⭐┃nospoilers_general

[nimble cipher]

kirlroy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[exotic hamlet]

Move the rear sight on the on AR416 back about two rail slots, please. 😔

[hazy jewel]

The owner of steam gabe said he has been playing a lot of stalker 2 🙂

[mild palm]

@vale quartz 😦

[errant yacht]

where are my squirrels gsc

[kindred drum]

add turtles next

[viral apex]

Can i stream an SoC playthrough here on the discord?

[paper brook]

I want patch 😭😭😭

[hazy jewel]

Hardware ray tracing

[tulip drum]

Is there a pre 1.3 patch notes?

[thick zodiac]

yes, here it is:

1. squirells
2. the end

[paper brook]

Maybe squirells is a-life 2.0 ??? 😳

[mild palm]

Mol1t

[hot canopy]

It's Saturday guys. Play something else.

[pseudo rivet]

In your pants

https://tenor.com/view/phineas-and-ferb-dance-sing-moves-rap-gif-16504760

[thick zodiac]

we don't like rational people around here

[tiny token]

mrrrrrrrrp

[paper brook]

So is there a chance for a patch on sunday ? Or they never released patches on Sunday ?

[zinc apex]

already told you compadre. Dont tell me what to do 😡

[finite dragon]

anyone here wanna play stalker gamma togheter

[zinc apex]

I want to wait my whole weekend for stalker 2 patch

[errant yacht]

hey guys where can i ask help with a bug

[hot canopy]

Enjoy your weekend waiting.

[paper brook]

I think they will delay in until Friday

[viral apex]

But what if i am spanish speaker?

[indigo marsh]

Probably here
https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=28270799879953

[fair jackal]

i wonder if some youtuber will make like Stalker 2 edits videos now. i used to watch some from someone trying out mods and they were funny

[viral apex]

I remember watching an strelok edit an had an cool music

[fair jackal]

i think there was a guy who was just called like, Nikolai or something

i think i remember his channel being dragged out back too for reasons

[orchid gale]

Damn juice world kinda slaps

[fallow garden]

boog

[hardy bear]

Squirrels eh?
I’m going nuts

[weary token]

yeah, while its probably a nice ambient addition to the world, i dont think anyone asked for this. And lemme guess: they won't be climbing trees/buildings, which would be the only "wow" factor of them. So yes, im a bit stunned why spend resources on this whereas they could do several other things....

[hardy bear]

Fortunately I’m still enjoying the game enough to not be too critical of it

[stiff pasture]

Be funny as hell if the squirrels were just a distraction

[weary token]

I love the game. Its just that there is so much potential to enhance it: binoculars, nightvision, add new weapons, add additional side quests, add encyclopedia to PDA, add more item variety, add monster loot that's just 5 second ideas........
So i get a bit upset when I hear news about stuff that would be the last after the last that you would add to a game.
And I hate this trend because it goes on and on. Call of duty adding niki minaj, mortal kombat adding superheroes.....etc

[stiff pasture]

Let me run in one of the Duty Exosuits

[hardy bear]

Been filling out a huge document with my thoughts on the game, definitely got some things I’d like to see, but I’ve managed to shift my gameplay style and mindset to one that I feel makes the best use of what it offers

[warped rover]

Stalker 2 in 2021

[carmine sorrel]

Love the game my only critique is that we don’t have a SGI-5K and much worse this discord is slacking when it comes to A life reactions. Pure chaos. The authorities will be informed

[hardy bear]

I feel like the only time my joy for it will waver is once I’ve explored all the locations and the non goal oriented free roam gameplay loops start to come into play

As it’s very clear that the game is best when you treat it like old stalker or even Skyrim, exploring from place to place, taking in its stories, people and events. So once you’ve been everywhere and it comes down to systematic interactions with the world, I can see it potentially feeling weaker there

[rapid warren]

Squirell bossfight and ending

[empty gorge]

damn saturday went by and no update 😦

[prisma cargo]

The first rule about Stalker Squirrel: We don't talk about Stalker Squirrel

Because it doesn't exist.

[worn oar]

No updates on weekend

Expect something next week starting from Monday ig

[celest goblet]

Normally no but Mol1t said yesterday that even though it wasn't happening yesterday they were still looking at releasing it this week possibly. But I would expect early next week

[worn oar]

I don't think it's this week cuz it's already past time for that. Best guess would be this coming week

[empty gorge]

NOOOOOOOOO it must be sunday!! /.s (i also expect early next week)

[worn oar]

I believe that every extra hour is a potential new fix, so I see no losing side on this matter

[coarse sparrow]

patchie?

[worn oar]

It's a win situation regardless of when

Yes, it might be this coming week

[celest goblet]

Certainly every extra hour of QA the patch goes through is a win lol

[coarse sparrow]

I think before Xmas they released patch on Saturday

[worn oar]

I'm really satisfied with the current state of the game. I've been playing a second playthrough and I'm seeing great change. I had no crashes, nor serious problems at all thus far. Game is absolutely stable for me and feels way way better than I remember. I remember having crazy crashes the moment I reach the swamps area, and it's safe to say that it's no longer the case now. I already left the swamp and it's still super great for an experience. I'm absolutely satisfied

[coarse sparrow]

what about Zalyssia defense and bubble spawner?

[celest goblet]

Stability and blockers have definitely gotten a lot better, which is what you would hope for given it's been the main focus of all the patches so far

[worn oar]

Different times. A holiday was ahead, so it's normal that they wanted to deliver something necessary before going on a break. It's quite different now since we're back to normal work hours and such. So, it's best to expect something during working days rather weekends.

[worn oar]

I still need a couple of hours to reach that part, but if I'm not mistaken, it should be fixed. Bugged quests so far we're fixed, and I was able to do 100% of what I missed in my first playthrough due to ai mapping/navigation problems. For, I think it's working fine now, but I'll confirm that the moment I reach that part and see it with my own eyes.

[worn oar]

Yeah, it's definitely getting there. I do urge anyone who couldn't play properly to hop back in. It's definitely a new exp, a far better one. We are almost there, I mean perfection

Idc what other ppl say. I am definitely speaking about my exp, and it's with no exaggeration or sugarcoating. I hope other ppl are having it the same tho

Perhaps they are

I am definitely ready to give my steam review now and it's really positive

[hardy bear]

I’ve had absolutely no crashes and no major progression blocking glitches and I’ve just gotten to the swamps

[coarse sparrow]

that part was good even in 1.0

[hardy bear]

Well, aside from the ||zombie on moonrise getting killed by lighting which messed up dialogue and gave me the reward anyway||

[celest goblet]

I was gonna cave and start another playthrough but since we are on the cusp of 1.3 I'm gonna wait

[wraith socket]

This is the no spoiler channel. If you feel compelled to black out what you are saying, you are in the wrong channel.

[hardy bear]

Understandable

[thick zodiac]

||I am gay||

[hardy bear]

Someone above mentioned a story event without any spoiler marking so I thought I could at least give it a tag

[pseudo rivet]

That's not a real spoiler, tbh

[thick zodiac]

why not just wait until they add new content? I will probably delete the game until they add DLCs and stuff

[pseudo rivet]

Meanwhile, I still haven't played the game

[thick zodiac]

Meanwhile, I still haven't played the game - Sergei Grigorovich

[worn oar]

Poor crimson

[celest goblet]

It's going to be a long time until they add substantial new content pretty sure. I still have at least some different branches of the story to see

[pseudo rivet]

Not really, I'm waiting for the game to be fully finished

[hardy bear]

although i'm surprised how many people have already done multiple playthroughs

[stiff pasture]

if they just make the guns more viable and add spawn points for the missing attachments that would be a good start imo

[coarse sparrow]

||okay bro||

[worn oar]

Well, idk what to say in this case

It's gonna be a long wait tbh

[pseudo rivet]

Yup

[coarse sparrow]

some games are never finished

[thick zodiac]

Clear Sky alert

[pseudo rivet]

True, that's why they keep making new FIFA games

[pseudo rivet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561153801114091521/1092159492021563473/ClearSkyMyBeloved.gif

[thick zodiac]

I can't believe there is a gif for it. (A grenade falls precisely at my feet, while I am alone in a closed room)

[pseudo rivet]

You know, my past self would've said "Skill issue"

But I've decided to grow as a human being

So I'll respond with "You suck"

[wraith socket]

That's not a spoiler. We knew that the moment you showed up with that white cat pfp.

[thick zodiac]

I thought I would cry at the final battle in CS. I was on the top of the roof and the Monolith was throwing grenades up 20> meters. like 5 of them every 3 seconds.

[thick zodiac]

it is from a painting by an actual artist!!!

