

sell them for an absolute (relatively) poopload of money if you're not gonna use them, you're always going to find new artifacts anyway

[tacit oracle]

ik, I just like collecting them, but will sell in a pinch yes
I'll be honest up to this playthrough I didn't even have to consider selling them 'cause you get coupons from everywhere. This time around my skif is actually having to do a modicum of financial management

[odd bridge]

Comedy/serious artifact answer: Hoard all of them, even the bad ones, unless you desperatley need the cash a first. Until you hit a critical mass of "oh I have everything I want. oh a second liquid rock? thanks I guess". This will also delay sales from when a 20k uncommon goes from only 6k sale to, 6,900. wow!

[nova matrix]

Yeah I keep 1 of all the artifacts i find idk why

[muted valve]

this tbh, but i save them so i can use them for those random artifact missions, cause honestly getting 30k for a strong acid resistence artifact while i have liquid rock equipped is pretty easy 😛

[lyric cave]

actually a weight artifact would be quite neat but otherwise i don't get them LMAO i always try my hardest to stay below 50kg

[stone laurel]

never considered running a glass cannon stalker. i dont think i would get anything more out of the game than im getting now. maybe if losing armor gave me strength...

[muted valve]

max anti bleed / max physical protection / max radiation protection / weight artifacts are mine, the rest are my backup for when i need cash

[odd bridge]

Expecting a sudden quest where an NPC asks for one. that isn't not worth it anymore bartender job.

Medium endurance is also so sanity saving that I would give up my carry+ artifacts before the endurance. provided my armor had carry+ unlocked. Don't forget there are difference in strength between the same claims of "weak" or "medium" based on rarity or if it was a combo. Damn hard to prove aside from "THIS one gave me TWO weight. This one gave me Three... wait-"

[fiery vault]

I wonder if there plans to update stalker alongside UE5 updates. There are a lot of good improvements with the engine that may achieve some benefit with the game.

[nova matrix]

I like how GSC is like it's "the last patch of the year", basically saying let us chill sorry we f*cked shader compiling have a good holiday now

[lyric cave]

i have so many energy drinks i never really have to worry about stamina XD

[nova matrix]

Could be cool, have a beta tester program to try new features and get feedback

[muted valve]

they just took a big band aid placed it over some glaring issue in the process of caching shaders by simply skipping said process and were like "a week of rest, then we'll get back to it"

[nova matrix]

Hey I'm all for it. I, too, used the same skip shader compile tweak that I knew was a temporary solution glad to see they took similar action to help everybody

[ember gust]

"Fixed an issue when invert axis options could not be saved after restarting the game." oh dear lord \o/

[noble surge]

Whoa another patch

[nova matrix]

And you know they got 1 or 2 assistant low level devs on emergency call in case the patch breaks something else 😅 poor guys, working so hard for the holidays
Praise GSC

[tacit oracle]

fora has mad followup, I love that gun so much 😩

[stone laurel]

they were too anshamed to complain publicly 😂

[odd bridge]

A few things come to mind about "disable shader compile to avoid crashes".
1: Shader compile still on after patch (good for me, I still want it).
2: ... Wait, you can't get at the options until after the shaders. so how would you turn it off if your shaders are permacrash problems?
3: I feel blind not seeing the supposed option to turn it off.

[jade geyser]

New Year presents from gsc when?

[noble surge]

Is there more stutter after disabling it?

[royal storm]

And we still got the endless rain bug ffs

[stone laurel]

my game still did it. maybe it does 1 and then doesnt repeat. im gonna assume they didnt give me a button to do it when i want to.

[sweet belfry]

someone give the ceo of GSC a low taper fade for christmas

[lyric cave]

been loyal to 5.56 this run ever since i got out of lesser zone, next time i play this game maybe i'll stick 5.45 and warsaw pact weapons only, would be an interesting change

[royal storm]

It's been 4 weeks of endless rain c'mon! I just want to explore before endgame and it still rains for 4 weeks, still hasn't been a single fix.

[nova matrix]

No, once you do the first compile you should be good.

"Added temporary solution to avoid crash on shader compilation by skipping shaders warm up."

Interested to see if it's an in game option now becuae like someone said what if you can't get past the initial compile? 🤔 @glossy blade can you clarify how to activate this solution?

[lyric cave]

imagine if Evgeniy Grygorovych got a low taper fade 🗣️🗣️

[sweet belfry]

he needs it

[nova matrix]

Do you see an in game option to disable it? Or try loading again and see if it comes up again?

[noble surge]

I'm gonna be the lab rat by verifying files, clear shader cache and launch

[stone laurel]

didnt really care enough but i can check if you want

• no new options

[tacit oracle]

that's the thing, fora can be chambered on either 🔥 🔥

[lyric cave]

on god??? wtf i thought fora was only 5.45 😭 might have to consider it,,,, although winning me over from my fully modded ar416 will be difficult 🤚

[feral agate]

@tacit oracle told you molt was typing in #📰┃announcement

[sweet belfry]

ive only used warsaw pact weapons this pt (besides spaz 12)

[stone laurel]

2 launches 2 shader compiles. no option. - im glad i dont have that particular bug

[mighty sentinel]

Im glad my fix made it into the patchnotes ... Months later 💀

[nova matrix]

Interesting, so how do we activate this "solution"? 🤔

[royal storm]

So I'm guessing the endless rain bug I forwarded to them won't get fixed for awhile.

[noble surge]

Maybe the warmup is only part of the compilation? I don't really understand the terminology involved here

[stone laurel]

maybe its a scaled down version of the warm up that doesnt include the problem elements or size or whatever. its faster than its ever been.

[mighty sentinel]

The material warmup does nothing. Yeah you heard right, its comple useless. Its not needed
There is ze-ro difference in it being active or not

[noble surge]

So all along it was one useless step that was holding up the compilation? Or is it not even the problem?

[nova matrix]

Yeah, speculation but makes the most sense

[mighty sentinel]

Their temporary solution is to disable warmup, my solution is to disable warmup forever as its uselss and a time waste

The first shader compilation ,the big one, thats important

[stone laurel]

its primary function in any games ive played was if something relevant had been changed. it doesnt do nothing. thats just plainly incorrect.

[noble surge]

What is it supposed to do though?

[mighty sentinel]

No you dont know what youre Talking about. Material warmup and shader compilation is different

[nova matrix]

Initial shader is important.... The rest should be just a "verification" of said shaders

[stone laurel]

it does some of the stuff that would otherwise have been done while you were playing. or if you changed something itll reorganize it.

[mighty sentinel]

When you first Download the game and Boot it up , thats the important shader compilation.

When you reboot we get the useless Material warmup. If you dont believe me Well thats on your part because i know its a time waste.

[dim topaz]

that's crazy considering the game has only been out for a singular month*

[noble surge]

I know that's what the shader compilation process does but I have no idea what "warmup" means if it's just a part of that process

[tacit oracle]

that's proof that the devs released the game as EARLY ACCESS ||actual quote from the steam discussions||

[stone laurel]

maybe something was lost in translation

[mighty sentinel]

Feels like an eternity of useless patches to me. Why not hire the Community instead? Well. Who knows

People still seem to BELIEVE that material warmup and shader compilation is the same thing 🤣

[dim topaz]

You just answered why they don't hire the community in the same message

[mighty sentinel]

True💀

[muted valve]

yeah shader compilation is putting them all in a pile and material warmup is setting fire to it it's so simple

[stone laurel]

people who have played on kbm and controller. is controller that bad? i have nerve damage, and after a while i get wild pins and needles

[mighty sentinel]

How did it Happen?

[stone laurel]

working out like 10+ years ago

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[mighty sentinel]

Damn. Well i havent played this game with controller but id assume its more comfortable

Personally i hate keyboard and mouse, theres nothing of it comfortable

[raw ferry]

I had the same problem. Now they're trying to get my savegame from Microsoft to shed more light on the problem. That was the last response I got.

[stone laurel]

yeah but also probably wonky af, especially for a kbm player. before i ditched cod i played only that on controller, but they kinda forced my hand. i didnt care cause thats how i started out anyway

[royal storm]

I let them know about it when it starts which is during "The Boundary" they said they're aware of it, but that was like 3 weeks ago, it's so annoying I just want to see sun or emissions etc.

[smoky totem]

It’ll be just like tho old games, 25 times better the older it gets, sorry I didn’t see your message till now, was managing my colony on Rimworld

[dim topaz]

I don't envy anyone that has to play FPS games on controller... especially stalker, the input lag is bad enough with a mouse, can't imagine a controller doing any better
maybe if you have very good performance it's fine

[noble surge]

Depends on the game too. I remember straining my hands quite a bit doing Yakuza 0 on a pad lol

[mighty sentinel]

Maybe im biased lol i started playing with monster hunter and PSP, which you need to do a claw grip. I still am perfect in this way of holding a controller, its kind of OP even

[tacit oracle]

playing this game with a controller and framegen must be the ultimate concussion simulation

[stone laurel]

am i a complete wimp, or is anyone else still a little shook to start a session sometimes? and its never all that bad when you do start. im a grown man by the way.

