⭐┃nospoilers_general

[worthy zodiac]

They should add all of you to stalker

[storm kernel]

true ❤️

[strange sparrow]

YES

i want to be bandit so i can die and say the line

[gritty orchid]

throwing a jar of piss on a bloodsucker to see where its going when hes invisible is meta (team fortress 2 reference)

[wise geyser]

I walk

[lofty helm]

[crystal merlin]

Patch day coming

[granite mortar]

Wrong
Its refference to how in the Path in the Mist story modification you spill piss on yourself when going to hunt a chimera so it cant smell you while sneaking up on it

[north violet]

It's a single-player game, that's perfectly normal; you have a larger influx of players at launch, most people drop the game once they finish, and then you'll have some diehard fans who keep playing the game constantly.

We'll probably see another uptick in concurrent players with each expansion/DLC.

[gritty orchid]

Rather believe it's a TF2 reference

[worn oar]

[north violet]

Wouldn't covering yourself in piss make it easier for a chimera to smell you?

[worn oar]

Huh

Second piss filled message in a row

[undone iron]

Guys its good now or wait for some patches?

[worn oar]

It is good

[dire dagger]

Don’t lie to them bro

[north violet]

Controversial A-Life take: I don't think it would be the end of the world if GSC wasn't able to implement true NPC persistence in S2.

Thinking back to my playthroughs of the original trilogy, unless I was specifically paying attention, the NPC persistence really didn't matter that much in moment-to-moment gameplay. It only really added to the immersion if I actually noticed it and even then it was mostly just a "Whoa, that's cool." moment before I moved on.

*EDIT*

Let me explain myself a bit more thoroughly:

When it comes to A-Life NPC persistence, I see it as being made up of two components:

1. The tracking of NPC's locations on the map and their current state/condition i.e. fighting, hunting mutants, artifact hunting, etc.

2. The tracking of NPC names and their loadout(s).

NPCs being properly tracked across the map and having locational persistence is extremely important and, in my opinion, a strict requirement for A-Life to be...well...A-Life.

However, that second component where NPC names and loadouts are persistent and tracked at all times, that is the component that I think could be safely dropped if it was too difficult or resource-intensive to implement in UE5.

[empty gorge]

[worn oar]

Played for more than 9hrs without a single crash

Never lied about it lmao, I even streamed the whole thing here

[north violet]

I didn't get a shader crash until...1.1.2 I think. After that the only crash I had was from those burers on Wild Island.

[quiet mountain]

Here lies Stalker 2, destined to live on only by comparison to its early predecessors, like so many other modern marvels. R.I.P.

[north violet]

I think S2 can be a worthy sequel, it just needs more time.

Apparently development didn't start until 2020, which is absolutely insane to me. Even a large AAA studio wouldn't be able to put out a project of this scope in such a short amount of time, especially not with the original release date of 2022; you cannot put out a game like this in only two years and have it be well optimized and feature-complete.

[worn oar]

Well, whatever you all say. if my word is considered a lie

[worn oar]

My game was exceptionally stable after the last patch. Everything seems to be working far better, even Alife. I also noticed a good visual/lighting improvements

Performance is mostly stable, but it seems like some frames been eaten away

Maybe due to the light shadows

[north violet]

I've seen some complaints that the flashlight was made dimmer with the addition of the shadows but I have no idea if it's true.

[worn oar]

Tbh? I didn't notice anything

[drowsy blade]

I’ve had a similar experience with stability ever since the 1.2.1 hotfix

[worn oar]

Flashlight was always dim in my eyes

[drowsy blade]

I don’t have as many random crashes, I think I had at most one memory related crash in Rostok

[worn oar]

Well, this time, I really had no issues at all. No bugs, no weird stuff, no quest issues. Everything was simply nice and smooth.

[drowsy blade]

I’ve had some minor bugs with the exception of a softlock bug at the very end (which is confirmed to be getting fixed this coming patch anyway)

[north violet]

Well regardless, the flashlight definitely needs to be improved and brought to original trilogy-level brightness. As it is now, it's practically useless.

[worn oar]

Agreed

[mild palm]

I will find you

[north violet]

Well I'm sorry, but I stand by what I said.

[mild palm]

Now look here: instead of fighting for the reason Stalker games became legendary, that the world continuously surprised and impressed people with how alive it felt, you’re here going “I don’t mind if it doesn’t feature any of that” and becomes just a different Fallout game. A regular Far Cry. Something chewed and spat out, and forgotten.

Tim, I know you mean well, but don’t shit in your bowl

Remember the vision of the developers for Stalker games: a world so independent of the player that NPCs could finish the game.

[north violet]

Yeah, and even in the original trilogy they were never able to fully implement it, the closest we ever got in vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was the Clear Sky iteration, and that was a buggy, unstable mess.

Of course I would prefer if GSC could implement that persistence, but I think that it's very possible to make the world still feel alive and allow for it to surprise you without it.

I don't mean to cut you off but I need to get ready for work, I'll be back tomorrow and can follow-up on any further responses.

[nimble cipher]

.slimestar has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[latent kite]

Don't think you can compare it to Far Cry

Not even remotely close

Plus Far Cry has been shit since 3

[empty gorge]

yeah ubisoft does it far better obligatory /.s

[latent kite]

New Dawn was more immersive than Stalker

[empty gorge]

peak dawn

[latent kite]

I'd compare WD2 and GTA5 for the shits and gigs but as far as the cringe-o-meter is concerned they're on par

[mild palm]

I mean just because the devs of the original trilogy didn’t create life doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be the goal for something called A-Life 2.0.

Notice the 2.0. It implies improvement, advancement.

And before you go “a lot was faked for old A-Life too”, of course a lot of it has to be faked. But we should want less to be. I want to look under the rock and see interesting things underneath, not missing texture

[latent kite]

[granite mortar]

Shut up mister logic
We are talking about miss where you spill piss all over yourself

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[mild palm]

Or not

[granite mortar]

Or kot

[drowsy blade]

Kot?

Where?

[zinc apex]

OMG
Wildcat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Where?

[zinc apex]

big floppa

[granite mortar]

(youre supposed to send me a silly cat emoji/sticker now )

[zinc apex]

i can't because I'm very poor and cant afford nitro

[indigo marsh]

[zinc apex]

[dire dagger]

Mr logic you say

https://tenor.com/view/chudlogic-chud-logic-evil-gang-evil-gif-11587451429599961940

[sly matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153801114091521/1347536740918890537/image0.gif

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[zinc apex]

Omg another wildcat!

[worthy zodiac]

Don't give your money to discord when you'll get it, catposting should be free for all...

[zinc apex]

won't ever pay for this spyware software

[rapid warren]

Patch on thursday, im betting it

[granite mortar]

No
Catposting shouldnt be Free For All
It should be Coop

[bright wyvern]

Howdy

[worthy zodiac]

It'll be delayed to the next wednesday

[indigo marsh]

What chickens houses got to do with cats

[granite mortar]

Omg
Where?
Just send me two cat pictures in #💬┃en_offtop
One by one

[weary cairn]

Does anyone know if GSC has talked about FSR4 support anywhere?

[granite mortar]

Chickens live on farms
And more often than not cats do as well

[indigo marsh]

Hello

[rapid warren]

https://tenor.com/view/gojo-sukuna-gojo-sukuna-jjk-gojo-vs-sukuna-gif-550810664549152226

[indigo marsh]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[dire dagger]

Already in the game

[rapid warren]

How it feels to bet on patch realese day

[dire dagger]

Me betting on a patch

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597350761730408451/1303389001276719115/charliecasino.gif

[worthy zodiac]

Hope next patch includes doom in pda

[lofty helm]

[weary cairn]

Ah, thank you. I missed that in the patch notes.

