⭐┃nospoilers_general

[drowsy blade]

I used my heavily upgraded AKM-74/2until just before X-8 when I switched to the AC-96

[spiral stump]

When I was younger, I enjoyed stashing all the guns, armor, helmets, etc to use it in freeplay after the main quest is done to hunt mutants and bandits

[mild palm]

New Announcement!!

“You can press W to move forward!”

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/crowd-reacts-england-croatia-audience-jumping-gif-17856925

[pseudo rivet]

Same, although there's not much else to do

[spiral stump]

Dunno, still liked the vibe

[pseudo rivet]

Definitely

Have you tried the IL 86 before? It's a great poor man's sniper rifle

[spiral stump]

Oh, and that thing, that all the mutant bodies don't disappear, so it's like hunting trophies

[inner mural]

another announcement, you can use WASD instead of arrow keys to move around and use ESC instead of f12 for the pause menu

[sand fiber]

cop story is good though 💅

[pseudo rivet]

It's a good concept, yes

[drowsy blade]

“Anomalies move after emissions?!”
-Surprised Pikachu Face

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

[sand fiber]

and a good execution 💅

[pseudo rivet]

But they're the Military, so it makes sense

[sand fiber]

degtyarov's small adventure with friends :D

CoP Pripyat remains my favorite location simply due to the narrative surrounding it, a lonely place with no escape in sight

[indigo marsh]

But Vist is military and he is not stupid

[nimble hinge]

should have asked when someone else was answering questions in #📜┃gsc-answers cause mol1t always ignoring lol

[indigo marsh]

But he is an exception tho

[keen drum]

Hi guys. Does one still remember this news article? https://www.stalker2.com/news/physical-edition-update
They said they gonna stock up on physical editions again.

I'm just wondering, if they are already there? Because I'm still waiting for mine (only got a key) and … well I mean it's 5 months already.
I know the team was busy working on patches and somehow surviving. But any idea when I can expcet the physical edition to arrive at my place? July? September? December? Next year?

Any information are very much appreaciated.

[north violet]

Excuse me?

[celest portal]

No idea, a couple of people are still waiting for theirs to arrive as far as I know.

[north violet]

Whoa, Jack you're not a moderator anymore?

[north violet]

Wait a minute...

[spiral stump]

[north violet]

Ah....different account, I just noticed the username.

[pseudo rivet]

Except the ARG (also not Canon) suggests that his eggs got scrambled

[north violet]

Has GSC said that S2 isn't canon? This is the first I'm hearing the idea.

[pseudo rivet]

So he technically is stupid

[pseudo rivet]

Of course not, it's their game

[north violet]

So...this is just a matter of personal opinion?

[pseudo rivet]

But the amount of retcons this game has is kinda insulting, ngl

And fanfic

[keen drum]

Okay, thank you very much for your reply.

[pseudo rivet]

Best chance is to contact the store you bought it from. GSC distributed these, but other stores actually sell it to you

[celest portal]

yep

[pseudo rivet]

Although, yeah, this is taking a pretty long time then

[north violet]

In regards to retcons, I kind of like the theory that the routes/actions of the protagonists in the original trilogy are exaggerated.

I'm also not opposed to the idea of the "Area transitions were hidden teleportation anomalies" or the idea that the Zone has literally been able to change its' own geography.

[pseudo rivet]

Didn't they mention the goodies were actually coming around April?

I honestly forgot, it's been a while

[spiral stump]

Yea, April something

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah

[spiral stump]

So must be soon

[pseudo rivet]

Disregard what I said earlier, then

[spiral stump]

But it's like 4th of April, I think still need to wait like for week or two

[pseudo rivet]

Ngl, all of those sound pretty cringe

[celest goblet]

Yes

[pseudo rivet]

Other than the whole "Zone is alive and changes" thing, but we have no evidence for that

[north violet]

I mean, the Zone kind of looks like there was some sort of geological upheaval at some point what with all of the weird crater edges that most of the regions have.

[north violet]

In some ways I agree, but I also think that trying to come up with an in-lore justification is fun.

[celest goblet]

Yeah I think the physical stuff is supposed to ship this month

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah

[pseudo rivet]

Fair, but for something this big, I'd rather have written or mentioned proof. Like, in case the Zone did change, nobody mentions this being the case

We can also just call it a retcon and then we'd probably have the most accurate answer as well

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[north violet]

I agree. Maybe that's something they're planning for one of the DLCs?

I certainly don't think that teleportation or space anomalies, or the Zone changing its' own geography are completely out of the question. (Remember how Limansk was/is chock full of space anomalies.)

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

Omg
Cat

[pseudo rivet]

True, although they're really rare and you never hear others talk about them

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[thick zodiac]

A lightning stroke me, almost had a heart attack, don't stand with your PDAs in the rain, boys,
also heard men are strikken 3 times more often than women

[pseudo rivet]

• we know for sure this isn't the case with Pilot. He actually used a route with plenty of anomalies which had to be walked

[north violet]

Don't the Limansk space anomalies get a brief mention before you have to do that puzzle with them on that one street?

While they are incredibly rare, it does seem a bit strange that we never hear anyone talk about them.

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[pseudo rivet]

Not to my knowledge, no. We've also got a similar anomaly at the Cordon, Red Forest and Zaton

Although I don't know if teleportation anomalies can be called the same as Space Bubbles

[granite mortar]

they are both type of spatial anomalies
altho teleporters and bubbles are different

[north violet]

Well there seems to be two types of space anomalies:

• The ones that act like wormholes

• The ones that act like pocket dimension prisons/labyrinths

Then you have the actual teleporter anomalies that look like a vortex thing.

Additionally, we've seen that it's possible for space anomalies to be invisible. Remember how in CoP we can't see the one in Yaniv without the Svarog detector?

[granite mortar]

I believe all spatial traps are invisible
only teleporters are visible

[celest portal]

Yeah, cause there's not enough women in the Zone in the first place

[north violet]

Well semi-visible if we want to get pedantic. Like yeah, they have the visual effect, but I can absolutely see someone stepping into the one of those by complete accident considering their transparency.

[twilit mist]

Last time I played the game was before patch 1.2. I have around 20-25hours in play time.

after all the patches and changes, should I restart and start a completely new game or is it fine to continue playing with my old save?

[placid spoke]

Make lmg ammo accessible nobody is using it anyway

[celest portal]

I would try playing on your old save first tbh before restarting. But I don't think that version is that old for you to needing to restart though.

[crisp ruin]

Russian mod
"It's Great"

I laff

[celest portal]

Normally you don't need to restart, but some bugs will still be there if that said bug has already loaded in. You'd need to reload a previous save and that should fix it.

[twilit mist]

also have they fixed all the human npcs rushing at you poink blank in every encounter? are they a lot more tactical and careful now?

[celest portal]

well

[twilit mist]

hmmm okay I see. Thank you!

[crisp ruin]

@celest portal btw it's time to change your nickname, April Fools is ova

[granite mortar]

country of origin doesnt determine quality of mods
russians made some of the best and most impressive mods while EN community mostly made the same same garbage
emphasis on mostly

[celest portal]

Idk the mods (or at least one guy who changed it lol) left it there so I am just going with the flow. But if it needs to be deleted I guess just reset the name lol.

[crisp ruin]

ye I know your nickname before so

[thick zodiac]

Kot has ignited

[crisp ruin]

[celest portal]

Just delete/reset the name, you don't need to type it in

[crisp ruin]

I already did

[twilit mist]

@celest portal Like one of the biggest problems for me was how the game didn't feel all that tactical since every encounter enemies just rushed at me... felt dumb

[crisp ruin]

[celest portal]

I don't have a dot in my name though

Just clear username, it's much easier

[crisp ruin]

[zinc apex]

Let's all rename to Wolf 🐺

[celest portal]

Because if I for some reason want to change username again, then it will just stay the old name and I don't want that.

[crisp ruin]

it's just my typo, my finger always goes period key to put it there

[celest portal]

I was just saying that names will reset on its own if you just delete what it was changed too. So no need to type it in.

[zinc apex]

such a nonchalant man. so dreamy 🥰 and mysterious 👀

[crisp ruin]

[celest portal]

real

[twilit mist]

so what does this "well..." mean 😅

[sand fiber]

everything is fanfic

technically SoC is a fanfic to Oblivion Lost

[celest portal]

They still rush at you the same

[twilit mist]

huh... thought that would be something they would have fixed right away...

Am I mistaken or were the enemies way more "careful" in the older games? Like they sought cover, flanked, even retreated a bit to get a better position

[dire dagger]

@mild palm

Ight all the imposters are gone

Back to work

[twilit mist]

Like even if I am in the middle of the woods, you'd think enemies would immediately take cover behind a tree, rather than start sprinting at you full force guns blazing...

[celest portal]

F in the chat, they're all gone now

[sand fiber]

there are like only 4 good mods and one of them is by a ukrainian so

[celest portal]

From what I remember older games had them being much more thoughtful in their movement compared to S2.