[noble surge]

1.1.3 with clean slate does have very fast shader compilation on first boot. Gonna try again in a minute

[dim topaz]

DMC melted my xbone controller and put my hand in a coma

[stone laurel]

i get more scared in video games than real life no joke. like to an extreme.

[nova matrix]

Shook from what? Horror elements or the game crashing? 😅

[royal storm]

It's not even bad on controller lol.

[stone laurel]

lol. npc's i need to advance story t-posing, talking in another characters voice

[raw ferry]

yes, exactly. that's when it started for me too. a few days ago I loaded an older savegame where I had to go to the Orbita Station. Then I played from there again up to that point and suddenly everything was normal. I also changed the graphics from performance to quality and back again, maybe it has something to do with that. no idea. But in my first savegame it's still raining constantly.

[dim topaz]

I have extreme agoraphobia that games sometimes trigger unexpectedly. Stalker is mostly fine, but the psi sirens in Gamma, coupled with looking at the sky haunt me to this very day.

[stone laurel]

i have crippling tarkov solo anxiety. even on a scav run. i think i'd be less startled if i got sniped irl

[royal storm]

Damn, so you started over and did it rain again when you got to the boundary or are you just avoiding it for now/not there yet?

[nova matrix]

Why are you torturing yourself lol just play something that doesn't give you anxiety

[stone laurel]

i dont play solo, but i also havent played in like 3 wipes either. just lost interest. this is the only game thats so good i tolerate the jump scares. the eeriness and all that are swesome. its just the mutants out of nowhere after a long period of calm. like i said i make it scarier in my memory than it even is

[royal storm]

I played from an older saved game up to the boundary point so many times it still starts raining at some point after and doesn't stop.

[stone laurel]

i can be a nervous guy in general lol

[nova matrix]

I feel that I don't play horror games because of that. But yeah the 5% of jump scares in this game do freak me out

[odd bridge]

oops, an emmission started while I was looking through my stash and time to kill the game with task manager.

[stone laurel]

i do have a theory that it's ptsd from my stepfather jumping out from behind corners to scare me when i was a kid, but im not gonna just assume its true.

i used to watch nightmare on elm street and childs play when i was 4 years old and it didnt bother me

[nova matrix]

Could be. I got chased at night in my neighborhood by 3 crackheads standing in an alley when i was like 14, so yeah jump scares in games at night fck with my ptsd

[tacit oracle]

when u give a bandit a peck in the cheek (his jaw has been obliterated by buckshot) 🥰 🥰

[stone laurel]

i have enough things people think i dont really have cause im jsut an average looking sarcastic guy who does everything they do, except i own like 17 mice and 23 mousepads

[zealous pumice]

ahh the durability really is quite a let down, imagine you fire 6 mags with your new gun and it breaks

[nova matrix]

Hey more mice is better than less mice. I got like 8 controllers

[stone laurel]

if you cant tell the difference between a zero and a hayte otsu, its not my fault they sheltered you from culture

[zealous pumice]

you got 2 more

[tacit oracle]

yeah I like gun maintenance in games, but it needs to be done right. Getting jams after like a couple mags is dumb.

[stone laurel]

oh, i only have 9 controllers.

entirely functional ones*

[patent mortar]

I'm not tech savvy but what Compiling Shaders actually do for the game?

[zealous pumice]

12 now

[tacit oracle]

basically it pre-renders a bunch of the lighting effects so it doesn't have to do it on the fly which would cause slowdowns

[zealous pumice]

believe it or not, it compiles the shaders

[patent mortar]

I see

Thank you Mr.Rat

[stone laurel]

controllers are so dicey. im trying to main the vader, but idk, its not blowing me away like it is a lot of other people. if im being honset, you cant beat a dualsense, if not for the stick thing, but one best buy warranty will easily net you 10 replacements

[odd bridge]

Wow. it really does not want me to sell all these broken guns that will be worth at least 1,000 to ragman huh. "waited until AFTER the emission this time? Still gonna soft freeze in rostok stash"

[stone laurel]

subtle matter was in my danger zone before all hell broke loose

[raw ferry]

yes, exactly. I had a savegame a few missions before the bug. I continued playing from the mission "subtle matter". I saved sporadically as long as the weather was still OK. And when I got to the mission in question, it started to rain. But for whatever reason, it stopped. And since then I've been able to play the story normally. I'm sorry that I can't help you directly. The only thing I did differently was change the graphics settings and my decision in the mission "Dangerous Liaisons" was different than in the old savegame.

[zealous pumice]

does anyone know the where the where why was when where why know where why why know is?

[stone laurel]

for me it all started with killing the ||chimera before he had a chance to block the tracks just befor everyones richter bug,|| then i couldnt do any missions wihtout manually starting and stopping them in the ue console. im quite enjoying my new file though.|| and aside from that i woke up hungover with my eyes closed for a few seconds while being attacked from the drinking with the guy. every load in||

[tame coral]

hello boys
how are the updates for you guys?
game still crashing?

[muted valve]

how?

[tacit oracle]

lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iWXCzpI32o

[noble surge]

1.1 still experience crashes managing my loot inventory in yaniv, slag heap, zalissya etc., also loot crate items inventory overlaps now for some reason..

[stone laurel]

anyone running a 3000 or 4000 series nvidia card, which upscaling do you like? i feel like they all have flaws. either blurry, or whatever else.

[tacit oracle]

dlss balanced

[ember gust]

dlaa

[stone laurel]

i was running dlaa and it had ghosting, then dlss looked mushy, and if i sharpened it, it looked distorted, it actually matters which monitor im using, but right now believe it or not tsr ultra with dlss FG is looking pretty good. also a few of them give me this shimmer i cant stand

[uncut token]

Any news of mod support?

[tacit oracle]

mod support still works 👍

[stone laurel]

i went 100% vanilla on the new file including no reshade, so im like learning how to walk agian

[celest python]

4060 Ti with DLSS to quality get about 100 FPS with FG

[uncut token]

No like as in, mod tools steam workshop
From the devs

[stone laurel]

i didnt even look at my frames on tsr ultra lemme see

[tacit oracle]

I don't think they've said anything about steam workshop, would doubt workshop support will be a thing ever.

[stone laurel]

i dont wanna say what frames im getting cause i dont think anyone will believe me.

[nova matrix]

Better than DLSS or nah

[tacit oracle]

you've said it in the past already, don't see why you have to play coy if you want to brag

[ember mesa]

I hope roadmap plans to add cut content in vanilla like mutant parts and hopefully nvg will be added, rn vodka is my vision boost lol

[nova matrix]

They will definitely add mutant loot since it was in previous games and mod works perfectly

[stone laurel]

170 on tsr ultra, 1440/high settings across the board, and...checking dlss now...DLSS QUALITY 170-180 - DLAA 135-150

THATS JUST ME RUNNING AROUND BLASTING A SHOTGUN DOING AS MANY ANIMATIONS AS I CAN QUICKLY - CAVEMAN STYLE TESTING

yeah i look at the keyboard when i type even though i dont need to. crucify me.

[ember mesa]

Gonna hold off a bit for mods before loading my steam deck up so there’s a good variety in a few months and more importantly when the actual tool is out

[cosmic finch]

I have no idea why people would have the slightest possible positive connotation to road maps

[tacit oracle]

I'm fine without mutant loot honestly, economy's busted enough as it is.
If it was more involved where you'd have to carry idk like a 10kg bag of tools and knives to get mutant parts and stuff, eh.

[ember mesa]

I think it be a nice addition to give hunting mutants a purpose besides satisfaction, especially if you get a good price on harder to kill mutant parts

[nova matrix]

I still prefer DLSS over TSR or FSR, just looks better and in motion on my oled

[tacit oracle]

if it made sense, yes, but honestly it's already hard enough to just keep skif from drowning in moolah as things are now

[ember mesa]

Need some mutant armor mods fr, need me a mini chimera head on my armors shoulder

[stone laurel]

im not bragging im expressing shock like "wow you wouldnt believe this". i dint build the thing man. i dont think its inexpensive, im grateful i was able to afford it, gaming is my hobby, a true pc enthusiast would understand. im not obsessed with material possessions or money. sometimes theres no hidden meaning behind what people say. just love tech and talking about it, but i do feel a little tacky, so i always try to make some dumb qualifier cause i dont want my balls busted by people. like this.

