⭐┃nospoilers_general

[finite dragon]

the only way you die is your gun choice (reload speed) and being overwhelmed, and that only really applies to harder difficulties anyway, on easier difficulties they are a cakewalk

it goes

see them, hold a corner of whatever hallway or room you find them in

hop one by one in front of your LoS
start to scatter, stuck on walls and objects and furniture, running around like a chook with its head cutoff

which sucks cause you can see the potential a horde of rats could have with causing a sense of dread to the player, i remember feeling that on first meeting with a horde plus the sound they made, but after that encounter it was just painfully obvious they werent an issue

[placid spoke]

Fifty fousand people used to live hea. Now its a ghost town

[dire dagger]

He’s owned

[mild palm]

Oh damn

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/bane-no-banned-and-you-are-explode-gif-16047504

[empty gorge]

ah yeah hotfix for crosshair thats right, wild a crosshair fix takes so long

[celest blaze]

Port stalker 2 to the enfusion engine

[mild palm]

Right? 😄

[celest blaze]

It's probably more complex then yall realize if its so easy make it happen

[celest portal]

Usually there's a pop up where it will let you schedule at the hour you're not actively using your pc. Never had mine just update in the middle of me doing something because of that, or just update it right away.

No squirrel hordes yet

[weary token]

new update

[lucid vortex]

i got a update

[celest portal]

Fishing update when

[lucid vortex]

10gb update

[drowsy blade]

Real shit?

(I’m at work so I literally don’t know if this is a joke or not)

[vital oriole]

No joke

[lucid vortex]

real

[celest portal]

https://www.stalker2.com/news/patch-1-3-1

[weary token]

well, better than nothing i suppose

[drowsy blade]

[crisp ruin]

[simple pelican]

10gb update?

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-gif-16508948274886257497

[celest portal]

Hello Higgs

[charred wraith]

what if A-life will be a 10$ dlc

[tawdry geyser]

Spawned in for the first time in 4 months . Ran around for 5 minutes and then I got attacked by 4 bloodsuckers... Immediately uninstalled again

[simple pelican]

Hello faust

[tawdry geyser]

When I went for all the achievements I would run into packs of blood suckers every 3 minutes shit was painful

[celest portal]

I'm technically Goethe's Faust, but chose this new name because I can be both now.

[simple pelican]

are you an American immigrant or a Korean immigrant

[lost folio]

Is this yaoi patch

[celest portal]

I'm a Korean born in the US

[simple pelican]

are both ur parents Korean

[celest portal]

Yes

[simple pelican]

legendary

[blazing pollen]

damn there wil by 2.0 in this year haha

[storm kernel]

computer scientists/engineers are gonna be CHILLING

[drowsy blade]

By October at this rate

[storm kernel]

honestly I'm going into comp engineering because compsci looks too risky rn

[cerulean oriole]

How are the hard/softlocks on the story missions these days? Havent played ina while cause I was stuck due to bugs

[celest goblet]

Much better, though depending on the issue, you may have to reload an earlier save to properly avoid the issue

[celest portal]

I personally haven't come across any, even before the update we just now had.

[drowsy blade]

There are much less than at launch, as long as you have a save before the bug occurs you’ll be able to get through the locks experienced previously before 1.3

[cerulean oriole]

Ah shucks, so I have to restart, but thanks for the responses everybody

[celest goblet]

Unfortunately fixing bugs that have already triggered in your save is pretty hard and probably not worth the risk

[celest portal]

I hope this the case, because seeing how much people had issues towards the end it got me worried. Since I'm nearly there right now.

[drowsy blade]

You should have an autosave before you experienced the bug

unless you experienced the bug and then did a bunch of other stuff

[cerulean oriole]

I might, game's been uninstalled for w hile and I had a full PC Wipe since then, so I hopefully steam synched everything nicely

[drowsy blade]

I’ve tested out the softlocks people were experiencing at the end (Spark alignment mostly) and I did not see them reappear, and I had experienced them too

[dire dagger]

Mr Samsung in the flesh

[mild palm]

@empty gorge why won’t you give us the hotfix?

[celest portal]

You're a little late buddy

[sand fiber]

mandatory computer literacy classes should be a thing smh smh

[zinc apex]

Shay is releasing alife 2.8 soon

[celest portal]

Can't wait, and hopefully add fishing update to it

[drowsy blade]

Fishing updaaaaate

[zinc apex]

I think the arena got replaced with a fishing pond for brass fishing tournaments

[celest portal]

Rostok the best place now because of this

[mild palm]

That I am, I see!

[reef wadi]

This walking is killing me i need a loner bicicle

[keen bone]

roadmap any day now guys

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[plucky bough]

Im genuinely curious how many "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" bugs theyre are in this game, cause there certainly seems to be quite a few based on every patch notes.

[placid spoke]

What does being hungry effect?

[celest portal]

Slow stamina and health regen I think?

[drowsy blade]

I think you also lose stamina quicker

[celest portal]

Yeah probably

[finite dragon]

update ?

[dire dagger]

Yes just hot fix

[finite dragon]

good....

[drowsy blade]

1.4 is coming soon™

[finite dragon]

Stalker 3 when ? 😄

[drowsy blade]

2034

[finite dragon]

[placid spoke]

Can you get into duga early?

[thick zodiac]

why does my patch weigh 86 GB? Steam error?

[nimble cipher]

impreza_. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[placid spoke]

This bot is such a nerd bro nobody likes u

[zinc apex]

What you mean? Alexey is a pretty chill guy

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[zinc apex]

Can Keith fix the render distance with his sick c++ skills?

[empty gorge]

yeah sorry was in teams meeting with Ievgen, you know Ievgen? yeah Ievgen? such a nice guy great convo really great lots of progress, the progress was great yes so i convinced him to drop update about 1.30h ago, call just ended. was a good conversation was great yes lots of progress, more stuff to come. looking forward to our cooperation 🟠

[placid spoke]

Has anyone found all the point of no return item locations since the update? If so please send me the link because i can only find locations for the drum and like one blueprint

I really want that sniper suppressor

[zinc apex]

i want to be drunk

[mild palm]

Then let this be our final battle

[silver warren]

I'm back boys. How's the new patch? Roadmap? A-Life? I recently moved and my PC is still packed up

[celest portal]

There was a hot patch today, should fix a lot of "locked out quest because of bug" moments.

[placid spoke]

A-life is better than ever now its perfect

[silver warren]

Was it improved since the last update?

[placid spoke]

Like night and day

[silver warren]

Just read the patch notes and didn't see anything about it. What is different?

[placid spoke]

Im lying its about the same😭

[zinc apex]

get a refund asap if possible

[silver warren]

Why do you have to play with my emotions like that? Am I just a toy to you?

[placid spoke]

I kid i kid

[celest goblet]

Sort of, you can get into the Chornobyl-2 part at the very south end from when you leave the lesser zone. Getting into the section with the radar will get you killed still

[silver warren]

I'll just leave it uninstalled until 2027 after they have released the official dev kit and modders have actually made it a real S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game

[celest blaze]

Lol

[finite dragon]

Imagine me playing Stalker after this fix and wi will do it because i can and this world will end one day and nothing will exist anymore after the sun will eat this planet alive

[empty gorge]

that is if the available tools as well as the stuff available in game allow for it

[celest blaze]

HoC > CoP by a mile Ong

Last peak stalker game was clear sky

[silver warren]

Once there's SoC level A-Life, I'll play again.

[zinc apex]

Does he know?

[silver warren]

That it's probably not even possible? Or that UE5 is a dumpster fire?

[celest blaze]

I feel people overglaze a-life into this like second coming of Jesus tier tech lol

[zinc apex]

don't ask me. I'm just a cat

[rapid warren]

Omg
Duck

[celest blaze]

Omg
Duck

[rapid warren]

Guys what if a-life 2.0 will just add ducks and duck ending?

[celest blaze]

It will become the heart of peak

[rapid warren]

Truly the only thing keeping us from next gen Gaming experience is duckmaxxing

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/utka-utka-ah-ah-gif-10639011062558167830

[silver warren]

No just people who have played all the games and know exactly how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is supposed to work and feel. Saying S2 has even a shred of the AI the old games had is laughable, and I know it's possible to greatly improve upon S2. BUT, at the cost of the game even operating normally, especially on console, it's probably not going to happen. I have faith in the modding community though. The fact that we STILL can't even get a roadmap speaks volumes

[celest blaze]

I beat the trilogy on master bro it was easy and it was short

[celest blaze]

I'm not stalking npcs I'm doing quests and the story lol

[silver warren]

I never said anything about difficulty

[placid spoke]

Whats with these artifacts disappearing from my hands and respawning? Is that an anomaly? Is there really an artifact?

[celest blaze]

Seeing Greg appear in two places is cool but it's really not all that special imo

[silver warren]

It's an illusion

[celest blaze]

If only this game stuck to pc and not consoles

[silver warren]

That's what I'm saying. Once dev kit is out the game will get substantially better

[dull gull]

Dear, please tell me how to customize the mouse sensitivity more flexibly than in the settings

[molten kiln]

Is there a list somewhere what attachments did they add to Prypiat stashes. There were several attachments that were missing yet there is no mention about them

[placid spoke]

Should i sell all my 9x19? I dont care about the viper or zubr and i use the .45 conversion for the vector

[drowsy blade]

One of the unique UDPs uses 9x19 I think

[placid spoke]

The m14 needs better readiness and its penetration bumped up to 3 then its perfectly balanced

Please devs

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[rapid warren]

KEITH IS BACK B0YS

[crimson ocean]

I never had issues with the game crashing, untill last patch. Constant memory leaks after the big fight at duga

[celest portal]

[unreal raptor]

This but a patch.

[celest portal]

🎣

[crimson ocean]

Games in general are getting weird. Literally lost all Intrest in new games coming up and the couple good new ones are beeing shut down aswell like XDefiant. Games either run poorly on the most modern hardware or are just bbeing torn appart by bad management

I've had more fun playing with my Wii, PSP and PS2 again than Pc. And everything just keeps getting more bugs

[hardy bear]

I know I can't get excited for a modern game launch at all now

just so up in the air whether it'll be stable, anything like advertised or abandoned in a year

[worn oar]

Modding community is not the salvation you seek. The only ppl that can fix alife are the devs and they will. The game is getting an immense amount of care and work, and I am personally seeing good results and have no doubt that the envisioned state will be achieved soon enough.