[granite mortar]

you didnt even play any mods ._.
you just yapp about them instead of actually playing them

[twilit mist]

Yeah they felt way more like real humans that yes do want to kill you, but also don't want to die.

now they just feel like NPC's with no soul or self preservation instinct, just rush at you if you try and take cover without a thought in the world

[sand fiber]

TRUEEEE
i've only like played both versions of OLR, Spatial Anomaly and Valley of Whispers
also tried starting LA:DX and Wind of Time but stopped after an hour :>

[granite mortar]

[sand fiber]

oh, i also played an hour of fotograf

[thick zodiac]

Lost Alpha is my favorite russian mod

[granite mortar]

thats Hungarian

[sand fiber]

dezowave are russians larping as westerners anyway

[granite mortar]

DUHH
they are Hungarian.... 💅💅

[thick zodiac]

it is so easy to trigger you guys

[sand fiber]

relax liberal.... it's called dark humor...

[thick zodiac]

let's have some laugh, some goof

[granite mortar]

as long as I post Im not triggered
only when I post

[thick zodiac]

Why do I have to wait half a minute to say something in chat, that is not how real conversation works, also S2 is not popular anymore for us to have slow mode ☠️

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[granite mortar]

thats why we talk about stalker in #💬┃en_offtop

[thick zodiac]

that is why I poop in the shower, it is quicker

[granite mortar]

at least poop in the bath you pig ewwww

[celest portal]

This why this channel is set at half a second slowmode

[granite mortar]

so we dont poop in the shower?
no, dont think thats the reason

[thick zodiac]

what is the difference? You stomp it down the drain, like an aborigine dancing in front of fire

[pseudo rivet]

So true bestie

[granite mortar]

bath tubs are more angled making the cleaning process much easier

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, specifically that one can't be seen by normal means

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[pseudo rivet]

Same with their teleportation anomalies

[thick zodiac]

I see a man of culture, like me

[celest portal]

Good luck stomping it down if your region uses one of those drain guards

[loud gate]

Lost Alpha is Mongol mod wdym

[wraith socket]

I was a member of Dez0wave, back in the production of Lost Alpha. There were some Russians but it was mainly Hungarians (Dez is one too) and eastern Europeans. Very few Americans, like myself.

[granite mortar]

Are you still in contact with Dez?

[wraith socket]

Yes. I am also an Admin for the Lost Alpha FB group. I can get a hold of Dez at any time for anything. He's one of the greatest, nicest people you could ever meet or work with.

[granite mortar]

Oh
Thats actually wholesome
Will you test for him again once the new mod is in more finished state?

[wraith socket]

I don't know. Stalker 2 is taking up all my time. I've got about 760+ hours so far and I'm still in my first game.

[granite mortar]

Holy moley
I mean
By the time Old Concept releases you will probably be done with S2 to a certain degree
The mod seems to be in somewhat early state still

[sand fiber]

are they like still alive as a modgroup

[wraith socket]

Dez is. Some new people. One old timer recently died. I don't think there are any Russians left, after they were responsible for the early leak in 2014. It's a new team really working on Stalker 2 (2011) aka Old Concept.

[sand fiber]

oof
old concept is what i was wondering about, it's like complete radiosilence for 2 years now?

[wraith socket]

I just did the first main mission of going to the Detention Center and Factory to look for Spark, a few days ago. When I left the Lesser Zone, I went straight to the Cordon and hung out there for a long time. I think it was at 580 hours before I entered Garbage for the first time. I have only been as far as Rostok to the west and the Cement Factory territory to the east. Just been doing a lot of side missions.

[wraith socket]

I just talked to Dez about that a month ago or so. They are actively working on it, last time he said.

[sand fiber]

yaaaay, that's good to hear :D

[prisma goblet]

📱

[proven spruce]

I hate how the mutants are all tanky, not because it makes them hard to fight but because it makes the guns feel weak and useless

[granite mortar]

True

[sand fiber]

makes the guns feel weak and useless
based 💅

[proven spruce]

Glad u get me

How do I get access to the default channel with the spoilers?

[sand fiber]

no, i mean guns being useless is based

[proven spruce]

You must love clear sky's combat

[sand fiber]

i fuсking hate clear sky
anyway, HoC combat reminded me of SoC, even though i played only an hour of S2

[proven spruce]

Its a bit like it with some aspects from call of pripyat

[celest portal]

Look in channels & roles, and pick the spoiler option. It might be unchecked from your channel list.

[proven spruce]

Thank 🐱 👍

[orchid gale]

Wishing everyone a bad day to counteract ranjids good day

[celest blaze]

Based and balanced

[ripe cave]

What’s the point of having a channel dedicated to answering player questions if 99% of the time the replies are things like ‘we’re thinking about it’, ‘I can’t say anything’, ‘probably later’, or ‘maybe this year’? It just feels pointless and frustrating

[dire dagger]

by no means the only one who is feeling that

it sucks ;/

[celest blaze]

Fr I'd just remove it tbh

[gritty orchid]

Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍🙏🙏👍

[orchid gale]

As it should be

My new laptop is Intel and nvidia 💀

[celest blaze]

Your laptop is based

[orchid gale]

It’s everything I stand against I’ve been full amd for so long

What will my parents thing

[celest blaze]

I'll tell them you got the based pass

It's 2025 people are accepting now Ong

[crisp ruin]

Say goodbyes to Linux

Linux ain't compatible with Intel CPU and Nvidia cards

[celest portal]

🐧

[gritty orchid]

Linux master race

[sand fiber]

what? it is

[gritty orchid]

It works flawlessly with Intel CPUs, NVidia GPUs are a little wonky in terms of performance/drivers but it works somewhat ok too

[naive goblet]

would this run on medium 2060 super w/ DLSS? at 60fps 1080p

[naive goblet]

intel + nvidia = microwave
intel + intel or intel + AMD = S tier build

[gritty orchid]

Yeah, with drops in the major faction hubs (without frame gen)
But it really depends on your CPU

[naive goblet]

it’s an intel cpu… not so proud of it, i510400f

saw some performance vids, runs at 60fps average of my exact same build

but my parts aren’t new i’ve been using them for a while now

this is the benchmark for my PC, if it can run this at 60fps i’m happy with it

[gritty orchid]

Should be ok then

[celest goblet]

bruh this is the no spoilers channel

[pliant flicker]

sorry bro its 03:26 here sweating at the game dont know what to do :/

[celest goblet]

Well I decided no and was pretty fine with that decision fwiw

[pliant flicker]

i cant really choose to choose 🥲

[celest blaze]

@simple geode be aware of where you post that stuff

[simple geode]

How is that a spoiler? There are no quests or anything about Duty or the Cement Factory. There are many corners of the game where there is blatantly no content.

[unkempt merlin]

Someone should make a tutorial on how to kill each mutant

[wraith socket]

That's a good question. Let us think about it, but we can't say anything right now. We'll probably get back to you, sometime later this year.

[mild palm]

“By pressing the ESC key you can enter the game’s menu!”

[carmine sorrel]

Guide: shoot it.

[crystal merlin]

You can only pray that your shots all hit and they're dead before you do.
You can't dodge their attacks, and sitting at higher places is just a temporary solution.
So bring lotsa medkits, try not to be overencumbered (so you can run faster) and find an semi-auto shotgun as fast as you can.

[sly matrix]

Step 1: get saiga
Step 2: dance on their corpses

[thick zodiac]

Are you with them?

#❔┃gameplay-advice

[hybrid fractal]

Dont have image perms there

[thick zodiac]

nor here

[wraith socket]

I was active during the production of Lost Alpha. That's how I earned my picture on the wall.

2012 to 2014. Lost Alpha was released in 2014.

[thick zodiac]

the myth the legend here

Lost Alpha was something, man, people had so much hope for it!

[ebon hatch]

the execution was.. welll

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, illusion of communication. There are some little droplets of info here and there, especially when community managers are sure about X or Y being implemented/fixed in the next patch but yeah... Guess before the roadmap is released we can't expect anything major in there

[worthy zodiac]

Damn... Are you checking every single bush from all sides or something?

[wraith socket]

Yes, I go back to many locations multiple times. For example, I returned to the Boiler Plant in the LZ and found Bandits. Then Loners. Then Ward. Then Freedom. Then Duty. Then Mercs, who were not happy to see me.

[thick zodiac]

Tejas doesn't need content, he makes it himself along the way 😄

[empty gorge]

level artists greatest enemy

[wraith socket]

People that only play Stalker 2, treating their PDA as a grocery list of things to get and nothing more to do, are missing 80% of the content of the game.

[thick zodiac]

this is my grocery list https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

[wraith socket]

I like to find things on my own, without following a map of where everything is shown to me.

[thick zodiac]

I don't use it
it is just a content map, gives you an overlook at all the stuff GSC implemented

Anyway, when to expect Lost Alpha 2 for Stalker 2 😄

[wraith socket]

What's disappointing is the NPCs generally all having the same boring supplies. I wish they would occasionally have more drugs on them.

[thick zodiac]

there should be tons of weed in the Zone... knowing what kind of people go there

[wraith socket]

What I meant was Hercules, Vinca, Psi-Block, stuff like that.

[crystal merlin]

I found the best way(and the most easiest, tress free way) to play this game, is to get out of Zalyssia then go to Cordon, then Cement Factory, maybe the Cooling Tower after that if you still have some juice for it.
Veterans will know what you can find in these regions(until GSC patch and move things ofc).
If you crazy, just rush to Malachite.

