⭐┃nospoilers_general

[zinc apex]

Wrong?

[pseudo rivet]

Then there must be a huge list of missing persons in your area

Let me guess, they were all last seen going to the shop for milk and a pack of cigs?

[daring storm]

[outer laurel]

This chat is turning into diddys party

[rapid warren]

Hey gsc mind you not dorpping the update for a while? I'm trynna get some prep before jerkmate finals

[crystal merlin]

It's not patching Wednesday 🪦

[pseudo rivet]

[outer laurel]

Oh hell yea, no need to rush the update GSC take your time

[rapid warren]

With Current doomposting trend I'd say it's for the better

[outer laurel]

Now I like ya and I want ya, we can do it the easy way or the hard way...the choice is yours

[rapid warren]

Snorkin' right😈

[outer laurel]

This is gonna be fun night

[pseudo rivet]

What no Brain Scorcher does to a mf

[outer laurel]

We need a lot of baby oil

[pseudo rivet]

Probably more

[outer laurel]

Ain't no party like a diddy party

[pseudo rivet]

Like you'd know

[outer laurel]

We're about to make one if GSC don't drop update today

[pseudo rivet]

Bet

[outer laurel]

Then prepare your an*s

[pseudo rivet]

There's nothing to prepare for

[outer laurel]

Already ready great

[pseudo rivet]

You should start prepping that party instead

[outer laurel]

I'm buying baby oil right now

[pseudo rivet]

Good luck dawg

[drowsy blade]

What the fu—

[tender oracle]

patch?

[pseudo rivet]

Be sure to buy enough

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[zinc apex]

I'm tired boss

Need that update to revitalise me

[pseudo rivet]

Play the TrilOG in the meantime

[lofty helm]

[outer laurel]

Come out to plaaaayyyy

[zinc apex]

Nah. Done so the past 20 years or smth. Can't go back anymore

[outer laurel]

Spread them cheeks lil bro

[celest blaze]

🤨

[wise geyser]

Can one of the mods post the invincible title card gif

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/invulnerable-gif-22484955

[wise geyser]

I love you

[celest blaze]

[zinc apex]

How far can we count until gsc drops the patch?

[rapid warren]

1

2

3

[small linden]

new patch today? 😄

[rapid warren]

4

[drifting niche]

Someone said it will be next week

[small linden]

yea thats why i was thinking it could be today because its exactly a week ago they said it today 🙂

[zinc apex]

5

[covert dawn]

I’m about to visit SIRCAA holding out till the patch time to go exploring some more

[night crest]

will they finally add a-life?

[outer laurel]

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[small linden]

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[zinc apex]

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[rapid warren]

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[small linden]

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[outer laurel]

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[zinc apex]

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[small linden]

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[outer laurel]

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[hot canopy]

we really counting lol

[small linden]

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[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/staringsoldiercatok-gif-2130370366885478984

[copper kelp]

O molt please grant us with wisdom of patchnote

[outer laurel]

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[vale quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-paws-gif-22060603

[drifting niche]

Too late for update

[rare thistle]

ngl im lowkey waiting for a huge patch to start a new playthru

[dire dagger]

Soon ™️

Meaning

https://tenor.com/view/soon-tm-soon-space-gif-23401891

[rare thistle]

in another 10 years

but its ok id rather them cook slowly and authentic than put out instant DEI slop or something

[prisma goblet]

Patch today

[zinc apex]

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[dire dagger]

Patch next week

[tiny token]

tomeowrrow

[dire dagger]

It’s just not coming this week

[copper kelp]

Molt says that they are accessing to test result

[dire dagger]

If it comes out this week it would be a Christmas miracle

Can’t say more than that

[zinc apex]

Bro why you blueballing us

[prisma goblet]

I just want to be able to play the game

[rapid warren]

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[zinc apex]

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[rapid warren]

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[outer laurel]

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[rapid warren]

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[rapid warren]

Week after that*

But honestly tho, it's not the matter of the patch not coming out this week but the lack of communication:/. I mean patch aside, we didin't get any new info in ,,GSC answers" channel in a week. I dont mind waiting, just dont make me overdose on copium (its hard as it is)

[zinc apex]

Almost 2 month without any substantial update, while the game is in the state it is in, is just wild

[spiral stump]

It's been month, where did you get 3 months

[zinc apex]

2 month

[empty gorge]

next update makes or breaks it tbh, if it doesnt fix pretty much all problems without introducing a whole list of new ones + adds some state of a-life on top makes the wait more justified, if it doesnt fix all major bugs and glitches and barely adjusts a-life we cooked

[spiral stump]

But wait, we got some patch week or two ago?

[granite mortar]

CoP didnt get any major update for 14 years while being in the state its in (no Alife, bad balance, empty world...)

[urban basin]

It was just a small hotfix not a substantial update tbf

[celest goblet]

It takes the amount of time it takes, simple we that. I would not really read much into it other than hopefully the quality control is tighter than it was on 1.1

[feral totem]

Given the history I think this is a bit too much to ask… The game is so far from being finished and if they can fixed everything now then it could have been done long ago

I suspect it’s just new tweaks and fixes for major bugs

[celest goblet]

Game went through some turbulent circumstances through its development to say the least. I think there's plenty they still have the opportunity and ability to do tbh

[zinc apex]

Don't overpromise or don't sell a broken product. It's as simple as that tbh

Could have gonna the early access route and no one would complain

[celest goblet]

I think a lot of people would have complained actually, but there's no way to prove it either way so it's kind of a pointless debate

[dire dagger]

I’m not I’m just telling you the truth

[celest goblet]

They were selling pre-orders for this for years as a complete game. Imagine if those people suddenly found out they preordered early access lol

[empty gorge]

it is the only thing to ask, it might sound like too much but a quarter after release and some people are still hardlocked from msq. the bar is set high due to their own not because we set it high, community has been patient, communication has been dry.

[spiral stump]

So we can say something after all?

[dire dagger]

I’m not saying anything

[empty gorge]

hard truth, you think people will talk smack about a game revived from the dead and being honest about their early access state? hell no. but they sure will when you delay 3 times and they get the impression there is a finished product at the end of the line

[zinc apex]

Just talk freely, we're all friends here 🤗

[dire dagger]

Simply implying I might know something

[spiral stump]

We might be blind but it is people who cannot see

[dire dagger]

[spiral stump]

[copper kelp]

Guys how about we make stalker 2 in stalker SoC

[celest goblet]

If Jack is saying not to expect it this week I'm willing to take it on face value. He does not BS in my experience here

[hot canopy]

They didn't even confirm that it would release this week. They said they hoped it would if testing went well.

[celest blaze]

^

[potent mica]

Yea guess testing isn't going so well

Which is fine let them work on it

[spiral stump]

Finally someone started talking about testing

[celest goblet]

I've got nothing to lose from waiting another week for it

[spiral stump]

Don't you think that if something changed and there is testing going on, it means that they're not just sitting doing nothing?

[potent mica]

I haven't launched the game in months so no different for me either

[copper kelp]

Eh same i can just play payday 2

[spiral stump]

So just wait for a bit more

[copper kelp]

Molt said they are accessing to test results, so wait for now

[crystal merlin]

Tbh, I love the game very much.
Graphics(the art style, atmosphere), Sounds, Story, Characters, Gunplay are top tier.
I enjoy it.
But I admit I want it to be a lot better than it is right now.
I currently have a thirst for exoskeleton/exosuit farming, I see that group of enemies and neurons activated.

[celest goblet]

I finished my first playthrough and am waiting for the game to improve to do a second. Until then I got a lot of plates I'm spinning anyway

[feral totem]

Yes. That’s very sad. The game has such potential with a huge (but empty) map

[gritty orchid]

Same

Except for the plates thingy, im unemployed and with nothing to do with my time

[mental mirage]

what if they made a limb health system for chimeras? for example if you shoot one mag in its leg, the leg is not working -> chimeras wont move as fast, you shoot the second one off, it moves less. this wqy you can add at least some type of strategy for them and keep them dangereous at the same time.

[gritty orchid]

Might be a skill issue but I've had more trouble against pseudogiants than chimeras

[copper kelp]

Just grab a RPG and shoot it

[mental mirage]

make the same for them too

[celest goblet]

Can't cheese chimeras easily like in the trilogy but you can still more or less dance around them

[copper kelp]

It works.

[gritty orchid]

When I saw my second chimera I had a gauss rifle so it took 2 shots and it died, didn't even got close to me

[celest goblet]

Gauss rifle is truly op, as it should be

[mental mirage]

they just dont react to the damage at all. which is actually less realistic than reacting to it in some way.

[gritty orchid]

Yeah

[gritty orchid]

Except on the last mission when enemies shoot through walls with it and insta kill you

[sly matrix]

There are animals irl tgat just get enraged when injured, so not that unrealistic

[zinc apex]

Same goes for Sidorovich

[mental mirage]

i dont have a problem to kill them it‘s just boring

[gritty orchid]

I just miss seeing fleshes sleeping , they are so cute 🥰

[celest goblet]

Was still all i used for the whole endgame

[gritty orchid]

Only viable gun tbh

[celest goblet]

I love the recharge animation on it

[zinc apex]

Do you know which game also has crisp af reload animations? GAMMA

[celest goblet]

But do they have the gauss rifle animation with the mechanisms on each coil engaging in order

[dire dagger]

The Gauss rifle animations are really cool

Even if they don’t really make sense

[lofty helm]

[zinc apex]

I don't know. 😢 Always ending my playthroug before that stupid artificial difficulty increase in that mod lol

[worn oar]

Spider like

[tiny token]

oh come on lol

[sterile brook]

[hard trench]

Really A BOARD GAME

[patent mortar]

is this like DnD but Stalker?

