⭐┃nospoilers_general

[empty gorge]

brother its 1700 of the 17 000, didnt you know? dont worry tho, bugfixing is priority as you can see from the over 3k fixes already done

[granite mortar]

Strike Counter

[empty gorge]

so does doom on a pdf file but ay it is what it is

[grim basalt]

Sad. I hope they manage to fix this. I waited so long for another stalker game so i guess i can wait again.

[empty gorge]

dont worry it'll be okay, it will be a long loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnggg loooooooooooooooonnnnnnngggggggggggg time but we will get there

[gritty orchid]

my game runs fine, wdym

[empty gorge]

for me too but it aint just us 2 still playing this game there is atleast 2 others 1 person being indigo

[grim basalt]

I mean it works but it just works

[empty gorge]

Todgen Howardovich moment, 16 times the a-life

it just simulates queue it just works.gif

[zealous pumice]

they fixed 1700 bugs but created 3000 more in the process, game dev hard

[tired hollow]

i love this game

[twin pulsar]

Best 100€ I ever spent 🤡

[main frigate]

Roadmap in december

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-ears-big-ears-heard-dontdox-gif-8768405185234347446

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/miyabi-hoshimi-miyabi-zzz-i'm-all-ears-gif-18349269689443771707

[empty gorge]

december 2025 they meant, just as they wanted to release in november 2025 but microsoft and epic said: no more funding

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[loud gate]

??

[dire dagger]

He’s living in the alternate timeline

[loud gate]

There was no November date. Epic also didn't fund the project.

[dire dagger]

Epic games rizz or something

[loud gate]

dalin cykaaaa

[dire dagger]

[mild palm]

Who do I have to do stuff to to get a patch around here

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/pondering-the-orb-gif-13211537702542941358

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/high-intelligence-specimen-gif-25869526

[empty gorge]

i dont care, in my timeline its a canon event that they got funded by them and had their release date forced. let me cope man wth

[zinc apex]

That GIF made me dizzy 🤒

[crystal merlin]

Is it just me or the Operator Exoskeleton is kinda squishy.
It's durability went down kinda fast lmao

[nimble cipher]

_5373_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lofty helm]

[dire dagger]

Let’s go boys

First ban of the day goes to me

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-gif-1624967408857801327

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/scabby-union-kello-rat-scab-gif-26201657

[dire dagger]

The average chatter

[blazing wing]

wao 305kb patch

[vale quartz]

what gsc doin

[dire dagger]

Adding fishing

[empty gorge]

Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor-Stalker2Editor.dll (979.05 KiB)
Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor-Stalker2.dll (58.96 MiB)
Modified – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/amd_fidelityfx_dx12.dll (+1.66 KiB)
Manifest ID changed – 4180529811002727235 › 4202943127958984990

[storm kernel]

lowkey would go hard if the first expansion was exclusively about fishing

[dire dagger]

Give me fishing or give me death

[celest blaze]

ONG

[empty gorge]

give me proper sdk and i give you fishing, one can dream

[celest blaze]

i want AN-94...

hyperbursting with a scope

[gritty orchid]

Irl Keith!!!!

[sly matrix]

it's a surprisingly close match

time for a pilgrimage?^^

[tiny token]

meow

[mellow locust]

can someone explain to me why the devs made it so that v sync is deactivated when activating FSR 3.1 frame gen? Because now I have mad screen tearing. before that everything was cool smooth and fine. Now its not an option for me anymore because tearing is super bad.

[slow sand]

I can't answer this, but what I noticed is that you can disable fsr 3 and enable v-sync, apply settings and then enable back fsr 3.
For some reason, there are not tearing (v-sync active). Even tho its disabled in the settings.
Or.. you can force enable it in Nvidia control panel if you have an Nvidia card.

[weary topaz]

Don't ask to much, at least they made the game stop crashing from looting an artefact

[mellow locust]

I tried that before but I cannot trick the game. Its going back to deactivated v-sync when I activate FSR 3.1 Frame Gen again

[slow sand]

It just shows its disabled but I don't notice any tearing afterwards. I'm not sure tho, maybe its just an illusion from the monolith.

[daring storm]

Or every time a storm happened

[mellow locust]

its just weird. I also feel like the moment FSR 3.1 was introduced with an update. it was so good with little ghosting, very sharp clear picture and good performance. and now I don't know why the ghosting is super bad, it feels like the game got more blurry. dunno what they changed. I am going with TSR now instead of FSR which looks oddly better than FSR even though it was the other way around before

[weary topaz]

Man back in the days when their was this weird bolt crashing issue, i was stuck with the prompted storm, i had to stop playing until they patched it

It was the worse thing, not being able to play the game you waited month for, because they didn't anticipated that players would loot an item

[daring storm]

Yeah I was stuck in the swamp when that happened.

[weary topaz]

Im with you brother, our pain will not be silenced

Also, while im at it, i can't stop but thinking that devs/discord mods are on purpose answering the most repetitive and lame questions they are asked, question about coop or bugs that as being fixed month ago...

Plz answer more consistent question, and they are, trust me

Like, question about news on the pvp mode for exemple

[drifting niche]

it seems like an update is coming soon?

[empty gorge]

brother, they can't give us an update on the roadmap. you hoping they can give us updates on specifics? accept that atm its nothing but a pr channel with cherrypicked answers

[weary topaz]

Is there a roadmap ?
And yes, all we can do-i agree with you- is accept the atm

But its frustrating you know

[daring storm]

You want a roadmap? Load up Google maps and look at that.

[empty gorge]

nah, we got no info, last info was "its still cooking"
but i agree quite a lackluster post launch support imo

[sand fiber]

SLRTAKER!!!

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hug-cat-look-iseeyou-gif-11118364233379416163

[daring storm]

Nice puss

[empty gorge]

SKEEEFFFAAAA WHERE IS THE LIFE SKEEEEFFAAA, THE SHINING ZONE WHERE IS IT, I NEED TO SEE IT SKEEFFFAAAA

[crystal merlin]

More answers regarding official modding tools.
It's coming,stalkers

[drifting niche]

Update very soon

[drowsy blade]

Source?

[dire dagger]

He’s right

[drifting niche]

Check steamdb

[celest goblet]

Well I suspect we will see an update this month at least

[weary token]

there was an update, just now.

[celest goblet]

Well I mean a major update. People looked at this one and it seems to just be an FSR update

[unreal raptor]

Please. Please pick better questions. Ask channel is laughable

[mild palm]

Have GSC gone on record to elaborate on what they consider A-Life (2.0) to be, especially since its removal from the Store page? I fear that what they’ll eventually settle with is an immersive illusion rather than a simulation.

[gritty orchid]

Keith will summon the next update, trust 😤

[empty gorge]

bro i send dozens of questions, they pick the one i send this morning. pffff

[empty gorge]

you see chap, that is where you are right but sushhh dont let others realise

nice choice of words tho for immersive illusion rather than a simulation.

[orchid gale]

5pm EST

[empty gorge]

imo its like a recipe: the current one is ehhh and the person eating it wants it to taste like the old recipe but the problem is no matter how many ingredients you throw at it. at the end of the day it will still be a different cook compared to the one you wouldve had if you made it right from the beginning. that is where stalker 2 is, atm they are throwing ingredients in to make it feel like the old cooks, but who says the final product will taste the same? insert ratatouille flashback eating meme

[orchid gale]

You’re typing like you forgot to take anti psychotics

[empty gorge]

but do you understand what im saying regardless of how i say it?

[orchid gale]

Just say when A-life and move on Fr

[empty gorge]

ait bet

[sly matrix]

Just move to #☢┃stalker-general or #💬┃en_offtop , looks like complaining hour has started once more around here...

[strange sparrow]

pls add piss and shit mechanics to game 😇

[empty gorge]

mb, ill let you helpers and moderators keep talking with eachother, sorry to disturb your bubble

[orchid gale]

THESE are the things we should be focused on

[strange sparrow]

press p to poop uehhehehehehhheh

[orchid gale]

Damn the echo chamber argument already?

You didn’t even get pressed that hard yet

[strange sparrow]

skif ❌

skid mark ✅

[empty gorge]

where alife gsc? IEVGEN, MARIA WHERE FR

[strange sparrow]

you sound schizo

[orchid gale]

Bro I know 😭

[empty gorge]

just a bunch of yap really, depends on the mood. sometimes i help, sometimes i lose braincells

[sly matrix]

right? first staff message in 40 minutes and I'm already hogging up all bandwidth around here😎

[strange sparrow]

you know it's bad when even the bandit looks sane compared to you

[dire dagger]

We should become more like gamma

And just ban anyone being critical of the game

[empty gorge]

could also just be because ive been going to the wish granter wishing for WORKING FEATURES AHHHH

[strange sparrow]

im eating you

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[strange sparrow]

cheez craker 🤤

NOOOOOO NOT GARF NOT GARf

[orchid gale]

Your brain is simply to large for stoc, any thought takes up all the bandwidth around here 😂

[empty gorge]

GAMMA MENTIONED RAAAAA

[strange sparrow]

😭 😭 😭 😢 😢

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-time-gif-14813190

[dire dagger]

You missed what I said

[storm kernel]

mandatory tide pod consumption for all users

[dire dagger]

Mandatory banning for any and all criticism

You don’t like the game get banned idiot

[drowsy blade]

Gamma discord moderator moment

[empty gorge]

the game is so amazing, i love how they implemented this exact 100m render bubble. its so great! now i dont have to worry about being chased if i just get the distance i need to despawn them. i love gsc for implementing such feature for us players who want to run instead of fight. i also love you for 4k chimera hitpoints and their speed and jump ability, i love how i only need to unload 2 saiga drum mags on it instead of 3

[orchid gale]

I’m gonna go say gamma bad and see what happens

[dire dagger]

From what others have said you very well may be muted

[empty gorge]

have i talked about the rpg? its so scary ive legit never used it omg gsc so good

[drowsy blade]

Banned instantly

Or jumped on by every Gamma fanboy from Boston to Helsinki

[strange sparrow]

i have never played gamma

clear sky 👑

[drowsy blade]

someone post the Scar ranting gif for this mfer, he’s schizo posting

[drowsy blade]

I lobe Clear Sky

[dire dagger]

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

[drowsy blade]

Thank you Jack

[empty gorge]

i personally love the balancing done after QA, i let my newborn play the intro mission and he brambled in newborn lang that it is the peak of peakest balancing ever. and tbh if my newborn is happy, so am i

[empty gorge]

bro u got footage of the guy i see every now and then in the mirror? i talk to him but he never responds 😦

[dire dagger]

This guy

[empty gorge]

SKEEFFAAA THE ZONE SKEEFFFAAAA ITS SHINING SKEEFFFAAA

[sly matrix]

I think I just lured a bayun into a tesla anomaly

[drowsy blade]

[orchid gale]

Update, someone called it bait, that is all, I’ll check back again in a few mins

[empty gorge]

the one from few h ago? it removed 2 unreal editor files and updated the cpp of fsr

[drowsy blade]

I’m sure you’ll be bombarded with “tHeN lEaVe ThE sErVeR” soon enough

[orchid gale]

I’m convinced he’s literally scar at this point

[empty gorge]

who? me?