[celest blaze]

I love this

Most likely tbh

People on both sides like to ragebait and troll

[pseudo rivet]

To be fair, you do see a vocal minority complaining about stuff like this, despite not even going to bother playing the game

[outer laurel]

is the patch out yet?

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[celest goblet]

Just seems like discussion bait to me

[outer laurel]

put me back in the freezer then and wake up later

[thick zodiac]

I will delete it then

[celest goblet]

I mean maybe they're serious but so what? It doesn't really provoke interesting conversation to post that on the steam forums

[celest blaze]

Not what you posted in here

You're safe

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/kick-some-ice-arnold-schwarzenegger-mr-freeze-gif-5080267

[celest blaze]

Steam forums are wild

I try to avoid them

[pseudo rivet]

How many of them actually play the game?

[thick zodiac]

I agree that this is not an intresting topic

[pseudo rivet]

AYYYY just hit Level 105

[celest goblet]

This is not the sort of game where I would expect sexuality to really come up much in a meaningful manner regardless

It's just not really on topic so to speak

[celest blaze]

Fr the only people who even bring up sexual things are the unhinged snorkers lol

[pseudo rivet]

Snorkers:

https://tenor.com/view/victor-saltzpyre-gif-22117141

[wraith socket]

[stiff pasture]

Is it bad I’m sad I missed the whole snorker clusterfuck? Sounds like it would’ve been a good laugh at times

[pseudo rivet]

You should've been here when Tapik got hacked

That was funny

Well, not in a good way, but still funny

[thick zodiac]

Total War aficionado

[stiff pasture]

I’m assuming utter chaos?

[pseudo rivet]

Basically

Like, bro's GSC

They basically had control of the server

But they were sloppy and didn't even ban all the mods lmao

[stiff pasture]

How do you screw that up

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

[outer laurel]

Where are my Duty tomboys

[indigo marsh]

[pseudo rivet]

Well, it's quite simple really

L rizz

[indigo marsh]

This happened relatively recently?

[pseudo rivet]

Oh nah, years ago

Tapik got hacked somehow, so some duders were raiding the server

Some mods got banned

They didn't even notice me

Real sloppy lmao

[outer laurel]

GSC is lazy tis why

[indigo marsh]

Yeah
I haven't really heard that cms name

[pseudo rivet]

The very first meme posted

[stiff pasture]

So probably some jackass kids who got lucky grabbing the account I’m assuming

[pseudo rivet]

Who knows

[bright wyvern]

You guys think monolith guys could tell if someone is pretending to be monolith?

[lofty helm]

[orchid gale]

My Pokémon cards came in

[zealous pumice]

its just the ai, if they can make them smarter and their combat dynamics more natural and human-like i will play again, instead of them just walking straight towards me and being all stiff

all i need is the ai to be fixed and ill be happy to play, it just ruins it for me when they act so dumb

[crystal merlin]

Is it patching Sunday?

[zealous pumice]

Maybe, probably next week now though the longer the better the patch will be i guess

[sand fiber]

all the tomboys are in freedom, silly

[barren plover]

I just got the silencer upgrade, without spoiling anything am I anywhere near the end of the game?

[worn oar]

I mean its getting there. Combat felt different in a positive sense

[prisma cargo]

Ai for humans is all set to just sync 5 action types between the squad members. They're now only cover firing when you're in cover too. So step backward there as well.

[wraith socket]

I'm having larger groups attack me and they are doing more flanking.

[prisma cargo]

Group size is dependant on rank and rank is increased depending how far you are in the main quest.

[errant yacht]

so i guess i'm not getting those squirrels today...

[viral apex]

HEEEEEY
Can i stream SoC playthrough on this discord server?
The only detail, ill be talking in spanish our attemping english

[viral apex]

Yes, they are all like connected eachother as the C-C

[empty echo]

no spoilerssssssssssssss

[small pivot]

Hello

[hot canopy]

Ah, Tempest. My Arch enemy.

[native ibex]

Yo.... this game out yet?

[wraith socket]

No. No streaming through this Discord Server.

[celest portal]

What game

[native ibex]

This one, right here. Has it left alpha, at least?

[celest portal]

Never heard of such game releasing, is it still in the works

[native ibex]

Damn, sick effect

[celest goblet]

left alpha, the alternative to lost alpha

[native ibex]

Meow

[native ibex]

What a cool dude.

[native ibex]

Ayy Lmao?

[celest portal]

I didn't expect that sticker to have that name

[orchid gale]

The tax return just HIT who wants a 4090

[orchid gale]

🐈

[crystal merlin]

Patch at the end of next week.

[placid spoke]

Does stalker 2 use ai generated art? Cant hate on it since theyre in a war rn but i was just wondering

[orchid gale]

5 pm est

[native ibex]

You can start any time, UwU

[celest portal]

What

[orchid gale]

:3

[celest portal]

I don't like where this is going

[lofty helm]

this is going to be Ahh Nuuu

[celest portal]

[paper brook]

Do you guys think there is a chance for a patch on Sunday ? Or most likely Monday ?

[austere garnet]

We shall see, Stalker, we shall see

[celest portal]

Let me go ask the 8 ball

"Cannot predict now"

[placid spoke]

Ward gang on top

[wraith socket]

0% chance on Sunday. Why would you think the GSC staff would be obligated to work on a weekend?

[hazy jewel]

Hardware ray tracing ?

[wise geyser]

I don’t think he was thinking about it that deeply Brodie 😂

[wraith socket]

There is no one named Brodie here.

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[prisma goblet]

I dont think so. I hope not. they have hired artists..

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitty-feline-meme-funny-gif-14002295710590554722

[prisma goblet]

Where is stalker 2.2 : heart of cumulative pack?

[celest blaze]

Soon

[celest blaze]

If everyone 100% op2 ill release stalker 2 dlc early

[wise geyser]

It’s a saying for bro

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/charge-smash-cat-bite-charge-smash-cat-bite-gif-15342273195042263536

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-mountain-lion-joba-cat-smile-gif-25936345

[wraith socket]

I love black cats. I have one among my others.

[rapid warren]

Patch today

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[wraith socket]

I thought I was in off topic. I gotta move these.

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[mild palm]

Mol1t

[hazy jewel]

Hardware ray tracing ?

[thick zodiac]

it is not offtopic, they are just suggesting add cats with squirrels.

[empty gorge]

VERE IS PATCH REEEE

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/hypercat-gif-23269274

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[coarse sparrow]

patchie?

[vale quartz]

Patch drops tomorrow

[magic coyote]

Wasn't there a mod who said that if it didn't come out on Friday, it would be released next week?

[paper brook]

Hasn’t been confirmed

[toxic vector]

i guess this game needs 2 more years just like CP2077 to be good

[outer laurel]

Cope

[analog helm]

it need exactly the amount of time SoC needed. The fact that people expected anything different is ridiculous

[unique dawn]

I wonder why multiplayer is taking so long when it will just be team deathmatch

Would keep the community going for longer especially those on Xbox who can’t mod

[feral totem]

I don’t even know they can fix all the major bugs in next two years and who knows how long it would take them to release new stuff

[feral totem]

When did it take back then? Now the game is much bigger so I wonder if it’s gonna be longer

[plucky bough]

The fact that people expected a product to release finished? Shocker, almost like thats how products are supposed to release, as advertised

[nocturne monolith]

I expected a full product for a full priced game on released. Dont really think its that crazy of an expectation to ask for the bare minimum

[sand fiber]

nobody forced you to buy it

[analog helm]

why did you decide the product was not full?
if you expected something different, it doesn't mean you received "not a full product". It just means you expected Ubi-game from the studio which is the antithesis of Ubisoft.

[nocturne monolith]

It isnt about being forced to buy it or not

Its about critiquing the value of a game.

If its full priced, I expect a full product. If its not full a full product, then its subject to criticism that comes from that

[nocturne monolith]

Is A-Life working as fully intended? As initially advertised?

[sand fiber]

there's no "value of a game" that determines its price, and stop viewing shit as "products"

[analog helm]

technically - yes. The fact that it feels absolutely lame - is entirely different question.

[sand fiber]

they literally didn't talk about what a-life was supposed to be, there wasn't any meaning assigned to it, so yes

[zinc apex]

Nah bro you gotta accept you were ripped off for now, you heard it

[nocturne monolith]

Stupidest thing ive ever heard lmfao

A video game is literally a product

And obviously there is a value, people are willing to pay and assess if their purchase was worth it or not.