[granite mortar]

Hope next patch ports the game to quake engine

[bold stirrup]

scaling feels a little off when i see a group of stalkers cant kill some fleshes, or a blood sucker. but then i 1v5 the mutants. kind of breaks emmerision

[mild palm]

Put the fries in the bag

[bold stirrup]

also the human npc do so much damage to me but the mutants are invincible to them

[drowsy blade]

We can go even further back

[granite mortar]

S2 in Pong

[drowsy blade]

[zinc apex]

ubisoft should do stalker 3 tbh

[granite mortar]

Dezowave should do Stalker 3
At this point I feel they would make better story than GSC

[dire dagger]

Tencent stalker 3

[zinc apex]

including gacha mechanics

[drowsy blade]

EA Stalker 3

[granite mortar]

Bohemia Interactive Stalker 3

[drowsy blade]

Arma community would go insane

[granite mortar]

They already are insane cuz they get the same vehicles every DLC

[drowsy blade]

That’s true

anyway where is the Paradox Interactive Stalker 4

[granite mortar]

Warhorse Stalker 5

[lofty helm]

[worthy zodiac]

Wasn't there a mod like that for hoi4 or something like that

[drowsy blade]

There’s a mod in HoI4 for anything at this point

[indigo marsh]

Zara told me about a stalker mod for fo2

[granite mortar]

Zara isnt real

[dire dagger]

Zara is a schizophrenic demon

[drowsy blade]

Fallout: Oblivion Lost or something like that?

[indigo marsh]

Yeag

[drowsy blade]

I only know about it because of a Warlockracy video lol

[granite mortar]

Spawn of Tzeentch

[vale quartz]

Update drops tomorrow

[mild palm]

No

[worn oar]

Smells NFT

[worn oar]

Chymo will now hold it from you now that you found out about this

[granite mortar]

49 cat pictures and I let you peek in for 3 seconds
Pay up pucko

[lean folio]

I'm so dang happy right now

[celest portal]

Rat

[lean folio]

Ratto

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/gosling-rayan-gosling-smile-drive-movie-movie-gif-20381408

[granite mortar]

Holy cow
Its Ryan Kotsling
But human

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/spicy-cat-meme-ome-scream-gif-12777745881800260684

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[lean folio]

How are y'all doing today?

[celest blaze]

I'm decent today wby?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[lean folio]

I'm doing great today actually! I'm glad to hear you're doing alright!

[granite mortar]

Send cats

[celest portal]

Existential crisis

[lean folio]

Ahh I'm sorry, giving you support if you need it

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/head-pat-cat-cute-cats-pet-gif-16945117

[orchid gale]

Nfts would be a great addition to the stalker universe, they should have sold some for the release of the game tbh

Think about how cool it would be if you could pick up nft skins in a pvp battle royal mode and extract with them!

Extracting with 1000$ of dollars of in real life money think of the entertainment value of watching that on stream

[celest portal]

Off to the fire anomaly you go

[orchid gale]

Surely they should do this, absolutely nothing could go wrong, I’m sure the project won’t get abandoned

[broken latch]

This almost happened

Thank god it didnt

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[orchid gale]

(That’s what I’m referencing)

I’m very glad it didn’t happen aswell🤣 would have been hacker v hacker worse then cod

[granite mortar]

Errrmmm actually
Its called a Burner

[orchid gale]

These damn tourists 😔

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[sand fiber]

that might be true

[orchid gale]

NFTs are the future bro trust, surely these pictures of AI generated monkeys with cigars won’t drastically drop in value

[celest portal]

How did the helper absorbing event go for you btw

[granite mortar]

Back to the warp with you!

[sand fiber]

dezowave are already doing stalker 2 aren't they

[orchid gale]

Never ended up happening, based changed my perspective with love and admiration

[granite mortar]

Yes
Hope it wont be ass
Like Lost Alpha
And Priboi
And Stalker 2

[sand fiber]

ermmm i'm actually a dnd demon thank you very much 💅

[orchid gale]

You’re the rouge with the edgy backstory 😔

[celest portal]

Somethingunique character arc

[orchid gale]

I’ve had so many character arcs since joining the server I might as well have BPD

[kindred drum]

cat patch when

[sand fiber]

rouge?? ommggg like rouge the bat???

[orchid gale]

I’m stealing your liver

[celest portal]

There appears to be no result from mol1t though, I wonder when it's going to be revealed.

[orchid gale]

Never I’ll dm him and see but imma wait for when he wakes up (it’s 2 am btw)

[sand fiber]

after the yuri patch

[kindred drum]

How about yaoi patch

[orchid gale]

No like the colour red in French

[celest portal]

When dating Richter patch

[orchid gale]

When me dating you patch Fr

[sand fiber]

soon!

strelok mpreg patch

[celest portal]

Fishing patch

[sly matrix]

stalker fishing spin-off game

[kindred drum]

Fishing might actually be a neat function

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Enlarged belly Seva >>> Helmetless Seva

[sand fiber]

'tis true....

[celest portal]

Can Web Fishing be modded? Maybe the modders can do something with that if possible.

[kindred drum]

Pda web fishing

[sand fiber]

i'm actually so mad they didn't do anything with the PDA in s2

[celest portal]

Alright so Web Fishing can be modded, modders where are you.

[sand fiber]

TRVE.....

[celest portal]

Does this mean I can post that other sticker

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/white-russian-big-lebowski-doubliface-gif-18060190

[sand fiber]

what other sticker

[celest portal]

I've been told if I send that other related sticker I will get muted. But it looks like it's not true anymore.

[celest portal]

[worn oar]

Can't imagine that

NFT was planned if I'm not mistaken, but caused a backlash here and in almost all other socials to end up being canceled.

That itself speaks much and tbh, I wasn't against it, nor with it. Either way, it doesn't seem fitting regardless of what I think, or thought

[celest goblet]

It seemed like a strange inclusion to me

[sand fiber]

it was a collab with some ukrainian scam org, the working theory at the time was that griga jr. just wanted some money

[celest goblet]

If so then not that badly I guess

Because they did backtrack pretty much immediately

[tawny flume]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/u4nHIiTPSi

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-cats-jumping-leaping-swatting-aerobatics-gif-18095937023183510026

[worn oar]

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-linkstare-catstare-theboysbutdumb-gif-26094112

[hazy jewel]

Hardware raytracing?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[zinc apex]

crazy gato

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/poong-cat-eat-tuxedo-cat-fast-gif-13130318234642969709

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Every time I look at this, I can't tell if the treat flew out or not

[granite mortar]

He inhaled it

[sly matrix]

If they don't go after it, probably not

[unreal raptor]

Tomorrow is Wednesday. Officially jump day. The week is coming quick.

[reef raptor]

do you guys know if there's a way to view each of the game's voice lines separately / rip the voice lines ? I have the dumbest idea to waste a lot of time to voice the whole game with no budget acting whatsoever

[night crest]

no

[reef raptor]

[tiny token]

meow

[reef raptor]

[tiny token]

may or may not be me

[reef raptor]

nah... US

[tiny token]

🐱

[thick zodiac]

I have noticed that in the game there are so many grandiose potential entrances and doors, gates and ladders that look like lead to a lab, building or something else but they are not opening or locked and there is no key or anything in any proximity. When I go further with the game, the plot does not bring me back to these locations again.

Am I missing something or these are parts of unimplemented quests?

[gritty orchid]

probably

[thick zodiac]

thanks soldier

[gritty orchid]

lets hope they add these quests back in once the "fix" arc of the game ends

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[thick zodiac]

I hope they don't break it while dropping

[tiny token]

given your track record, i believe you bro

[empty gorge]

cut areas yeah (if they lead underground)

[empty echo]

if they're locked then it's usually a hidden stash, multiple ways they can be got into depending on what it is

[woeful sandal]

hmmmm, Monster Hunter Wilds or Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

truly a decision

[rapid warren]

I FEEL QUITE HUNGRY

[nimble cipher]

randl1 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest portal]

I feel quite hungry

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-watermelon-eating-eats-eat-gif-25258999

[rapid warren]

Henry after murdering 10 people in the bandit camp:

[sand fiber]

kcd of course

going insane rn trying to find some water in kcd1 💅💅

[wind veldt]

Kcd 2 full mod support in 2 days

*cough *cough

[celest blaze]

different game different engine

[sand fiber]

what?

[celest blaze]

kcd2 on cryengine

hell it took months for skyrim sdk to release

[sand fiber]

yeah and it's ass

[celest blaze]

same with kcd tbh

[sand fiber]

kcd modtools you mean?