[drowsy blade]

Brother got hit by three emissions directly and now he’s seeing ghosts

[empty gorge]

what 0 proper updates does to a mfer

[unreal raptor]

Ha didn’t notice it was you. It’s an easy pick as they answered above 😂

[sand fiber]

STAKKJERLEK R!!!!!!

[empty gorge]

SKEEEEEFFFFFFAAAAAAAAA

[sand fiber]

stlreklerl stalker!

i love being hyped about a game and then not playing it for 2 years after it releases

[orchid gale]

I’ve official decided to impersonate a moderator

[sly matrix]

My condolences to your sanity

[orchid gale]

I had to double check the rules and it’s allowed 😎, I will now be the equivalent to a discord mall cop for the next 8 hrs

[sly matrix]

As long as you're clear on the impersonation part I doubt anyone's gonna bet an eye

[orchid gale]

Screen shoting this to appeal my inevitable mute

[sly matrix]

That checks

[empty gorge]

brainrot shcayr is back this time with a q: what is the repercussion to a helper giving a warning but afterwards proceeding to break the rules himself?

[deft estuary]

i saw a small S2 update on steam but didn't check the patch notes, now I can't find it and there's no announcements. Anyone see those notes?

[orchid gale]

Nothing, it’s a skill issue on your part tbh

[empty gorge]

okej good to know that about this server

[sly matrix]

If you have a serious issue with staff you can always ask Mol1t

[empty gorge]

i dont have a serious issue with any staff here afaik, just wanted to know the stance on people with moderation roles giving warnings but breaking rules themselfs

[sand fiber]

Changed files in this update
Depot 1643321

Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor-Stalker2Editor.dll (979.05 KiB)
Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor-Stalker2.dll (58.96 MiB)
Modified – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/amd_fidelityfx_dx12.dll (+1.66 KiB)
Manifest ID changed – 4180529811002727235 › 4202943127958984990

[orchid gale]

It’s all about context brutha, the only time people get warnings is when stuff gets taken too far.

Making a joke about smth is different then going on a 20 minute bender

[sand fiber]

just a maintenance thing, steamdb documents every patch to every game on steam btw

[deft estuary]

you rock, thanks

[empty gorge]

see dm and be honest, does that warrant a warning?

[sand fiber]

you can't even say fuсk here... it deletes the message...

[nimble cipher]

zara_l12 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty gorge]

nah man its a joke of a reason if you want i can dm

[sand fiber]

it;s literally fahrenheit 1984.....................

[orchid gale]

Nah but it looks like a translation thing, look at the rules he’s referring too. Doesn’t match the message at all

[empty gorge]

yet when he talks about rule 8 and i mention it to him he continues

and when asked what exactly warrant the warn he mentions the 4 words kek

[orchid gale]

No politics please 🤓👆

[empty gorge]

HOW IS THAT A WARN COMPARED TO LITERALLY POSTING POLITICS AFTERWARDS COMBINED WITH PURE HATE ahhhhh to have power

[sand fiber]

what was the message

[orchid gale]

Because it was lost in translation

Kek means idiot in German

[sly matrix]

More commonly used as an alternative for "lol", if I'm not mistaken

[orchid gale]

Yeah but the mod was UA probably had to run it through google translate

[empty gorge]

as long as he doesnt powertrip anymore im cool

[reef raptor]

im so tarkov rotted I think of the item that is named exactly that 💔

[mild palm]

Why don’t GSC give us some peeks, hints, whatever on the next patch? This infrequent but large patch cadence works when your game is in an already more or less stable and satisfactory state. But … we don’t even get to have communication? Where’s PropheT?

[north violet]

So anyone read that article from the former GSC guy who was involved in the earlier days of development?

I haven't looked at it myself yet but looking at the comments surrounding it, it kind of sounds like the guy had his head up his own ass, but I'll need to read it myself to form my own opinion.

[orchid gale]

Yo yo yo yo yo hold up

[sand fiber]

no amount of google translate would distort it this much methinks

[reef raptor]

apparently its like
yip yap I did this and that the best im the best I fixed it all

[north violet]

That seems to be the general consensus I've seen, yes.

[reef raptor]

hm?

[orchid gale]

Do you play tarkov a lot?!?!?

[reef raptor]

started playing a month ago and I already have 110 hours
for the record I only play PvE pls do not destroy me

[sand fiber]

the only stalker related thing i saw recently was a interview by Vandeley with one of the devs, which is weird considering Vandeley is kinda russian fascist leaning

[empty gorge]

nah the guy knows what he is talking about hes just passionate ive met people like him @north violet

[orchid gale]

Oh no haha it’s all right, I bought tarkov forever ago and I’ve had no one to play it with, I don’t have pve though :/

[reef raptor]

aah.. ripp
all I know is pvp is infested with cheaters and all that so.. yeah..

[strange sparrow]

mlya, i caught an olive 😔

[north violet]

No I'm just saying that that seems to be the consensus of other people; I haven't read the translated article just yet myself to form a proper opinion.

[empty gorge]

yeah well he doesnt have his head up his ass, he is passionate like i am about alife

[orchid gale]

😔 I only have like 2 hrs in the game, idk if I’ll ever play it

[north violet]

Yes, you've made that clear. However I'll need to read the translated article myself to form my own opinion.

[empty gorge]

thats fair, the stuff mentioned in doc is proven to be correct and exist/correspond to known datat

just an fyi about the non-text stuff in the doc. not saying his text is proven

[sand fiber]

what article are you talking about

[empty gorge]

i dont know what you talking about?

[north violet]

The one we're talking about with the former dev? The one who I said sounds like he has his head up his ass based on the general consensus from people who've already read it.

[sand fiber]

can you link ittttttt

[empty gorge]

bro haha whoosh over head 😉

[empty gorge]

link what?

[north violet]

Oh sorry. Do you have the link on-hand for Noz? I don't have it.

[sand fiber]

i am going to do things with you

[empty gorge]

bro what doc? what link? i got nothing

[keen bone]

now the dust has settled a bit on the last big patch - what's the state of Stalker 2 now? Is it playable more or less with areas to improve? Or is it still quite buggy/unoptimized

[sand fiber]

oh okay so it's the same interview i was talking about, Vandeley did it

[north violet]

What's your take on the guy and his statements?

[empty gorge]

come back in a few months, better yet just imagine release is nov 2025

[north violet]

I'll also point out that this is apparently a former dev, who is himself Russian, at least according to the outline I read.

[empty gorge]

its all pretty easy to understand info that doesnt require a doc to know that tbh, its a lot of nothing in there

[north violet]

That's fine, but I'd like to hear Noz's opinion as well.

[empty gorge]

mb youre right

[celest goblet]

He's very self congratulatory but he seems like he's got no hard feelings towards the company or anything

[sand fiber]

OKAY LMFAO THE TRANSLATION OMITS A COUPLE OF THINGS

[celest goblet]

Oh?

[north violet]

Oh does it now?

[sand fiber]

"Какой смысл делать что-то, если этим не сможет в итоге насладиться любой желающий (отмена русского языка и уход из русского коммьюнити)? Я ведь был и есть – русский. Временный переезд в другую страну это никак не менял, я на физическом уровне не могу делать то, что мне кажется неправильным, неестественным, или делать то, что в итоге стало неким политическим заявлением. Ведь я занимаюсь творчеством, а оно должно быть вне политики. Ну или хотя бы оставаться близким к этому. Я имею в виду патриотичное творчество: всё-таки, как ни крути, щепотка политики там есть."

"What's the point in making something if it can't be enjoyed by people (they cancelled RU language and left the RU community)? I was and i am a russian. A temporary moving to another country didn't change that, and i can't do that which i consider as wrong, unnatural, or do that, which ended up as a kind of political statement. I'm doing art, and it should stay out of politics. Or at least be close to that. I mean the patriotic art, after all, it usually does have a bit of politic"

[north violet]

Politics should stay out of art....oh boy.

[sand fiber]

just completely missing from the translation, also before that he mentions how
Despite all the negativity that followed the start of these events, during the evacuation, the company’s leadership handled the situation in the best possible way: no one was abandoned, everyone was helped to leave the country, and even salaries continued to be paid on schedule.
AND THEN STILL PROCEEDS TO
It turned out that the world I had been living in no longer existed. The people I had worked and bonded with were no longer the same; they had retreated into their own realities, and there was no place left for me in there. Not only because I realized we were now on different paths, but mostly because, in a way, I was no longer invited.

[rough condor]

Barely anything got done - don't believe the "thousand fixes" per patch. A-Life is still non existent NPC render distance LOCKED at 95m so modders can't play with it, memory leaks and story softlocks are still a thing, lumen still the only form of lighting along with weird reflections, flickering and dithering. But hey, they added a pixelated black model offset behind objects and called it dynamic flashlight shadows

[north violet]

Those statements seem contradictory.

[sand fiber]

Insane mental gymnastics from this person, "GSC did support everyone, but my colleagues were kinda cold to me after the war :((("

That's not the funniest thing though, the funniest thing is this interview mentioning that he then went on to work in Dreamside Interactive, a scam studio that proceeded to make this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/715400/Frozen_Flame/

[north violet]

Just because you can't/haven't seen them doesn't mean that the several thousand fixes aren't there.