By your logic, game critics and review dont and shouldnt, exist

[rapid warren]

I definetly disagree

[nocturne monolith]

Marketing it as A life 2.0 alluding it as direct upgrade to the previous version, when it clearly does NOT do evreything the previous version did, is missing features

[sand fiber]

game critics and reviews nowaday focus on critiquing the game artistically, not determining its "value"

[zinc apex]

What 🤣

[nocturne monolith]

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/articles/27929320406929-Beginner-s-Guide-FAQs#h_01JCJMM3744R2TV14ME0PT3RAK

[nocturne monolith]

Not true at all.

Game critics review more than just the art, gameplay, optimization, and price certainty effects the overall review

[zinc apex]

Bro, you can't win here. There are ppl who are willingly to give their lives to gsc if necessary

[nocturne monolith]

Also game critics aernt the only people allowed to hold an opinion and review a game

[sand fiber]

upgrade doesn't mean "does everything the previous version does"

look if you want to shittаlk GSC do it based on their lack of communication

[nocturne monolith]

Do you have the intellectual honesty to admit you were wrong about them “didnt talk about what a-life was”

Regardless it still doesnt do what the FAQ said

[sand fiber]

???
the game as a whole is an artpiece, gameplay is a part of the game

[sand fiber]

it does, stalkers indeed do fight :D

[nocturne monolith]

Never said gameplay isn’t a part of the game. But typically first person shooter combat isnt reviewed as an “artpiece”

[nocturne monolith]

So they talk about what a-life was?

And do they do it from a kilometer away?

[sand fiber]

well, the reviewers are idiots then, because it should be :p

[nocturne monolith]

True, the glazing is crazy

[sand fiber]

even so this means they completed half of their promises, pretty good

[nocturne monolith]

Half of promises for a full priced game

I like how you still never admitted you were incorrect on them never talking about what a-life was supposed to be lmfao

[sand fiber]

even so

i don't think it's a sufficient description, and i don't want to pretend like this actually informed anyone's decision, some years before release they were QUIET whenever somebody asked what a-life actually entailed

[nocturne monolith]

Do they engage a kilometer away or not. Its a simple question

[sand fiber]

nobody's forcing you to buy the game 💅

[nocturne monolith]

Cool, doesnt mean it cant be critiqued.

By that logic, nothing optional can ever be reviewed or critiqued lmfao

[zinc apex]

Also you can't refund so that's a clown take tbh lol

[sand fiber]

you can????

[zinc apex]

Yea? Can I? How so after the glaring issues after the first 2 hours in the game?

[sand fiber]

then critique it
you're basing the entirety of your critique around price and how good one of the gameplay systems is

[sand fiber]

that's a question to steam, not GSC

if you bought GOG you'd have a month and something around 14 hours to refund it iirc

[nocturne monolith]

I did. Other parts of the game are good. Im not saying the whole game is trash

Im saying its missing promised features, yet priced fully. That is my critique

[zinc apex]

Will never understand why ppl defend overpromised, underdelivered and straight up broken commercial products

[nocturne monolith]

They love licking that boot

[sand fiber]

since when is the price of a game determined by how many promised features it delivered???

[magic patio]

Anything serious in this patch, or just squarrels? NVGs? Binoculars? A-life? (kek)

[urban basin]

There is no patch in ba zing ze

[nocturne monolith]

Logically for one. Full priced game indicates a finished product. If the game is unfinished, it shouldnt be fully priced

Literally if it launched in early access I wouldnt be saying anything. Why do you think early access games are often cheaper than their full release?

[urban basin]

I remember steam letting me refund some games that i had more than 2 hours in them

[sand fiber]

full priced game indicates a finished product

says who??? what is a full price?? is "finished product" just "a product that delivered on its promises"??

stalker 2 is priced $60 because it's an AAA-budget game of a proper size, if people are willing to pay for it - it can be priced this way, it's all extremely arbitrary, but your definition is somehow even more

[nocturne monolith]

Full price is whatever the game costs without a discount. Did you really have to ask that 💀 , kind of obvious

A finished product is a game that has all its promised features and is relatively bug free, playable start to finish.

[sand fiber]

???
so full price is self-referential? what's your complaint here??

so if S2 didn't promise anything and just released with its current price tag, would it be okay? or, better, if some 1 hour long indie game released with a pricetag of $60, would you not complain?

[nocturne monolith]

My complaint is it was advertised at 60 dollars with xyz features. Missing x features, yet still cost 60 dollars

If stalker 2 didnt promise anything, and didnt advertise the game as having it. Then yes 😂, it would be fine because then the consumer would be properly informed on judging if they think its worth it or not

If a 1 hour long indie game released for 60 bucks, I probably wouldnt find it, unless its a damn good experience lol.
As long as they are honest on what is or isnt in the gams, i dont see an issue

Where the issue arises is when things that are supposed to be, and marketed to be in the game, aernt there or working as advertised

Honestly didnt even think it would require this explanation literally just a little bit of critical thinking and following through would get you this answer

[sand fiber]

this is extremely weird lmfao

i don't take issue with critiquing GSC on the fact they didn't inform the consumer, as i said there was complete lack of communication

the consumer would be properly informed on judging if they think its worth or not

this is weird too, when there's no advertisement and information, are you also "properly informed"?

[empty gorge]

true, im the clown for thinking that gsc mightve been a company that just worked in silence and would give a banger of a result on release (even tho i was fully aware of their situation)

and that comment aint even sarcasm, its literally on me because i was questioning "why no alife video before release? aint that something cool to flex with in a video to get hype?" or how after months of asking for uncut gameplay we get......cut gameplay in the form of the swamp quest

or how they focused on making immersive cutscenes and i got that dying light 2 feeling where we are moving from the natural feeling and ambience of the zone creating a setting for the player to a forced setting brought on the player by cutscenes and branching story (noticable by the || forced scar interactions in the story || )

[sand fiber]

more big-budget games should release in EA tbh 💅

BG3 was the only one and it was succesfull af, not only do you fund the game but also can adjust the development in real-time

[empty gorge]

but as i read from someone here before:

• its on me the consumer for not seeing the writings on the wall
• its on gsc the supplier for not informing us right and doing stuff like retracting info and keeping us busy with "we cooking, more info soon"

[sand fiber]

das true....

[empty gorge]

and its on both now for continueing this cycle -> me expecting something, gsc not delivering it yet. it sets up both me and gsc up for dissapointment as my expectations arent in line with theirs perhaps

[lofty helm]

[celest blaze]

fr bg3 did it good imo

[empty gorge]

panel from hell is love ❤️

[zinc apex]

the consumer is better off to get fit like a girl before buying in the games nowaday

[empty gorge]

that sooo DODI man wth, im about to xatab on you in a bit man dont make me kaoskrew that shiii

[nocturne monolith]

How is it weird? Regardless rhats subjective reasoning

Literally how is weird to say that if an expected feature is missing, the consumer would be able to make a better informed decision on if the product is worth it or not

[empty gorge]

literally insaneramzes vibes in the form of gamedrive aint it

[sand fiber]

good luck fuсking installing it!!
acquired AC6 through legal means recently, it said it'd take FOURTEEN HOURS to install

than one russian forum of steam lovers and the gog site are much better 💅

[empty gorge]

nr1 spot to look for hands down that site

[sand fiber]

also despite having bg3 from him i really don't wanna trust anyone called "insane ramzes" 😭 😭 😭

[crystal merlin]

I have a few issues with this argument
1)Buying the game is how one experience the game and realize it's downsides in first place
2)If people bought a game then they should be allow to give feedbacks
3)Informed consumers "voting with their wallets" but stay silent won't reflect the state of the game thus make it's harder to have any improvement.

[empty gorge]

mans on that site yaknow haha

[sand fiber]

1. It's DRM-free, and game reviews exist
2. True.
3. Voting with your wallet isn't real

[thick zodiac]

can u please buy it 🥹

[sand fiber]

only if you hug me and give a kissie on the forehead :D

[zinc apex]

brooo that's your chance to hug a real gamer girl!! 🔥

[hot canopy]

That was painful to read.

[sand fiber]

it will be painful to die knowing you're full of sin too!!!!

[hot canopy]

I welcome it.

[celest blaze]

play clear sky to remove all sin..

[sand fiber]

i think that just sends you to hell rightaway tbh...

[celest blaze]

[hot canopy]

So be it.

[celest blaze]

warthunder is a gateway to heaven aswell..

[hot canopy]

warthunder is trash.

[celest blaze]

sounds like skill issue

[hot canopy]

And then there are those dorks releasing classified information just to prove themselves right

[celest blaze]

who wants to be wrong

[hot canopy]

being right isn't worth losing your clearance lmao

[celest blaze]

fr

[sand fiber]

warthunder was literally created by the antichrist

[celest blaze]

fr its actually hell and you cant escape once you're into to deep

i got like 1k hours in it and the snail has me trapped

[rapid warren]

Warthunder is a gateway to stage 3 cancer

[celest blaze]

we all suffer together..

esp US mains...

