⭐┃nospoilers_general

[empty echo]

besides, if theyre stealing ur loot u can steal their loot
out of their cold dead hands

[empty gorge]

SKEEEFFFAAAA WAKE UPP GOOD MORNING ITS MONDAYYY SKEEFFAA LETS GO URBAN SAFARING IN THE ZONAH TO SEE ITS SHINE SKEEFFFAAA

[zinc apex]

New week, new motivation 🔥 how about we get road map, a-life or sdk this week? That sounds great right, gsc? Let's gooooo! 🗣️🔥 🫃

[urban basin]

[dire dagger]

Honestly gsc should just start working on a new car mechanic sim game

Think they would be really good at that

[celest portal]

Don't forget fishing

They might as well work on both of those things

[crisp ruin]

Nah, mil-sim

CoD clone

[crisp ruin]

instead of Task Force 141, we have Ukrainian Solider Army Group

[dire dagger]

Nah nah

[dire dagger]

Make a fishing game with car mechanic side mode

[dire dagger]

Except it’s set in the zone

[crisp ruin]

imagine this handome fella being in that game

[celest portal]

He would probably be the Ukrainian version of Soap

[crisp ruin]

Kostyantyn from Odessa

We knew Soap is from Scotland

[dire dagger]

I’m soap

[celest portal]

I was just saying, personality wise, would assume he would be like Soap if said 'cod copy' set in the Zone were to exist.

[crisp ruin]

minus ginger

[crisp ruin]

nahhh, it would set on Bakmut or other places that war is going on. Easter egg is gonna be going to Chornobyl to protect nuclear places.

[empty gorge]

surely the roadmap is cooked now after 3 months extra time in oven no?

[celest portal]

Bakhmut

I know a couple of people that did not make it out of there...

[crisp ruin]

isn't one of them is stalker dev who died?

God rest his soul, he did good things for his country and games that people loved and played.

[summer pendant]

I was talking about friendlies stealing my kills, not random bums

[celest blaze]

rip to them

[celest portal]

Ones I was referring to were people I knew, but yeah, I did heard about that stalker game dev.

[celest portal]

Ever since the looting was added, I just frantically loot the bodies as much as a can in a middle of the fight.

[zinc apex]

They threw it into perpetual stew

[dire dagger]

4 months now

[summer pendant]

Do you know of a way to make it where the loot window doesn't close when being shot?

[dire dagger]

Nearly 5 months

[empty gorge]

efing joke of a thing ngl, almost 5 months for a roadmap

[celest blaze]

i mean i dont see the point of a road map when we know whats coming

[empty gorge]

it takes them over 4 months for a roadmap and people out here talking about no man sky levels of redemption or cyberpunk? pass that freedom doink

[celest blaze]

2 dlcs, pvp, fixes etc

[celest blaze]

bro it took 2077 5 years to get good

[zinc apex]

Actually that's wrong 🤓

[thick zodiac]

oh wow it is being 4 months, they are taking their time.
but tbh maybe they are drunk all the time, think about that

[empty gorge]

look dont defend this practice okay? im not even going to start. its not that we "know" whats coming that we should accept it? quit it

[celest blaze]

no mans sky took since 2016 lol

[empty gorge]

stop being a cause of the problem, accept that the time for a roadmap is ridiculous and move on plz

[celest blaze]

im not defending it i just dont spend time asking every day and wasting energy lol

[empty gorge]

bro you dont actually think we mean that do you?

its obvious GSC is taking their sweet time, next update is end of april, a hotfix will come about 2nd week of may, an update will come 3rd week of june, an hotfix early july.
there is your roadmap

[zinc apex]

Fanbase is getting treated worse than of any triple A mega corps game ngl

[empty gorge]

put 1+1 together please yes? we are just mentioning it because just mentioning what i said above on a png is too hard for em.

[celest blaze]

bro hasnt seen BF2042

[empty gorge]

april -> may | may -> june | summer 2025 | q4 2025
update 1.4 | update 1.5 | content update 1.6 free lc | further alife fixes and bugfixes/optimization
here a roadmap, was that hard?

no, is it a decent one? no, is it atleast something? yes. put some effort put what we know is coming on a png and put the ambigious dates u use in gsc answers on it. it aint rocket science

[dire dagger]

2042 is unfixable

The core of the game Is bad

[empty gorge]

if you cant put in effort to produce a roadmap after months of release when you have sold a season pass and ultimate edition with post launch content, when u mention post launch support for stuff, what makes u think i believe in a redemption arc?

[dire dagger]

You literally can’t fix it

[celest blaze]

i am hopeful for BF6..

[zinc apex]

Not sure what u mean. They completely revamped the class system based on feedback. The game itself remains shit but its not a good game in its base

[empty gorge]

if u cant put in the simple work of communication and a roadmap, what makes anyone think they are capable of more? what weve seen is not what we tell each other, take off the rose tinted glasses

[celest blaze]

I was more so referring to the abuse of DICE since the last canon game BF1

BF5 and 2042 were slop

[celest blaze]

thats fair

[zinc apex]

Agreed

[empty gorge]

it is a very simple basic thing. if i sell you a main course with a mention of a side dish right after, you expect the thing on the side to come right after, its not that the main stuff isnt fully as you expected that you accept the side not being there for a while.
and after u didnt get the side dish for hours u hear others at other tables also without a side dish saying "ohh they will redeem themselfs"
can i first have my side dish on time? and afterwards focus on redemption?

[celest blaze]

im sure they got their reasons but im not gsc staff so idk tbh

cms need to tell us more

[empty gorge]

i payed with the premise of alife, sdk and open world cherno.
i got no alife, no info on sdk and a halve assed ubisoft open world.
can i get my roadmap to know whats up with stuff i actually wanted when i bought the game?

[nimble cipher]

housefiish has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

does not have the wolf pass

[dire dagger]

Mine have been off for a while now

I’m losing hope more and more by the week

[twin pulsar]

It’s pathetic really. Essentially just scamming their fans and releasing a broken product. Some bs story about a rogue person in the company messing around with Steam description lol. Then going about telling the same fans that the roadmap is cooking or whatever.

[empty gorge]

me too tbh but i dont want the community to accept these practices, this is setting the stage for future quality of content and games in franchise.
what they are doing is simply wrong and has no excuse.
can u imagine stalker 3 in 10 years same level of support?

[empty echo]

wait they said that?

[celest blaze]

thats why im playing arma and other franchises not even thinking about stalker 2

[empty echo]

I think that this is going to be another cyberpunk case, the game will end up being great, but not for a gooooood loooong while

[empty gorge]

look first month or two you know benefit of doubt for sure, but we are entering 4+ months man, you got users on reddit mentioning "visions of truth" bugging out and hardlocking msq

[empty gorge]

why? what have you posibly seen to believe that? 5 delays, the staff size of warhorse and more than crytek, no roadmap, no communication no nothing.
i cant get into the head of people thinking nms or cyberpunk redemption

[empty echo]

i've got like 30 hours in wh40k darktide in the last week or two, that's what i've been up to instead
though, I have basically done almost everything stalker 2 can provide for now, all 4 ending etc

[twin pulsar]

Yeah the thing with the Steam description scam about A-life was just some marketing person in GSC who went rogue according to Maria Grygorovych. Complete bs if you ask me

[celest blaze]

how is darktide? would you recommend? and nice work on finishing s2

[empty echo]

well they're not just going to leave it like this are they?

[empty gorge]

heard of minimum viable product?