[keen bone]

figured as much, cool. not gonna lie I'm quite disappointed how long they're being about the roadmap. shouldn't take long to make a bullet point timeline and just add 'this could change' at the bottom though cos people are stupid and will take estimates as definite word of jesus gospel

[sand fiber]

I'm going insane right now, this is malicious and so fuсking embarassing at the same time

[celest goblet]

This definitely struck me as dissonant. I figured it had to be something that got lost in translation in some way

[sand fiber]

who was this translation done by i wonder, vandeley's never beating the allegations....

[rough condor]

These are not fixes, they are just finishing the game, nothing to brag about. We are talking about REAL fixes that actually matter

[north violet]

So finishing the game doesn't actually matter?

[woeful tulip]

So glad I haven't finished the game 🤣

[celest goblet]

They are prioritizing fixes correctly, even if it means a lot of the updates aren't the most exciting or flashy so far

[north violet]

@finite dragon Come join us, we have cookies. Roggatron has already converted.

One of us....

One of us....

[stiff pasture]

I’d rather have a game be patched on core issues rather then have them add cool new content that breaks stuff even further

[empty gorge]

truly some next level early access ahhh statements

[north violet]

Exactly, new content editions are undoubtedly going to introduce new bugs, it's impossible for that not to happen. Like you I'd much rather they make the initial experience as smoothed out as possible.

[rough condor]

That's not my point, of course it matters. The guy I was replying to asked if the game is good now and I'm saying not in any meaningful way

[orchid gale]

I’d rather the game be taken away again

[celest goblet]

Well it certainly makes the interview a little more interesting, let's say. Still interesting to see some of the things that might have been in the game, but ehhh I was already taking a lot of it with a grain of salt anyway

[woeful tulip]

No I haven't I spread my self around like a cheap floozy 😄

[north violet]

I'm totally out of the loop, what does "ahhh" mean in this context?

[stiff pasture]

Ass

[empty gorge]

dont, the game has received massive cuts from 2023-2024, more then a normal game gets cut content. the removal of tons of features is true

[north violet]

At the same time though, GSC has stated that restoration of cut content and implementation of ideas that never reached full fruition is on the table.

I am curious why so much was cut around tha time though, it's definitely strange.

[celest goblet]

Well it does sound like 2020-2022 they didn't have tight control over what content people started working on, so I guess it makes sense they would have to cut more than is typical

[north violet]

Why not just say ass then? Is this another one of those weird self-censorship things that Zoomers adapted from TikTok?

[empty gorge]

oh no its simple really, if we just look at the surface the explanation is: drum sound.....a fire in the office

[sand fiber]

it also omits the part where he talks about him going back to russia from budapesht, there's nothing compromising there but still weird??
i also find it funny that the translator chose to refer to the invasion as invasion and not Special Military Operation, even though the original interview does (the russian law doesn't allow for it to be reffered otherwise, it's more a question to the translator's western-washing of the text)

[north violet]

@fair jackal We're talking about the article, come join us.

[empty gorge]

now some can say sabotage some just say bad luck, idk there are theories

[north violet]

Ooooh, the server room fire! What the hell, did they not have that shit properly backed up? Also didn't they have flood damage at one point too?

[celest goblet]

I don't think there was anything that pointed to anything other than bad luck

[drowsy blade]

they also had to change quite a bit of things after 2022

[celest goblet]

Apparently not

[empty gorge]

it fits the dates, im not saying that is the cause but it perf fits the date after relocation and new mocap needed to be done, it also shows the discrepancy between one of the earlier scar trailers and the release scar cutscene where you first meet him and he draws the heart on wall

[celest goblet]

Well yeah they also had to do a bunch of recasting and re recording after the move. Just a big mess all around even before the fire

[empty gorge]

yes that is true untill you realise both scar in the trailer and the release are the same mocapped person meaning that the original cutscene was either pre rendered for concept or made and the level of quality is on par with release so i dont think it was pre rendered, the date is what 2022 for that trailer?

[celest goblet]

But there was at least one interview I remember where a developer said that they originally lost the arena quest line in the fire too until someone managed to carefully pluck out the files from the damaged storage

[orchid gale]

Can I get a kiss? And can you make it last foreverrrr

[empty gorge]

now another thing to link to the cutscene is the entry point to trigger the cutscene in the trailer is situated at a different location then the release one meaning the collision and structure that triggers the cutscene has changed too ie the hallway and form

[woeful tulip]

You sound like mumbling in Slayers - Hell Awaits intro.... "come join us, come join us, Grand Grimoire" 😄

[woeful tulip]

You really want me to do that 😄

[celest goblet]

I don't really see the map changing in future updates except for in a paid expansion. I'm at least intrigued to see what else they might mean when they say they hope to restore some things that didn't make the release though

[orchid gale]

Yes

[woeful tulip]

You know, mind bleach isn't a thing.

[north violet]

I prefer doing the "One of us." thing from i-Robot.

[orchid gale]

I don’t need mind bleach, I just need you FR

[woeful tulip]

Well, there were apparently 3 cut areas from the game. That apparently they will be adding back in.

[north violet]

What about flood damage? I remember reading about that once but I've never corroborated it.

[celest goblet]

Well I don't think there's been any promises on anything so far except that there will be 2 story expansions at some point

There have been some off the cuff comments about things they might be interested in doing, but that's not the same as an announcement

[empty gorge]

3? more like 10 or so regions kek. (not saying 10 come back) @north violet the flood was a no biggie

[woeful tulip]

10? Where did you pluck the figure from?

[north violet]

I'm not sure if I'd call it off the cuff; they were pretty explicit in that one interview.

[empty gorge]

magic 🙂

[woeful tulip]

From a cabbage field.

[sand fiber]

Okay, i read the rest of the article, ignoring the ideological part it's okay, seems mostly to be about how he faced the reality of being a developer in a big studio:

To be honest, having so many people, even on a large project like this, felt more like a drawback than a benefit. Before the core foundation had even been fully established, the company had begun expanding rapidly, trying to cover the workload with quantity over quality. As a result, the percentage of junior-level employees was so high that you could practically smell the inexperience in the air. But that’s just the reality of AAA development nowadays. It’s not just about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2—look at Starfield, Dragon Age, and countless other games that ended up being very different from what people had originally envisioned.

The first time I left was specifically because of my unique approach to work. Honestly, who in the era of big corporations takes on multiple roles at once? The industry isn't built for someone who can do concept art, write narrative, design levels, create mechanics, and then polish everything to perfection. This was something that Yaroslav Kravchenko, the lead writer, helped me realize during one of our late-night discussions—he had more industry experience than I did. The industry wants every role to be filled by a separate, low-paid specialist who sticks to their assigned task and doesn't step out of line.
But I just couldn’t accept that kind of system. Being a fan of old-school games from the era of Gothic, the first Warcrafts, and other legendary titles—including S.T.A.L.K.E.R.—I couldn’t help but carry over that same creative spirit, that raw rock ‘n’ roll energy that I had read about in old developer interviews. You don’t hear stories like that anymore unless it’s from indie studios or industry veterans like Kojima, Neil Druckmann, or Todd Howard. These are the kind of creators I admire—the ones who make you want to push others forward with you. That was my goal.

i consider this kinda funny as he proceeded to then work in a mobile game studio (also the beforementioned scam early access game, though that was before GSC)
After leaving GSC, I worked for about 2.5 years at Reaction Games on a mobile action-survival RPG called Dead Impact. I also contributed a bit to Days After, their previous project.

it seems from his descriptions that GSC before the invasion was kinda a mess, seems realistic enough
On top of that, in the six months I was gone, most of my previous work had either been lost or reworked because no one understood the massive amount of documentation I had left behind. The materials were all there, but for some reason, people just didn’t bother to look at them.

`As I mentioned earlier, I was officially a level designer, but within a few months, I started getting involved in other areas—and it turned out to be quite successful. If I needed a concept but the concept artist was busy, I made it myself with black-and-white sketches. If the narrative for a location was missing and no one had figured it out yet, I wrote it myself. If gameplay was lacking, I came up with ideas on my own, including anomalies, arch-anomalies, and mechanics that unfortunately didn’t make it into the final game.

The biggest challenge was that development was happening in parallel, with different aspects of the game being worked on separately. Sometimes, I couldn’t even properly run through my own levels, let alone do full-scale testing and design polishing. What started as an empty field would, after my work, become a fully fleshed-out region with detailed narrative justification, extensive documentation, references, and concepts.`

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/tldr-george-clooney-too-long-didnt-read-flip-pages-gif-13114170

[empty gorge]

hollyyy wall bro @woeful tulip trust me bro

[woeful tulip]

No.

[sand fiber]

It's still INSANELY baffling to me how the article is full of descriptions of good relationships with the rest of the GSC team:
When I first joined, there were only about 30 people. Now, around 60 percent of the team were new faces, yet, for some reason, they knew who I was.

Or the internal multiplayer tournament for the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. Our team came so close to winning the championship trophy, but in the end, it deservedly went to Yevhen Grygorovych’s team. By the way, he’s seriously good. And when it comes to Cossacks, I won’t even start—he’s probably unbeatable in that game.

Or the time I met Ilya Naishuller, the famous director—but didn’t recognize him when he was introduced in the communal kitchen. I just walked right past him. I don’t think I’ve ever been so embarrassed in my life. I even remember someone asking me right then and there, "You’ve never heard of Naishuller?" And, in front of him, I just shrugged and said, "No idea who that is." Then I casually walked back to my desk, sipping coffee, listening to something in my headphones. Only later did someone tell me that guy standing next to me was actually him. You should have seen my face when I realized it. At a group photoshoot with him later on, I tried to apologize, but it came out all awkward, and I doubt he even remembered the whole incident. By the way, I still have his autograph in the GSC notebook they gave to everyone when they joined the company.