[hot canopy]

how old are you guys? Just curious.

[celest blaze]

why ?

[empty gorge]

29

[celest blaze]

i'm 32

[hot canopy]

I was just curious.

[zinc apex]

32

millenial boomers but without the boom

[celest blaze]

ong lol

we same age @zinc apex

[crystal merlin]

1. Assuming i know exactly what you want to say, I would say that just paying for games to have the better services and dealing with less to no security risks is the default go-to for people who can pay for games, so you can't blame them for doing so.You don't want to download a game as big as Stalker 2 with only 200 kbs download speed.
   With a game as (somewhat) complex and big as Stalker, reviews might not be their obvious source for all the insights, but I do get your point.
2. Nobody know you're there if you only vote with your wallet without saying so.
   We both agree on the 2, so there's that .

[sly viper]

Patch day never came...
The monolith has abandoned us

[empty echo]

ITS JUST A PSY ILLUSION STALKER GET AWAY FROM THE ROCK

[sly viper]

I miss the rock already, now I got no ambitions in the zone

[empty echo]

well then come chill at rostok brother it's the bomb takes another drag of blunt

[sly viper]

Brother....I miss it! Someone ripped a part of me!
The patch that never came
The zone that was never realized
The lost cheeky breeky lines

All lost like I was awoken from a coma while dreaming paradise

[empty echo]

i heard that people with the same story as you have settled on an island south east-ish, you should check it out

[sly viper]

I'll wander in hopes the zone take me to a better place

[empty echo]

good luck stalker

[sharp minnow]

what a hell where patch🐿️

[celest goblet]

It's Sunday

[fair jackal]

sure is but iirc a dev said they had been aiming for the this week.

[empty echo]

theyre gonna announce it the moment i go to bed watch
im gonna be looking at my phone on my side in bed when ping look there it is

[zinc apex]

🫂

[empty echo]

therefore it's gonna be out in like 30 minutes

[zinc apex]

they seem to be working today tho. there are some pushes to steam branches

gsc chill... we're complaining but you shouldnt have to work on the weekends...

[empty gorge]

NAH WORK WORK SIGMA GRINDSET AND SHIII

[zinc apex]

sigma grindr

[sand fiber]

It's laughingly easy to download things for free, especially if they come with no DRM, released on platforms like GOG. Anyway

[rapid warren]

I wonder how will ,,improved smothness of mutant movment" look in the next patch

[empty gorge]

omnidirectional movement with slide cancel for certain types

[rapid warren]

dolphin diving?

[empty gorge]

pull up in the building, see a bunch of snorks wall run and slide cancell into bunnyhops

[empty echo]

i expect double jumping sliding and super jumping to be in the next update i wanna movetech these idiots

[sand fiber]

yuri update!!!

[stiff pasture]

Bloodsuckers start wallbouncing like gears of war

[celest goblet]

mutant parkour

[celest blaze]

[rapid warren]

bloodsuckers turn into kyle crane from dying light

[finite dragon]

is stalker gamma coop mod real ????

[hazy helm]

bait

[celest blaze]

fake

there are cop coop mod though

[finite dragon]

i saw a youtube channel im trying to find out if its real i dont wanna download some virus

[celest blaze]

oh the anomaly together ?

the consenus is its a scam

[drowsy blade]

I would stay away from it, the guy who runs it is a notorious scammer

[celest blaze]

^^

[drowsy blade]

just play the CoP Coop mod if you want Stalker with friends lmao

[celest blaze]

i think the CoP one is the only legit one

[hazy helm]

I say

they deserved to be scammed

[celest blaze]

bro.. imagine if op2 had coop..

[drowsy blade]

I think there is technically one for SoC but it's notoriously unstable

[celest blaze]

they'd donate on his discord then they'd get banned lol

[hazy helm]

deserved

[celest blaze]

ong

there is a reason they banned on most stalker servers even gamma

[drowsy blade]

also big surprise that a Stalker Anomaly add-on steals assets from other mods

[hazy helm]

you say as tho most mods dont use and reuse stuff from other mods

https://tenor.com/view/cheddar-bob-cat-run-walk-old-gif-14160321639145748621

[zinc apex]

whole modding scene is like that

[celest blaze]

mods share alot of assests tbh

[hazy helm]

hooooooooooo mod farts used the 1 pixel texture from mod tarqs
dont care

[wheat vine]

hey is it normal that the trees in this game look kinda transparent, with dlss quality and high settings

[mild palm]

Mol1t

[coarse sparrow]

patchie

[zinc apex]

Tomorrow

[coarse sparrow]

don't forget new stalker 2 documentary airing next week

[granite mortar]

suffer together

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-just-so-peak-peak-panda-peak-panda-it's-just-so-peak-gif-10789048890486755182

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[thick zodiac]

Man, imagine if Stalker 2 had fullfilling quests and interesting gameplay like in Back to the Zone mod

[ebon hatch]

Stalker 2 plays like the orignial. you high

[granite mortar]

the what mod?

[thick zodiac]

https://tenor.com/view/embarrassed-shy-so-embarrassing-gif-cover-eyes-gosh-gif-12787371955773835908

I want the ability to post gif! (not pronounced DZHIF)

[ebon hatch]

people who don't like stalker 2 don't like stalker. They want Gamma or some Anomaly slop clone

[fallow garden]

i pull up ⁉️

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[thick zodiac]

okay this statement is poop, not true.

[fallow garden]

L take

[ebon hatch]

it's a true fan take

[celest blaze]

Don't take the bait

Low tier baiting this morning

[fallow garden]

we are all farming xp here, its not that bad

[thick zodiac]

what does xp give you? @fallow garden

[celest blaze]

Levels

[fallow garden]

🀄 👥

[celest blaze]

Higher xp higher roles

[ebon hatch]

i think my take is cold af. stalker 2 has the same gameplay designs as the original. stalker 2 shouldn't be hardcore as Gamma

[thick zodiac]

what does levels give you?

[granite mortar]

real
take Hallway instead
epic map

[celest blaze]

Role colors , white > blue > purple > orange > yellow

[fallow garden]

stalker 2 is probably the worst game ever made, right after concord and crysis 3

[thick zodiac]

meh, even CoP and CS had better gameplay than Stalker 2

[granite mortar]

CS is goated

[celest blaze]

Best canon stalker game imo

CoP being the worst

[thick zodiac]

My favorite one was SoC, I remember I pulled the plug as a kid because I got scared of the bloodsucker from Agroprom

[ebon hatch]

and you call me a baiter, ye masturbaiter

[celest blaze]

It is though

Ukrainian military was retarded as fuck

Awful mainquest haha

[ebon hatch]

as always in the starker games

[celest blaze]

Naw

CoP is only good if you're a mouth breather

Highly intellectuals think CS is peak

[ebon hatch]

CS is too action heavy, in contrast to CoP atmospheric journey. You blonkes want to game-end entire armies in your Stalker game

[robust void]

iirc in SoC they wanted to nuke cnpp so yeah they are canonically retarded

[celest blaze]

Duty I Beleive aswell

Cop is hardly even canon

[ebon hatch]

Duty was supposed to do that. They failed and formed the faction. Fake ahh fan

[nocturne monolith]

Many people who dont like stalker 2, dont like because of the optimization and bug issues, and of course, the a-life

[celest blaze]

🥱

Duty is duty

[ebon hatch]

cope

[celest blaze]

Stalker 2 is leagues better then cop

[ebon hatch]

CoPe is great

[celest blaze]

Naw

Poor writing, only 3 maps

[ebon hatch]

Better than Swampy ass CS

[nocturne monolith]

People play stalker because of the story?

[robust void]

imho storywise are equally mid

[celest blaze]

You don't? Lol

[ebon hatch]

CS has 3 maps too (Red Forest, Swamps and Limansk) and the story is the same recycled find le Strelok

[celest blaze]

🥱

[nocturne monolith]

I mean its a part of it ig, but what really brought me into it is the atmosphere and gameplay

[ebon hatch]

CoP has Sultan

CS is recycled garbage, literal goyslop

[robust void]

cs got the worst gunplay tbh and non-stop bleeding

[nocturne monolith]

My first time playing CS, my save got corrupted 5 hours in

[celest blaze]

bro doesnt upgrade weapons

[ebon hatch]

CS may be slop, but it's still Stalker so I give it S tier

[robust void]

i just gave up and added gunslinger

[celest blaze]

g*nslinger 🤢

[robust void]

still better than cs vanilla

[ebon hatch]

So much lame ahh trolling

[fallow garden]

goonslinger

[celest blaze]

when you play quality you'll see how sloppy GS is

[ebon hatch]

Strelok and who?!