[dim topaz]

They must be doing this on purpose lol

[celest imp]

Wow im not the type to say this stuff but can you please make us wanna play your game before selling us another lol?

[raw acorn]

ok so HALO, Assassin's creed, dua lipa and netflix have all responded to the death of the Duolingo owl, we need an official GSC game world/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. response now

[glossy blade]

[jade geyser]

OMG PATCH IS OUT REINSTALL YOUR SEGA MEGA DRIVE

[lost folio]

Will they port game to PlayStation 3

[silent cypress]

Hey just saw the boardgame advert; did that December 2024 roadmap release yet?

[dim topaz]

I'm pretty sure a PS3 would explode in a ball of fire trying to run Zalissya

[zinc apex]

How they trolled us loooollllLol

[icy lodge]

Been waiting on the WII U release

[outer laurel]

Ping for a FOCKING BOARD GAME? FIX THE GAME FIRST

[gaunt basin]

I thought we got the update by now

[blazing wing]

https://tenor.com/view/looking-around-what-confused-gif-21065154

[urban basin]

I was almost happy

[plucky bough]

still waiting on the GBC port

[fallow garden]

What is this ping bro where the patch at

[copper kelp]

Oh boy we are bouta get a riot

[rapid warren]

https://tenor.com/view/great-god-grove-ggg-click-clack-dunk-gif-13034837604062977671

[zinc flax]

excited to see an announcement... yep, a board game. cool

[raw acorn]

OH MY GOD NO GSC YOU RELEASED LIKE, WARHAMMER MINIS BUT STALKER?? NOO THIS IS JUST GOING TO FUEL MY ADDICTION WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GSC WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[summer mauve]

Bro I tought it was the supposed patch 😭 😭

[prisma goblet]

Im going to do it

[lofty helm]

[gaunt basin]

Ikr lmao

[outer laurel]

@rapid warren Batmobile just came now waiting for the cave

[thorn ermine]

[fallow garden]

Even the board game is coop. Where's coop for s2

[rapid warren]

Molt dunking on our expectation rn

[copper kelp]

Actually

[outer laurel]

Seems like we will have a diddy party tonight

[south oak]

-__-

[copper kelp]

Why not just ping molt and directly ask about the patch

[rapid warren]

Thats great to hear, it's the new one with Mr. Freeze ?

[celest blaze]

[summer mauve]

Here I am 3 months into the game stuck in one mission that they haven't fixed and this dudes announce a board game 😭

[silent cypress]

I don't want to ping Mol1t; his life is hard enough slaving away in the GSC slop mines as their face.

[rough condor]

are you kidding me with this board game crap? where is the patch

[outer laurel]

It's the one with Penguin from the movie "The Batman"

[sullen vessel]

Where is the patch that fixes the bloodsuckers being naked?

[gloomy vector]

This game is so cooked

[copper kelp]

Glad this chat has slowmode

[rapid warren]

Thats a great one too, I loved the take they has on the batmobile in that movie

[thorn ermine]

Mol1t said in the spoilers general that next ping will be the patch one

[unreal raptor]

please for the love of god don't say you just pinged me for a board game

[potent mica]

Damn I thought that was patch notification

[celest blaze]

@unreal raptor no

[near dove]

Does the boardgame have a life

[pseudo rivet]

#☢┃stalker-general message

[rough condor]

He lied as always

[celest blaze]

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

[azure dock]

Bait announcement much?

[unreal raptor]

when does the board game get patched?

[pseudo rivet]

Oh no, it's not bait

[hazy marsh]

Update when

[pseudo rivet]

The board game is as real as it gets

[celest blaze]

i dont think you understand what the word "bait" means lol

who trying to play boardgame rn

[outer laurel]

Same as oil party tonight with you guys

[nimble cipher]

existentialdread has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[unreal raptor]

bait af

[celest blaze]

get wolfed lol

[thorn ermine]

Read spoiler general, he is communicating there

[rapid warren]

Us rn

[pseudo rivet]

Sorry, not interested

[hazy marsh]

I don’t need board game, I need new patch of the game! Seriously burned out and I want to play Stalker 2

[pseudo rivet]

Try the TrilOG

[celest blaze]

i refuse to oil up with duty folk

[glossy blade]

I should switch @nimble cipher status to playing the Board game

[sly viper]

thats not the ping i was expecting

[granite coral]

New delicious announcement

[celest blaze]

AYO yes lol

[pseudo rivet]

Switch it back to playing Clear Sky

[unreal raptor]

ping the other thing now please

[silent cypress]

This is actually really good advice. Been playing Shadow of Chernobyl since the middle of December last year.

[glossy blade]

on the seruious note, patch is cooking, we are evaluating the Test results and feedback, can't say the date hence the dtae is not set yet. Will try to get it before the patch and share in #📜┃gsc-answers

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, and there's plenty of lore in the TrilOG games to get invested into

[granite coral]

Hey Mol1t my Dear Friend 🥰@glossy blade

[thorn ermine]

Nice, thank you!

[unreal raptor]

telling people to play games from 20 years ago after paying for a new game three months ago

[zinc apex]

Thanks ❤️

[hazy marsh]

We wait patiently, hopefully tests go well, thanks for update

[heavy sable]

I can't wait for the update

[near dove]

@glossy blade does the boardgame have snorks

[signal forge]

Does the board game have A-Life 3.0

[pseudo rivet]

Give this man a reason to buy it

[sly viper]

can we have the P. noteS?

[rapid warren]

It's messages like these that keep channels sane

[glossy blade]

3d-models for you to paint even

[near dove]

||I'm erect||

[celest blaze]

😡

[silent cypress]

Modders even have to fix the boardgame smh.

[rapid warren]

That being said, diddy party at rostok today night

[hard trench]

I'm not a tech guy, so can't share any info

[celest blaze]

Sounding like a hater ngl

[plucky vine]

please let the next announcement be the patch that fixes my hardlock 🙏 🙏

[silent cypress]

I'm sorry. I'll try not to bully the videogame company again.

[celest blaze]

[pseudo rivet]

4D models when?

[celest blaze]

Now

[pseudo rivet]

Or are we jumping straight to 5D instead?

[rapid warren]

But jokes aside I'd love to buy this board game and indoctrinate my gf to play it with me

[zinc apex]

GSC gib beta branch access. I test for free hehe

[zinc apex]

How does one get a gf?

[rapid warren]

Kidnapping

[night meteor]

everyone ping
look inside
another board game announcement

[unreal raptor]

the pieces on the board dissapear if you move 5ft this way or that.

[silent cypress]

Walk up to a girl and ask if she wants to go out. Do this to every one you see; you'll land a date by sheer volume eventually.

[rapid warren]

This isnt that bad of an advice tbh

[dire dagger]

The competition is fierce zone only has 3 women

[outer laurel]

There are some mutants that I never seen before...are you teasing new enemies to stalker 2?

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/one-does-not-simply-facepalm-mordor-gif-14797008

[silent cypress]

isn't* ?

[rapid warren]

The cutest 2 are both Richter

[thorn ermine]

Shotgun method nice

[dire dagger]

Who is richter

[rapid warren]

Yea, I misspeled

[pseudo rivet]

Wait, who's Who? And why is he Richter?

[dire dagger]

Doesn’t even answer the question of what is richter

[unreal raptor]

I hope this patch (when it comes) is a considerable set of changes, so much is missing, broken or a lite version of the feature advertised.

[wind veldt]

Do u guys think the board game would perform well on my 2016 living room table?

[pseudo rivet]

Sparrowhawk's stalking victim

[zinc apex]

I bet Mol1t was forced to drop that board game announcement today by Ievgen. Dark Corpo shit

[copper kelp]

Not on my 2015 desk

[silent cypress]

I'll save you the ache: It won't be.

[dire dagger]

Real

[rose summit]

Really need a role for only game updates lol

[dire dagger]

Sorry no you need a new table with real time ray tracing

[unreal raptor]

Brutal — but given the state of gaming these days believeable.

[nimble cipher]

hmilch1234 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[daring storm]

Everyone point and laugh at @wind veldt

[wind veldt]

:/

[jade geyser]

no spoilers here, this is the nonspoiler chat

[silent cypress]

Wolf always quick on that draw like Doc Holliday: "Я в розквіті сил."

[hard trench]

No you need to upgrade the CPU (Coffee Pot Utility) to be able to max performance

[celest imp]

I wish they would reveal a change or addition to keep us on the line :(

[copper kelp]

Like what they are prepping anyway crafting? NVG? Mutant loot? More scopes and guns? Quests updates?

[worn oar]

Wild as usual

[copper kelp]

I bet it would be huge bugfix i guess

[celest blaze]

I know what it is

First it's a purge of all snorkers

[copper kelp]

It's like 11PM rn. I'm gonna sleep. If GSC releases update, miracle ofc

[celest blaze]

Second a purge of certain mod players

[silent cypress]

They released the roadmap back in December; you should consult that to see everything they have planned.