[thick zodiac]

I know just it gave me a thought.
I wish that NPCs were little better worked on in general, my god

[wraith socket]

Too many of them say, talk to the Boss.

[crystal merlin]

What I want from NPCs:

1. Better combat tactic, use covers more efficient, become actually thread, not just moving loot boxes(Jesus stop peaking your head out)
2. Less aim-botty
3. Faster reaction time,Jesus stop taking like 3 seconds to pull your 🐔 out, you and your friends are dead before you finished doing that.
4. Stealth actually work

[pallid tundra]

So decals are still broken?

[pallid tundra]

Sadly u wont see none of the unless properly moded

[crystal merlin]

I remember in the older games the moment you pull your 🐔 out and start sticking someone everyone around you will start blasting you immediately.
I do see enemies trying to swarm you, like they will try to go around your covers to hit you before rushing toward you, but I want more, really.

[pallid tundra]

Back in the day it was pure aimbot stuff 😆

[thick zodiac]

I am doing the second playthrough on 1.3.1 the first I did was on 1.2
and I am sure they have ruined NPCs with a new patch, they became to react extremely slowly or just completely non aggressive if you are shooting from an elevation. Stand on the surface 3 meters above them, they will just gather around you like sheep waiting for slaughter.

[thick zodiac]

you still have stashes to find after 760 hours?

[wraith socket]

I find more unactivated stashes than I do activated.

[worthy zodiac]

It's nice to see people genuinely enjoying the exploration and stuff

[wraith socket]

The Zone is so large and there is so much stuff to see in every corner, especially if you return to find different people and different mutants. doing different things.

[worthy zodiac]

Meanwhile I'm just waiting for the final version of the game to release...

[mild palm]

My man

[coarse sparrow]

just to bait chat into reactions

btw any1 one reached 1k hours played or more alrdy?

[thick zodiac]

I have just realized 19 weeks since the release and 760 hours => 760 hours/19 week = 40 hours/week => normal working hours => you are GSC Employee 🕵️

[zinc apex]

They work at least 26h a day

[sand fiber]

that'll take like another year and a half 💅

[empty gorge]

at least

[worthy zodiac]

What matters to me is not "when" but "what" it'll become in the end. I always thought that they are rushing too much with their release dates since that build has leaked... Just hoping they won't drop the ball. Communicating like human beings and not like a souless company would be nice too (Alright, they are not on the level of a souless company... Yet. But come on, that brick wall of clueless community managers between the devs and the players kinda sucks)

But yeah... I'm kinda patient. For example, Exanima devs have been creating their systems for 10+ years already and I'm fine with that as long as they'll deliver them in the end. I just wonder if GSC will be able to deliver anything meaningful in the end

Because... Well... Their money isn't infinite... For Exanima devs their game is almost like a hobby so they can allow themselves to work on it for as long as it takes. Can GSC work for another 2-3 years on Stalker 2? Who knows...

[sand fiber]

i mean considering it sold really well i'd guess yeah

[sand fiber]

true....

[worn oar]

Name one person who isn't clueless (aside from Nozar ofc)

Also, it's not about being clueless or not, it's more about what they are allowed to share and what's not. It's as simple as that and well, you do the thinking if you will.

[celest goblet]

They already planned two story expansions. On their own these will take a while to make

Plenty of time to update the game

[celest blaze]

Op2 is real stalker 2 download NOW

[simple geode]

why cement factory? There's nothing there. Cordon at least has 2 or 3 side quests but nothing you can do otherwise. Might as well leak into Zaton at that rate because there is way more there.

[crystal merlin]

It's more about what you can find in these regions, Cordon and Cement factory have things you would love to have before you rush to Rostok and Malachite.
I can't tell you directly because it might be spoiler.

[jade geyser]

I like pizza

pepperoni in the zone when?

[celest goblet]

Cement Factory/Cooling Towers may not have much in the way of quests, but they still have things worth searching for

[celest blaze]

Ong

[sharp flame]

Cut up some Doctor’s sausage, or hunt some Flesh and process it into pepperoni

[jade geyser]

u cant do it in the game

[sharp flame]

Theoretically

[daring storm]

Not with that attitude

[sharp flame]

That’s what I’m saying

[worthy zodiac]

Well... Yeah... I'd like them to be able to talk about more stuff instead of NDAing it all. What I'm trying to say is that it would be kinda cool to see answers to more technical questions, questions about game design, etc. Yet again, hope they'll open up a little after releasing the roadmap

[nimble cipher]

_yander has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[magic coyote]

Finishing the game + releasing the DLCs (though to be fair, they were developing them alongside the base game — which is still questionable) + the online "Honestly, I’m not even sure they’ll be able to pull all of this off before they run out of money

[ebon hatch]

we need russian war in stalker 2 dlc

[analog helm]

given that they only recently hired 50 or something new people, I'm not sure that is happening soon

[magic coyote]

But they have quite a few developers, as far as I know

[analog helm]

true, I'm surprised as well. I'm just saying that's not the move people do when they're about to run out of money 😅

[magic coyote]

In the short term, they’re far from running out of money, especially with all the sales they’ve made..

Now let’s see how they do with the DLCs. As long as the game is unfinished, I doubt they’ll have that many sales.

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[celest portal]

New sticker upcoming

[celest goblet]

Considering they were developing the game for years, and it already was profitable in the month after release, it would seem the studio is on steady financial ground

[celest goblet]

They went from a million just after launch to 6 million in February so idk

[analog helm]

6 million - those are number of players, so it definitely includes the Game Pass audience. Nevertheless, you are right 6 mill is no joke. There definitely will be high demand for DLC

[celest goblet]

I think their best bet is basically to fix the base game and then come out strong with the expansions

Same with adding new content in general really. It won't draw people in nearly as well if the experience is still busted

[north violet]

I wonder how that breaks down for individual copies sold.

[north violet]

I've pointed this out too, but...well...the Internet is rather hostile towards nuanced, sensible takes like this.

I mean, the addition of new content will undoubtedly also bring its own share of bugs, you really want the base game to still be an unstable mess in that scenario?

[magic coyote]

Question, radiation no longer affects me in my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 game, any idea?

[north violet]

Report as a bug and enjoy your newfound godhood.

[magic coyote]

brhu moment

[vestal quarry]

are there plans to update the game engine to latest version?

[zinc apex]

I asked my 8 ball:

don't count on it

[worthy zodiac]

Nobody knows as of right now

But yeah, as his magic 8 ball said - don't count on it, lol

[pseudo rivet]

Could always try to #📜┃ask-gsc

[pseudo rivet]

[celest goblet]

the magic 8 ball will provide more useful answers

[celest blaze]

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

[worthy zodiac]

#📜┃gsc-answers message
Here's a gem

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

Could've just stood up from his chair, walked to the designers, asked about the question, return to his PC and give us a legit answer

[celest blaze]

be at peace and dont even think about s2 anymore

[pseudo rivet]

Fr

Trilogy exists

[celest blaze]

op2.2, cotz, teamlite, legends return, goldsphere and many more peak content

[celest goblet]

Take a brain vacation, check back in once a month when the game updates

[celest blaze]

play peakout 3.. (fallout 3)

[worthy zodiac]

No, stalker 2 lives rent free in my mind

[indigo marsh]

Play Slop Thunder...

[severe dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-2-helldivers-gif-17415633748202930152

[worthy zodiac]

Now it makes sense why you like op2...

[celest blaze]

every day i want to go back..

[celest blaze]

tbh i like the whole fallout franchise

[indigo marsh]

They got me with the WWI event

[celest goblet]

OP-2 is for masochists of all types, not just the sort who enjoy FO3 😛

[celest blaze]

fallpeak 3..

new slop..

[worthy zodiac]

It's definitely a fall from peak...

[celest blaze]

naw its good

based american gov in black power armor > dainty men in football gear and skirts

[indigo marsh]

The grind for the wwi event isn't too bad. 5000 for entente and 5000 for Germany daily

[worthy zodiac]

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see how both of them are explained in lore + let's check them rpg mechanics...

(I won't talk about fallout tho cause I'm not even a fan of the series. Not even a fan of new vegas, yeah)

[pseudo rivet]

Poorly equipped paranoid farmer militants > cowardly scientists with their androids and synthetic humanoids

[worthy zodiac]

All I can say is this: enclave shouldn't exist after fallout 2... It exists in FO3 for the same reason brotherhood of steel exists in FO4 - cause they are marketable...