[nocturne monolith]

I liked the ranking system in SOC, I remember trying to hunt down and kill every Npc that was in front of me so I could be number 1

[fallow garden]

scar

[celest blaze]

i like it aswell

[robust void]

this

[robust void]

SKEEFA

[celest blaze]

i hope they add the ranking system to stalker 2 at somepoint

[robust void]

maybe after 2+ years like they added metro to cyberpunk

[hazy jewel]

Hardware ray tracing ?

[celest blaze]

soon

pathtracing..

[robust void]

on unoptimised u5? nahh hell nawhh

[celest blaze]

if only stalker 2 was on red engine..

[robust void]

x-ray 2 or crytek imo, but x-ray is surrealistic

[celest blaze]

based alternatives

ngl id love xray 1 still..

[robust void]

🤝

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/predator-arnold-schwarzenegger-hand-shake-arms-gif-3468629

[robust void]

s2 update should drop soon as it was supposed to this week

[zenith creek]

Fingers crossed

[nocturne monolith]

As fast as the roadmap

[loud plume]

between 8th and 14th day of this week

[magic patio]

Kek

I still wonder what's gonna be in this patch

[analog light]

you guys are still holding out for the patch? i think it was a miscommunication. its supposed to come out this year.

[sharp minnow]

Mol1t we are still here waiting for the patch

[magic patio]

This decade

[sharp minnow]

we still have a hope

[analog light]

Honestly I think its fairly realistic to think that at some point between now and 2035 there will be a patch drop. If they can't do that then they should probably hang up their dev coats.

or you mean between now and 2030? because that could be pushing it.

[magic patio]

Have there been any rumors about FEATURES that are to be in this update? Not bugfixes, and apart from squarrels. Anything?

[rapid warren]

Snork jiggle mechanics

[agile path]

Are they adding path tracing?

[analog light]

I heard 8 times scope on M10 Gordon

[celest blaze]

careful now..

[celest blaze]

no one knows

[magic patio]

Next level of furry...

[agile path]

Did they say anything about hardware rt

[celest blaze]

friendly reminder sexual talk about mutants is a long mute next is ban

[thick zodiac]

Guys, I have a bug, it says that the game is up to date and there is no patch

[analog light]

are you guys really looking for graphics updates? lol the games regular bugs arent even solved and youre wanting graphics updates? that seems crazy to me

[wheat vine]

it cannot be that difficult to make reflections not look like a complete blurry mess

[rapid warren]

You can kill the man, you cant kill the idea

[magic patio]

Nah, not graphics (however some things are really to get fixed, like the poppin-in foliage). Smth like binoculars, NVGs, AI improvements...

[celest blaze]

i am the anti snorker..

[wheat vine]

lumen sucks balls but it doesnt suck THIS hard

[analog light]

they are supposed to be releasing a patch soon. was rumoured to come out this last week so it should be out soon ish.

[coarse sparrow]

🤷‍♂️

[analog light]

id imagine that might have a fix for your issues.

[magic patio]

Unless by week they meant a bible thing (six days of world creating...)

[analog light]

Idk all we can do is hope they are working diligently to get it done. I'd imagine it isnt easy or else it would have dropped by now. I'm not a dev so i wouldnt know. it might be one of those things that because the development took so long and was worked on by so many people, who all worked on so many different parts that there are alot of skeletons in the closet at this point.

[feral totem]

I feel like another thing ppl don’t talk about enough is even if they patch out the game breaking bugs, the performance is absolutely terrible and it needs to be addressed as well

So maybe they patch out a few things and make some qol improvements but still long way to go

[analog light]

I am sort of getting that impression. like here have a life improvements and graphics improvements all whiles squashing bugs.

On geforce now I dont find the performance issues, I just have has a series of campaign breaking bugs that I cant use UE tools to fix because its not locally hosted.

[feral totem]

I have rtx 3060 ti and it makes no difference if I have epic or low at 1080p because it’s always cpu bounded. I really hope they can improve the performance especially cpu usage

[magic patio]

Bugfixing
AI improvements
A-Life created
New quests, new minor quests, new random quests
Classical weapons added (like LR300, Walther P99)
Binoculars, NVGs
after that - new locations (Limansk, Chernobyl-2)

Ye, smth like that.

[analog light]

The think I don’t get why try to do it all at once? Their steam rating is plummeting why try to add new quests etc. fix performance and other bugs.

[feral totem]

Exactly. New content only gonna introduce new bugs

[magic patio]

They are too slow, that's the problem. Nobody asked for squarrels, lmao. Why to waste time on that.

[ebon hatch]

Chernobyl-2 is in the game. It's near the Duga

[magic patio]

Can you go there?

[analog light]

Why work on fundamentals when you could work on things that like one percent of the player base cares about?

[magic patio]

Sounds legit
Add flesh jiggles then at least...

[ebon hatch]

Yeah. If you side with Spark, you even have a Main Quest there. The location is obscure as hell

[nocturne monolith]

In this game? Even if you have a 5090 youd be getting what? 20 fps a second

[fair jackal]

you can go to Chornobyl-2 at literally any time in the game, i will even recommend you go there earlier on before you visit SIRCAA as there is a mission there that otherwise will be unavailable if you don't go there before. the thing is to get there you HAVE to enter by the most southern road in as the others are guarded by 1 hitting snipers. it is the Duga radar itself that is guarded but the town is not.

[magic patio]

Cool, cheers!

[errant yacht]

so i guess those squirrels AREN'T coming this week

or the patch for the game breaking bug during the spark ending

[rapid warren]

Mol1t please🥺

[placid spoke]

The glutton is my new favorite gun

Coolest shi ever

[fair jackal]

it's a shame that all it has over a normal one is the huge ammo box.

[placid spoke]

Its has a little less damage but way higher penetration

[fair jackal]

and like maybe it's also a little lighter too, like 0,3 kg

[placid spoke]

I think regular rpm has 50 pen and glutton has 70

[fair jackal]

source? because the sheet guy has it listed as having all the same stats. and the bars in the game as well.

[placid spoke]

Source is the reddit thread i looked at when i found it😭

[fair jackal]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice message

here's a pic i took in game when comparing their stats pre upgrades. just the PKM doesn't have the red dot nor the medium box mag.

[agile path]

thats because they havent added hardware RT

[fair jackal]

and apparently the big box is available in the files but the only time you can get one for the normal PKM is on the last mission, way past the point of no return. where it's equiped to a PKM amongst other guns also with attachments, even others that you can't get in game yet.

[sand fiber]

meow

[magic patio]

Looks like to patch for us today)

[past basalt]

I found the big box way earlier, somewhere in Zaton I think. Like in a random stash.

[ebon hatch]

goddamn traitors

[fair jackal]

no no, see the default size for the PKM is 150, the medium boxes that there's like 3 of around the map holds 250 but there is another that holds 500, only found fused to the Glutton but also now apparently on a modified PKM at the point of no Return.

[unreal raptor]

Member when we all got that promised patch and enjoyed playing over our weekends?

[vale quartz]

Not really

[ebon hatch]

GSC said they were trying

[vale quartz]

No one is promising anything to you lol
Get over it

[unreal raptor]

Maybe this included some mutant and weapon balancing. Since it’s totally ragged.

[ebon hatch]

high chance patch drops tomorrow

[unreal raptor]

Calm down GSC simps. It’s a hecking joke.

[vale quartz]

Where the pun tho

[unreal raptor]

A joke doesn’t need a pun.

[ebon hatch]

yk 1.3 going to flop when they show squirrels

[zinc apex]

I'm sure Mol1t will push the release button any minute now

[sharp minnow]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Don't know about you, but I'm just vibin here

[ebon hatch]

bruh it's 9pm at their studio...

[vale quartz]

R u one of those that farts near people and laugh?

[unreal raptor]

Vibe is tense. Easy solider.

[zinc apex]

my dad is janitor at gsc he surely knows better

[ebon hatch]

my dad has shares in GSC, stand down

[hollow hull]

Yall excited for the stalker 2 pre alpha documentary next week?

[vale quartz]

I am as calm as Ryan
Gosling in drive

[ebon hatch]

"so uh we cut 50% of game"

[unreal raptor]

Is this a real thing?

[celest portal]

Are we real

[hollow hull]

No but there will be a documentary next week

[ebon hatch]

GSC too busy ego stroking with documentaries. no one cares about the difficulties of game development

[unreal raptor]

About the game? That would be at least interesting to see some faux marketing around how a game releases in this state.