[empty echo]

loving it so far, the new update is mid as heck but it's really enjoyable now, if you liked l4d2 you'll like darktide

[empty gorge]

this ship has sailed man, the foundation is too broken you gotta break it out and start over again. be real with yourself, have you seen the foundational problems this game has in its gameplay loop? something cyber or nms didnt have

[gritty orchid]

bf2042 is fun now, better than cod at least

[celest blaze]

[empty echo]

interesting, I wonder how real that is

[empty gorge]

Maria knew all along, if you have seen the leaked build videos you will laugh

[celest blaze]

modded arma 3 is peak like a carriable minigun? with a scope? insanity lol

[empty echo]

I love it, i've maxed out my psyker and I've still got 3 more classes to play :D it also runs really well on my 4060 laptop so i'm happy

[empty echo]

I haven't seen any, I was barely interested in the game and I literally didnt see a single trailer until id played like 50 hours of the game, i just got it coz it looked kinda cool and i played SoC for like 2 hours and kinda liked it, so my expectations weren't that high to be broken down in the first place

[twin pulsar]

It’s just some bull she made up in an attempt to shift blame and gaslight the community. They are lucky that the majority of the fanbase laps it all up and refuses to take a dump all over this game as they really should

[empty gorge]

i swear if this game was ANY other company they would be destroyed on internet

[celest blaze]

i mean reviews and complaints are everywhere

[nimble cipher]

_head_empty has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty echo]

[empty gorge]

note to others: copy paste texts that are iffy for wolf so u dont waste time

[celest blaze]

i feel most got their refund and moved on

[nimble cipher]

_head_empty has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty echo]

what is bro doing

[empty gorge]

smooth brain actually mentions F(d)uck and thinks he aint getting wolfed

[celest blaze]

bro just type without swearing

non mods cant say fuck

[vale quartz]

What bad word? Didn't wrote any swear word

[empty echo]

bro said frick but for ad dults :0

[dire dagger]

What I’m most worried about is they said they would be adding a lot of the cut content for free

[empty gorge]

THATS BECAUSE ITS FREAKING DONE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH THEY JUST CUT IT FOR GOD KNOWS

[empty echo]

i'd hope it'd be free
game was expensive enough

[dire dagger]

[celest blaze]

yeah cant say fuck

[empty gorge]

its literallyyy thereee they are just drip feeding stuff man on god the stuff i can say ugh

[empty echo]

guyyyyss whispers to other similarly sub 12 aged children next to myself
he said a bad word point at you

[empty gorge]

look for others that dont know me: im not hating im passionate and frustrated at how they handle it all

[twin pulsar]

Somehow the game is positive on Steam. It’s just so incomprehensible to me how it is so. My schizo side wants me to believe it’s some fake review botting or some sort of push to paint S2 in a positive light

[empty gorge]

ikr, game has so many fundamental issues that start rising up on vanilla quite soon yet its positive?
have u seen the list of QoL mods needed to make vanilla smoother?

[empty echo]

i
really didn't run into that many "fundamental issues"

[celest blaze]

ive now seen it all haha negetive steam reviews were russian kremlin agents trying to destroy it and now positive is fake gsc paid bots lol

[nimble cipher]

housefiish has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty echo]

only that one issue with finishing the game that's fixed now really stopped me in my tracks

[twin pulsar]

The subreddit is also full of nonsense posts that somehow get thousands of upvotes and few comments

[urban basin]

Its just that most casual gamers are fine with how the game is

[vale quartz]

Cyberpunk was literally rotten to the core with barely any idea of what the game was even about before the reworks. Skill reworks and progression reworks were the 2 pillars of the game that were riddled with issue and bloat at launch. Hacking was absolutely busted to the point of playing the game effortlessly just spamming the same 2 hacks. NMS on launch was like 1/10 of what it is today and proc gen was hilariously busted

[empty gorge]

because gsc is getting a pass with their whole situation

[twin pulsar]

I said it’s schizo hahaha, but I honestly just don’t get the appeal. It must just be the power of the IP

[celest blaze]

fair you did haha all good there

[empty echo]

its the c-con getting them all to review the game well so the monolith can gain more influence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[empty gorge]

too many casuals

[empty echo]

LOL
Ok u lost me

[empty gorge]

SKEEEFFFAAA MODDERS WILL SAVE US SURELY THEY WILL MAKE THE ZONE SHINY AGAIN SKEEFFAA

[celest blaze]

casuals? what bro

bro the trilogy is a causal as fuck fps series lol

[dire dagger]

Not really

[vale quartz]

Bro's having a brain melt down over a game. Like got to work or something idk

[celest blaze]

master was a joke

esp cop

people hyped master diff to me so much i expected alot more lol

[dire dagger]

I mean it’s reflected in the games dropping steam reviews

[empty gorge]

i am at work, i wfh and run stuff on a program on my laptop. 😎

[dire dagger]

It’s a star field effect

[empty echo]

not enough competitive single player story game chads, too many people that have other things to do in their life casuals, tsk tsk

[celest blaze]

now op2 on nightmare.. thats a challange..

[dire dagger]

It’s not dropping as quickly but

It’s dropping

[twin pulsar]

The post on the front page of the Stalker subreddit with some dent in a car has 3k upvotes and 28 comments? Tell me I’m not schizo for thinking this is fishy af lol

[celest blaze]

nlc 7 is a challenge, dsh aswell..

[dire dagger]

It’s up to 70 positive in recent reviews

That’s good

[empty gorge]

what stalker 2?

[dire dagger]

Yes

It was at mixed recent reviews

A few weeks ago

[celest blaze]

kinda small for this many people tbh doesnt seem fishy

[empty gorge]

oh thats because each update, the illusion of the simulation of ai in the zone gets better. like running squads in 1.1 or looters in 1.2

stalker 2's alife does not simulate the zone, it creates an illusion of the simulation of the zone. thats its future

[dire dagger]

I was playing sons of the forest

And honestly you can say what you will about that game but

The a life system it has

Is really good

[empty gorge]

thats why you see no pda tracking, no relation tab, its creating the illusion that what you see around is a simulation but no actual data from a simulation is available to the user

[dire dagger]

Entirely seamless 98 percent of the time

[empty gorge]

once you accept those things you realise what alife 2.0 will be is nowhere near og games since the foundation for it is build different

[dire dagger]

Can’t wait for someone to mod in physx

[empty gorge]

and why do you think gsc has not come forward explaining the future of alife and wtf alife 2.0 actually is? because people wont like it

[celest goblet]

I've been playing OP-2 again now. And also testing the beta for Stellaris 4.0

[celest blaze]

king energy

im just about to get back into opeak2..

[dire dagger]

Yah I mean it’s hard to get past sadly

I just wait and hope

[celest blaze]

same tbh

[dire dagger]

[empty gorge]

if i made a shiny cool feature, and i know i got boomers at edge of seat to see it i would show it for sure no matter what, but if i dont got that shiny stuff and the boomers are waiting what i do? play time

[dire dagger]

For me atm the game constantly crashes due to a memory leak

[celest blaze]

be based like me uninstall and dont even give it any energy no stressing just peace..

[empty gorge]

i shot myself in the foot making alife mod on release ngl

[celest blaze]

revisit in a few years and profit

[celest blaze]

you made mod ?

[zinc apex]

Uninstalled and shelved the game on steam yesterday

[celest blaze]

based

[empty gorge]

i thought this shi was few months tops and i close the curtain on the mod and go play, little did i freaking know its going to take months and now im stuck with it kinda

[celest blaze]

play op2.2..

[empty gorge]

i got about 350-400h play time, i just did duga quest and havent played since then, i also only got time to start playing in end of jan/february. so no havent even finished game

[dire dagger]

Just turn stalker 2 into web fishing 2

Problem solved

[celest blaze]

lets go fishing

[zinc apex]

Transfer Stalker IP to Stalcraft devs

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/webfishing-web-fishing-fishinggame-web-fishing-game-lamedeveloper-gif-12835466267139367470

[empty gorge]

350h is just testing mod really, i have seen all there is to the ai and alife

[dire dagger]

I should get web fishing

[celest blaze]

get arma 3 on sale

[empty gorge]

yeah its just some stupid alife mod

[dire dagger]

I don’t like mil sim games

[celest blaze]

thats fair tbh i stopped at 12ish hours once i heard people were getting quest locked id be PISSED if i wasted like 50+ hours of my time

[zinc apex]

Same. But mostly cuz I got no time for that

[celest blaze]

thats all good tbh

[empty gorge]

yes im crazy modding the most broken and empty feature in game, im sorry i thought gsc would deliver after release

[dire dagger]

I just find them extremely frustrating

Like I get the appeal but

[empty gorge]

im right at visions of truth which apparently is also hardlocking players, yay

[celest blaze]

[dire dagger]

I just can’t get into those type of games

Couldn’t get into insurgence sand storm counter strike

Etc

[celest blaze]

i got 62 hours in A3 and i feel im still learning haha

[celest goblet]

I like my spreadsheet games but not when they are also my fps games

[celest blaze]

some mfs got like 7000+ hours

[empty gorge]

PARADOX GRAND STRATEGY CAMPAIGNS RAAAAAAAAAAA

[zinc apex]

Stellaris

[empty gorge]

hearts of iron 4 ❤️

[celest blaze]

civ 2,3,5

[celest goblet]

Stellaris and total war and age of wonders 4 for me in recent times. Looking forward to Endless Legend 2

[zinc apex]

Stopped playing 4x paradox games tho. They made me poor

[celest blaze]

bro the dlc cost is wild

[empty gorge]

just buy pdx pass for 1 month

[zinc apex]

Worse than sims 4

[celest blaze]

40% off aswell lol

[celest blaze]

based tbh

[empty gorge]

steamunlockers: am i a joke to you? 🍦

[empty gorge]

that api do be creamy huh choomz, thank me later 😉

[celest blaze]

whats steamunlocker ?