[celest blaze]

stalker 2 shouldnt exist imo

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, I don't entirely agree with that

[celest blaze]

good lord

[celest blaze]

i agree with this

[pseudo rivet]

It's just that what the game has just cannot be called Canon

[indigo marsh]

The legion is bringing knives to a gun fight and is still winning

[pseudo rivet]

Plot armor

[worthy zodiac]

Nah, there's nothing from previous games indicating the end of the zone and there are LOTS of things to improve

[indigo marsh]

NCR is cooler just bc the M16

[pseudo rivet]

Hella

And Salvaged PA, which is based. Unfortunately kinda useless though

[indigo marsh]

Personally I think the faction that looks the coolest is the best

[pseudo rivet]

Free States

(I'm not even sure I can really call that a faction, ngl. All they've got is Atomic Shop content and there are no NPCs representing them either)

[celest blaze]

in lore these mfs strong as hell using PA without the servos

[indigo marsh]

I think ranger armor looks better than power army tbh

[celest blaze]

fallout 3 enclave tesla armor goes so hard

[pseudo rivet]

I dunno, I like the scaled-down look the Salvaged Power Armor has

It's just that it's outclassed by actual Power Armor

[indigo marsh]

The remnants power army looks pretty cool tho

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, this is better

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

they need to readd this back in ngl

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[worthy zodiac]

Cat ears

[pseudo rivet]

And Hellfire PA looks based

[worthy zodiac]

Looks like he was bonked

[dire dagger]

Game should have launched in 2026

[pseudo rivet]

Ikr

[dire dagger]

we live in the dark timeline when it launched early

Or the timeline with the fire

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, if they'll keep updating it and it'll end up in a good state - not that bad, imo

Sure, would be cool to have early access tag on it or something but whatever, as long as they'll manage to implement cool stuff - who cares

[dire dagger]

I have faith assuming what has given me faith ends up in the game

[pseudo rivet]

[celest blaze]

ong

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/come-and-see-traumatized-shocked-war-gif-17845970650762875347

[crisp ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/cod-call-of-duty-makarov-cod-makarov-call-of-duty-makarov-gif-1957660657881634277

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-creepy-car-commercial-car-commercial-creepy-jump-scare-gif-14630404356031300471

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest goblet]

dark timeline where many different things happened tbh, but no changing any of that now

[mild palm]

What are some good Stalker 2 game-mechanic-dissecting YT channels? I know like 3 that post rarely about S2 these days:

• Anomalous Dugout (AWOL, pretty much)
• ZoneSlug (is waiting on patches, I assume)
• THE jimmichanga (isn’t a dedicated S2 channel in the first place)

[celest portal]

This movie great but pretty horrifying

[celest blaze]

fr its dark as hell

[dire dagger]

Go watch the Minecraft movie

It’s got flint and steel

What other movie has Jack black saying flint and steel

[broken latch]

FOR BLOOD AND STEEL

I really hope there's an end drgaon

I'm about to watch it

[dire dagger]

That’s gonna be the second movie probably

But it’s a so bad it’s good movie

Some of the dialog is straight up the room tier

[broken latch]

I don't understand why are grown up people always shitting on a kids movie

It's for the kids

[dire dagger]

Not a single kid was at the theater when we went lol

[broken latch]

Hahaha

[dire dagger]

When watching multiple times the entire theater erupted into applause

It was amazing

[outer laurel]

take off that ugly Railroad emblem from ENCLAVE

[pseudo rivet]

No

[celest blaze]

based

i like the symbol alot

[coarse sparrow]

me after finishing stalker 2 ver 1.0

[outer laurel]

heresy

[pseudo rivet]

No

[outer laurel]

yes

[indigo marsh]

I was watching the movie online and I was wondering why the dog was red and it turns out that the online one is an unfinished copy

[dire dagger]

owned

[indigo marsh]

You could see the green from the green screen in the work print version

[dire dagger]

lol

[worn oar]

[celest blaze]

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

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-look-gif-19801862

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-smacking-other-cat-cat-cat-smack-cat-swat-gif-10347810988835752163

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-slap-kat-slap-slap-cat-cate-gif-7906458944533086715

[celest portal]

Orange cat moment

[broken latch]

Why did you went multiple times lmao

[dire dagger]

i meant multiple times in the single viewing

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[celest blaze]

omg
keith

[worn oar]

[wraith socket]

I didn't start the game until the first patch was released, on November 29th.

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-drive-driving-car-gif-26521606

Omg
Keith

[wraith socket]

Did you get yours yet?

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-hiding-scared-cat-thaddeuswinter-thaddeus-winter-scared-gif-8846590460708131918

[nimble moon]

Are you not supposed to go to the Cooling Towers until later in the game? I managed to sneak in from the far-western strip bridging Cement Factory to it, and over fifteen Mercenaries spawned to attack me. The handful of Freedomers nearby also became hostile for some reason.

[celest goblet]

You can go there whenever, it's not really part of the main story

[nimble moon]

Cool. Just thought to check since nearly 20 stalkers decided to jump me.

Oh, the Bayun may have been the reason why the Freedomers went hostile. Can they do that?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[sand fiber]

most northern location
not really part of the main story
gsc can't keep getting away with it

[celest goblet]

lol, it is fortunately not quite the most northern, and there should be an asterisk because it can sorta be part of the main story, but it won't always be

[wraith socket]

Yes, when I was in Hlynka, I met a Ward patrol that was friendly. As soon as we got closer to the building with the Bayun, and it started talking like people, Ward went hostile on me.

[nimble moon]

Gotcha. Wasn't sure if it was the game being weird/buggy or an actual thing. Thanks.

Cooling Towers strikes me as a place that might have more emphasis whenever they get around to doing the DLC. That is, after they finish the game.

[wraith socket]

I wasn't sure either. I had to do the scene twice (manual save made before action) to confirm that is what was happening to me.

I first thought that Bandits had fired on the Ward and they reacted to me being near them.

[wraith socket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f822mXEzKr4

[nimble moon]

Oh, yeah. There were rumors floating around for a DLC area there, based on some concept art.

I think Scar even mentions it at some point in the game.

[celest goblet]

There's some interesting stuff out of bounds

[sand fiber]

i mean we do know what the DLCs are already 💅

you'll have to look at the leaks though 💅

[nimble moon]

I have a sneaking suspicion that there is much more content they wanted to include in the game. However, due to constraints and the situation in their country, they were forced to cut that stuff to meet the game's launch deadline. That being said, I think they're going to gradually implement the cut content to some degree while they flesh out/refine the game's existing systems.

[sand fiber]

i doubt the game's gonna have any content support beyond DLCs 💅 💅

[nimble moon]

Oh my God. I looked them up, and I'm pumped.

[sand fiber]

it's a crime they kept limansk locked behind a DLC tbh

i wanted them to remake Dead City :<

[nimble moon]

I was wondering what was going on with that. It was one of the best places to have urban firefights in Clear Sky/Anomaly.

[sand fiber]

Limansk itself is a Dead City knockoff, a proper remake would be so cool....

[wraith socket]

This describes every Stalker game ever released.

[nimble moon]

True.

[celest blaze]

clear sky should return as a dlc faction..

[celest goblet]

I disagree on this but I am keeping my expectations pretty tempered

[static compass]

[static compass]

Based

[wraith socket]

And the Renegades.

[pseudo rivet]

No

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[celest blaze]

midegades

clear sky peak sky

[placid spoke]

Stalker 2 needs more content theyre starting to lose me a bit

[celest goblet]

Well it's not exactly a live service game, though I wouldn't say no to them adding more things

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/alre-cat-alre-sniff-alre-cat-sniff-kitten-cute-gif-13488836494367124906

[normal comet]

Its weird how my first playthrough I encountered very little bugs, but now theres like a guy t-posing while teleporting arround

[wraith socket]

Can you be more specific?

[placid spoke]

Not really more content but new game plus and weapon balancing/improvements and maybe some new gear to play with

#1 ward fan yall dont understand i had to fight for this title

[wraith socket]

That's what Modding is for. To give weapon balancing/improvements to people that are never happy until someone changes everything.

[placid spoke]

Maybe they can put some simple mods on console like skyrim and fallout

[wraith socket]

Didn't it take them like a decade to do that?

[placid spoke]

Yes😭

But its bethesda they just discovered fire like 5 years ago

[celest blaze]

naw man

if you want mods go to pc lol

microsoft, sony and bethesda have to test and make sure all these mods work and are safe essentially for free im surprised they even bothered adding mods on consoles

[normal comet]

moar sidequest

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-look-gif-19801862

[wraith socket]

Would you settle for side-missions?

[vestal quarry]

mod kit when pls?

[celest goblet]

Consult the magic 8 ball

Until GSC announces something, that's as reliable as any info you will get

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/8ball-bart-simpson-shaking-shake-magic-ball-gif-17725278

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/magic8ball-simpsons-outlook-not-so-good-gif-13606372

[lusty crown]

does anyone know if you buy the ultimate from base, do you keep your preorder items? I can't find any information on this. I've always wanted to "upgrade" but I don't want to loose my preorder items.

[wraith socket]

I've heard people say yes, but not totally sure.

[lusty crown]

Yea I've heard some people say yes, while others say no. The internet has been no help so I figured I would ask here if anyone has actually rebought the game after release and kept your preorder DLC

[wraith socket]

You could always buy one from Steam and the other from GoG.com, just to be safe. Or ask people on Steam, where more people do that than here.

[jolly lava]

hey so i've been trying to play after not for a little bit and it's crashing in a weird way. when i hit play, it imediately crashes but then tries to launch itself again and keeps crashing. i have to manually stop it or i keeps opening crash reports

[wraith socket]

Did you install any Mods at any point?

[jolly lava]

yes, but i thought i deleted everything and reinstalled it twice

is there something outside the actual install the mods might have affected that i should delete?

[orchid gale]

Someone has finally bought my 3090 let’s go gamers

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/wrestle-playing-cats-playful-kitten-gif-15238487

[wraith socket]

Someoneunique?