[celest imp]

I think that it will be something helpful or welcome but not expecting too much to avoid exicted expecation

[daring storm]

If they made days longer, and the flashlight a little more powerful it would make the game so much better imo.

[zinc apex]

Won't happen this week. Have a good night

[worn oar]

Stabilizing the game takes priority so you can expect more bugfixes until everyone is having the experience intended NVG can wait a bit more

[celest blaze]

^^

[thorn ermine]

Ok but for real gz.x when?

[copper kelp]

Yeah ur right anyway, more time might needed for devs.

[jade geyser]

u r bucket

[worn oar]

Well, you all gotta wait a bit and put more faith on the team. They are really doing it, trust

[daring storm]

It's UE5 so they're probably still trying to compile it. /s

[silent cypress]

We can't get refunds; we literally don't have a choice lol.

[copper kelp]

Well i feel like board game could be waited too, but meh it happened and i won't complain as long as the update fixes huge amount of stufd

[celest goblet]

Critical fixes come first, then gameplay improvements

[daring storm]

It's not the same team working on the game as the board game.

[celest imp]

@silent cypress Sorry, I can't find the roadmap was it an announcement?

[celest blaze]

Play call of the zone, teamlite, legends return, spacial anomaly, iwp, valley of whispers, vector of alienation, goldensphere, return to the zone, road to the north, the exception, old world addon, return of scar 1 and 2 while you wait

[silent cypress]

Yeah about that...

[nimble cipher]

vision011 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

@zinc apex skill issue

[daring storm]

Everyone point and laugh @zinc apex

[celest blaze]

Imagine not being able to swear fuck lol

[thorn ermine]

🫵 @zinc apex

[celest imp]

@silent cypress my bad couldn't detect the sarcasm 😭

[nimble cipher]

vision011 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

Get wolfed again

Who cares about how old a game is if it's good

[low lodge]

Man i wanna get the stalker board game but i have no friends that even play stalker. I dont even have any friends at all tbh

[zinc apex]

Wolf is a soyboy

[celest blaze]

I play vanilla morrowind on a 4070 ti lol

[daring storm]

I bet he enjoys fortnite

[celest blaze]

Ong

[unreal raptor]

Some people want to play the game they payed for a couple of months ago though?

[silent cypress]

Wolf just wants you to learn some new words to enhance your sentences is all.

[celest blaze]

You can it rn

[worn oar]

It's just communication of some sort. This server is called stalker official community, not stalker 2 official community, so you shouldn't really expect every announcement to be stalker 2 related
Ik you guys are waiting for a patch and for good reasons, and I'm saying it coming, and I wish I could say more but I can't. So, just wait and see for yourselves

[celest blaze]

A mod here got 2 diff endings

[unreal raptor]

But it's a broken heap?

[daring storm]

Ban this guy! We don't speak sense around here.

[worn oar]

All you need to do is simply put some more trust on the team

[celest blaze]

^

[copper kelp]

Yeah. Either way, i can wait while playing the division 2 or Payday 2

[silent cypress]

What's your opinion on the state of Star Citizen, by-chance? Just curious.

[toxic creek]

When patch? 🐒

[celest blaze]

I don't care about that game at all tbh

[spark crescent]

soooo....any news about A-Life?

[celest blaze]

Space games are mid

[unreal raptor]

It comes with the boardgame — pre-order your patch.

[silent cypress]

Good save.

[daring storm]

Warhammer 3 has a beta patch tomorrow.

[celest goblet]

I love sci fi but star citizen isn't the sort of thing that interests me

[empty gorge]

bro really did an announcement for a boardgame when the community is asking when next update,

[cosmic isle]

Yall been on kcd2

[unreal raptor]

next ping is Stalker 3 — just you wait.

[celest blaze]

Yes if you were here for any length of time you'd know this is a stalker server not a stalker 2 server

[toxic creek]

Like on a cd inside the box?
Just like I like my games. Inside cardboard boxes (cereal is a bonus)

[celest blaze]

These new members man lol

[daring storm]

This is a whole server about skill issues and you want them to play KCD2? Get real man.

[celest goblet]

The board game has been a thing for a long while now

[cosmic isle]

Didn't they remove the slowmode why is it back

[silent cypress]

I'd actually pre-order if it came with a physical disk that you install the patch from because that's so insane that I'd want to look back and say I was a part of that novelty.

[cosmic isle]

Is it a bunch of new people

[celest goblet]

Wish I was, but no time for it really rn. Seems like another very long RPG

[unreal raptor]

makes it even more badly timed 😂

[celest blaze]

KCD2 isn't even that hard from what I've seen

[empty gorge]

it do be funny they announce that while people are waiting for update announcement no?

[worn oar]

Yes, that was me. Got two endings already yes
Going full ward next one

[cosmic isle]

I've dropped 100 hours into it already it's so good

[celest blaze]

[celest blaze]

Based as hell

[zinc apex]

That's true tbh. First Couple of hours are hard then it's a cake walk

[celest blaze]

Is spark next? @worn oar

[unreal raptor]

it's easier without crushing issues and game breaking bugs true

[cosmic isle]

I had a harder time with this one but I was trying to do stuff I was probably underleveled for

[celest blaze]

After ward I mean

[charred wraith]

and here i thought it was an A-Life patch or something yeah yeah - back to KCD 2 A-Life 3.0 it is

[worn oar]

Last

[weary token]

I have the same impression. Its next week.

[celest goblet]

I did ||Project Y|| for my first ending. Second playthrough will probably be mostly Ward but idk about which ending yet

[zinc apex]

When Tencent acquiring GSC?

[celest blaze]

Hopefully never

[worn oar]

Never?

[celest blaze]

I don't like tencent

[cosmic isle]

Kcd2 had alife before stalker 2 did and wouldn't you know it the ai in that game does everything as advertised in the stalker 2 ai trailer like picking items up off the ground and searching for you

[celest goblet]

Neither of those things have anything to do with A-Life though

[celest blaze]

Fr

[cosmic isle]

They don't but they're still not in the game

[celest goblet]

That's just regular good AI

[cosmic isle]

Alife has only been halfway put in the game since I last played ill have to do another playthrough after the game is done with all the updates

[unreal raptor]

could be part of A Life 2.0 since we never really knew what this marketing term means ...

[cosmic isle]

Is the draw distance on the npcs still bad

[outer jolt]

a life v2 ? no, game board? yes

[silent cypress]

Oh boy, here we go...

Before anyone argues about what A-Life "does" or "does not" do, ZoneSlug on YouTube already has multiple comprehensive videos showcasing how A-Life worked in the older games. Just go watch those videos.

[unreal raptor]

yup

[zinc apex]

Nah guys look at the store page. They didn't say a-life was part of the game at all. So relax

[unreal raptor]

A-Life 0.2 is on the store page!

[cosmic isle]

They backpeddeled that and said it was a simple description change but that was very clearly not true

[twin thistle]

I appreciate that I can not be in here for a month, randomly come back, and there will still be at least 2 mentions of A-Life in this channel on the initial open

[silent cypress]

The mentionings will continue until A-Life improves.

[cosmic isle]

It's still not fixed bro

[celest blaze]

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

[cosmic isle]

What do you expect, blind optimism after the devs have said alife will be fixed 3 months ago

[celest blaze]

They said it will be fixed but they got other things to worry about first

Alot of lower tier pcs struggling hard rn

[twin thistle]

3 months is a long time to us but not particularly long in dev-time, and they said it was going to be a massive overhaul to reintegrate the systems properly.

[silent cypress]

Yeah, they still have to finish developing an entire game.

[weary token]

not only that but if you turn away from corpses and then turn around to face them again they quickly fall to the ground like: He that guy payed for the game, we must act like we are dead, quick, to the ground!

[unreal raptor]

I think this would of been less painful if it was advertised correctly as early access.

[coarse vapor]

Did I really get pinged by GSC about their board game and not about a Stalker update?

[potent mica]

We all did

[celest blaze]

Yes you're in the official stalker community server not the stalker 2 server lol

More to this franchise then 1 game

[cosmic isle]

That's what I've been saying they've been lying and that's where every single criticism comes from everybody understands their situation but they continued to make excuses and whatnot exactly like how cyberpunk 2077 did

[weary token]

I think these slow updates clearly indicate that something is wrong. Like either as a company/war or with game itself.

[silent cypress]

You do know that you're not a moderator or community coordinator; you don't have to do this.

[cosmic isle]

I even enjoyed the game it's exactly what I expected but they said it was going to be much grander than it is

[celest blaze]

What state facts? And I am a mod bro

[unreal raptor]

100% agree

[silent cypress]

Yeah. The something is that they partnered up with Microsoft and God-knows who else, and now they have a bunch of projects that need to meet deadlines.

[zinc apex]

Carmaster is even the best mod around 🥰

[weary token]

Also im curious about what the free content will be. Most of the free content happen after a few months, but here we dont even have an idea about what it will be

[celest blaze]

[copper kelp]

Mutant loot with proper scavenge animation like farcry

[jade geyser]

why r u gay?

[cosmic isle]

I do wish the game was more linear without having the illusion of an open world with a handful of side quests and running long stretches for no reason

[celest blaze]

I'm excited to see what the patch will have I may come back

[celest blaze]

All stalkers are ong

[jade geyser]

nooo mama, I like girls!!