[nova matrix]

I like being rich in my games. Do enough budgeting financially IRL, not playing a video game to do the same thing lol

[stone laurel]

i actually wish i got a 3080

[cosmic finch]

I understand, nobody believes you can get 120fps on console with hdmi 2.1

[stone laurel]

i did for two years on cod and a few other games. cod ran 120 4k on my living room tv. if the guy at gamestop never told me i needed a different hdmi wire i wouldnt have known

[sudden quartz]

GSC are giving us a FEAST

[stone laurel]

the reason i know the right frames is i p[layed on a monitor and it had a counter btw.

not a monitor sorry, a "gaming tv" is basically how they sold it to me. im baked

[tulip monolith]

of course they care about their game a lot.

[sudden quartz]

i get more frames closing my eyes than playing on console in general

[stone laurel]

back when i cared about 1ms response times and stuff like that

[sudden quartz]

Wasn't Stalker 2 supposed to launch on PS5? I forgot about that console existing, I don't even know how it runs on Series X/S

[cosmic finch]

I don't like to brag about any expensive purchase (which gets even stupider with EU taxes) as 9/10 times it's money that would've been better on the index... But it made more sense to go for a good TV than a pc build I barely have the time for

[stone laurel]

that tv was on such a good sale i couldnt resist. i kinda lowkey refuse to buy anything that isnt on sale

[cosmic finch]

Problem with a lot of gear is the actual good stuf rarely goes on sale

[stone laurel]

idk if i was in like a mouse weight cutting discord and i started talking about performance, thats bragging to me. in a chat about a game one of the main focuses is people talking about performance, then im just talking about performance. i dont even know what bragging feels like. it sounds really insecure though

[tacit oracle]

no idea, was about tomention the gamepass but atomic heart was day 1 on gamepass and also came out on ps so idk

[sudden quartz]

Bragging is the ultimate form of insecurity

[cosmic finch]

Anyone can claim anything about everything you say, you can then either care about it or not

[stone laurel]

like dudes who use the phrase "i make six figures"

[sudden quartz]

Oh wow you just reminded me I need to finish Atomic Heart, I probably will go back after finishing S2

[cosmic finch]

10,000.00 is six figures

[stone laurel]

atomic heart turned me off immediately idk why. maybe ill try again. is it awesome?

yeah youre right moses. youre the deepest caveman i know bro.

[tulip monolith]

if you're a model maker you can also make 6 figures....that sit on your shelf but its still 6 figures

[cosmic finch]

Unga bunga tribe come from deep cave

[stone laurel]

yo how come you can be safe, and reload, but sometimes you reload and all of a sudden you get like a bloodsucker, but then if you keep reloading, that mf will sure as hell be there? or am i just inflating it in my head

[tacit oracle]

jesus christ post-1.1 respawn rates legit dummy tho

done 3 trips to Varan's to pick up stuff I couldn't carry the first time and every time I go back to it it's repopulated with bandits lol. Legit turn around and they're back again

[stone laurel]

bruh its like manhattan meets montana out there, i admit its dope.

[tacit oracle]

not that I don't appreciate the infinite money but jesus, didn't think I'd say that but I might need a mod to tone down the spawning

[tulip monolith]

the AI feels over tuned.

[stone laurel]

i thought that, but if you get out of the way, and resist the temptation to shoot or wait for dead bodies to loot, they dont usually come after you

[tacit oracle]

I use novichok's AI, which, by the way, if any of you use it the last update is of debatable usability so I'd advise staying on 1.8 for the time being

[tulip monolith]

theres a part at the start of the game where they do, but I think they're scripted bandits. But every restart for me at least they get attacked first then they go hostile on me afterwards if they manage to kill what attacked them.

[stone laurel]

i just come across a lot of stuff like a bunch of ward getting swarmed by hooping rats or wild boar, and small human gunfights, but 9/10 if im busy i just run and they keep fighting

• and if i have to fight, its the will of the zone.

[stone laurel]

||sell in zalyssia and deck myself out, or hoard and wait for top dollar in rostok?||

[tacit oracle]

I'm sure that bloodsucker also enjoyed the higher respawn lol #⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[tulip monolith]

oh thats funny lol I almost felt bad for the bloodsucker

[finite dragon]

It's so criminal how the Stalker 2 song is still not on any streaming services

[bitter kindle]

Such a bizarre clunky game 😂 I had fun playing it but there was a lot to be desired for sure

[tacit oracle]

Meh can't compress video down to 10MB and have it look semi decent :/
Guess I'll have to upload my videos to youtube and share them from there.

game still patchiinnnngg 🙏 😭 😭

[stone laurel]

the ost came with the ultimate. its 7.5 hours long lol

[regal cloak]

Any tested mods that reduce how often you need to eat? I feel like Skif has a tapeworm.

[strange kindle]

Did they fix a lot of the performance issues not this update but the one before it

[regal cloak]

And semi related, how much do mods extending day length break?

[sterile brook]

did anyones game get bricked after the update earlier today?

[tacit oracle]

bruh what the hell update still installing
@regal cloak day length mods can't "break", but they edit your corevariables.cfg which means they conflict with other mods. You should be able to merge them easily if that were the case, or just editing any other mod for increased day length.
As for less eating, I couldn't find a mod that does it but you could download one that changes that and just edit it to your liking.

[lethal blaze]

Hiii

[regal cloak]

I heard GSC said that extending day length is tricky as it can break certain things that depend on day length. That's more accurately what I mean by the question - how much of that will get broken if I play with such mod. I like the immersion.

[tacit oracle]

I've played with double day length since literally day 1 and I haven't had a single problem, take that for what you will.

[stone laurel]

get loadout perfect, accidentally hit R, am i the only one?

[tacit oracle]

my game's been updating for 50 minutes at this point

[sterile brook]

my shaders fail with that message but once it shows the "press any key or button to continue" it doesn't register any input, its just stuck there? Anyone else experiencing this?

[dull pelican]

mine just not responding after that message appear
i just restarted and fixed some mod it compile fine afterward; outdated or broken mod (attempt to do own adjustment and repack.,..) will potentially causes compile fail

[tacit oracle]

ngl this shader compile arc is starting to get on my nuts

[sterile brook]

Sadly no mods here, I just cleared shader cache and will try again but it seems with the new update the game just turned off pre compiling shaders and just makes them compile during runtime but it definitely broke something when trying to enter the game

[opaque parrot]

Ever since 1.1.2. I get stuck on shader compilation too. I always have to shut it down via task manager and then launch the game again in order to make it over to main menu

[scenic sable]

they were never pre-compiled though, they always compiled on game startup

[sterile brook]

This was the case for me as well, it always took a few tries to get in but now I just can't get in at all no matter how many times I try, truly annoying

[tacit oracle]

aa I don't get why it's taking so lonnnngggg

[sterile brook]

Yeah, once the "shader compilation failed" message pops up and I dismiss it the game literally bricks itself, its stuck on the "press any key or button to continue", how unlucky

[tacit oracle]

It's still updating! Ihaven't been able to launch it yet.

[opaque parrot]

And here I thought I was a lucky one. Haven't had a single problem with the game since launch at all (well, besides the AI). And now I get this...

[sterile brook]

I'd abort the update, don't do it, I literally can't play the game rn, will try to figure out if I can fix it on my end but atm its not playable

[icy tangle]

Do you guys think the next main patch will be released in January or only in February?

[patent mortar]

No one exactly knows but most likely January.

[opaque parrot]

My money's on Feb

[sterile brook]

the fun part is I also had 0 problems aside from a crash on launch day that never happened again, but ever since 1.1 the shader compilation was broken for me and with every patch afterwards its gotten worse and its now to the point where I can't launch the game xd

[muted valve]

i'm 99% convinced we'll see a patch in january

[tacit oracle]

yeah the shader compilation has just been getting worse and worse, guess they'd have their reasons to mess with it but

[sterile brook]

Yeah, my bad, meant the warm up part that happens before getting to the main menu, the game still tries but then it aborts it and throws a little message at you, once dismissing it the game gets stuck on the "press any key or button to continue" part

[icy tangle]

And what patches does the game still require at this point? Fixing A-life further, general performance, or still quest bugfixes?

[muted valve]

hopefully restoring some cut content..

[patent mortar]

Pretty much everything I guess.

[tacit oracle]

I just don't understand what's the big deal with shaving an extra minute of game startup when launched. Like, even when fiddling with mods I don't think it's THAT important to sacrifice game stability for an extra minute per launch.

[sterile brook]

A lot of gameplay tuning, A-life fixes, bug fixes, performance improvements, additional content later down the line, multiplayer, dlcs, etc etc

[patent mortar]

But the game's performance is better, at least for me.

[royal storm]

Damn maybe they should know about that detail, what decision did you change?

[dull pelican]

if disable the early wait,after load game, stuff will appear full quality a heck lot more slower for me, so ehhh, best just wait that few minutes of warmup

[royal storm]

And yet they still haven't fixed endless rain bug.

