⭐┃nospoilers_general

[pseudo rivet]

Fake

[sly matrix]

Arright I'll bite. Who do you find funnier?

[dire dagger]

He’s the only good returning character

[pseudo rivet]

In HoC?

[dire dagger]

[pseudo rivet]

Dalin

[dire dagger]

Dalin is just a bro

[pseudo rivet]

Dalin is a meme

[crisp ruin]

Dalin just... Funny guy, having similar look to Zelensky's actor days

[pseudo rivet]

Mind the politikz

[sly matrix]

Fair enough, can't blame anyone for choosing Dalin in that toss-up

[pseudo rivet]

[dire dagger]

Just the meme is all

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[pseudo rivet]

No, Dalin's a meme

[dire dagger]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/65c25d820483234984d9a275/0fceaf4b-596c-4bdd-a7f5-fcff5adc0e83/HAT+ICON+OPTIMIZED.gif?content-type=image%2Fgif

[surreal radish]

those of you who have rx 9070 xt, are you crashing when trying to load a save?

[dire dagger]

Last I checked no

[pseudo rivet]

Zero context, nice

[crisp ruin]

President himself already a meme

[dire dagger]

Context not even needed

[pseudo rivet]

I know it already

So don't

[dire dagger]

[outer laurel]

problem with factions is that, they could be removed and there won't be a diffrence. They decided to go like Fallout NV with choosing diffrent main 4 factions for the ending

[outer laurel]

Duty, Freedom, Bandits, Renegades, Clear Sky, they don't matter anymore

Only monolith BAD

also reusing the same enemy is lame as f*ck

[granite mortar]

It doesnt even make sense
Half of thes factions should be DEAD a decade later
ahhhh
I hate this dumbass reusing
Cant believe modders had better stories to tell than people who are paid to tell stories

If they at least had good lore reasons
But monolith is only there for sake of being the big bad
Jekan did it better

[outer laurel]

yea no creativity there, also they wasted Strider as a character

so much hype

for nothing

[hazy helm]

that is the point

[placid spade]

Just out of curiosity, the shown many artifacts in the SIRCAA hall...are those the amount of could be found or are some missing for reasons?

[outer laurel]

what point

[hazy helm]

Killing him

people want good characters to be killed to give story more weight but hate it when good characters are killed

now, if you ask me, we should do the same to Richter

[zealous pumice]

2026 for physical editions is hilarious

[outer laurel]

atleast richter survived longer than strider....

[crisp ruin]

[granite mortar]

I got mine in 2024

[crisp ruin]

True...

[outer laurel]

god I hope dlc will be better written

[zealous pumice]

i got mine in 2023

[hazy helm]

you get rilled up enuff about how well Strider is written to say that his death is only a bad thign for the game

[outer laurel]

then that means that GSC is full of amateurs

[granite mortar]

Jekan better
Replace GSC with Jekan
Problem solved
Crysis averted

[hazy helm]

why?

[nimble cipher]

blackburn8215 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[outer laurel]

If dlc will make me think that strider is well written, that means GSC staff can't write good stories

and Strider is not well written

[zealous pumice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcf21Bf37w

such a shame the downgrades, game looked great 3 years ago

the difference is staggering, i know its a fun game overall but i really hope modders can get it close to this. I wonder if it was the shift from ue4 to ue5, the lighting is so different. even the sound design, the barking in the distance is so cool

[stuck pewter]

Profound mental retardation

[outer laurel]

oh yea? Then why monolith is bad again? why reuse the same theme >

not like we did the same thing in last 3 games

[stuck pewter]

Its almost like theyve been the overarching villain of the entire series

[outer laurel]

it's boring honestly

[stuck pewter]

A stalker game without monolith is like a stalker game without anomalies

You might as well be playing something else

[outer laurel]

why not add some cut factions like Sin

or create something new, fresh

[stuck pewter]

Sin has been a cut faction for 18 years and only gained any relevance because of anomaly

They are also way more boring and somehow less nuanced than monolith

[outer laurel]

well modders know how to do good work, unlike here

[outer laurel]

monolith = soldiers talking to a big rock VERY intresting

[stuck pewter]

You wouldve hated the trilogy then

[outer laurel]

not like Strelok turned that off and now we had a new faction of ex monolith only to turn monolith again.....

[zealous pumice]

no spoiler chat guys

[outer laurel]

trilogy was something new, monolith used to be scary. Stalker 2 however reuses them cause they have no idea to introduce new enemy

[zealous pumice]

go to general to argue about stalker, got freshies in here not wanting to hear about spoilers

[stuck pewter]

Slavjank mod number 2056 wrote it so much better...

[stuck pewter]

True

[granite mortar]

To be fair that series they were villian in took place ten years ago and they were in shambles at the end so...

[stuck pewter]

Yeah thats fair

I dont think its that wild that they are back though

[granite mortar]

Well I could see them be a remnant of some loyalists, causing trouble in one or two regions
But full fledged faction thats threat to everyone is a bit dumb

[stuck pewter]

I think its neat

I loved the whole "oh fuсk" atmosphere the game suddenly takes on when they reappear

[granite mortar]

I dont want to be the "mods did it so much better" guy but I do think Jekan was more original with Monoliths return in RTTZ

[modern dock]

We don't know how many splinter sections like Strider's survived after SoC. After the event of HoC, Monolith members could possibly be more numerous than any other faction.