[sly matrix]

somewhatunique

[hexed ore]

im having trouble getting the cave artifact on wild island, im trying to get past but it keeps killing me for no reason

[celest portal]

Is it that one where there's a lot of acid puddles around? Find that point where you keep dying and don't move further from there, try to grab said artifact. That's the very area I kept dying because the artifact was too jumpy.

[hexed ore]

yeah im trying but it keeps going beyond the magic death wall and i cant reach

[celest portal]

If it keeps doing that, the area is quest related. Maybe best to go back to it later so the invis death wall won't keep killing you.

[hexed ore]

finally got it with different detector.

[celest portal]

First time I tried getting it, the artifact just jumped backwards. But during my 2nd run I realized you will go back there anyway during a certain quest.

Unrelated note, Skif during my third playthrough will be him just going in the Zone trying to find every artifact at least once. Nothing else. Said I won't return after a couple of more updates but idk, keep getting drawn to it.

[hexed ore]

gave me a pretty good artifact though. no rad

[limber lark]

Hi guys when will the dlc be released?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest portal]

Some time in the future probably

[twin merlin]

when its night and i go inside its like daylight outside the windows... can i change this some how?

[mild palm]

For me it’s full-moon bright outside at night. If I lower the brightness, then I need the flashlight indoors. Borked

[unreal raptor]

The lighting is totally broken. Makes no sense and only looks good in a sunset/low sun style moments.

[sacred steeple]

guys isnt there like a general chat on this server

[celest portal]

Well, there's technically three. Here, spoilers gen, and off topic channel.

Four if you count the trilogy gen channel

[sacred steeple]

ah i just joined the server now, new to stalker. actually, while joining the server i clicked no to spoiler servers, is there any way i can enable it?

[celest portal]

Are you asking if you want to see the spoiler channels? You can just click 'yes' for spoilers. If you look in that section again (channels & roles) there are two tabs. The second one should let you choose whichever channel you want visible.

[empty gorge]

VERE IZ ALIVE TOO POINT OH

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[celest blaze]

omg
keith

[worn oar]

[empty gorge]

omg
alife 2.0

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-lick-lick-zoom-cat-nose-gif-14889846837604371647

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/alre-cat-alre-sniff-alre-cat-sniff-kitten-cute-gif-13488836494367124906

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/sniff-sniff-test-cat-stinky-gif-17061628113489721661

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-bath-bath-time-cute-baby-gif-10896974203603803126

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[tiny token]

I came home from a hema sesh and this is what I see. It's true I am stinky rn

[nimble moon]

Can someone explain the spread weapon upgrade? Does it affect overall bullet spread with individual shots? Does it only affect your accuracy when you burst or auto fire? Does it only affect hip fire? I've been finding quite a bit of conflicting information regarding spread.

Furthermore, why do the recoil recovery upgrades reduce a weapon's accuracy?

[crystal merlin]

Look like they added a new tactical helmet to the cooling tower region.

Some good news!!!!!
Look like the green ammo box now have a very very very low chance to drop acp 45 ammo.
Now we spend like 200 less coupons for these at traders.

[crisp ruin]

gud

[mild palm]

I’m afraid that the game’s official Discord is the wrong place to ask these questions. The answers we get here are like “Some technicians will offer to install mods on your wespons”

[celest blaze]

[zinc apex]

He very angy

[zinc apex]

This discord is for cat posting purposes and asking for updates

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-cat-cat-angry-bite-cat-gif-18014563265956221360

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[zealous pumice]

got any more of those...patches

its really been like 5 months already

time flies when you're playing other games waiting for stalker 2

[mild palm]

Best I can do is NO

[zinc apex]

game works and is playble. what else do you want? it's completed

[celest blaze]

Play indie games fr

Tunguska is fun

[zinc apex]

agreed

if you don't enjoy stalker 2 rn you will never do. it's not like they will do a complete overhaul of everything or something

[worthy zodiac]

you will never do
Nah, the devs can make it into a really good game. The question is: will they?

[celest blaze]

^

hell if NMS can go from slop to peak stalker 2 can if gsc cares enough

[worthy zodiac]

In any case, I've been ready to wait for a year or two (or more) when I saw the release state. Just... I hope they'll actually deliver something in the end, lol

[celest blaze]

same ngl i wish i didnt preorder deluxe im still mad

[worthy zodiac]

NMS
peak
Come on, man, you can be better than that... Do you also consider f76 peak or something after a few slop updates?

[celest blaze]

i see nothing but praise for modern NMS

but space games arent my thing so cant confirm

[crystal merlin]

Problem here is the UE 5, NMS had its chance since the engine it ran on isn't as demanding as this one.
If they really want it to be peak, a lot of optimization is need for the entire A life 2 to function properly.

[worthy zodiac]

It's probably the same situation that Cyberpunk is in right now. It might be "playable" and it might be "stable" but it's far from being the game that was promised. In case of Cyberpunk it's far cry instead of rpg, in case of NMS it's a reosource gathering simulator instead of... Well, "exploration of unexplored planets" simulator

[celest blaze]

id do anything for them to remake stalker 2 on og xray..

yall both got solid points

[zinc apex]

what are you guys missing. the game is feature complete and bugs have been fixed

[worthy zodiac]

A-Life isn't even something that demanding and it can be built outside of UE as a whole, as a separate thing that works on the background on its own. I doubt they'll do simulations of Mount and Blade or Starsector levels and these games can run on pretty shіtty CPUs with no problems so yeah... There's no "All of that is UE fault" excuse. It's all about... Well... Skill...

Skill, time, money...

[worthy zodiac]

I'm missing dynamic drama between NPCs and factions... Imagine sims 3 combined with dwarf fortress and rimworld and god knows what else inside of stalker 2... But unironically...

[celest blaze]

also faction relations tab

[zinc apex]

completely unrealistic. we have to accept how it is and move on finally. the game is very positive in steam. people like it, theres no reason to do a free overhaul

[worthy zodiac]

There's a reason in a long run

[zinc apex]

next big thing will be the first dlc and beyond

[celest blaze]

i just wish GSC would be open and honest

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, not saying that they are lying but looks like NDAing everything has worked for them. Wonder if they'd get all these sales if they'd say it nice and clear: "Currently our A-Life system is just a spawn bubble around the player, we have some major softlocks in the mainquest and the game isn't finished in general"

I'd appreciate it much more and I'd still buy the game buuuut... I'm not the whole audience

[zinc apex]

they literally said exactly this

[crystal merlin]

I hope this is true because if it is then that means we can all experience A-life 2.0 without worry about UE5 being the bottleneck.

[worthy zodiac]

I'm not sure if you are joking or not, tbh. All I remember is that they've said "It'll have a rough launch" or something like that, nothing specific was said before the release

[zinc apex]

not joking. i don't remember if it was on here or reddit. but some of the cms said: "A-life is currently spawning just around the player"

[worthy zodiac]

Insane, never saw anything like that. It took players a few days to find out that it's just a bubble around the player

Are you sure it was before the release?

[zinc apex]

yea they admit it after players found out of course

[worthy zodiac]

Ah, but of course... I'm talking about BEFORE the release. You know, when it's really important

[zinc apex]

remember when the "marketing guy" removed mentioning of a-life in every store. they don't care lol

[crystal merlin]

Someone on Reddit tried expanding the bubble with their custom mod, that and the fact that UE5 is too demanding and unoptimized by default are what made me think UE5 is the cause of all the issues.

[worthy zodiac]

I think they removed it on steam only, anywhere else it has stayed to this day (Including their website)

[zinc apex]

if there isn't some top secret build at gsc where a-life is actually in, then a-life is we know is a thing of the past

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah but AI doesn't even do anything complex currently, it's not UE fault, definitely. Some other games on UE do much more with much less resources

[crystal merlin]

You it took me that long to realize this is just sarcastic.

[zinc apex]

not at all. i was yapping a lot but accepted it now. it's just not realistic to think the game will be turned upside down at some point

it's still a stalker game at heart but it's a different approach in a different decade, for different people

[coarse sparrow]

I think the whole "bubble" concept is just flawed, the system def has a better implementation method than this, it just needs to be researched better

[zinc apex]

anything following on top now is just a bonus

[worthy zodiac]

My only real hope is that they still have the guy who worked on original A-Life. How much is he actually contributing to the current project? Who knows. That's why I wish we had a real communication instead of that ask-gsc NDAing all over the place

[zinc apex]

tbh i don't think they had the same vision for a-life for this game as the old gsc had

they will optimize the system they have now for sure

[celest blaze]

the old gsc is gone sadly

[coarse sparrow]

that dude is long gone

[worthy zodiac]

Judging by some interviews - they had something even bigger in their plans. Something more interesting than A-Life from original games (Which is pretty simple even in the biggest mods that modify it)

[celest blaze]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601970/Tunguska_The_Visitation__Enhanced_Edition/ this game is based decided to play this instead of stalker 2 if you like isometric games its worth a try

Steam

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[worthy zodiac]

I think one of the latest zoneslug vids can refresh your memory on their visions before the release

[worthy zodiac]

Who said so? He was still there like 2 months ago

[coarse sparrow]

I remember some old AI developer for Alife was working for Metro developers (also UA)

[worthy zodiac]

That's one of the two, yeah. The other one is in GSC

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, Dmitriy Iassenev is still with GSC... But yet again, he was fighting in the war more than developing the game itself so yeah...