[muted valve]

look man if you have endless rain the zone is simply trying to tell you you're not a very good person take the hint

[queen ice]

The game is projecting your mental state

[muted valve]

The zone is what you want it to be

[sterile brook]

Ok update: The shader compilation behavior is identical to the last few patches, where it will fail after a bit. But now, instead of the game freezing, it will throw a popup message at you and after you dismiss it, it will move you to the "press any key or button to continue" screen. For me, this bricks the game and it detects no input from me. Relaunching the game will progress the shader compilation further, same as before the patches, so I can still enter the game with repeated launches. If anyone is experiencing the same thing, this is the solution. Takes a while but you get in eventually.

[stone laurel]

||does the suppressor for skif's pistol ||have any unlisted cons? i always see people not using it in videos.. in some games it'll reduce your velocity or overall damage etc.

[tacit oracle]

idk, guess I still have like 10-20 minutes more of whatever steam is doing to my game

[sterile brook]

more durability loss is the only downside I think

[opaque salmon]

not noticed anything, running that bad boy with a suppressor since i got it

[stone laurel]

wow. you know that for sure? do you mean because you have to|| repair the attachment, or does it actually wear down the gun faster?||

[opaque salmon]

but why does .45 acp compared to 9x18 so little damage?

[stone laurel]

youre not the first to wonder that lol

[sterile brook]

The gun is free to repair, but I did notice it costs a very small amount to fix it AFTER I put the silencer on, so that is probably it

[stone laurel]

wow!. cool glad im asked. i did think im was bugging cause i read its free, but then i got charged, so i said maybe i didnt read right

[opaque salmon]

Before going to sleep yesterday i fought some bandits while they where ganked by a bloodsucker near garbage, shot one of them 2 times point blank in his face with 45, still lived, till he saw my m870 😄

[sterile brook]

I am about 90% certain its the silencer thats causing that, I haven't tested it yet but I just might and get back to you

[stone laurel]

makes sense.

@opaque salmon speaking of going to sleep, on my new PT i turned off the ukranian because when i was tired i would forget to read it. my headcanon is one day everyone in the zone started speaking english in assorted accents, but nobody knows why

[opaque salmon]

my headcannon is the ppl left in the zone are just mercs from all over the world who stuck/stayed after they got abandoned by theyr (?) their (?), im stupid, uppers for going MIA or smth

[stone laurel]

that was my first idea vefore i settled on the one i did

[opaque salmon]

headcannons are important

[sterile brook]

I've had people tell me this opinion is completely stupid but I do think english is a very cinematic language and it kinda fits better (as long as the voice acting isn't absolutely horrible) in any form of media for me (it is not my native language tho) and it just enhances the delivery personally

[opaque salmon]

depends on the game rly, i have to say stalker in UA with subtitles just hits different

[stone laurel]

i much prefer the ukranian dialogue. if i could reposition the subtitles i would leave it on, but i cant keep looking up and down. even the non-english films i love i have to watch a few times

[stone laurel]

are you from the US or is english your mother tongue?

[tacit oracle]

Love the game, I'll have all the patience in the world with gsc, but this patch was a stupid idea.

[tacit oracle]

But anyway, got stuck once, got the message second time, closed, third time seems to have worked fine, compiled ok, back in the game.

[cosmic finch]

Growing up with English movies is enough to make that association. East European languages mostly makes me think of convoluted stage plays, artsy cinema or badly dubbed Hollywood.. In its defense I think the same about continental languages

[shrewd socket]

NGL ive been playing with the UE voice acting and ive seen videos on the EN VA, i gotta say the EN sounds kinda cringe to me in the same way that Female V sounds to me from Cyberpunk

[cosmic finch]

This made the most sense to me, which is why the various accents don't bother me

[tacit oracle]

I'd play with English VO but in this game I'm sorry but it's trash.

[sterile brook]

This probably plays a role yes

[cosmic finch]

Both versions of V sound like total douchebags.. But the writing didn't help

[tacit oracle]

The delivery is flat and disconnected and the voice actors don't match their characters imo (haven't heard much of it anyway)

[opaque salmon]

female V is good af bro when it comes to emotional scenes (see songbird in bunker or johnny goodbye)

[shrewd socket]

Male V sounds perfect for what i imagine V to be, female sounds like horse shit streaming through my ears, letting it marinate and all what not

[sterile brook]

I think in some places the VA is not the best, but in others it is pretty solid considering the budget that went into it most likely, I would say this is mostly subjective I suppose. I definitely do prefer the male V in cyberpunk as well, female one sounds like she tries too hard sometimes.

[opaque salmon]

complete different for me buuut thats why is nice to choose between 2, or just do it like EA in NFS Unbound and give players the choice to fine tune the voice

[kindred drum]

✌️

[opaque salmon]

ALL HAIL THE HOLY SNORK, CAUSE ONLY THE SNORK CAN SHOW US THE TRUE WAY OF LIVING, ENOMINE SNORK AMEN

[stone laurel]

tfw you accidentally use the ap rounds you brought for humans, on rats

[granite mortar]

SHUT THE HELL UP YOU FILTHY SNORKER

[kindred drum]

I want to make a mod where I can find hamters instead of artifacts

[cosmic finch]

"F him up with a grenade"

[tacit oracle]

can a mod be goty?

[opaque salmon]

WE TRUST IN THE SNORK TO LOOSEN ALL ANGER, come my child loose all that hatred of yours

[shrewd socket]

also what about the writing, i thought the writing of the main game was good but Phantom Liberty was phenomenal

[granite mortar]

based
Can you add Kotprism as well?

[muted valve]

MERRY SNORKMAS!

[opaque salmon]

lives rent free in my head, plus the sound of the grenade falling next to you while being overload barely able to walk straight

[cosmic finch]

I meant the actual dialog lines were douchey

[opaque salmon]

Impressive C*ck line is still goated, never thought keanu telling me about his mr stud

[cosmic finch]

Such is life in the Zone

[opaque salmon]

nates in stalker are barely scarry you can survive a point blank hit, im still scared from the ones in tarkov

[kindred drum]

I think Keanu is a better voice actor than a screen actor

[granite mortar]

Snorktober already ended
SO SHUT UP

[opaque salmon]

did i hear SNORK? ALL HAIL THE HOLY SNORK, IN SNORK IS OUR SALVATIOn

[tacit oracle]

you can save a ton in animation if you hire him for your videogame

[muted valve]

how can you say this while it's the time of peace on earth where we remember the birth of our snork and savior?

[cosmic finch]

Bro hasn't heard about snorkcember

[shrewd socket]

Hmm yeah

[granite mortar]

its Degtyember now
Snorktober is Snork-Over so shut your mouth

[cosmic finch]

You don't need a lot of range to do a good VA

[queen ice]

Snorkember is here to stay, mortal

[muted valve]

every month is a good month for snorking

[opaque salmon]

bro hasnt heard of the cult of SNORK, to us every given day is another day to embrace the snorkish way of live, join us (for the small fee of getting your soul sacrificied to an eldrich horror so i can gain enough power to enslave humanity)

[granite mortar]

somebody should Wolf your ass to put you back in line

[opaque salmon]

nah Mod told me its ok as long as i dont mention the word with k and y after snork or sexualise it in any way, SO SIT DOWN HERETIC

[queen ice]

Wolfed? More like Snorked

[opaque salmon]

btw is there a way to use the iron sight on top of the 2x assault scope thingy?

[granite mortar]

yes
you take the scope off

[muted valve]

the persecution of snorkers needs to stop

[opaque salmon]

i can see first the denial of snorkish way of live, now taking scopes off mid firefight my lord you need some help brother

[granite mortar]

skill issue

[opaque salmon]

nah 4 real is there keybind or is it just optics? And if optics is there a way to use a "Tac stance" like function or just hipfire?

[noble surge]

The game freezing around vendors in Rostok - is that like a super common issue now?

[granite mortar]

we have seen Skif take off scope without goinng inside inventory in a trailer, so there has to be a keybind

[opaque salmon]

NOT FOR TAKING OFF THE SCOPE for using the iron sight on top of the x2 assault scope, so you dont need to take the scope off cqb

[queen ice]

T is the key IIRC, brings up a D-pad like menu

[cosmic finch]

Doesn't Skif open and look at his PDA in a very weird way

[tender oracle]

Why dont they add a command to revive NPC? got a lot of dead side quest NPC

[daring storm]

So killing them

[sweet lintel]

heels on ground, comrade found
heels in sky, western spy

[faint parcel]

Most of my side quests npc are dead thanks to quest glitches

[daring storm]

You say glitch, I say skill issue.

Now in all seriousness you can activate the console and spawn npc's.

[granite mortar]

consequences
you cant have believable world if certain characters are invincible or straight up respawn

[faint parcel]

The quest to save zelensky no monolithians never showed up heard gun fire but no enemies ever showed up lol

[simple sequoia]

eh what is going on with the sleep deprivation thing, suddenly started getting it and it seems extremely erratic, and unlike expected energy drinks don't seem to do anything for it 😕

[tiny token]

Do you do that with mods or whatever .ini config file shenanigans

[daring storm]

Yeah you do an ini hack you can download as it's disabled by default

[tiny token]

Gonna be a good boy and play normally this playthrough but sounds intriguing ye thanks

[tender oracle]

but this command I would like to use to avoid game breaking bugs, I had a couple NPC laying dead in safe zones, they were not killed by mutants or other NPC but by bugs

[granite mortar]

they died of heart attack

[daring storm]

Centipedes?