[granite mortar]

In CoP they were in shambles
Low on numbers with no real base
Heck they only had one gauss rifle that we know of

[nimble saddle]

Were any dates announced regarding the DLC??

[boreal mountain]

the game is broken to shiiiz and they still got recognized...

[tranquil tartan]

this game will hit a year without releasing a key feature they promised they will release with the game

[boreal mountain]

and accept every ounce of praise and recognition ignoring the issues

[hazy helm]

they gotta fix the game first, calm down

[tranquil tartan]

fr gotta love it

[fathom depot]

just got an mail about physical edition, it got moved to february 2026

[tranquil tartan]

for some reason I read that as about my physical condition

[nimble cipher]

kingbubblez has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[granite kettle]

Whoopsies

[fathom depot]

that sucks. Best we can do is wait. It is what it is

[granite mortar]

When did you order?

[granite kettle]

With the new patches and updates that's been rolling out
Did the performance get any better?

[outer laurel]

I'm still waiting for that multiplayer feature

[fathom depot]

in 2024

[granite mortar]

Before the game released?

[inner mural]

yes and no considering i have a 3080 i think it depends on the graphics drivers

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[fathom depot]

yea, during that as i call it - "second chance". One moment and i will tell exact day

[granite mortar]

I ordered from the first wave like two months before the game released

[granite kettle]

Damn

[fathom depot]

4th of November. That's when i paid for the edition. At least it says like that in my mail :d

[granite mortar]

Oh damn
Ultimate edition I suppose?

[fathom depot]

correct

[lofty helm]

[urban basin]

Nah

[fathom depot]

[drowsy blade]

Corps added as server faction

[reef raptor]

in my case yes
compared to release I would get like 50 fps on max graphics at 1440p with a 4080S (DLSS on quality no frame gen) but now I get around 100 fps on average
can still be improved by a LOT but it did get better over time for some I guess

[granite kettle]

ㅤ

[reef raptor]

facts... I agree

[safe shard]

lmao

[outer laurel]

welp we were promised sooo

[stiff pasture]

Gonna be honest with you, they’ve got a lot more to worry about with the game rn

[static compass]

Omg it's zek

What up

[dire dagger]

Nah it’s not

That’s a clone

[static compass]

No way

[reef raptor]

heyy!! its mee!! :3

nothing muchhh playing the last of us part 2
whats up on your end?

[static compass]

Been playing the Oblivion Remaster

[reef raptor]

epic
I downloaded it days ago but I never got to play it

[static compass]

It's so peak

It's the same game, with a major facelift

Look at this kitty

Ong

[reef raptor]

never played the first game so I cant say much but WOW the difference is huge

[static compass]

Right?

[reef raptor]

[static compass]

Omg it's boykisser

[crisp ruin]

[reef raptor]

TRUEE

[static compass]

What you looking at

[hazy helm]

ew

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tiny token]

Meow

[zenith yew]

I'm still waiting for A-life :(

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[outer laurel]

cool, yet they promised multiplayer

so I shall wait

[celest portal]

Yeah, nothing wrong with waiting. What I won't do is expect it to happen any time soon.

[cobalt silo]

Ik no one cares but... I am reading roadside picnic rn and I am sad that there are a lot of things that stalker did different. AND the Stalker word is nod pronouced like the illegal activity but it's Stalker with a not o it is not [stolker] but [stalker] that word is different and it means people who go to the zone (or other dangerous places) to get some money. Just wanted to put that information here :3

[outer laurel]

Good thing I can do other things. I just hope gsc will deliver what they PROMISED

[static compass]

Omg

[drowsy blade]

Khajiit got a major facelift, Argonians still look… strange

[static compass]

Such cat

[static compass]

My friend's argonian looks peak

[drowsy blade]

Alright that looks cool ngl

[worn oar]

My dark elf looks neat too

Same armor btw

Well, until an hour ago

[granite mortar]

Hate elves

[drowsy blade]

I just got done with the first Oblivion gate

[static compass]

True

They always looked neat

[worn oar]

Looks old tho

[static compass]

My khajiit looks good in my opinion

Gray with green eyes

[static compass]

What about khajiit

[worn oar]

Made him look like a mage, in heavy armor with some insane balance to all fight styles lmao

Worst one is magic so far

[static compass]

Mine is an assassin build

Usually fitting for khajiits

Also a thief

[granite mortar]

Thats the cat people?

[static compass]

Yee

Bit kitties

[granite mortar]

Peak
Literally me
If I was cat human

[static compass]

Amazing

[worn oar]

Well, got some good dagger, so I'm kinda thinking about an assassin shift

[static compass]

[static compass]

I got the debaser last night

Unique short sword

[worn oar]

It's funny to see female khajiits having beard lmao

[static compass]

True, but they fluffy

[worn oar]

Still a bit behind in terms of good loot tbh

[granite mortar]

How cursed would the look if it was just a bald spot on their otherwise fur covered body

[static compass]

Omg

[worn oar]

Just used the deluxe armor and stuff to this point

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[static compass]

I need to get the deluxe stuff

[worn oar]

Flee infested kot

[worn oar]

The one you have is deluxe

It's spammable, but has no value in gold

[static compass]

Nuh uh

I just have the standard edition

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[worn oar]

Well, I thought that was the deluxe

XD

[static compass]

Omg where?