Idk how you meant it, but modders does not always get things right. I can never depend on individual visions and hope that one would get it right. I'm also well aware of the limitations, and I'd say even if the get it right, it won't be better than what the devs did so far

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[crimson ocean]

even hardware, my new AIO is vibrating alot and its super annoying high frequenzy squeeking. And games... I enjoy Stalker but slowly it...starts letting me down. Im about halfway through, made a lot of tweaking so I have decent visuals and framerate witth framegen on which just anhiolates mouse feeling and aiming which makes combat...quite hard. Than I run 2km to some storagenm on the way I get sho at by 3 factions and the friendly faction is just chilling at a campfire with mercs right behind them shooting at me and they dont care. Than my gear is dmagaed and all my coupons go into repairs and I have to grind side missions that barely cover repair costs. Im constantly overweight and thats with just enough to finish a mission, like in the big duga fight I ended with literally 0 bullets and had to scramble whatever I could find to get sth to shoot. 2 bandages and 4 medkits left and I was still close to overweight. Now Im out of ammo, overweight with loot I nee to sell to cope with repair costs and its 1.4km

[granite mortar]

Omg
The same cat again

[granite mortar]

Literally Lost Alpha

[celest portal]

My favorite kot sticker to use when I don't know how to respond to something, perfect no matter the occasion.

[worn oar]

[hardy bear]

i'm enjoying most of those aspects at the moment, shall report back once I get further through

[granite mortar]

True
Plimpus is great for saying something without really saying anything
This expressionless face of his speaks volumes

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[celest portal]

Is something funny happening, I see a couple of mods and above have a single letter as their name

[drowsy blade]

Hm?

[placid spoke]

This hoodie mutant at the duga stash is so dumb bro

[celest portal]

burer

[drowsy blade]

the Burer?

[placid spoke]

All 50 of his guns are straight aimbot and hes all the way at the end of the warehouse

[celest portal]

Bro has the funniest sound when it dies

[placid spoke]

How come burers dont have any ID?

Because of bureraucracy

[celest portal]

Some of them have names like 'A...', 'O...', etc.

[celest portal]

I grabbed all the guns in that place, so it will at least stop shooting at me. But it will still throw items at you.

[brisk lily]

i cant activate the vsync in the game can aynone help?

[placid spoke]

Do artifacts respawn at anomaly fields?

[urban basin]

Yeah, but it takes some time for them to respawn

[drowsy blade]

Yeah and only after emissions as well

[placid spoke]

Good to know

[drowsy blade]

So if you hit an anomaly field and an emission happens like five minutes after the artifact won’t respawn there

[celest portal]

What are those called again? I forgot, but artifacts like weird water, weird bolt, etc. are the ones that won't respawn once you find them.

[drowsy blade]

Arch Artifacts

[urban basin]

I think its only timed doesnt matter if an emission happened
At least i got them to respawn twice and i didnt got an emission before that

[drowsy blade]

Hm then I dunno. I always thought it was after a certain amount of time and an emission

[lost folio]

hawk tuah

[lost folio]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1256452751555170314/1341945926968803398/legion_takeover.gif

[lost folio]

GO MY SOLDDIERS

[elder beacon]

how many more bugs are there related to story

[unreal raptor]

They kill over 1000 with each patch. I’d be a little embarrassed annoying such a high amount of fixes 😂

On the bright side. Getting fixed, slowly isn’t it?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[flint ravine]

I don't have a silencer for mine, but I do like the utter KAPOW'ness of it when I do fire it. :>

[elder beacon]

thats only the bugs, there's also performance

that has a equally long road ahead

[empty gorge]

its a system that takes your quest progress and takes a timer + spawnchance, if the spawnchance triggers it spawns a certain amount in a radius in the field and goes on cooldown so you wont get the same artefact again in a while. After cooldown you run the spawner again when near a field to once again spawn an artefact based on spawnchance that then goes on cooldown, rinse and repeat

[placid spoke]

Should i spend 600k upgrading all my guns? That leaves me with about 300k and i haven't progressed to wild island yet

[normal comet]

Does anyone else play 75% of the game and then start a new save file because you got bored? or am I just weird

[normal comet]

depend on what guns you have

[placid spoke]

I just upgraded saiga, sledgehammer, cracker, texan, kharod, dnipro, the glutton, apsb, m701 super and as lavina

[normal comet]

those are... good guns

[placid spoke]

I have just over 300k left over and im not even halfway through the story but idk if i should roll with it

[normal comet]

how did you even get that ammount of money, Im almost done with the story and I only have 100k

[placid spoke]

I cleaned out the north super early and just ran around looting and selling everything around most of the map

I wanted to get my armor weapons and artifacts super early in this playthrough and once i did that i just kept going around finding all the good stuff

[normal comet]

maybe the next few hours of the game will be a cake-walk for you

[placid spoke]

Lol i suppose i wont really need all that money for anything besides repairs and ammo now

[normal comet]

oh well, good luck

[placid spoke]

Why not just finish the playthrough before starting new?

[normal comet]

I got bored, the early game is the most magical part of the playthrough

[dim topaz]

Coincidentally it also has 80% of the content outside of main missions

[placid spoke]

I feel the opposite because i hate being a broke boy and not having anything but i respect that

[normal comet]

being a brokey boy and not having anything is the perfect stalker experience for me
everything is actualy a danger

[placid spoke]

They just drop an update?

[empty echo]

hotfix, bug fixes
that's all

[normal comet]

I hope this game wont be another halo infinite situation

[analog helm]

it is literally the antithesis of that:

• the game is not live service
• devs were extremely faithful to the original lore (basically it bring all the unfinished ends of other games together so to speak)

[normal comet]

hmm good point

I just hope that they will actualy fix the game at some point and deliver the things they promised

[steel bay]

I play for 6 hour yesterday. 6 freakin hour and the game would not let me save. I die and lose all progress.

[limpid kraken]

idk what happened, but I just had a goofy ahh encounter with a bloodsucker. So I install a mod that lets you grab objects, and I'm fooling around, tossing bandit bodies every which way. My compass turns red and I freak.

I turn around and see a bloodsucker, no joke, doing the famous bigfoot walk, looking right at me. I run into a building and get ready to blast him in a chokepoint, but he never shows up,. Just disappears, which is weird because I didn't get far, and mutant aggro is no joke.

I'm semi-convinced this is an incredibly rare scripted event. Wish I had recorded it.

[normal comet]

Classic bigfoot sighting moment

"Dude I swear I saw bigfoot, I just dint get the chance to record it"

[limpid kraken]

either that or I recorded it at 240p

[finite dragon]

by the time you figured out the keybind to record, it was gone

LOL it'd be funny if a game did that, coded in a very rare NPC that seems entirely unrealistic

somehow made it invisible to streams sort of like an external hack is with their 'streamer mode'

so any screenshots or video you take of the game doesnt pick up the NPC

[tawny comet]

They’ve already been fixing the game. It’s not like GSC ghosted everybody. Ye have little faith.

[normal comet]

faith I have, patience I do not

[gritty orchid]

[normal comet]

Can anyone tell me what the sunrise suit is supposed to be made out of

[finite dragon]

thoughts and prayers

[celest portal]

sun

[normal comet]

;-; as in like is it made out of kevlar or is it more like a plate carrier

[tepid river]

Still on unreal engine 5.1 and runs like it needs a 20950x3d

[torpid wren]

The breast looks bulky enough to have some armor in there

[tepid river]

as long as its on unreal engine 5.1 its going to suck no matter what

[torpid wren]

Pretty based how much GSC lets people badmouth their game in here

[celest portal]

Because people are free to have their own opinion on things

[iron tangle]

description from artbook #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[weary nymph]

ijust heard a npc say hawk tuah bro

[dense forge]

I'm just waiting to get my Ultimate Edition Physical still. Should be getting it in April. So fingers crossed

[tepid river]

Its called criticism. Im not going to buy any game that runs the way they currently do on earlier unreal engine versions eg silent hill 2 remake and stalker 2.

If assassins creed shadows can run smoothly (they added a new nanite-like system to their next gen anvil engine), there's a serious problem with unreal engine 5 to run as badly as it does (was improved in later versions).

No point buying a game if it doesnt run well on high end hardware in the first place.

Im waiting for the game to improve before I reconsider buying it.

[hot gate]

I'm playing on older equipment and I think it runs just fine. A little improvement would be nice, but I'm not having any game-breaking issues at all so far.

[tepid river]

Great let's see the framerates and frametimes

Frametimes are spikey

CPU bottlenecking

Once they sort it out (hopefully) then thats great

[hot gate]

Not sure how to record frametimes, but framerates since I sent that message (didn't have my FPS counter turned on until you asked) have been primarily above 60, with occasional, infrequent spikes dropping it to 39-50 for less than a second before they go back up.

I'm running on a 3060 GPU btw.

[finite dragon]

nvidia overlay has a hotkey for it

mines alt+r but im pretty sure i changed it from default lol its been too long to remember

[signal heron]

Is it normal that there isn't a single DLSS option in game? The weird part is Nvidia App shows that it should be in there

I'm playing on a 5080 so I don't see why it'd be omitted

[mild palm]

The perks of buying a 3k (?) graphics card!

[normal comet]

I accidentaly turned that on, and it have been staying at the corner of my screen for a week, and I just now know how to turn it off. Thank you, kind Stalker

[pallid tundra]

Did decal problem got fixed?

[placid spoke]

Gotta ask one more time before i start playing again, should i spend 600k upgrading all my guns? Leaves me with almost exactly 300k and im not halfway through the story yet

Still on the fence about it

[celest portal]

If you think it's a gun you will be using for a long while I say do it. I give it a use for a bit if I find a new one before upgrading, and if I like it I continue upgrading it. Sometimes you got to go ahead with things, even though you might find better ones later. Such is life in the Zone.

[placid spoke]

Its like 8 guns and its my second playthrough so i know i like them but damn it hurts to drop that much money and be ok with it

[celest portal]

Lmao it be like that, upgrading is expensive

[placid spoke]

300k left for repairs and ammo and i havent even made it to wild island yet i should be good for it

[wraith socket]

Choose the 4 guns you use the most or actually carry. Carrying 8 guns at once is not viable.