[fair jackal]

you mean skinning animations from RDR2 lmao

[celest blaze]

No women in the zone iykyk

[unreal raptor]

It would be amazing if that world was full of stalkers doing their own thing — rather than the proceedural shooting gallery we have at the mo.

[silent cypress]

I wonder how the people with the actual "moderator" tag feel about that statement, but okay.

[signal grotto]

Update?

[celest goblet]

Pls no, game does not need more animations for doing things that slow the game down

[cosmic isle]

Yes it'll be cool when or if an anomaly style mod comes out with those radiant faction quests and true roleplay

[twin thistle]

he's literally a Helper, it's a secondary Mod role

[celest blaze]

Feel free to ping one and find out

[weary token]

I mean enhancments are fine but I wouldn't advertise that as "free content". Might as well advertise "enhanced shader caching" as free content

[silent cypress]

Okay.

[celest blaze]

Arguing semantics is goofy lol helpers can ban mute and keep chat clean

[weary token]

for me free content would be: night vision, new weapons, new game mode etc...

[celest blaze]

I want the AN94 in game

[fair jackal]

it'd be neat if they made ammo types look different when in the guns, like different colours on shotgun shells and maybe painted tips

[hearty compass]

Imagine being pedantic about helper v. moderator when helper is literally a mod-lite

[twin thistle]

YOU WILL NOT SILENCE MY BLOODSUCKER THIRST POSTS

[celest blaze]

Atleast it ain't snork posting haha

[cosmic isle]

The no nightvision really kills it same with binoculars and the zoom on scopes only being like 2x even when it says otherwise

[hearty compass]

Where did you get that pic of me leaping my dude

[zinc apex]

Don't startle the snorkers

[weary token]

I really dont understand when people complain about animations slowing things down. I mean we could just as well play a simple math game on paper then. It's just how the game it is.

[silent cypress]

The word "helper" is literally not the same as the word "moderator," but okay.

[celest blaze]

Um... 😳

[cosmic isle]

A modded fallout 4 on xbox felt a lot closer to what I wanted from stalker 2

[celest blaze]

First cursed statement of my day

[hearty compass]

No duh, but the role is basically the same except mods probably have a bit more features.

Helpers are moderators too, they also moderate the chat

[twin thistle]

moderate deez nuts

[cosmic isle]

You don't understand the extent of the mods

[weary token]

The laziest and probably the easiest addition would be: new PDA tabs: one with stats like kills favorite weapon etc... and the other and encyclopedia that is dynamic. Unlocking entries as you encounter them. It would serve as a great way to track which artifacts you have collected so far

[fair jackal]

when we think free dlc, are we just thinking like, basic things that should have been in the game anyway or are we thinking like actual extra things because i feel like NVGs and stuff shoulda just been in the game and so i wouldn't consider it a DLC if they did an update to add it

[hearty compass]

@ mods kick his balls

[twin thistle]

did they ever say if NVGs were gonna be a thing, was under the impression that's a no for now

[cosmic isle]

It's a night and day tactical experience with all the same mutant fears and roaming npcs

[celest blaze]

True tbh I haven't really seen the mod scene

[unreal raptor]

NVGs are cut content for sure. Butcher and skinning too.

[celest goblet]

It's not really a thing for this series. And I got a life to live, don't need to spend many minutes of my life across a playthrough watching the same animation repeatedly. At least for using items I can keep moving around during the animation

[hearty compass]

NVG's, binocs, mutant hunting is all cut content sadly

[unreal raptor]

binocs are a good one — why can't i see further than 50m ahead of myself? Why would you limit..... Oh. Ok.

[hearty compass]

I need my binocso so I can zoom my view into these goofy ahh npc faces

[twin thistle]

the Binocs I can live without, but NVGs would be nice since I can't damn well see in the dark interiors sometimes

[unreal raptor]

Turn on your flashlight? And experience Lumen/Unreal 5 dimming your screen further.

[celest portal]

I need binocs so I can watch stalkers from a distance while they kill each other, so I know who I am up against once either one dies and go after me.

[twin thistle]

I use the flashlight lol, it's still not that great

[unreal raptor]

Messing with you — if you notice when you turn it on your vision gets worse in game!

[twin thistle]

also like ringing a dinner bell for anything in leaping distance

[weary token]

no to mention that the first stalker even had encyclopedia about the "story". They might as well add that here as well, i admit it its quite hard to follow the story. unless you play it rushed

[celest portal]

I only use my flashlight if I'm inside a dark building or actively looking for something.

[nimble cipher]

harrisonhllivingloco has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fair jackal]

i feel a little mixed about how turning the light on at night makes your vision worse for anything outside of the cone lol even though i understand that is how it works in real life lol

[hazy jewel]

Bro where the hell is the new update they said it was this week ???

[silent cypress]

The story is pretty tough to follow at times because I play with Ukrainian voices since the English voices are a volatile mixed bag. The weird thing about the subtitles constantly popping in and out due to some focus parameter results in me missing lots of context for things.

[fair jackal]

i mean there is still days left.

[twin thistle]

ItIsWednesdayMyDudes.gif (since embeds are banned)

[weary token]

+1 on this. Having subtitles on, visting a densly populated area and subtitles are like flashing all over the place like i have disco at home.

[unreal raptor]

tbh it's just feels like vignette to me and really odd!

[twin thistle]

skill issue imo, learn to read at lightspeed SMH

[celest portal]

Skill issue learn to understand the language

[silent cypress]

Nah, I know what they're trying to go for with the whole "your eyes adjust with the flashlight off" but it's honestly busted. Night time is supposed to be dark, you shouldn't be able to see anything without a light source.

[twin thistle]

re-open da schoolz (to make playing STALKER easier)

[weary token]

also, im bad with names so guess how I was scratching my head with conversations like korushnov is my nephew's aunt who gave Scar this radio that Sterlok found at Strider's home....

skill issue from my end, skill issue from dev end to learn coding subs the proper way

[twin thistle]

at the end of the day, the only plot you really need is "shoot a lot of things until they stop moving" 😤 😤 😤 😤

[tranquil tartan]

A life 💀

[hearty compass]

Depends. If youre in a field you should be able to see something, but anything in a forest should be dark as shii since the moonlight doesnt do that much

[weary token]

I was stunned how clear and easy stalker shadow of story was. Not to mention the PDA encyclopedia even helped with its "story" tab

[silent cypress]

Even in a field you definitely would not be able to see as well as Skiff does.

[celest portal]

I remember I forgot for a minute on what Strider was talking about when he ||asked about the project during that one scene|| because I took too long doing something else before I did that quest.

[hearty compass]

It really depends on the weather and what the moon is like. An open field with a full moon is surprisingly bright

[silent cypress]

That should be a rarity reserved for certain nights though. But yes, in some cases.

[twin thistle]

the whole narrative set-up is just a little weird to me. feels like this game, both in plot and actual execution, would have been better-served limiting the scale significantly.

[unreal raptor]

whatever the light levels needed for a nice view at night — the lightning and flashlight in stalker 2 is wonky as hell, verging on gamebreaking at points.e

[weary token]

thats why a PDA tab with a recollection of events would make sense. You go out there explore, or just take a break for a few days....

[hearty compass]

Oh for sure, quite literally when the stars align, but yes, night is waaayy too bright.

[twin thistle]

would have been amusing if night-vision was locked behind an artifact with like High radiation lol

[celest portal]

I was kind of hoping there were timed side quests in this game. In turn, you earn more money if you get it done on time/only get half or none if late.

[silent cypress]

I am personally not a fan of the anime-esque pseudo-isekai opening that the game has myself.

[dire dagger]

Organic night vision

[silent cypress]

Casual gamers do not typically enjoy having risks to their rewards.

[vale quartz]

patch drops tomorrow

[twin thistle]

everything glows green, including you after equipping it for too long

[dire dagger]

You become a fed

[weary token]

But to be honest im losing interest in the game. I tried padding off starting a new playthrough by trying to do side quests that i have missed. Found 2 but those 2 bugged out. Tried turning in my radiant quests as well, but those got bugged as well. And lastly I tried getting some achievements but guess what those are bugged as well on my playthrough.
The new patch will probably be cool and all but its probably gonna be "too little too late" for me.

[dire dagger]

I’m sorry to hear that

Insert default apology here

[twin thistle]

lost in da Zone

[silent cypress]

Yeah tbh. I dropped it after act 1 because I was tired of trying to pad it out with mods and other "fixes" just to keep slugging through the mess. I liked how the story picked up after a certain moment. But it's better to just leave the game alone for a year or however long it takes, rather than run myself through on the playtime and then have no interest in actually finishing it once it's more complete.

[weary token]

also, there are things I know that WON't be fixed in this patch for sure (via support comm). Little things that bug the hell out of me.

[dire dagger]

So

[azure dock]

I've been eagerly awaiting the patch, but it's dropping right when I have a backlog of great games. I recently picked up Avowed and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, both of which are tempting me to dive in. At the same time, I've made significant progress in Stalker 2 and want to see it through.

[zinc apex]

I just want to know one thing: is it worth to hold off another playthrough for this patch?

[tender oracle]

but buy our new board game!!!! You will have fun!!!! forget about STLAKER 2 videogame, that's soo 2024.

[dire dagger]

Yes

[azure dock]

I suspect the patch won't arrive this week.

[weary token]

yeah here as well: avowed. Indiana jones 2nd run, Kingdom come 2.
I mean STALKER 2 runs great with 5090 MFG 4x no doubt about that. Still that alone didn't make me jump back in

[azure dock]

Even if the patch does release this week, I think many will be underwhelmed, expectations are understandably high right now.