[tender oracle]

alright, then add a condition to be able to remove quest items once the concerned NPC is dead because I have 3 kg of dead weight in my inventory

[royal storm]

I wish they had fixed the never ending rain bug

[tender oracle]

if you force an emmission is not changing?

[amber yew]

Living in Ireland we have that bug IRL

[tacit oracle]

we know

[royal storm]

Nope not on Xbox, been raining for 3 weeks lmao.

[signal bronze]

damn son these devs be cookin'

[rich egret]

How's the new patch?

[tiny token]

I was able to compile shaders on my first try in 1.1.3

[tacit oracle]

had to hard close first time, closed second time to force shader generation, third time's the charm.

[gritty orchid]

After I got the shader warmup error, the game became unresponsible (not frozen, but it wasnt recognizing any input), lets see if it works now after a restart

[thick parrot]

Did that take like 15 minutes? cuz thats what it takes my pc everytime, so I use no shader mod

[tiny token]

like a minute

[zealous oasis]

I think it was originally broken and re compiled every time cause mine used to do this now, now the initial compilation takes a few minutes but one they're compiled the warmup is 1m or so

[thick parrot]

oh thats great, sadly it takes a longf time everytime I start it so I use the mod. Anyway I havent seen a difference in performance without shaders warming up

[tacit oracle]

no, it's just a kinda hotfix for those who couldn't get the game to launch at all. I don't think it's going to have any effect on performance.

[waxen hearth]

I can't believe ur awake ottomic

[tacit oracle]

I'm full of surprises (and uranium)

[waxen hearth]

I just realized that someone born in 2017 is 7 years old

[zealous pumice]

damn roaches

[zealous pumice]

bruh increase your shader cache, its so easy to do increase it to like 100gb

[thick parrot]

😮 really? where should I do that? (I have an rx 7800 xt so no nvidia control panel)

[zealous pumice]

idk man google it you got a pc and a mobile phone with access to the internet that you're using right now, gonna teach you some self sufficiency techniques right here

[tacit oracle]

nvidia is easy, no idea for amd tho

[thick parrot]

nah no thank you, gonna stick to the mod which is working. Was asking you since you said it was so easy lol.

[zealous pumice]

yeah easy to type into google

[stone laurel]

||is the m860 monolith stronger than the cracker? cause it shows the same stats||

[thick parrot]

Does it change anything ? like better performance or smth? To have shader warm up

[zealous pumice]

idk man google it

[tacit oracle]

mo shader cache = mo space for shaders = less time having to compile on launch
(afaik I'm not an expert)

[thick parrot]

My man muskrat acts like he has every answer, then aparently he just repeats what he sees lol

[craggy carbon]

Hardest working devs today

[zealous pumice]

yeah i increased mine and its gone from like 1-2 minutes to like 10 seconds but just mod it i guess instead of actually doing a simple fix lol so smort

[zealous pumice]

everyone just repeats what they see, thats how knowledge is gained clearly you dont take part and thats cool you do you

[thick parrot]

My man is a certified redditor it seems, coming with the "actually 🤓 " answers. If I could find the things im asking on google I wouldnt be asking here where people probably have tested it themselves.

[zealous pumice]

right oon brother, good one, what about these snorks tho

[full steeple]

Did 1.1.4 dropped yet?

[tacit oracle]

give it 5 minutes

[zealous pumice]

5 minutes, theyll have another patch for you to download at 100gb a piece

[full steeple]

Honestly it's crazy how these guys work on the game rn. Although I am sitting at a bugged quest lol, hope it will get some attention, I've reported it.

[zealous pumice]

its making me wanna play the metro series tbh xD

[full steeple]

I don't like Metro because if it's DIY world. I like to use AK and other real guns.

[zealous pumice]

That's fair enough everyone has their own taste

[full steeple]

And in metro I find myself constantly using the air gun because it's just way more effective than anything else.

That doesn't mean it's a bad game, it's actually objectively good.

[zealous pumice]

Yeah the air gun is actually my favourite gun 😂 the plonk noise is very satisfying

[tacit oracle]

I really like the weapon design in the metro series, was thinking earlier today that a mod for those guns in stalker 2 would be lit

[full steeple]

I hate it for the sole reason it's the most effective gun and using anything else feels like wasting ammo. I don't like that mechanic.

But in terms of landscape diversity or quests i feel like Metro has an upper hand easily.

Not because Stalker's world is bad, it's just that both have one of the best world designs.

[twin pulsar]

are we really comparing Metro Exodus to S2 right now? XD

[tacit oracle]

why not, both open world, both post apocalyptic kinda vibe, the metro development team stemmed from the original GSC.
Very different games but still comparable

[crimson tartan]

I won the game

[tacit oracle]

no you just lost the game

[crimson tartan]

Noooooooo! The game say congratulations, you’re the Stalker 2 credits roll

[tacit oracle]

oh you mean stalker 2 right

[muted valve]

hell, you can compare any game with each other, go compare stalker 2 to stardew valley for all i care 😛

[sweet lintel]

i tried playing those metro games but they were totallyy linear on rails, disgusting

i had a facial feminization surgery. now i have these ridges inside my cheeks, on the bottom, for the rest of my life

[muted valve]

no politics please

[dim topaz]

Be careful bro, last time I said Tarkov was inspired by Stalker and got yelled out of the room

[grave verge]

Get out of here!

[tacit oracle]

you said WHAT

[muted valve]

get out of here stalker

[dim topaz]

not agaaain

[grave verge]

It’s your own fault.

[tacit oracle]

I can't believe he said that

[muted valve]

but i'm quite sure tarkov was in fact inspired by stalker, wouldn't surprise me one bit

[celest blaze]

WHAT

[stone laurel]

man

[tacit oracle]

Imagine saying tarkov is inspired by stalker when both games are actually inspired by gamma

[sweet lintel]

????

[celest blaze]

ong you get it

[muted valve]

go wash your mouth young snorker

[crimson tartan]

Guys why is the cooldown so dumb?

[celest blaze]

GAMMA was the first eastern euro shooter that made this genre what it is ?

[tacit oracle]

ward guy calling something else stupid smh

[muted valve]

it has a long and severe alcohol problem that has resulted in the whole chat being a little slow 😢

[zinc apex]

When A-Life full fix?

[crimson tartan]

Admins have dumb A-life?!? Why make cooldown so slow wtf

[celest blaze]

Because there's alot of retarded trolls and bots

[muted valve]

ok i'll be honest it's because of a huge prejudice towards snorkers, they keep the chat this slow so they can effectively hunt down, oppress and persecute snorkers, it's all quite disturbing

[crimson tartan]

Could there be a role to prove we’re legit and not Monolith braindead zombie?

Plot twist: the snork cave was their goon cave

[celest blaze]

This channel has a 10 second cool down before stalker 2 and the console kids came around

All snokers will be dealt with quickly and with extreme prejudice

[queen ice]

Nineteen-Eighty-Snork all over again

[crimson tartan]

I wish snorks could give head

[tacit oracle]

we had 2 minutes like a week ago

[celest blaze]

Remember when it was 5 minutes?

[sweet lintel]

whats a snorker

[tacit oracle]

I hadn't been born yet sorry

[muted valve]

a snorker is someone who snorks

[celest blaze]

It's illegal to snork

[sweet lintel]

ohhhh ok thank you

[tacit oracle]

whyyy release a 10 gig patch that takes like 2 hours to install if shader generation's gonna get stuck anyway 😭 😭😭

[crimson tartan]

Experimental soldiers with gas masks that behave like gremlins, move and jump on all fours, and enjoy ending up in front of my saiga14d

[celest blaze]

GSC did that to punish the snorkers notice how its only a few

[muted valve]

no that's a snork we're talking about snorkers, those that enjoy a good snork every now and then

[sweet lintel]

how do you carry a gun if you have to walk around on all fours i dont understand

[crimson tartan]

Ok Robo I am so sorry I started with Stalker 2 I am like Zalissya rookie sorry

[uneven jewel]

Why does this game feel like downloading its entire 126 Gigabytes over and over again with every update? It’s super annoying because it takes hours

[muted valve]

that is alright furry werewolf the ways of the snorker are mysterious

||boy that must be in the top ten of sentences i never thought i'd utter||

[urban basin]

Its not downloading
Its patching or some bs like that thanks to Unreal engine

[uneven jewel]

Takes hours upon hours tho

[worn oar]

Not downloading

It's rechecking then downloading new stuff

[urban basin]

Depends on your pc
Each patch takes like half an hour for me

[worn oar]

@crimson tartan stop throwing spoilers here

[uneven jewel]

Took 4 hours for me. On ethernet cable

[tacit oracle]

to me it took like 2 actual hours to patch the game. I don't think it's the download or the install, but the fact that it performs a validation on a billion tiny little files which is time consuming

[worn oar]

One was like 100gb+ the other was 10gb ish, and the new one should be around the same

[queen ice]

||Skif gets married to Snorkily after blowing up Rostok with a thermonuclear bomb||

[fleet cove]

I got 2 liquid rock

[worn oar]

Again, the game recheck the downloaded files before downloading, that is why it seems like redownloading

[dim topaz]

Gamma was in turn inspired by Roller Coaster Tycoon

[worn oar]

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

[tacit oracle]

mario > tony hawk > sim city > gamma

[potent mica]

Not sure what happened but 1.1.3 tanked my fps

[slender stratus]

Idk it’s fine on gog though, patch was 11gb and I downloaded 11gb

[dim topaz]

And then Scorched Earth ofc the progenitor of Mario, which was inspired by Worms Armageddon

[crimson tartan]

Thanks admin for confirming that my ending is lore accurate!