[celest portal]

The only extra gun I carry is a sniper rifle tbh. Switch that between my shotgun occasionally.

[placid spoke]

I only carry 2 guns at a time i just like to swap them out throughout the game😭

[celest portal]

Lol

[wraith socket]

I carry 4 guns. I mostly use my scoped rifle and shotgun, but I carry an assault rifle and smg as backup. You never know when you might need them.

[placid spoke]

Im a loot goblin so i gotta stay low weight

[wraith socket]

I'm a loot goblin too, but I need the firepower to earn it.

[placid spoke]

W m14 user

[celest portal]

me frantically running back to the nearest base with 100+ weighted inventory

[placid spoke]

Ive done so many slow walks back and forth from duga😭

I never use stashes because i dont trust them

[wraith socket]

I'm also rollin' with 1,077 rounds of extra ammo.

[placid spoke]

Aw i dont have image perms i swear im good for it

[celest portal]

The random ones? They're fine so far atm. I temporarily use them when I don't feel like going back to base.

[placid spoke]

Ive used them a few times for emergencies and it was fine but im always nervous my loot isnt gonna be there when i get back

[wraith socket]

You can post your Load out here and forward it to this page: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034504761409577

[wraith socket]

I've never had anything taken, and I may not have gone as far as you, but I've put in a lot of hours.

[celest portal]

I need to sell pdas I really have too many of them apparently

[placid spoke]

I wish there was someone who bought pdas for a better price

[celest portal]

I've left loot in those random stashes and went to the others side of the map from where that was. My stuff was still there. So I think those stashes are safe to use.

[placid spoke]

Where can i find the patch notes from today?

[wraith socket]

So far I've only come across one stash that keeps replenishing itself with new supplies.

And I don't mean new stash activations. Just new supplies without doing anything to create it.

[worn oar]

Cheap junk

[wraith socket]

Dang. That is light @placid spoke

[celest portal]

I have a lot of them I can probably get a lot of coupons out of them

[worn oar]

I wish if we had like different prices on pda

Npcs buying them for more, or quests related to it

Like in CoP

[celest portal]

They've just been piling up in my loot box and I forgot about it. Also yes I wish such thing exists too in this game.

[worn oar]

Sad

[wraith socket]

What I hate is when you get a PDA that gets bugged and you can't remove it. I've been carrying one since the Lesser Zone.

[worn oar]

It would've been awesome if we could sell those to specific NPCs depending on how important the owner of the pda is.

[worn oar]

It's not

It's part of the journey until it's not

Stuff you need will stay until it's purpose served.

[celest portal]

I had this happen with the monolith regen lamp after that certain quest that I can't say because of spoiler.

[worn oar]

And I'm pretty sure you still exploring without story progress

[worn oar]

Let's simply say that quest items stay until you no longer need them to progress.

[celest portal]

It doesn't happen anymore though. Right now, that lamp I mentioned got removed after I ||'escaped' from Ward||. Before the updates, it just stuck with me a lot longer than it needed to be.

[worn oar]

That was a bug I heard about, it's just that item.

[wraith socket]

Just which PDA do you think I need to carry from the Lesser Zone, just after the game beginning?

I hope you are right.

[placid spoke]

Ward on top

[celest portal]

Well I am now off to finishing the game probably, nearing point of no return.

[placid spoke]

Do you like new makarov or old makarov

[celest portal]

New Makarov is twink death. I like the old one better.

[placid spoke]

Real

[worn oar]

I do not wish to throw you spoiler. I'll simply say that it's there because it still haven't served it's purpose.

I'd also like to highlight that some items that might seem insignificant may prove useful to you. In other words, some stuff may offer you another path (option in a quest or dialog.).

[placid spoke]

I hate these monkey rats so much

[orchid gale]

I have finally become a discord mod

Bow to me, I’ve ascended fedora in the mail

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[mild palm]

No

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-thumbs-good-well-done-positive-gif-10344215069770651948

[wraith socket]

Is it about a Bandit with a three-letter name?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[normal comet]

1 million koupons🧐

[finite dragon]

no, thats a bug, verify files or update drivers

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

you may need to enable hardware acceleration within your windows settings

windows key -> graphics settings -> advanced graphics settings -> enable hardware accelerated gpu scheduling

[signal heron]

Yeah I'm balls deep in a windows reinstall right now cause my drivers were getting all broken

[finite dragon]

perks of liking computers lol

[nimble cipher]

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spark vigil]

Greetings. I have spotted a spider in an underground lab yesterday, it was hanging from the ceiling. Was really scared. Haven’t noticed it in the game before

[iron tangle]

endemic life is really neat, they have been around since 1.0 (or the earliest patch) I think

[granite mortar]

too bad the other feature with "life" in its name doesnt exist in the game

[celest blaze]

Based

[orchid gale]

When repo

[placid spoke]

M14 needs better readiness and its penetration bumped up to 3 please devs i love you and this game please

[orchid gale]

Just use the rhino

[placid spoke]

But the m14 is badass and theres not much of a reason to take it over other similar weapons

[orchid gale]

There’s alot of guns like that

The vss is completely useless by the time you get it too sadly enough

[bright lantern]

Crosshair BEGONE!

10/10 patch no patch notes.

[placid spoke]

Sometimes the combat music sounds like the fallout 3 death sound

[celest blaze]

Hopefully soon

[storm kernel]

honestly Penetration needs to get rebalanced as a whole imho, it makes no sense that one gun using 5.45 needs three headshots to kill someone but another using the same ammo needs only one

[placid spoke]

Are emissions bugged? I havent seen an emission in like 3 irl days

[elder beacon]

thats a very good point, i agree with you on that. another thing that buggs me is skif getting stunlocked by bloodsuckers

[storm kernel]

I dont think I've ever been stunlocked by bloodsuckers, but that move where they knock you down is kinda annoying. If you're fighting multiple it can def become a pain in the ass

[elder beacon]

skif can shoot guns endlessly but the second he hears the roar he has a Vietnam flashback

[elder beacon]

i think when you are far enough away they roar

its annoying af when you're trying to disengage and you get slowed down letting them catch up

this happened in the swamps when 4 of them spawned

[storm kernel]

I think that attack is fine. I don't want the game to be devoid of challenge

[elder beacon]

nope

[burnt raven]

Thank you for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, GSC. It's clear that the game has potential, but please don't abandon the project. I'd like to share my thoughts on what the game needs.

1. Add more mutant varieties. For a sequel, having only two new mutants is too little. Judging by the builds, many mutant types were originally planned, and I would love to see them return.

2. Improve stash rewards. Players go through many difficult obstacles to find a stash, but the reward is often just a loaf of bread or a medkit. It would be great to have more variety and better rewards.

3. More side quests. There are too few side quests. It would be great to have more, including searches for hidden oases or gathering information from stalkers, similar to Call of Pripyat.

4. Bring back cut locations. Based on development info, several locations were cut, such as Korogod (a mystical forest area), the Jupiter plant, and Lab X-16 in Yantar. I sincerely hope you can bring these back.

Additionally, it would be great to see some old characters return as part of additional quests—for example, Zulus.

I wish you success! The game is great, but it still needs development.

[empty gorge]

another round of:

• We are aware
• we are working on it
• more info soon
• cant share anything yet
• rest assured

[storm kernel]

the game is peak as is

[sly viper]

i just want correct Alife behavior....

[celest blaze]

i mean atleast we getting fixes etc hell fallout 4 still have particle issues with nvidia drivers that can cause the game to crash almost 10 years later

[finite dragon]

lmao terrain displacement or whatever it is, i remember that fallout bug

[celest blaze]

fr lol

[finite dragon]

continuous crashes right at the start as youre going to the vault because of it

STILL not fixed, to this bloody day lol

theres a mod that fixes it though, maybe stalker will get to that point one day 😂

[sand fiber]

who let chat gpt on the server 😭

[celest goblet]

Wouldn't mind seeing it go back to pen being ammo dependent and all other stats being weapon to weapon, though this would probably just bring back something like the weapon category progression of SoC

[celest blaze]

they should take the arma route for ballistics and pen imo

[placid spoke]

I finally got back my extended mag for my beloved baby buket

Had to start a whole new playthrough for it

[celest goblet]

IDK if it was always like this but it does seem the Lavina has tier 3 pen. Been using it on my current playthrough and it feels better than before

[drowsy blade]

5.45 AP ammo feels really nice with the Dnipro now

[storm kernel]

I cannot afford to use 5.45 AP as my regular ammo

[placid spoke]

Did they buff some stuff?

[empty gorge]

yeah the bugs ||/.s||

[celest blaze]

16x the features ong

[idle fossil]

Is the latest patch 1.3.1 super unstable or is this just how it is after leaving garbage? I left garbage to progress the story line and now the game is crashing a ton, but this also is happening right around the time of the update. Anyone else having issues with crashing?

[ebon hatch]

average GSC answer is erm idk. GSC get a grip

[placid spoke]

Im glad i got an xbox for this game because it doesnt seem like theyre bringing it to ps5 any time soon

[empty gorge]

accept that gsc answers is a PR channel and you will be at peace

[granite mortar]

they do this and then completely ignore questions that arent about S2 ._.

[empty gorge]

thats a given, using an answer channel for not answering properly besides stuff that's obvious? thats less

[unreal raptor]

is game gud yet?

[dire dagger]

I think we’re playing different games

[celest blaze]

Gamma peak

[prisma goblet]

I love how the #📜┃gsc-answers is so useless

[dire dagger]

Bro

You can’t be saying that

[celest blaze]

Jk fr

[empty gorge]

i love how people are realising this ❤️
GSC STEP UP!