[hollow hull]

Wat u mean game is great its a 10/10 its the best game ever made 100% no issues

[unreal raptor]

Take it you missed the squirrels? They are busy.

[celest blaze]

doom and gloom crowd in chat it seems

[ebon hatch]

cyberpunk 2077 deserves a documentary. not sloper 2

[hollow hull]

Stalker 2 was the biggest flop of 2024 tbh

[unreal raptor]

Are you writing the script for this documentary?

[ebon hatch]

le concord

[unreal raptor]

Always nice to pop by.

[hollow hull]

No cause criticism is illegal

[celest blaze]

concord was worse

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-dance-jiggy-with-it-kitty-with-it-cat-dance-gif-2215407308026614238

[unreal raptor]

We are now friend. Hi.

[sharp minnow]

Catcord best game in the world

[unreal raptor]

Realistically. Who wins the race this patch or atomfall release?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[hollow hull]

Please ping when stalker 2 is released k thnx

[celest blaze]

atomfall gonna be slop lol

open world survival

[unreal raptor]

Set reminder for 3 years.

[worn oar]

[hollow hull]

Ok thanks

[unreal raptor]

It looks it have about as much survival as s2 does? If not less.

[celest blaze]

stalker isnt about survival lol

[celest portal]

See you in 5 years or more

[celest blaze]

british slop..

[wheat vine]

it might be decent but the setting gotta be the least interesting thing i have ever seen in my life

[celest blaze]

fr

[unreal raptor]

My point is neither is atomfall?

[prisma cargo]

I'm hoping they'll at least fix material translucency so npcs can't look through the entire map....

[celest blaze]

if only you could read as good as you complain lol

[sharp minnow]

We still have a hope🐿️

[unreal raptor]

Jesus. Doesn’t stalker 2 say almost the same thing. 😂

[fair jackal]

it's about ever so mildly having a snack an hour.

[unreal raptor]

Eat sausage every hour / drink tea every hour

[fair jackal]

literally i wouldn't even care if there was a tag on Stalker 2 that said it's a survival game. it literally, factually, does not meet the requiments to be one i feel.

[hollow hull]

It is a survival game tbh, cause playing trough it makes you wanna jump of a bridge

[unreal raptor]

Scroll down.

[celest blaze]

skill issue

[fair jackal]

don't even gotta stay hydrated either and the sleep thing is entirely avoidable

[celest blaze]

we talking offical branding not user tags

user defined is irrelevent

[unreal raptor]

Same mechanics in both games. I’m not arguing. They look identical in survival.

I’m talking description. Not tags.

[hollow hull]

Official branding is incorrect, it should be early-access, pre release, cut down content, yellow paint edition

[unreal raptor]

‘Immersive survival mechanics like hunger, sleeping, bleeding, radiation effects that enrich the gameplay’

[celest blaze]

[ebon hatch]

staker 2 stands at mixed after the patches? this slop was "Very positive" at its roughest point

[main ermine]

Where patch?

[fair jackal]

the yellow paint thing is way too minor and issue. literally turn it off

[celest blaze]

you think they are smart enough to do that?

[hollow hull]

They did its an option lmao

[celest blaze]

i mean you

you're complaining about a feature you can turn off

[celest portal]

What's cookin

[fair jackal]

i saw people complain so much about it being handholding when it's literally a setting lol.

[hollow hull]

Shouldnt even have been a feature but had to be done cause xbox casuals

[fair jackal]

cut down content? is appropriate. it's clear a whole lot is cut out and some things have needlessly been simplied too.

[celest blaze]

deciding what game i wanna play torn though wbu

[wheat vine]

played it for the first time today and this shit is kinda unplayable

[ebon hatch]

you need frame gen to run stalker 2

[wheat vine]

I thought waiting till now woulda been enough, but even on a 5080 100fps feels like 30, reflections look worse than games from 2005, Lumen is still trash like in every game, and ontop of that the trees are transparent

[hollow hull]

That is highly incorrect, stalker 2 is ''totally'' playable, and game runs flawlessly after all the patches, if you say game is unplayable u are russian bot apparently

[wheat vine]

shadow of chernobyl looks better than this game in every way except texture quality

[ebon hatch]

you can play it on Epic. The game looks great, honestly you're spewing bs

[celest portal]

No idea atm, my spring break just started and don't know what to do as of now.

[granite mortar]

play Goldsphere

[wheat vine]

am I just stupid or why is my latency so high? I have 100 base fps without frame generation

[celest blaze]

^^

[fair jackal]

i think that it looks really pixilated a lot and having things load in because you turned to look at some building just feels bad

[wheat vine]

but yeah i feel like this game has so many issues that it will will never get fully fixed by the devs, I think just adding hardware RT is gonna be too much work for post launch

[celest portal]

What message are you even replying to

[fair jackal]

i think i set my DLSS to performance or something and then maybe i lowered overall graphics to high and i locked my frames to 60 and i still get under 50 in some places lol.

[celest blaze]

the one chymo pinged you about to play goldsphere

[hollow hull]

Latency depends on gpu drivers etc, nvidia driver 566.36 had less delay compared to newer drivers

[wheat vine]

On every other game 100 fps feels great tho, i found some engine.ini tweaks that made it better but its still not good

[celest portal]

Damn, I have him blocked lol

[hollow hull]

You need to use dlss tweaker use latest dlss and framegen dll stuff, less delay then, me and my friend back in november had over 2-4 seconds delay in game

[wheat vine]

oh yeah I use dlss 310.2.1.0 its the newest one, frame gen is off

[main ermine]

Well they need to make full new lightning because they build the whole game on Lumen. So making HW RT would cost 1 year+ maybe to make

[wheat vine]

yeah I feel like its never going to happen, it really is a shame that lumen is such a piece of shit, it even looks bad on fortnite

[sharp minnow]

Still have 3 hours today

[main ermine]

Making new lightning maybe another year

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[wheat vine]

its also ridiculous that a 9800x3d bottlenecks a 5080 in the settlements when the AI is so basic

[hollow hull]

If they switched from unreal engine 5.1 too 5.4 performance would be a tiny bit better

[wheat vine]

shoulda stayed on xray engine fr fr

[main ermine]

Overall i think CryEngine would be better maybe

[safe spindle]

not only a performance improvement, but overall engine improvement...

[wheat vine]

oh yeah i played kcd2 recently and that game looks and runs insanely well, because its on cryengine

lighting just looks better than lumen too and its not even ray tracing

[placid spoke]

I love stalker 2 but i think the game DESPERATELY needs an entire weapon rebalance

[fair jackal]

i felt like KCD2 looked meh graphically, and stuff looked old but it seems like it's fairly polished or something

[hazy helm]

shoudlve said KCD2 runs good DESPITE cryengine

you ever played hunt?

[fair jackal]

admittedly i have not played it myself, just going off clips i've seen.

[placid spoke]

2000 hours on hunt showdown

[wheat vine]

new UE5 games may look better in screenshots, but it all falls apart in movement because of insane ghosting and artifacting everywhere, kcd2's graphics stay stable

[safe spindle]

The biggest design choice I do not understand... why GSC hard coded keybinding options...

[fair jackal]

CryEngine reminds me of Crysis, i wonder when we will hear more about Crysis 4.

[hazy helm]

because Crysis is made on CryEngine

almost like

it was the engine advertisement or something

[safe spindle]

[placid spoke]

I actually think they canceled it or delayed it indefinitely to focus on hunt

[fair jackal]

at least i assume it's on that engine

[rapid warren]

They're still devrloping it making sure theres no gpu capable of running it on realse

[fair jackal]

i didn't really know if it was the same engine, just that Crytech made Hunt and Crysis

[orchid gale]

im watercooling my computer

[celest blaze]

hell yeah

[wheat vine]

guys maybe 1.3 will fix every issue that is currently in the game

[main ermine]

X-Ray back in the day was same - advertisement

[orchid gale]

i have no idea what im looking at but im going to just thug it out

[worn oar]

[hazy helm]

I dont think GSC ever tried to license the engine no

[celest blaze]

do research first dont thug it out

[kindred drum]

Patch 1.3 will add 10 more mutants and 12 guns and 20 more sidequests

[celest blaze]

if you make mistake your pc is COOKED

[orchid gale]

that tax return just HIT ill build a new one

[kindred drum]

They will also add fishing and cooking

[celest blaze]

ong

[wheat vine]

people always say xray is horrible but when I played through soc and clear sky it never crashed and atleast wasnt a blurry mess

[errant yacht]

10 mutants are just variants of squirrel mutant

[hazy helm]

yes, actually, Xray is horrible
UE being bad doesnt make Xray not bad

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/squirrel-funny-squirrel-dance-dancing-funny-squirrel-dance-gif-23460728

[orchid gale]

ngl been looking at that 9070xt with some pretty lust filled eyes

[main ermine]

No no didn’t think that it was like Source. Closed engine for one studio, but giving it a big advertise for what it can do

[celest blaze]

[orchid gale]

cant wait to spend 1100$ for like 15% performance

[hazy helm]

Niko, tahts literally what I said do you understand what licensing a engine is?
also
no GSC didnt make any moves to offer their own engine to other companies

[wheat vine]

i saw the ass rock 9070xt gets really close to the 5080

[celest blaze]

hey any improvement is better then none..