[tacit oracle]

"last shader warmup failed" AND WHY IS THAT STALKER 2?

[sweet lintel]

oh i played scorched earth, "the mother of all games" that was a cute game

[queen ice]

It’s cold outside man

[worn oar]

Not about that the message before

[worn oar]

Come on, you love gomma

[dim topaz]

had that sh on the desktop at all times, right next to Counter Strike 2D and Heroes 3

[worn oar]

I mean granma

I mean gamma

[tacit oracle]

G.O.N.A.D

[lunar copper]

no lie, i'd certainly try stalker gonad

[dim topaz]

Too late, Killer Queen has already turned your left nut into a bomb

[sweet lintel]

lol im so old. i played hereos 2 and 3 so much. i played scorched earth with my elementary school bestie...sitting on the same computer...............back in the 90's...... please kill me

[dim topaz]

Old Hotseat and LAN games were peak gaming culture ngl

[tacit oracle]

I can still smell them from here

[sweet lintel]

i also played heroes 2 hotseat ...with my sister and her boyfriend...she sat on his lap and played her turn like that

[tulip monolith]

my partner played heroes a lot

[sweet lintel]

and we played quake on the school lan, we installed quake on the computers without permission

[tacit oracle]

Hm, I'm getting the same FPS regardless of whether my shader compilation is successful or not.
I think I'll just disable it on the INI and save myself having to force close it once out of two

[dim topaz]

Some of my LAN experience smelled okay actually.
When I was at my grandma's in the middle of bumfuk nowhere, nobody could afford PCs so the kids who wanted to play games went to a Communal Library / culture center where they had PCs, so we just watched pr0n and played CS 1.6 and MOHAA

[sweet lintel]

this is so nostalgic....all my friends in high school did nothing but skateboard and play CS

[dim topaz]

School lans were the best man, 45 minutes flew by

[sweet lintel]

yeah thats the problem. then you had to go back to class. i sometimes on purpose did not go play games on the lan because it would make time pass too fast

[tiny token]

I wasn't old enough to witness lans but my mate and I would skip PE to go to his house and play vidya. So peak

[dim topaz]

You can still LAN just need the right friends
When we first moved to japan there were 3 of us and we played Dota and Tarkov in the tatami room while sipping green tea
This was only 2 years ago

[tulip monolith]

there was no downtime when I was at school, break was 15 mins, lunch was 30 mins and everything else was classes

[marsh gulch]

Imagine skipping PE when you could just skip school most of the time. All i had to do was bring whatever teacher i skipped a sandwich for breakfast and i got attendance for whatever day i missed

[restive fractal]

*Dota2 because I doubt ya’ll played defence of the ancients

[tiny token]

most of my og mates are in ukraine 😭 and all the new ones here are too normie for that. but you're right

[dim topaz]

Dota 2 sure but we played wc3 custom games lol
Gem TD, are you a lucker, etc.

[tulip monolith]

I didnt get into playing games on the PC until 2012

[restive fractal]

I’ve always been a console boy

[opaque salmon]

same but 2011, bf3 was my first one and boy oh boy was it a jump from ps3 to an gtx570, 16gb ram i7 3770k build

[lunar copper]

been a harcore PC gamer ever since they dropped Tonka Construction

[dim topaz]

Got my first PC in kindergarten... I think I have a problem

[opaque salmon]

nah you like csm you a man of culture

[daring zinc]

Can't run game, still have shader compilation issue, help pls, any advice

[empty gorge]

on pc? download uetools that fixed it for me

[meager kindle]

another 10gb patch of empty changes thanks GSC you are ruining the game

[halcyon briar]

My first laptop didn't have a hard drive. Two floppy disk slots. System disk and program disk, pop out the system disk for the save disk

[restive fractal]

games usually don’t have legs TO run, if your game did I would be worried

[marsh gulch]

if you arent on PC or are and dont wanna download UETools, you can just try to brute force by restarting allow, you can also verify integrity of game files. those are the most effective methods

[dim topaz]

oooh, floppies were cool. I liked lemmings

[meager kindle]

try loaidng a older save

[marsh gulch]

he cant load a save if he cant get past compiling shaders

[meager kindle]

i tought you were talking about getting quest locked since u mention UETools mb

[waxen hearth]

shoutout this squad of like 8 stalkers who showed up and helped me ice this chimera without using all 100 of my shotgun shells lmfao

[marsh gulch]

nah u good. i havent gotten quest locked yet tbh thank god

[meager kindle]

i locked few times i loaded old save it got fixed and the one was not passable so i used Noclip using UETools

[marsh gulch]

im also proud to say that out of my 4 play throughs, Zalassia(i cant remember spelling of it ) has only buggegd once

[waxen hearth]

bruh all those stalkers totally just died to an emission wtf

[marsh gulch]

sounds about right

[restive fractal]

Make one of those ‘you will be missed’ videos

[waxen hearth]

they were duty too helping me kill mutants, a damn shame the zone is so cruel....

[opaque salmon]

delete nvidia shader cache, how to do? google, i dont know the english path

[marsh gulch]

Duty doesnt deserve the hatred and pain they endure tbh

[waxen hearth]

I was always more of freedom guy but like, I get it, duty got the right idea bout the mutants

[tall furnace]

Wow another patch?!?!?!?!

[opaque salmon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/165h4pv/constant_shader_recompilation_steps_to_clear_the/

[nimble cipher]

bonedawg2004 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[waxen hearth]

i gotta work on my potty mouth

[opaque salmon]

search for diskcleanup in windows searchbar, delete directx shader cache, start game, need to do this after every restart and it works

[unborn gorge]

Does anyone know if there are mods to show time of day on regular screen, and to add a mini map like the original trilogy?

[opaque salmon]

@devs why no wristwatch?

[unborn gorge]

I restarted my computer and it fixed that

[meager kindle]

devs add multicam suit fr

[opaque salmon]

and german flecktarn thx

[opaque salmon]

yh but i dont want to restart every crash or after an hour when memory leak is fkn getting on my nerves ill do the other way 😄

[unborn gorge]

oh i only had it happen after installing a mod. try reducing settings on graphics expecially antiailiasing.

[opaque salmon]

if i reduce settings im running into cpu bottleneck cutting down my fps to laggy 20ish mess, i play on ultra, dlaa 1440p with frame gen, only way to get above 70% gpu utilization

[unborn gorge]

might be to much for your rig.

[waxen hearth]

what is your cpu, mines been maxxed out forever but its not really causing any framedrops at all for me (I have an i7-12700F)

[opaque salmon]

5800x 32gb 4070 samsung evo970 i dont think so

[unborn gorge]

whats your GPU memory. Mine is 16GB and was almost maxing it. NBames are great but the memory to allow the game to live in is what matter

[opaque salmon]

12gb, but memory leak just happens after 1.1, before i played for 10hrs straight same settings no problem

[unborn gorge]

true. and for me ive heavily modded my copy so may not be experiencing the same things

[opaque salmon]

and it only kicks in when im done talking to traders forgot to say that, if i run around do quest all is good, as suddenly after 1h if i sell smth and stop the conversation my game goes downhill

[gritty orchid]

I think there's a mod for displaying the clock/time of day, but I haven't seen a radar one yet

[opaque salmon]

im waiting for an wristwatch mod with animation or for the devs to add but thx 😄

[celest blaze]

im waiting for a clear sky UI mod tbh

[marsh gulch]

imwaiting for subway surfers on the PDA

[gritty orchid]

Imo a tarkov style raid timer where you double tap a key and then it quickly shows you the time would be alright for me lol

[celest blaze]

ui's in order from best to worst CS > CoP > SoC > HoC

[opaque salmon]

but pls dont bind to "O" for the love of snork

[gritty orchid]

There's one already no? I swear I've seen something on Nexus

[fleet birch]

Is nexus going to be the main platform to find mods for this game?