Doubt A-Life 2.0 is the first thing in his mind right now

[celest blaze]

is he still fighting russia or back at GSC? idk how long these combat tours last

[empty gorge]

whats up we talking about alife (0.)2.0?

[worthy zodiac]

That's the thing – we don't know... Guess I'll ask gsc about it...

[mild palm]

Godspeed, feller!

[empty gorge]

he is serving , not currently at work at GSC

[worthy zodiac]

That's what I heard too. I also heard that the current programmers communicate with him and ask for advice for this or that too... But yeah, would be cool to know a little bit more

When I found out that the developers of original stalker games were talking with F.E.A.R. AI programmers it made so much sense...

[analog helm]

it is funny that the studio behind F.E.A.R was named Monolith.
And protagonist in the game had a similar plot twist as Strelok in SoC (or rather the other way around).

[wind ridge]

hey i saw that teh games on sale presently and im thinking of getting it

i liked games like the metro series and RoN, you think this will be fun?

[sand fiber]

yes

[wind ridge]

oh sweet, is that mp mode it advertises out? might see if my girlfriend wants to play too

[sand fiber]

no, it will be deathmatch only, like in the trilogy

[wind ridge]

unfortunate

[sand fiber]

metro series was made by ex-Shadow of Chernobyl developers btw 💅

[wind ridge]

oh sehr gute, looks like ill be getting a similar experience then

hey just to double check, this game has a flashlight and such right? i hate not being able to see what im doing

[sand fiber]

yes

[analog helm]

Metro is much more story focused game, while Stalker more like atmospheric free-roam whith story happening on the background.

[sand fiber]

untrue

[wind ridge]

ok good, roaming around finding new shit to loot was my favorite part of metro, and its a relief that the game has a flashlight, im terrified of the darkness

[mild palm]

[citation needed]

[sand fiber]

they confirmed it won't be neither coop nor extraction

[mild palm]

Right. But co-op could be meant like co-op side-missions a la Far Cry 3, or campaign co-op etc.

There might not be cooperative goals, but it doesn’t exclude the possibility of players being able to cooperate

[wind ridge]

Hey what all weapon types does this game have, revolvers and marksman rifles?

[mild palm]

The reason I say this is because putting out a Deathmatch like it’s the nineties would be just plain dumb; an utter waste of resources

[sand fiber]

assault rifles, pistols, sniper rifles, shotguns and machineguns

[wind ridge]

Oh cool, I'm assuming there's at least 1 revolver?

[sand fiber]

nope

[wind ridge]

How, revolvers are iconic

[sand fiber]

it's a game set in 2012 ukraine, no revolvers

[wind ridge]

Especially Russian ones, the nagant for example

[sand fiber]

sawed off shotgun is more iconic 💅

[sand fiber]

oh, i forgot, there's also a grenade launcher and an RPG

[analog helm]

what are you talking about? what about Rhino
https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Rhino

[sand fiber]

HoC isn't even a stalker game 💅

[silver snow]

Hi guys. Does my suit's physical protection stack with artifact's effect?

I have compass and Diamond exo. Are they working together?

[wind ridge]

the rhino looks an awful lot like a big iron to me

thats it, im gettin me wallet, this game seems awesome

[sand fiber]

play the trilogy first 💅

[dark sedge]

where can i report bugs

[wind ridge]

nicht

[sand fiber]

i will do things to you ❤️

[wind ridge]

you will fail, i got a spear for home defense
and a fireball cannon for gnome defense

[zinc apex]

you don't even have that game

[sand fiber]

wouldn't need to 💅💅

[wind ridge]

apparently my house nearly getting struck by lightning fixed my internet

its gonna take a mere 2-3 hours to install the game

[celest blaze]

They are one of the lucky ones

I coulda used my 130 dollars for much better things

[zinc apex]

true 😦

[celest blaze]

[zinc apex]

they almost lured me in to buying that ultimate physical pack. that'd be a distaster

[mild palm]

there's still time, boys

[celest blaze]

Same man holy fuck I'd be PISSED

[celest blaze]

It's tiring being so hopeful for so long though I don't have infinite hopium

Fallout 4: anomaly modlist > stalker 2 Ong

[short pagoda]

do artifacts "run out" in stalker 2 or am i a victim of some kind of bug

[urban basin]

Only the "special" ones dont respawn

[short pagoda]

noo i mean like does it get used up if you put it in your suit

[urban basin]

Oh, maybe its some bug then lol

[granite mortar]

2 whole top tier premium vehicles
(4 during anniversary discount)

[worn oar]

[celest blaze]

ida bought 4 russian top tier premiums

or swedish

[granite mortar]

Eww
Swedistan

[celest blaze]

better then US

i fucking HATE top tier US teammates

esp clickbait abrams users

[granite mortar]

I hate swedish mains
More so than the japanese
Both are sweaty crackwhore wallet wariors

[celest blaze]

ONG honestly

[celest portal]

Hello fellow stalgers

[celest blaze]

fuji and Christian 2 mfs can burn

[granite mortar]

Less greeting
More cat posting

[celest blaze]

[indigo marsh]

Finished CotZ on to greed

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/peak-peak-cinema-mountain-peak-peak-meme-meme-peak-gif-9675380678095988954

[celest portal]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

@granite mortarngl id buy this as its my countries tank but i dont have a top tier german lineup lol

[indigo marsh]

Grind buy it out

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-incrives-meme-meme-react-gif-25029710

[granite mortar]

You dont need a line up
Half of these clowns leave after single death anyways

[celest blaze]

i hate 1 life mfs if you only wanna use 1 vehicle go to air RB or like get those items that let you respawn the same vehicle

[granite mortar]

Play the WW1 event also
Its kinda fun
Like
Not fun fun but certainly better than 8.7 and beyond

[nimble moon]

I'm guessing that the physical resistance cap makes the Magic Cube pointless if you're wearing an exoskeleton?

[sharp minnow]

where patch 2.0

[gritty orchid]

Keith ate it

[worn oar]

Wolf has it

[gritty orchid]

dead chat xd

[feral totem]

When would be an alife fixing patch? We had quite a few patches but alife didn’t get any significant improvement. Wonder how long it would take

[mint gazelle]

I'd be surprised if they do any large scale enabling of A life. They seem to just be focusing on fixing smaller sections at a time and implementing those improvements as they go. That way if they reach a brick wall where game performance drops significantly regardless of what they do, theyve still made progress despite it. Just my 2 cents tho.

[feral totem]

I’m curious about it as well. Like how much alife would tank cpu performance for it to be not usable? Like is it possible for them to increase spawn radius at all without ruining the performance?

[sand fiber]

i mean x-ray did it 15 years ago

[latent rain]

I have a bug where I cant find a body for a certain quest to loot it for quest items.
Tried older save games, but seems the body glitched too early.

Any way to fix it without starting modding?

[mint gazelle]

Could be limitations with unreal 5, seen a lot of talk that its a not so fantastic engine for optimization and performance

[feral totem]

15 years ago we didn’t need dlss or frame gen to run games smoothly. Things might get worse overtime

[feral totem]

This is what I worried about. Maybe due to the limitations of ue5 a full alife is never possible. I really hate to think that possibility

[sand fiber]

you still don't, unless you're playing unoptimized shit :D

[feral totem]

Stalker 2 isn’t super well optimised 🙂

[sand fiber]

idk haven't played 💅💅

[mint gazelle]

I crashed 4 times in the final mission today. 1 of those times I was just standing for a few minutes while I checked my phone.

[tawny comet]

New patch coming Thursday, April 24th. I can feel it.

[mint gazelle]

Its in his bones, perhaps the funny one

[tawny comet]

The big updates are around 35 days apart I believe.

[coarse sparrow]

savage

[coarse sparrow]

no worries, a decade from now people will be playing S2 on their steam deck 4 with praise how smooth it is

[wind ridge]

hey zara, how quickly can i obtain a bolt action rifle

[sand fiber]

there are no bolt actions in the trilogy 💅

[wind ridge]

i meant in HoC

[sand fiber]

idk haven't played, pretty sure there are none too 💅💅

[celest goblet]

There is one, it's a fairly powerful sniper

[wind ridge]

m701 Super right

[celest goblet]

Yeah. Not sure exactly where to find one off the top of my head though

[wind ridge]

fair enough, what about finding myself a rhino

[golden vector]

You can probably run to a spot right after getting to leaver the lesser zone. Would be an annoying journey though.

Same thing for most of the guns

[celest goblet]

Yeah. These weapons are mostly in later game areas. The one Rhino I know of for sure is in the Malachite area, and it's in red condition so you would have to pay a relatively large sum to repair it

[wind ridge]

ill travel a surprising distance to obtain an iron or a bolt rifle

[golden vector]

It is a lot of money to use and maintain it though, won’t really be worth the work till mid game.
There will be a yt video out there on where to get whatever gun you want

[wind ridge]

aw damn, what about a simple pump shotgun

[golden vector]

Can get that pretty fast ig

[wind ridge]

ok sehr gute, where can i go to obtain myself one

[golden vector]

You’ll probably just come across one after you leave the lesser zone or earlier. You also get one during the main quest line, and earlier if you choose your way wisely.

