⭐┃nospoilers_general

[celest blaze]

Atleast it wasn't gas station sushi

[zinc apex]

yea it's free body detoxication

[celest blaze]

You wouldn't be here otherwise lol

[gritty orchid]

neither have i, and i'm playing with the same save since launch, its just that sometimes some cutscenes glitches out like i mentioned earlier, but other than the stuff you mentioned the game is fine for me as well x)

[noble surge]

Hmm I've only had one weird cutscene post 1.1 with a body falling through the floor when someone else was supposed to be interacting with it. Before 1.1, however, cutscenes right inside ||SIRCAA|| were already plenty broken lol

[lunar berry]

get your finger out your arse you wet wipe

[muted valve]

wow calm down there fella

[lunar berry]

❤️ ❤️

[zinc apex]

gsc are you gonna fire one out today?

(update I mean)

it's 1st of february in new zealand

[jade geyser]

Hello everyone, I'm new bug-developer from GSC, ask your questions

[zinc apex]

i'm more that mammal-developer of guy

[coarse sparrow]

so, no dlss 4.0 patch for stalker 2 ?

[zinc apex]

nah

[slender perch]

why am i ugly

[jade geyser]

u r not, buddy

[slender perch]

[boreal mica]

prove it

no proof, no ugliness

[slender perch]

I can't

[boreal mica]

So basically you are handsome

next question

And even not spoken, I can answer it now

soon

[upbeat warren]

Why are so many people in the Zone balding

[hazy palm]

stress

[zinc apex]

radiation effects

[upbeat warren]

Nah they got hit by the Norwood anomaly

[boreal mica]

slav thing

[broken notch]

big updateeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[coarse sparrow]

very slavic

across slav males, like 2\3rds are bald by 35

[zinc apex]

yea that's because we slavs are extremely manly and we have too high testerone levels. unhealthy high levels to be exact

[coarse sparrow]

yeah, that's why in East EU so many males like buzzcuts

[upbeat warren]

Wrong it’s because the Norwood Reaper has designated Slavs as his favorites right behind gooners

[coarse sparrow]

did any1 manage to get dlss 4.0 working inside the game?

[hardy bear]

What’s the difference between it and the last version?

[zinc apex]

i switched the dll and the image is extremely crisp now. looks very good. but I don't know if thats true dlss 4

[hardy bear]

If it can somehow eliminate the blur and look more native that’ll be nice

But the performance gain feels minimal. It’s like 7-12 frames when I tried it

[zinc apex]

it definately did

[hardy bear]

Look forward to trying it out

I choose not to run DLSS currently cause it just looks foul

[zinc apex]

yea. stalker 2 looks like a fever dream when having dlss on

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalcraft-dance-gif-13257141

[elder girder]

how the game acts on 2070 now? it was really laggy the last time i played

[jade geyser]

im dying, ate too much((( release patch pls, before my death

[hardy bear]

Patience

[hazy jewel]

Since dlss4 isnt in im guessing they lied about adding it day 0?

[zinc apex]

Yes

[tawny flume]

I say the new patch be early or mid feb

Will s2 support the 5090 dls 4?

[coarse sparrow]

yes, its a day 0 game for dlss 4.0, but we need gsc to patch

[tawny flume]

Ain’t this game still a nightmare performance wise rn ? It’s improved I thought it’s still not good

[coarse sparrow]

even with new nvidia driver u can't override dlss atm for the game

[pliant lodge]

I'm not really remembering characters and people mention characters names that seem important to the story or important people ive met. im worried it will impact my enjoyment of the story cuz i find myself going to the wiki to search their name like "scar" and then going "ohhhh that guy"

[coarse sparrow]

dunno, I completed stable 80-90 fps

[tawny flume]

If u played other games

I haven’t played in awhile it’s doesn’t have persistent ai still like older stalkers etc other enemies and friendlys don’t loot off body’s etc lots of other things

[pliant lodge]

stalker 2 is my first game

[tawny flume]

Ohh I went and bought the whole series

[hearty compass]

Man I got a nasa computer and I only get 15 fps in zalissya (it's an ARM64 processor like real nasa)

[celest portal]

Game crashed just as I max upgraded my armor's artifact containers. Day ruined.

[urban basin]

Its worse for me since the last hotfix

[hardy bear]

Honestly the game has felt a bit like playing Skyrim but without skills

[coarse sparrow]

its like the one they used to launch Belka and Strelka with?

[sleek trout]

is the game playable yet

[coarse sparrow]

always been

[sleek trout]

a life 0.2

[coarse sparrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561149828503961600/1326927445894496306/alife.gif

[sleek trout]

whats the point of the game then

[tawny flume]

It’s playable but it’s still in every access

[sleek trout]

you mean early access?

[hardy bear]

A life isn’t the be all and end all for me, so it’s enjoyable

[sleek trout]

the story is decent yeah, also the choices you can make

what was there to expect from ue5 anyway

[zinc apex]

one weekend, cola and pizza and i'll fix your a-life code

[sleek trout]

i just dont know if its possible with the ue5

like actual a-life 2.0 marketized in their thing

[tawny flume]

Game is gonna need a cyberpunk 2.0

[sleek trout]

it still wouldnt fix it

cyberpunk 2.0 did not deliver the game promised by the devs back in 2018

devs should return to making their own engines, UE5 slop can't deliver it

[nimble cipher]

baaaal44 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tawny flume]

I believe in it it’s gonna take time

[hardy bear]

honestly I got what I was expecting. didn't imagine we'd get A-life the same as it felt in clear sky for instance when you have this big as open world

The systems could be the same but density would make it feel less alive by default, too much and it feels artifical. A tricky balance

[worn oar]

say hi to my buddy skif

[next nimbus]

Same, but I still felt attachment to the characters and writing nonetheless

[stoic widget]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEMW9wK-Pg I found the "playing stalker at 3 am" theme

[wary sparrow]

Was I banned on this server or am I remembering wrong or was I muted

[boreal mica]

what was your nickname?

[wary sparrow]

Ball sucker 8000

[boreal mica]

hmm

I don't know

[pale thicket]

wtf why i have still memorty leak in rostok?!

[boreal mica]

skill issue

[worn oar]

[granite mortar]

SoC Rostok would never do this to you
abolish S2
return to SoC

[kindred drum]

Return to Oblivion Lost

[granite mortar]

if only we could

[pale thicket]

cant even ghet my stuff because its overflowing so fast

its even worsethan before patch. Help @glossy blade

[kindred drum]

Help is coming your way in 15 seconds

[pale thicket]

Im rdy for wolf

[zinc apex]

let's all play CotZ

[north violet]

Offline A-Life in the original trilogy was effectively just a spreadsheet doing calculations in the background. I can't imagine why something like that couldn't be done in UE5.

[shrewd summit]

Close enough, welcome back George Costanza

[sleek trout]

umm actually

its not just offline enemies running around

where tf is the promised faction wars

[north violet]

It's non-rendered entities "doing stuff" in the background, battles were just auto-calculated iirc.

[sleek trout]

put that on god gang

[north violet]

...what?

[boreal crescent]

i tried dlss 4.0 in stalker, its actually amazing, performance looks like old quality mode, 50+fps 😄

[zinc apex]

gsc should do nightshifts and weekend work to get a-life out

[sly matrix]

Fake fan

[heavy sable]

I wonder if the update will be tomorrow

[tawny flume]

Not on a weekend

[tiny token]

meow

[celest blaze]

Real fans play gamma

[potent mica]

"early February" probably first or second week

[celest blaze]

Real Feb 12:01AM

[heavy sable]

Lets hope so

[dire dagger]

more like plus 50ms of input lag

[boreal crescent]

bro is playing on a gtx 980

[dire dagger]

im not its just how frame gen works broski

[boreal crescent]

nah thats not how it works but sure buddy

[dire dagger]

game cant register inputs on generated frames

so all those frames are effectively just lag

[boreal crescent]

if you get 50ms of inpuit lag you're below 30fps without framegen, which is not how you use fremgen

[gritty orchid]

new gen gamers are so funny, if crysis were to launch today with a graphics setting meant for the future hardware, people would flip on crytek

[dire dagger]

if your to believe nvidia it is exactly how your suppose to use it

lmfao

[boreal crescent]

i'm on 23ms with framegen and dlss, idk what kind of brokie system you're using but sure buddy

[gritty orchid]

lmao

16 ms is around 60fps native, so you're playing the game around 40 to 50 real fps

[dire dagger]

that honestly sounds like frame gen isn't working

[boreal crescent]

it is, if i only play with dlss no framegen i get around 110fps, with framegen around 170, not in cities or towns ofc cuz theyre bugged af but everywhere outside of high npc areas

[dire dagger]

well that makes sense

your also probably not using quad frame gen

[boreal crescent]

4x mfg? no only standard ingame settings, the new transformer model also reduces vram usage and improves fps, i would advice you to download the lastest version of dlss and replace it in the files of stalker, you'll see big improvements across the board.

[dire dagger]

i heard about that

[boreal crescent]

latest drivers got released the 30th from nvidia, all 20x 30x and 40x and 50x series support dlss 4.0, but you'll have to manually update it for games that have not yet updated it themselves.

[dire dagger]

does it make the dlss picture quality better lol

with or with out frame gen

[boreal crescent]

yes 100%

performance option actually looks better then previous dlss quality mode, its insane.