[celest blaze]

😈

naw just playin

[orchid gale]

Nfts are cringe ngl

[dim topaz]

I'm ngl the bonus guns and gear in the ultimate edtion etc. Smell like NFTs

[celest portal]

@celest blaze

Mods quick, dude is starting to post everywhere

[nimble cipher]

williamowen55 has been banned

Reason: scam

[celest blaze]

these bots man

[indigo marsh]

Downgraded from a g36 to an ak in CotZ

The g36 was good but for some reason I didn't like it

Probably because it was not as fun to use as the ak

[pastel roost]

A-Life fixed yet?

[celest blaze]

i like the ak/an more tbh the abilty to switch sights is alot nicer

[indigo marsh]

Duty is neutral or friendly to every one in my CotZ playthrough
||Except the monolith but they don't rlly count||

[dim topaz]

Not by a longshot

[celest blaze]

surprising tbh

duty would team up with bandits alot in my run lol

[indigo marsh]

That's even more surprising

[pastel roost]

Righto. I'll be back in a month or two to double check. Ta!

[celest blaze]

freedom is a certified opp they'd declare war on me like damn near instantly

always

be it loners or clear sky faction they'd want the smoke

[indigo marsh]

They are at war with cs in my playthrough too

[celest blaze]

lol

i remember spawning in the swamp then instant declare

[dim topaz]

Freedom is like California the only redeeming factor is the weed

[indigo marsh]

But the army clear sky ceasefire happened in your playthrough too, right?

[celest blaze]

thats freedom

[celest blaze]

yeah they got chill

[celest blaze]

most of the time CS faction gets boring to play as they end up neutral to everyone but monolith and military so i go loners or if im feeling bold ill go freedom

[celest blaze]

oh nvm i misread lol

i do like that freedom is the only real faction to consistently fight back the monolith besides clear sky

[indigo marsh]

Should I start attacking freedom?

[celest blaze]

YES

fuck freedom

[celest blaze]

whats your top faction

[celest portal]

I have a Freedom patch, planning on getting Monolith or Noontide

[indigo marsh]

They were attacking some ecologist a while back so I thought about it

[celest blaze]

[celest blaze]

attacking eggheads..

[indigo marsh]

Pretty sure the egg heads defeated them

[celest portal]

[celest blaze]

[celest portal]

[indigo marsh]

This is probably going to kill my rep

[celest blaze]

reminder to ALL snorkers this could be YOU

🫵

[celest portal]

snork

There's snorkeling

[celest blaze]

Worth it

[celest portal]

Swimming in water snorkeling

[celest blaze]

do not google the urban dictionary definition of snorking

you have been warned

[celest portal]

I will take your word for it

[celest blaze]

curiosty did not kill the cat today

[indigo marsh]

I mean telling people not to do something might cause them to do something

[celest portal]

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/hmm-emoji-thinking-emoji-let-me-think-gif-16435497

[celest portal]

[torpid wren]

I really don’t understand why people who play stalker for the zone, love duty, who are literally against the zone

[indigo marsh]

They are kind of boring tbh

[warm willow]

🗺️ 🛣️ Roadmap, please

[zealous pumice]

Rostock idk

[torpid wren]

Rostok ain’t good because of Duty. Rostok is good because of the bar

[zealous pumice]

Anyone know of a map comparison of stalker 2 and irl locations? How accurate is it?

[zealous pumice]

Nah duty is only good because they're in rostok

I like freedom tbh, stoners

But mostly I'm a loner, just a roaming merc with no affiliations except anyone who is verses monolith

[woeful sandal]

if they’re chill I’m chill, but that doesn’t last long

[agile path]

Can someone explain each faction in stalker 2 and who they are allied with?

[torpid wren]

#s2-lore-discussions has people with the answers

[mild palm]

I see

[dim topaz]

Mercs. I like loners and Duty too.

[lofty helm]

[dim topaz]

What have the freedomers ever done for us?

[dim topaz]

Their outfits are fly as hell

[vale quartz]

PATCH. DROPS. TOMORROW.

[mild palm]

Mol1 will give us the patch today.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

When is patchy? ☺️

[mild palm]

Is this going to be allowed?!

Btw patch notes are out:

• Fixed On the Edge for the fifth time (temporary fix)
• Fixed spelling of some guy somewhere
• Rats now move slightly slower
• A-Life 2.0 now spawns more bandits

See you in a couple of months, Stalkers!

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[sly viper]

[placid spoke]

Controllers are my favorite mutant

They freak me out when they just walk away from me

[mild palm]

Mol1t, go on. We’re waiting.

[dire dagger]

https://www.videogamer.com/features/stalker-2-devs-reveal-a-roadmap-is-coming-soon-as-the-team-promise-to-be-more-transparent-going-forward/

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

The 8 ball was right

Glory to the 8 ball

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[twin pulsar]

Pointless article

[dire dagger]

Considering we have heard nearly nothing about the road map since launch it’s great to hear

[twin pulsar]

They’ve said the same exact thing about the roadmap in the answers channel many times

[dire dagger]

Oh

[placid spoke]

What patch are yall so hyped about?

I just got the game on xbox and it runs beautifully for me but ive heard its super jank to other ppl

[zinc apex]

soon soon soon, okay?

[placid spoke]

Only 1 crash in 40 hours of gameplay so far

[zinc apex]

At this point you can read your daily horoscope and have the same information about the game as with GSC statements

[dire dagger]

Or the magic 8 ball

[zinc apex]

Truth spoken

[celest portal]

Fishing update

[placid spoke]

Like for more food?

[dire dagger]

Fishing update for fishing

Because who doesn’t love fishing in video games

[celest portal]

No Man's Sky did a fishing update

[zinc apex]

No men in the sky

[lofty helm]

[zinc apex]

Gurumies stickers always the best ✨

[dire dagger]

Hampter

I wonder what Hamsters taste like

[zinc apex]

Like spaghetti

spaghet

[finite dragon]

Personally I lucid dream to get information on s2 updates

[zinc apex]

What the roadmap look like?

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/map-anime-gif-19673808

[thick zodiac]

I don't get why people keep demanding a roadmap, it was already implemented since the beginning of the game, just press "P" or "M"

[dim topaz]

Roadmap 🎱 Very Unlikely 🎱

[sly matrix]

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

[outer laurel]

soon you mean early 2026

[zealous pumice]

fixed spelling of some guy somewhere 😂

[empty gorge]

is this channel no spoiler on story? or no spoiler all, like even collectibles

[zealous pumice]

soon™

[vale quartz]

Soon is tomorrow

[thick zodiac]

Very reliable way to make dead bodies disappear.

1. grab them and put them on your shoulder
2. use any ladder (press F)
3. ?????????????
4. PROFIT -> dead body gone

[celest portal]

"Morticians hate this one simple trick"

[azure dock]

Patch day?

[dire dagger]

Me when asked where’s patch for the 50th time today

[thick zodiac]

okay guys, I am back with another tutorial, I hope you are ready!
Tutorial Part 1 is here: #⭐┃nospoilers_general message
SO

1. Tell your peers you found a reliable bug
2. As soon as you told them about it you cannot replicate it anymore
3. ???????????????????
4. PROFIT

[lofty helm]

[slow sand]

[drowsy blade]

[leaden marsh]

is 140kg the limit?

[zinc apex]

Wheres patcho

[sly matrix]

Yes

[empty gorge]

tomorrow around 5pm gmt+1

[sly matrix]

We will blame you if you're wrong though : )

[empty gorge]

tbh technically the update is next week if we look at their internal milestone and validation process. they released 1.2 on feb 13th after most likely 2-3 weeks of validation, in meantime work on 1.3 started ( so 1.3 has been in the works since end of jan/early feb) about 5-6 weeks of work and validation puts us around end of march

[lofty helm]

[tiny token]

meow

[vale quartz]

Patch. Drops. Tomorrow

[empty gorge]

the reason molit said more info dates possibly next week bla bla is because when he said it, 1.3 is undergoing validation tests

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/spicy-cat-kitten-kitty-cute-gif-11787104311869609440

[empty gorge]

meaning its not far off, in meantime work on 1.4 is being started/has started

[unreal raptor]

Patch is one quest bug fix and snork mating. 50gb. GET READY.