In the no spoiler section so wont elaborate

[wind ridge]

cant you just use ||the spoiler bars|| to give a slightly less vague answer so i can get a shotgun

[golden vector]

|| don’t be lazy, just search “how to get a pump action shotgun early in stalker 2” and watch. Can do the same for the other guns you want.||
I’m guessing you just have the standard edition of the game?

[wary quarry]

Sup

[wind ridge]

yeah, i got the one that only costed me 50 bucks

[worthy zodiac]

Welcome to stalker community! :D

[vital plinth]

anyone have a running list of stalker+ type mods? quality of life without breaking the game for a first/second playthrough?

[wraith socket]

Can't you just go to the Spoilers channel instead of asking people to break the rules? https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034374473617459

[wind ridge]

spoiler bars hide the spoiler, and i didnt even know there was another one, apologies

[wraith socket]

We don't want people to use the hide bar in a section clearly marked No Spoilers. Thanks.

[wind ridge]

apologies, i figured hiding the spoiler would be fine, ill avoid it

[wraith socket]

No big deal. I can see you are new here.

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-drive-driving-car-gif-26521606

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[sand fiber]

1. what game
2. why would you need that
3. there are no good vanilla+ mods

[wraith socket]

What does this even mean? All the Stalker games are about QOD or Quality of Death.

[vital plinth]

1. stalker 2
2. because its release was iffy and people have made fixes before devs release stuff/balance
3. thats unfortunate

[proper wraith]

Does team have any plans to reduce latency in this game? It is huge.(Rtx 4080)

[dire dagger]

Are you using frame gen

[celest goblet]

Turn off frame gen, turn off mouse acceleration, and it will feel much better. If you have already done those things then idk

[dire dagger]

This ^

[sand fiber]

stalker 2 has like no mods rn, i thought you were talking bout the trilogy

[wraith socket]

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods

[vital plinth]

yes, there are a bunch of mods. i'm asking which ones are worth it without ruining a first/second playthrough

[wraith socket]

Read the reviews of each Mod you are curious about.

Go here to ask in the Spoilers section: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034529889615963

[dire dagger]

Few add any real content

Some just make the gun systems better

But don’t expect any real game changing mods

[wraith socket]

Modding a game before you have played it, is not advised since, how would you know the difference?

Play the game, make a judgement on what you don't like or would want to change or improve, and see if there is a Mod for that action.

[forest linden]

real

[crystal merlin]

Remember that room with like 3-4 bloodsuckers? Seem like they added quite some stuffs for you to hide from them lol

[placid spoke]

Lil bro

[crystal merlin]

I think it's about time they add Spark Exosuit and Exoskeleton.

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/naotoshi-shida-cat-gif-25374780

[zealous pumice]

Doubt any new content is getting added for quite some time

[hollow cove]

Take a look on this modpack
https://docs.google.co...

https://youtu.be/ZsAiiMXGA_M?si=4e8nmvf_itCcusSr

[loud gate]

Every few patch have some new stuff though

[proper wraith]

Turning it off does not affect that much since fps drop drastically.

[celest portal]

Technically true, lol

[zinc apex]

looks at nexusmods, sees almost 1k mods

[prisma cargo]

You should also check when they were last updated or if their description/posts say they’re safe for 1.3.1

[steep raven]

i want it on ps5, Stalker 2 on ps5 would be so banger

[pseudo rivet]

STALKER 2 on X-ray would be goated

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/galaxy-cat-x-ray-cute-pretty-space-gif-11657760

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

Thanks Ranjid 💫

[pseudo rivet]

Stay based, Ranjid

[calm bough]

Molt where update

[pseudo rivet]

In the walls

[calm bough]

[pseudo rivet]

Just play the TrilOG instead

[crystal merlin]

Do not disturb him or Korshunov will ride an pseudo giant through your mom's house.

[sly viper]

wheres the trilogy pc update

[pseudo rivet]

For what?

Vanilla is fine as is

[fallow garden]

Fix the game

@golden vector you don't want them to fix it? Damn

[vale quartz]

Woke nonsense og games are perfect

[dire dagger]

Framgen massively increases latency

[proper wraith]

This game has high latency without all of these stuff too. Sacrificing 70 plus fps for just 20ms lower latency is not helping

[lament crypt]

Lower your graphics if fps drops

[dire dagger]

I don’t have high latency when not using framgen

So idk

[proper wraith]

What is ur latency? Fps? And gpu

[dire dagger]

9070 xt

And I get like 15ms ish

[proper wraith]

Fps?

[dire dagger]

Like 80 to 90

In towns like 50

[proper wraith]

4080 is more powerful than urs. U sacrificing too much too. Ue5 engine is bad for latency itself but this game latency is something else. They need to optomise it better . Even dlss 4 works weird in this title after latest updates.

[golden vector]

yeah i'm super against it

[dire dagger]

This game heavily favors Radeons from what I’ve seen reported

[fallow garden]

SoC was pretty cool. Obviously VERY dated, but cool nonetheless

[proper wraith]

Benchmarks does not say that

[dire dagger]

Idk it’s what I see reported

Latest update could have broken it or made it worse

I’ve not played in a while

[fallow garden]

Stalker 2 feels soulless in many ways compared to the OG games. It just has some very good qualities that make it playable. I'm worried a-life will never be what it was meant to be. Mostly because they seem to not be able to do it.

[proper wraith]

The only way to play it in ultra with better latency is series 5000 multi frame gen. More frame rate=less latency . + Reflex 2 . But 5000 series is too pricey right now.it does not worse it. Funny is the game does not have good reflections too. Without rt it run like this imagine if it has RT.

[proper wraith]

Yeah probably . I love this game it make me mad sometimes when latency go hight in some crowded spaces . Playing with m&k specially if u always plays multi player games makes u sensitive but With controller nobody feels anything🤣

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/black-cat-stretching-morning-cute-tired-gif-25515109

[dire dagger]

Wouldn’t more framgen equal worse latency

[thorny minnow]

I've had multiple merc squads spawn on top of me at bases lately

[celest goblet]

Yeah I turned it on once and it's basically unplayable with frame gen on

[thorny minnow]

I turned it off because it ruined holo sights among other things.

I'm hoping none of the other anomaly fields bug out, shit sucks.

[vale quartz]

Games that are meant to play with upscaling and framegen in mind are huge red flag

[red niche]

how do i make my stalker shadow of chernobyl look like its some arg thing

[celest blaze]

Arg?

Soc looks great as is

[vale quartz]

I would have liked more S2 if it wasn't for dogshit and mandatory implementation of TAA that produce ghosting, blurry image and visual artifacts every time u start moving. Also this game somehow just feel horrible to play under 60fps, it likes it falls apart. I enjoyed it a lot for what it is but holy shit if it could be so much better and more

[red niche]

like an arg

[celest blaze]

You dont

[red niche]

make it scawy like em creepypastas or minecraft args

[thorny minnow]

Soc is already scawy

[red niche]

also funny thing, there was a mf in gamma server that stayed too much in cordon in soc and weird shit started to happen

dr lecter just type what u are tryna say

[dire dagger]

He’s right an essay about mfg

[red niche]

mfg?

[proper wraith]

Frame gen since is not a real time rendering always makes latency higher but overall higher frame rates make latency lower. In 5000 series since multi fram vastly increases fps (about 260 fps with just 5080 in stalker2 on max) and multi fg has a bit lower latency than fg + reflex 2 it makes a better performance than other GPUs . Considerably better but at what cost?2200 USD for 5080 Maybe that does not make sense that much.

[dire dagger]

The best way to explain framegen is it’s only good if you don’t need it

Meaning your already making 100 plus fps with out framgen

[celest blaze]

^

MFG is gimmick

[dire dagger]

Until they figure out how to make games register inputs on generated frames I don’t see the point

[proper wraith]

Yeah ofc but well the industry can not give us raw power with low cost so ai is the only way around unfortunately. But since mfg has lower latency than fg some says maybe next gen Nvidia solve the latency problem .

[celest blaze]

They can but they choose not to

[dire dagger]

Only solution to latency is making it possible for inputs to register on generated frames

Which apparently they are working on that

[celest blaze]

The death of triple and quad A gaming optimization is nearly here

[red niche]

imo unity is the only real good game engine

[celest blaze]

There's many good game engines lol

[crisp ruin]

We need old bedroom coders who makes best games

[red niche]

and xray engine, or whatever stalker uses

[celest blaze]

Hell warthunder engine is well optimized I can play matches at 200-300 fps with a ton of explosions, smoke and fires going on

Fully maxed

[red niche]

I thoug war thunder used unity or ue4

[celest blaze]

No uses dagor engine

[nocturne monolith]

Hell let loose is ok, frames are good, but i get annoying drops when it loads chunks. Thankfully its slow enough to not a huge issue

[proper wraith]

Well kinda yes .. the Nvidia does not have any competitor for its high end GPUs. In other hand AMD also released fsr4 just for rdna4 . They do everything they want unfortunately

[red niche]

i didnt know it had its own engine, also yall heard abt the new extraction shooter that gaijn will be releasing

[celest blaze]

Yeah I'm pumped to try it

[celest blaze]

Fr

[nocturne monolith]

The fox engine 😔

Rip

[red niche]

same, its like dayz eft and stalker combined

dayz cus it almost has no inertia and is pretty fun, eft cus extraction, and stalker cus, well i think you know why

[proper wraith]

Maybe after usa create silicon's in their land. Overall cost of making the process going up year by year .