[dire dagger]

if true i support completely

[boreal crescent]

check it out yourself, it sucks that we have to use it but atleast now its not as annoying and buggy and disgusting to use.

[dire dagger]

i mean true the current dlss kinda freaks out

[boreal crescent]

yeah ghosting and atrifacting everywhere on quality mode, most of those issues are gone, ofc there is still issues but they've been improved/removed allot.

[dire dagger]

really only bandaid fix for now cus

the games biggest issue is the insane cpu physics problem

ah yes walk into town pin my entire cpu at 100 percent use on all v cache cores

gpu use drops to 70 percent

very based very epic

[static compass]

Anyone else have a bug where anytime you open inventory it makes an equip noise over and over and won't let you read descriptions for items?

[meager kindle]

It pins it at 100 everywhere for me I5 12400F

[dim topaz]

I played on a 3070, it doesn't matter. Game is CPU heavy as hell. So unoptimized it was borderline unplayable without framegen and only barely playable with it due to input lag.

[zealous pumice]

It's the start of February, where's the update

[zealous pumice]

I have a 4070, if i use dsr factors to get to 1440p then use dlss balanced or performance its effectively 1080 but crisper and less artifacting. I use this on cyberpunk and stalker and get good frames

Gets better or similar performance too

[celest blaze]

Still jan in the west

[zealous pumice]

Almost 7am in Prague tho

[celest blaze]

Haha fair counter point

[full snow]

just finished the game at 69 hours exactly

[modest violet]

anyone else still experiencing lag at like random times? ive even got some no lag mod and still suffering

[fast stratus]

what faction is the most evil i want to join them

[fast stratus]

we never get updates and games. the never launch in my country

[noble surge]

I'm at 103 hours and honestly the final stretch with its constant firefights and string of boss fights is the worst part of the entire game

[next nimbus]

Why’s that? Besides the boss fights being boring || (I liked scars though) ||

[full snow]

i just spammed them with my saiga

[noble surge]

Pretty much the boss fights being boring tbh. 1v1 combat with a gimmick is not part of Stalker's strong suit and its greatest strengths (atmosphere, exploration/discovery) are just entirely gone.

Imo it feels lacking even when compared to a linear story-based location earlier in the game. The entire final hour or two feels rushed

[boreal crescent]

3070 is straight ass for this game so you’re just wrong, i have a constant 150+ maxed put experience, which means such little inputlag its not even a discussion about weather its a problem or not.

[dim topaz]

If you have 150+ fps you're obviously running stable 60+ without framegen.
If you have an older/weaker setup the game is still CPU bottlenecked in most cases.
Your GPU overhead matters much less than you think.

Like no shit your GPU matters more when you're not limited by your CPU

[boreal crescent]

Yes exacly, you replied to something i already had said lmao

[dim topaz]

¿I just said the game was unoptimized?
If the guy is getting 50ms input lag then chances are his and your PC are not exactly comparable (and it's probably not his GPU that's to blame)

As was my case. GPU chilling, CPU screaming.

[gritty orchid]

Loners

[next nimbus]

Yeah the only part where I remember thinking to myself “holy shit what did I just find” was ||the hallway leading to scar, probably why I don’t mind his fight since it was a cool location|| I think the ward path when you are heading to the generators outside was very atmospheric, but besides those two examples the interiors felt exhausted.

[outer laurel]

You've unlocked secret segs scene with a Bloodsucker

[drowsy blade]

Freedom moment

[granite mortar]

Please dont spread misinformation about factions

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/peeking-kitten-sneaky-gif-13898938

[outer laurel]

He's speaking facts

Freedom likes mutants a little bit too much

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[muted valve]

it's early february why no patch yet?

[outer laurel]

When roadmap

[sly matrix]

They can't release it because they're laughing too hard at your jokes
/s

[outer laurel]

Wanna hear a joke? Stalker 2 is a good game

[coarse sparrow]

any news on when expansion pass is coming to Steam?

[tender oracle]

finally is early february, patch day

[sly matrix]

Odd that you choose to spend your time here then

[outer laurel]

Nah, I enjoy the game so far. Almost coming to an end. But the technical state needs to be fixed asap

[meager kindle]

why is stalker 2 a pc port :(

[gritty orchid]

At least we have a stalker 2

[full snow]

we could've gotten a far worse stalker 2 so I'm glad we got what we got but at the same time, i wished it could be better performance wise

i have no qualms with the story, though. its my right type of bleak

[gritty orchid]

I can't stand people glazing stalker gamma and grok for doing absolutely nothing, going around moddb and looking at his comments on some mod pages are kinda hilarious

[gritty orchid]

They will improve the games performance at some point, I'm pretty sure, but I also don't think it will have a massive optimization "patch" or something like that tho

[jade geyser]

its already february and still no update((((

[celest blaze]

Naw that's mod slop the CANON faction who wants to fuck mutants is bandits

[sly matrix]

Can confirm

[celest blaze]

Fr fr

[uncut heath]

I just want Zalissya after SIRCCA to be patched.

[copper kelp]

I just want zalissya stop lagging as hell

That place lags a lot more than rostok wth

[idle dust]

GSC Please Woodpart 7.62 AKM AR Thank

[noble surge]

A new game started after 1.1 doesn't seem to have any issues with Zalissya - at least not for me. My only post-1.1 bug there is having two Lenses (the technician) next to each other and one of them was standing lol

[uncut heath]

I am not starting over. I want it fixed.

[zinc apex]

Release a-life

[noble surge]

I agree with you but I don't know how messed up the saves are at this point

My pre-1.1 save had a fair number of broken quests post SIRCAA but after 1.1 I didn't find a single broken quest

[gritty orchid]

I also think thats the best thing to do. It kinda sucks but yeah. I feel like if GSC stated on their patch notes that starting a new save is recommended after all the fixes they did on quests, people would be more "lenient" on saying that the issue still isnt "fixed" and what not.

[potent mica]

Which is why I stopped playing. If the Feb patch will be similar it means I need to restart again

[celest goblet]

Yeah I've been holding out on starting another playthrough, which is a little tough because now I want to do my thorough go through the game

[potent mica]

Yea id like to leave the lesser zone already

[worn oar]

Go ahead

[worn oar]

Well, broken quests are very rare. Except for one that was broken for almost everyone (and guess what? Someone managed to work lmao. @vernal magnet )

I witnessed that with my own eyes lmao

[vernal magnet]

Not even critical bugs can stop me from achieving my goals

[static compass]

Based

[gritty orchid]

modding anomaly is fun but also pain
i installed some random mod that for some reason added a glitched circle on the right side of my hud and i dont know which of my 100s of mods did that

[zinc apex]

Mol1t will drop the update in 5 minutes

[gritty orchid]

[reef raptor]

waiting for the patch to drop is like waiting for the inevitable heat death of the universe 💔

[gritty orchid]

inb4 5 fixes with 0 info on patch notes

also, from what i've seen they are also doing some small changes in the game's map which arent being noted in the patch notes

[deep warren]

is going to Rostok a guaranteed crash for anyone else here too? I thought they fixed it man

[worn oar]

Ik haha! The amount of effort speaks for itself already

[gritty orchid]

i've been to rostok i think twice already after the update and so far so good, only thing i'm noticing is that after the update whenever an alife group goes online/npc group "spawns" in my game does a little stutter, so i can kind of predict now when i'll be jumped by mercenaries or military

[worn oar]

Nope, never had a crash there at all.

Going through the garbage?

[deep warren]

thats weird. my game freezes everytime i drop by that place. Maybe a mod is causing the problem

[worn oar]

Definitely weird! Especially now that the memory leak issue solved

[deep warren]

i might reinstall the game

[worn oar]

Well, most likely. There is no guarantee for compatibility after patches

You do what you must and see if it works without mods

[gritty orchid]

i wish someone made a gamma ui mod for stalker 2

imagine griding 10 npc tasks for a bandit suit? 🤩

[worn oar]

Ew

[gritty orchid]

but in all seriousness, when the mod tools drops, hopefully someone will make a PDA taskboard mod, would be so cool

[celest blaze]

Chance for a basic toolset Ong

But fr I hope we get a shadow of chornobyl style ui mod

[gritty orchid]

yeah

[zinc apex]

Stalker SoCks

[celest blaze]

It's the peak ui cops is kinda mid and cs isn't the greatest

[gritty orchid]

i'm rocking clear sky hud/ui mods one since it released, its soo good

[tiny token]

I expect the patch to drop on the next friday

[gritty orchid]

i think it will drop in the middle of the week tbh, between monday and wednesday

[zinc apex]

Same

[celest blaze]

Legends return HUD is also peak

[zinc apex]

What's Legends return?

[gritty orchid]

this looks sick

[celest blaze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj1BWAIrct0

its a freeplay with good story its in cotz tier

[zinc apex]

You sir know all the mods

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

Thanks Ranjid

[meager kindle]

im gonna blow

[zinc apex]

are you an emission?