[dire dagger]

Guy has the one 5090

[silent cypress]

I'm tired of complaining about STALKER 2. Let's complain about something else.

I can't believe Sid Meier would do this to me; why is Civ 7 so baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!?

[twin thistle]

in fairness that giant statue thing is absolutely sick as hell and I want one

[dire dagger]

See this guy gets it

[weary token]

sadly, thats my feeling as well. But lot the patch prove me wrong! really hoping so

[dire dagger]

Finally complaining about something else

Owned

[twin thistle]

I can go and ask him, I live like 15 minutes from the studio (and visited once lol)

[silent cypress]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GIVE ME BACK NOVICE, THE NOVICE EMOJI IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!!

[weary token]

Will we get to visit the snow region in Avowed? Seems like we don't. "big" map yet only like 5 regions are accessible? wtf

[twin thistle]

if it's like Outer Worlds it won't be that "big" of a game

[azure dock]

Probably reserved for future DLC.

[weary token]

yeah, if thats the case im ok with that.

[dire dagger]

I want to cross the bridge

[azure dock]

I heard a reviewer still hasn't completed it after 40 hours.

[dire dagger]

The clear sky bridge

LET ME CROSS

[silent cypress]

Cross the Rubicon.

[twin thistle]

wwe're going to find out said reviewer keeps dying in the intro tutorial

[weary token]

for me avowed really gives Ghostwire tokyo and Immortals of aveum vibes. Thats why i want to try it

I loved those games

[celest goblet]

I'm fine with an RPG that does not require all my free time for two months to actually complete

[dull birch]

It's kind of sad how few quests (especially side quests) actually ended up in the game

[azure dock]

I was hoping for Obsidian's answer to Skyrim, sadly it's not going to be as ambitious.

[dire dagger]

Obsidian seems to be a shell of there former selves

[lofty helm]

[twin thistle]

Obsidian's never going to have that sort of experience, and honestly, Bethesda won't recapture it either. Skyrim was kind of a product of the time and our nostalgia.

[dire dagger]

The obsidian we knew is gone

[celest goblet]

Allegedly it was going to be, then they realized they did not actually want to make a Skyrim. A correct decision if you ask me

[dire dagger]

A skin walker is just parading around there corpse

[azure dock]

I thought with Microsoft's funding behind them, they'd accomplish something more grandiose than The Outer Worlds.

[silent cypress]

The cracks in their fortress were present even in New Vegas; people just don't want to acknowledge that.

[dire dagger]

The people that made obsidian great are gone

[twin thistle]

New Vegas was more broken than STALKER 2 was at launch

[dire dagger]

It’s like bio ware

[empty gorge]

that statement gives me the impression you know how many where planned in total (msq+side)

[dire dagger]

Bio ware is just a husk

all the people who made bio ware bio ware

Are long gone

[azure dock]

I still believe it’ll be a great game. I bought it, after all, but I just need to manage my expectations.

[twin thistle]

triple A gaming is dead, all hail indie studios with lots of money

[celest goblet]

Most of the founders are still at Obsidian

[dull birch]

There was a post on Reddit recently.

Apparently someone noted something like 82 quests, as opposed to the 16 or so that made it into the final game

[silent cypress]

I'm not even talking about the game being broken; Bethesda did Obsidian a favor by forcing them to release the game in the state it was in. If Obsidian had more time to cook on New Vegas, it would've just been Outer Worlds in a nuked Nevada.

[weary token]

I think the main problem in STALKER 2 is that you dont even know where sidequests are. I mean yes go and explore but even with that attitude I missed out quite a few of them because the side quests indicator radius is so small. That "Whats new around the zone" generic NPC ask line should not be like "my main inventory is getting heavier as we speak, im regretting coming to the zone in the first place" but instead it should be like "hey marking a sidequest on your PDA"

[dire dagger]

Do you think modern obsidian could make another new Vegas

I really don’t think so

[silent cypress]

I do, absolutely.

[celest goblet]

If they were inclined to. A lot of the same people are still there

[dire dagger]

If you say so

[dull birch]

But also, you know, have more of them.

Game feels early access AF

[dire dagger]

I’d have to see it to believe it

[twin thistle]

Obsidian is aces at isometric RPGs, not so great with the first-person ones

[silent cypress]

Play through New Vegas again; it's choc-full of modern Obsidian cringe content.

[celest goblet]

Though I do find it a little funny two of their best games are the ones that aren't RPGs

[dire dagger]

Real

[dire dagger]

I’d have to play first

[twin thistle]

Obsidian's a good studio, just a very all-over-the-place track record

[dire dagger]

They need to bring back netdevil

They didn’t die they were murdered

In cold blood

[silent cypress]

What if all these dead companies are the lucky ones?

[covert dawn]

Does anyone get crashes to dashboard on the Xbox x in Rostock where the technician area is ? Happened about 8 times today and the controller stops responding too have to shut down console ?!

[dire dagger]

Well nah netdevil made my favorite mmo of all time

[twin thistle]

all I want is first FEAR Monolith back man, give me a new FEAR like the good ol' days

[celest goblet]

I do think they do better work when working with smaller teams and budgets compared to bigger ones

[silent cypress]

Oh yeah, welcome to Rostok buddy.

[dire dagger]

And then Lego killed them by shutting it down

[weary token]

yeah I agree. Like its totally cool to have a side quest about "hey dude can you phone me jokes when I get near my buddies so I can tell them jokes" quests, but not when you have 30 or so side quests. Like have 50-60 and then a quest like this is ok.

[dire dagger]

After spending all the companies money on it

Only 8 months into the game

[covert dawn]

Oh really , damn it’s happening a lot so I’m quick saving and getting away from the technician but asap

[azure dock]

I've completed New Vegas a couple of times, I still prefer 4. An unpopular opinion, no doubt.

[dire dagger]

modern Greek tragedy

[dire dagger]

Now that’s a hot take

[dull birch]

Add to this the state of radiant quests.

Don't pay, have generic objectives, and the aritfact hunting ones are effectively roulette wheels

[unreal raptor]

controversial — but i agree!

[silent cypress]

One way to limit it from happening: Do NOT auto-sort your inventory while trading.

[dire dagger]

According to the internet

[celest goblet]

FO4 is fine to play imo but I never feel like there is a reason to do anything in that game

[silent cypress]

This man is braver than US Marines.

[drowsy blade]

If he said that in a Fallout community server he would be burned at the stake for heresy. Thankfully he’s here in a Stalker server saying that.

[celest goblet]

I enjoyed my time with it but also don't really want to go back to it again

[twin thistle]

BUT ALL THE SETTLEMENTS-

FO4 was the result of all the busywork open-world games finally creeping into the franchise.

[fair jackal]

idk, he's allowed his opinion, even if it's wrong

[silent cypress]

There'd be nation-wide news coverage of the response.

[drowsy blade]

Damn right lol

[dull birch]

It was basically busywork-the game

[covert dawn]

Fallout 4 and 76 my most played certainly in the last ten years. Battled field 1 not far behind

[weary token]

also I really dont know who likes the idea that the NPCs really go around the zone with like "you can catch the same guy 2 hours later if you estimate the route.....etc" does that really gives you the immersion? Like seeing the guy 2 hours later walking somewhere else, and the only way you recognize him by his name? Because for me that doesnt give me any kind of immersion.
I fired up far cry 6 recently and i was stunned how alive that world felt with it's random happenings. And while I can't catch the same guy on the map somwhere else, i dont feel like i need that.

[fair jackal]

i think Fallout 4 did have some cool changes and cool locations but i wasn't so much for how it balanced the gameplay.

[silent cypress]

Just don't do the settlement stuff. Problem solved.

[drowsy blade]

Battlefield 1 was a good game, the DLCs made it great.

[dire dagger]

Isn’t far cry 6 just the same generic open world

That has been made like 50 times

[covert dawn]

The DLCS were just what’s dlcs should be , great weren’t they

[twin thistle]

So much worse because it was supposed to be live service

[azure dock]

Far Cry 5 was significantly better than 6.

[weary token]

yeah. Still its stunning how alive it feels.

[unreal raptor]

Ampee is playing with fire condoning A-Life 0.2

[dire dagger]

This is why Ubisoft is likely about to go bankrupt

[silent cypress]

This too is my only real issue with Fallout 4. I'm not happy about how "build-dependent" the gameplay is. At a certain point, if you haven't built into a "hard playstyle," your character is jump gimped and gets folded by everything.

[dire dagger]

Assassin’s creed shadows won’t save Ubisoft

[azure dock]

I've completely circumvented settlement building on a number of playthroughs.

[weary token]

my main point is, stalker 2 woudl feel more alive with random stuff happening all around. Not by patrols going a route and you can "catch" them later on.

[covert dawn]

God knows then stalkers roadmap will be unleashed eh . My favourite aspect of fallout 4 was the settlement building

[drowsy blade]

Bethesda is gonna release Skyrim at least five more times before they even announce ES6’s release date

[celest goblet]

Ubisoft lost the ability to release games at some point. And the ones they released were mostly not amazing. And the ones that were good didn't sell well.