[orchid gale]

you raise a fair point

[celest blaze]

15% goes a long way if you pushing limits

i thought about upgrading i hit my vsync limit of 165 fps in most games i play so i havent had the urge

[orchid gale]

i could also just waterblock my 7900xt and let it wat as much power as it wants and get 9070xt oerformance if not better

[wheat vine]

isnt it faster in raster? than the stock 9070xts

[orchid gale]

i havent buily a pc in like a month a am FIENDING to do something pc related

[wheat vine]

7000 series is horrible for RT tho

[orchid gale]

yeah i belive so

[sharp minnow]

9070 series is cringe buy 5070ti and be happy!

[wheat vine]

only for the low price of what you can buy a 5080 FE for

[orchid gale]

bro overpays for ai

[sharp minnow]

Lel 9070xt to overprays now

[rapid warren]

Squirell with a gun bossfight and ending

[hollow hull]

Gaming is cringe go buy a $3000 pc and sit there and watch youtube instead all day

[sharp minnow]

9070 still sucks in RT

[celest blaze]

me rn

[errant yacht]

psi-squirrel, bloodsucker squirrel, blind squirrel, etc

[orchid gale]

not really its actually pretty good now

[hazy helm]

RT sucks
period

[hollow hull]

And then boot up a game play for 15-25 min, alt f4 and back too youtube lmao

[hazy helm]

what can be said?

[rapid warren]

Also squirell girl from marvel rivals to boost sales

[wheat vine]

ray tracing only looks good with NV ray reconstruction imo

[celest blaze]

god bro fr haha i have gaming block rn there is too many games i cant stick to one

[orchid gale]

ages of war is the only game anyone needs imo

[wheat vine]

in cyberpunk even path tracing looks like complete ass until you turn on ray reconstruction

[hollow hull]

Same issue i got an awesome gaming pc, but i either watch youtube or documentaries instead lmao

[celest blaze]

our struggle haha

[orchid gale]

i dont even play videogames i just build computers, and want to keep building

[sharp minnow]

We have in future all game only RT looks like Indiana or DOOM

Amd sucks in graphic cards

[wheat vine]

its fine if its hardware RT and they implement ray reconstruction, if not it just looks worse than baked lighting from 10 years ago

[hollow hull]

Dont start fixing computers, i just fixed a computer with mold in it for my friend, the foam material in front of the case was green and smelled rotten

My friends computer hadn't been cleaned in 9 years lmao

[sharp minnow]

All new game minimum requirements 2060rtx+

[orchid gale]

ive already started lol, i fixed one and it genuinely made my apartment smell like cigarettes and step dad cologne for 2 weeks

[hollow hull]

Oof, my pc room still smells moldy after the pc i fixed, and that is over 1 week ago

[celest blaze]

Goddamn

[orchid gale]

your room is now ground zero for the last of us, i offer my deepest condolences

[hollow hull]

I got paid $600 for fixing it though so meh

[orchid gale]

honestly, kinda worth damn good deal

i just fix stuff for free tbh

[rapid warren]

600 dilla for mold poisoning

[orchid gale]

would you take that deal? id take that deal. i dont blame ya DAMN good deal

[rapid warren]

DAMN GOOD DEAL

[orchid gale]

i need to rewatch that movie haha, im putting it on tn

[rapid warren]

I need to watch it too tho Currently im trying tk pirate ,,the thing" because i dont wanna pay amazon.

[orchid gale]

123 movies! itll probably have it

[rapid warren]

Thanks, ill try it

[celest blaze]

same

bro stalker 2 needs PiP..

arma reforger has it..

[granite mortar]

yeah because the game still doesnt run bad enough

[celest blaze]

It can't make performance that much worse right ?

[granite mortar]

depends
people managed to optimize it well so some with iterations you wont see a dip in performance
BUT
seeing how the game turned out I honestly do not believe GSC would optimize it well

[north violet]

No no, I get it. If I had the kind of money he does I'd also have a bunch of staff on payroll specifically to help me stay healthy.

[nimble cipher]

alvaroabc has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hazy helm]

!ban 470943706657193984 scam

[nimble cipher]

alvaroabc has been banned

Reason: scam

[thick zodiac]

@hazy helm my friend, can u checkout screenshots #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[rapid warren]

So sad we didnt get a patch this week:(

[thick zodiac]

uncle Yar, don't worry

[rapid warren]

You're right, squirells will come eventually

[celest blaze]

Squirrels are fake its really kots..

[rapid warren]

Everything else is secondary

[celest blaze]

Stalker on enfusion engine would be peak..

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[orchid gale]

wtf! I wanted a free steam gift card

[orchid gale]

Nvm no more watercool I fixed my temps by flipping the overclock switch on my GPU, apparently it just runs cooler with the oc bios

[hazy jewel]

Hardware raytracing ?

[sand fiber]

what is this supposed to mean

[hazy jewel]

It’s a question hardware ray tracing was supposed to be day 0 and it never got added

[sand fiber]

to whom

[hazy helm]

it means hes crying a lot

[granite mortar]

Hardware Gaytracing 💅💅

[celest blaze]

Hardware Goldsphering

[dire dagger]

You should try ray tracing some bitches

[zinc apex]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[dire dagger]

Pog

[sick falcon]

It's only me or every single location every single time game spawns NPS around the corner like every 30 seconds to refill the area. It's a new call of duty game or what

[unreal raptor]

It’s just a shooting gallery as you described until they sort the AI. Boring and meaningless.

[viral apex]

How much of You people know about the secret handgun on the FIRST map in SoC?

The walker p9m

[hazy helm]

50%

give or take

[sharp minnow]

No patch no Life

[orchid gale]

Damn

[celest blaze]

Gonna raytrace @orchid gale

[stiff pasture]

I swear the only time I’ve seen that dude is for him to ask the same thing

[empty gorge]

on pc? there are mods to help with that or you can do it yourself

[coarse sparrow]

I see you are getting familiar with the infamous "bubble spawner"

[empty gorge]

nah thats different haha this one is the lair/poi respawner

[coarse sparrow]

I was once looting some child summer camp poi near Duga, I swear in 10 mins I had like 3-4 diff groups of feral dogs \ bandits \ random neutrals comeby

[dire dagger]

Hey girl can you rtx on

I need you to trace my rays

[empty gorge]

yeah thats about right, the initial spawn is 60 sec max and subsequent ones after are 60-300sec max each, its often towards 200-300sec each one after that

[dim topaz]

Honestly Stalker 2 running so badly on my first playthrough kinda mimicked how SoC ran back in 2007. Fps below 30, the sky not rendering properly, bugs and crashes all the time, etc.

[tawny comet]

This is the true Stalker Experience! Maybe the jank and missing Alife was intentional to be faithful to the og

[hazy helm]

just bc SOC was also a disaster on launch doesnt mean not being able to run it well is a good thing

[thick zodiac]

man, they fixed SoC on the patch 1.004, and here we are 1.2.1 and everything is broken

[ebon hatch]

Everything is not broken... bad faith detected

[hazy helm]

1.0004 was the fourth patch, 1.2 is the second big one
however, I dont think everything will be fixed in the fourth patch for S2...

[thick zodiac]

I am not sure if it templar reference or Warhammer 40k... deus vult?

[ebon hatch]

My reference. Game is simply OK, not as broken as people say. They overreact and call muh Stalker 2 beloved a pile of trash, which it isn't. Saints Row was broken, for example. Cyberpunk was broken...

76, NMS...

[thick zodiac]

People are dramatic, I love being dramatic.
But this game is not playable for me, especially Pripyat... this game is just Fallout 4 soviet style, enemies spawn in front of you, shoot at them, they spawn again in 2seconds shoot again. Should I mention bugs and performance issues?