[static compass]

No, the debaser is in the regular game lol

[worn oar]

Oh, thought we were talking in off-topic channel

[static compass]

Oh true

[granite mortar]

Well its not like you are spoiling anything about S2 so...
Living up to the channels name I guess

[static compass]

Fair point

Chymo is right again

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[static compass]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat
I love glorp

How many Glorp servers are there?

[worn oar]

Well, if I ignore the channel, I might as well stop telling ppl to go to off-topic. Idk it feels like mod abuse haha

[static compass]

G L O R P

[celest portal]

Glorp

[granite mortar]

Nooo
My beloved stalker mods
Whos abusing RTTZ?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[coarse sparrow]

1.4 is shaping up to be the goat patch

[outer laurel]

Hope so

[wraith socket]

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

[half jacinth]

It's crazy a game I paid $120 for like 6 months ago remains completely unplayable on an 11th Gen I7 and 3080 but is still given some award of exellence

[lethal orchid]

Quinten Tarantino typa animation

[wraith socket]

I have the same equipment and I'm not finding it unplayable.

[half jacinth]

And dung beetles find shit edible but you don't see any other animal chowing down. If you enjoy 27fps in DLShitSucks performance mode enjoy the taste of shoe leather

Let me.be clear, im not upset at the devs, this is clearly Microsoft. They definitely forced the studio to launch an incomplete unfinished product, and consumers suffered. You may be able.to look past all the issues but I'm not and it's disappointing. This is how great studios get shut down. And Microsoft jerking itself off with this award is just tone deaf IMO.

[wraith socket]

I'm not chowing down on anything. I am not eating shoe leather. I am not getting anything as low as 27fps. There are plenty of people that have completed the game.
Microsoft didn't force GSC to do anything. I have no idea where you are getting all your misinformation from.

[half jacinth]

All you have to do is search Stalker 2 FPS and the first link is tech power up, and they clearly show 26.7 fps. Additionally, i don't need sources for my own personal experience with the game. Say what you want about Microsoft but the game wasn't exclusive until Microsoft started directly funding GSC but yeah they had no influence over the project lmao 😆

[wraith socket]

Your article source is 5 months old, before any Patches came out and is clearly out of date information. End of story.

Relying on information, created for when the game was less than 24 hours old, after its release is pointless.

[somber juniper]

Even then i think the notion that the 3080 used to have 27fps is insane
Unless that's like 4K or something

Just checked TPU
And at 4K native max settings TPU reported 34.5fps average

For the 3080

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

A good day to you too

[crisp ruin]

[coarse sparrow]

define unplayable

[teal swallow]

Hay guys I want to ask about something
Is blurriness on series x ( performance mode ) something that can be fixed ?, I find very noticeable when it rains and sunset

Or is the problem with my display?

[wraith socket]

There are a lot of really large TVs on the market, that are very affordable, but not of the best quality for video games.

[teal swallow]

I'm using 4k display

Hisense brand 55inches

[wraith socket]

They're supposed to be decent.

[dire dagger]

VRAM issue probably

[somber juniper]

good point TBH

[dire dagger]

3080 is 8 gig default 10 gig optionally

And the 3080 ti was 12 gig

[somber juniper]

3080 8GB default ?!
its 10gig default
NO?

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080.c3621
https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3080-3080ti/

[dire dagger]

You right

I’m thinking of something else

[somber juniper]

prolly the laptop version

yeah, laptop version is 8GB
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080-mobile.c3684

[cobalt steppe]

Have they fixed the X/Y sensitivity and mouse acceleration yet?

[celest goblet]

I think mouse acceleration was disabled by default months ago in a patch

But I took the 60 seconds to disable it myself at launch and haven't had any problems since

[reef raptor]

yeah I think it was part of the first..? major patch

[nimble cipher]

glembus has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lofty helm]

[gritty orchid]

[lofty helm]

[sly matrix]

[crisp ruin]

[gritty orchid]

[static compass]

Billions must glorp

[hearty fable]

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/geeked-vs-locked-in-angry-bird-vs-angry-bird-locked-in-bird-gif-17221846656631414500

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[static compass]

Glorp

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[somber juniper]

[lost folio]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[ebon hatch]

That
Is a furry, my friend

[granite mortar]

no
thats a glorp

[static compass]

Glorp?

[tender spruce]

Guys

Quick question

Does stalker 2 run well and this is a question in terms of optimization

[zealous pumice]

Yeah it runs kind of fine now it's just a bit shallow in terms of features rn

[topaz surge]

Hunting trip with your buddies?

I love how some npcs will be rocking suits worth tens of thousands of dollars lore wise then be rocking there grandfathers over under!