[dire dagger]

Many words to describe a Ubisoft open world alive isnt one that comes to mind

[unreal raptor]

Tbh you can just apply this logic all the way down to far cry 2

[silent cypress]

I always download Sim Settlements, so settlement building is actually incredibly enjoyable in my playthroughs.

[fair jackal]

like in 3 and NV your damage depended on your armor differently than resistance in 4, and enemies would just get more health the higher their level was.

[covert dawn]

Be quite cool if you could set up a small tent / camp in stalker 2

[twin thistle]

Far Cry 4 still stands as my favorite. Kyrat was such a neat gameworld

[weary token]

like scientist suit guy trying to find artifacts inside a hazard zone, finding guys looting buildings

[fair jackal]

one of my favourite things that Fallout 4 did was, unpopular opinion probably, but how they made Power Armor work.

[dire dagger]

Crazy to imagine people use to universally like Ubisoft

[silent cypress]

Well yes and no. In 4 your damage is mostly dependent upon which weapon perks you're building into. If you're not leveling any weapon perks, you WILL get outscaled by the NPCs.

Fun fact: The NPCs you encounter in game can get any of the perks you can get, and use them against you.

[nimble cipher]

shrimpy4881 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary token]

define your meaning of "alive"

[covert dawn]

Hoping fallout 5 and elder scrolls 6 will be woke free and violent

[dire dagger]

Fallout 5 isn’t coming till like 2030

[fair jackal]

i meant damage done depends on armor the target is wearing, like in NV it had a threshold where it would cut off a number off incoming damage instead of just giving you a % reduction based on a curve of your resistance.

[silent cypress]

Gotcha, gotcha.

[weary token]

alive "gamewise" for me means: random stuff happening. Populated according to the setting, Reaction to your actions (just a few)

[dire dagger]

Idk I can’t think of a great example maybe breath of the wild is a good one

[silent cypress]

I think he just wants the game to be "woke free" and "violent." Not necessarily pairing the two.

[unreal raptor]

by this logic Stalker 2 is not alive? Stuff just pops in on a random cycle of generation to give the impression of alive.

[twin thistle]

yeah figured that out after re-reading

[weary token]

STALKER 2 feels like walking in "editor" mode. Some loner guys here and there with "i only got the good shit" and thats that. Also some boring firefights but nothing else

[silent cypress]

I can't believe you'd just delete your comment and make it look like I'm talking to nobody. Treachery of the highest order.

[steady lantern]

Random groups of npcs walk from location to location, wow so innove

[dire dagger]

True there isn’t really anything to find

[fair jackal]

i hate how Ubi is doing with AC Shadows even if i am not interested in the game lol. that is just disrespectful to a whole culture.

[azure dock]

Stalker 2 feels empty beyond the player's immediate surroundings.

[dire dagger]

Welllll

[humble swan]

When is the next update? Been a while hasn’t it?

[weary token]

firefights were awesome at the beginning but after like 50th time of seeing factions fight it was like ZzZz.

[dire dagger]

Actually no I take that back

That’s plenty of stuff to find in stalker 2

[dire dagger]

No matter what the game won’t sell

[twin thistle]

STALKER 1 made the illusion feel cool. when you actually followed squads, it's not like they really did anything other than pantomime the actions, but the PDA notifications and the idea you could follow them made it seem real.

[celest portal]

Not enough variety of frogs in this game

[dire dagger]

The massive controversy isn’t even where gonna kill it

It’s just as reviews said

[silent cypress]

I don't really care about the whole "disrespecting a culture" because Ubisoft literally implies in their third game that the American Revolution was won by a single Iroquois with daddy issues.

But it is astounding how out of their way they went to be expressly dismissive of all Japanese concerns regarding the content.

[drowsy blade]

the true problem with Stalker 2

Give me more frog variation GSC

[dire dagger]

Not anything unique or different compared to other assassins creed games

[unreal raptor]

100% No one cares about it being an illusion, just make it fun and believable

[weary token]

I mean like some random guys calling you over for something. Try to get me that artifact there I will pay you, I hear something scary in the building will you investigate? etc
These would add to "feeling alive".

[drowsy blade]

American War of Independence, not Civil War lol

[silent cypress]

Well if you're British, it was a civil war tbh.

[fair jackal]

it's actually wild to think about how that one guy who had written about history got outed for having made things up just to sell the books and then lied to the japanese about it too. man literally had to flee the country or something and had his work revoked or whatever.

[dire dagger]

There is something I wish I could add to that

But

[unreal raptor]

So how many god damn board games do we need to buy to fund A-Life 0.2?

[dire dagger]

I can’t

[drowsy blade]

That’s fair enough

[empty gorge]

gib update

[steady lantern]

I just like freeroaming and hunting for artifacts, and the fact new ones appear after every emission, but I do wish there was more going on. Wish they brought back the faction war system from CS.

[zinc apex]

Gib update branch access

[twin thistle]

Ubisoft should just give us another Division. It's unfussy, to the point, and won't betray the franchise name.

[celest portal]

I wish I could skin mutants

[dire dagger]

Couldn’t if I wanted too

[fair jackal]

they've just done so many bad things when it comes to AC Shadows. but even outside of all that, the gameplay looks boring like i've seen better combat in onne of the older games in like Egypt or something i forgot.

[weary token]

I replayed STALKER 1 right after finishing 2 and yes the game is exaclty the same. But s1 had a much smaller playground. Here the real life recreation of the zone is outstanding, but item variatons, quests etc are few and far between.

[empty gorge]

even mol1t dont have access to that

[zinc apex]

Maybe I contact Ievgen tonight 🕵️

[silent cypress]

Division 2 sucked actually and tanked the franchise.

The move from a gritty and "complex" pseudo-political drama plot to "HAHA FUNNY COLORS HAHA SHOOT THE EVIL SPRAY PAINT PEOPLE AND CARTOON RACISTS!" was dumb and killed the vibe.

[empty gorge]

i got Maxym Krippa on speed dial, give me 5 minutes tonight and gsc releases @zinc apex

i'll make him an offer an entrepeneur cant resist

[twin thistle]

I didn't exactly think the first game was all that brilliant other than the setting and atmosphere so it's a low bar for me lol'

[drowsy blade]

I played the Division 1 with a few friends and was soundly disappointed lol after a while it just isn’t fun anymore

[opaque vortex]

Anyone else get excited seeing a new announcement thinking it was the patch

[steady lantern]

I wish the NPCs had better gear and were more challenging to fight. They already did a pretty cool thing making them try to dodge or confuse your aim, but the more experienced/trained units, like the army, duty, or monolith could be more tactical and try to surround or ambush you

[drowsy blade]

they throw grenades as often as they do in CS so that certainly feels like a Stalker game

[empty gorge]

clearly havent played that tunnel procedural dlc i forgot name of and the battle royale before battle royale was the new thing dlc

[twin thistle]

it hasn't aged very well but they added some neat stuff post launch

[tawny comet]

Somebody said that squads have the ability to communicate to flank and cover. They said it was seen somewhere in the code. Unsure if this is true or not.

[empty gorge]

but wait...theres more

[silent cypress]

I grew up in New England so I found the setting extremely nostalgic and cozy. Plus the underlying plot of "we're sleeper agents activated to restore peace in the homeland," pitted against enemies that actually had complex motivations behind what they were doing was exciting.

[drowsy blade]

This is true but not quite to the same extent as in the earlier games

[steady lantern]

Maybe I just didn't pay attention to that then. That's pretty cool if true.

[twin thistle]

Some of the post-launch D2 lore expansion is really good. Think they realized the sleeper aspect and questionable ethics involved was a more worthwhile avenue. Just buried behind a lot of grindy monotony lol.

[drowsy blade]

Yes but D1 takes place in New Y*rk, and as someone who has also lived in NE I am legally obligated to show my disgust

[silent cypress]

New Jersey, so I get it.

But I take what I can get; city-scape during Christmas is always a mood. ☕

[quartz orbit]

The AI is horrible also
I've played the game, it's completely terrible

[twin thistle]

the writing might be even worse

[weary token]

yeah, like any other game.

[fair jackal]

i mean... the AI in Far Cry 3, 4, 5, 6 all really felt the same to me.

[weary token]

the "no skills" killed it for me.

[silent cypress]

The main issue I have with enemies in Far Cry post 3 is that I feel like I'm in a giant high-stakes airsoft match with a bunch of 18-27 year olds.

[tulip phoenix]

Manipulated by the Ward

[drowsy blade]

[silent cypress]

How come I can't just copy my STALKER: SOC installation into STALKER 2?

[dire dagger]

Again you guys are getting all mad about this but we had a drought of almost a year of no game related announcements

[silent cypress]

Dawg, only thing I'm still sore about is the lingering "soon(tm)" hanging over that roadmap that was slated for December. Everything else I've made my peace with.

[twin thistle]

I want pings for naughty things smh

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/soon-tm-soon-space-gif-23401891

[silent cypress]

TBF y'all did say "December," you didn't say what year.

[dire dagger]

[tulip phoenix]

i mean S2 can cook still for a long time, has great foundation

[south spear]

Is it ever coming on ps5?