[celest blaze]

oh fr? i havent looked at the nexus yet tbh i like to play games vanilla first before modding

[celest blaze]

hopefully i prefer nexus to moddb tbh

[frank dew]

Rostok being the new area for memory leak central makes me sad, its my favorite hub to chill. (Aside from Rookie Village of course)

[marsh gulch]

i love watching my entire PC start to spin up like a jet turbine when i go to Rostok

[empty gorge]

mod io integration

[radiant dagger]

Oh man that on the edge mission is still bugged lol

[opaque salmon]

maybe set your fancurves by hand? 😄

[celest blaze]

thats prob just for consoles

[empty gorge]

i freaking hope so haha

[marsh gulch]

im rocking a prebuilt Dell PC with a GTX 950 and 8GB of ram. This thing is old enough to drive a car itself. If it aint broke, i aint touching it

[opaque salmon]

based, add some flame stickers will give you 20% more fps

[marsh gulch]

I have weeb stuff on it. Anime and not so anime stuff on it. iykyk..

[celest blaze]

im prob gonna use my pc until it dies i dont like replacing tech unless i need to tbh

[opaque salmon]

same but i keep buying new tech so the old tech simply goes into 2nd pc and 3rd and maybe soon 4th...

[zealous oasis]

deleting the steam shader cache for stalker 2 fixed my crash on shader compilation and by result the bug where i cant press something to continue, i can play again woohoo 🙏

[opaque salmon]

replace weeb with warhammer stuff for instant muscular gains and the urge to conquer the middle east again oh and maybe some rgb for even more fps, but jokes aside how tf you running on a 950

[magic coyote]

to think that my 980 endured almost a decade without being changed.

[marsh gulch]

Dont ask question you dont want answers too. 9 series and 10 series GPUs ontop tbh. I have all my Templar stuff, warhammer stuff and Catholicism stuff on my workout equipment and my car

[gritty orchid]

fsr power babyyyyyyyyyyyyy and prolly some framegen (that was cringe)

[magic coyote]

and now people worry about their graphics card just because they have to downgrade from ultra to high in a poorly optimized game.

[opaque salmon]

ok tbh thats a better place to store the good stuff, but still how tf this game runs on a 950

[marsh gulch]

Hopes, dreams, the power of christ, and the will to dominate all men.

[signal forge]

4080 here, running fine?

[magic coyote]

it can be opened on a 1030, why not on a 950, you just have to use the 20% rescaling 💀

[opaque salmon]

like do you get playable 30fps on 1080p or you getting the gameboy color experience?

[marsh gulch]

30FPS at 1080p, with very little frame deviation, so it doesnt stutter much. ngl its pretty fire. Taking pictures and recording tho? yeah thatll make my PC ignite into hellfire

[magic coyote]

what do you consider fine? whit a 4080

[opaque salmon]

at this point i rather dont, like 30 fps low settings on 1080 or 720 is bareable everything beyond... just dont torture yourself

[signal forge]

I'm getting 100fps, dips of 80 sometimes but rarely.. Butter smooth?

[marsh gulch]

I'm running med settings.

[meager kindle]

@celest blaze

[opaque salmon]

now thats an answer, 30 at 1080p without much stutter is playable af, wasnt thinking that 950 still holds up this well

[magic coyote]

and the ms (latency), because with the same hardware that is the compromising part not only the fps with frame gen.

[signal forge]

No clue.. Eitherway it runs consistently smooth, with no issues I can see.. I'm guessing your drivers are up to date?

[magic coyote]

uuu no, it is literally a generalized problem, so if you use the statistics in the nvidia drop down menu you can check it

[marsh gulch]

the 950 still kinda goated, and my wifes 1080 runs games better than my mates 4070. seriously older GPUs cannot be doubted. they are literally goated. Dont get me wrong; i have a new rig with a 4070 which runs games fantastically, but like for price point? 9 series and 10 series are seriously cracked outta their minds

[tulip monolith]

I had a 960 it was asus's overclocked one but it only had 2gb of vram.

[opaque salmon]

yh im running an 4070 myself for modern price to performance ratio its nice af, but nothing beats the old times, 680 was goated too ran that boy till i got a 1080

[magic coyote]

besides, vram was not such a big problem since people deigned to optimize their games.

[marsh gulch]

the VRAM is the biggest issue of older GPUs, so dont expect to run games on high, ultra or RayTraced, but on med graphics and some games high graphics runs smooth af.

[opaque salmon]

only game raytracing made anything better was cyberpunk

[exotic agate]

Indiana Jones full RT is insane

[zealous oasis]

nah its never made any game better, thats been worth the performance hit

[magic coyote]

na, metro exodus enhanced, 2060 full rtx 60 fps 1080p

[tulip monolith]

ray tracing in metro exodus ehanced edition looks sooooo good.
But RT in the standard edition is no better than the traditional dynamic lighting.

[opaque salmon]

doesnt it have only rtgi and no reflections and PT isnt even released yet?

[magic coyote]

what we have in stlaker 2 is not even rtx, it is the cheap copy that takes so long to render that if you turn the camera fast on a foggy day it disappears.

[exotic agate]

They released full RT on regular launch and it looks so good it changes the look of the game completely in a lot of places. RTGI is the only thing they have if you have Full RT turned off and even that is really good.

[opaque salmon]

Cyberpunk but only with Full Pathtracing enabled otherwise depends on your preference of fps or atmosphere

[exotic agate]

Also Alan Wake 2 with PT or even just RT looks fantastic too

[zealous oasis]

its marginally better in some situations for 100 fps hit, never worth it

[opaque salmon]

oh ok then i need to look again, maybe i was looking at non rt gameplay

[tulip monolith]

yeah Lumen.

[magic coyote]

the worst thing about lumen is that stupid latency it produces in epic, because the damn system is designed for static images and can barely render anything moving without ghosting.

[zealous oasis]

im ok with trading 2 shadows youll only notice in a side by side comparison for +100 fps but thats just my preference

[opaque salmon]

oh right i forgot that AW2 existed, got it with my card never played it further than act 4 or smth

[zealous pumice]

But it is you who cannot see

[exotic agate]

What makes it even worse is that its software Lumen. And without any kind of ray reconstruction its just straight grainy. Also another really good RT game is Avatar.

[celest blaze]

That's bait

[opaque salmon]

i was doing the mission under the military base and when i was up in the house 1 side feeled like seeing god and the other like looking into the void itself no inbetween

[celest blaze]

2077 rtx goes hard

[magic coyote]

use lumen is to be so lazy

[tulip monolith]

have you seen those vids of people modding the game and basically turning the RT to the max and some other effects to make the game look ultra realistic?

[celest blaze]

Yeah haha it's insane it makes want a 4090 as that would make my 4070ti explode

[magic coyote]

and the worst part is that even with those mods cyberpunk was running at higher fps than stalker 2 whit a 4080

[exotic agate]

I wouldnt hate it so much if there was a choice of hardware RT or software. My 4070-S can handle it at 1440p with hardware. Might even give better performance too

[dull token]

What's up gamers?

[marsh gulch]

The sky

[opaque salmon]

maybe in future update

[celest blaze]

Is it too late for GSC to switch how they do rtx ?

[magic coyote]

yea i think

[zealous oasis]

that would be up the UE devs to add to the engine and i dont think we will be getting engine updates

[mystic elbow]

they can port the game to a new engine version, but it could introduce more issues but its possible

[exotic agate]

They can add in hardware RT. Just requires some time

[opaque salmon]

modern gaming could be so easy

[tulip monolith]

i just accept how the game looks

[magic coyote]

with lumen they saved themselves a lot of work, so they have a long way to go if they want to add another lighting system, like a NORMAL one.

[zealous pumice]

Game got blur, unplayable.

[celest blaze]

Ngl the newest screen space shaders mod for anomaly goes hard af

[mystic elbow]

ive found theres like a couple settigns that destroy the visuals and performance, if you find the right combo it plays alright

[magic coyote]

unreal 5 is to blame, it looks so bad in native that we are forced to use taa which just blurs everything to hide the problem.

[zealous oasis]

for real, its crazy what theyve done, though with the old xray engine it runs about the same as stalker 2

[zealous pumice]

It does look good tho

[celest blaze]

Right? I'm impressed they can keep pushing that engine so far and we haven't even reached the peak of what's possible

[mystic elbow]

switching to native for me everything is super grainy

[zealous oasis]

i mean at the end of the day the engine is the platform, the same things and much more are possible in stalker 2, im excited for the sdk and to see what comes there

[magic coyote]

yes, but it could look good without killing my 4080, they had graphics engines to choose from

[exotic agate]

Game def isnt super blurry for me. I dialed my settings in and it looks fantastic. Only thing left is the grain from software Lumen

[mystic elbow]

dlss im targetting 4k on a 3070 ti, mostly im around 50ish fps

[granite stream]

psi radiation music / effect pisses me off I can't describe it

[celest blaze]

I wonder if it will be possible to port stalker 2 to the newer UE5 engines or that's not feasible at the modder level

[zealous pumice]

Tbf you can either have bad AA or blurry AA or spend ££££ on equipment to run games at 4k+

[magic coyote]

if they correct and change the lumen for another lighting system surely the game will look great, once I deactivated lumen and the game looked better than having it activated because it is so bad.