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

[crisp ruin]

Omg
Keith

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[tiny token]

Meow

[rough condor]

patch when

[unreal raptor]

Been a while kids — why is there two general channels, the heck. Take it the cool kids are still in here?

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[celest blaze]

Reading is a powerful tool for those that know how to do it

[unreal raptor]

that's terrible categorisation

[dire dagger]

Would you like to log a complaint

We always appreciate feedback to make this server better!

[granite mortar]

I want to log a complaint
The stupid cooldown in #🐺┃pets is borderline unbearable

[dire dagger]

I see I see very sorry to hear about this

How much would you be willing to pay to have this problem solved

[granite mortar]

Bro Im running i5 650...
Do I look like I can pay?

All I can pay in this economy is attention

[gritty orchid]

[celest blaze]

But you can play peak stalker mods and that's all that matters

[granite mortar]

I cant play New Project
cuz no AVX

[dire dagger]

Look man I gotta shake people down for some shekels some how

I don’t get paid

[granite mortar]

too bad
I only got Shillings

[dire dagger]

Damn it

[sly matrix]

Do you accept blockbuster stocks?

I levelled up from that message...

[granite mortar]

please post cats more
I still need to react to 900 of them

[sly matrix]

And then?

[dire dagger]

Nah only bed bath and beyond

[celest portal]

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorp-cat-glorp-ritual-gif-17126698980075976179

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[frozen merlin]

Should I dip into the game now or wait till the next (big) update ? (I didn't play the OG 3 games, only watched summarys on youtube because game was too hard lol)

[celest portal]

Maybe wait for the next update? I already played through the game, but waiting for the next big update before I start a new game. I am not sure how soon that update will come, tempted to start a new one now. It's really up to you.

[stiff pasture]

Supposedly 1.4 is scheduled for this month (Barring any schedule slips or issues)

[celest portal]

[worn oar]

Potato

[granite mortar]

@warped rover tear him apart

[north violet]

From what I've read, the hot new thing is RedBox stocks.

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-jumping-excited-play-time-gif-9841068

[tender spruce]

Is stalker 2 multiplayer confirmed at all or nah?

[celest portal]

Well, it does say the game will have one.

Eventually

Not co op

[worn oar]

Yeah

Should come when it's ready

[tender spruce]

ok

[tender spruce]

i know theres gonna be team mate style stuff but not co-op

i was gonna say openworld multiplayer stuff would be fun like the community begs for

[worn oar]

I'd say location like, or region sized levels (though it may not be a good idea cuz it's gonna be hell to manage the space and all)

I'd expect something slightly similar to what we had in the OGs

Probably bigger playable levels capped from the zone

[tender spruce]

ofc yeah

[tender spruce]

yes higher levels worse players to worry about or make friends with

[warped rover]

do NOT insult the bulba

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-dumb-and-dumber-whatever-fine-whatever-gif-gif-7892631202993336744

[warped rover]

Sigma

[turbid hull]

WHERES THE NEW PATCH I WANNA REPLAY STALKER 2 RAHHHH

[stuck pewter]

what the fuсk i dont remember that

[worn oar]

Soon

[warped rover]

Then replay it

[turbid hull]

I just want better optimization, that’s why I’m waiting

[empty echo]

Yeah, I'm sick of having 20 fps or playdough game

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-tired-pass-out-goodnight-gif-1558335180095786001

[warped rover]

Car and dog

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[rapid warren]

GO FORWARD MY CENTURIONS

[balmy burrow]

#📰┃announcement message Award for what? Game still have a lot of bugs. A-life is not there. I know that you struggle a lot but it doesn't mean we would award unfinished products. I can't agree on that.

[empty echo]

Dunno if it was up to them, and if the award is on the best graphics or whatever the game really excells at, it might deserve it.

[celest goblet]

Pretty sure it's just chosen by Xbox themselves

[dire dagger]

Ehhhh

Game visuals are fairly average

Look about on par with metro exodus most of the time

Not saying that’s bad but it’s hardly ground breaking

[reef raptor]

the game can look really nice when it is sunny with not that many clouds and whatnot but the second it changes to overcast ehh.... it looks so..so bad

[dire dagger]

What I mean

For how badly it runs

It doesn’t look that good

[reef raptor]

oh yea no I agree with that

[dire dagger]

Like I’d expect fully cinematic fucken visuals for performance this terrible

But it looks about the same as metro exodus

But with half the fps

[reef raptor]

what hurts me is the fact that it performs so badly when theres not even anything cool like.. how can I explain
I hate how SKINNY the trees are in stalker 2.. barely and leaves and vegetation on the tree itself
its mostly dead and skinny with like nothing

some games have so much vegetation it is crazy and the games still run well
I just want stalker 2 to have big fat trees with lots of green leaves or whatever 💔

[dire dagger]

I mean the ray tracing effects are generally extremely mild

[reef raptor]

the lumen graphical artifacts...