[empty gorge]

buy base game, run program, unlock all dlc

[celest blaze]

based af

[empty gorge]

steam will show unowned but in game you will have it all vac safe

[dire dagger]

We should not talk about this further in this server

[celest blaze]

oh true

[dire dagger]

Piracy bad for legal reasons

[gritty orchid]

🫣

[dire dagger]

I must say this for legal reasons

[celest blaze]

[dire dagger]

This is an automated response

Carry on citizen

[gritty orchid]

i miss when greenluma was actually useable, shit was the goat until steam kinda killed it

[celest blaze]

🫡

[empty gorge]

very well sir so as i was saying about ||deez nuts|| :

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/deez-nuts-laughing-funny-haha-gif-4057737

[dire dagger]

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

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/never-goon-nevergoon-never-goon-orange-cat-gif-17686207109324907182

[empty gorge]

chad pdx enjoyers, look up "mega campaigns"
if u own all pdx games u can play starting with CK2/CK3-> EU4 -> Vic2/vic3-> HoI4 -> Stellaris.
there are programs to transfer save to next game to continue with country

so u can start as a noble in ck and end up king of a galactic empire

[celest blaze]

damn thats awesome i didnt know you could do that

[finite dragon]

I hope the first time I play stalker feels like the first time I played DayZ

[dire dagger]

In what way

[empty gorge]

its sooooo good like playing thousands of years with 1 country literally seeing it rise from a small duchy to a megapower

[celest blaze]

reminds me of the immortal from invincible ngl

[finite dragon]

Anomalies included, I wanna suffer in the way that picking a different route can change the entire situation kinda like in Elden Ring

[empty gorge]

i died

[finite dragon]

and then I can get torn in half or something instead 😋

[empty gorge]

i would advice u to go play and turn off this discord than hha

[finite dragon]

nah I still gotta buy the damn game

[gritty orchid]

if you want an additional challenge, play in veteran mode too x)

[wet fulcrum]

Anyone knows why I can't turn HDR on on game?

It's on in windows

[upper tree]

This game couldn't be any less like DayZ

[finite dragon]

I'm playing master

[finite dragon]

I'm talking about the original trilogy, and it's not like DayZ. That was the main idea behind trying STALKER.

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[urban basin]

Check your drivers and maybe verify the game files

[wet fulcrum]

Got it sorted, had to change to exclusive full screen instead of borderless

[celest portal]

#📜┃gsc-answers message
"so he can move through waist deep water"
You mean ankle deep water, man is allergic to water

[celest blaze]

Skiffs dad never took him to swim lessons..

[thick zodiac]

I wonder are all these questions this goofy? Or they only answer such questions

I have just rewatched the review of Sseth on Stalker from 6 years and I love how nothing pretty much changed since those releases until now

[zinc apex]

Q1 ending today and all we got are silly answers

[clear raft]

GSC Answers is a joke, I don't know why people keep asking questions and not expecting dumb answers.

[crisp ruin]

okie I'm gonna ask Richter is autist or not

I hope they will gave answer 🙏🏻

[narrow flame]

I'm still waiting for an answer as to why the reviews only came out two hours before release. 🤡

[clear raft]

Grifters gonna grift

[fiery heron]

I’m gonna ask if a different character is autistic

[coarse sparrow]

we acknowledge, but cannot share any news at this point. (c)

I am still waiting on them adding: 1) separate season pass purchase option, 2) steam points shop items, 3) roadmap

[celest portal]

They answered these questions but skipped my question about fishing

[clear raft]

Two More Years ™️

[coarse sparrow]

ye, their priority now is moving stuff from "point of no return" to the actual Zone

[safe spindle]

It would be easier to just remove point of no return and allow the player to come back

[unreal raptor]

Can we just end GSC answers? It’s becoming its own problem. 😂

Cherry picked nonsense, from what I’d imagine is 1000s of decent and relevant questions.

This game is obviously not going to get the no man’s sky or 2077 treatment. They have mitigated a true review/pr nightmare and come out pretty much unscathed.

Now I foresee two mediocre DLCs couple more “fixes” and then good night god bless.

The lack of true comms and direction is obviously playing for time whilst they wrap up the project.

The larger missing features and gameplay mechanics will never see the light of day IMO

[vale quartz]

What larger missing features and mechanics?

[unreal raptor]

Please. Let’s not do this.

[glossy blade]

Fishing my beloved

[coarse sparrow]

forgot multiplayer

[unreal raptor]

I hope no one’s working on MP right now 🤡 with the state of SP.

[coarse sparrow]

some games are never finished uk

[celest goblet]

Creative works never truly are, though I see what you mean

[zinc apex]

Roadmap, SDK, Alife, update. When?

[mild palm]

When will this man see some answers, damn it!?

[granite mortar]

All the good questions get skipped
Thats just how #📜┃gsc-answers works

[unreal raptor]

It will be a cold day in hell.

[unreal raptor]

OMG truth

[coarse sparrow]

At this rate might as well scrap 2025 roadmap and start working on 2026, at least that one should be on time, right?

[unreal raptor]

Late 2026

[mild palm]

I don’t think GSC plan on rug pull on S2. I think that they’ll do the most that can be done, in time. I just hope, really hope, that this includes proper, advanced alife. (Obviously. Mandatory alife whine. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?)

[unreal raptor]

I want more wildlife.

Joking. The AI and A Life situation is ludicrous. I’m pretty certain what we are playing with here must be proof of concept AI made for trailers etc. it’s so barebones it can’t be anything else.

[coarse sparrow]

the 1.0 stealth system they had was even worse than in a Beth game, and that's already pretty low uk

[mild palm]

Agreed. But the promotional interviews also can’t have been such a blatant lie. No way

[unreal raptor]

Yeah I don’t think they would mislead on purpose. They must have a plan for this system.

[mild palm]

A lot of what was promised is simply not there

[mild palm]

Hopefully, yeah. Let’s just hope that their plans are still the same. And it would be cool … I mean really … if GSC talked about it.

[unreal raptor]

Some transparency would be amazing.

[mild palm]

“Nothing we can share about this at this time. Skibidi new trailer 6 million new stalkers byeeee”

[vale quartz]

The 1.0 stealth was basically like trilogy stealth: nonexistent

[unreal raptor]

My best interpretation of this is they have a marketing department doing nothing whilst the team is at the grindstone.

They are at least promoting the game etc. instead they might have nothing to do!

[mild palm]

Gotta say, though, that their country’s situation got a lot worse since T was elected. I try to keep this in mind when criticising GSC. Must feel really bad

[coarse sparrow]

skibidi today is an aniversary of event Y or game X, here are two paragraphs of text

[mild palm]

Mol1t

[fiery heron]

I think my question is gonna get skipped lol

[celest portal]

What is your favorite fish

[granite mortar]

Goldfish

[fiery heron]

glub glub

[dire dagger]

It is confirmed we will get fishing

Rejoice brothers

[fiery heron]

Keith looks like he’s seen some stuff

[zinc apex]

⁉️
👁️👄👁️

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[glossy blade]

catfish

[celest portal]

Damn we can be friends now, catfishes are cool

[vale quartz]

Kotfish

[red adder]

Omg they mentioned me in meme of the week

[safe spindle]

Welcome back

[granite mortar]

[clear raft]

They're too busy with prioritizing memes to care about the game anymore. Thanks for playing 👍

[celest blaze]

Man all yall ever do is doom post

[clear raft]

You're welcome 👍

[celest blaze]

Didn't thank you though

[zinc apex]

Time to learn the lesson, uninstall and move on

[celest blaze]

Play other games while it's cooking still

[zinc apex]

So many great indie devs to support out there

[mild palm]

That’s good advice. Though I don’t mind the doom posting. Doom posting makes development go quicker. 👍

[nimble cipher]

xjachu97xpl has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest goblet]

[Citation needed]

[celest blaze]

Zomboid based as hell

[celest blaze]

It really doesn't imo

[mild palm]

That’s why no alife yet

[zinc apex]

Wish I had friends who would play that 😢

[celest blaze]

Once b42 goes stable for MP we could play

[mild palm]

Um, it’s “Squadron 42”. I’ll show myself out

[zinc apex]

Backed this game back when they had some weird indie shop up like 15 y ago or something

[magic coyote]

nice spaming

[celest blaze]

Who

[celest blaze]

That's awesome

[mild palm]

That’s bussin’

[clear raft]

FRFR

[zinc apex]

Who's bustin?