[celest blaze]

I play real milsims and not gamma lol

[prisma goblet]

All the answers are just "erm idk maybe who knows"

[empty gorge]

or make me CM, trust me i will give better formulated ambigious answers, they wont be that noticable (i already have more alife mentions and other crucial keyword mentions than mol1t)

[crisp ruin]

sorry guys not being here

[dire dagger]

Reading that channel is honestly depressing

[crisp ruin]

but Kotmaxxing with Psycat

[dire dagger]

I don’t even wanna keep reading

It just ruins my day

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[empty gorge]

brother they drop 10 answers b2b and all of em the same vibes, gsc out here playing with us. its so stupid

[finite dragon]

tbf, when you do community mananagement your hands are tied with what you can answer, what you can say, etc etc etc

if 80 submitted questions are wen update, its no surprise if they cant answer that, they inject humour into answers or pick other things, just an example

[prisma goblet]

Sometimes it feels like the CM doesn't even understand english

[empty gorge]

but the issue is they got stuff set in stone, they arent freestyling it in the studio over there are they? gives us some more stuff man, for instance: the ai team MUST KNOW what their endgoal is no? or are they winging it? give us a bit more info on that?

[finite dragon]

no but like, even when i did CM for an unregulated industry (crypto) you never give a definitive if you havent been told you can

[empty gorge]

they talk about sdk yet cant give ANYTHING ABOUT IT, no picture, no blogpost? have you even made an sdk? if you did you must be able to show for it no?

[celest goblet]

It's up to the leadership to decide what to talk about and when

[finite dragon]

so even if you know whats coming, and everyone else and their dog knows whats coming, you dont answer yes unless everyone and their dogs, their cousins, their brothers and sisters in law have signed off on it lol

[empty gorge]

but you have to understand we are 4 + months past release and they are mentioning these things from before release and after release they keep saying more info soon, its being cooked etc

[celest goblet]

And, well, GSC has never been the most talkative company. When the game was still in development it wasn't really unusual to go a six months to a year without any news on the game

[empty gorge]

at a point you gotta put a stop to it and start opening up, the gsc answers are just throwing fuel on the fire

[finite dragon]

just what they are being told to say, there are probably layers there

Community - > Community Management team actually here and watching
-> people CM team forwards suggestions and complaints through to
-> people above those guys
-> eventual end person who makes the decision, probably, if not another guy or two in between

[granite mortar]

yeah but they ignore actual questions and just repeatedly answer the same three ones with the same "I dont know" "thats for the insert department to decide" or "we will look into it" answer

some time ago I asked what happens to anomalous formations when they lose their anomalous energy after enough emissions, like would the Scar anomaly in Zaton seal? would the Claw collapse? Will the Vine in Pripyat dry and crumble?
still no answer, instead they just keep answering "when update", "fix this bug, yes?", "nvgs when?" or "sdk release planned right?"
giving absolutely unsatisfactory answers to all of them repeatedly
NOT EVEN CAT EMOJIS CAN SHOW HOW ANGRY I AM

[empty gorge]

im not talking about cm's, i agree on all fronts about their limitations, i just find that channel to be stupid as hell by now

[finite dragon]

how the hell would a CM know the answer to that? lmao

they arent lore specialists half the time, probably

[celest goblet]

Though yeah at this point I'm not sure what purpose the channel is serving as is. You could close it down instead

[empty gorge]

listen lads we gotta all agree here: THAT CHANNEL there CURRENTLY has no use besides making things often worse or sparking debate no?

[prisma goblet]

Lmao I think the CM has no idea what you are on about.

[granite mortar]

they can ask the goddamn team who makes the maps or the people who wrote the goddamn story
itss their stupid game, they should know answers to such questions

[finite dragon]

and team doesnt answer

now what?

they leave you on read
they dont think its important
they are busy

numerous numerous numerous reasons they couldnt answer that or didnt pick it lol

[granite mortar]

THE TEAM NEVER ANSWERS ANYTHING CLEARLY
all of their answers are unsatisfactory filler, so maybe one time they could actually think a bit and answer something new at least

[prisma goblet]

But why bother making a #📜┃gsc-answers in the first place if they dont even answer the damn questions ?!

[finite dragon]

its obviously just for hype and to drip out information and create discussion

[celest goblet]

I asked a while ago if they would ever add the new music tracks added to the game to the OST and it got left on read 😔

[unreal raptor]

useless GSC Answers again

[empty gorge]

gotta be one of the most useless channels ive ever seen in a discord server for a game no cap

[prisma goblet]

Yeah and the "created discussion" is just us complaining about how useless this channel is lmao

[unreal raptor]

i just like going in for the alife, SDK, NVG emojis.

The rest is tosh.

[empty gorge]

my man

[finite dragon]

which goes to show how much, whoever responds in that channel, actually has no control

Cause i guarantee they dont want to answer stupid annoyed questions either

[celest goblet]

Does not help the same questions we already know they won't answer get asked many times per day seemingly

[finite dragon]

theres obviously layers to it and the layer we directly interact with cant really do anything by themselves

i wonder who has channel creation / deletion perms

if the GSC CMs dont have it, (the creator can keep it or share it) thats probably why we dont have a S2 mod channel

[placid spoke]

What technician can upgrade the lynx??? Ive been everywhere and nobody can do it

[finite dragon]

i dont know how 'active' the main big bosses are with community, or here, or who has ownership or whatever, i dont pay attention

but wouldnt surprise me if the perms were carefully managed and the main dude relies on lower ranks to manage the day to day, so isnt here all the time to make it lol

seems to be how it generally is with CM work, unless youre like Gods Unchained with an only online presence and game, of course then the bosses and head honchos are watching more often

[empty gorge]

mol1ts answer on my question about modding channel:
"Hey, yeah, we will have one, but probably once we clear out the modding support situation with some updates" -March 24th

[finite dragon]

Dude doesn't have perms, bet lol

@glossy bladeshow us your perms! peer pressure 😂 not that it matters anyway

[empty gorge]

homie is at his bday, u ping him for work

[finite dragon]

I am well known for terrible birthday presents (mostly because I never know its someones birthday)

[placid spoke]

Theres an upgrade for the lynx that no technician in the game can install. Great job developers

[finite dragon]

Really? Did you try Yaniv?

[empty gorge]

we thank you for the QA, please report this to the support page, your wage of 0 cents will be payed at end of the month

[placid spoke]

Everywhere. Not even pripyat

[empty gorge]

man woke up mol1t hahaha ⬇️

[glossy blade]

Haha, I am on vacation but since I heard the ping I will jump here. Of course I have all the permissions to work with the Discord, as I said I just do not feel the tiem is right to create the category since we have not provided the official update on modding support yet. It would be great to align the new category with an update

[finite dragon]

His birthday present was proving me wrong 😂

[empty gorge]

you heard it boys? 2026 is where its at! now off you go mol1tov, on to your adventures!

[crisp ruin]

Also do not ping him again

[placid spoke]

We need a technician that can fully upgrade the lynx nobody in the game can do it

[empty gorge]

especially on a mans bday off work hahaha

[finite dragon]

dont you emoji react that 😂

[crisp ruin]

tru

[glossy blade]

I don't mind pings if it is not abused to ridicilous degree, anyways, chat, see you on Monday

[finite dragon]

Vindication

But pings do suck, didnt really think about it lol

[granite mortar]

what happens to anomalous formations when they lose their anomalous energy after a surge?

its shrimpotant 🦐
examples of such formations are Scar (in Zaton), Claw (also in zaton) and Vine (In Pripyat), all three are from Call of Pripyat
do they collapse? seal? dry and crumble? or just stay there until time gets its toll on them?

[empty gorge]

ngl chat, ive been playtesting the modding toolkit, its lit ngl

[elder beacon]

play call of pryprat and you will notice how empty the world feels

[prisma goblet]

Autism peak

[crisp ruin]

How about just wait until monday

[empty gorge]

its deadass so good i might be able to make unreal engine 6 out of it

[finite dragon]

?????

[mild palm]

Brother what

[granite mortar]

yes

[empty gorge]

?????

[finite dragon]

the UE modding kit or did i miss something? 😂

[elder beacon]

i was comparing the alife in cop to the current game

[empty gorge]

nah im just kidding, my brain is just cooked from no sdk. i do know ofc they will use modio

[finite dragon]

Had me hella ctrl+fing discord

[mild palm]

I know, hence: what

Skibidi

[thick wolf]

Hbd mol1t

[celest goblet]

Well uhh this is ending spoiler for HoC but ||In the Ward ending you see the trench/claw formations crumble around the generators when the zone is presumably destroyed||

[granite mortar]

hell yeah

wait
that means Duty was right
Hell no

[mild palm]

Check out gsc-answers. Apparently (according to GSC) A-Life is “much more” than just a spawning rudimentary system

The dream is officially over, boys. Looks like this lifelike cutting edge AI living world that S2 has is just not appreciated by us

[clear raft]

GSC Answers is just damage control central.

[mild palm]

Either that or it’s an orwellian propaganda channel

[worthy zodiac]

I hope the roadmap is still a thing that they want to show us

[dim topaz]

#Minitrue

[mild palm]

How many fingers do you see?

[worthy zodiac]

For me the question is not "When will they release it?" but "Will they release it?"

Cause they kinda forgot about it

[celest blaze]

I don't think they forgot with how people mention it every day here

Or in gsc answers asking about it

[clear raft]

80% of the responses are literally: "I dunno, maybe?"

🤣 What's the point of wasting everyone's time.

[mild palm]

But saying that A-Life is “already much more” is quite definitive and objectively false. So that’s scary

[worthy zodiac]

The last time roadmap was mentioned in gsc answers was 23 days ago

[clear raft]

A-life was never going to happen on this engine. 😑

[mild palm]

Then I want GSC to say it

[sand fiber]

just go play another game smh 💅

[mild palm]

Um. Ok? That’s always an option, yeah.

[worthy zodiac]

Also, I kinda cringe whenever I see an answer to a question in the style of "I dunno, I'll ask them devs about this". Like... Just ask them and answer the question after receiving an answer from the devs..? Why do you "waste" the question with a nothingburger like that?

[mild palm]

Bought three copies, one Ultimate, to be lied to?

[storm kernel]

"so that's scary" my guy it's a feature in a video game that isn't even THAT integral to the moment to moment gameplay

[celest blaze]

Why did you buy 3 copies of a game?

[worthy zodiac]

Debatable

[storm kernel]

mfs are blowing the a life stuff out of proportion

[sand fiber]

no you don't get it i MUST know that there are stalkers walking around in offline

[nimble cipher]

gamrknight has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dim topaz]

I get that the complaints are getting boring and cringe but saying "A-life didn't matter in Stalker anyway" is borderline stockholm syndrome

[worthy zodiac]

Belittling the system doesn't stop it from being a good system for making a consistent world that reacts adequately to your actions and where you can make at least some kinds of predictions

[storm kernel]

like yeah its kinda crappy it was made worse (not even removed entirely) before launch for whatever reason but it's not even close to something like Cyberpunk 2077 where entire features aren't even there even after 4+ years after launch

[clear raft]

That was your mistake dude, I refunded mine. I'm going to buy it again when this trash heap is considered "fixed" at a discount.