[dire dagger]

I mean ignoring the artifacts

[reef raptor]

I looove seeing flickering on my guns

[dire dagger]

Deus ex from 2000

Has better reflections

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/deus-ex-deus-ex-jc-shame-gif-26245854

[dire dagger]

That’s the funny thing metro exodus supports full rt lighting shadows and reflections

But has zero noise

And the rt effects are actually really impressive

Plus you got physx on top of all that

Which makes it even better

[reef raptor]

oh yea no I played metro exodus at max graphics 1440p and it looks so beautifuly stunning its crazy

I really dont understand why GSC switched to UE5

days gone was built in UE4 and it looks stunning imo

[dire dagger]

If they kept ue4 they could have used physx lol

I looked into it ue5 basically entirely removed any form of physx support

Your only option is to convert physx to the baked in ue5 physics engine

[reef raptor]

dang

[dire dagger]

Which is a massive let down

[rough condor]

Don't forget the lumen torture like adaptation delays and outside looking like an atomic bomb going off when you look at it from inside a building... At night. You already mentioned reflections. Also dithering of all things. Exodus is in a completely different league, Stalker 2 could have been saved by the artstyle but it's also mid compared to Metro

[dire dagger]

Yah I agree

Like stalker 2 has a chance to be an incredible game when it’s actually done

But graphically

It looks nearly 10 years behind

[rough condor]

I remember one interview where GSC was saying that they barely used procedural generation while making the map, they seemed very confident about it and eager to show it... Meanwhile the game has one of the most proc-genned looking forests in recent memory. If they were doing it by hand they didn't do a really good job

[dire dagger]

It just screams unfinished to me

Like they touched up a rough draft to make it to the release date

I don’t really hate the game like a lot of people here do atm

I just find it to be in its current state painfully average

[ripe patrol]

🤓 acthually, from digging into the files, i believe this. The only evidence of generated "foliage brushes" are for the grass and foliage. All the other assets, like trees, seemed to have been placed by hand and baked into the map. Not saying that its better or not, it still feel like generic forest sometimes, but at least they did put in the work

I just wish the forest areas would feel more dense and imposing. Just feel like any open world forest that you can just freely walk through a straight line

[dire dagger]

Yah like

Except for red forest

There aren’t really dense forests

[ripe patrol]

and red forest isnt really walkable, theyre hiding alot of that density in the forest via their silly LOD system

like most of it is out of reach is what i mean, you either can walk their paths or clearings

[loud gate]

🙃

[rough condor]

Meh, to me if they were quickly and randomly spamming trees with mouse clicks all over it's not really any different than precedural generation. While playing KCD I feel like I'm finding interesting fallen trees, clearings, streams and just natural stuff that somehow turns the eye. None of that in Stalker 2, everything is samey

[loud gate]

Everything is samey, because most foliage got cut from the game (and it looks to have happend really late into dev as well)

You can comapre any location with what was seen in trailer, and you can see how foliage was absolutely botched in retail.

[ripe patrol]

God I wish we knew how to re enable those beta trees

[rough condor]

This is not usually a thing devs add after release but I hope this time will be an exception since it's clear that this game needs straight up finishing

[loud gate]

As I've posted above - some locations don't even look like what they were originally supposed to be. Zalissya was supposed to be a pretty forested area - now it's much much blander

[ripe patrol]

Yeah that's a good point, it does feel very generic and uninspired

[loud gate]

They added the SHoC Rostok tree in 1.2

[dire dagger]

You missed my very next message

[loud gate]

No, I just came to doompost here

[loud gate]

wtf, no lol.

[rough condor]

So there is hope

[ripe patrol]

I went deep trying to find a way to increase the density of the forest and trees and what not, but it's all baked into the map and cannot be modified unless we get access to the map layer files

[ripe patrol]

With SDK probably

[loud gate]

I don't think activating procedurally generated trees is currently possible without SDK

[reef raptor]

this really hurts my soul

[loud gate]

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, once it will be released - I have high high hopes it will be.

[ripe patrol]

With SDK and hopefully 2.0 version. SHoC will go hard

There's a great albeit flawed foundation.

[loud gate]

[ripe patrol]

Where did you get these screens?

[loud gate]

I have recreated the whole trailer on my channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT_lA1fYCJE

[ripe patrol]

Ah damn I love your vids

[reef raptor]

I dont get why they removed all of those dense trees man

[loud gate]

Optimisation

[reef raptor]

yea but like... it still runs like hell :(

[ripe patrol]

I imagine with those trees it'd run worse

[reef raptor]

it runs like this and there are tons of skinny trees which is so confusing

[loud gate]

With trees it would be even worse.

[reef raptor]

it has nanite right

[celest goblet]

Yeah imagine how much worse it would be with like 5x the trees

[ripe patrol]

Man I wish S2 would've been low fidelity....

[reef raptor]

ohhh if only they didnt use nanite + used baked lighting

[urban basin]

S2 in UE4

[ripe patrol]

S2 in Source 2 engine

[loud gate]

GSC should have done kcd2 approach where they wouldn't bother with super ultra high-res textures, but with great lighting and foliage. Would help for optimisation, a-life, level art, etc.

[urban basin]

In unity

[loud gate]

God, spare me.