[celest blaze]

[sand fiber]

stalker 2 will be removed from all digital shops in 3 days 😔

[celest portal]

Multiplayer is getting released tomorrow, get ready guys

[zinc apex]

Only way to buy Stalgre 2 is the 350kb Xbox DVD after that

[clear raft]

Playing with yourself isn't technically multiplayer.

[zinc apex]

Damn I had a stroke or sumthin

[celest portal]

You're blowing my cover, no cookie for you

[zinc apex]

He did it all for the nookie

[pseudo rivet]

Omg
Catfish

[celest blaze]

🍪

[celest portal]

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/x3-gif-24301743

[celest portal]

Sadly I have no catfish emoji

[zinc apex]

Shocked fishly

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/freddi-fish-and-the-case-of-the-missing-kelp-seeds-freddi-fish-game-video-game-conch-shell-gif-18552471

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/catfish-gif-16798695780447098601

[celest portal]

Catfish got venomous spikes on their pectoral and dorsal fin

[dire dagger]

There are cat fish at Chernobyl

[celest portal]

Bro look like he got stabbed in the thigh

[dire dagger]

https://youtu.be/IWCsGusFZjs?feature=shared

[celest portal]

Catfish update when

[celest blaze]

Ayo he did lol

Bros getting turned into dinner after that

[mild palm]

I mean … here’s “cave exploring but I have gas ASMR”

https://youtu.be/W1y3XRYYybI

[celest portal]

There will be an excuse for Skif to be drowning in ankle deep water if catfish exists in game. He got stabbed by the fish.

[mild palm]

I wish he did. That catfish was suffocating. No way to treat an animal

[dire dagger]

Skif should fish for magic mutant fish that can make your brain explode

[coarse sparrow]

gsc catfishing newb stalkers

[celest portal]

We can only hope it's the non venomous type, but even then it is not fatal but very painful. (source: me)

[nocturne monolith]

They had this in metro if I remember correctly

[dire dagger]

Yes but in a more fantastical way

[nocturne monolith]

Big ahh fish

[dire dagger]

The tzar fish

[nocturne monolith]

Unfortunately the big fish dont taste well :/

[ebon hatch]

GSC's sentiment went from "New era of Stalker, road map this December guys" to constant "we'll see" like mf work on the game

[unreal raptor]

You got your squirrels now pipe the hell down

[ebon hatch]

No

[fiery heron]

get squirreled

[unreal raptor]

I’ll take those squirrels back sir. Do you want that?! To be left with no squirrels, no Alife, no factions, no carving, no roadmap?

[ebon hatch]

no daddy...

[unreal raptor]

takes boot off neck good boy.

I’ve still not seen any squirrels. Tbh I’m glad I see them as a slight on my wants and needs.

[fiery heron]

guards! guards! someone’s being attacked!

[ebon hatch]

There you go.. king

[mild palm]

I approve of this here interaction

[zinc apex]

wth

[sand fiber]

st

[oak wyvern]

Hey stalkers, I recently found an anomaly that sent me somewhere, idk what it is but, there's a big floating black ball in the sky

I'm gonna try to explore a bit mo- end of transmission

[mild palm]

Lol gay

[ebon hatch]

lol did not ask

[dire dagger]

Mr Hyde can you give us your opinion on the recent banning of big bungee

What are your thoughts

[ebon hatch]

this is no comedy, the tragedy is unmeasurable

[dire dagger]

Truly it is a tragedy

[granite mortar]

Were any cats hurt in the process?

[dire dagger]

1000s brother

The fall of big bungee was more devastating than the fall of the Roman Empire

[granite mortar]

Time to purge the T'au
Its definitely their fault

[sly matrix]

Even if it isn't, they have it coming

For turning grimdark into grimdork

[vale quartz]

Bayun should be just called kots

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-explosion-explodes-cat-explodes-gif-10311420692458175149

[oak wyvern]

Ah yes my favorite card game

[indigo marsh]

https://media.tenor.com/M_X8oqeS0AUAAAAM/balatro-balatrillion-dollars.gif

[proven dagger]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[placid spoke]

Everyone has the coolest names

Skif Strider Strelok Faust Korshunov

[thick zodiac]

Alexey (Lexa the Legend)

I am happy I was in the game

[celest portal]

Technically I am Dr. Heinrich Faust from Goethe's play, but funny same name as the monolith twink in S2.

[thick zodiac]

Maybe they both were visited by Mefistofel, have you not thought about it? Faust is not a typical russian name

[celest portal]

Sadly only one Faust got some sort of redemption in a way

There was a pda found in that one room from the game (probably spoiler to mention), that had a quote from the play. Interesting.

[arctic quest]

yo does ragman not take broken stuff anymore?

[celest portal]

He should, took all of my broken stuff recently. But he won't buy red weapons at 0%.

[arctic quest]

ohhh mb ur right i didnt notice the stuff i grabbed was 0 lol

[orchid gale]

It all started with halo 5 then destiny 2

[dim topaz]

Halo 4 and Destiny 1 were poopie too

[celest portal]

bungo

[dire dagger]

wrong bungee

[celest portal]

oh, different bungo

[orchid gale]

Ah my bad lmao

[dire dagger]

big bungee was the last truly amazing commentary youtuber

[orchid gale]

Bungee should have just stopped all game production at halo reach tbh

[dire dagger]

they did

bungee didn't make any halos after that

[orchid gale]

Moistcritical is still around but everyday he gets more stale and more cringe

[celest goblet]

Yeah they sold it to Microsoft and pissed off to make destiny after reach

[orchid gale]

On god? That would make so much sense actually lol

[dire dagger]

there is chud logic nick deorio augie rfc

[celest portal]

What does he even do these days, haven't been watching him. The same old things?

[dire dagger]

but big bungee was in another league

he said the things no one else had the balls to say

and he got banned for it

a true brother

[orchid gale]

Yeah same exact thing he’s been doing

[celest portal]

Did you show this guy during one of the voice calls, or was that a different guy

[celest goblet]

Yeah critical feels like he's phoning it in these days

[orchid gale]

Just like edp 😔

[dire dagger]

yes i did

[dire dagger]

no he would just say the n word hard r on youtube in 2024

[dire dagger]

he doesn't do commentary anymore

he stopped after he some how walked him self into getting owned by sneeko by making a really bad take

which i wont repeat here because its a bit too spicy

[orchid gale]

Wasn’t he banned on YouTube before 2024?

I can’t remember when that whole cupcake debacle went down

[worn oar]

jack the red

[dire dagger]

no im talking about big bungee

[worn oar]

Howdy fellas

[celest portal]

lol bingee

[orchid gale]

Ah I see, just a little radical

[dire dagger]

he was really funny and awesome but yah

it was coming we all knew it

[celest portal]

yo

[dire dagger]

he got too close to hitting 100k subs so

youtube just killed him before that could happen

[orchid gale]

The whole beef was cringe, guy got called a cuck, guy threatened to shoot a guy, guy showed a bigger gun

Most highschool cod lobby stuff I’ve ever seen

[thick zodiac]

hey modman, I have a question, does not this message contradict the rules of "zero tolerance towards politics" #🔮┃fanart_and_cosplay message ? Cuz I want to answer him and I do feel like i am going to be flagged and him not

[celest portal]

I thought you said 'just a little racist'. Man I can't read things correctly from 0 hours of sleep.

[dire dagger]

so he got into a debate because sneeko likes the movie cuties

which is basically just pedo snuff material that is some how a movie

and of course he was getting owned

[orchid gale]

OHHH yeah that’s what it was about

The cuck thing was after

[dire dagger]

till he came out and made the worse take ever

and so it made it look like sneeko basically won because Charly was totally unable to actually defend his point

[orchid gale]

What was his take?