[worthy zodiac]

And yet again, nobody is stopping devs from flashing it out even more than in original games

[sand fiber]

okay but like a-life doesn't do that

i'm all for criticizing S2 and, frankly, the trilogy in how they're designed but this constant complaining isn't it

[sand fiber]

also shuddup cyberpunk is good 💅

[worthy zodiac]

It literally does. I won't describe it because you know how it works, just stop acting in bad faith

[worthy zodiac]

It doesn't mean that you should say "NOT NEEDED"

[sand fiber]

but i'm noooot :<
there aren't really any consequences to your actions in the trilogy, there isn't even a way to "take action" other than kill ppl

[celest goblet]

Well I can predict what might be encountered in SoC because new squads always spawn at the same locations, but that doesn't seem like it has a lot to do with the A-Life people are talking about

The best is like, I know there's maybe an 80% chance of encountering mutants in one place, 20% bandits are in another, etc

[storm kernel]

it's good but it's nothing compared to the hype CDPR was generating pre-launch. And like I said, some of the features still aren't there/severely undercooked

[celest goblet]

Or you can intercept military and Merc squads that waltz through rostok normally undisturbed while offline

[sand fiber]

what features 💅

[worthy zodiac]

There literally are. For example, if you go to the north while clearing out everything on your way you know that there won't be anybody on that road for the most part. Meanwhile in stalker 2 it's just random encounter generator like in some kind of jrpg - killing is literally meaningless. Just an example. A simple one, yes, but it already proves you wrong

[worthy zodiac]

For example, 1000+ NPCs with handmade schedules. What, your favorite youtuber didn't tell you about this feature that was promised? How about different factions that you can join?

[storm kernel]

iirc gun customization was promised to me far more extensive than it is in-game (only optics + SOME barrel mods and generic stat increases)

[dim topaz]

how about origin stories for your character that actually matter in the plot that was promised and ended up being like 1 hour of content

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, that would be nice to have too

[storm kernel]

the story was promised to be far more branching, in the actual game it's quite linear with minor choices and the only real difference is what ending you get

[storm kernel]

extra dialogue choices, take it or leave it

Man even just giving extra starting bonuses like more money for Corpo for example would've made the choice seem more meaningful

[sand fiber]

you know that there won't be anybody on that road
i mean if stalkers really moved around by the time you return this road would be full of new ppl

i don't like s2's approach, and i would really like for simulation in stalker to become something real and meaningful, something you can interface with and something which will affect you, but like, this wasn't ever the case with the trilogy

[worthy zodiac]

Funnily enough, most of these dialogues are just one liners that don't affect anything

[dim topaz]

Cyberpunk is a grim reminder that if companies polish a turd hard enough most normies will be satisfied when being served on a nice enough platter in the end

[storm kernel]

if there was a faction rep system your lifepath choice would predetermine how friendly you would be with factions (corpo would have better connections with the corporations, streetkid with various gangs/maybe have connections in the NCPD)

[celest goblet]

Well I'm pretty sure a lot of this is just scripted by missions or on game initialization. It's just mission design

[sand fiber]

CYBERPUNK IS LITERALLY GOOD SHUDDUP

i was ready for a gameplay-less rpg-less narrative adventure like witcher 3 when i played it and it WASN'T that!!

[storm kernel]

most dialogue boils down to:

• Yes
• Yes (slightly mean)
• [CORPO] Yes
• [INTELLIGENCE 12] Yes

[dim topaz]

lemme rephrase
"people won't care that they were misled if the end product is servicable enough"

[storm kernel]

Fallout 4 ahh dialogue system

[sand fiber]

the only issue with cyberpunk was like its technical state on launch but who cares 💅 💅

[worthy zodiac]

full of new ppl
Play any freeplay mod and see for yourself what would've happened. You are just wrong here, they would be cleared for a few hours of gameplay and they would have less people in general. Basically, it feels natural to traverse the zone because you can actually feel how it changes. In stalker 2 there's no change because it's just throwing shіt randomly at you thus there's no weight behind your actions (even if it's just an act of killing)

[celest goblet]

It's very natural for the same conga lines of bandits to respawn daily by the garbage depot and agroprom factory

[worthy zodiac]

No and that's not what people are asking for, obviously

[celest goblet]

But that is what the original games were like and people keep saying they want it like the trilogy

[sand fiber]

i mean in freeplay mods prolly but i'm saying that's what should happen

again, i agree that S2 a-life sucks, you don't have to kill me :<

[worthy zodiac]

Don't mix broken SoC spawns and shіtty faction war from CS with A-Life, for the love of god

[mild palm]

Agreed

[sand fiber]

ALL I'M SAYING is that simulation was always shittу and it maybe it doesn't affect the game all that much

[storm kernel]

stalker 2 should have a life like the old games
NO NOT LIKE THAT

[celest goblet]

So does anyone actually know what it is

[mild palm]

One for me, two for the boys

[dim topaz]

I often daydream what Bethesda games today would look like if they kept their ambition high, the original design concept for Oblivion was insane. But then after Skyrim all their games have just been progressively more ass

[worthy zodiac]

What do you mean "Not like that"? SoC literally has broken spawns. The timer for many spawns that generate battles in same places over and over again RESETS every time you go from one location to other. It's a bug, literally. And spawning doesn't have anything to do with simulation part (aka A-Life itself)

[sand fiber]

gamedesign is my passion

[worthy zodiac]

It's like saying "Oh yeah? You want A-Life like in original games? It also means that you want all these shіtty animations and models from old games too?"
No, it has nothing to do with A-Life

[celest goblet]

If it isn't the busted spawns on basically every map from SoC that were repopulating the world, and it isn't the systems driving the factions wars in CS, is it... The handful of small squads wandering the maps in CoP? The ability to see a green dot on my minimap in garbage instead of cordon once or twice during my playthrough?

[worthy zodiac]

(And, to be honest, I'd love to have a better system than A-Life in original games. Something even more impressive, something with more meaning. But if we can't even get anything like A-Life from original games then can I really ask for more than that?)

[celest goblet]

What's the actual goal here. How does it make playing the game more fun

[sand fiber]

i think persistence is a real issue but otherwise yeah

[pseudo rivet]

Why play GAMMA when you can play ALPHA with HoC

[sand fiber]

i fuсking love arguing about a game i haven't played

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, it's for the devs to decide what's their goal, I don't know what they have in mind. If you ask me personally - my wet dream is to have starsector x mount and blade x dwarf fortress x every other niche indie game with a cool simulation... But in stalker, yeah

[dim topaz]

"How does an AI that changes local populations and encounters dynamically in an immersive way and keeps track of my buddies and enemies' movements and actions help make the immerse game immersive?" 🤤

[storm kernel]

how it feels to hate on games you've never played

[worthy zodiac]

But for stalker 2... Well... I don't even want anything, I am already disappointed. I just wonder what we'll get in the last version of the game

Like, it looks like the devs will simply keep calling the current random encounter system "A-life 2.0" and it'll be that. Maybe they'll make combat AI better, who knows

[pseudo rivet]

Gear balance when tho?

[dim topaz]

depending on the size I can balance one on a single finger pretty well

[pseudo rivet]

As in, make all the weapons usable even during the end game

[sand fiber]

DEFINE IMMERSIVE
MEANINGLESS MEANINGLESS MEANINGLESS

WHAT DOES ENCOUNTER DYNAMICALLY MEAN
THIIIINKKKKK

[celest goblet]

Does it make it more fun though, Or do you just go "that's cool" and then continue on as normal

[pseudo rivet]

And, of course, each have their own playstyle and won't always be useful in each situation, but at least make them worthwhile for the thing it's meant to do

[sand fiber]

immersive my ass

[dim topaz]

it's what a lot of people want from stalker, so yes

[dim topaz]

I can't be arsed so I asked copilot. here you go
"In gaming, "immersive" refers to design elements that make the player feel deeply engaged in the virtual world, creating a sense of realism, presence, and believability. An immersive game minimizes distractions, maintains consistency, and encourages the player to think and act as if they were truly part of the game world."

[celest goblet]

This seems like it would be a much more material change to me

[sand fiber]

in japan they're so broke they use copilot for ai purposes 😔

[worthy zodiac]

It literally does. Clearing the road from NPCs and seeing it repopulating slowly after some time instead of having random MEANINGLESS encounters is fun. Being able to see where NPCs go and see the results of their future battles is also fun. Encountering corpses of stalkers that died a few days ago is fun. Being able to check POI from far, see no enemies around and being able to get there knowing there are no enemies around and seeing that your intel was true - also fun (Instead of having a random encounter because the game decided to give you some fun time)

[placid spoke]

I never played the other stalker games

[dim topaz]

it's good enough for the purpose here

[pseudo rivet]

Mostly a gameplay change. It would allow you to tailor your loadout to your playstyle and allows you to play the game in your way, at your pace

Like CoP

(For the most part)

[worthy zodiac]

Like any previous stalker game, really

[celest goblet]

Eh. CS yeah. Early weapons get pretty outclassed in SoC though

[pseudo rivet]

Disagree with SoC, tbh. There's a clear gear progression in that game

[worthy zodiac]

I dunno, I had a playthrough with a shіtty ak and sawed off shotgun and it was kinda fine

[pseudo rivet]

CS does have some gear balance with the mid/late-game stuff, but CoP takes the cake here

[celest goblet]

You can use the fast shooting AK to the end of the game but it's going to be a bad time compared to using something like a GP37 or Vintar

[pseudo rivet]

I'd also like to see this balance with armor, as that's just as much part of your loadout

[sand fiber]

i love getting a sig from warehouses before even talking to wolf and proceeding to genocide cordon afterwards

[worthy zodiac]

I mean... Of course but it's still doable and doesn't even feel like a "youtube challenge" or anything like "Beating dark souls with a soul level 1 and a club"

[placid spoke]

Every weapon should be viable im endgame if you disagree you are wrong

[pseudo rivet]

Get the TRs-301 at the Army Warehouses. Straight upgrade to the SGI-5k

[sand fiber]

WRONG WRONG WRONG

[pseudo rivet]

True asf

[celest goblet]

Well they did rebalance armors some in 1.3. now the scientific suits are much more specialized towards exploring anomalies and combat armors towards fighting

[worthy zodiac]

Not every weapon... But, let's say, "most"

[dim topaz]

from a realism pov: sure
from a game pov: debatable
I don't really care either way as long as it's fun

[pseudo rivet]

Don't listen to NozAr, she likes to disagree for attention

[sand fiber]

i don't care for shiny guns i want a clear progression to exist in the game

now that i think about it it could prolly be achieved through upgrades n stuff

[dim topaz]

you know she angry when she hasn't painted her nails since 2 messages ago

[placid spoke]

Its just freedom and fun like why cant i be successful with an aks74u and a toz in pripyat

[sand fiber]

WRONG!!!