[ripe patrol]

Low fidelity also allows for easier modding

[reef raptor]

apparently the models for important characters are in like 30k? when a friend of mine ripped the game for a model he found out about that lol
theres no wy ppl have 30k screens

or the patches were in 30k I forgot what he told me

[dire dagger]

Okay 6 years maybe 7

[ripe patrol]

S2 has super high def weapons lol

[dire dagger]

I mean it doesn’t even look good

[ripe patrol]

Like absurdly high def. Not sure how much but the file size for the texture was huge

[dire dagger]

So it seems like a giant waste if you ask me

[reef raptor]

or make s2 with cry engine :D

or better yet roblox studio

[loud gate]

In general, the textures are really high quality.

[dire dagger]

Like I just look at metro and it’s rt effects

And you compare them to stalker 2

It’s like stalker doesn’t even have them by comparison

[reef raptor]

when did exodus release again

[loud gate]

still no lol

[ripe patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXjq_8UuoCI

[dire dagger]

2019

[loud gate]

because stalker literally does not have RT lighting

well, I should say, HW RT.

[dire dagger]

It does

It’s just fake rt lighting

Which is part of why the game runs like ass

[reef raptor]

6 years ago.. yet it still looks phenomenal hah

[ripe patrol]

Console Parity. The stone that knocked stalker 2 and made it disabled was the one thrown by MS, called Series S

[reef raptor]

when fake rt lighting runs worse than rt lighting

[dire dagger]

Well it’s cus it doesn’t leverage all the dedicated rt hw in your gpu

So it’s just wasting the regular gpu cores rendering it

[loud gate]

It's Software RT Lumen - it isn't nearly as good as HW RT obviously

[dire dagger]

Like cutting down trees with a Swiss Army knife

[reef raptor]

agh, thats annoying

[loud gate]

Metro Exodus aged really badly in some aspects tho, especially some textures.

[reef raptor]

I think it aged really well I dont mind the textures that much

[dire dagger]

The enhanced edition looks amazing even today

Even if personally I find the games story to be kinda mid

[ripe patrol]

What engine does exodus run in?

[dire dagger]

The actual game looks lovely

A custom engine

[loud gate]

4A

[ripe patrol]

Ah right the dead island engine, right?

[celest goblet]

Unfortunately the red flags around their new game are pretty massive

[loud gate]

Oh, and another point here - Lumen got downgraded a lot in retail. Like, a lot.

[ripe patrol]

Oh wait what am I talking about lol

[celest goblet]

Like a blind person could see them from a mile off

[dire dagger]

I mean that much was obvious

If it was like the trailers

Game would run at single digit fps

[loud gate]

Ehh, this is a weird game. Like, foliage got massively butchered in retail, yet in some places it looks way better.

But then, in this scene with the higher fidelity foliage, the lighting is worse instead - which makes the whole image look worse - even though it was upgraded in some aspects. Arrrhhh, I hate it, I want trailer foliage and lighting

this is what I am talking about btw*

[celest goblet]

One of the great mysteries of this game is how close to release that trailer was and how different many things were in it vs release

[dire dagger]

Some stuff was I’m sure on purpose

To hide spoilers

[reef raptor]

you guys reckon they'll ever switch to 5.5

[ripe patrol]

Probably not

[celest goblet]

No

[ripe patrol]

Well we know GSC won't go bankrupt and they did fairly well financially, so Stalker 3 will probably be a thing.

[celest goblet]

Unfortunately making such a change far into development is simply never worth the work

[ripe patrol]

We hope they've learned their lesson of switching engines

[celest goblet]

Unless it's truly necessary

[reef raptor]

give them 10 years

[loud gate]

Yes

[reef raptor]

I hope they will

im curious as to what this month's update will offer tbh

[loud gate]

oh, I know

[celest portal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1254039371955437570/1280437674766766091/attachment-3.gif

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-26024669

[ripe patrol]

Also I was so surprised STALKER 2 only featured 4 weather's

Not including emissions. And 3 weather that we're cut from release. Like just 7 weathers for an open world immersive atmospheric game

I'm really hoping SDK gives me the ability to add weathers, I'll make sure to bring back some nice weather patterns and transitions

[loud gate]

I am really bummed about it as well

Thundery and Light Rain is in the game, but can't occur naturally. That sucks.

[ripe patrol]

I mean unless you use my mod

[loud gate]

Also hate how rain has this super agressive blue-ish tint.

[ripe patrol]

I've rebuilt the cut weather and added them into the game

[loud gate]

This?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/164

[ripe patrol]

Yes

I have a video right above the one you just posted

[loud gate]

I know it, it is a great mod

[ripe patrol]

Thanks 🙏 I just released a new version which pretty much remakes the base weathers..I never liked how cloudy looked

[loud gate]

And aisde from this - I don't like how there's no windy weather either. And more of a nitpick: I would love to see storms in the distanc, meanwhile the weather in the current player's area is clear. RDR2 did this and it was gorgeous

[ripe patrol]

Ayeee windy weather is one of the first things I'll add. I wanted to completely replace the stormy weather with something like this but I chose not to mess too much with it

[loud gate]

Cloudy weather skybox just looks weird. I really like how it looks during the morning though

[ripe patrol]