[tiny token]

we're soon going to get stalker 2 2.0

[unreal raptor]

XXX-Life 2.0

[sly matrix]

Wake me up for ST.A.L.K.E.R. 2 2.2.2

[empty gorge]

also if anyone wants some juicy dlc #1 / #2 info lmk (from in game sources)

[unreal raptor]

P.O.R.K.E.R 0.2 2.22

I can't face anything about DLC — I can't pump another penny into this wasteland. Fix my game please.

[vale quartz]

dlc will be about ryan gosling being miserable in the zone

[empty gorge]

dlc is being made by separate team since 2022

[vale quartz]

"u look lonely" -voice of the monolith

[foggy burrow]

stalking it

[unreal raptor]

A-Life DLC: Bigger bubbles and quicker enemy respawn

[zinc apex]

Big fat large spawns

[empty gorge]

is this what they mean with the zone evolves based on your actions? the render distance and spawn times change? /.s

[celest blaze]

They are fixing it

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/gosling-rayan-gosling-smile-drive-movie-movie-gif-20381408

[zinc apex]

What did we do to deserve being customers of GSC 😢

[celest blaze]

shoulda stuck to COD

the best franchise ever

[zinc apex]

At least they dropping stuff

[celest blaze]

slop yeah

nicki and other goofy rappers

[analog helm]

don't forget to buy your cod points DLC. You will need it

[celest blaze]

was about to try zombi until it wanted me to make a uplay account tired of all these 3rd party launchers on steam bro

[zinc apex]

I want to play as Batman in Pripyat

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/test-gif-2341822946696656132

[night crest]

ingame...right

[celest blaze]

no

[mild palm]

😡

[rapid warren]

Pleaseeeeee

[slow sand]

^+1 to that

[empty gorge]

ill send dlc1 since they can be easily found in game files (and in game itself no spoil)

[lofty helm]

[nimble cipher]

racing5566 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

racing5566 has been banned

Reason: scam

[gritty orchid]

[hot canopy]

hopefully today or tomorrow for that patch. I need it!

[zinc apex]

We all do brother, we all do

[hot canopy]

It will come with time. Just gotta try to be patient.

Alas, the struggle is real!

[zinc apex]

Enough games to play and more to come. S2 is done for until something substantial is dropping

[celest blaze]

Play chernobylite

[zinc apex]

Good game

[celest blaze]

Fr I'm liking it so far

[zinc apex]

Don't know what to think about the sequel

[night crest]

kcd2

[daring storm]

Really hope I'll be able to finish Yakuza: Black Flag in time for AC Shadows

[night crest]

ac shadows 🫃

[daring storm]

Yeah it looks good unlike ghost of tsushima

[night crest]

💀

[celest goblet]

Interesting take

[empty gorge]

tom_hardy_thats_bait.gif

[daring storm]

Nah ghost of Tsushima was boring as hell

[night crest]

@celest blaze ban this guy

[daring storm]

One day I'll finish it maybe

[celest blaze]

No

[sly viper]

[night crest]

smh

[celest blaze]

If i was going to abuse my mod privileges he ain't the one I'm willing to lose them over

[night crest]

am I the one though

[celest blaze]

No

[zinc apex]

@GSC when will modders get tester role?

[daring storm]

You will not get a new role and you will like it!

[celest blaze]

I'll give you a role

[zinc apex]

Can I get a casserole pls

[indigo marsh]

Man in CotZ I was ambushed by a bandit and I got the vendetta mission and it felt so satisfying ambushing him with a knife
Too bad that he used much of my ammo and used up my gun and took my sleeping bag and veles

[daring storm]

Do I have to show you some moobs or something?

[celest blaze]

NO

Do NOT do that please

[daring storm]

Because I will if I have to.

[celest blaze]

Send them to @night crest

[zinc apex]

Or to Mol1t

[celest blaze]

I love how dynamic cotz is

[celest blaze]

Do NOT do that

[daring storm]

[dire dagger]

I’ll do it then

[celest blaze]

He might just ban your ass

[dire dagger]

I will

I’m here to start banning

[celest blaze]

It's time to start the G purge

[daring storm]

Ban wolf kthx

[celest blaze]

All non olr 2.5 chads gotta go...

[zinc apex]

You gotta finish stalker 2 play through first

[sly viper]

wait wat? did i miss something

[daring storm]

You're getting banned dudeman

[sly viper]

i got wolf on my side!

[celest blaze]

One day

I'll prob pick it up after a couple updates

[indigo marsh]

I played VoA for a bit before dropping it so I could start messenger
It's not 2.5 but a version before it

[celest blaze]

I'm doing messenger rn

It's a cool mod

[dim topaz]

uh, oh, you are being struck by the HoMM3 archangel, say your「P r a y e r」now fool 🔥 🪽

[indigo marsh]

I got filtered by OLR 3 because I was trying to save but could not at all and it turns out that OLR has a campfire save system but instead of campfires you had to be under a structure (ie. A house with its roof)
I only learnt after I deleted it

[empty gorge]

too scared of them need to talk to journalist as middleman

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-cat-confused-confused-look-serious-gif-16884211

[mild palm]

Mol1t still giving us the cold shoulder, huh?

[zinc apex]

Gato!

[dire dagger]

You’re getting banned!!!!!!

[sly viper]

stop telling porkies. last time you said the patch is coming next week and came the next day

[empty gorge]

ill be your mol1t:
patch soon, going through final testing phase. once i have more info i will be sure to let the community now ❤️

[dim topaz]

Just as the last 3 months, literally all he can say is "soon" or "not yet" or "we'll share something later" I'm not sure what you want from him

[sly viper]

Kattos!

[empty gorge]

or do you want a side of:
It's coming, should be soon, we are sorry for the delay but we are doing our best is all i can say, thank you for staying with us ❤️

[zinc apex]

Spoken like a true GSC employee 🔥🔥🔥

[sly viper]

community manager in the making

[celest blaze]

CMs can only do so much tbh

[empty gorge]

how about some:
final QA is being done and there are sth cool stuff here, lots of fixes and optimizations! will let you know once i can say more for now im sorry and keep on roaming the zone stalkers! o7

[mild palm]

I want us to get mad

[celest blaze]

Getting mad over games is silly as hell lol

There is far more serious irl things to get mad at rn..

[empty gorge]

for sure, like spending 80eu on a semi finished product while my eggs are rising in price

[dim topaz]

exactly. The price of rice has more than doubled since last year, it's up to 5000 yen per 5 kilos
WHER ARE THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS

[sly viper]

they can always bribe for some extra info. nothing stays a secret in the Zone

[zinc apex]

100 bucks gang here 🔥

[empty gorge]

dont worry, a part of it went into molits paycheck

[celest blaze]

Gotta vote for better politicans

[zinc apex]

Imagine buying 300 eur collectors edition just to install 30 mods on day one to make it somewhat enjoyable

[drowsy blade]

How are you guys getting angry at a guy who literally can only do what he’s been doing for the past three months. He doesn’t work on the game as far as I know.

[celest blaze]

Misguided rage

[dim topaz]

old man yells at moon

[empty gorge]

brother im just goofing, like i said before i know mol1t cant say shii its all good, just joking with it

[celest blaze]

Get mad at Microsoft for forcing the game out sooner

[zinc apex]

It's all Billy Gates fault

[empty gorge]

he probably has like a note on his computer with like 2-3 subjects hes allowed to talk about all good mol1t ❤️

[drowsy blade]

I highly doubt GSC actually wanted to launch like this, but due to their precarious money situation they unfortunately had to tie themselves to one of the most soulless gaming publishers out there.

[empty gorge]

for sure man funding isnt infinite

[dim topaz]

fr. I just hope they use some of those 6 million sales to hire someone to code their AI

[empty gorge]

ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the dozens of ai devs right now at gsc reading this

[zinc apex]

I blame the executives tho for shutting down all honest communication with the community

[celest blaze]

If only russia didn't start this war the main alife dev wouldn't have died

[dim topaz]

Facts I can't read

[empty gorge]

they are both alive afaik?