[dire dagger]

ill dm you what it was

because its too spicy to post in chat

[celest portal]

Why add to a conversation that has been requested to be dropped a while ago? Stop picking up dead convos.

[raven goblet]

Oh so here we are in Q2 with no roadmap, great

[orchid gale]

Who cares move on, 14 year old mindset

[worn oar]

Nah, it's fine. The guy is simply sharing an information and does not intend on a prolonged debate on it.

[worn oar]

Sidorovich

[thick zodiac]

I care

[dire dagger]

yuppppppppppppppppp

[orchid gale]

Then grow up

[worn oar]

Enough of that, I answered the question and it's a done matter

[thick zodiac]

lol, where u from? prolly nowhere near these countries

[worn oar]

No need for side chat

[raven goblet]

This game is in such a bad state, they are never going to fix it

[celest portal]

It's not even a matter of who cares, situation has been dealt with already, why bring it up again.

[dire dagger]

well they are suppose to though at the rate we are going id come back in 5 years

[thick zodiac]

I just saw it

[celest portal]

Well keep reading and see that everyone has been told to stop talking about it

[worn oar]

This is one of the funniest statements I heard so far, but I'd like to hear your logic cuz from what my exp says, what you just said insuniate poor knowledge

[orchid gale]

Same type of people that go back months and months in the chat log to report conversations and try and get people banned

[raven goblet]

I played it and that's already enough

[worn oar]

Won't happen. Every single ban is to be following a strict outline, except for scam and bot cases.

Won't work even if there was a bad intention

[worn oar]

When? Early release days?

[orchid gale]

Nah was happening with some of the mods here,

Some guy crashed out and reported a cyberpunk convo directly to discord to try and get their accounts banned because they abbreviated it

[dire dagger]

dude i don't wanna be that guy but....

[worn oar]

I'm speaking as a player and a tester too. If there was something broken, I would've said it was

[dire dagger]

the game is just raw

it needed another year in the oven simple as

and its still raw

[raven goblet]

Yup, lacking features, sometimes very basic ones

[orchid gale]

Binocs

[celest portal]

Oh yeah I remember either you or that other kot guy mentioning it, lol

[worn oar]

I agree with it being mid or whatever, but saying it never got or getting fixed is simply meh

The team is doing a great job, and I'm seeing results

It make take time, but it's getting there

[dire dagger]

like i want to agree but

i need to see a timeline for getting some of the missing/cut content put back in the game

[worn oar]

And I'm in my second go, and it's really really 100% better

10 times better

On every side

Let's just be honest about that at least

[dire dagger]

performance is still meh at best

[orchid gale]

I miss the 1.0 bugs

[dire dagger]

which is the killer for me honestly

i still have memory leaks reguarly

[orchid gale]

On the 9070xt?

My gre ran perfect in that game

[dire dagger]

[raven goblet]

Because it won't. It runs poorly, alife pretty much doesn't exist, there are very few quests, there is no idea how to populate the zone with things to do, you can't even go hunting because there's no reason to do so, graphics has tons of glitches and they even lied about basic stuff like map size. So no, it will never get fixed, they would have to do some significant rework of the engine and so far pretty much nobody did this to UE

[worn oar]

Well, as far as I and the team is concerned, we always try our best to be fair and square even though human mistakes can be made, and often mended when occured

[dire dagger]

dunno for me the switch from the 3090 to 9070 xt was about the same

[dire dagger]

yah i mean from that perspective id just refund it and move on

nothing else i can really say

[raven goblet]

Facts

[orchid gale]

Yo that’s so true

Gib helper please I atone for all my past sins

[summer stream]

How did they lie about map size? The map is huge…

[celest portal]

Helper role

[dire dagger]

be completely honest i can't take the hopium anymore till i see something actually concrete

[orchid gale]

Damn really? Just in stalker or all games

[dire dagger]

its just depressing

[worn oar]

We gotta wait, and you know quite a bit more than other ppl around here that things are getting better here and there. We'll be able to be more precise on our opinions when the road map is here. I also believe some chunk of the cut content will make it through at some point, hopefully not as dlc content

[dire dagger]

better not

[celest goblet]

I'd rather people stop getting in circular conversations about it daily at all until there's something new to say but I guess we rarely get everything we want in life

[dire dagger]

they promised it would be added in for free

[empty gorge]

question is, do you know what the cut content is that you want back and expect not to be dlc?

[orchid gale]

You could go buy a 1987 Toyota Corolla right now and that’s all any man really needs

[celest portal]

[worn oar]

Who knows, keep up the good work, and the future will tell

[dire dagger]

id hope it was all of the quests that are missing from the second half of the game lol

[celest goblet]

The reality is there's exactly as much hard evidence to support the doomers and pessimists as there are the people huffing the hopium, which is to say nothing really

[orchid gale]

YO LETS GO

[dire dagger]

or perhaps the zero side quests that exist in pripyat

🤨

[celest blaze]

Naw man every man needs a second gen dodge ram with a manual transmission and 5.9L cummins turbo diesel with a 5 inch straight pipe

[empty gorge]

yes but how many are there? what if they say its 10 and introduce 10? is it really 10?

[celest portal]

You finally have some hope

[orchid gale]

Nah the exhaust routed out the top so it looks like a semi truck

[dire dagger]

ive heard a number in the 80s get thrown around so

[worn oar]

I mean free dlc anyway, but best be a patch rather than labeled free dlc

[dire dagger]

[celest blaze]

I HATE that

[empty gorge]

do you know how many there are now in release? haha. yes side quests

[dire dagger]

quests in the game?

[worn oar]

I agree on that.

[orchid gale]

Tee hee

Want to see some absolutely WILD text messages I’ve received in the past 2 days

[worn oar]

Some places feel like a sand box

[dire dagger]

idk probably like 40 or something

ive never counted

[empty gorge]

21 iirc

[orchid gale]

Bro did not want to see the texts

[raven goblet]

It was supposed to be 64 square km but it's actually a lot smaller to my knowledge

[celest portal]

lmao

[dire dagger]

[orchid gale]

Walk from the red forest to the bar on red weight and tell me the map isn’t large

[celest goblet]

The size as measured in km is kinda arbitrary. Game scales are not exactly consistent

[raven goblet]

And you still believe there's going to be roadmap?

[dire dagger]

personally i do yes

but i got no idea when it will be or how detailed it will be

[celest blaze]

Yeah man dms

[celest goblet]

They're just taking their sweet time with it but yeah

[orchid gale]

Fire

[empty gorge]

map is indeed not 64km2 its more like idk 40?

[raven goblet]

You are discussing the actual size given in numbers, what copium are you taking?

[gritty orchid]

Here's a miniature Keith for all of you:

[celest portal]

Omg
mini Keith

[celest goblet]

I mean the relevant metric is more how long it takes to traverse and explore

[dire dagger]

is there any evidence it was ever planned to be 64?

in the files

[empty gorge]

its on steam page bro (just like sdk and alife)

[dire dagger]

well yah no shit

[celest goblet]

It's already too big in a sense, there's areas with nothing to do but explore for stashes

[empty gorge]

oh you mean in old stuff? yeah totally. prip should be about 2x as high reaching northern border

[celest goblet]

More area without stuff to do isn't making the game better

[raven goblet]

So they basically lied, didn't they

[dire dagger]

i mean yah nothing i can really say to that

[raven goblet]

It's really difficult to defend the game xD

[empty gorge]

there was also cherno 2 south of duga and korohod left of it

[summer stream]

They did mention pre release it was going to be 64km. I’m not sure if anyone has actually measured the actual map though, and the current size is just unbased speculation. Either way though, it’s a big map. I’ve seen people complain it’s too big even. I dunno, I think the map size is good though

[dire dagger]

i meant like in the game files

i should have made that more clear

[celest goblet]

Chernobyl 2 is still there there's just barely anything to do there

[empty gorge]

current one? post release?