Yeah it looked like a white sea above your head

You're welcome to take a gander at the new weathers. I'm no UE Artist so I have no clue what I was doing so feedback is truly appreciated

[tiny token]

meow

[loud gate]

Will try the new version when I return to public build

[dire dagger]

Yah like in game most of the lighting looks static for the most part

Or when it’s very clear it’s ray traced like sircaa

It’s soooo noisy

[reef raptor]

still wonder why the devs decided to release the game with noisy shadows and reflections, etc. like cmon
they devs surely play tested SIRCAA.. right? and noticed the amount of noise and grain

[dire dagger]

Hw rt wasn’t ready but idk why not just do static lighting at that point

What we have looks in many ways worse than static lighting

At least static lighting doesn’t have noise

[reef raptor]

:(

[turbid hull]

JC DENTON MENTIONED???

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/fact-do-you-single-to-back-that-up-gif-21443611

[turbid hull]

Man dx1 is peak

[dire dagger]

Jc Denton is peak

[turbid hull]

Ngl cc in stalker 2 reminds me of morpheus ai in illuminati

Does anybody like the modern Deus Ex games? some people really like them, some think they’re trash, I think they are alright

[dire dagger]

I just don’t think they really live up to the hype of the original

They are trying to be something similar but also very different

It’s like deus ex for modern audiences

[turbid hull]

Yeah 100% agree, dxmd just straight dishonored rip off

[dire dagger]

Like you can’t say it exactly ruins the original since

It basically has nothing to do with the original

Except for a single mission you only got if you pre ordered the game at GameStop

[turbid hull]

Jack spitting facts here

[dire dagger]

Truth be told idk if you could really make a modern deus ex game

Deus ex was possible because so much of the game was able to be molded and changed

Modern games are far to rigid in how they are made to allow for stuff like that

But hey they made dues ex nameless mod

So if you really need more deus ex you can go play that highly recommend

[turbid hull]

Oh I haven’t even finished revision yet lol

[dire dagger]

Nameless mod is the best deus ex mod hands down

It’s even fully voice acted and the voice acting is actually good

[turbid hull]

Damn alright I will give it a shot thanks jack

[dire dagger]

I mean I think I can sell you on this feature alone

You can get akimbo pistols

That are 45 acp

[wraith socket]

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

[turbid hull]

Sounds peak

[dire dagger]

It’s insanely peak

[coarse sparrow]

money (dev costs)

[dire dagger]

Same reason no xray 2.0

[turbid hull]

What’s funny is that Warren Spector, original Deus ex director said he worried about deus ex shooting mechanics feels weak compared to half life and people would dislike it, now it sounds like modders go crazy with it lol

[dire dagger]

Apparently a lot of people don’t like it but

I love it personally

[nocturne monolith]

I wonder how much they spent on making the game

[dire dagger]

Clearly not enough

No money left for me to get paid

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[granite mortar]

[dire dagger]

Bro brought some positive to the chat

Thank you bro

[coarse sparrow]

I think ballparking 20-50m

[dire dagger]

50 more million could have been xray 2.0

[coarse sparrow]

I think core folk who worked on xray moved to the other studio developing metro games

[dire dagger]

Yah ik gsc now is an entirely new entity

I mean the original writer of stalker died tragically from COVID in 2020

Honestly that was probably the biggest tragedy to happen to this game

[winter stump]

There's things that the game is missing that really shouldn't have been that hard to implement at the start, such as night vision, a core mechanic of the previous games. S2 came out last November, following multiple delays, and we ain't even got a date for when NV might come out.

Only inconsequential "balance" patches, and incredibly minor fixes.

[granite mortar]

wouldnt call it core mechanic
NVGs were utterly useless more often than not

[winter stump]

I would. And to me, and clearly many others here they were. Regardless, it was an option given to the player. It changes the dynamic of playing at night, there's no reason it shouldn't have released at launch.

Also you can simply just Google "Stalker 2 Night Vision", and you'll see the incredible amounts of threads, posts & articles begging for it to be added, stretching months.

[granite mortar]

Im not saying it shouldnt be in S2
its just that it wasnt a core feature

[empty echo]

Eehh, not really in my experience

[celest goblet]

Yeah I agree. Feel like they definitely should have been in but they were a secondary feature. You could easily go through the whole games without NVG

[dire dagger]

Metro at max settings looks pretty damn close

[empty echo]

Not quite, I play it at Max and it's not quite as good imo, it looks somewhat last gen

[celest goblet]

I'd say some scenes look similar, but darker indoor scenes look better in Metro. But we are sort of splitting hairs at a certain point

The lumen in S2 seems to get particularly noisy in low light scenes

[ripe patrol]

low brightness makes S2 shit itself even harder

[celest blaze]

Fr lol

[tiny token]

Meow

[celest blaze]

meow

[celest blaze]

omg
keith

[gritty orchid]

Pawel

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[celest portal]

Pawel

[sly matrix]

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

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/daddy-come-to-me-sleeping-shocked-scared-gif-15932852

[ebon hatch]

Grigorovich is still there tho. GSC should've rehired Mooze (If he isn't unalive too)

[wraith socket]

Your information is inaccurate.