...This was something that Yaroslav Kravchenko, the lead writer, helped me realize during one of our late-night discussions—he had more industry experience than I did...

so everyone around him was super niceys, then were kinda cold after the invasion started, and it was a great moral failure of GSC to not do russian VA (which i'm pretty sure they couldn't even if they wanted to)

[empty gorge]

i just called my lawyer he said to say it like this: iirc i saw somewhere that there where 32 regions (if we use the same numering as gsc does 20 but sircaa and cnpp are part of the 20) @woeful tulip

[celest goblet]

Yeah like except a few people he apparently didn't get along with he describes basically only good times from working there

[sand fiber]

i agree with the notion that he's an up-his-ass kinda guy, spending 2 years in Ukraine in a company of colleagues and learning nothing
the only valuable thing from this article is we now have confirmation that pre-war neu-GSC was a huge mess, akin to the old-GSC. coulda guessed but yeah now we know the root of all problems with stalker 2

[celest goblet]

I mean the development itself was a mess at that stage but that is not really a surprise

[sand fiber]

waow 6 million sales

[celest goblet]

The surprising thing is that it sounds like people were actually enjoying the work while it was such a mess

[wintry umbra]

i mean sure a lot of people are playing stalker but, no way is it 6 million

[scenic sable]

Hey everyone!

[rugged edge]

sees announcement ping

more promo

😦

[glossy blade]

https://tenor.com/view/korshunov-stalker-2-stalker-stalker2-ward-gif-4316907427003349762

[drowsy blade]

Rare Mol1t appearance in general

[rugged edge]

insane Molt1 drop

[lost folio]

When yaoi patch

[scenic sable]

I am waiting for my collectors physical. I got it from that german shop, announced restocks very close before release of the game. Did anyone ever get their physical yet? Any expectations how long it still might take?

[sly matrix]

Stealing that gif

[weary topaz]

6M players, congrates
...
Where's A-LIFE ?

[empty gorge]

thats the kickstarter goal of 10 milion sales

[sand fiber]

again, akin to the old-GSC
not surprising that S2 turned out like it did, as Khokhlov says, the messy all-do-whatever structure that worked back in the day just doesn't with the huge companies right now, and it seems that neu-GSC just lacked art direction to pull it all together, even if the war didn't happen

[clear raft]

6 million beta testers

[woeful tulip]

YAY! Announcement... 6 million players, of which about 500 have had a good expereince 😄

YAY!!!

[empty gorge]

best early access release on steam hands down famalam

[north violet]

Honestly I'm not surprised GSC was a mess even before the invasion; they only came back in 2014, and this is by far the most ambitious project the studio has ever attempted. Not to mention it seems like they were growing pretty quickly in the preceding years, which no doubt also added to the chaos.

[lost folio]

Thank god I had a good enough pc to play the game 😮‍💨

[woeful tulip]

Now they can hire some experience Dev's that sort this mess out and give us a dynamic zone 😄

[clear raft]

I'm guessing no roadmap because we have two years of "fixing the game"

[sand fiber]

so what i'm saying is that S2 is the true sequel to Shadow of Chernobyl
messy uncoordinated development with concepts dropped half-way through :p

[nimble cipher]

ghostiquell has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty gorge]

not concepts fully implemented but cut for some reason

[glossy blade]

Nnnooooo, not bad words...

[weary topaz]

Of course, everybody was so hyped about a game that was supposed to be realesed years/monts ago

[sand fiber]

IT'S OBLIVION LOST ALL OVER AGAIN BABBEEEEYYYY

[deep warren]

russia stole the ssd containing a life. blame russia

[lost folio]

Idi nahuy

[azure dock]

A-Life, binoculars, NVGs and populating the Zone should take precedence for the next patch.

[charred wraith]

ok its been 5 months (?) since release, have you removed AUTO LEAN on PC or atleast let me remove it by myself? Thanks

[worthy zodiac]

"Ведь я занимаюсь творчеством, а оно должно быть вне политики"
That's so typical to say for a russian. "Art should not be political" - It's literally IMPOSSIBLE to make apolitical art. Art is always an interpretation of the reality you live in, a reflection of that reality. What a nonsense

[glossy blade]

is one of 6 millions, he made*** THE DIFFERENCE***

[drowsy blade]

Fixing the bugs should be the main priority, anything else can wait

[empty gorge]

are the alife npc's also part of the 6 million?

[glossy blade]

no, coz NFT was canceled

[empty gorge]

why nft cancel if nft crypto test branch hmmmm

[sand fiber]

it's just typical for a braindead right-winger, fascists love this shit, they know nothing of art theory and they don't want to

[safe shard]

no update? cringe

[clear raft]

Does this 6 million include the people who refunded the game on release and then bought it later at a discount?

[sand fiber]

this is definitely a thing that happens

[empty gorge]

the 6 million are enjoying alife and fully modded stalker 2 sdk with a printed roadmap on the wall next to them

[charred wraith]

anyone know if auto lean is removed yet or we can remove it ourself? thanks

[lost folio]

Play some other game gng😭

[empty gorge]

nooo annnddd noooo

[charred wraith]

aight thanks

[thorn ermine]

Hello Mol1t I love you

[azure dock]

Why not both? Besides, haven’t the last number of patches consisted of thousands of fixes? We need actual content/features.

[storm kernel]

Mol1t typing

[glossy blade]

It is unforynate that we can't share the roadmap and modding update yet, but they will need a bit more time to be ready

[deep warren]

Theres Political above that philosophical then above that spiritual. you chose to stop at politics. what a simpleton

[lost folio]

Lean update

[weary topaz]

Mate, i don't think there was 6M players who bought the game, im pretty sure Molt or someone else just found the Wish Granter and had a word with him...

[empty gorge]

dont worry, we will keep reminding with reactions in gsc answers ❤️

[deep warren]

politics is an athiests religion

[sand fiber]

you're so smart bro

[celest goblet]

Well at least personally I'd rather have it be good than fast. I doubt anyone here will let anyone forget about it either 😂

[lost folio]

That’s pretty corny man

[zinc apex]

I have a spare PowerPoint licence if you need one for roadmap

[storm kernel]

religion is like superhero movies

[north violet]

I'm just happy to hear that Ievgen sounds chill. I've seen people making negative assumptions about him just because he's related to his brother Sergiy.

[celest goblet]

Really that surprising when it sold 1m in first 24h?

[nimble cipher]

rcascade1996 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty gorge]

so 6 million means more spots for cm? i would like to apply i promise to answer atleast once a day in gsc answers\

[nimble cipher]

rcascade1996 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[glossy blade]

As for the patch, it is in progress, probably will have something to share about the size/and maybe even dates next week

[empty gorge]

im really experienced in ambigious answers with no dates plz pick me

[deep warren]

go ahead bro put all your hopes on a something as fallible as a flag or a politician. LMAO

[glossy blade]

rookie numbers

[drowsy blade]

With the current bugs and optimization that would just create more problems that impact game performance and potentially add even more bugs into the game

[lost folio]

“Check and mate ” ahh

[weary topaz]

Its a joke my guy, breath 😂

[empty gorge]

do it with a-life or alife, i dare you

[sand fiber]

i wonder now how it would've turned out if there was a proper creative or a workflow in the studio, S2 is so full of potential as both a sequel and a reimagining, oh well

[deep warren]

stick to memes if you dont know how to argue

[glossy blade]

you are winning 49 to 47

[empty gorge]

oke where i send my application?

[clear raft]

You should just reply to GSC Answers with "Two More Weeks ™️"

[nimble cipher]

l3aperjr has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[drowsy blade]

What about “soon” in Ukrainian?

[lost folio]

Good one man

[sand fiber]

are you actually confusing the study of politics with patriotism

[deep warren]

youre all wrong im not listening

[empty gorge]

i will just add soon (tm) after it. fr mol1t post it in the noosphere jira atlas youknow have more open coms

[glossy blade]

dm Artemida

[stiff pasture]

No I’m like 85% sure the dude is trolling at this point, the other 15% is that he’s an idiot

[lost folio]

Are you plugging your ears and saying “LALALALALALA”

[empty gorge]

wait for real? what i gotta send. also see above about jira

[feral totem]

Did they just drop a patch? Saw sth on steamdb

[drowsy blade]

There are four different conversations going on right now

[glossy blade]

[deep warren]

yeah because weebs like you are involved

[zinc apex]

Shay apply as dev and get alife out

[empty gorge]

ayo chat let me have my one on one with molit, big man things going on here yeah

[north violet]

Holy shit, S2 has sold 6 million copies?!

[sharp minnow]

What is this one of yours? A-life ?

[clear raft]

No, they just dropped the "6 gorillion concurrent players" stat.

[drowsy blade]

I think a very small patch just dropped

[lost folio]

Gng thinks I’m a weeb

[woeful tulip]

They have no excuses now

[glossy blade]

yeah, today we had a minor upload on steam

[zinc apex]

No they lied to you

[glossy blade]

300kb

sth

[magic bobcat]

I hope the Ukraine developers will be safe and live good lives in their country forever

[empty gorge]

molit i got some wicked experience and we have been in talks before, outsource me man, yeah update was for unreal editor and fsr cpp files

[rough condor]

We will see about that. After all the broken promises, this better be worth the wait

[north violet]

I'm sure it can get there, we just have to wait some more.

[weary topaz]

Yeah Prague is not under russian invasion at the moment, they should be alright 👍

[sand fiber]

doubt it, unless the devs and managers themselves are unsatisfied with how the whole thing turned out it's unlikely there will be change

[thorn ermine]

I think cheeseburgers don't necessarily need to be paired with fries (chips for you UK folk).

[clear raft]

Don't expect much, if there's 6 million sales they got what they wanted.

[lost folio]

Ok byeeeeeeee I’ll be here for the next announcement 😘

[empty gorge]

maxym krippa right now

[drowsy blade]

Well half the team are still in Kyiv, half are in Praha

[weary topaz]

Oh ok i didn't know that

[drowsy blade]

Ye, not all of the team left the GSC offices in ‘22

[empty gorge]

chat can you believe i was | | this close to becoming a cm? or maybe molit was legit and i have to dm

[magic bobcat]

@empty gorge sheatech

[north violet]

GSC has said in more recent interviews that becuase of S2's success, they plan on supporting the game for a longer time and more intensely than initially planned.