[tiny token]

I like to keep my expectations low to be surprised every time

[gritty orchid]

i do the same content wise, but i like to "know" when the patch will drop so i can plan my day accordingly

specially if its a game i play everyday

[zinc apex]

With KCD2 and Avowed on the horizon i'll quickly forget about Stalky 2. Very sadge 😦

[celest blaze]

avowed is kinda iffy

obsidian cant really cook

[zinc apex]

nah Avowed will be chefs kiss

[celest blaze]

idk man ill see it when i believe it modern gaming is half cooked slop

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-wiggle-dance-cat-shake-dance-cat-wiggle-shake-gif-7275729331624892207

[terse bane]

part of the HUD is from the builds of Shadow of Chernobyl 2004

[zinc apex]

Won't ever preorder again that's for sure

[celest blaze]

same

[potent mica]

You don't even need to preorder games on release date come out unfinished

[zinc apex]

Last preorder was Payday 3 and now Stalker. It always turn out kinda crappy

[celest blaze]

only good preorder for me in recent history was BG3

[sly matrix]

I preordered for the physical goodies, I accepted the risk of possible rough release. from the trailers it was clear the gameplay and design were pretty faithful to the trilOG, which is way more important than technical issues in my book.

[gritty orchid]

but but... the average gamma player/youtube essayist will say that a 2024 game is lacking detail and that a 2007 game (which they dont mention is heavily modded and/or only played the heavily modded version instead of the original vanilla trilogy)

[summer patio]

This game has to have the worst flashlight I've ever seen in any game I've ever played

[tawny flume]

Head lamps are

Need a flashlight attachment for all guns except snipers of course

[summer patio]

Is there or is this wishful thinking?

[tawny flume]

Head lamp flashlight aren’t the best I’ve seen none they are lasers in game

Be nice to have laser flashlight combo or something idk if that fits the world or not for the game

[hazy helm]

the gamma player is not playing stalker, hes playing gamma

[molten kiln]

again Where Patch ? xD

[worn oar]

Granma

[tawny flume]

It’s at gsc

[molten kiln]

Slava Monolith

[meager kindle]

PC guys ineed help FAST

[celest blaze]

It is now

[celest blaze]

Imagine being in the gamma server

Ong

[jade geyser]

they have cool stickers

[celest blaze]

Fr just messing

[meager kindle]

i was gonna need help with resetting my pc but i got it nvm

[coarse sparrow]

so.. only 8 out of 10 people have completed the prologue mission in Stalker 2

[slender perch]

Tbh 86% of players having done that is pretty high

[pliant lodge]

did emissions get changed they sound louder and brighter?

[lean creek]

doesnt seem like that to me

...
hey did you guys get on top of the tall prypiat apartment blocks ||through teleports||?
is there supposed to be some loot i'm missing, or is the reward just the view? there was only some standard cheap stuff at the top.

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-scar-spark-meme-gif-6112129495284371231

[next nimbus]

Nope, I’m pretty sure it’s just trash

[lean creek]

also - maybe a spoilery question: ||what's up with the massive basement beneath the industrial hospital? is it quest related or not?||

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[loud gate]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-scar-spark-meme-gif-6112129495284371231

[gritty orchid]

cant wait for someone to make a ||shining zone|| re texture mod for stalker 2 i would love to do a playtrough with it

[sour knot]

I will spoil the game

[north violet]

Did you want to continue this conversation or just leave it as is? #⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[tiny token]

i don't have anything else to say really

meow

[zealous pumice]

Okay it is officially the start of the month in the west, where is that update

[hexed pebble]

i always like to point out they have scar running spark with a guy called star. Like that wont be confusing

[pliant lodge]

whos star? XD

[celest blaze]

Scar died in clear sky that scar in S2 is an imposter

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153801114091521/1334542539943972914/Chad_Scar.gif

[drowsy blade]

Scar was turned in to Charon, he's the imposter among us

[inner mural]

according to anomilous dugout in the original lore they were going to copy you and at the end you fight copys of other leaders of clear sky and SOC

[celest blaze]

Ngl that goes kinda hard

Would make c con and the monolith even freakier if they were just mindless clones

Bladerunner Replicant energy

[inner mural]

in SOC the zone copys pripyat and places south of the plant so theres that too

or it could just be somthing with the map tbh lol

[celest blaze]

The zone is based as hell

[inner mural]

would be interesting if they were just hallucinations you THINK its a leader of duty lets say but its really noone there becuase c-con is very very strong at the center

screws and plays with your mind sort of like a controller

[celest blaze]

I love the mystery

I like that

[glass sigil]

Any way to stop the game from freezing when at the gun tech at Rostok?

[inner mural]

that is also why i love fallout 3 and new vegas they give out hints who did what when the bombs dropped, what systems/radar dishes/satilights detected what detonations, but they still keep it a mystery and everyone loves mystery's once in a while right? :p

[inner mural]

i had that, you have to clear your directx cache and reset your settings by changing it

[celest blaze]

I feel the same mystery goes a long way esp in franchises like this I like to wonder and ponder. It's not like elderscrolls where I want to know everything I can haha

[south patrol]

Anyone knows if there's any reason or use case to own more than one armour even after you get around the highest tier ones?

Or once you get set up nicely it's safe to sell everything else?

[urban basin]

Cause you like how they look? I guess

[south patrol]

I mean yes, sometimes in similar games I do like collecting one piece of all available equipment in the game so that's one reason. But are there practical reasons too?

For example is there one set of armour that's the single best one or maybe there are a few balanced to be more specific for different use-cases?

[thorn ermine]

I have a bread sprite spark exo and I think the use case for it is being cool and funny

[steady lantern]

anyone else's game still keeps crashing at Rostok specifically?

[urban basin]

I try to avoid rostok till the next big patch

[carmine temple]

When is multiplayer gonna be added

[blazing wing]

when will february start

[signal warren]

I had one crash at Rostok, but it was a long game session so I didn't think it was location specific.

[bright otter]

Has anyone had issues with no audio? All my settings are correct there's just no sound

[static compass]

I've been having this really specific bug where my inventory glitches and keeps making equip noises while not letting me read descriptions for things

However, this only happens when I get close to STC Malachite, nowhere else, so I'll just avoid it till patch

[warped wing]

I used to have this problem. Same exact issues as you described and only at malachite.

Currently experiencing a bug I think, any help appreciated. I am unable to sleep even though I’m not hungry or anything. I’m also constantly under psi attack basically. I take psi blocker and it goes away for a little bit and comes back. I ate like 6 of those things and if just keeps coming back

During a cut scene the psi-skeleton soldiers who chase you when you’re under psi influence were in the room blocking the camera during the cut scene. They would move with the camera and then just stand there. Now I’m hostage or something and I’ve got to find my gear, but I’m dying before I make it out the door

[static compass]

Odd

[weak shuttle]

I've been scared by the Rats more than ANY other enemy in the game so far.

[warped wing]

I’m sorry I meant I had the inventory and stash noises and no info and only near malachite like you. The other bug I’m having is unrelated I think

[clear elm]

Imagine seeing one of the rat swarms in real life.

[weak shuttle]

I would literally die

[clear elm]

Me too

[weak shuttle]

I think autosaving is broken. My last auto-save was 22 minutes ago.

[zealous pumice]

Skif just fumbling in his pockets

[tardy crane]

Has a life been fixed at all 😭haven't played since it released

[drifting niche]

Gsc updating steamdb even on the weekend

[unreal raptor]

Nope. Still a far cry from the old a life.

[tardy crane]

So they haven't really fixed much?

[unreal raptor]

Some fixes to large issues and some performance things in the last patch. Theres a new patch coming shortly that sounds like it could be more quest things.

[tardy crane]

Hmm okay

[unreal raptor]

But Alife sounds like it needs more time. I’m leaving it for the time being. As what I’ve seen is amazing. I just want the full experience.

[tender oracle]

me asking for a patch

[coarse sparrow]

me begging for dlss 4.0 support

[tiny token]

Oh yeah I had that too a few times. And yes I believe it was only Malachite lmao

[tiny token]

Hmmm. Did you visit the tall half-constructed building south of the duty base? The one with psi emissions and a reward on top of it? If you leave it improperly, you're gonna keep having the psi effect

[oak wyvern]

After 10 million years I have finally made it to pripyat

[zinc apex]

I miss Stalker 2 updates 😢

[molten hawk]

didn't they recently update?

[zinc apex]

they hotfixed

[muted valve]

well aim better then

[zinc apex]

[kindred drum]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/370676231210795018/808450822551502868/band6.gif

[wild zealot]

GUYS! LETS CELEBRATE!
Lads from GSC confirmed that next patch (not the one that was just added) WILL FIX HARDCODED KEYBINDS

[prisma goblet]

Where?

[wild zealot]

check "GSC answers" channel

[prisma goblet]

We know it will be a major patch. Maybe 1.2?

[wild zealot]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[gritty orchid]

cant wait to romance sidorovich on this new content update 🔥

[outer laurel]

I want next patch to add Duty Tomboys

[gritty orchid]

[reef raptor]

I want the exact same thing but Freedom and replace the T in Tomboys with F

wait that already exists okay Duty and replace the T in Tomboys with F

[outer laurel]

Tis why Freedom will die at Rostok when Duty will strike

Bunch of hippies and junkies, deserves a bullet to the head.

[reef raptor]

:(

[outer laurel]

Glory to the Duty and Ward. Together protecting the world from the Zone.