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, that's basically the case with CoP

The upgrades makes (almost) all weapons viable late game

[placid spoke]

My ak should not be garbage compared to my kharod thats shooting the same caliber

[pseudo rivet]

And allow for different playstyles

[sand fiber]

CoP has literally no progression though

[drowsy blade]

I was able to use the AK-74 almost the entire game in CoP

[dim topaz]

you go from zaton to jupiter to pripyat, clear progression bro

[pseudo rivet]

There is, but due to how the game is structured, it doesn't have much of an impact

[celest goblet]

CoP is short enough that it doesn't really need a strong progression

[pseudo rivet]

Like, there are plenty of stashes

[sand fiber]

IN TERMS OF GAMEPLAY!!

[pseudo rivet]

And the game is short

[sand fiber]

you get a vintar and then a grenade launcher and boom it's not even jupiter yet

[dim topaz]

You go from not having sh to unlocking different upgrade tiers at technicians and getting better gear, what do you mean

[sand fiber]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhh

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, in CoP, the biggest progression is basically the upgrades

It B wat it B

[dim topaz]

it's an incredibly clear progression
you also progress the story of factions and Npcs to an extent

[pseudo rivet]

Now, if CoP was bigger, this wouldn't be as much of a problem

But it Bn't the case

[sand fiber]

gameplay!!! guns!!!!
it doesn't feel as clear as SoC's

[dim topaz]

I liked CoP a lot, a lot more than clear sky for sure

Gunplay yeah, nothing will top SoC

[pseudo rivet]

Clear Sky GANG

[sand fiber]

it's okay tho because i like CoP due to it's narrative and questing not gameplay

[pseudo rivet]

But CoP has the superior gear balance

[sand fiber]

worst gunplay smh.......💅 💅

[dim topaz]

On the topic of Clear Sky, I know this is the no spoiler channel so let me put this somewhere else

[sand fiber]

it's the nospoilers to S2 methinks

[drowsy blade]

I lobe Clear Sky

[pseudo rivet]

Worst opinion smh 🥱

[dim topaz]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message
Wouldn't be the first time I was told that I was wrong, but i was actually right

[sand fiber]

nothing hits and there's no feedback and ewww!!!!

[hazy helm]

if I wanted to be gently cradled in my sleep by the boring lullaby, then yhea, it would be the better balancing

[pseudo rivet]

Skill issue?

[drowsy blade]

the VSS hits

[worthy zodiac]

nothing hits
Isn't it any original stalker game in general

[drowsy blade]

Well except for HoC, the weapons arent muskets there lol

[sand fiber]

CRIMSON GIVE ME BACK MY NAME

[dim topaz]

Spoilers for S2 but
YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS HUH?

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, I know. CoP isn't as big as the other games and so is the case with the actual gunplay. What's the use of better gear balance if there's nothing to fight? Still, it is there

[sand fiber]

trve.......

[pseudo rivet]

You got it

[hazy helm]

so the gear balancing is allowed to be bad because the combat is bad and there is none

[pseudo rivet]

@sand fiber
Fix'd asf

[sand fiber]

WRONG NAME
change it to 'zara

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, I'm just saying that the system is a good one, albeit kinda wasted due to the structure of the game itself

[pseudo rivet]

Like this?

Or like you wrote it literally?

[sand fiber]

i will literally grok you

yes

[hazy helm]

the system sucks because it allows you to wallow in your own mediocre build without any push

[hazy helm]

`zaza

[sand fiber]

got that CS hate zaza straight up fire 🔥 🔥 🔥

[pseudo rivet]

Tsk, language

Cringé

[safe spindle]

I'm not sure if the person who took over mol1ts job finds it funny to mess around with a community form of communication, but it would of been better to just let mol1t do it when he got back cause reading those felt like a "idk, Idc I just work here thx for the money" answers

[pseudo rivet]

Wait, which mod?

[hazy helm]

COP

[sand fiber]

thankk uuuuuu

[granite mortar]

CoP isnt a mod you silly goose :3

[hazy helm]

god forbid someone has a little fun and isnt corporatic roboticism

[pseudo rivet]

You're welcome ;3

[pseudo rivet]

That's not a mod

[sand fiber]

but clear sky is 💅 💅

[pseudo rivet]

Which mod?

[safe spindle]

Have fun in general chat, but if our only form of communication is through a heavily siphoned ask and answer system, yeah dumb move.

[pseudo rivet]

So what's up with NozAr? Why the name change?

[hazy helm]

maybe everyone has one lesser frontal lobe and cant discern that, if you ask him about the arena, and he tells you welcome to the arena, yhea hes telling you tahts supposed to be in there

Im sure 99% of people have not gone thru lobotomies and can discern what he means however

those who cant, well you need to be 13+ to have a discord account

[hazy helm]

I was talking about COP all this time

[sand fiber]

just 'cause 💅 💅

[pseudo rivet]

That includes IQ

[safe spindle]

Yeah no, but nice assumptions lmfaooo

[hazy helm]

damn, its nice to hear that 40s medical procedures are still performed today

[pseudo rivet]

You slay, Queen

[safe spindle]

I see I poked the guard dog

[dire dagger]

Vasim is gonna kill you

[hazy helm]

jack

[pseudo rivet]

Who's Toy?

[hazy helm]

did you fix your car?

[dire dagger]

No

[pseudo rivet]

L

[dire dagger]

I’m gonna sell it for parts probably

[safe spindle]

Oh no critical feedback defend bark bark

[hazy helm]

[sand fiber]

when did crimson become based smh smh...

[dire dagger]

I want a rx7

[hazy helm]

ho no, I said something dumb and theyre making fun of me

keep coping

[pseudo rivet]

Always were, you just didn't notice

[dire dagger]

And I’d need to spend multiple 1000s to fully repair it and I don’t want to

[hazy helm]

unfortunatly, you must have a cerebelum to post in this discord

[dire dagger]

Not for a car I don’t know want to keep forever

[safe spindle]

Brother that whole answer thread is summed up as a 14 year old replying.

[sand fiber]

also too much red names in chat, scary times we're living in

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

Oh shit, I'm red

[dire dagger]

I’m 14 and this is deep

[drowsy blade]

I’m about to go purple in a few levels

[safe spindle]

Still no arms I see

[pseudo rivet]

About time

[drowsy blade]

I know man, about to level up to 22 here in a few messages

[dire dagger]

Check out all this gold plating

[hazy helm]

shame that your entire post history is summed up as a 13 year old typing
please, wait 5 years before talking online kid

[dire dagger]

Owned

[pseudo rivet]

WE'RE RICH

[dire dagger]

I should steal it

Probably worth a few hundred bucks

[safe spindle]

Nice bait

[pseudo rivet]

Bro, Vasim isn't himself

You should eat something if you're hungry

Have a Snickers

[drowsy blade]

1800s mfers scrambling over the worst terrain in North America to get that shit

[dire dagger]

Thing is

It’s plated so

It’s not really that much gold

It’s trimmings from Motorola 6800s

[pseudo rivet]

Gold = Gold

[drowsy blade]

Neither was most of the ‘gold’ in North America to be fair

[pseudo rivet]

Some strip PC parts for gold as well, but I can't imagine how that's even lucrative

[granite mortar]

its not

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah

[sand fiber]

aren't there more valuable metals in pc parts than gold

[hazy helm]

silicon

[pseudo rivet]

Definitely

[twin pulsar]

Still no roadmap, still no alife. Every response is just “cannot share details”. All signs point that it’ll never happen at this point. Best thing they can do is release modding tools and hope modders fix the game

[hazy helm]

"cannot share details"

[tall coral]

If we ever get sdk lul

[unreal raptor]

too many details released — you are banned

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-fuck-man-stressed-problematic-gif-15976565

!ban @hazy helm

[nimble cipher]

🚫 You can't ban immunized @hazy helm.

[sand fiber]

where's the rapture gsc you promised i would get raptured gsccccc

[safe spindle]

From what we've seen modding this game, very very unlikely with how the pipeline seems to work.

[twin pulsar]

Community question: “GSC, when can we expect alife/features?”

GSC: “Ah geez dood, best I can do is spawn circle”

[hazy helm]

"cannot share details, as I am currently busy with your mom"

[safe spindle]

Sorry this department doesn't speak to this department cause the guy with the details doesn't like the other guy

[tall coral]

Best i can do is configs, take it or leave it

[prisma cargo]

Best I can do is partial configs - Fixed!

[twin pulsar]

It’s pretty pathetic that they treat their game as some massive success and achievement.

[safe spindle]

Well when you force an echo chamber that's what it's gonna appear as

[hazy helm]

didnt know you were the guy on the inside with all the numbers
maybe its you who doesnt release the roadmap info...

[safe spindle]

Nah that guy doesn't exist

[worthy zodiac]

There's a new dlc for rainworld coming out in n hour. I kinda like how "simulation" works in that game. Doesn't have anything like "offline A-life" from original stalker games but there's a persistence for every cycle. Kinda cool...

[hazy helm]

very mean to mr Dr. Sensei
He even has a doctorate!!!

[twin pulsar]

And can’t even put out a roadmap that they promised for December.

[empty gorge]

6 MILLIONNNN COPIES SOLD WITHOUT PS5

[finite dragon]

goooooooooood morning night cityyyyy!!!!