[celest goblet]

They did say December, then afterwards said it would be coming later. Probably because fixing the game was more important than trying to sell us on content that isn't going to be out for a while

[tulip phoenix]

yeah they couldnt delay it further, it still had a stable experience for the most part

[dire dagger]

My guess as well

I’d love new content but

The game needs to work first

[tulip phoenix]

🙏 Limansk
Love the exterior/interior mix

[weary token]

anyone remembers the laughable roadmap of CP2077? 😄 its like they surley dont know why people create charts. It would have taken like 1 sentence to actually tell what the plan is, yet they created this bad roadmap

[dire dagger]

Think it’s not wanting to repeat no mans sky make a bunch of promises and fail to deliver on them

[celest goblet]

Yeah. Hence why Mol1t emphasized he's only going to announce a patch date once they know for sure

[weary token]

I mean the roadmap was 1.1 coming 1.2 coming and guess what? we will have updates after that 😄

[silent cypress]

CP2077 is still one of the most aggressively average games I've ever played. It leans way too heavily on its story and just rehashes the Far Cry/Skyrim fortress raid design.

[weary token]

It got better with 2.0. and my main gripe was that the difference between dog town's sidequests vs the original ones. It felt out ofplace

[silent cypress]

What'd they do to Dog Town?

[weary token]

sidquests in the orignal game were like: hey, shoot them! shoot them damit! Whereas in the DLC all side quests were like: Here I am, my father left me with scars i have to regret. Upwards is the stream leftwards is the money, my belly gets these rubbles all the way, sister is my forgetting, bringin me light, I tried forgetting the past but I can't

[silent cypress]

Oof

[weary token]

I mean its cool but it felt really disconnected to have the DLC part try so hard with "talk talk talk", whereas the orignal where a bit straight to the point

[tulip phoenix]

finally a based take, cyberpunk is just far cry with a good story 😂

[light niche]

That’s just Blood Dragon tho

[twin thistle]

the post-launch NMS transformation has been unreal, it doesn't even look like the same game

[dire dagger]

I agree

[tulip phoenix]

hello games taking tech from their new game and applying to NMS is great, the water physics

[opaque vortex]

Just seen kcd 2 modding is already coming soon! Damn they making gsc look bad

[twin thistle]

probably a litttttle unfair to be comparing the two.

[weary token]

I checked the staff count for both companies btw, GSC has 50 more

[tulip phoenix]

Both are amazing games in their own way
Probably only games that met expectations
Next step is Wayward Realms (daggerfall 2.0)

[opaque vortex]

I'd call stalker 2 good, potentially greet with fixes, but imo not in same caliber as kcd 2

[tulip phoenix]

I consider KCD 2 more finished too, but its a diff game/experience

One thing they have in common is they can kick ur ass

[feral totem]

Well Ubisoft has a lot more and look at what they make

[tulip phoenix]

once A-life is fixed and optimizations and potentially more action around the map then it'll be awesome
Needs more 🧑‍🍳

[twin thistle]

also not for nothing but a certain studio had to relocate in the midst of an invasion, so, y'know, it doesn't excuse everything by a longshot, but slightlyyyy different circumstances

[mental mirage]

kcd 2 is the second part of more or less the same game on the same engine. Stalker 2 is GSCs first game of this scale on this engine. so lets just wait for stalker 3 i guess.

[tulip phoenix]

Yeah where stalker 3 at 😭 delayed again god damn it

But ngl KCD2 is optimized pretty damn good and even more NPCs on the terrain than in KCD1 and works better too
5090 can run it 350 fps, 1080p , while KCD1 has half of that

[clever bear]

why 350 fps ? are you an army pilot or something ?

[twin thistle]

say hello to the AI fake-frames future

[tulip phoenix]

WIthout upscaling, fake frames

[unreal raptor]

Hoping Atomfall fixes my Stalker itch in March. Looks a nice blend of bioshock/fallout/stalker

[north violet]

Right, it would be more accurate to compare S2 with KCD 1; a smaller studio's first attempt at a AAA-scale project that was riddled with bugs, performance issues, and missing features at launch.

[zinc apex]

Shart

[weary token]

I could only answer with unpopular opinion

[twin thistle]

Rebellion is...you know, fine. They make fun schlock. Probably going to be a little underwhelming though.

[weary token]

You are right about that. I would say KCD1 was a buggy mess at launch and has a demanding sys requirement

[granite mortar]

KCD was funded from the project leaders pocket
S2 was funded by big corpo

[tulip phoenix]

at the time it was really demanding, i remember on 2080 i could barely have 50 fps in Rattay

[lofty helm]

[north violet]

KCD also received a ton of backing from a Kickstarter campaign.

[granite mortar]

So did S2 tho
Didnt it

[north violet]

Not to my knowledge.

[granite mortar]

The point is
S2 had much more money and released in far worse state

[drifting niche]

I completed the game without critical bugs

[north violet]

Yes, but KCD's development also wasn't done under the same circumstances as S2's.

[unreal raptor]

KCD is a great game — Stalker 2 is 6/10.

[north violet]

Also, worse state? I'm not sure if you're aware of just how bad of a state KCD 1 released in.

[drifting niche]

Kcd2 looks like a game from 2010s

[tulip phoenix]

bad take

[north violet]

So what?

[unreal raptor]

and runs like a game from 2010 — dreamy. Better than most upscaled slop engine stuff from Unreal 5.

[weary token]

Sorry, I feel for the stalker team. Then again that is something that really doesn't affect my opinion on the game. Like when a game gets created only by one people and then people praise it like its the best game ever because it was created by one person. Going by this logic GTA5 is the worst game ever since it was created by a ludicrous amount of people

[opaque vortex]

Definatly doesn't play like one

[north violet]

Yeah I've seen people saying they're able to run it comfortably on 8 year old hardware; that is a very impressive accomplishment.

[tulip phoenix]

More NPC density too

[unreal raptor]

On a Steamdeck like me too

[drifting niche]

It's means weak graphics demand low PC requirements

[unreal raptor]

no it means look at the optimisation (something stalker 2 team have admitted they never got time to do) of a engine they know inside and out.

[north violet]

Well for me, it does affect my opinion of a game; if I know that a person or team had to deal with serious real-world struggles during the development of a game, I am absolutely going to show them more leniency when it comes to bugs, stability, and missing features.

[tulip phoenix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1059847760842588221/1337190608875556864/image.png?ex=67adcb8c&is=67ac7a0c&hm=a81e8647e245e2160e674fefa7589adbd3199aec5dff98cac7352c9ec1cd1978&
Yeah KCD2 looks great
runs fantastic too with 0 dips

[unreal raptor]

I feel for the team — but this a business and my money (and anyone elses who coughed up for the game)

[twin thistle]

I would have been fine sacrificing fidelity and fancy visual tricks if it meant S2 was more polished and feature-complete out of the gate. The decision to go for that earlier iteration of UE5 may have made it look fancy, but hells bells did it make an already difficult dev situation even messier.

[celest goblet]

Many games can run well if they are not too graphically demanding. Metaphor runs great on my PC and can run on a 750Ti, but it looks like a PS3 game (fortunately they make up for this with a positively unhinged art team)

[tulip phoenix]

Are they on the 5.2 version of UE5?

[unreal raptor]

Reading tripe about boardgames and netflix tie-ins whilst in it's current state is a terrible PR move and only damaging the rep of the team.e

[twin thistle]

5.1

[north violet]

Frankly, even if I knew for sure the state that S2 was going to release in, I still would have been comfortable paying for the Ultimate Edition. (Only reason I didn't was I got the game as a gift and the person could only afford the Deluxe Edition.)

[versed basin]

stalker 2 released with the worst AI and balancing of any modern game, and that's not excusable with the war, since they improved it quickly after launch, even if its not remotely close to being good

[celest goblet]

I got what I was more or less expecting when I bought the game

[tulip phoenix]

they missed it with veteran difficulty
Chimeras take 50 armor piercing shotgun rounds and 20 grenades to kill

[twin thistle]

I just really wanted the dopeass levitating lamp

[north violet]

@twin thistle Quick segue, but I saw your earlier comment regarding F.E.A.R..

Man do I wish that franchise could come back by the team that did F.E.A.R. 1 and the expansions.

[twin thistle]

2 was fun but boy oh boy did it signal the tides were turning for the bad

[weary token]

Usual me: while it doesn't affect my opinion about the game, I think I showed them enough support. 2 Ultimate edition, 1 collector edition and a seperate digital ultimate edition

[north violet]

I...did not like 2, and 3 was just shit. Though, I did read that a lot of the original plans for F.E.A.R. 3 had to be cut, so maybe the original vision was a lot better.

I also remember reading somewhere that F.E.A.R. was originally supposed to be episodic and focus on different teams, rather than everything being focused on Alma and the Wade family.

[celest goblet]

I recognize that sometimes life only gives you bad options. Doesn't really affect how I feel about the game, but I am more willing to give them some extra time to improve it before I really lose my patience

[twin thistle]

Trepang looks the part but it has none of the tension and atmosphere of those original games. What an expertly crafted and curated experience that wise.

[fierce hazel]

sex

[gritty orchid]

axe

[steady lantern]

Aren't they developing it from Poland now though? At this point I dont think the fact they don't even have a roadmap is excusable. I think it's more of a mismanagement problem.

[celest goblet]

Half of the team are in Ukraine and half are in Prague

[steady lantern]

Even CDPR had better contact with and respect for the playerbase after Cybrrpunk's disastrous launch, and were constantly improving on the game until it became the product they intended it to be from the beginning. I don't see that happening with S2

[celest blaze]

You haven't seen the multiple updates since launch?

3 I think before Christmas and one coming right up

[steady lantern]

What, the ones i could count on one hand?