[reef raptor]

THE WARD?!!!! AWW HEEEEELL NOOOOOOOO

[outer laurel]

Kill all Freedom! TAKE ROSTOK BACK

[limber stone]

The Ward were the ones who forced Duty out of Rostok, no? Korshunov forced the Treaty that moved them to the Cement Plant

At least that’s what one of the loading screen snippets says

[outer laurel]

at the end game the treaty is gone anyway. Factions war starts

[limber stone]

This is the no spoilers chat, be careful

[outer laurel]

yea whatever

[muted valve]

poor man about to be yeeted by the mods 😦

[nimble cipher]

serathil1350 has been muted for 1 week

Reason: NSFW snork comment

Muted until · Feb 9, 2025, 1:26 PM

[muted valve]

literally 1984

[celest blaze]

based as fuck

[celest blaze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/860115243556012082/1263807774140272745/RDT_20211207_112633459821368338848768.gif

[gritty orchid]

lmao

[zinc apex]

nsfw snork comment 😂 😂

[celest blaze]

yes lol was talking about snorkussy and breeding

real freak shit

[zinc apex]

Yo did GSC tell what else to bet expected in the update instead of story fixes? What with A-LIFE?

[zinc apex]

Eeew 🚫

[celest blaze]

yeah was kinda gross lol

[sly matrix]

on a server with minors that's a big no

[celest blaze]

right? esp the content of the message lol

[zinc apex]

good times when the harmless mpreg faction had their peak

[gritty orchid]

clown reactioneers >>

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/grass-gif-12587352171248068863

[sly matrix]

[uncut heath]

Is "On The Edge" getting fixed?

[loud gate]

@kind breach Purge

[celest blaze]

banned

[gritty orchid]

we need a "smile_wolf" emoji for situations when someone gets wolf'd or banned

[heavy sable]

It is

I made a report and it'll be in the next patch

[somber juniper]

LMAO

[worn oar]

[slender perch]

aw i missed the snorker

[sly matrix]

don't worry, I didn't

[stiff pasture]

Some people are far too comfortable online with just sharing crap

[molten kiln]

Patch tomorrow? 🤣

[sly matrix]

preach

[stiff pasture]

I don’t care that you want to bone the weird degenerated gas mask gremlins, you don’t need to shout from the rooftops

[prisma goblet]

Patch tomorow 15:00

[molten kiln]

Wow what a precise time. 🤣 u sure ? 👽

[prisma goblet]

Trust me, I am the voice of the Monolith

[celest blaze]

[kindred drum]

I'm snorkin out

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-gif-15058124

[celest blaze]

Hahaha I love this

[oak wyvern]

Would it at all be safe to go to real life pripyat rn, like besides radiation

Or would I get 360 no scoped by a random Russian?

[gritty orchid]

Probably both

[oak wyvern]

Sooooo your saying it's a win win for me?

Joking

Kinda.............

[opaque vortex]

It's a shame the patch couldn't be released last week, alot of players will move onto kcd2 next week

[opaque vortex]

My bet is Thursday

[celest blaze]

Ayo hope you're Ok man

[potent mica]

Still have not even finished KCD 1. Started it last month but can't get into it but I do like it, just slow

[zenith stirrup]

where is a life

[oak wyvern]

All these patches and still some how some way enemies can spot me from 100 meters away in pitch black darkness with my light off but I can't see shit

[zenith stirrup]

insanity

[opaque vortex]

Definitely slow I liked it but I don't even think I got half way through the story! Kcd 2 seems like it will be more accessible

[opaque vortex]

If it isn't addressed in this upcoming patch I'm shelving the game for a while

[oak wyvern]

I am just a little depressed is all, can't get medication because america but other then that I'm ok

[potent mica]

Yea I'm still in the beginning. The writing is great. Do you think it will make sense to play 2 without finishing 1? I do hear it will be a bit more accessible. One of my go to reviewers said it's more of the same but with some quality of life improvements

[stiff pasture]

Knowing my luck, I’d be caught in an IRL emission somehow lmao

[celest blaze]

man thats a bummer but im always here if you need an ear

[opaque vortex]

They did a brief re cap video a few days ago plus I think there will be a recap at the start of the game so I would say yeah!

[oak wyvern]

It's also Hella annoying when I try to aim at an enemy and I just get bombarded with bullets knocking my aim all over the place

I get that's realistic but it's still annoying as hell

[potent mica]

Typically I try to use a scope and single fire mode to get headshots. If out in the open I run straight for the enemies and try to shoot them with my pistol or shotgun

[oak wyvern]

I just started shotgunning everything while listening to doom music and that somehow works

[opaque vortex]

I could deal with night bs combat if the enemy had muzzle flashes I could see

[potent mica]

Yea the enemy visibility needs to be adjusted and also shooting through objects/walls.but that kind of makes sense as long as they are the right distance and also same should apply to your character

[tawny flume]

Hate pso scopes

[zinc apex]

if they don't add a-life perstistence with next update i'll uninstall it. theres enough good games which will come out this season

[slender perch]

I already uninstalled

[celest blaze]

play call of the zone, legends returns, valley of whispers, the exception, OLR, goldsphere, prospectors project, or many of the other great stalker mods while you wait for S2 to be done tbh i prob wont touch stalker 2 until like 2027 or 28 tbh

[upbeat warren]

who's the dev who modelled the bloodsucker

[urban basin]

I dont like mods

[gritty orchid]

me

[upbeat warren]

why did you give it the whole bakery

[pliant citrus]

guys please dont tell me if you go to last mission you cant loot anymore u have to finish the story

[upbeat warren]

I see why Freedom gets freaky around bloodsuckers now

[gritty orchid]

ok, i wont tell you

[upbeat warren]

no it's actually like new vegas where you can't play the game anymore

[pliant citrus]

there is no way i can go back at least explore what is missing

[upbeat warren]

your system bricks itself when you beat the game

[pliant citrus]

i did not even use the guass gun either man not even the RPG

[gritty orchid]

||when you go to that mission i think it tells you that theres no going back|| so as long as you dont go in, you can do w/e you want in the zone

if you already continued, your only alternative is to load an old save

[zinc apex]

i'm burnt out of the old zone tbh

[celest blaze]

thats fair tbh

[gritty orchid]

play tarkov, the superior game

[zinc apex]

Already finished Tarkov with all endings and character maxed out

[uncut heath]

https://tenor.com/view/gi-robot-creature-commando-not-see-squinting-suspicous-gif-2280254102439360783

[zenith stirrup]

patch for jan doesnt even have patch notes

what a scam

[north violet]

Pinned right at the top of the "Activity" feed on S2's page in my library:

• Fixed crashes and freeze on shaders compilation

• Fixed memory leak occurred at Rostok location

• Fixed performance degradation when shooting/aiming on saves with long playtime

• Implemented fixes, that should solve the problem causing saves to be lost on Xbox

• Fixed a random crash related to UI animations.

[celest blaze]

you're expecting too much from someone roleplaying as elon lol

[gritty orchid]

😭

[sly matrix]

sounds about right

[worthy lagoon]

Lmao

[gritty orchid]

Lmao, looking at latest gamma discords announcement channel posts, bro glazing himself cause he asked an AI about his mod pack and it said nice things about it 😭

[boreal crescent]

ok?

[celest blaze]

holy shit thats pathetic lol

cotz, coc, rttn, lr > gamma

[gritty orchid]

Gamma supporter, ignored

[celest blaze]

cant you tell the ai to write positive things about you?

id ask to see the true and full chatlogs lol

[gritty orchid]

Yeah

"ChatGPT, say nice things about my mod pack but pretend I'm asking you about it for the first time"

[celest blaze]

💀

[zenith stirrup]

lol 1 month+ developing a patch for 4 changes

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-thumbs-up-gif-13684011490947959172

i miss when trolls werent bottom of the barrel slop

[zenith stirrup]

even if there was 1 developer working on patches he would have made more than 4 changes, its insane he cant make more than 4 changes, he must be like coding with his feet

[lapis jasper]

anyone else still unable to launch the game since the last update?

I never had any issues before, but now as soon as I launch it, it crashes at the photosensitivity warning.

[fallow garden]

Update the game now or I'm gonna have to get involved

[zenith stirrup]

do you need to lauch it though ?

even the discord server is dead, where are all the paid actors? it was full of paid actors but i cant even find 1 paid actor to call me a troll

[celest blaze]

go back to triangle strategy bro this bit is old

[zenith stirrup]

are you the 1 person left? are you the developer of the patch?

[lapis jasper]

bro doesnt know people just /ignore him lol

[celest blaze]

yeah man im making gamma 2

need a 5090 to run it cant be a brokie

[zenith stirrup]

never played gamma

HELLO ANYONE HERE ?