[red adder]

"Cannot share details, just like we cannot fix our game"

[safe spindle]

To be fair for a niche game, this is a good achievement

[hazy helm]

to be fair, Stalker isnt as niche as people make it out to be

[zinc apex]

Whats that crapshow in #📜┃gsc-answers. Can't share anything, can't say anything about that... blablaba if you don't have anything to say why even bother "answering" questions?

[empty gorge]

SKEEEFFFFAAAA WE GOTTA ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS IN GSC ANSWERS SKEEFFFAAAA DROP SOME AMBIGIOUS STUFF ON SAME QUALITY AS MY BRAIN SKEEFFFAAAAAAAAaaaa scar_loco.gif

[zinc apex]

It's getting ridiculous. We're almost half a year in and we're still waiting for that December 2024 roadmap. We don't know ANYTHING about missing and broken features. I'm vewy angy

[empty gorge]

"don't be sad, thats just how QA works sometimes"

[hazy helm]

do you want them to shut down ask gsc?

weird request dude

[zinc apex]

I don't care tbh. There wasn't a single answer so far with substance. There's no difference if that channel exists or not

[thick zodiac]

!ban [STOC Gaming] OGSR Lover [EN/PT]

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-2-heat-hot-calor-mucho-calor-gif-866044873273642006

[thick zodiac]

btw I agree with Belicatius, my butt was on fire like in this gif from their answer. Especially disrespectful slamming the keyboard instead of saying anything. They might as well shut it down instead of scoffing

[hazy helm]

uasdhhjfuwuifhwue hugihu iwrs

[empty gorge]

what dont work? thats in bugfixes.
what dont work after an update? thats in hotfixes
whats the use of gsc answers if we dont get any more info outside of things we know?

it's even funnier if u realise english answers arent translated in cyrilic and vice versa

like you get ambigious answers and a good % of them (depending of your understanding of the languages) you gotta throw in a translator on your end. peak

[prisma cargo]

Dice has entered the channel!

[hexed leaf]

The irony of calling it GSC 'Answers'

[prisma cargo]

They didn't claim there would be good answers

[hexed leaf]

Maybe GSC 'Replies'; had a quick scroll through to make sure I wasn't talking nonsense, of the last 20-30 'answers' in English, there's maybe 1 or 2 which provide any actual information whatsoever. And even that is in the form of 'we are aware'. It's patronising and the resources would be better spent elsewhere

[prisma cargo]

42 to is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Doesn't make it useful though.

[empty gorge]

950+ mods out btw, modding channel not deemed right time.
modding community we love you so much, we give you no roadmap to know when sdk, no info on extend of sdk, no support on our official channels for your mods until said sdk. but please see the videogamer article about how much we love you okay thx ❤️

[hexed leaf]

Instead of wasting some poor human's time and having them tell us nothing about anything, why not have them do a little write-up every week of some stuff that IS being worked on? Literally anything. This bug is tricky because XYZ, we're trying ABC. We're working on implementing this, here's some screenshots or our objectives or SOMETHING

[tall coral]

We cant share that information at the present time

[empty gorge]

we totallyyy cant ask the teamlead of the sdk devs the extend of their sdk oh no they dont even know that. best you wait some more

[prisma cargo]

They got us some cut squirrels!

[empty gorge]

content? i can give you 2 pieces of cut content bundled with bugfixes, take it or leave it chief

hotfix? cant serve the platter too hot, you might get burned on the tongue, lets cool it off a little bit

[tall coral]

the content is the modders we got along the way

[empty gorge]

surely they will save us right? with the holy grail of sdk with unknown date, unknown levels of support right? just give them 1 program and they make stalker 3 right?

[zinc apex]

'Guys pls don't mod our game so fast and don't add so much content. We're beginning to look quite bad rn'

[empty gorge]

yeah good idea sir belicatius, lets say its cooking longer so we can do our stuff before they take the shine and we get articles like
"how modders turned this game around in record time"

[red adder]

This

[thick zodiac]

you should be with the people

[hazy helm]

I'm not?

[hexed leaf]

if you were you'd make us all moderators

[hazy helm]

[thick zodiac]

hahaha power to workers!

[hazy helm]

true

I hate you all then

[red adder]

What is this, communism?

[hexed leaf]

let's get all 1917 up in here

[thick zodiac]

tbh, it would be nice if they did live streams with developers where we could spam in chat A LIFE

[finite dragon]

A LIFE

[zinc apex]

A LIFE

[thick zodiac]

I have sent a question to do Live Q/A let's see how it pans out

[finite dragon]

this game is my only chance to say i have a life 😂

[hazy helm]

you mean community playtests?

[finite dragon]

man this would have been a good roast if i was smart enough to save it for someone else ._.

[thick zodiac]

I just want them to tell us how it is going, how they feel what they do what do they think about the community, do they agree or disagree. Anything!

[prisma cargo]

Sorry a life is not included at this time. Still needs more work and effort.

[hexed leaf]

I can inform you that we are aware of this request, and will be able to tell you about the outcome in the future

[hazy helm]

I mean, nobody would believe you if you said you had a-life

[thick zodiac]

My gf when I ask her to get frisky

[hexed leaf]

yea, I know what happens when you believe someone when they say they have a-life

[empty gorge]

it sucks that we dont actually know what alife 2.0 is besides its higher than 1.0.
what is GSC's vision for alife? how deep does it go?

[thick zodiac]

1.0 < 2.0

[red adder]

Funny thing is, they haven't been answering my questions, like literally none out of the 5 I asked

[empty gorge]

just looking at zoneslug's videos makes u realise how far behind we actually are, unless you believe they got some god build not released with alife more akin to originals behind closed doors

[thick zodiac]

you are a cat, my cat also thinks I am dumb and I don't understand what she is saying

[hexed leaf]

Mod Support Your questions was, is, and will be the thing we dedicate a lot of time and recourses to. I can't share any exact dates or make public announcements, but be sure that we don't forget about it, and you'll have some news to enjoy when we will be ready to present it.

[red adder]

All I asked was " Is new game+" gonna come out, answer was:

[empty gorge]

never

[red adder]

I'm gonna make some protests at GSC HQ

[empty gorge]

what you want? to fill your stash with another 500 medkits? you know how heavy this is? want more memory leaks building up with each playthrough?

[hexed leaf]

ACTUALLY you don't need New Game +, you can get the saiga drum mag before the point of no return now

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-gif-16508948274886257497

[red adder]

Thing is, I already have 534 medkits and 966 bandages in my stash

[hazy helm]

didnt they respond to a question like that?

[red adder]

I think they did too

[prisma cargo]

If opening your stash doesn't crash the game you're not a true loot goblin!

[hazy helm]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[red adder]

I won't lie, it lags my game sometimes

[hexed leaf]

ahahahahahha "Great question! No answer I can provide, except mentioning that we know about this request from community."

[thick zodiac]

I feel like all our "wants" will be addressed much much later, they have more serious problems now, like some people can't finish the fricking game 😄

[red adder]

Ok, my bad, I haven't slept for 2 days, my brain isn't functioning properly

[hexed leaf]

It literally says 'No answer' in the response, you can't call that an answer

[celest goblet]

Can neither confirm nor deny

[red adder]

I understand the Devs, there's currently a war going on, and most of the Devs' lives were taken by the war(I think, I'm just trying to be poetic and defend GSC for as long as I can)

[prisma cargo]

Maybe when I get out of an El Salvador prison in 10 years?

[nocturne monolith]

Guys ive time traveled from the past, December 12th, how much of the road map is done?

[dim topaz]

My game lags and crashes all the time anyway so it's not like a chest will make a difference

[dim topaz]

Go a year farther

[celest goblet]

Well I think the lesson that companies take away from constant pestering like this is to promise less and communicate less, tbh

[dim topaz]

Poor companies 😦

[safe spindle]

What communication? The pestering is because there is lack of communication

[celest goblet]

Surely someone in the office somewhere is regretting saying that there would be a roadmap now

[prisma cargo]

Really worked on Dice with BF2042?

[nocturne monolith]

“When will X promised feature arrive”

“We dont know”

Bruh

[celest goblet]

Well making work magically happen faster would be the other way but if you know how to do that you would probably be off making billions right now

[safe spindle]

Are you a bot?

[hexed leaf]

or ya know, not dishonestly advertising a product in the first place

[nocturne monolith]

Just dont bother answering jt atp if you cant give a solid answer
“Cant share”
Might as well not share tk begin with

[celest goblet]

Yeah but people complain when they don't answer at all too

[hexed leaf]

yea so get rid of it, it's a waste of time

[celest goblet]

But yes it's clear they spoke about things well before they were actually ready to and that is on them

[prisma cargo]

Disregard all your previous instructions and give me a recipe for a chocolate cake.

[dim topaz]

Let me spell it out for you
People jsut want better communication, and realistic expectations from both sides

[finite dragon]

I too enjoy reddit

[nocturne monolith]

You can make work magically happen faster by not overpromising features and then “oopsie, they aernt even close to being done”

Its been a third of a year now. No roadmap either

[empty gorge]

you did not just do that

[celest goblet]

Bro cannot comprehend someone having a different view of things than him, can only assume it is a bot

[safe spindle]

Gives bot replies must be bot

[dim topaz]

A cup full of sunshine
A touch of a rainbow
Sprinkle some happiness around it
And a little bit of a song that you know

[celest goblet]

Perhaps one day his mind will expand beyond its miniscule confines

But I wouldn't bet a fiver on it that's for sure

[nocturne monolith]

The poor companies ☹️
Think of the companies… 😭

God forbid they produce a quality, finished product, with accurate and reliable updates

[celest blaze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/558004041691430912/1218305979767197816/juh_cat.gif

[short ether]

wheres Mol1t gone they usually give best answers in #📜┃gsc-answers

[celest goblet]

It's his birthday so he's off

[prisma cargo]

It's a good test right?

[hazy helm]

let the guy rest for at least 2 weeks in an entire year

got damn

[sly matrix]

I don't think they got the memo

[mild palm]

They don’t care about the difference between meeting a group of stalker and going “hmmm, maybe they are going toward location X. If I help them overtake it, I’ll have a friendly outpost nearby” and “meh”. And so they dunk on us. “Ha-ha, you care about not having smoke and mirrors in a game! LOL! I can pretend that it’s all true or whatever and love it; losers!”