[dim topaz]

yes, the main alife dev is very much still at gsc and alive

[celest blaze]

@empty gorge

[sly viper]

then how do you explain S2 Alife?

[dim topaz]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/iassenev/?originalSubdomain=ua
This is the guy, not who you linked

[empty gorge]

thats not him tho

[celest blaze]

Ah

Mb

[mild palm]

I expected all the jank in the world, but NOT the removal of A-Life. I am just waiting to see GSCs final move on this subject, as they’ve so far not been clear on it. If A-Life is now what they lead to me belie it is, then I will have spent 110€ to learn a valuable lesson about GSC, and it won’t be forgotten

[empty gorge]

the main alife devs are:
Andrii Levkovskyi and Dmitriy Iassenev

[celest blaze]

Damn what are they doing ??

[empty gorge]

deployed

[celest blaze]

Ah

[dire dagger]

This time I’m actually joking

[celest blaze]

I hope they return safely

[dim topaz]

Necessity out of time or budget constraints, or due to terrible optimization and not being able to use smart terrains on an open world, MUCH bigger world with way more AI, considerably more resource intensive
There can be any number of reasons

[dire dagger]

[empty gorge]

simple: neglect

[dim topaz]

ah yes, every dev's dream, to release a broken piece of sh

[celest goblet]

The true dream of every creative

[empty gorge]

there is a lot more here that gsc isnt saying is all i know, certain events made it so ai wasnt worked on in parallel to other systems

[dim topaz]

we have literally 0 insight into their development details

[empty gorge]

lets just not get into it haha

[dim topaz]

actually that's probably for the better

[zinc apex]

Spoken like a majestic lion 🦁

[mild palm]

I’m just your average kot lover, sir

[empty gorge]

stalker 3 will fix it dont worry, they will go: We learned valuable lessons from stalker 2 and are now building stalker 3 with the core pillars our community loves.

!remindme 5 years

[drowsy blade]

It’s gonna be another ten years before we get S3 tbh

[mild palm]

So do we expect the patch to piss us off or not? I expect to be disappointed. Not to be negative or to pressure the devs or anything, but something like the flashlight efficiency has proven to be out of reach

[vale quartz]

a life this a life that but where stalker 2 dead air 2?

[drowsy blade]

It’s probably going to be just another big bug fixing patch (their priority) with perhaps some minor tweaks to gameplay and stuff

[empty gorge]

i mean the 1 thing molit mentioned is attachments and uniques moved to pre point of no return so dont expect much, else he wouldve said more hype stuff. no reason not to if it is in that patch

[mild palm]

Exactly

[hazy helm]

at the bottom of a bridge
dead
where it should be

[empty gorge]

expect for foreseeable future just bugfixing and optimization to lay the groundwork to reintroduce cut content

[vale quartz]

ermmmmm wrong!

[hazy helm]

I will not be hearing complaints from Dead Air Afficionados

[zinc apex]

Just let us overwrite render distance god damnit

And fix offline movement which broke last update

[thick zodiac]

what game....?

[mild palm]

Last update? Did it ever work? Genuinely curious

[zinc apex]

Npc did move on for some time in offline but last patch it broke

[dire dagger]

You got a license to complain buddy

Gonna need to see your complaining license

[zinc apex]

Now they stand still and eventually despawn immediately

[vale quartz]

I've got a license to kill

[dire dagger]

No license to complain though

That’s gonna a be a 50 dollar fee

[dim topaz]

Look at it realistically yeah
Game development takes a long as$ time, years, not months, especially something of this scope
3-4 months from release is not going to be enough to do jack sh compared to the years it was delayed, let alone worked on in total

[vale quartz]

dolla? I only trade in real money: Pakistani rupee

[dim topaz]

To be honest, I'd say come back in another 2-3 years when they've had time, and when SDK is out

[dire dagger]

50 British pounds please

[feral totem]

The performance is so bad right now you need top tier pc to run smoothly and it’s very disappointing

[vale quartz]

50 rupee (0.35€)...DEAL!

[split robin]

Is there any mod i can use to increase LODs even further? The trees are getting annoying

[dire dagger]

Gonna be another 400 for no tv license

[split robin]

And don't suggest any optimization mods.

[dim topaz]

oy u got a loicense fou that?

[indigo marsh]

Where is YOUR asking for license license Jack

[dire dagger]

Wawa bottle please mate I’m thiorst over er

[dim topaz]

bu'uh o' wo'ah

[reef raptor]

pretty sure there's a few guides or mods that do that.. just search any key word like lod or tree in the search bar on nexus

[indigo marsh]

Ozarka is peak water

[dire dagger]

Nexus

Is that a Lego universe reference

[dim topaz]

I'm an avid tap water with ice enjoyer

[reef raptor]

I LOVE TAP WATER!!!!!

[indigo marsh]

Kirkland is nice if it is at room temp or colder. It tastes weird if it is warm.

I luv me a bu'uh o' wo'ah in me morning with a cupa of tea.

[dire dagger]

Explains a lot

[dim topaz]

Uhhhh ☝️ That's because 🤓 the cold numbs your tongue 👅

[dire dagger]

[hazy helm]

quickly deleting that

[reef raptor]

what huh why wha

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/mystical-wise-tree-a-little-goofy-omg-rofl-lmfao-gif-3707288582733751132

[reef raptor]

[indigo marsh]

[fair jackal]

ain't nothing wrong with tap water, just live in a place that has high standards for that sort of thing.

[mild palm]

Europe represent

[reef raptor]

I live on a tiny island with the population of 50k people surrounded by water and mountains with constant rain
the tap water here is extremely good + water is COMPLETELY free I DONT pay for water :D

[dim topaz]

I live in the middle of Timbuktu surrounded by goat herders and water is COMPLETELY free if I clobber my neighbor just right

[zinc apex]

What's that island and why don't i live there?

[dim topaz]

inb4 bermuda

[north violet]

So I want to follow-up from what I said, because the second I shut off my computer yesterday, I realized "Oh shit, I did not do a good job of explaining my position or go into enough detail about what I was talking about.".

My sincerest apologies for that.

Let me explain myself a bit more thoroughly:

When it comes to A-Life NPC persistence, I see it as being made up of two components:

1. The tracking of NPC's locations on the map and their current state/condition i.e. fighting, hunting mutants, artifact hunting, etc.

2. The tracking of NPC names and their loadout(s).

NPCs being properly tracked across the map and having locational persistence is extremely important and, in my opinion, a strict requirement for A-Life to be...well...A-Life.

However, that second component where NPC names and loadouts are persistent and tracked at all times, that is the component that I think could be safely dropped if it was too difficult or resource-intensive to implement in UE5.

[reef raptor]

faroe islands and uhhh idk like barely anyone has heard of it

[dim topaz]

is it called that because its faroeway from the mainland

[mild palm]

I appreciate the explanation and effort! I knew you were a swell guy! Good on ya

[reef raptor]

I will KILL you

[zinc apex]

There aren't good things happening on the mainland anyway

[north violet]

Thank you!

I have a deep, probably unhealthy love for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., it's one of my most favorite franchises. I want S2 to be better than the original trilogy, I want it to succeed in areas where the original trilogy failed, and I want A-Life 2.0 to live up to that name.

However, I'm also trying to keep my expectations and hopes within the realms of practicality and reality. Game development is very difficult and extremely complex, especially when you're dealing with an open-world game. This is also GSC's first attempt at a project of this scale; it's a AA studio's first attempt at a AAA project.

I've said this before, but considering that development apparently didn't start until 2020 and the original release date was 2022, I want to know how the hell they expected to put out a game of this scale and detail in a well optimized and feature-complete state in only two years. Even large AAA studios can't do that.

[dim topaz]

I only know of Kan du inte cykla eller?

[north violet]

@zinc apex Sorry mate, I just don't want to be lazy when getting my thoughts across.

@mild palm Apologies, you wanted to say something more?

[mild palm]

I just wanted to say that I agree and I also try to keep my expectations in check.

[north violet]

I know that stuff was pre-rendered, but man I kind of wish they had stuck with UE4; the pre-release stuff looked so much prettier.