IS THIS GAME DEAD ? THERE IS 1 UNDEAD ZOMBIE HERE HELP ME

[celest blaze]

lol

[zenith stirrup]

I AM TRAPPED IN THE DISCORD CHAT HELP ME I AM THE LAST PERSON LEFT IF ANYONE SEES THIS PLEASE GET ME OUT I CANT BREATH FROM THE DUST

[stiff pasture]

Minor spelling mistake

[celest blaze]

i should make him go touch grass but i wanna see how this continues

[stiff pasture]

It’s entertaining seeing a dude committed to a stupid bit

[celest blaze]

fr

[zenith stirrup]

I NEED HELP I IMMEDIATELY THERE ARE MANIACS HERE WHO PRETEND THIS IS A REAL GAME

[celest blaze]

why not pay someone to play S2 for you like poe2 mr musk

so you can go outside

[stiff pasture]

Nah, he’s gotta shovel out metal dumpsters on wheels

[zenith stirrup]

I CANT BREATH I CANT BREATH TOO MUCH DUST CANT SEE I HAVE FALLEN INTO THE WELL WHY CANT ANYONE HELP ME IS THIS WORLD DEAD IS THERE NO A-LIFE? WAS IT ALL A LIE? WHY IS THERE NO RESPONSE, ITS AS IF I AM IN A DEAD PLACE WITH DEAD NPCS

[stiff pasture]

I despise the fact I’m hearing this in Musk’s voice

[zenith stirrup]

Maybe cause im the real musk

[stiff pasture]

If you’re musk, then I’m fecking bezos

[celest blaze]

ayo im zuckerberg

[stiff pasture]

I’m honestly surprised wolf didn’t snipe that one lmao

[zenith stirrup]

lol i am 💯

[void anchor]

Fix meta quest 3 😡🤬

[celest blaze]

All the issues will be fixed in Meta quest 4 Ong

[zenith stirrup]

wow no1 here to ban me

[celest blaze]

You looking for a ban?

[zenith stirrup]

hey yo stalker fanboys!! YOYOYO WHERE IS ALIFE

s2 my ass

can't even concentrate playing poe2 due to the magnitude of incompetence, maybe i should go ahead and buy the whole franchise

[muted valve]

there won't be a proper s2 until mods stop their unprovoked persecution of innocent snorks

[void anchor]

I want to play stalker Gamma 2

[latent kite]

@zenith stirrup Chill out

[muted valve]

i'm sorry to hear that, is it terminal?

[void anchor]

Men the best stalker is gamma i play shadow of chernobil call of pripyat and stalker Gamma and is very very good

[latent kite]

[muted valve]

i heard they're working on a cure for this

[void anchor]

Xd

Gamma is challenging thats the reasin becouse is very good

[muted valve]

don't worry son we'll get you through this GAMMA will be nothing but a bad dream after this, you'll emerge a new man capable of enjoying the true stalker experience, not some bogged down bloated mess of a modpack

[void anchor]

I also play true stalker, very good mod too

[celest blaze]

Play clear sky NOW

The best game of the franchise

[muted valve]

stalker 2 > clear sky and any who disagree is a snorker

[celest blaze]

I have no comments

[latent kite]

Hmm

[muted valve]

i know

[celest blaze]

[muted valve]

we've caught you red handed you ol'snorkeronie

[void anchor]

I want more reasonable dificult to stalker 2 (but please Make the Monster less spongeis, i literally fart when i listen two motherfukings bloodsuckers screaming)

[muted valve]

so you like a challenge when it's a inventory simulator using old used condoms to lube your old ass AK to make it even remotely use-able but when you need some proper tactics for fighting mutants it's unreasonable? Such a typical GAMMA mindset

[void anchor]

Jajajaja

The mutants on veteran IS just crazy

[gritty orchid]

kysteppin is back?

[muted valve]

saiga rocks all of them

[gritty orchid]

I really like the spaz 12, but the recoil on that thing is horrendous

[void anchor]

I dont have It i have to search It

[muted valve]

yeah @celest blaze is kysteppin's alt

[gritty orchid]

(havent upgrade mine yet, so idk if the recoil upgrades actually makes a huge difference)

[celest blaze]

😳

[gritty orchid]

i have found more spas 12's than saigas on my playtrough, the only one i have is fully broken, i might just see if i can get some money to repair it

[void anchor]

Ok ok in terms of Survival u have a saiga with drum MAG but u see a chimera, what is the best tactic?

[muted valve]

run tf away

[celest blaze]

Fight it

[void anchor]

You see we have the same mindset 😂

[gritty orchid]

kill it with your knife

i wish gsc added an achievement to kill a chimera or a pseudo giant with a knife instead of that one when you have to kill someone with a exo suit

[void anchor]

I hope this time rpg can kill chimeras

[muted valve]

fighting mutants is always a net loss, a true stalker knows what fights to fight and what fights to avoid, modern day games turned people into murder hobos

[void anchor]

But thats imposible chimera just beat u hard.

[muted valve]

and i've never killed a snork in my life since they're my favorite mutants, they are victims

[void anchor]

Well i cant say the same

Expecially when u have to go in to snork cave to find some good loot

[muted valve]

they are gracious and innocent creatures, the product of some mad scientists

[stiff pasture]

Sounds of a pack of loners getting absolutely shredded in the distance by a chimera Yes, very gracious

[gritty orchid]

I like fleshes :)

[stiff pasture]

Give me a pet Pseudo dog or Bayun so I can have it screw with people

Teach the psychic cat various commercial jingles it can just beam into other people’s heads

[muted valve]

A bayun making the 'da-da-da-da-daaa, i'm loving it!' jingle 😂

[latent kite]

Domino's woo hoo

[stiff pasture]

If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation

Or the, Arby’s commercial, just walking around and then just ‘WE HAVE THE MEATS’ blares through some dudes mind

Oh god wait, the Big Bill’s Hells cars meme commercial

[celest blaze]

In op2 I punched fleshes to death with some fighting gloves

[gritty orchid]

poor creatures

[celest blaze]

they came at me

[solemn olive]

Bro is yapping about update I would see how he can patch everything in 1 month

[prisma goblet]

Patch today

[vague sentinel]

How do you know ?

[molten kiln]

He just guessing

[slender perch]

Patch 2morrow

[celest blaze]

patch drops when all snorkers are purged

[dire dagger]

This is a call to action

The great snork genocide starts now

[celest blaze]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[celest goblet]

Patch this week seems fairly likely but it's not official til it's announced

[dire dagger]

you mates like consult crystal balls and then are like the mirror mirror on the wall when will the patch drop for us all

[celest goblet]

lol, I'm just going off the fact they said "very soon." But you can never predict exactly how these things will go

[dire dagger]

cpu physics optimization patch when

[fallow garden]

PLEASE

[celest goblet]

We can dream

[dire dagger]

stalker 2 fr runs like fucken crytech engine

using 2 cpu cores in 2025

[fallow garden]

The NPCs aren't even all that complicated. Same shi with dragon's dogma 2. Capcom said their NPCs were too advanced, which made crowded areas run like doodoo. Neither dd2 nor s2 have that complex NPCs. As much as they want to advertise it. There's tons of older games that had lots of complexity and high amounts of NPCs that ran fine

[dire dagger]

game brings my 7950x3d to its knees

maxes out the entire cpu on all v cache cores

[fallow garden]

You have an a-life system that barely works, and most NPCs simply tell you to talk to their boss or trade simple items with you

[dire dagger]

meh

[fallow garden]

I have a 5800x3d and utilization is kinda all over the place. Also, the average framerate is pretty good, it's the 1% lows that make the game look choppy

[dire dagger]

you walk into a town

and loose like 2/3s of your frames

120 down to 40

[celest goblet]

This is what most of them did in the older games where it did work too

[fallow garden]

Yeah, but without major performance issues. Mostly just jank

[celest goblet]

Yeah. Though I mean back in the day clear sky didn't run so great on my PC 😂

[dire dagger]

i mean

clear skys minium spec was

like a low tier rig from 2003

im dead ass

lol

[celest goblet]

But that was mostly my PC not being that good back then

[fallow garden]

I remember day 1, no patches no mods, game still had that mouse acceleration nonsense. All settings maxed out I was running and jumping, moving my camera all over the place and I managed to drop to 19 fps in zalissya

[dire dagger]

the mouse acceleration made the game feel like it had 150ms of input lag

lmfao

[fallow garden]

I'm just wondering how issues like these are a thing. Everybody complained about it. Who tested the game?
Just Xbox gamers?

[dire dagger]

its clear they basically felt they had no choice but to launch the game

which looking at fan opinion at the time

[fallow garden]

And even they had an issue where aiming up would do a weird thing and look behind or whatever

[dire dagger]

i mean yah

if they came out and said sorry lads

another 6 months

this discord would have been completely closed lol

the outrage would be insane

[fallow garden]

Would've hurt sales

[dire dagger]

its the catch 22

because despite the fact that the game needed another 6 months

if they said they were delaying 6 mroe months

[celest blaze]

fr i wish they delayed it for 6 instead of 2

[dire dagger]

the launch would have been completely botched

forever

no one would take anything they said seriously going forward

[celest blaze]

such a disaster situation to think about tbh

they couldnt win really in any way all they could do is pick the least worst L

[dire dagger]

no matter what GSC did they would lose

id argue this outcome was the option where they lost the least

[celest blaze]

deff strained public trust but i feel its been a net positive for the mod scenes of all the story and freeplay communities gives folks chances to experience peak

[dire dagger]

i mean gsc just learned the hardway why companies like nintendo

dont talk about a game

till they are 100 percent sure its ready

[celest blaze]

fr haha

[dire dagger]

at best just say

the game is being made

then go radio silent till your ready

[celest blaze]

then you got bethesda who released a trailer in 2018 for tes 6 and never said anything else

[dire dagger]

yah

like

we should not have heard anything officially about stalker 2 until like late 2024

then release in like june 2025

[fallow garden]

We can only hope that going forward, the developers will keep listening to our feedback and address the biggest issues. For some reason I'm having trouble thinking of a game that launched and had decent performance fixes. Does anyone have an example? The most extreme one ideally

[celest blaze]

none that i can think of tbh

[fallow garden]

A game that launched and ran horribly, but through updates ran much better in all aspects, on the same hardware