[hazy helm]

mhe, its not as overreacting as people might say, there is good in S2, but there is also much that is bad

[hazy helm]

exactly like FO4
except every single point, that is completely different from Fallout 4

[ebon hatch]

Performance is fucked, I'll give you that. The only way to enjoy S2 is with frame gen

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-25669918

[thick zodiac]

I don't understand how you don't see it. I shall pull your cartridge so you see throgh the illusion, (if u did not play the game it might sound weird)

[ebon hatch]

Your mom vs. Dinglenut III's pole

[hazy helm]

I mean, if Stalker had diablo style loot with quality systems, as well as character statistics that can be leveled up, perks, building mechanics, a focus on character creation, and item crafting, and had a completely different look
I would see it

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/blue-role-irrelevant-opinion-jjk-blip-roleist-gif-15416531392849771121

[hazy helm]

maybe you opened the Chernobylite page and are seeing that?

[ebon hatch]

Weeb type shii. Get out of here

[thick zodiac]

oh, wait, it is not Chernobolite server? My bad

[celest blaze]

You're roleplaying a grown man pipe down

[hazy helm]

*a grown legend

[ebon hatch]

Pipe down man, let me fill you in. Sam Hyde is here to offend

[celest blaze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1262790815613452298/1290706319401029723/caption.gif

[hazy helm]

you broke his hand in 2

[celest blaze]

It looks so cursed lol

[thick zodiac]

it is similar in how Humongous the games are, how much of empty spirited locations with some loot in the end.
You empty camps, there is kolbasa and some ammo in the end.
Repeat the cycle. (Oh and there is a mainline, the bad guy is your son) The end.

[ebon hatch]

Stalker 2 is similar to the OGs, no fallout 4 affinities. Stop the slander

[thick zodiac]

Obviously! BUt the gameplay is very similar

The thing that you are doing 95% of the time is gameplay, and it is very similar to FO4

[ebon hatch]

Non. You need a pair of eyes, or some better brain

[thick zodiac]

You are Hydeous (hideous)

[hazy helm]

would you say SOC is very similar to FO4?

[ebon hatch]

Sam still gets the gals (you can guess the truth)

[celest blaze]

id consider it a twin to fallout 3

[ebon hatch]

FO4 is an actual RPG, with levels. Stalker has RPG elements, but it also has immersive Sim elements. Damn, too much information

[thick zodiac]

There is a tale about a crazy person and a water well, do you guys want to hear it?

[celest blaze]

sure

[ebon hatch]

He fell off

[celest blaze]

someone needs to make a stalker mod for arma 3

[thick zodiac]

OKAY I know how to solve this problem. I am a stalker head, played it all the mods and shit for years. The same with Fallout, I have close to 1000 hours in Fallout and Stalker EACH.
the gameplay to me just FEELS like Fallout 4. IN S2 the strong points that the developers empathized were more to appeal to fans of pew pew reward repeat cycle.

I can't take 4 guys at the same time over a discord chat, so I will just say to me it feels like FAllout 4 and you can't take that away from me

[celest blaze]

this may be controversial but i like the way fallout 4 feels to play

[ebon hatch]

All these hours... still doesn't get stalker

[hazy helm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1114209874767781938/1283914169149820951/caption.gif

[celest blaze]

i say things most are afraid to..

fallout 4 > NV for example

[ebon hatch]

NV is indeed a mess. Now that is a broken game, not S2

[celest blaze]

god i remember launch ps3 version it was so broken lol

[ebon hatch]

But storywise, FO4 is for 12 years old

[wraith socket]

At the Checkpoint. Requires walking the barbed wire. The hardest part is getting around the tree branches.

[celest blaze]

i wish it was written better

emils writing style really sucks

[ebon hatch]

Bethesda was never good. They need to goon

[celest blaze]

the goon..

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/brainrot-edging-goon-never-never-goon-gif-13555818991647572888

[ebon hatch]

Maybe then goodout would be good

[celest blaze]

i bore witness to things not though possible

things that shoulda never left the shadows ong

[ebon hatch]

The shadows of Cherbobyl

Chernogoon

[celest blaze]

there was this wabbajack list for fallout 4 called wasteland of depravity that required manual downloads from LL and it got so cursed i cancelled the install like 50 mods in i didnt think it would actually be so depraved lol

i was like

[ebon hatch]

Made you goon

[celest blaze]

i wonder if todd sees this stuff and delays fallout 5 and tes 6 as a punishment..

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/purple-role-silence-silence-purple-role-gif-17734229981136172374

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/gojo-satoru-red-role-gojo-red-role-gif-10332570022337826605

[ebon hatch]

Nah, they couldn't release the games if they wanted. SMH, even Ukranian game dev is more efficient than Goonthesda's pathetic excuse of "games"

[celest blaze]

why are goonthesda so bad like honestly? doesnt make sense

[ebon hatch]

They needed the 8 years for Goyfield. Tes will need 10

God Toward is not moving towards efficiency. BGS is too big, even falling out behind BSG at efficency

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/purple-role-stand-proud-gif-17994179658681286568

[celest blaze]

they dont even use design docs anymore lol

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/salute-cat-cute-yessir-gif-17449845613192073437

[ebon hatch]

I am Omning it

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-martincito-pants-gif-24711268

https://tenor.com/view/kiss-gif-2883752256548549053

[thick zodiac]

where u from, which country

[ebon hatch]

Um, Republik of Romania

[thick zodiac]

... I have no reference point, forget the question

[ebon hatch]

You're not going to call my country a shithole? That's new

[viral apex]

I got it, but the question is
Does people know it?

[thick zodiac]

me personally or just generally?

[wraith socket]

I love my Romanian RPK.

[wraith socket]

Some people don't know how to get the best artifacts in the Cordon.

[thick zodiac]

I have unfortunately found the way to scam anomalies for the best artefacts with save load

[sand fiber]

stalkekr

[thick zodiac]

Never have bought any Zara clothes, is it good?

[wraith socket]

NozAr

[sand fiber]

SHUDDUP!!!

westerners smh

[thick zodiac]

I am not sure if I could call myself a westerner

[ebon hatch]

Or the dong

[viral apex]

Not Even the merc clothes at the begining

[wraith socket]

That's another word for penis. Does it have a different meaning to you?

[viral apex]

Stalker fans: 🤑
North Hollywood citizens:
☠️

[thick zodiac]

it does look like a schlong, I don't know exactly why (FReud intensifies)

[dire dagger]

what did he mean by this

[wraith socket]

Some people never learn how to use any artifacts and they sell them as soon as they get them. Then at the CNPP they are crying because they ran out of medkits and anti-rads.

[viral apex]

During the 90's it happend an heist that looked as the HEAT movie
The heisters used an RPK

[ebon hatch]

Duh. The dong AK foregrip

[dire dagger]

oh

[viral apex]

I usually just use the ones that let me run for extended period
Not Even enough
There is people that doesnt Even use the nail

[viral apex]

The heist longer 1+ hours
And for giving You an idea
They shoot like 3 bullets per second

[wraith socket]

My Romanian Draco pistol has one too.

[viral apex]

Just dont put an double barrel cartrige to a PPSH and we Will be fine

[dire dagger]

the metal scrappers must have had a field day

[viral apex]

Wanna now something incredible?
There werent any casualties
Only hurt but not lethal

[ebon hatch]

Yours? White boy, you prepping for war?

[dire dagger]

me running through the parking lot with a bucket

scooping up fist fulls of spent shell casings

[wraith socket]

I like to collect weapons from the former Warsaw Pact countries.

[viral apex]

Hey, do You got an ASM?

[wraith socket]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

[viral apex]

I know the whole story man, thats why i made the joke

[wraith socket]

Apparently the other people here don't and why I posted the link to tag with your words.

[viral apex]

Oh, My bad
Sorry

[wraith socket]

It was a historic shootout. Good reading.

[wraith socket]

Can you be more specific. ASM doesn't ring any bells.

[viral apex]

If You think it
Is kind of scary the kind of massacres could be done throught those ages and didnt
They were other times and people in USA had an more innocent view of world

[viral apex]

Is like an pmm but with an extended slide
It is an automatic handgun

[wraith socket]

Nope. I got a Bulgarian Makarov but nothing exotic.

[viral apex]

You can search it, is literally "cooler PMM"

Got it wrong, it is APS pistol

[stiff pasture]

Currently eyeing one of these at a surplus store, you use yours for shooting or is a collectors piece?

[wraith socket]

Both.

[stiff pasture]

How’s it handle?

[wraith socket]

Sweet. You should grab it before it's gone.

[stiff pasture]

Gonna try to

[wraith socket]

Got a Nagant pistol. No APS.

[viral apex]

Can i see?

[strange sparrow]

i feel like absolute shit right now

[sand fiber]

lmfao

[finite dragon]

you guys think it's worth buying the game rn?

[finite dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-angry-cat-mad-cat-mad-death-stare-gif-2007099240114134459

[finite dragon]

I need to know know sir