[lofty helm]

[gritty orchid]

[mild palm]

All that said, I demand Mol1t to release the patch now!

[north violet]

Was it this week or next week that the patch was supposed to drop?

[finite dragon]

Maksym Krippa said that i can have embed perms

[urban basin]

I dont think it was confirmed

[lofty helm]

[sand fiber]

stlker

[celest goblet]

Mol1t said we may get information about the patch this week

[sand fiber]

everyone asks where's a-life 2 but no one asks why a-life 2....💅💅💅

[mild palm]

This is war talk

[thick zodiac]

guyes hoping this patch will path their soul wounds

even though the patch was the friends that we made along

[sand fiber]

did you consider what goal new simulation systems should be achieving.... or why they were there in the first place... 💅💅💅

[mild palm]

Yes! Realism!

[sand fiber]

1. meaningless word
2. no, that wasn't it
   

[mild palm]

Mooooooom!

[unreal raptor]

P.A.T.C.H

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[mild palm]

There’s gotta be NVGs in this next patch. What else would take like 2 months to prepare? NVG hype, who’s with me?

[sand fiber]

they'll add yuri.....

[unreal raptor]

NVGonnaHappen

[celest goblet]

I think the general purpose of a simulation system like this is to create dynamic conditions for the player to encounter throughout the runtime of the game. It's both interesting to observe and can keep the player on edge since they may never quite know what's around the corner this time, except for right around bases

[vale quartz]

cool, where an94?

[celest blaze]

Ong

[night salmon]

Hi everyone

[celest blaze]

Hey

[rough condor]

A-Life just existing bumps up immersion 100x, all you need to know is that it's there

[celest goblet]

I just like the articulate what I think are some of the more tangible effects it has on the play experience, to me fundamentally it comes down to surprise, which leads to tension, and that is a part of the atmosphere

[unreal raptor]

this current standard of a-life is so bad I hope it gets entirely scrapped, I hate the spawning of large groups and the idle characters standing basically t-pose in each base/area.

[gritty orchid]

i just want to be able to go to space in stalker 2, is it that hard to achieve? smh

[rough condor]

Of course this too

[dire dagger]

Where is fn fal

And my m16a1

[celest blaze]

Goated guns

[dire dagger]

I need to get my Vietnam on

[celest blaze]

I need a AUG

[zinc apex]

i need a hug

[celest blaze]

🫂

[vale quartz]

scrap a life and add LR300, a soul for a soul

[sand fiber]

i mean, true, but this can theoretically be achieved without persistency like in the trilogy
i think it was Prohorov's quote about something along the lines of the Zone being a living, organism, that would keep changing without the player's input, which sounds amazing, but it's literally just an idea, not far from "I want it to be like REAL-LIFE..."
the problem is how do you actually implement something like this, what does it even mean for a zone to be alive, is it important for it to be truly alive instead of just giving an impression of being such? Is all of this even desirable in a shooter/RPG?

they toyed around with lots of simulation concepts during SoC's development, from companions to stalkers being able to beat the game by themselves, and i'm pretty sure none of the members had a real view of what all that should be achieving gamedesign-wise
this is why SoC has respawning NPCs, this is why people start moving only once you reach the labs, and like, did the persistency of stalkers matter at all? Did any of it?
People in this chat will tell you that CS is the best stalker game, despite its simulation being non-existent and inconsequential, so why not just replace it with RNG

[vale quartz]

then scrap optimization patches and add FN2000

[storm kernel]

A life is actually amphibian-life and will instead focus entirely on frog AI

[zinc apex]

fine for me tbh

[celest goblet]

I definitely think there are far less complicated ways to try and get similar end results, but I do like the occasional big swing at a crazy idea

[dire dagger]

Where is my g11

[unreal raptor]

it doesn't matter how its done — the illusion of a-life is what people want. Don't care how. It needs to be added, not even to mention the shoddy marketing practices before release which really peed people off.

[dire dagger]

Shut up idiot we need a g11 more than a life

Everyone knows that

[unreal raptor]

I want outfits for skif above all but hey.

[sand fiber]

me too tbh, despite me saying here that SoC's simulation was pointless i adore the scenarios that can play out if you go a different way, every playthrough is a bit different, but it's more due to the bugginess than anything else

the point i'm trying to make is that you need to have solid gameplay-narrative goals before making systems like these, A-life as it is in the trilogy ends up being a solution without a problem

[unreal raptor]

F.A.S.H.I.O.N

[zinc apex]

Now I'm feelin' so fly like a G6 G11

[vale quartz]

BEAR suits where?

stalker 2 will never be good without desert eagle

or the SGI 5k

[unreal raptor]

Deagle with it.

[zinc apex]

so long stalkers. see you again when the update drops. I'm outta here

[unreal raptor]

see you next week

[celest blaze]

[inner mural]

i want my SIG 550 man!

[indigo marsh]

Freedomer killed the egghead who I rescued for a mission

[sly matrix]

I... second this

[inner mural]

its litterly a very iconic rifle thats not in stalker 2! they should add it

[finite dragon]

Download sig 550 model from ue5 store and replace it with something

[thick zodiac]

Man, I just love how casually Skif reloads when I am being pwnd by three bloodsuckers at the same time screaming in agony trying to hide

hey why am I blue da bu die da bu dai

[mild palm]

Regardless of how you try to cheat a simulation, the player will notice. And that alone is enough to say that A-Life, as in NPC persistence, is absolutely necessary if the game is to stand out and live up to its prequels.

Again: if this game is to stand out, then it absolutely needs to pick up where its namesakes left off—and strive to create as simulated a world as is possible; a world that is simulated regardless of player input.

If it is all smoke and mirrors, then what we have here is just another video game to be played through and forgotten.

[vale quartz]

just go outside if u care about persistent npcs and fully simulated world ez solution

[mild palm]

Patch tomorrow?

[vale quartz]

Tomorrow.

[worn oar]

[sand fiber]

Regardless of how you try to cheat a simulation, the player will notice.
no, not really, and the point isn't in "cheating" it

the gamedesign goal of creating "living" places has various solutions with their upsides and downsides, none is intrinsically worse than the other

and strive to create as simulated a world as is possible; a world that is simulated regardless of player input.
i literally just talked about how this is an idea akin to the old russian joke of "I want so in the new GTA i can go to my own real-life apartment!"

[past basalt]

All games are smoke and mirrors. Including Alife in the previous 3 stalker games.

[static gust]

Marked one, what the hell

[unreal raptor]

can't believe half of this chat — are you talking yourselves into believing this version of a-life is better or will do?

[celest portal]

[mild palm]

They approach the problem in different ways but those can be measured with an objective criteria: how close has it come to creating a virtual world that exists not FOR the player, but with the player.

The use of trickery to achieve this is necessary, but there ought to be efforts made to require less trickery and more of the real deal.

[static gust]

Aren't you guys tired repeating the same discussion every time I walk onto chat

[past basalt]

People are dreaming of alife concepts that never worked in previous games

[mild palm]

‘Tis but a flesh wound

[past basalt]

But some smoke and mirrors were better, like PDA messages

[static gust]

Why do you bother me, n'wah

[sand fiber]

can be measured with an objective criteria: how close has it come to creating a virtual world that exists not FOR the player, but with the player.
how the fuсk do you measure it, with vibes?

this wasn't even the goal of A-life in the trilogy

[thick wolf]

🫵

[mild palm]

Let’s try to find common ground thusly:

If it were possible, would you like to have a virtual world that is indistinguishable from reality?

[mild palm]

Easy: do the NPC spawn in and despawn for my eyes only or not?

[sand fiber]

this is a question to the particulars of a single implementation, not to the approach as a whole

[vale quartz]

we ain't about how shit gamma is so no

[hazy helm]

no that sounds grim

[static compass]

[vale quartz]

hell nah, boring as hell world

[static gust]

That's the second best topic here right now

[mild palm]

I don’t understand what you mean by that. But I am curious: if everything is possible, which do you prefer: more or less trickery to achieve a “living, breathing “ virtual world

[static compass]

Depends, can you conform said world to how you want it?