[loud gate]

[crisp ruin]

Before everything they gave to China, chips and other PC parts was homemade in their countries

I remember from LGR video, old sound cards and Graphic Cards was made in USA or Canada

or UK

[red niche]

should i speedrun stalker soc on novice or master?

[proper wraith]

Yeahhh.

Another bad things also is developers moving from their own engines to this UE5 shit. They creating new Witcher on UE
I remember Witcher 3 was run perfectly on my gtx 970. But now I'm sure new Witcher does not run ideal or maybe that good on my 4080 . Lol.

[crisp ruin]

That what happens when company doesn't care their workers, coders and other staff than making money from a game, Yes UE5 is great if you're in film or animation industry and want realistic CGI.

oh wait

Blender exists

RIP Autodesk

[celest blaze]

Play it on master take your time and enjoy the game

[red niche]

ty

[proper wraith]

Yeah. What u think about The next rockstar advanced engine?

[crisp ruin]

Looks good and pretty realistic but as I know their shady with modders just, big L. Also they never make their engine licensable like other engines like CryEngine, so other L

[empty gorge]

ue5 > blender for film or animation

[zinc apex]

Play amk mod on master

[storm kernel]

USA used to have their own fabs (we TECHNICALLY still do, Intel still operates fabs capable of creating chips but they are several generations behind TSMC), but we somehow completely failed in actually KEEPING chip manufacturing inside the US

[red niche]

amk?

[crisp ruin]

Blender's big break was Flow, a film about a black cat wondering world. UE5 never does this ever.

https://tenor.com/view/flow-movie-2024-black-cat-cat-gif-13741746801731199911

[storm kernel]

if you're speedrunning a game I'd personally go for the easiest difficulty for first time run. Just to ease into the mechanics and map design of a game

[red niche]

kk

[storm kernel]

I only saw the last like 30 minutes of Flow it was really nice movie. Very cute cat.

[empty gorge]

yes and ue5 has stuff to create impressive scenery for movies or make it so actors can get immersed on set, it can also adjust animations and other stuff in post. blender is good but just not for like moving stuff, compared to ue5 for movies and also animation (but less)

[storm kernel]

you could also do the hardest difficulty off the jump, but then you run the risk of doing what Cody Miller did during his Halo CE "speedrun" where he started on Legendary, dropped down to Heroic after the first mission, then dropped down to Normal after the halfway point for the rest of the game 💀

He ended up going like 4 hours even though his estimation for the game was 2. This was on a charity stream for Games Done Quick and caused them to implement an entire rule that they were now allowed to terminate a run that was taking too long 💀 😭

[crisp ruin]

in Blender's new version 4.4 has this welcome splash

[red niche]

lollll

whats yalls opinion on elevator glitch?

[celest blaze]

tbh people overhype master diff its not that hard

cop master is a joke

[red niche]

fr

but cs master is hell

[thorny minnow]

I think COP is just an easier game overall, even with the ending.

[nimble cipher]

romanian_1 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty gorge]

elo guys its your cm shay here with another round of answers:

• We had ideas for a 4th master difficulty but we cancelled it, we are looking at introducing it later down the line again after balancing the other 3
• some gun
• yes, we have plans to introduce atleast 2 new weapons, 1 you might have spotted in the game on walls or at some vendors
  petition to outsource me as cm

[red niche]

also cs master is like ukraine but homing pinapples, worst stalker in the zone is straight from delta force

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Peak Sky

[crystal merlin]

Get wolf'd

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-food-eating-cat-eating-gif-1320502635529344444

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[dire dagger]

Tsmc Arizona corp is opening next year

[storm kernel]

that's still TSMC operated, I would rather an American company have some access to American chip manufacturing

it's a good step forward, but I would still like some competition rather than a single corporation having all control over advanced chip manufacturing

[dire dagger]

It’s an unrealistic expectation

It would cost trillions to make something comparable

It’s why part of these tariffs are so dumb

Like Intel might be able to catch up but there isn’t really anyone else

Micron is the only other big name but they aren’t even remotely on the same level

Because there products don’t require the most advanced technology to make

[storm kernel]

if only there was some kind of authoritative entity that could theoretically accommodate this large amount of money to help an American industry thrive in the global market...

like, think about it, something we would pay these things called taxes to every year or so, and they would actually use that money to improve our country...

[dire dagger]

Asking our government to gamble trillions of dollars is probably the worst idea ever

Because if they fail

[storm kernel]

they're already gambling trillions of dollars on something that is infinitely less likely to pay off 😭

[dire dagger]

All that money is just gone now

And we are left with nothing

We are chasing a ghost that doesn’t matter

[sly matrix]

-# Gambling it beats pissing it away as they are doing right now

[storm kernel]

we're asking them to gamble on poker when they are already gambling on slots

[nocturne monolith]

Nothing would happen

Nothing ever happens

The US gambled trillions in the middle east

And nothing ever happened

[fast stratus]

US destroyed my country in the name of freedom

[nocturne monolith]

If it helps It was probably for lobbyists to get paid, freedom was the cover story

[dire dagger]

Well I doubt there gonna for this but maybe I’m wrong

[celest goblet]

There's gambling and then there's just incinerating money for nothing

[vale quartz]

muricans are chained in a debt economy for quite a while now, freedom has lost any meanings lol

[sand fiber]

so errmmmm what youre saying is that america is just like gsc 💅 💅

[storm kernel]

trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives for a lie

actually shameful

[celest goblet]

But yeah just the EUV machines for modern component production are hundreds of millions of dollars. Not really the sort of manufacturing you set up on a whim

[celest blaze]

Also millions of civilian deaths for a lie

No one really cares about them cuz they aren't white

[fast stratus]

What kind of freedom is it that I can't even buy a McDonald's?

[weary token]

like 5 months have passed from the game release and every GSC answers QA and A goes like: "its early to talk about it"

sorry, I was a bit early to write this

[upper tree]

"Maybe", "that's possible", "it will probably be in the next patch"

[gritty orchid]

They should just drop this gsc-answers channel and instead borrow from Rust's playbook and do monthly dev-logs.

[weary token]

also: "Dont know." which is: why do you even select a question from the pool where you cant answer it. We already know 1 thing about everything related to stalker 2 (like the DLC, MP, new content, patch dates) and that one thing is: that we dont know

[gritty orchid]

this way the CM's would actually have time to come up with concrete answers for the F.A.Q and get some info about the state of the game/next patch with the devs x)

[upper tree]

I don't think I've seen another game discord server with a question/answer channel, FAQs are usually the closest thing and those would be sufficient compared to the boiler plate answers we get in the answers channel

[weary token]

I think im just impatient a bit and also will fall into the "too little too late" situation. I mean my stalker 2 "fever" (or wait, this is 2025, in this year people used the word "itch" for this phenomenon) already faded, 1.3 patch was like starting up the game and playing it for like 5 minutes

on another note: I keep hearing legends.de is silent about the promised 2nd run of STALKER 2 physical editions. Scam?

[celest goblet]

I wouldn't be against temporarily closing the Q&A and just having a FAQ until they can say more at least

[empty gorge]

hard agree, please get rid of the useless channel. its one of the most useless channels ive seen in the official discord of any official game discord ive been in

its frankly an insult to people wanting more info and instead receiving info that someone with room temperature iq can put together

not a single time in last few days/weeks has anyone given praise on an answer there, on contrary it only made people ask to get rid of it, something aint right here chief

also here are better answers to questions asked today in gsc pr's: #⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[gritty orchid]

[celest goblet]

Doesn't seem insulting to me just sort of a low key waste of time for them too

I feel like you would have to be pretty fragile to find generic boilerplate answers insulting

[empty gorge]

it is the fact that there are probably better questions being asked yet they cherry pick questions that anyone can find the answer too and its always like "we know", "we have idea" etc etc

[weary token]

for me its generating a bit of a negative feeling. Like reading the question and then the answer is "dont know". Like a joke that a person doesnt finish....No tragedy and all but still a bit 😦

[empty gorge]

and to add on top of ampee, imagine someone else asking another question perhaps more specific and they go unheard every. time. and then they see those answers in that channel (no not me, i dont use that channel)

[weary token]

yeah, i have asked several questions, like what about DLSS4 support (adding it nativley) for example

[empty gorge]

dw, i hear from several that theyve been asking multiple times, never got answered

[weary token]

i mean the newest driver/nvidia app added support for DLSS4 upscaling so now at least its no longer a big concern for me. (no need to use dlsswapper, inspector etc)

[celest goblet]

Reality is ball is 100% in their court now, nothing to do but wait. If complaining about things actually made them speed up like some people seem to think we would have had the roadmap back in December or January. It's either gonna happen on their schedule or not at all, so no point in me getting bothered about it. Whole thing is beyond my control or influence

[empty gorge]

doesnt mean we cant voice our opinions

[celest goblet]

You can. It's just gonna be like talking to a brick wall though.