[celest blaze]

2077 got fixed but that was over years

[dire dagger]

indiana jones and the great circle

it ran really well right out the gate

but that game was made on id tech engine by machine games so

[fallow garden]

No Im talking about a game that didn't run well initially, but was substantially improved later on (performance ONLY)

[fallow garden]

Was performance bad at first? I just remember it looking bad on many settings. Lots of ghosting and artifacts but idk about raw fps

[dire dagger]

i think it had really bad frame time problems if i remember correctly

[fallow garden]

I had a 2070 when it launched and I don't remember issues like that, but it had so many issues overall that maybe I just forgot about it

I did a little search for the 2070 in cp2077. Started from 4 years ago to 8 months ago. Performance was solid, both in 1% lows and average fps and also it didn't really change over the years

[dire dagger]

maybe a good example is like no mans sky?

oh yah

for sure no mans sky

that game totally ran like total ass at launch

[fallow garden]

Hmm maybe. I know it was horrible overall. When I played it for the first time it had already been out for a couple years and it was pretty solid

[dire dagger]

at launch it was awful

but now its a really good game

apparently

[fallow garden]

Oh it's definitely a good game. I had alot of fun playing with friends

[dire dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ&pp=ygUfaW50ZXJuZXQgaGlzdG9yaWFuIG5vIG1hbidzIHNreQ%3D%3D

if you have not seen it before

[worn oar]

[static compass]

No Man's Sky is super based

I have many hours in that beautiful game

[celest goblet]

It's a great game to vibe in

You can do as much or as little as you care to

[dire dagger]

call me when they add trains

im autistic so i need the game to have trains

[honest geyser]

Hi all, question - After discovering wild island, my game appears to spawn way more bandits and they tend to spawn right in front of me. In addition its stormy all the time. Is this normal or a known bug?

[static compass]

They honestly might at this rate, lmao

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/train-roll-rolling-train-station-enough-internet-for-today-gif-10844064

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/ultrasad-gif-23310565

[clear raft]

New patch tomorrow?

[tawny flume]

Sure

[dire dagger]

i consulted the crystal ball

and it says yes

[clear raft]

Oh good

[zealous pumice]

I'm in australia so I am tomorrow for the west, and no update yet guys sorry ill let you know tomorrow, tomorrow @dire dagger

[clear raft]

So patch tomorrow then?

[zealous pumice]

Ill let you know early

[clear raft]

What new bugs will the new patch introduce into the game? I'm worried the Rostok memory leak will come back 😣

[dire dagger]

update will come end of the month probably

[clear raft]

Roadmap in April?

[zealous pumice]

Hahahahhahahahha

[thorn ermine]

Hopium

[thorn ermine]

[slender perch]

Snorkium

[toxic vector]

KCD2 releases tomorrow, GSC dont need to rush their patches anymore

[robust kestrel]

Ya play that instead. Mostly the same game anyway

[kindred drum]

Wait what's kcd2 got anything to do with this game

[drifting niche]

Patch today

[toxic vector]

you can play KCD2 without going to check Stalker 2 patches everyday

[kindred drum]

?

[toxic vector]

so we have another good game to play while waiting for stalker 2 update

[kindred drum]

Oh

[copper kelp]

I got tons of unfunny games to wait for update

[kindred drum]

What if they also make you wait for patches

[copper kelp]

Beat my head and knock myself out till the patch is out

[kindred drum]

Oh and the next battlefield reveal is today also

[toxic vector]

well, KCD2 can run smoothly even on old rig like quad core cpu, 1070, 2550x1440 res

[copper kelp]

Standard method for korean gamers btw.

[kindred drum]

That's crazy

[copper kelp]

What about 1060 3GB vram

[toxic vector]

well, i guess it will run fine

[copper kelp]

how did they optimize that game.

[toxic vector]

it's just KCD1 2.0

If you can play KCD1 well, your PC probably can run 2

[lean creek]

Lol you think kcd2 is not going to be bugged?

[toxic vector]

bugs always exist but the optimization is already tested by reviewers

[lean creek]

That's because the game is 7 years old.

Plenty of time to optimize

[forest herald]

is my physical edition coming in or am i cooked

[void anchor]

Upgrade ur GPU men rx6600 or rtx3060 just cost 200€

[copper kelp]

gotta change my whole PC sadly so no

[wise geyser]

Dead ass?

that’s my friend is valid 🙂‍↔️

[molten kiln]

Where patch ? 🤣

[wise geyser]

Sometime soon I’m pretty sure they said early Feb

Kinda just reminds me of a cyberpunk situation but if it had released in a slightly better state and prob won’t take as long

Took cyberpunk until the edge runners update to where people were like okay yeah this shit is fire now which was about 2 years then everything after like phantom liberty ect just cooked

[molten kiln]

I thought patch today

[wise geyser]

Don’t think stalkers gonna take that long cause we got a better base with this but we shall see

[wise geyser]

Oh yeah nah lmao I’m not sure where you heard that but maybe 🤷‍♂️ all I know is they said early Feb

[molten kiln]

They said very soon after hotfix early feb

That’s what they said

[wise geyser]

Yes brother? That’s what I just said early February lmao but if you want word for word here "the next patch will be very soon at the start of February"

That doesn’t specify a date and it is still early February

[molten kiln]

Hah this discord is crazy. People don’t know how to read. Dude I’m not disagreeing with you. I’ve just said what I said cuz I agree and that’s it. Don’t try to attack me like I’m retard

[copper kelp]

why do we even fight fot 'patch when' stuff let's just go play other games or run another stalker 2 ward route

[latent kite]

You need to chill out

[molten kiln]

I’ve tried to be more specific and that’s it

[latent kite]

As do you

[copper kelp]

everyone calm down

why do we even suddenly become hostile for 'patch when' stuff when it's all up to devs

[molten kiln]

Haha okey I’m gonna eat my breakfast. Would u mind ? Thanks. Have a nice day

[copper kelp]

let the devs cook, no need to be hostile and sarcastic ngl

let's just stop, since it's just a small conflict anywy

no need to take my words back like that, but okay

[wise geyser]

???

[copper kelp]

oh sorry thought you said that to me sry

didn't slept well today bc i had work yesterday

[wise geyser]

Be like that some days, the troubles of work

[copper kelp]

i have job irl, so that's why i'm tired sometime lol

[wise geyser]

Lmao yeah Brodie that’s what I meant by it be like that sometimes 💀

[copper kelp]

👍

[wise geyser]

I didn’t figure by work you were talking about sitting on your ass 😂

[muted valve]

i wish people wouldn't talk about work on mondays

[prisma goblet]

@vague sentinel Monolith told me

[dim topaz]

I just love the first monday of the month

[kindred drum]

Patch coming in any minute now

[muted valve]

I've seen what GSC's "soon" and "early february" mean, won't be for another two weeks

[kindred drum]

Aaaaaaany second now

[floral pilot]

https://youtu.be/KEtb0punTHk

[empty gorge]

gib patch yahhhh ty ty

[dire dagger]

No idea

[kindred drum]

[opaque vortex]

I hear you, early Feb has gotta be this week the 2nd week becomes mid Feb. I like to think if they put a date range on it they are confident

[opaque vortex]

I feel like they are scrambling with the roadmap thinking of what cut content to re implement and how long it would take. If this wasn't the case they would of known their roadmap early on

[gritty orchid]

Honestly in terms of cut content i want more guns, attachments, binoculars+nvgs and some mutant hunting quests

[opaque acorn]

Hi, how do I use dlss 4 for stalker 2. The nvidia app is bugging out and i cant change any settings there for stalker 2.

[zinc apex]

Install update on my pc now please

[muted valve]

vision, for the last time, even if there was an update, you wouldn't get it cause you refuse to behave

[zinc apex]

I'm a very naughty man, that's true

[blazing wing]

i don't see early feb for patch, says start of feb in #📜┃gsc-answers

but also doesn't say 2025 and since feb already started, see you in a year

[harsh saffron]

sounds like a plan!

[latent kite]

We're 3 days in lol

[glacial pumice]

my guess is 5-6/2

[muted valve]

that's 3 days too late

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/maxwell-cat-cat-spin-maxwell-dancing-cat-gif-27688713

[zinc apex]

Update is probably stuck in console validation process again

[celest blaze]

patience is a virtue ong

[uncut heath]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-spongebob-lonely-sad-raining-gif-5248000

[zinc apex]

And time is money or entertainment in this case

[muted valve]

who says i'm a virtuous person?

[celest blaze]

Once the purge is complete you will be

[zinc apex]

Please talk to GSC to drop update today. They will listen to the Carmaster

[muted valve]

purge this, oppress that, you need help mein bruder in christus

[zinc apex]

No politics please 🇧🇪

[muted valve]

this beastly behavior towards innocent snorks must stop

[muted valve]

also don't use fictional flags please

[celest blaze]

thats the renegades flag fr

[sly matrix]

[muted valve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQ2CUWCKcI

[opaque vortex]

Can we get hints from devs of what to expect on the patch, at this point it must be concrete except for the exact date

[muted valve]

7,5 bug fixes and two additional voicelines for sid

[zinc apex]

I just want more street-life fixes

[lean creek]

btw there's a side mission that only has english voice lines

i play in ukrainian voiceover and a bandit started talking english, i thought it's just that one character.
but then I talked to him and Skif also switched to english for that convo.
But these are bandits, so fortunately loners showed up and started shooting at them during the conversation
no more english

||it's the one where a guy is trying to sell you a car||

[crisp ruin]

[grim cave]

Oh that sounds funny (both the bug, I play with Ukrainian VA too, and the mission) where is it?