Additionally, in an interview from...last year I believe, they explicitly stated that restoration of cut content and implementation of ideas that never reached fruition are both on the table; I think it's clear that they want to do more with the game.

[empty gorge]

for that the foundation needs to be right and i dont mean the things the players see but i mean the background stuff

[thorn ermine]

DM anyways doesn't hurt to shoot your shot

[sharp minnow]

Where is dlss 4.0 support?

[sand fiber]

gsc should be a worker co-op, this is the only way to get Stalker 3 with REBORN characteristics

[clear raft]

I'm sure it will be released with the roadmap any day now.

[zinc apex]

Best thing to come with mod support? GAMMA 2 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️

[rough condor]

The thing is, I don't believe a word they say. Too much lies for me, sorry. Also the game's a hackjob, I don't know if they can do it even if they wanted to. Nothing would make me happier than being proved wrong here, but I'm done hyping

[gritty orchid]

Id rather have anomaly 2 than gamma

[sand fiber]

how is it a hackjob

[clear raft]

I bet if the CEO for Microsoft asked for the roadmap it would be on his desk by the end of day

[empty gorge]

thats some "you miss 100% of the shots you dont take" mentality, i like that. send haha

[sand fiber]

i'm repeating myself but god i love that all the rage around S2 is IDENTICAL to the rage around Shadow of Chernobyl back in the day

[gritty orchid]

[zinc apex]

Anyone who played soc back then is really old (same goes for me 😢)

[sand fiber]

yes but we still have the forum archives (i think) and the reviews from back then, the outrage of people who felt SoC didn't deliver on any of the promises, mainly A-life, is basically imprinted in the history of this series

just remembered that like the S2 leak of a playable build there was a SoC build leak around a year before release, some things don't change

[celest goblet]

History repeats

[worthy zodiac]

Nah, I'm young. I played it when I was a little wee wee sprite

[worthy zodiac]

To be fair, they REALLY overpromised with SoC. Like, they promised something that still sounds like a fantasy even nowadays

[celest goblet]

Plenty is possible, but I guess I'm skeptical they would add things back in that require any more changes to the story at this point

[iron ridge]

anyone know what todays 8mp patch on steam was for?

[sand fiber]

literally the same thingggg
they invented the A-life buzzword, and it bit them in the ass after (expectedly) they had to dumb down simulation

not to mention the whole
"hey cars would be cool"
(4 years later)
"damnnnn uhhhh i think FPS location-based leveldesign focused on exploration with obstacles such as anomalies doesn't really allow for cars to exist, and locations designed for cars specifically end up as hard to produce scripted set-pieces"

again, lack of a proper workflow and design direction
it only worked because the team had actual honest-to-god gamedesigners like Prof and they had only like 6 guys developing at a time

[drowsy blade]

Literally developed in an apartment in Kyiv lmao

[sand fiber]

they hired Sergiy Ivanov to write a script for them (Oblivion Lost literary script) then a year into the development realised that DAMN ADAPTING NOVELS ONE TO ONE IN A GAME IS KINDA IMPOSSIBLE

[thorn ermine]

Hoping for the best for you 🙏
One of the worst things you can do in life is not try :)

[sand fiber]

not really, GSC was the biggest ukrainian game company and quite prominent

by the way, old Rostok location (still in SoC in multiplayer) is based on a Kievan office in a factory they used to work in

[worthy zodiac]

Nobody cared about the fancy name, what people cared about was the thing that "alife thingie" was supposed to do. I mean... From stuff like beating the game before you do to all that fancy dynamic world and economy stuff (similar to space rangers 2). The problem with stalker 2 is that it has delivered even less than SoC did in 2007 in terms of AI... They didn't promise any miracles like "AI that can beat the game before you do if you are too slow" this time so yeah...

[sand fiber]

my stance is that a-life was and is a meaningless buzzword, SoC simulation ended up more akin to the Skyrim NPC scheduling than anything, which isn't even bad by itself

the problem here, and now i'm really repeating myself, is that there was no one to properly describe what simulation would do and allow for, no philosophy behind it

unironically they should've hired an RPG theorist

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, yeah, I agree

[nimble cipher]

icanonlywishforthis has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vale quartz]

lol

[worthy zodiac]

Ahhh, Wolf has learned about that little trick...
Anyways, not sure what an RPG theorist is but yeah, I get what you mean....

[sand fiber]

i'm doing the Warlockracy bit, but it's kinda true

in order to make truly good gamedesign happen you need to know your shit artistically and philosophically

[winter comet]

Man, six million copies. Assuming an average price of $40 USD accounting for regional pricing and discount retailers GSC made some pretty serious bank from STALKER 2.

[rough condor]

Imo it doesn't matter what SoC underdelivered, the properly realised vision of A-Life is in Anomaly and it's not unrealistic or unfair to expect something like that in the modern game as it is truly nothing too flashy. NPCs occupying and fighting over lairs, travelling between them, maybe stand next to anomaly fields throwing bolts. That's it. The bare minimum. Could be expanded via mods with the SDK

[sand fiber]

OLR 3 the mod took upon itself to complete the monumental task of "do a-life like they promised to", and it ended up as a bunch of cool systems like stalkers trading between themselves that don't lead to nothing, there was no real framework, no asking basic questions like "What purpose is this system achieving"

[sand fiber]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHFHAHAHAHFHSHAHAHAHAH

THEY PROPERLY REALISED VISION OF A LIFE IN ANOMALY
AHAHSHAAHHAHDHFJFHDHDHSS

[rough condor]

Yes.

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, that's the biggest problem of modding in general (for any game in general). People do a lot of cool but meaningless stuff, without designing a cool experience with that cool stuff in mind

[sand fiber]

yeah bro they ughhh properly realised the lore vision of morrowind in uhhh skyrim yeah

[sand fiber]

i finally played Enderal recently, was so nice to see people actually think over what they do/don't like in Skyrim's gameplay and systems and implementing their own solutions, albeit amateurish

[rough condor]

Ok, let me rephrase: properly working, enjoyable system stripped of bloat, that's at it's core succesful in providing a sense of life in the Zone. You are holding on too hard to a 15 year old trilogy, that games don't matter anymore

[celest goblet]

Anomaly has the peak A-Life of NPCs fighting over like 10% of the locations on the map and otherwise places getting daily repopulations from the same factions

[sand fiber]

1. an extremely reductive way to look at art
2. YEAH NO BLOAT IN ANOMALY'S SYSTEMS AGAHAHDHHSHAHAF

[nimble cipher]

sergiizyk has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sand fiber]

btw @worthy zodiac, completely out of the blue but i wanted to recommend you a little game - Dread Delusion, not much gameplay but an insane narrative :p

[celest goblet]

Now Global War, that's a mod with some A-Life

[zinc apex]

That game is reeeellly good

[sand fiber]

i was literally shaking while playing the final level, and the clockwork kingdom oh goooood

[zinc apex]

Smallscale Morrowind

[sand fiber]

more of a fromsoftware thing tbh

[zinc apex]

regarding the weirdness absolutely

[sand fiber]

but the narrative ohhhh the narrative

[zinc apex]

hope to see more of that universe someday

[sand fiber]

anything from that developer tbh, the later portions of the game were such high-quality that i can't help but yearn for more

also trans and gay characters in DD were so cool

[stiff pasture]

I’m just sitting here laughing at the anomaly conversation

[static compass]

[fathom wren]

Are the six million copies in the room with us right now?

[static compass]

[dire dagger]

Yah they are

The room is very crowded

[fathom wren]

Peak schizo

[sand fiber]

the lower estimate of steam ownership seems to be 2 mil, considering the game is also released on GOG and Epic + Xbox&Microsoft Store that number is much, much higher

[dire dagger]

Imagine trying to sit in a room with 6 million 256gb ssds

That would be a very crowded room

[dire dagger]

I mean it’s also gsc saying how many copies sold I think they’d know

[sand fiber]

ye, not much reason to lie about it

[storm kernel]

they aren't even publically traded or anything

[dire dagger]

Like there are cases where it would make sense to lie

But this isn’t really one of them

Unless there counting gamepass plays

Maybe that would make the number like 1.5 or 2 million smaller

[sand fiber]

doubt it

[dire dagger]

Well

To put into perspective how impressive that is

By 2021 at least according to Wikipedia

The original trilogy had sold 15 million copies

[sand fiber]

how big was stalker 2's budget anyway

[dire dagger]

Ballpark estimates say around 80 million to 150 million

So if we do the math

[sand fiber]

the same as witcher 3, lmao

[dire dagger]

The game sold 1 million copies before launch

Sooo

Let’s do some math

Assuming everyone bought the base copy

35 bux per sale

35 million probably a lot closer to 50 million before launch

[storm kernel]

I think they already surpassed their budget

[dire dagger]

Oh I’m sure

There probably 2x

What they spent by now

Or close to it

[glass arrow]

6milion and still no A-life

[sand fiber]

6 million sales and still no communist revolution... sad!

[dire dagger]

Oi

No communism in general chat

[sand fiber]

where are my anarchist communes GSC
i will refund your game....

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[woeful tulip]

More like closer to £60....

[dire dagger]

Steam takes a 30 percent cut

[celest goblet]

I believe in December they already indicated the game had become profitable

[sand fiber]

every time i forget that steam takes a third of the profits, insane

[woeful tulip]

But steam is not the only place...

And didn't steam lower there charge to 25%... I heard it on LTT a week or so ago

And 33% of £60, is still £40... about $45...

[dire dagger]

GRRRR LINUS

Jokes aside

[celest goblet]

It's 25% for games earning between 10 and 50m and 20% for games earning above 50m

[dire dagger]

Well damn

Then there ballin probably

[sand fiber]

shouldn't it be the other way around lmfao

[woeful tulip]

So yeah, GCS has no excuses what so ever... They have the funding to make this game epic, and the zone dynamic as feck...

The ball is in their court... and they blow it all on a PvP that will be a hackers paradise.

[lost tartan]

Yeah fr lmao

[celest goblet]

Pretty sure the system was specifically a concession to keep the biggest games on steam when epic was promising much lower cuts

[sand fiber]

good thing epic exists tbh

a shit platform but at least there's some meaningful competition to valve's monopoly

[celest goblet]

Yeah it seems to have given valve a good kick at least

[woeful tulip]

Valve are not the most evil, in fact they are pretty damn good on a lot of things.