[mild palm]

Probably a misunderstanding. I meant: the Zone that exists in virtual reality but obeys the same laws of physics as to be real

[hazy helm]

no that would be grim

[mild palm]

I see

[hazy helm]

I want A-Life 2.0. not a worse system

[worn oar]

X2

[static gust]

No more bullet jumping?

[mild palm]

I don’t understand why we’re arguing about whether we want a proper living, breathing, existing virtual world or not

[hazy helm]

I dont want a "proper breathing existing virtual world"
that sounds like ass
I want A-Life 2.0

[mild palm]

Everyone wants that. That’s what open world games always strive for

[mild palm]

That would be grim

[hazy helm]

a breathing living existing world? that would be both dumb and boring

a-life isnt that

and it shouldnt be that

[static gust]

But that is what you want

[nimble cipher]

zara_l12 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mild palm]

Destroyed in seconds

[inner mural]

does anyone have a problem with their nividia app and their anti virus not working correctly together? i have to uninstall the anti virus program i have just to update the nividia app!

[sand fiber]

liberal GETS destroyed by TRUE stalkerite....

[hazy helm]

yhea you have a problem bc you have one of either in your pc, delete both,

[static gust]

Who uses nividia anyways?

[mild palm]

Anyhow, I am convinced that we’re on the same page. I understand that you have concerns about feasibility and I assure you that I keep my expectations in check. It’s probably a language barrier thing—I am not a native ENG speaker—so I wasn’t able to properly convey my point.

[celest portal]

Nah this the first time I'm hearing about this happening. I never had to do this when updating.

[storm kernel]

are you using any anti virus other than windows defender?

[inner mural]

yes webroot

[storm kernel]

who uses nvidia any-ACK!!

[storm kernel]

delete it, waste of system resources or see if you can add nvidia to whitelist

[latent kite]

You don't really need an antivirus on top of win def anymore

[sand fiber]

what's your first language?

[hazy helm]

sounds like a virus

[storm kernel]

fr its just a waste of system resources and money

[mild palm]

Slovenian/Slovene

[granite mortar]

Depends whether Im a literal Kot Emperor in that world and I lead the cat species across the star system

[inner mural]

i did add it to a whitelist but it still wont allow it, i have to uninstall it then reinstall it afterwards

[celest portal]

Windows def should be enough for your virus protection

[latent kite]

Get rid of shitroot and problem solved

[sand fiber]

ah
anyway, it's not about keeping expectations in check
i just wanted to talk about gamedesign

[granite mortar]

I wouldnt trust windows
Didnt it defuse zip bombs by opening them?

[storm kernel]

better yet uninstall and never reinstall :)

[static gust]

My graphic card ended her life a long time ago

[static gust]

Why is everyone using this stupid ue

[sand fiber]

I HATE UE I HATE UE I HATE UE

[mild palm]

I said “come in”, don’t just stand there

[storm kernel]

How did I manage that?

[granite mortar]

I HATE LUMEN

KILL LUMEN

BEHEAD LUMEN

KICK LUMEN OFF A CLIFF

DROP KICK LUMEN INTO CONCRETE WALL

SLAM DUNK LUMEN INTO TRASH CAN

THROW LUMEN INTO FRUIT PUNCH

PUSH LUMEN UNDER PSEUDOGIANT

SAME FOR NANITE AND UE5 AS WHOLE

[sand fiber]

we achieved peak graphics as far as 2015, and """photorealism""" was a thing Valve did back in 2004, the industry traded performance and graphical fidelity for whatever the fuсk we have now

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[inner mural]

i have to reinstall the Nvidia app, webroot makes the Nvidia app spit out an error code 0x80070005, its basicly an access denied error... ill defently will not reinstall it... but i might have to becuase im planning on staying on windows 10 in the near future

[static gust]

Games made of free ue assets

[sand fiber]

yes you do not need >60fps, it's about unfeasible and dubious lightning """improvements""" actually, no don't look at in-house engines, those are a lie, UE5 is all that exists, you HAVE to use it

[celest portal]

Uninstall shitroot

[sand fiber]

70% of stalker 2's problems would be solved if they used fuсking godot or something

[granite mortar]

Or Cry engine

[static gust]

X-Ray Monolith Engine

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[storm kernel]

doesnt cryengine have insane costs

[hazy helm]

godot
HAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAHAHA

[granite mortar]

It did when it came out in like 2007...

[storm kernel]

nah but doesn't crytek charge like a ton of money to use it?

Not necessarily talking system resource usage

[hazy helm]

tell that to the developers who went insane remaking features from the UE5 engine
yhea you wouldve actually needed to MAKE MORE features from the ground up

might as well make a new engine

[granite mortar]

Worst fuсking Xray fork out there

[sand fiber]

i mean yeah that's what i want

[hazy helm]

it wouldnt be godot

[storm kernel]

that's infinitely more difficult than just using unreal tbh

[static gust]

Still better than ue

[granite mortar]

Its not like the studio cant afford it
Also this is the first time I hear anything like that

[sand fiber]

i said godot for comedic purposes 💅

[hazy helm]

I say this for factual purposes
you stink

[granite mortar]

Yeah but why use the worst Xray fork when theres dozens of good Xray forks

[static gust]

Comedic purposes

[sand fiber]

at least it's girlstink 💅💅

[vale quartz]

UE5 is a good engine

[hazy helm]

https://twitter.com/stalker_thegame/status/1899873533645275284

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL (@stalker_thegame) on X

Look whose here! 🐿 🐿 🐿

Restless squirrels will appear in the Zone with patch 1.3. Not so dangerous as some bigger 'locals', but these creatures can get nuts from any stalker.

🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿

X · Mar 12, 2025, 5:22 PM

whats going on big guy

[granite mortar]

Its good at being bad

[static gust]

If they divided the zone into segments, as it used to be, there would be no such problems either

[vale quartz]

squirrel update

[hazy helm]

I mean, you are as well but that just goes without saying

[storm kernel]

I'M NUTS STALKER

[celest portal]

Best update ever

[mild palm]

Is this even real?!

[sand fiber]

uhhhh that's already how open worlds work

[hazy helm]

in my browser

[finite dragon]

Silent hill 2 pretty good

[storm kernel]

W GSC W GAME

[mild palm]

All is forgiven, GSC

[finite dragon]

Runs worse than stalker2 tho 🙃 but at least Lumen isn’t freaking out

[celest portal]

Finally the needed squirrel patch is arriving

[mild palm]

These crazy mofos went and added squirrels to the game. I can digg it

[static gust]

But there is no loading screens between locations 🤨

[mild palm]

Persistent squirrels when?

[sand fiber]

yeah, it loads dynamically?

[vale quartz]

1.3? isn't 1.4?

[celest portal]

Squirrel

[storm kernel]

we dont need A-Life, we need S-Life. Squirrel Life.

[weary token]

well, is this is real, its almost close as adding billie eilish, niki minaj crossover. Like what? Why waste resource on adding squirrels........

[storm kernel]

And Amphibian Life.

[sand fiber]

Why enjoy a sunset? Why wake up in the morning?

[storm kernel]

gigachad GSC mogs entire industry by adding squirrels:

[static gust]

Squirrels will now be members of different factions, the currency will be nuts

[celest portal]

We do have some amphibian life, although sometimes the frogs would just swim into the ground.

Squirrels will attack if you don't throw them an artifact.

[storm kernel]

I'm nuts!

[weary token]

going by this logic they might as well add old HDD drives to some random locations, also why not add tire tracks next to a tree, some briefcases next to an underground facility.....etc....

[storm kernel]

peak gaming 🙌

[sand fiber]

yeah i think that's called environmental design

[static gust]

So, can I use you to buy this all-wood-akm

[vale quartz]

PATCH DROPS TOMORROW

also gaming was a better place when hdd were the standard I'll die on this hill

[hazy helm]

they probbaly cut this before release and someone remembered and added it back

[storm kernel]

if you have good standing with squirrels they will pelt nuts at enemies when you are in a fight

[sand fiber]

nah

[drowsy blade]

Shout out to the frogs that you can find just vibing in the water

[finite dragon]

I found a frog in a house

[drowsy blade]

or floating in the air if they’re around an anomaly

[finite dragon]

Raytracing ❌ a life ❌ optimization ❌ squirrel ✅

[storm kernel]

GSC is unironically best developer confirmed

[weary token]

I mean its ok and all, but not when a game is lacking....like "we know that the sleep system doesn't work well at the moment but there are higher priorities" Might I ask? Squirrels are higher prio than the sleep "system"?