[crisp ruin]

Strange, I never had that bug

[lean creek]

||village north-east of rostok, the easternmost house||

[grim cave]

Thank you! Will check it out, probs missed it

[lean creek]

i only found it after endgame, there's not that much to see there

[charred wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-pixels-dpgc-gif-25869325

[drifting niche]

The patch won't release today 😞

[kindred drum]

Im gonna cry

[rose summit]

real

[waxen axle]

Remember when they say « roadmap in early 2025 🤡 »

[empty gorge]

i remember them saying december

[slender perch]

snorks are people too

[celest goblet]

It's still early 2025

[empty gorge]

i dont even think they gave a new date did they?

[slender perch]

SDK wen

[empty gorge]

when ue6 releases p0gchamp

[main granite]

Anyone know if “scanners complete achievement” is fixed yet so you don’t need to all in one go get them?

[worn oar]

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cheetah-gif-27497752

[tiny token]

stalker tuah

[molten kiln]

Ehhh no patch this week knowing GSC 🥲

[tender oracle]

sad no patch

[empty gorge]

100% not, will be early next week, big brain if they drop it monday 10th to say "its early february since 10-20 feb is mid and 20-30 is late"

or some gsc weird ass funky reason

[molten kiln]

I’m eager to play but they need to address a lot of things .. thanks anyway

[empty gorge]

what you waiting on? hardlocked in msq?

[molten kiln]

I mean I finished game once and I wanna explore a bit but without annoying aimbot npc spawning right behind u. That’s for starters

[empty gorge]

imo, won't be in next update. that requires changing the ai vision, threat detection, sensory stuff etc and do that for the different npc types in game like generic, hub guards, ||bosses|| basically a rewrite of the current ai target aquisition and capabilities.
as for npc spawning behind, do you get the feeling that npc's just run at you as soon as they are in render?

[molten kiln]

Yeah that happens a lot. Okey if u say so then I won’t be playing anytime soon

[empty gorge]

yeah there are about 8 (prob more) files associated to npc capabilities.
constraints, flairs, focuslocation, hearing, movement, threat, visionscanning, visiontickrate
so in order to change say the buckshot bandito people report would mean adjust their visionscan distance, visiontickrate for time, threat valuation etc and if they change that for spawning npc thats different from a hub npc so they will need to adjust that too. therefore i dont see it happening in the next few updates since there are more major bugs like memory leak and hardlocked quests.

as for the npc are you on pc?

[north violet]

1. It was a hot-fix, not a full-size patch so of course it's not huge.

2. Not a full month; remember that the holidays happened and many employees were likely on vacation.

[molten kiln]

Thanks for explanation and sadly I’m on Xbox

[molten kiln]

Ukrainian holidays are in January

[north violet]

Yeah, stuff like AI, weapon balancing, etc. probably won't take higher priority until the major bugs and glitches have been ironed out as you said.

[empty gorge]

pfff sucks man, the npc is due to them literally putting you as the target once they render in at 95m, the director designates your location to them. this explains why they all so touchy touchy and always walk close, attack you perfectly, how mutants know your location instant etc.
if you where on pc i could explain how to turn that off since wtf gsc

[molten kiln]

Jesus not having PC is like being a handicapped

[empty gorge]

wanna have a fun fact? 1.0 had some bandits shotgun and other weapon type spread set to AR spread, aka 0 basically
in 1.0.3 or 1.1.0 they reverted that mistake

they also set the fake human vs human spawns to target::Player instead of target::eachOther, that explained the mass spawning and rushing to the player since some of these 8+ groups shouldve been 4v4's hahahaha

[empty gorge]

fun fact: console has different difficulty values compared to pc hahahah

[dire dagger]

Game is probably made easier I imagine

[hazy helm]

I mean when LOTZ dropped they actually lowered Enemy NPC Capabilities and actions to be easier so

make that what you will

[molten kiln]

What you mean by that ? It’s easier to play on console ? Hymm I play on Veteran

[zinc apex]

Modders know more abt a-life and ai than GSC themselves lol

[empty gorge]

yes see :
base human:
Empty : struct.begin
SID = Empty
NPC_HP = 1.0
easy pc:
uses base human
easy xbox:
Easy_Xbox : struct.begin {refkey=Easy}
SID = Easy_Xbox
NPC_HP = 0.9

xbox is about 0.1 lower compared to pc, this also applies to pretty much all else

[molten kiln]

Hey do you know something about artifact spawn rate ? I’ve read somewhere that it’s connected to ur game stage. More far u are in main quest the better chance u get to find rare and legendary artifacts

[gritty orchid]

correct

[north violet]

If you're Orthodox, but there are Ukrainian Catholics as well. Probably some people that went on holiday for December, and others that went in January.

Besides, their last patch of the year was right before December 25th iirc, so it still lines up.

[empty gorge]

ofcourse, there is a whole file dedicated to artefacts, what quest progress they spawn, what amount they can spawn etc.
if you would like the coded info of one ask me. got the file right here

[north violet]

Dimitri Iassenev is the creator of A-Life for the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games and is still with GSC.

Unfortunately, last I knew he was deployed in the war, but he likely had a hand in the earlier pre-war stages of S2's development.

[empty gorge]

artefacts also have a spawnchance that lowers after quest progress, they have cooldowns to not roll again for a while, there is even a bad luck mechanic

[molten kiln]

Okey so I wanna know 🤣. Give me some info Boss!

Ps. Weeks before when I mentioned that here people laughed at me and basically where rude that I know sit

Experience: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic chances

Newbie: 80%, 20%, 0%, 0%
Experience: 50%, 48%, 1.9%, 0.1%
Veteran: 30%, 59%, 10%, 1%
Master: 10%, 65%, 20%, 5%

[empty gorge]

if only hahaha

[subtle lily]

Hey all. Was looking to try and play shadow of Chernobyl again (dropped it a while ago but I’m getting the stalker itch and hoping the game will stick this time). And I was wondering if there’s any mods you guys recommend for a new player

[empty gorge]

zrp, the must have nr 1 mod for that game

[hazy helm]

if youre on a newgen Intel CPU, get the correct beta branch, if not, it should be fine as is

[subtle lily]

Nope. AMD cpu

[hazy helm]

then youre fine, just install and play

[north violet]

Wait, so there is a player ranking system but we just can't see it?

[subtle lily]

Isn’t ZRP similar to the unofficial patch for fallout new Vegas? Just a mod that fixes a bunch of bugs and such

[empty gorge]

not realy quest or lore spoiler but for ryans artefact chances
||start
[4] : struct.begin {refkey=[0]}
ID = 4
SID = MSDemoArtifactSpawner
Newbie : struct.begin
Count = 1
Radius = 20000.f
MinCooldown = 3.f
MaxCooldown = 15.f
SpawnChanceBase = 40.f
SpawnChanceBonus = 5.f
RarityChance : struct.begin
Common = 1.f
Uncommon = 0.f
Rare = 0.f
Epic = 0.f
struct.end
struct.end
end||

[jade geyser]

I know when patch, but wont tell you

[subtle lily]

👍

[hazy helm]

its a QOL mod that goes beyond the scope of purely fixes, if you find a bug or crash you cant fix, ZRP is recommended, if not, playing without it is posssible and recommended

[subtle lily]

Sounds good. Thanks dude

[north violet]

Really? What does ZRP do beyond bug fixes?

[empty gorge]

above spoilertag is a microsoft vertical slice demo they made most likely to show progress or for an event @molten kiln , but other artefacts use same structure just different numbers

[weary token]

Anyone on 5080 tried the game?
Only had a glimpse at the framerates in rostok, its quite good

[empty gorge]

hell no zrp is more then that much more

[hazy helm]

makes imperative changes to dialogue and some mechanics due to NatVacs personal feelings on these + adds a Freeplay mode after youre done with the game that cannot be turned off
Tejas and SurDno would bite your ear off with more info but thats the extent of what I know

[jade geyser]

w8ing for 6090 to try, by that time the patch will be out

[north violet]

@empty gorge Hey, you're the same Shay the made that A-Life mod correct?

[hazy helm]

bottomline is, if you can launch the game without ZRP, youre set, you dont need it
if you cant, try with it

[empty gorge]

[weary token]

ahh ok

[empty gorge]

but not the official 1.0 release of the early access ahhhh game we got now kek

[north violet]

Okay, I had a couple things regarding A-Life that I wanted to run by you.

First off, I've always seen/heard A-Life in the original trilogy, specifically the "Offline" component, described as effectively being a spreadsheet running calculations in the background. Would you say that that's an accurate way to describe it?

Secondly, several times now I've seen a guy on the r/stalker subreddit making a claim that it's literally impossible to implement A-Life in UE5, more specifically the aforementioned "Offline" component. Do you have any idea if this is true?

[molten kiln]

5080 is not worth it. Better 4090 I think

[hazy helm]

in the original trilogy? youre talking about the AMK A-Life extension
and no its not impossible to implement it

[north violet]

Original trilogy had the "Offline" background simulation without the AMK extension though?