[dire dagger]

yah

[celest goblet]

It's just the southernmost part of the Duga region

[dire dagger]

yah burned forest

walking to and from the duga is so ass

honestly it is so insanely unfun

[summer stream]

Though, a lot of Pripyat, duga, and most of Jupiter is missing

[dire dagger]

you have to walk nearly 4km to reach a town from the duga

why there is not some sorta stalker town in the burnt forest i will never understand

[celest goblet]

Or in Chornobyl-2 itself

[dire dagger]

pripyat is the point where it really hits in you in the face how empty it is

[celest goblet]

There's even stalkers that hang out around there including a guy who gives a side quest

[dire dagger]

like this entire massive city to explore but not a single quest?

[worn oar]

I do, and time will tell later who's right or wrong

[dire dagger]

like id like to make it clear that

i don't think the devs will take the money and run but

[raven goblet]

Yes someone measured it and it turned out much smaller but I fail to find the post about that

[dire dagger]

i need to see some actual content put into the game

[raven goblet]

Well let's wait and see but I don't have high hopes

[celest goblet]

I would at least like to see what their vision is

[clear raft]

Tree rats aren't enough content for you? 🐿️🐿️🐿️

[dire dagger]

no not really

[celest portal]

I haven't seen a single squirrel yet before I finished the game

[dire dagger]

i feel like the better than wolves guy right now

[raven goblet]

Their vision is to cut out the RU community likely, which is fair, but unfortunately those guys are responsible for like 90% of the modded content and kept the community alive

[empty gorge]

classic wolf, they are very slopy with cleaning files part 1:
||this is for wolf
ColdIsland_L : struct.begin
SID = ColdIsland_L
struct.end
blabla fy wolf KorohorodForest_L : struct.begin
SID = KorohorodForest_L
struct.end
end||
@dire dagger on question before, this is from accessible release files wrong tag oops

[dire dagger]

to be fair stalker 2 reached a far larger audience than the originals ever did

[raven goblet]

But with no modding tools, the hype will die out quickly

[clear raft]

They need to release the SDK so I can just add rabid irradiated tree rats to the Zone myself.

[dire dagger]

so at least 2 locations referenced that currently don't exist in game

[empty gorge]

but wait here are juicy ones, and this is part 2:
||fy wolf Jupiter_L : struct.begin
SID = Jupiter_L
struct.end
blabla here
DeadValley_L : struct.begin
SID = DeadValley_L
struct.end
CrookedPeninsula_L : struct.begin
SID = CrookedPeninsula_L
struct.end end||

[dire dagger]

[empty gorge]

up to you to decide what u make of it 😉

[summer stream]

I believe it is future content

[dire dagger]

i mean i think its clear that those places at least were planned to exist at some point and now clearly do not

cold island might be wild island in the final game

[empty gorge]

the birds told me they where in pretty finished state idk

[celest portal]

birds

[empty gorge]

cold island is actually ||north of sircaa accessible from east of cooling towers||

[celest portal]

Interesting

[empty gorge]

wild island in game is called: AsylumBase

[dire dagger]

well

if they are in a relatively finished state

lets hope they get added

perhaps they did not have any content ready for them

[empty gorge]

cold island is dlc 1

[dire dagger]

[summer stream]

This

[empty gorge]

the lore is already in game and findable i can send it in dm if you want grabbed it outta RELEASE files (since they are bad at cleaning up)

[dire dagger]

sure

are any of those other areas suppose to be free content

[empty gorge]

not at all, all cut content was planned content in quite a good state birds told me, they just cut em for some reason

[celest blaze]

Gonna release the cut content in 2 hours refresh steam

[dire dagger]

that is actually so demoralizing you have no idea

[empty gorge]

you telling me? You wouldn't believe what I've seen.. thx carmaster kotus lupercat the first

[celest blaze]

You wouldn't believe what I've seen..

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-blade-runner-catling-lonely-gif-8855986365968201774

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/if-you-only-knew-strelok-talking-strelok-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-14178968850344470020

[celest blaze]

No perms..

[bronze falcon]

It's a bs. Content is never cut without any reason, whether it would be that it provokes another bunch of bugs, because the game we have now is already buggy enough, or it would be just concept changes

The fact that some shit is left from the previous development stages is ok now that we don't have to compress every single bit of game

The theory of "gsc cutting up the game just for shit and giggles" is straight up lie

[dire dagger]

i hope so man

i want that to be true

[celest blaze]

Fr

[dire dagger]

i can't even say what i want to say

[empty gorge]

i never said they cut the game for shits and giggles i just find it to be strange that there is more cut than usual games this size considering the stage of development some of these stuff where

[worn oar]

We can also put some blame of leak, cuz that forced a change in vision in order to provide something a little different from what initially intended I suppose. It may be a wrong guess, but I think it did affect the reasoning at least

Also, as you said, shit got cut cuz it didn't work as intended which led to either a full cut, or postponing action

Maybe the whole story got revisited and it was suitable for the new one to keep some content for later use

[celest goblet]

I mean there is literally no reason for them to do what shay is suggesting, might have been close to done stuff but still not done and not getting finished in time for launch

[worn oar]

Plenty of scenarios could've took place, so logically speaking, one should say that it was necessary one way or another as unpleasant as it can be for some ppl

[celest goblet]

Again look at what was considered done and functional enough to make it in the game at launch

[dire dagger]

again with no roadmap

all we have is hope

[celest goblet]

Yeah that explanation just fails a basic sanity test

Not that insane things don't happen but when it's that hard to believe I'll put the burden of proof on it

[dire dagger]

to be fair we don't know what some of these mates know

they wont say either cus we would have to ban them

so its like a catch 22

[celest goblet]

Well yeah. Still as a general rule don't take "I heard it from a guy" as a convincing argument. And no I'm not asking for anyone to DM things to me. I'm content to just wait and see what they do

If they end up doing nothing I'd rather not know anyway

[summer stream]

Didn’t they lose a bunch of work in the fire?

[celest goblet]

Some but the amount was really overstated online based on interviews where they have talked about it

[empty gorge]

they only recently said it was a bit more devastating then reported, back when articles broke out about it it was like a minor inconvenience but looking at the gamespot doc and the way they talk about sure makes it seem like it was bigger idk

[celest goblet]

Sounds like they lost a few days of work at least

[empty gorge]

for sure yeah a fire is no joke

[toxic ember]

man, 3 months of stalker, and it was finished, game kept getting patched, until i finished it with 1.3 patch , worth all the time 🙂

[thorny minnow]

I just had the game spawn a burer in rookie village wtf

Anyone else notice that certain camps will autokill the player with the invisible sniper if mutants are nearby?

[sleek wren]

Hello

[thorny minnow]

heya

how's it going?

[sleek wren]

gud

I been doing some world building stuff for a zombie apocalypse story I been having for a bit of years atp

[thorny minnow]

nice

Playing stalker 2 rn, but might switch back to clear sky

I just started my first playthrough in that game.

[celest blaze]

I'd play clear sky tbh

[placid spoke]

I wish stalker 2 was on playstation

I main ps5 and i keep telling all my homies how great it is but they'll never know😔

[empty gorge]

PEAK SKY MENTIONED RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I HEARD ALIFE THERE WAS ALIVE RAAAAAAA

[dire dagger]

xbox literally has no games ps5 has almost no games

this is the difference

[summer stream]

I’m sure it will get ported eventually to ps5

[warm vale]

I just finished shadow of chernobyl for the first time. Had almost finished it months ago but forgot about it. I’m in the middle of Stalker 2 right now. Do you think I should just start playing clear sky instead ?

[summer stream]

Hopefully a port happens. More players = more revenue = more content…in theory

[thorny minnow]

The only thing I hate about clear sky are the weapons.

But i've mostly played COP and SHOC out of the whole series.

[summer stream]

I would finish the trilogy before playing stalker 2. It will help you understand/ appreciate locations, story, and characters a lot more in stalker 2

[warm vale]

Noted! Been enjoying stalker 2 so far, but there’s certainly something special about the trilogy. At least the first game. Gun play felt surprisingly good for a game made in 2007.

[celest blaze]

i love the trilogy

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[mild palm]

@safe badge do your thing!

[placid spoke]

Should i hop on Five or Shangoat La?

[zinc apex]

Hop on tf2 💋

[crisp ruin]

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-jumpscare-jump-trash-garbage-gif-1325596220675260470

[sly matrix]

That is a proper rat crash out

[mild palm]

I see that the powers that be won’t let me post pictures

Very well. >:- (

[wraith socket]

Post it here ( No Spoilers ) https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034504761409577 and then forward it to this channel.