But hey, if you are happy funding TenCents, who pay the Chinese government to strip the people of Hong Kong of their freedoms and rights, illegal land grabbing in places like Bhutan, Spratley Islands and else where...

Not mention the crap they giving Taiwan, then be my guest...

I would rather have Valve as a monopoly that actually does things fairly, than have support a competitor with human rights abuses in Africa, the persecution of the Uyghurs in China, and Hong Kong losing their freedoms...

Be my guest, have your competition, just know what you are funding though.

[sand fiber]

i do not like companies nor do i like billionaires, valve is another company run by a billionaire

[woeful tulip]

I don't care how much money people have, it's what you do with it that matter and if you pay your fair share.

I would rather have a billionaire who does right, that poor person who would stab me in the back over 5 bucks.

Your morals are warped.

[sand fiber]

no billionaire can do right, otherwise they wouldn't be billionaires

trust me i'm no tankie but china's capitalism is not a reason to ignore america's capitalism

[woeful tulip]

That makes no sense at all... And is very childish way of looking at things.

[sand fiber]

there are 3000 billionaires hoarding the collective wealth of 6 trillion dollars, and that's only the official stats, mind you

that is more than the yearly GDP of every country on earth except US and China, that is even more than US's entire 2024 federal budget

3000 people, again
i'll leave it up to you to guess if that amount of power in that small circle of people could be gained through "doing right"

[lean folio]

Afternoon everybody

Been playing a lot now and I can say I genuinely enjoy this game, a lot

[woeful tulip]

Do not care.

[finite dragon]

WHAT THE HELL!?

[sand fiber]

[finite dragon]

Ylon Ma is hoarding all of the money for Terrshla, how dare he not share some with GSC.

https://tenor.com/view/yi-long-ma-money-elon-elon-musk-gif-13893664605164317472

no img perms ffs

Rog writing a whole book on God

[lean folio]

Why he look like that tho tbh

[finite dragon]

Ylon Ma

[lean folio]

Lmao yep 😂

[nimble cipher]

_moldy_cabbage_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[finite dragon]

peak cod ghosts moment (everything was amazing excluding the ending)

[dire dagger]

History is being rewritten

Everyone hated ghosts when it launched now the people love it

[lean folio]

I really miss playing Ghosts. That was my favorite game

[finite dragon]

In the grimdark present, there is nothing but chuds

[sand fiber]

it's the CoD cycle, soon enough people will remember BO3 as something good

[woeful tulip]

Sorry but I don't... The money they have is irrelevant to the person.

They could only have $100 in the bank and could still be scum. How much money people doesn't define them as a person.

If you are defining people by their bank balance, rather than the person.

Then you are no better than the people who judge others by the colour of their skin, rather than the colour of their personality.

I am not for once suggesting that all or if if any are great people, I don't know them.

It's just shallow and counter productive way to look at things... Childish to boot.

[finite dragon]

bo3 was pretty good for a jetpack cod

[lean folio]

BO3 is good, what are people talking about? 😂

[sand fiber]

10 years ago they would've killed you for saying this

[finite dragon]

For a jetpack cod of the time bo3 was absolute gas, and I still play custom zombies cuz it's hella fun

[sand fiber]

yes having more money than entire continents is the same as being black or smth

[vale quartz]

@sand fiber lmfao get real little zoom zoom

[finite dragon]

in the grimdark reality of the present, there is only f'ing losing it

[lean folio]

Most likely 😂 But hey, I'd die on that hill anyways. Honestly I'd be killed for saying that the new CoD games are absolute garbage and I prefer the older games. Activision ruined the games

[vale quartz]

Baby's first Stalker was anomaly and he pretend it's the best shit ever lmfao

[woeful tulip]

And this just goes to show how little you understand, especially the context of something.

toodle pips

[sand fiber]

that's literally what i'm talking about, this "the new cod games are bad" started since MW2

[finite dragon]

People play gamma because they cant afford tarkov (I hate both gamma and anomaly)

[dire dagger]

You said chud so I posted chud logic

[sand fiber]

[finite dragon]

shturing the pot, shturing the pot, I'm a shturer

[celest portal]

What's cookin

[dire dagger]

Instant noodles

[finite dragon]

shit, it's being shtured, rapid boil

[lean folio]

I genuinely don't understand the logic behind people wanting to play CoD games and happily paying for everything behind that ridiculous paywall, everything is locked behind a paywall and at this point people are willingly giving away their money to a money hungry corporation, it's sad imo

[vale quartz]

People also play gamma because they are bad at tarkov

[celest portal]

Tasty

[finite dragon]

that's why there's tarkov pve (as a tarkov pve player)

[pliant flume]

Bro 6 million people with 85% that bought the game and layed it down to wait until its patched

[sand fiber]

i'm not sure why you would play CoD multiplayer at all, even if it's an old title

anyway CoD main campaigns are serviceable, they can be fun

[dire dagger]

Play battlefield instead

https://tenor.com/view/ww2-battlefield-battlefield-1-battlefield-5-gif-17590063716390148493

[woeful tulip]

CoD is for mindless cabbages, brainwashed by the system and not think... just hand over money, becaue graphics pretty.

[finite dragon]

as long as they arent mw3/23

[sand fiber]

holy shit bro's defending billionaires and complaining about the system at the same time 😭

[dire dagger]

I will not hand over my money

[woeful tulip]

Nuance... try it some time.

[finite dragon]

the entire jist is "GOVERNMENT GOOD TERRORISTS BAD!!!!!!"

Play spec ops: the line, be a war criminal

[lean folio]

The campaigns are often a hit or miss, some are great some aren't, I tested out BO6 with my Xbox Ultimate and the campaign missions they added aren't even necessary or good at all. It's like they're trying to make it a horror game now.

[dire dagger]

Here

[silver warren]

I haven't bought a cod game since 2012

[dire dagger]

Play Indiana jones and the great circle

The good game Todd has made in 15 years

[finite dragon]

play operation harsh doorstop, it's literally free

[silver warren]

Everything I've seen of modern recent CoD looks like Fortnight

[sand fiber]

i played every game up to BO2 like 4 years ago, liked every campaign, then recently tried to play BO6 from gamepass, and it just didn't fuсking launch

[finite dragon]

420blazeit2 is also peak asf

[lean folio]

I've got Ready or Not, Bodycam, Unrecord and Breakpoint on my wishlist.

[finite dragon]

cannot wait for unrecord, dont bother with breakpoint btw, it blows

[lean folio]

It was fine for me for a few days. Then now it crashes every time I open it up. It's redundant

[sand fiber]

i'm not sure whether it's microsoft store and drm being ass or the game being ass

[dire dagger]

Cod games are just so flaccid compared to battlefield

[finite dragon]

or wait till it goes on sale for like a few bucks THEN get it, it can be fun but kinda sorta really sucks. it's whole selling point is celeb cast sadly

[lean folio]

I'll definitely save my money and skip out on breakpoint then. I was only going to get it to play with my buddies but they're no longer in the picture lol

[woeful tulip]

The later Battlefield games were bad

[dire dagger]

1 and 5 are good

2042 is ass

[finite dragon]

last good bf was BF1

[silver warren]

Ready Or Not is cool, cooler with mods. Just gets boring after a while if you don't have dedicated players

[dire dagger]

Bfv is way over hated

[celest portal]

RoN is great, I was trying to get S tier on all the maps the last time I played.

[finite dragon]

"If you dont like british soldier with a katana, dont buy the game"

that rubbed me SOOOOOO bad

[dire dagger]

Completely understandable

But the gun play is peak

[sand fiber]

i mean it is true.........

[silver warren]

Last Battlefield I really enjoyed was 1

[lean folio]

But I also cannot wait for Unrecord. It looks absolutely fantastic and it's definitely going to be on my first buy list.

Ready or Not will definitely be modded once I get it. I tend to mod my games and have extra immersiveness and add some fun things to my games to keep me motivated

[dire dagger]

Every gun has such amazing weight

I love it

[sand fiber]

bri'ish with katanas sounds fun

[dire dagger]

And every head shot crunch crunch crunch

[finite dragon]

the war stories are fun, Last Tiger is kino, the Nordlys story was weird since they kinda rewrote a major point of the war. Though tbf i dont remember her blowing up heavy water facility so not really

[dire dagger]

I only played last tiger

[finite dragon]

I recommend all of them for at least one try

[woeful tulip]

I played a demo once, years a go... like 20+ years... you was standing on the balcony, getting shot by a sniper, and your health would recharge quicker than the sniper could take it away...

I walked down some stairs then died... because I walk down the stairs...

that is my only experience of CoD...

[lean folio]

Alright, I'm gonna open up a new pack of smokes and sit down at my computer and play a bit more. Maybe have a shot of vodka while I'm at it, who knows 😂 See you guys later!

[celest portal]

Honestly the only modding I have done for Ready or Not is make it look cringe as possible.

[finite dragon]

drink half a bottle of everclear NOW

[celest portal]

Pink anime guns, stuff like that.

[dire dagger]

I wanted the skin

[lean folio]

I just got back from the store late last night and picked up two extra bottles of vodka so I should have plenty

[dire dagger]

The skin was fire

[celest portal]

Nemiroff and mango juice is great. Unless if you don't like the mango flavor.

[nimble cipher]

_moldy_cabbage_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lean folio]

See, I don't use chasers or have added flavors. I just drink it straight, always have 😅

[celest portal]

I mean, I always do that tbh, but I just love mangoes

[dire dagger]

Your like the high functioning alcoholic I use to work with

[celest portal]

I don't get a hangover at all if I just drink the vodka with nothing added.

[dire dagger]

Mate would slam down a nip bottle in the bathroom on every break

[woeful tulip]

Wait til you get older 😄

And I hate vodka... I prefer southern comfort, or Midori, or a spiced rum

[lean folio]

I do love mangoes too, I probably gotta head to the grocery and pick up some more things to make dinner. If you never put Chamoy and Tajin on it, you're missing out

[woeful tulip]

Why on earth would people drink something based on a fecking potato, when you have the fruits of the world to explore

[celest portal]

I mean, if I do get older I probably won't be drinking at all anyways. For now I just make stupid choices when I can.