[celest blaze]

[celest goblet]

It's been just under 3 months. 5 or so patches in that time is not bad. Especially considering the holidays fell in that time frame

[coarse sparrow]

guys you can buy the board game and play it before the patch is released

[celest blaze]

Fr it's impressive work

[north violet]

Yeah Trepang absolutely nailed the gunplay and the lighting.

[steady lantern]

I wish we at least were kept more up to date besides vague 'we're working on it' to every question

[zinc apex]

You mean 1 patch and 4 hotfixes?

[north violet]

Yeah, especially the sheer amount of shit that those patches covered, it's really impressive considering far larger teams don't put out patches of that scale or frequency.

[celest blaze]

It took cp2077 like 5 years to be fully functional

[celest goblet]

It's been 7 hotfixes and a major patch but sure yes

[north violet]

Full agreement there.

I saw someone suggest that we get more specific updates about what's being worked on like once a week or something, and I think that would help a lot when it comes to community relations.

[celest blaze]

That would be good imo

[north violet]

Also that 1 patch had over 1800 individual bug fixes.

[celest goblet]

I certainly wouldn't mind knowing what's at the top of their priority list at least. I don't think constant updates would provide a ton of useful info but that much would be good

[zinc apex]

Well, it's not like you needed glasses to find bugs lol

Imagine defending a commercial company lol

[nocturne monolith]

most of those werent really major patches though, rather hotfixes

[fierce hazel]

e

[celest blaze]

It's nice to talk about the good aswell instead of crying and hating in chat all the time lol

[prisma lark]

Real, Play the game or don't

[celest blaze]

No one saying s2 is perfect

[zinc apex]

Okay, i admit that one patch was really substantial. But that's it fr

[celest blaze]

Ayo clowning

[prisma lark]

I'm getting ratioed I'm dead

[north violet]

Yes they're a commercial company, but I definitely wouldn't put GSC in the same basket as Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc.

There is very clearly effort and passion on display here even despite the bugs, instability and missing features.

[celest goblet]

At this point just gonna see what's in 1.2 anyway

[steady lantern]

Better communication would go a long way because I at least wanna know if f.e. the lack of NVGs and binoculars is intentional, or if they just didn't have time to add them before the launch. Same with no F2000, no new mutants or attachments etc

[prisma lark]

No new mutants is really disappointing to me tbh

[celest blaze]

Fr

[north violet]

I think it was a lack of time; the artbook shows off a bunch of shit that was cut beforehand to meet the release date.

[celest blaze]

I wonder if they'll come back later on

[steady lantern]

(Bayun doesn't count because it's a cut ShOC mutant)

[prisma lark]

I'm still wondering why like 40 side quests got cut

[celest goblet]

I like the deer but I saw 3 in the entire game

[celest blaze]

There's deer ?

[prisma lark]

Elk thingy

[zinc apex]

Yes, didn't play the game?

[steady lantern]

Side quests are so disappointing tbh

[celest goblet]

Armored psi deer that can summon lesser animal mutants

[celest blaze]

It's been uninstalled since late November lol been waiting for it to get fixed

[zinc apex]

At least one of these three deer encounters are scripted anyway. Pretty disappointing

[celest blaze]

This sounds insane

[north violet]

Probably at least some of them. S2 has been way more successful than GSC was anticipating and in recent interviews they mentioned that they plan to support the game for a longer time and more intensely than they initially planned; restoration of cut content and implementation of ideas that couldn't be done by release time were explicitly said to be on the table.

[sly matrix]

Bordering on spoiler talk lads^^

[celest goblet]

Very true

[finite dragon]

Have they fixed the permanent psi hallucinations yet?

[celest blaze]

I'm excited for the future of this game I pray it becomes peak one day

[midnight basalt]

Sure, you’re just hallucinating that they haven’t

[celest blaze]

In the meantime it's given me a chance to explore the modscene

[north violet]

Last I saw S2 sold 3 million+ copies; that level of success is why things like a Netflix series are being discussed at all.

[steady lantern]

I'm at least staying optimistic that if it takes so long for the patch to come out, it'll hopefully cover a lot of stuff and make significant changes

[tawny flume]

[north violet]

Well you gotta be careful because it's so easy for a fix to accidentally break a bunch of other stuff too. Game development is stupidly complex.

[celest blaze]

Game devs are like tech wizards I swear lol

[midnight basalt]

They have obviously had a shit few weeks on this patch. I feel for them for sure.

[finite dragon]

What are you guys playing while you wait?

[north violet]

I've only lightly dabbled in programming and game development, and it is so incredibly easy to accidentally break something because of how many different systems are interacting with each other.

From what I've read, open-world games are the worst for this.

[north violet]

*Presses compile*

"42 errors have been found"

*Fixes errors and presses compile again*

"357 errors have been found"

[north violet]

I'm beta testing an indie game and playing one of the dev's previous titles that I hadn't be able to until recently.

[zinc apex]

Only real beta test I took part was Mythos, that hackn slash mmo which based on Hellgate London engine. Anyone remember?

Mane i'm olde

[north violet]

Sounds vaguely familiar.

[zinc apex]

Irc it never released though lol

[sly matrix]

I've been playing Dawn of War 2 Retribution

[finite dragon]

I recently got all the dawn of war 2 games. Just played through the first story and had enough. Liked the melee builds in that.

[north violet]

I'm about a week late since I only found out yesterday morning, but did y'all see that Rooster Teeth is back? Burnie, one of the original co-founders, bought the company back. Iirc, there are plans to put out some stuff by this Summer.

[dire dagger]

Rooster teeth hasn’t been relevant for like 5 years

[sly matrix]

I generally do as many assault cannons as possible

[north violet]

Well they had shut down last year, so seeing a return so soon was pretty big Internet news.

[dire dagger]

Yah but like

Well alright to be fair

Maybe they will make something good

[north violet]

I get what you mean, Rooster Teeth was on a nosedive for a while so the shutdown wasn't exactly surprising.

[finite dragon]

My 40k game of choice is inquisitor martyr.

[dire dagger]

No one was watching what they were making

Cus it sucked

[north violet]

I'm hopeful that with Burnie at the helm, the mistakes of the past can be avoided.

[dire dagger]

Like rwby that what it was called right

Was suppose to be a story driven show

But it had no plot

At all

[north violet]

Yeah RWBY.

Well despite that, it was by far one of their most successful properties. It's owned by another company now though.

[dire dagger]

From what I heard

The fight scenes were good but

That was literally the only parts worth watching lol

[north violet]

Tbh, I never watched it, this is all just based off of my own observations.

I think one of the main sources for Rooster Teeth's problems was that they were expanding too much, too fast. I saw someone suggest that they go the CollegeHumor route where the number of actual employees is kept small, but they do a ton of collaberative content with other channels.

[worn oar]

Snorking is punishable by exile

@granite mortar test wolf for me

[granite mortar]

fuсk

[dire dagger]

Say the n word

[granite mortar]

you mean the...

||NDA||

?

[dire dagger]

No no the offensive one

[worn oar]

Use the snork diction

[dire dagger]

Don’t actually

[worn oar]

[granite mortar]

Nanite?

[dire dagger]

Yah yah that one

[drowsy blade]

Noosphere

[dire dagger]

[worn oar]

Well, ig Master role gets a pass now

[granite mortar]

nah
Only 40Kots do

[dire dagger]

Wait fr?

We need some low level grunt chatter

[worn oar]

Yeah, idk actually, but wolf is not warning him for fuck

[dire dagger]

We can’t even test it

Wolf can’t touch us

We have to actually use restraint to not post obscene messages in chat

[worn oar]

So, it gotta assume that masters do not submit to wolf

Hehe

[dire dagger]

[sly matrix]

||nincompoop||

[drowsy blade]

||buffoon||

[hazy jewel]

Dead chat

[worn oar]

Try for us

[granite mortar]

too fuсking bad I guess
he cant touch me either ||cuz Im a minor ||

[worn oar]

Say fuck, then snorkussy

[dire dagger]

For testing purposes only

[drowsy blade]

I don’t wanna get banned lmao

[dire dagger]

[urban basin]

Snork?

[worn oar]

You'll get a pass this time, I want to test bot health

[dire dagger]

!ban @worn oar

[loud gate]

Buffoon

[nimble cipher]

🚫 You can't ban immunized @worn oar.

[worn oar]

I'll clean the chat later

[worn oar]

Skill issue

[mellow locust]

How many times do the testers still need to play through the game?

[drowsy blade]

Until the game gets the message

[worn oar]

Last day with nitro, so it should be the last time you see this here lmao

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-does-he-know-gif-26833694

[dire dagger]

Must be beaten into submission

[nimble cipher]

spartan_mozi has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[drowsy blade]

HE SAID IT

[worn oar]

pass for me on this

[drowsy blade]

Mozi took one for the team the legend

[loud gate]

@nimble cipher you piece of ward

[mellow locust]

I have the feeling the Internal testers are loving the new patch too much and report arbitrairy stuff to play more and get payed. I want the patch too
Unfair that the fun is only for the testers

[dire dagger]

They desire the forbidden knowledge

[drowsy blade]

Now that should earn you a permanent ban, nothing is more insulting than calling someone a filthy W*rden

[calm bough]

Release the update Molt

[worn oar]

Heheh guess we found a tester

[sly matrix]

Based

[worn oar]

Say snorkussy