If you are doing Spoilers, then then post here: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/524231625039413249 and forward to the spoilers channel: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034374473617459

[sly matrix]

if it's unrelated: #💬┃en_offtop

[median sierra]

whats yalls favorite faction
mine's freedom

[sly matrix]

the corps

[south robin]

I don't have the game installed at the moment, but I'm curious if anyone can answer me: After the two recent patches have had some changes in regards to keybindings, is the "Y" key still hard-bound to "switch to last used weapon" in the current version of the game?

[pseudo rivet]

If they're a faction: Shamans
if not, then for Trilogy: Freedom
And for HoC: Not sure

From what I've seen so far, they've butchered Freedom in HoC

[nimble cipher]

bappng has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[median sierra]

whoops
how so? it can't be that hard to not butcher literal anarchists

[pseudo rivet]

They're more than that

[median sierra]

well i know they're more than that but at their core they are anarchists who fight for free access to the zone, sounds pretty simple to me

[pseudo rivet]

Freedom also cares for scientific research, letting the Big Land know of everything the government wants to keep secret and fight anyone who's trying to take control of the Zone

From what I've seen, they're just the Black Market now

[median sierra]

izee, well that sucks

[pseudo rivet]

You can ask in #☢┃stalker-general, spoilers are allowed there

[median sierra]

not too well versed in the lore but their fits are fire and the ideals on the fandom page at least are fire also

[humble cobalt]

My bad sorry

[median sierra]

no prob, it wasn't crazy spoilers, i just prefer none

[pseudo rivet]

I've made this once, it's a bit of a nutshell of what we find in the Trilogy:

Freedom

• Fighting for free access to the Zone
• Sharing all information about the Zone with the rest of the world and challenging the state's monopoly over the Zone's secrets and wonders
• Freedom fights Duty, because they believe that Duty is offending the Zone
• Protecting mutant population from poachers
• Holding the Barrier
• Study the Zone for the betterment of mankind
• Attempts to co-exist with the Zone

They also researched Shamans and artifact ge-ne-ra-tion

And made things like Sovereign and Horizon

And also Expanse

They're basically inventions for body armor or actual body suits made for protection against the Zone's conditions

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/mau-cat-run-gif-20238548

[vale quartz]

Isn't freedom funded by foreign countries? I mean in og trilogy the only factions with nato weapons are freedom and mercs

[thorny minnow]

I wouldn't say they've been butchered, Duty seems worse off.

[pseudo rivet]

There's not a single shred of proof for either

[thorny minnow]

But when the Ward rolled in and forced a treaty, Duty kind of lost part of it's raison d'etre.

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, both are put on a leash by Ward

[sly matrix]

-# life-support in duty's case...

[pseudo rivet]

If only we could unite the factions and fight against Ward

[loud gate]

True (bcs they are unfinished)

[sly matrix]

Who needs united factions when you have a Skiff

[pseudo rivet]

Skeeefa, keel all de Ward lads

[loud gate]

Hey, Ward is cool.

[pseudo rivet]

Turbo cringe, more like

[loud gate]

cope

[sly matrix]

Backwards autocrats

[pseudo rivet]

All my homies hate Ward

[sly matrix]

Pun intended

[pseudo rivet]

Starcotua?

Interesting

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-you-win-on-a-technicality-you-got-me-ok-fine-gif-25068092

[pseudo rivet]

Yay

[mild palm]

Poop

[sand fiber]

if anyone's funded by foreign countries it's duty, russian military ass faction

there's a reason freedom has the ukrainian flag on its insignia and speaks UA in ukrainian dub

and like, freedomers are anarchists 💅

[sly matrix]

Some western weapons like viper 5s are confirmed to have come from the black market, so good chance the western weapons freedom uses also come from there.

[zinc apex]

Roadmap, A-Life, SDK, updates, communication. When?

[celest blaze]

in 30 min

[storm kernel]

it's already here...

[austere mauve]

Mercs also I would think.

[unreal raptor]

Roadmap found — dead end.

[outer laurel]

Yo guys today GSC will release Roadmap and multiplayer

[north nymph]

april 1st haha gotem

[outer laurel]

Imagine being competent

[celest blaze]

i'm already on the MP

sin is a member in the faction wars now

[hazy helm]

you and many others would be completely wrong and dumb

[night crest]

play eso

[storm kernel]

the MP is so peak bro

[celest blaze]

i really hope we do get a faction wars mode tbh

[austere mauve]

That's a little uncalled for no? And from a mod no less? Maybe engage in meaningful conversation instead of insulting people for posting something you don't agree with.

[night crest]

bro is looking for meaningful conversation on discord 💀

[celest blaze]

theres plenty of it

[worn oar]

what's going

[celest blaze]

eso players arent often capable of it though

[night crest]

eso players struggle with object permanence so

[celest blaze]

i wanna go back but i cant..

i refuse

[night crest]

i mean, ngl, ive had surprising ammount of fun with it lately

[celest blaze]

i just cant redo 2000 hours of grinding and content

id pay zos 400 rn to transfer account

[night crest]

I started a sorc because i wanted to stop chasing the meta, so i made like the super annoying 6pet sorc with maw/defiler/aegis/familiar/tormentor/atronach

and i got that build to like 100k dps which tbh is an achievement as is

[celest blaze]

oh jeez thats impressive

[night crest]

decided to make a more "raid friendly" build where i switched defiler to whorl, latest parse i did 110k, the ceiling will probably be 115k

if i used dummy humping sets like highland and even coral, I¨d get this to 120-130k easily

but i refuse to use those sets because 1) i hate coral/bahsei minigame 2) highland is purely for dummy humping and doesnt actually do anything in content

I've also been kinda chilling and questing while using the group finder to find groups for nLC, so i could ideally switch whorl to null arca, which would fit more thematically and could probably do more dmg because whorl is aoe and sorc is more st focused with the champion points and setup in general

[storm kernel]

all MMO players suffer from that, not just elder scrolls online

[night crest]

no the issue in eso is

you have two skill bars you switch between

weapon-5skills-ultimate

you use a button to switch between them

a lot of players struggle with the fact that when you switch the bars, you dont see the skills on the other bar and they suddenly cant comprehend that they still exist

[storm kernel]

zamn

anyways a more important question

Who would thrive better in The Zone - The Rizzler or Baby Gronk?

I feel like The Rizzler would have his own gang or even faction in no time

[mild palm]

Give this man what he wants!!

[storm kernel]

we already have it

[hazy helm]

good thing you just posted dumb headcannon

[sand fiber]

in 2 months

[austere mauve]

I don't think it's a stretch seeing as they are one of the few factions in the games that are normally seen with NATO weaponry.

[hazy helm]

Mercs also use AKs and whatever other weapon, same thing with Freedom

are you going to say that the Monolith are German adjacent for using F2000s?

this logic is complete lunacy dreamt up by utter idiots

[sand fiber]

trilogy guns are there because they look cool, not due to any particular lore reason, and that's how it should be

[hazy helm]

this is down to when you encounter them in the game progression, its a game design and balancing question, not a lore question, there are absolutely no ties saying that either Freedom or Mercs work with or are with Westerners or Western Nations or Organizations

[austere mauve]

I did not say all Mercs, I just said Mercs. They do not seem like a group that all has the same objective or employer.

[hazy helm]

they are a cohesive group with a leader and a HQ inside the zone, SOC tells you this

its in their description

[austere mauve]

I agree, That has something to do with it for sure.

[austere mauve]

Sure, But they are Mercs after all no? They work for money. The statement I responded too is groups being funded by foreign countries. Is it not specifically stated in the games, Sure. But it would make sense that they take jobs from various people, Foreign countries potentially being one of them.

[pseudo rivet]

Then that's speculation

AKA not canon

[hazy helm]

what you are saying is a more roundabout way of saying "its not confirmed anywhere BUT they could"
you need something substantive to prove something, saying it could happen is completely assanine and meaningless, they have no ties bc we have seen and heard them have no ties, if anything, they have close ties to the Group

tldr
this is cope bc you want them to work with westerners

[pseudo rivet]

Unless it's specifically shown to us or hinted at very heavily, there's nothing to back this up

[hazy helm]

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

its almost like

this is bad fanfiction

that has been regurgitated for years

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, to be fair, HoC is bad fan fiction

But that's not the point here

[storm kernel]

merc glazing slop is peak gamma

[sand fiber]

but op 2.2 has western mercs 😔

[hazy helm]

you have never finished OP2.2
its time for you to go to the NS Cave mines

[storm kernel]

BRO THE HECKIN' MERCS ARE SO HECKIN' TACTICOOL IT'S JUST LIKE TARKOV SO DARK AND GRIDDY BROOOO

[sand fiber]

mods about mercenaries were popular long before gamma, there are like dozens of them

[austere mauve]

Your not wrong, But isn't Duty being funded by foreign countries not speculation?