[exotic agate]

From a modder standpoint doubtful. From a dev standpoint its doable. Just takes time

[zealous oasis]

no that would require the whole game source code and be a tremendous effort, the sdk is just a set of tools to work directly with the engine

[mystic elbow]

you can import a game project to new version, but there may or may not be things to fix, most likely a bunch of stuff to correct though depending on the changes in the engine

[celest blaze]

Stalker on the creation engine was the answer all Along

[exotic agate]

Ultimately depends on how custom GSC made their version of UE 5.1 (which im guessing is extremely custom)

[zealous oasis]

i mean you'll have the same thing with unreal but less bugs tbh, unreal modding is very powerful if allowed

[magic coyote]

they have sold us a beta at full price, at least they should eventually work on fixing these things that were clearly done in a hurry.

[tulip monolith]

same, what did you change in the settings ?

[zealous oasis]

id say theyve done a pretty good job with the patches so far for the most part, things will only get better with time

[meager kindle]

🎣

[zealous pumice]

Next week: modders remake stalker 2 1:1 in xray and anomaly

[rough condor]

Is no shader warmup good? I fixed my freezes by clearing the cache, I'd rather keep the spin up and not suffer the performance hit

[magic coyote]

to say that you solve 1000 errors and that half of them are repeated would not be considered a good job, besides this is what they should do, they are not doing us a favor.

[potent mica]

I dunno I think DLSS quality is fine for me. I turn off motion blur in every game. I'm running 4k though and I think DLSS quality is 1440p actually upscaled

[exotic agate]

Im using DLAA plus sharpening and no motion blur and cant remember what else off the top of my head since at work. But it definitely alleviated a lot of it for me. Ive noticed film grain if used correctly can help with blur. I noticed it playing Indiana Jones. Also helps with my monitors awful black levels.

[celest goblet]

Motion blur is for sickos

[zealous oasis]

motion blur, chromatic abberation and DoF, the 3 horsemen of modern graphics

[magic coyote]

and to think that motion blur well done is beautiful

[meager kindle]

how can i quick save in Shadow of chernobyl

[exotic agate]

Out of those im only ok with DoF and that was a recent thing. The other two I cant stand. Motion blur is fine if im on console.

[celest goblet]

F5 or F6. Forget the default key but it's one of those

[zealous oasis]

no such thing

@exotic agate yeah DoF i can tolerate in certain cases, but when its overapplied everywhere its nasty

[magic coyote]

are you familiar with motion blur in driving games? that it is only applied after a certain speed in certain scenarios?

[tiny token]

Did gsc state that they're going to do something with lumen? Or is it too early to speak of that

[exotic agate]

Thought it was F7 since QL is F9. I def change it to F5 tho bc it being so close to QL my Shrek finger would hit it accidentally

[celest goblet]

It's entirely muscle memory for me now so honestly I don't remember

[zealous oasis]

still better without it

[magic coyote]

in a driving game? brhu

[granite mortar]

F6 for SoC
QL is F7 iirc

[waxen hearth]

the devs are so cruel for putting the exoskeleton on top of a bunker that is impossible to get up too, i have been teased

[mystic elbow]

I got an exo which shows as a giant piece of bread and cant equip it lol. bit glitchy

[waxen hearth]

i appreciate the stalker 2 loot map or whatever showing me all the goodies but if I can't get to the damn thing whats the point! It's okay though my SEVA suit is pretty good too all things considered.

[celest blaze]

If this was a bethesda game I'd say tcl

[exotic agate]

Im still rocking my PSZ-12V from forever ago bc no techs can upgrade anything

[waxen hearth]

tbf I realize now that using this map is just straight up cheating because getting an exo suit before SIRCAA is insane, rather than just looting naturally, ofc I didn't get it, but still

[zealous oasis]

you can get it but its not easy

[waxen hearth]

if you can show me where the nearest barrel with physics simulation is on the map i will try it

[queen ice]

Not everything needs to be over the top realistic, might as well make colors fade beyond 300km/h in that case. It might have a place in sims like Corsa, but not in driving games in general

[simple geode]

I wandered into a mid-late game area and found an exo suit. While no one can really upgrade it, I'm practically invincible versus all these early game enemies.

[waxen hearth]

I googled where to find the Saiga in yantar yall my first run is poopy cheater stuff now I can't believe I realized it till now

[zealous oasis]

yea theres a crate pretty far away you gotta push, i forget where, or just wait its tied to the story

[terse shore]

u guys do realize this is the no spoilers chat right….

[exotic agate]

Whats better the Saiga, Ram, or SPAS. Granted I cannot upgrade any of them atm. I figured Saiga bc magazines and quick reloads

[zealous oasis]

yea i like the saiga cause the reload

[mystic elbow]

saiga but theyre all ok really, ive found the weapons to kindof be all similar, AR with scope for humans and any shotgun for mutants

[waxen hearth]

I have spoiled nothing lol, this is just loot that you know is on the map when you boot up the game

[exotic agate]

Ive found myself using my shotty more than anything for most engagements unless its further out. But choosing an AR is impossible for me. I have a few good ones but cant stick with just one. I want to start using 9x39 guns but cant decide on what to go with

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/gigascar-gif-7252302473669868672

sounds like the cries of the ones that DONT have one

[waxen hearth]

its hands down the saiga no competition, with the SPAS in close second, which I proudly found in a stash quite naturally. The reload is slow as heck if you shoot the last bullet, otherwise you can develop some pretty good tech to get it close to saiga good.

[mystic elbow]

i swap between gp37 and something else i forget what it is but purely just to spread my ammo use out, they perform basically the same, 1-2 shots to heads and done

[hazy helm]

RAM users crying as the SAIGA chad fully loads his weapon in 2 seconds and completely eviscerates the mutants

[modest cairn]

Saiga doesn’t have a super cool unjam animation though

[gritty orchid]

wheres the TOZ enjoyers at?

[waxen hearth]

Dude I adore the Saiga in every game I have ever played, its just an amazing gun. Like, ofc a magazine fed semi-auto shotgun is the best thing ever.

[hazy helm]

there was a guy somewhere in the server complaining that the TOZ wasnt viable in middle and late game
thats where they are

[exotic agate]

I have an upgraded GP-37, Cluster (not the biggest fan of), DLC VSS w/scope, Upgraded AKs, Lullaby (DLC). SO many choices

[mystic elbow]

bursting bloodsuckers when they get close you can finish them quick i think is the big benefit. or any mutant for that matter apart from the super tanky ones

[zealous oasis]

love me toz, but 2 shots only gets you so far, also love the spas but the reload is just so slow

[jade geyser]

RAM2 > Saiga fight me

[hazy helm]

semi auto shotguns are cool
AS LONG AS ITS NOT A AR BASED ONE

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-punch-gif-27615392

[waxen hearth]

I love that the end game gear is just, busted sci-fi armor, random Israeli assault rifle, unbelievably cheap shotgun in Russia.

[calm slate]

Infinite rain patched ? 👀

[hazy helm]

yhea I hate the IWI Carmel
what a awful gun

[simple geode]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-rain-sad-umbrella-fordiscord-gif-20029710

[hazy helm]

why didnt they choose the SG 550 or the SA58?
is GSC dumb?

[zealous oasis]

love the iwi

[waxen hearth]

I was thinking the Tavor but close enough thats an obscure gun tho lmaoo

[jade geyser]

you should mute yourself for insulting devs

[hazy helm]

we have 2 bullpups in the 5.45 side and none in the 5.56 side
also the tavor uncool ASF
choose a cool one, get me a FAMAS or a AUG

REAL STUFF

[hazy helm]

!mute @hazy helm

[nimble cipher]

🚫 You can't mute immunized @hazy helm.

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[exotic agate]

I miss my IL-86 from the OG trilogy. It looked out there enough to where I loved using it

[zealous oasis]

cope, famas is overused and so is the aug, we got some nice flavor with the iwi, i wouldnt be opposed to more guns though 🙂

[jade geyser]

wolf is trash, told ya

[waxen hearth]

I like Tavor but it was also manufactured in Israel so minus three points from Gryffindor, this is my most political take in chat and it will not develop further lmfao.

[hazy helm]

"some nice flavour with the iwi"
brother, look at your gun before you say smth, it looks like HK tried be funny and ppl still bought it

[exotic agate]

Agreed. Looks cool but hate using it and giving it attention

[jade geyser]

why is barret not in the game? imagine killing chimera with 1 shot