[lean folio]

Hangovers are the worst. The other day me and my roommate got absolutely hammered and I was dealing with a headache and nausea for 24 hours

[celest portal]

Pure mangoes the only way

[lean folio]

One thing I do recommend for hangovers is pickle juice. That is a miracle worker

[celest portal]

Plus my bird named Mango always tries to steal whatever I eat so I don't usually put that stuff on my mangoes.

[woeful tulip]

Yup yup, I hate it, you pay massive amounts of money to feel like a butchered donkey the next day... I learn my lesson quick 😄

[lean folio]

Yep 😅 My mum took me to a bar on my 21st. It was a bad idea on her part. But, she didn't know I've already drank before so she was surprised on how well I handled it

[celest portal]

Bulbas

[woeful tulip]

When I was in the Philippines, the village I was staying in, picked fresh mango's from the forest and coconuts (coconut water), and the fishermen brought in fresh tuna for the breakfast BBQ.

[lean folio]

What's funny, is that my roommate is 28 while I'm about to be 23. I handle alcohol and all that much better than her

I should really get going now lol, the game has been on for a bit and I've gotta get some shots in me and a smoke 😂 I'll be back later on

[celest portal]

Where's that batat hater guy, bulba drinks might be the best substitution for now during the bulba shortage.

[woeful tulip]

My dad used to take us to the pub, when we was kids, let us drink shandy and partake on on half of beer...

We learn that drink is for socialising, and when we hit age, we was just normal, as nothing had changed.

Sometimes I think, not teaching the etticate of pubs and drinks to kids, actually leads to beer drinking and insanity, as they dont know any better and go crazy

[celest portal]

Mango

[waxen axle]

Roadmap

[celest portal]

Sometimes your genes have something to do with being able to process alcohol better, if not from tolerance. I'm the only in my family that can actually drink. My grandfather is the only one that can drink without a sip sending him to a hospital.

[celest portal]

Someone get the 8 ball I don't have it with me

[waxen axle]

8ball tell me things i can’t

Sorry cmytok

[dire dagger]

Checking now

[waxen axle]

He is right

[celest portal]

Wowie

[waxen axle]

Dafuck you have 80 « onglets » idk how we say in anglish

[dire dagger]

Tabs

I’m a power user

Or something

[drowsy blade]

I keep thinking the Mods are all Duty but I look at their roles and like half of them are Freedom lol

[empty gorge]

meaning there is an empty spot for monolith alligned mod

[silk hinge]

when strelok finds scar and they have that big showdown in the swamps involving car batteries and energy drinks how much should I scream when they eventually start dragging bloodsuckers into the fray?

[dire dagger]

There is a monolith in the mod team

[drowsy blade]

Who’s the Monolithian?

[empty gorge]

fake monolith, he wouldve recruited more..impostors!

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[empty gorge]

he meant me soon

[empty gorge]

hey now dont break the rules

[dire dagger]

Who?

[drowsy blade]

Bro’s getting torched more than people in witch hunts.

[dire dagger]

I got a torch

[silver warren]

Man it's hard for me to grap how some people perceive video games....

[dire dagger]

What did he mean by this

[silver warren]

People on Reddit having meltdowns about graphics and shadows in S2. Dude is having an absolute fit that he can't see bandits wearing camouflage against a wooded background from 20m away, during sunset with shadows everywhere.

[empty gorge]

you, im just joking but if someone really wants to be nitpicky isnt it content promoting violence?

[silver warren]

Comparing S2 to CoP and Anomaly like there's some kind of comparison. Like dude... Welcome to UE5

[finite dragon]

local redditor hasn't been outside (old news)

[dire dagger]

No cus it’s not directing violence at anyone

[drowsy blade]

or any animals

[dire dagger]

And very clearly a joke

It’s a piece of plastic

[empty gorge]

wym bro i identify as that thimg whatever it is

[drowsy blade]

You identify as Garfield?

[dire dagger]

I’m not getting into identity politics

[dire dagger]

[finite dragon]

Is this an escape from tarkov reference

[empty gorge]

THATS GARFIELD???, YOU ANIMAL!!

[drowsy blade]

What’s your per capita lasagna intake bro

[finite dragon]

lazangne

[celest portal]

Laza

[drowsy blade]

Huh? There are no animals in EFT?

[zinc apex]

You firing it?

[finite dragon]

Total Partizan death (from EFT)

[celest portal]

E

[drowsy blade]

Oh the nickname

[finite dragon]

I HATE Partizan so much

[storm kernel]

true, tbh tards in general tend to get genuinely angry over the smallest bs in games, you had mfs on youtube seething that Avowed didn't have hyper-realistic water physics or something stupid like that

anyone who bases their opinion on a game exclusively on how many of this nitpicky nonsense stupid details they have should be flayed

[drowsy blade]

I’ve never fought him because I uninstalled that game after their launcher got hacked in ‘22

[finite dragon]

was that the hack of 22??????

(Partizan bushwacks me every three raids or so)

[drowsy blade]

F

[silver warren]

He posted a screenshot and his game looks like absolute booty. 100% trash settings

[finite dragon]

mofo's footsteps make NO noise btw

[drowsy blade]

That could be a bug, sometimes the footstep noise disappears for me in certain areas

[storm kernel]

set graphics to Low
resolution to 720p
capture using phone camera on monitor, not actual screen recording
BRO THIS HECKIN GAME IS SO BAD BROO

[finite dragon]

No, sadly like the cultists, his footsteps by design are noiseless

[drowsy blade]

Oh you’re still talking about Tarkov nvm

Tarkov’s Cultists are weird, they’re clearly based on Slavic Pagans (their leader is called a Zhrets, which means something like “Sacrificer” or “Priest” in Russian, which historically was an attested to name for pagan religious leaders) but also radical Satanists at the same time

[silver warren]

Right lol trying to say it's 1440p upscaled to 4k. Dude it looks worse than 1080p upscaled. I play in native 1440p and it looks 300% better

[granite mortar]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general trying not to talk about Tarkov:

[drowsy blade]

Hello Kot

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Rat

[unreal raptor]

6million times the cost of each game. Sort you got damnt Alife now. Roadmap would be nice too.

[gloomy vector]

Wasn't there suppose to be a roadmap in december?

[urban basin]

Mayhaps

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-fly-cat-dodge-cool-moves-gif-16366215

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[night crest]

not to mention in Avowed's case, a lot of the youtube vids you see comparing avowed vs x game are very cherrypicked and they do not show the things avowed DOES better than the game its being compared to

[storm kernel]

yeah Avowed might have better lighting, reflections, character animations, overall graphical fidelity than Skyrim but it doesn't have advanced pot physics, which is REALLY more realistic?

[turbid hull]

Congrats on 6 million players! Will there be STALKER 3?

[night crest]

not even that, i mean examples of details o nthe same level of the ones showed in the vid, but theyre omitted because they'd make avowed look better

like the spell interactions with the world (like how you can cast ice shield on yourself to walk on water)

or the different parkour/puzzles in the overworlds

or in one vid they straight up pretended you couldnt dive in avowed just because it wouldnt let you dive in one story location 💀

[night crest]

we got half of stalker 2 rn, its a little bit early for stalker 3 💀

[celest goblet]

Let's let them finish stalker 2

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[storm kernel]

bold of you to assume those parasites care about gameplay

[turbid hull]

True, but if stalker 3 can happen, I would glad to be taken by the zone

[celest goblet]

I'd certainly be intrigued to see where they took it

[granite mortar]

GSC should stop making games and fund Jekan instead
Also make his mods canon

[static compass]

Hell yeah

[crystal merlin]

Official mod support is close.
Time for that sweet new game plus and spark exoskeleton

I imagine someone would try to add all the missing exos into the game, while buffing some of the already existed.

[stiff pasture]

Let me sprint in the Duty Exos

[gritty orchid]

I want gamma exos

[pine edge]

Hello ! 👋
people who pre-ordered the physical edition "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Collector's Edition Reprint" on Game Legends (in Europe) have you received the order? because I have no news for the moment

Thank You !

[celest blaze]

Call of the zone exos >

[prisma lark]

gamma detected opinion rejected

[finite dragon]

some people have and some haven't - probably the best answer

[zealous pumice]

I just wants immersive mods, gasmasks, dangerous radiation zones. Maybe different stage effects, such as nausia for first stage depending on the dose of radiation and the time since exposure and then later stage effects such as skin lesions. Very low stamina and damage while just walking around meaning you need to start taking meds consistently. Instead of just a round counter that 1 bottle of vodka can fix and it having no meaning

Gasmasks with filters etc would be great with wiping effects. Just want radiation to mean something instead of just being utterly meaningless

There's so much that should be a standard by now especially since games like metro setting the bar, 3d pda would be nice as well. Taking off the gasmask with a button press etc, effects on the mask like blood and rain, fog from breathing. Sound effects, different mask textures depending on the helmet

Sorry for the story book I'm just passionate about immersion lol especially in these kinds of games I just see the potential in stalker 2

[woeful sandal]

yeah even without much detail I’m still really loving the game, would like to see it get more depth aswell

[zealous pumice]

Why isn't stalker 2 doing anything new and innovative. Is a round radiation counter the best they can do?