[sand fiber]

yaaaayyy :D

[hazy helm]

you are saying that bad mods have been a thing since before gamma, gamma didnt create the bad mod genre

[hazy helm]

Duty cuts deals with the army, they arent directly funded by it, and in fact, they have open engagements with them often times, they also do deals with the scientists and get weapons from the black market like everyone else

why?

the Army is corrupt

that is it

[sand fiber]

yes vasim i am having a conversation

[pseudo rivet]

There's nothing supporting that either. Now, them getting supplies from the Military? That's heavily implied, so that's definitely canon

[sand fiber]

by foreign countries i meant russia, and it's mostly a joke based on the fact that all dutiers speak russian in UA dub, unlike freedomers and loners

[storm kernel]

they do?

[pseudo rivet]

Aye

[sand fiber]

yeagh, it's intentional iirc

[storm kernel]

wait you talkin stalker 2 or the old ones?

[pseudo rivet]

I wouldn't know why it wouldn't be intentional tbh

[pseudo rivet]

TrilOG

HoC has no Russian whatsoever

You can probably think of why this is the case

[sand fiber]

it's also named "Долг", the russian word, while Freedom is "Воля", ukrainian one

[austere mauve]

Correct, I do agree with that. All I did was respond to a speculative statement with another. I'm all for discussing why you think I'm wrong and I most definitely could be.

[storm kernel]

I thought all NPCs spoke russian in og trilogy. I only played english dub tho

[sand fiber]

in russian dub they do, in ukrainian dub they don't

[austere mauve]

Fair enough, I admittedly did not read the entire conversation chain. I was just responding with another faction I thought fit the topic based on clues I remember from playing the games.

[sand fiber]

oh IIRC ukrainian military also speaks russian in SoC&CS

[pseudo rivet]

What did Bandits speak again? I forgor 💀

Ah

Based

[sand fiber]

basically the game doesn't like the military and duty, but loves ukraine (and anarchists)

so, my thesis is - stalker is woke 💅

[pseudo rivet]

I mean, yeah, even in the Trilogy, Duty was definitely not portrayed as the "good guys" if you get to learn a bit more about the lore

They just took L after L

[sand fiber]

in the literary script duty is literally like 30 18 yo guys who all die shortly after strelok meets them

[austere mauve]

Are there even good guys in the zone? I feel every faction is written to be in the gray area.

[sand fiber]

that's Oblivion Lost and doesn't have to do much with the actual plans for the game though

[pseudo rivet]

Shamans

(If you can even call them a faction)

[sand fiber]

freedom

they were portrayed as insane anarchists initially, they were the ones who attacked Kruglov and resided in Dead City, but all those encounters were later given to mercs and stalker became woke

[storm kernel]

they should make a stalker movie where Jack Black plays Strelok

[sand fiber]

i am... ANTON GOLDBERG.....

[pseudo rivet]

I am John Stalker

[storm kernel]

That... is an Artifact

[sand fiber]

PSEUDO GIANT !!!

[storm kernel]

The Brain Scorcher!

This... is a Bolt...

[pseudo rivet]

I suggest Tolik as protagonist

[storm kernel]

Ever since I was a child, I yearned for The Zone...

[sand fiber]

no, tolik will be the first to die

[pseudo rivet]

Not if I can help it

[sand fiber]

nimble will have a romance subplot though

[hazy jewel]

hardware ray tracing ?

[reef raptor]

this video is private

[sweet belfry]

broke back mountain

[ebon hatch]

more slop on announcement. GSC likes posting cringe on main

[pseudo rivet]

It's called Competitive Shitposting, actually

[unreal raptor]

I do like coming to general for this kinda content.

[mild palm]

Everyone’s ACHING for more trailers, GSC!

[ebon hatch]

ROADMAP THIS INSTANT

[sweet belfry]

tuesday slop

[silver raptor]

Please just fix the game

[unreal raptor]

is this the promised complex mutant AI at work?

[sweet belfry]

was funny video tho

[unreal raptor]

it was?

[glossy blade]

we would prefer not to post it on April's Fool

[ebon hatch]

They are working on figuring out what they will be working on for 3 months

[storm kernel]

False, it's called Peak Cinema. yall newgens don't understand real art...

[sweet belfry]

ayo unc spittin

[sly matrix]

they asked for it now though, post it and leave us guessing if it's a joke or not

[pseudo rivet]

Haven't you figured it out?

That's a joke as well

[outer laurel]

Bruh, clickbaited by GSC

[sweet belfry]

gsc im begging please

[outer laurel]

GSC how low have fallen...

[sly matrix]

if the roadmap doesn't work out we can say, yeah it was an april fools joke

[storm kernel]

they gave us peak cinema

[charred wraith]

there is no roadmap

[sweet belfry]

ceo of gsc needs a low taper fade

[storm kernel]

GSC KEEPS ON WINNING!!!!! 💯

[unreal raptor]

a fake roadmap released today with all the things we acutally wanted — that would of been a good april fools.

[outer laurel]

GSC made a joke in 2024 and it's still funny.....roadmap what a joke

[storm kernel]

tweaking out over a roadmap is highkey insanity

[full bronze]

roadmap andy

[storm kernel]

honestly we out here chilling allowing GSC to cook like they always have

[outer laurel]

Wanna hear a joke? STALKER 2 ROADMAP

[near dove]

ROADMAP WHEN?

[outer laurel]

They overcooked Stalker 2 so bad it hurts when touching

[unreal raptor]

charred

[mystic drum]

2079

[pseudo rivet]

Soon™️

[ebon hatch]

this month. if not, GSC is dead to me 😱

[near dove]

I heard the roadmap is unlocked in the battle pass

[zinc flax]

as well as alife

[near dove]

A life is in the premium battle pass

I would like a ||snork mount|| as dlc please

[signal grotto]

Why are the announcements like, awful

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-the-boys-gen-v-no-homelander-no-gif-5144619848989128837

[sweet belfry]

55 burgers 55 fries

[plucky bough]

man wheres the roadmap?

[dire dagger]

No where

The real roadmap is the friends we made along the way

[plucky bough]

I made no friends, guess i just end it

[celest goblet]

Hidden inside the secret GSC office vault

[upper tree]

The roadmap is in another castle

[sly matrix]

Crystal balls🔮 🔮 say: "If you don't have a roadmap, get an ATV. They don't need roads."

[mild palm]

You gotta love it, though. Miss the delivery date by no less than four months, refuse to elaborate, here’s a short April Fool’s vid though. :)) kings

[dire dagger]

Buy a plane

Get one of those rust gyro copters

[sly matrix]

Aight, who wants to sell me an AN-2 biplane for 17 euros and 73 cents?

[crystal merlin]

Imo the game as it is right now, does indeed offer a lot of content and replayability.
However it's not where it's needed to be yet.

[sly matrix]

Plenty to enjoy, plenty to improve

[crystal merlin]

I think this is the best way to describe it.

[celest goblet]

Agreed

[sly matrix]

Ya'll can quote me as Lion El'Kotson

[pseudo rivet]

Play TrilOG and wait for HoC patches

Y'all can quote me as Lion El'Kotson

[regal verge]

I am so happy I didn't play any of the other games so I can enjoy Stalker 2 I feel like I am lucky but also unlucky ha

[crystal merlin]

The things I enjoy are:
+Hoarding
+Looting(they aren't the same thing, are they?)
+Shooting enemies
+Upgrading my gears
+Loot and hoard so I can get all the coupons to upgrade/repair my gears
+The writing
+Exos that have sprint upgrade

[nocturne monolith]

Its actually still December 12th, time has been frozen until GSC releases it

[sly matrix]

Ward is pretty dope.
Ya'll can quote me as Lion El'Kotson

[empty gorge]

once again im asking for a role to not get pinged from announcements thank you

[pseudo rivet]

Thieves rule and Wardens drool
Y'all can quote me as Lion El'Kotson