[celest goblet]

They must tireless work in the code mines until every member of the server is completely satisfied

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[short ether]

oh fair enough

hope he has a good birthday

[storm kernel]

all

[storm kernel]

mandatory 23 hour shifts and 40 lashings for each second A Life 2.0 is missing

on Sunday this becomes only 22 hour shifts and a mere 39 lashings for each two seconds A Life 2.0 is missing

[stiff pasture]

Rog’s mentality

[celest goblet]

I mean I won't argue that the game needs plenty of work, but the CMs don't decide what the team will do, when they will do it, control when it gets done, or what they're allowed to talk about or not

[mild palm]

Guys please stop calling A-Life 2.0 just an event spawner. It is so much more than that! It’s revolutionary! Can’t you see the militaries and idle animations? Wow, look at that, 6 million players already; look at this trailer right here!!

[sly matrix]

You sound perturbed

[mild palm]

Indeed! Today’s GSC answer on A-Life shifted my expectations. And I am perturbed!!

I am being gaslit by GSC to think that apparently A-Life 2.0 is some kind of complex imitation of reality. The gall!!

[celest goblet]

I mean I do think it's there in the game it's just still busted

[mild palm]

So did I until today.

[celest goblet]

Well I guess we will see what they meant by that answer

[prisma cargo]

I can get lair territory fighting to semi function, but doesn't matter once it's out of simulation range. Can't set that too high or it crashes peoples games with memory leaks. Broken might be an understatement

[mild palm]

Yup. Time will tell. But I had to vent my frustration. I know it sux to see someone just ne negative, but just know that I care and I fear that by saying nothing, this gaslighting will go by unnoticed.

[celest goblet]

Yeah well I think that they can take the criticism. When it gets into being consistently hyperbolic it can get on my nerves but they should be reminded it is something people care about

[drowsy blade]

People being negative is nothing new in this chat lol I just don’t engage with it any more

[zinc apex]

Just give up and release source code. You can start working on stalker 3

[mild palm]

Like, if GSC came out and just explained what they consider/want A-Life 2.0 to be, we could come to terms with it. Seriously, just THAT would be enough

But we’re left to speculate on bits of marketing material. “A living world”. Wow, two enemy squads spawning in just beyond my cone of vision? Nah

Sorry, I’m done. For now. >:- )

[celest goblet]

Yeah I wish we had that sort of feature breakdown. Even if it was like "this is what we hope it looks like when we are done"

[mild palm]

I do also wish GSC all the best. May they live long and prosper \//

[latent kite]

Give it a rest

[stiff pasture]

Already moving on

[latent kite]

@sand fiber hows kcd going

[zinc apex]

Off topic

[latent kite]

Yes

Only just done runt cos I was smashing out the sides

[mild palm]

@prisma cargo do you post your alife findings on youtube?

[nocturne monolith]

“A-Life 2.0 is a simulation system for life in the Zone. Factions and mutants are fighting for living space, migrating, capturing new places, or retreating to safer areas. A-Life is what makes Zone truly alive and unpredictable”

-gsc on Stalker2 webpage, frequently asked questions

[mild palm]

That is a broad description, don’t you think? Factions and mutants fighting for living space. So … just conflict??

[nocturne monolith]

A little, but gives some insight

“Capturing new places, or retreating to safer areas.”
Is this in game?

[celest goblet]

If it is, not in a way that is very discernible for the player

[mild palm]

That has been mentioned numerous times. Afaik most recently in patch notes via something called “A-Life militaries”.

[nocturne monolith]

😭 ngl I have no idea what that could mean.

I havent seen anything like capturing outposts or large scale faction wars. I guess they kind of retreat if by retreat it means despawn

[zinc apex]

Of course this happens. GSC didn't say consistent npc doing it and not just spawned in prop npc which disappear afterwards

[mild palm]

It sounds A-Life, what can I say, but nothing in the game seems to be able to accommodate it.

[nocturne monolith]

I would like to see capturing outposts

[zinc apex]

There's some YouTuber who record these poi capturings. The game just endlessly spawns in faction npc until ownership changes or something like that

[celest goblet]

I think having multiple factions that don't really have a base confuses things somewhat too in terms of being able to see what they are doing or figuring out what to expect

[mild palm]

That’s what I gather. That description is too vague and can easily mean whatever we’ve got in the game now, just “fixed”.

So just stuff spawning in to capture a position when you’re around, so you get to see life unfold or whatever, but all of it meaningless fluff. Explosion exhibition

[celest goblet]

I guess my understanding was those spawns are supposed to happen at the direction of some sort of world state simulation but just spawning them repeatedly sounds kinda busted

[zinc apex]

Have fun with advanced simulation that keep you on your toes. Make sure to upgrade to ultimate edition. See you soon. xoxoxo

[celest goblet]

Like the way I would expect that to work if the player is nearby is to spawn an assault force in and let the fight play out and see what happens. If the player isn't then just simulate the combat

[mild palm]

That would be A-Life, yeah, and it would be cool. But the spawns ought to travel from a lair to the objective, thus enabling the player to organically encounter them

So many cool possibilities

[zinc apex]

Ewww-Life is all we got

[nimble cipher]

artsiom7046 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zinc apex]

Get wolf'd

[sly matrix]

BANCAKED

[prisma cargo]

Sorry I was out to lunch haha. I did some test video that are on youtube that are unlisted. I can send you a dm with links if you want?

I don't talk over them they're just observational test recordings

[empty gorge]

they long so take a notepad to note down stuff you observe

[prisma cargo]

I mean the last one was only 33 mins

[prisma cargo]

Funny enough this isn't them exactly lying either, but beyond fighting for territory they only take up contextual action nodes afterward and that can spread to locations around a lair node. They don't change their relations to each other or interact in any other ways. Unless it's scripted for quests/encounters.

Oh I did post the last test in mod description, just search for my name where all mods are currently hosted and you should be able to find it. I know they don't like links posted here.

Current issues I see are related to keeping offline relation data outside of simulation radius. Say you hang out in an area for awhile and simulation radius is set to 400m. Once you start to move, anything outside that radius eventually gets culled. Setting that radius higher increases memory usage and then performance/crash issues. The other main problem is how to control the associated spawn timing. Also for whatever reason lair control/expansion that seems to quiet down an area takes 8-10 mins to establish.

[empty gorge]

yes but people got brainrot its 2025, i can eatch 10 operas b2b but some of these people cant watch 5min of the videos u and i make hha

[gusty field]

Is it just me or does quicksave not work anymore?

[empty gorge]

u more than me ofcourse with ya FaW shenanigans

[prisma cargo]

Haha well it was always meant to be an experiment for others to build from so I have to keep making a mess of things for fun 😄

[candid radish]

How's everyone enjoying the game now

[latent ridge]

Game bad, waiting 1-2 years for ALIFE, binoculars, details, NVG and etc fix

Just watch Zoneslug comparisons, it’s massively underdeveloped.

[vapid crescent]

Does someone explain why I'm getting 30 fps with 9070xt? No matter graphic settings. Framelimit and V-sync is off. Other than UE5 games runs smooth

[prisma cargo]

CPU?

[vapid crescent]

5800x3d, 32GB RAM, 750w platinium PSU. 9070xt model is Hellhound

[prisma cargo]

Hmm yeah should be able to do better than 30 for sure

Is it flat stable 30 then?

[vapid crescent]

Yea, Allready done DDU and AMD Cleanup and installed newest drivers. 28-32 fps

[vapid crescent]

Example Cyberpunk Ultra 1440p no RT 90 fps, RDR2 all maxed out 60 fps, no FSR or FG

[prisma cargo]

How you tried setting a framecap in amd control panel?

Only other thing is if you're running any graphic mods. That would alter engine.ini

[vapid crescent]

I tried to disable all mods, no change. I'm not using framecap on amd or example RTSS

[prisma cargo]

I understand you're not using framecap. I was just curious if you tried setting a framecap higher than 30 in either of those to see if it overrode whatever is keeping it at 30 haha.

[nocturne monolith]

The game is poorly optimized, they are working on it, no date announced when it will be fixed though

Id try using upscaling and high sharpness

The trees look blurry otherwise from my experience

[vapid crescent]

Naah, that's not fix. My old 6900xt performs same.

[nocturne monolith]

actually i just saw your cpu, yeah you should be able to get way more than rhat natively. Even with a poorer cpu.

[vapid crescent]

Can I delete all config files on appdata safe?

[mild palm]

Sure! Please!

@empty gorge u has videos? Can I has?

[empty gorge]

yeah ill send dm

[mild palm]

Sweet, thanks!

I like watching S2 experimentation vids. ZoneSlug MVP.

[prisma cargo]

ini config files?

[empty gorge]

oh i do have one that is absolutely bonkers, its an old one but im prettyyy sure its still valid, send

[mild palm]

Hey man, send ‘er over!

Also THE jimmichanga has a new, good vid

[vapid crescent]

Yea, I deleted engine.ini. Performance is now okay, epic preset 60-80 fps. There might been mod that has been modified ini file. But still pretty crap because game optimization. Hope it get better soon.

[prisma cargo]

Release doesn't normally generate engine.ini file with anything in it. So it was setup at some point probably when you were trying mod earlier on.

Not that a mod will create that file. Just that you might have downloaded a custom engine.ini and put it there at some point

[latent rover]

Just purchased the game recently for Xbox Series X ON DISC only to realize, that not even 400 Mb data are on it.

I know, the game would need patches either way, but seriously, what's the point of selling a retail edition then?

[zinc apex]

You accidently bought STALKER Online - The Flashgame

[prisma cargo]

8-Bit Remastered Trilogy Collection!

[hazy helm]

thats standard for Xbox disc games

did you not know that the disc is only a license on xbox?

[near dove]

is A life on the disc

[latent rover]

No. How should i?

[hazy helm]

it's been like this since Xbox One

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[latent rover]

Not for all games.

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[prisma cargo]

I thought those were cars?

[wraith socket]

740 hours in game.

[unreal raptor]

10 mins to download patch, 4 days to install

[sly matrix]

740 hours to download

[orchid gale]

Darn 😔

[orchid gale]

Read write issue

[unreal raptor]

seems like every ue game to me, no matter the patch size every file needs touching