[hazy helm]

why do you want raytracing

for the game to run worse

[storm kernel]

hardware raytracing would look better than lumen software RT

[weary token]

Its like CP2077. December, few days after release: And here we are presenting you the 1st patch for our game. Patchnote: "Added additional legal screen to game startup movies"

[hazy helm]

yhea and using normal GI and Baked lights for most static scenes would look better and run better

YOURE OUT

DONT ARGUE I WONT ANSWER

TALK TO THE WALL

[drowsy blade]

Wasn’t that because the intro was giving people epilepsy seizures?

[finite dragon]

Lumen looks like balls hw rt would probably run about the same and look way better

[hazy helm]

tahts a nice wall youre talking to brother

[storm kernel]

*on a card with dedicated RT cores/hardware

[finite dragon]

Everyone has one in 2025 right

[storm kernel]

ideally, hardware-RT supported cards have existed for consumers since 2018. anything RTX 2060-onward supports it

[tiny token]

HAVE YOU SEEN THE SQUIRREL UPDATE

[celest portal]

Squirrel life update

[storm kernel]

new id Software games require hardware RT

[sly matrix]

I can confirm hedgehog

That climbs walls

[drowsy blade]

Confirming badgers

[inland ruin]

Where squirell

[celest portal]

Mutated hedgehogs are going to start talking like Sonic

[inland ruin]

Where the squirel update4

[wise geyser]

RESTLESS SQUIRRELS

[celest portal]

Can you pet the squirrel

[sand fiber]

yeah and none can do it well

rt is cancer nvidia forced onto the industry

[hot canopy]

anyone else just sprint straight into anomalies to get out of this cruel world immediately?

[celest portal]

Whiskey Greg

[inland ruin]

Lowkey

[celest portal]

[inland ruin]

i dont like how you cant kills crows and frogs they better make squirrels killable for immersion purposes

[past basalt]

You asked for more alife 2.0, you get squirrels that chase their own dreams, so be happy

[unreal raptor]

Squirrels have full life cycle.

[timber shard]

[unreal raptor]

You can follow one squirrel from birth to watch it age and prosper in the world. Raise a family before finally resting, knowing his family will carry on his legacy.

S-life 1.0

[thick zodiac]

so is the guy who reads every day "today patch will come out" is a liar?

[teal quartz]

So is a-life still dogshit in this or has it improved much yet?

[unreal raptor]

I hope this is a morsel. A tidbit. Not like the last patch where we got a roar.

[celest portal]

Fishing update when

[unreal raptor]

It’s still total DS.

[teal quartz]

Nice

[unreal raptor]

But. Squirrels. I think I need to leave this game. My heart can’t take it.

[hot canopy]

The last patch was full of bug fixes. Yes, content wise we only got a roar but there was a lot of stuff in there. This one will surely be the same.

[teal quartz]

Would be cool if devs made patch announcements rather than whatever random bs they keep posting in there.

[mellow vault]

lol

[unreal raptor]

Punch myself in the snork

[celest portal]

Pigeon update

[celest goblet]

IDK I personally like the squirrels

[clear raft]

They need to just release the SDK, it's clear the community can produce better QOL improvements.

[teal quartz]

I check announcements about once a month and all it seems I see lately is “sloppy you craney, hi stalkers time for an update about how we are so thankful you all fell for our totally a complete game ( not a scam)”

[unreal raptor]

I’d like them if I had a morsel of the stuff that is a huge gaping hole in the experience I wanted/was promised and paid for.

[sand fiber]

how is it a scam lmfao

[unreal raptor]

It’s not far off? People are rightly so annoyed.

[teal quartz]

It’s not the game they advertised

[mellow vault]

So, like every game in history?

[sand fiber]

it is?
they didn't do much advertisement

[celest portal]

Not being able to kiss Strelok makes this game a scam

[clear raft]

Game is literally made in UE5 which says it all.

[unreal raptor]

Bootlickers unite.

[teal quartz]

Therefore scam. They promised a next gen a life and they admit themselves it’s busted.

[sand fiber]

they didn't promise anything, they said that the game will have "A-life 2.0", and, well, it does

[nimble cipher]

.sarnt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[drowsy blade]

Wolf claims another

[teal quartz]

Bruh

[unreal raptor]

So much is missing from the game. Even by the standards of 20 years ago. A haggard lumen lighting renderer doesn’t plug the obvious holes.

[teal quartz]

You start with “they didn’t promise anything” then immediately state they said they will have “a-life 2.0”

[celest portal]

How's everyone's day going

[unreal raptor]

There is safer spaces to talk about its short comings mind. It’s a little kool-aid in here.

[granite mortar]

the game does have Alife 2.0

[celest goblet]

Y'all control the buttons you press on steam and gog and apparently didn't wait to check what the game was actually like before hitting Buy

[sand fiber]

If you followed any GSC related promotion before the development you'd have noticed that they didn't actually specify what "A-life 2.0" is, nor did they answer any questions about it, so yes, no promises made - no promises broken

[mellow vault]

He's not wrong though. Calling it 2.0 implies it's an upgrade.

[granite mortar]

the preorder bonuses looked so nice tho :3

[clear raft]

I can take a dump in the toilet and call it "A-life 2.0" but that's not what it is.

[sly matrix]

physical preorder goodies are dope as fork

[granite mortar]

just because something is "2" doesnt mean its better
just look at every second movie ever

few exceptions here and there of course

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[sand fiber]

Well, linguistically, yes it would be

[celest goblet]

Not to say that the game should not be better but no need to get hyperbolic about it

[unreal raptor]

Hyperbolic is a great word for A-life 2.0.

[celest goblet]

I guess it and many of the users are a perfect match then

[stiff pasture]

Hyperbole is the only language a lot of people speak nowadays it seems

[mellow vault]

A sequel in movies isn't the same as versioning in a system. "2.0" explicitly implies an iteration or upgrade, while a second movie is just another entry in a series.

[sand fiber]

i dunno why people are so mad because they fell for a buzzword, GSC literally didn't talk about the game up until a few months before release, the warning signs were there like 2 years before

[granite mortar]

Alife 2.0 is also just another entry since its made from scratch and not an evolution of the 1.0 system

[unreal raptor]

It’s a buzzword based on a pre existing system they have released once already. And better.

[empty gorge]

brothers and sisters, for i have reached the peak. i wanted alife but i got squirels. this is amazing and i am satisfied. ty gsc

[clear raft]

They literally didn't test anything until then either.

[mellow vault]

If it's called "2.0" instead of a completely different name, it still carries the implication of an upgrade or iteration, whether it's built from scratch or not.

[teal quartz]

You all have a point. A retarded point but a point.

[sand fiber]

They did 💅

[empty gorge]

bro we all know a-life means absent-life not artificial-life, get with the times

[unreal raptor]

I can’t tell if you are just trolling

[mellow vault]

Glad you respect it. Must be hard when facts don’t align with your feelings.

[sand fiber]

y'know you can just stop being mad about things and go do something you like right

[clear raft]

Anybody who uses "linguistically" incorrectly has a room temperature IQ.

[granite mortar]

"when facts dont align with feelings"
says a guy with Trump on his pfp

[sand fiber]

sis i literally study philology 💅💅

[mellow vault]

Mission accomplished. Stay mad.

[dire dagger]

Out of common curiosity I’ll give you the opportunity to change your pfp as politics are against the rules

[mellow vault]

Take it up with mol1t. He said I was allowed to use it

[dire dagger]

With all due respect you got proof of that

[mellow vault]

Ask him

[dire dagger]

He’s not here I can’t

[mellow vault]

That's not my problem.

[dire dagger]

Well idk what he told you but unless you can present proof your getting banned for refusing to comply

Simple as

[molten crow]

you're*

[mellow vault]

Ban me then. I'm friend with Mol1t. Ban me for it, and I'll screenshot this to him and send it to him