[molten kiln]

Nice work, but after your throughly explanations I’m not suprised that u did that mod

[empty gorge]

1, yeah in very basic terms it kinda is.
2. hes an idiot, ue5 native has already capabilities for npc tracking both in render and out render due to culling system, what gsc has done is strip the 5.1 version off the native built in ai director and implement their own.
on top of that they have tried adjusting their ai logic but instead have broken it in a certain way cant go in to deep.
an extra here is the tickrate, it is true what molit says as the whole tickrate system is made for alife but the ticks are broken to say it simple

[hazy helm]

no, it was cut out, AMK re-implemented it and expanded it

and yhea, AMKs offline a-life is script based, you can download the mod off of Moddb and look at their logic

quite fun to dissect

[north violet]

@empty gorge Shay, is what OGSR is saying true? I'm fairly certain that the original trilogy did indeed have an "Offline" background simulation, it was just never fully implemented to the level GSC originally wanted and that the closest we got was Clear Sky.

[north violet]

Thank you for confirming, I suspected that that dude was full of shit.

[hazy helm]

Offline A-life Simulation, and by that I mean, off the map a-life simulation,l was never passed on to the actual games as it was deemed too heavy for the computer

[upbeat warren]

Got the cuirass exoskeleton and the monolith radsuit

[north violet]

We can literally watch NPC "points" spawn in at PoIs in Clear Sky though, plus there's also the whole meme about "Take an assassination job and then turn around 2 minutes later because the target was killed by a mutant.".

I've always been under the impression that that was "Offline" A-Life in action.

[empty gorge]

he is right yeah, clear sky is the first proper offline implementation and even that was soooo broken, most of the stuff was limited and a lot was scripted. old alife also uses smart terrain where calculations can be done, anything outside isnt really being calculated for the cpu and more

[empty gorge]

hahaha been at it since nov 20 release 😛

[hazy helm]

there is a very big misconception about Offline Alife bc AMK is a 2007 mod that was implemented in every single mod thereafter
as for NPCs spawing at POIs in Clear Sky, tahts more so related to the war system not Offline A-life, as the system spawns squads inside the map depending on Global Variables related to story and how the war is going on (example being if you helped Freedom out youll see Freedom take grabage points)
Secondly, this didnt happen in the Stalker games, its mods

[upbeat warren]

Imagine GSC’s original idea for A-Life in stalker 2

[north violet]

Well my apologies for misunderstanding it then.

[upbeat warren]

That cpu is getting fried

[empty gorge]

impossible due to the new alife system they are using, it doesnt keep track of npc names and inventory unfortunately and i think it never will. they need to come forward and say that tbh

[hazy helm]

I have faith, that theyll hire the AMK peeps
we can all have faith...

[upbeat warren]

And good luck getting offline ai to run across the zone in a game like stalker 2

[north violet]

Do you think there's any way that they could implement that?

[empty gorge]

they dont, they use a spawner system combined with "randomized" lairs, and no @north violet never
they need to rework the whole idea of offline they have now

[hazy helm]

I can only offer hope

[empty gorge]

psa: most of what i say here is based on my own opinion and knowledge

[north violet]

So there is a possibility that GSC has some segment of A-Life code hidden away or in the works that you and other modders just aren't privy to?

[hazy helm]

I mean they could use AMK as a blueprint and adapt the spawner to that end
randomized events would still need to be there since you could use those for certain quests

NLC quests so good man

[north violet]

Hire the AMK people and have the team led by Iassanev.

[hazy helm]

only GSC is privy to their own hidden codebases and hidden features, even more so now that they have hidden their steam repos,

[empty gorge]

yeah there 100% is, its why we got locked out of render i suppose, so they can work on fixing offline and distances, values, logic etc without uses running render increasing mods that mess with quests and scripted stuff since if you render something at 500m, the game thinks you can see them and runs the script it rendered.

[north violet]

Personally as long as they can get A-Life 2.0 to feel like A-Life in the original trilogy/the AMK mod, that's more than enough for me.

[north violet]

Lol, so what you're saying is there's hope?

[empty gorge]

they could but that doesnt fix the persistency problem in name, perhaps gear, inventory.

[wide wraith]

Is S2's A-life fixed by now?

[hazy helm]

if they do get their inspiration from AMK, then they could just use keep it in save with a table telling their loadout and position andhave everything scripted thru LUA scripts

[hazy helm]

no

[wide wraith]

damn

[north violet]

Why is it so difficult to implement that level of persistency in UE5?

[empty gorge]

no, i dont believe so atm
here is alife in super simple terms:
game makes lairs based on a random location (its not random, some locations are hardcoded for some types and all locations are stored it picks random from a list of existing locations), when you pass a spawner lair in render it triggers the type it has to spawn based on parameters like quest progress, the spawned npc gets a job from the director based on the type it is ie a mutant spawn gets target player whereas a human vs human battle spawner spawns 2 squads of humans at a set distance, once in render they execute their job. you walk by you pass another spawner with its parameters etc

[north violet]

How system-intensive would that be though?

[hazy helm]

youre asking for the game to keep track of 300+ NPCs in memory and then dynamically render them once they are isnide a circle
to begin with, UE and Unity arent good at keeping track of a massive number of objects as they have a lot of metadata inside of them
it would suit the engine a lot more if you dont even use objects for the new system and use scripts then just tell the engine to spawn the object when its close

[empty gorge]

the problem atm is due to the player not being in render and there not being a spreadsheet that moves the spawners around all offline is fake and randomized each startup. so all spawns are randomized and not persistent

[north violet]

And as far as you know there's no way to change that?

[empty gorge]

there is nothing storing them in the offline since its all spawners linked to types that get activated based on render distance, you pass a spawner, you get a spawned type, spawned type gets an order from director, done

[tawny comet]

Some vegan food tastes as good as the original it’s trying to replicate. I’m not sure how they do it, but it works. If the can fake a-life into feeling like original, then it’s good

[hazy helm]

Depends, I am not a programmer, if I was I would be doing that as opposed to cleaning the isles of the discord, but it wouldnt be an unnoticeable ammount of processing power

here is what Shaytech said

[empty gorge]

wanted to send proof and source but got wolfed so heres a part that doesnt trigger the bot into thinking its spam:
struct begins
sid = generalnpc duty spawner
objprototypes id
5 types of npc
struct end

[latent ridge]

I wonder if they had maintained instanced zones zones if A-Life would have been easier to implement in stalkjer2. I think I would have liked that trade off

[hazy helm]

damn taht was an old message

[hazy helm]

yes it wouldve

[empty gorge]

and here they are defined based on quest progress:
blalawlblal wolf DutyNewbie : struct.begin {refkey=HumanBase}
this not spam wolf SID = DutyNewbie
struct.end

[north violet]

@empty gorge Have you considered making a post on the subreddit about this or are you worried it would cause an overwhelmingly large portion of people to shit themselves with rage and demand refunds?

[empty gorge]

and then they are linked to director:
blabla wolf Humans_Friendly : struct.begin
awdwad SID = Humans_Friendly
awd PlayerRequiredRank = ERank::Newbie
some ScenarioSquads : struct.begin
[*] : struct.begin
AgentArchetype = EAgentArchetype::Human
bPlayerEnemy = false

[empty gorge]

like it matters, gsc knows man

[tawny comet]

Sounds like lack of persistence in npcs due to UE5 not being able to track many items at once is why A-Life struggles. Is that the simple version of all this?

[north violet]

I think that's basicaly what it boils down to yeah.

[empty gorge]

want the simple my humble opinion on the matter? ue5 is perfectly capable of it, gsc decided to cut ue5s base features for it and implement their own

[hazy helm]

I dont think Ill ever know the reason unless I corner a developer at a bar and buy a drink in exchange for the answer

[north violet]

Would it be possible to reimplement those base features and include some of their own ideas into said implementation?

[empty gorge]

want the tinfoil hat on top?
something happened in 2022 and yes we all now whatt but something major besides that and the following months, there are remnants of amazing tech here

[tawny comet]

So spawners instead of persistent npc. Couldn’t they just add like , a few groups of persistent npcs sprinkled in with the spawners to try and sell A-life a bit more. We don’t need to track 300 npcs, but maybe 1 group per area?

[hazy helm]

depends on how much they allow us to implement thru modding, which is another convesation

[empty gorge]

not at all they slashed ue5 so hard they call it ue5.1.gsc kek so either they wanna act cool or they in too deep with changes that it would require restructuring the whole games pipeline

[muted valve]

watching shaytech talk about editing config files always hurts my brain a little

[tiny token]

what's the point of changing ue5 this significantly?

[muted valve]

go make some more clickbait title videos instead

[empty gorge]

mustve had their reasons, that i dont know. its weird they kept 5.1 tho

[north violet]

it would require restructuring the whole games pipeline

Would that actually be possible or is it such an undertaking that it's effectively infeasible?

[tiny token]

oh wait you're that youtube guy

[tawny comet]

Wasn’t the point of using UE5 to streamline and expedite the creation process. Why butcher it?

[boreal crescent]

adjust it for their game, nobody uses standard engine without tweaks

[hazy helm]

its possible but not smth you would wanna do, its like throwing work you already did away

[north violet]

Amazing tech like what?

[empty gorge]

they tried to about a year ago i think, there are remnants of some amazing stuff in the game that appear to have been halted? shelved? idk its weird its like there are 2 completely different versions