They can't do multistage radiation effects, or something NEW. A thousand miles wide but 1 foot deep

[celest goblet]

tbh that just sounds tedious

[zealous pumice]

How 😆 you actually have to watch what your exposure over time, instead of it just being an immediate effect. Could take an hour for it to get to a bad exposure and if you don't treat yourself early you'll get slowly worse? Better than a round counter that goes tick tick tick with a fuzzy screen

Attitudes like that is why we have boring uninventive game devs and the same feeling bland games with no depth in gameplay, no offense

Idk man I just want devs to be inventive and do something different instead of boring meaningless mechanics. Radiation means nothing in this games it's even on the cover art and it's pointless in gameplay 😂

[celest portal]

Sounds interesting to me

[woeful sandal]

yeah even if not that mechanic specifically the point remains that they could have gone more into depth I agree with that, mods will be cool

[zealous pumice]

Imagine you had to wear your gasmask to go through radiation pockets. And if you kept wandering through radiation you would accumulate exposure and you would get sicker over time. You had to manage your radiation and wear your mask when your geiger counter started going off and you had a counter you could hold to see how much radiation there was in that area, and if it was really bad you needed a suit to protect you. I don't even care about it being exactly like that I just want depth 🙃 but something like that sounds immersive for me personally

[zealous pumice]

I hope the new zone becomes what we all want it to be through the community I think its possible

[fiery heron]

my game froze lmao

[finite dragon]

this is the mods way of confirming something hes not alowed to say directly

[dire dagger]

it means literally nothing because idk anything

its just a bit

lol

[celest blaze]

i know of things that cannot be said

words that must never be uttered

https://tenor.com/view/cat-oops-omg-oh-my-god-gif-7266696

[orchid gale]

Snork* * * *

[celest blaze]

😡

haha

good to see you king

[finite dragon]

I'd be surprised if they are included like that with information considering they arent employees or even paid, just volunteer stalker fans

[orchid gale]

Good to see you too, I’m mid way through a nicotine withdrawal as I’m quitting vaping

[celest blaze]

i feel that kinda info would be strictly GSC employee info only

[celest blaze]

AYO im proud of you stay strong you can do it man im just over a year free of it now

[dire dagger]

when we had gaj

he knew forbidden knowledge

but he would also rarely share it with us

[finite dragon]

i feel personally attacked as i was literally inhaling tobacco as yall said that 😂

[orchid gale]

Gods strongest warrior

[finite dragon]

I need to quit too. Best of luck with it, dude. Smoking is disgusting

[orchid gale]

Someone said I couldn’t so I decided to go cold Turkey off a 7 year addiction and this MF got HANDS

[celest blaze]

ong man i did it from 13 to 31 feels good to be free

[celest blaze]

you got stronger hands ONG

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-adorable-punch-gif-17822730

[orchid gale]

I need this man on my side FR

[finite dragon]

am i aloud to plug a controller into my pc and play this game laying in bed instead of sitting at my desk

[dire dagger]

UMMMM NOOOOOOOO

[finite dragon]

i thought so

[dire dagger]

if you do ill come out of your walls

and attack you

[orchid gale]

If you don’t I’ll come out of your walls and attack you

[finite dragon]

win/win

[orchid gale]

🫦 🫦

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[finite dragon]

can you play this game with a hotas

[orchid gale]

My body is producing so much body heat rn I think I’m immune to fire

[finite dragon]

i feel like im gonna die irl

[dire dagger]

there is an anime reference to be made there

but it would be insanely lame and gay so im gonna ignore that thought

[orchid gale]

I’ve never watched anime

[dire dagger]

youd never get it anyways then lol

[finite dragon]

does hentai count 😂

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/charles-calvin-henry-stickmin-collection-why-why-tho-banned-gif-19329235

[finite dragon]

man i just realised im in the no spoiler chat too - DISGUSTING. I can't believe I betrayed myself.

[orchid gale]

Andromeda yo no disrespect, you were the WORST mass effect game

[dire dagger]

andromeda right now: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1331326206515220530/1346460130748797029/chudclip.mov?ex=67c8ecf7&is=67c79b77&hm=0b9fdcf1bde3dab6c326fefb19dbf2ece0b3aad8c9f12f88657219c66b5dc829&

[finite dragon]

can you ban @dense cradle

[dire dagger]

IDK maybe

why should i

[finite dragon]

cause i asked nicely and they dont have a legit account

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/fact-do-you-single-to-back-that-up-gif-21443611

[finite dragon]

@dense cradle type 1 if you think you shouldnt be banned

[celest blaze]

i dont see anything that can be bannable tbh

[finite dragon]

i mostly joking

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/how-bro-felt-after-writing-that-how-bro-felt-alpha-wolf-alpha-alpha-meme-gif-307456636039877895

[celest blaze]

now

him being in the gamma server changes things...

😈

[finite dragon]

you wouldnt know this information if you werent in there urself

[celest blaze]

bro...

[dire dagger]

hes a spy

[celest blaze]

[finite dragon]

i got banned from gamma server when i said it wasnt the best modpack.

[dire dagger]

AND PEOPLE THINK IM LYING ABOUT THAT

[celest blaze]

based af haha

you werent man

[dire dagger]

gamma mfs got skin so thin you could cave in there skull with your thumb

[celest blaze]

if you criticize gamma you'll get in trouble

[finite dragon]

grok banned me himself

[celest blaze]

ive seen grok shit on gamma mod maker roles

[finite dragon]

no regerts

pov im gate keeping anomaly sdk so grok cant fix stairs

[dire dagger]

THIS IS STOC BITCH

[celest blaze]

you earned the based title for telling me this lol

[dire dagger]

ive been hating mods since before you were born

[finite dragon]

loll

[orchid gale]

I said gamma bad and didn’t get muted

[dire dagger]

try again right now

[orchid gale]

I’ll say gamma not great

[dire dagger]

SAY

GAMMA IS BAD

anomaly better

or some shit

[celest blaze]

say S2 better

[finite dragon]

thanks for gifting me this humble title i think i literally said "gamma isnt the best modpack objectively there are other modpacks with more content." like right after grok said something and i got perm banned

[orchid gale]

I’ll say s2 is better

[celest blaze]

spitting FACTS

[orchid gale]

I said s2 and anomaly are better now we wait

[celest blaze]

teamlite, call of the zone, legends return, Old world addon are peak freeplay imo

[dire dagger]

WHERE IS THE

the stalker 2 tower defense mod

or just the stalker tower defense mod

[drowsy blade]

say Call of the Zone is better on Gamma server and I guarantee you'll get banned lmao

[celest blaze]

[orchid gale]

I want a stalker home defence mod

[finite dragon]

defend the barrier mission in anomaly

[celest blaze]

call of the zone to me is truly the PEAK of freeplay im sad DoctorX passed away

[woeful sandal]

base building in this game would be sick

[drowsy blade]

Stalker is already a home defense game, Skif literally is defending his home

[orchid gale]

Nope

[dire dagger]

YAH

STALKER DAYZ MOD WHEN

WHERE THE FUCK IS DAYZ MOD

[drowsy blade]

isn't that a thing though?

[dire dagger]

is it

id play the shit out of that game

[celest blaze]

i think its a private RP server

[finite dragon]

wait like dayz in stalker 2. or stalker in dayz. cuz stalker been in dayz for like 100 years now

[dire dagger]

nah

[drowsy blade]

I may be thinking of a ARMA 3 mod as well

[dire dagger]

like the stalker xray engine but

its dayz

[celest blaze]

we need a dayz SA channel imo

[dire dagger]

i bought dayz

[celest blaze]

AYO

[dire dagger]

but i got no one to play with

[celest blaze]

id play tbh

we can knock out freshies and feed them human meat

[finite dragon]

i played dayz for like 120 hours in one week and then never again

[dire dagger]

i was a menace at roblox dayz back in the day

I WAS A FIEND

[orchid gale]

Idk man I think I’m immune to the mods of the gamma server

[dire dagger]

5k hours spent playing that shit

AND FOR WHAT

[celest blaze]

i got about 400 hours of console dayz but never played PC dayz really

[finite dragon]

unturned?

[dire dagger]

no

[celest blaze]

you're something unique ong

[dire dagger]

apocalypse rising

[celest blaze]

bro i loved baiting people with gunshots lol

shoot a few times and they come right to you

[dire dagger]

id start yelling shut up i hear something

[orchid gale]

Damn 🥵

[dire dagger]

i heard a single foot step

like 50 feet away

AND IM LIKE BOYS THERES A FUCKEN CUNT IN THERE GET EM

[celest blaze]

i used to troll people like hey did you see that guy in the bushes ??

[celest blaze]

[dry pasture]

where’s the shield of duty exosuit?

[orchid gale]

In the video game

[dire dagger]

in coolant plant

[dry pasture]

that doesn’t help

[dire dagger]

its the worse exo in the game though so

idk if you really want it lol

[orchid gale]

I tried my best idk man

[dire dagger]

its one of the only exos that can't use sprint

[dry pasture]

i’m actually trying to make sure i have all the usb upgrades

[dire dagger]

oh lol

well yah

its found in coolant plant

[finite dragon]

spoilers is crazy from a mod

[dire dagger]

me and my boy use to be a plague on the dumb ass kids playing that game

we would literally never ever play fair

lol

[finite dragon]

!timeout jack 10min stinky

[celest blaze]

ayo haha

[orchid gale]

!mute @dire dagger

[dire dagger]

!tempmute @finite dragon 5s

[celest blaze]

!mute @dire dagger

[dire dagger]

uh oh

the bot is fried

WOLF

[celest blaze]

no WOLF

[orchid gale]

!tempmute @celest blaze

[finite dragon]

[dire dagger]

!ban @celest blaze

the bot is broken

its over

[celest blaze]

this is the time to get freaky ong

[orchid gale]

@finite dragon we can now say whatever we want

[celest blaze]

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

[finite dragon]

os.chmod

[orchid gale]

Me turning @finite dragon from [officially based] to [officially bred] Fr

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/mini-oso-luna-tabby-lunaistabby-gif-220644464987255023

[finite dragon]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

[dire dagger]

ALIRGHT KIDS settle down

i need you to say something really bad

just as a said

[orchid gale]

Yes father

[celest blaze]

gamma is the best stalker

[finite dragon]

i almost said the forbidden word. but my neurons activated fast enough to stop me

[celest blaze]

can one of you say fuck ?

[dire dagger]

ight your going into the furnace

[celest blaze]

rq

[orchid gale]

If gamma is so good why isn’t there a gamma two?

[celest blaze]

fr fr

bro say fuck

[finite dragon]

i have gamma/anomaly 2 modpack for stalker 2.

[celest blaze]

gotta see if wolf is alive

[orchid gale]

Fuck, shit, bitch

[celest blaze]

hmm

[dire dagger]

uh oh

uhhhhhh

what is something worse

say cunt

[celest blaze]

^

[dire dagger]

thats on the list im pretty sure