[sly matrix]

It's his thing

[ebon hatch]

The dude with his wife.

[loud gate]

Only in stalker community you have people whining about such an unimportant feature compared to other bigger and more important problems lmao

[wraith socket]

He wasn't present when the original Stalker games were made, so he's part of the new entity.

[ebon hatch]

I rember him being there for the show

[wraith socket]

Older brother who made trilogy gone.
Younger brother made Stalker 2.

[granite mortar]

wasnt he one of the testers for SoC?

[ebon hatch]

Tbf OGrovich was greedy

[wraith socket]

Just how old do you think he was 18 years ago?

[granite mortar]

17

[ebon hatch]

Sidorovich is an Easter egg to his greed, a self-insert if you will

[granite mortar]

its in the Wargane documentary
Eugene says he worked as tester

14 at the time

[wraith socket]

Yes, I just checked his age. He was about 20 in 2007, so that's believable..

[granite mortar]

the segment starts at 9 minutes 35 seconds

[loud gate]

He was but he didn't have a big role

[ebon hatch]

Now he ruined Stalker

[wraith socket]

He is older than what I remembered.

[vale quartz]

Giga Griga mode ON

[little bridge]

Hey, do any fo you guys now the code names of weapons that are used in game files? like for example GunViper, GunAKU, GunM16, i need one for AS Val but i don't know if its GunASval, GunVal or what

[ebon hatch]

As Lavina

[little bridge]

Thank you!

[crisp ruin]

Dat bowl cut

[tardy wadi]

is GunM16 real? is it ths AR416?

[little bridge]

I think yes.

Do you guys know a simple mod that adds the possibility for some existing scopes to be usable for some weapons that were previously unusable?
OXA is too complex, and MWSO is buggy. I also tried Customizable Unique weapons, but it just don't work. I just want vanilla+ experience, honestly nothing much, only for AR416 and GP37 to be able to use RNBW 2X or PAO 2X Scope, AS val Open Collimator sight and Im happy

[celest blaze]

clear sky was the last good stalker game

[ebon hatch]

CoP was soo good. I am degying it rn

[celest blaze]

i gotta disagree on that one

3 maps, retarded mainquest and so short shoulda been a dlc

i beat the game on master in 19.6 hours lol and i wasnt even rushing that much

[ebon hatch]

20 hours is good blud

[celest blaze]

bait

[normal comet]

cod mw3

[versed jasper]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows of a mod that makes it so you can use a wider variety of attachments on your guns?

like for an example, the as lavina can't use regular red dot sights, which in my opinion is really weird

[normal comet]

pretty sure theres a mod called 'OXA' oxside expanded armoury
'never actualy used it, but maybe thats the thing youre looking for

[versed jasper]

that looks like what I want, thanks!

[normal comet]

No problem

[ebon hatch]

OwO

[ebon hatch]

Saving Strelok daddy is an honor 🫡

[versed jasper]

welp that broke my game

can't equip weapons anymore even after uninstall

[zealous pumice]

i think thats pre rendering right? or they ran the game at a really low frame rate with extreme settings and then sped it up

[loud gate]

No

[zealous pumice]

then HOW does it look so different i dont understand what they have done, it looks like they have comepletely changed the game engine. is that ue4 vs ue5?

[versed jasper]

Does anyone know how to fix your Stalker being unarmed after installing a mod? I've uninstalled everything that I installed today that caused the bug to happen but I still can't equip any weapons

[zealous pumice]

the differences are actually quite severe

[loud gate]

1. More details and general visual tweaks to lighting
2. The game is already on UE5 so idk what you are refering to.

[zealous pumice]

the trailers look a lot better tbh

than retail, which photo is retail out of those two?

[loud gate]

This is what they aimed for - but obviously the game would barely run on anything that's not high end.

[loud gate]

The second picture.

[ebon hatch]

Obviously, trailer materials are tampered with

[coarse sparrow]

I mean the thing night day cycle makes it pretty much some weather at night for me

[normal comet]

ah, yeah... that happened to me, I tried removing mods that affect weapons, inventory and stuff and it worked, not sure about your situation though

[versed jasper]

I couldn't get it to work so I'm verifying files and if that doesn't work I'm trying a clean install

[zealous pumice]

it looks like the focal length is different too

[normal comet]

You tried loading a save before you downloaded that mod(after uninstalling it ofc)?

[versed jasper]

I played some before installing the mod and everything worked fine, even had some new mods installed for today before that one and it still worked, then after installing that one I suddenly couldn't equip weapons, even after uninstalling the mod, tried several different saves as well

[normal comet]

Did you try making a new game save? To see if its a specific thing or its something with the game file

[versed jasper]

I didn't try that

[normal comet]

Maybe you should🙃

[bright sky]

Hello I am on console and I got a corrupted save thing. How did this happen and how can I prevent it from happening

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest blaze]

Have a good day

[ebon hatch]

No one asked.

[sly matrix]

I did

[celest blaze]

i did

[crisp ruin]

I did

[worn oar]

I did

[short ether]

i did

[coarse sparrow]

is it the one where you crash during any emission?

[nimble cipher]

nathentex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coarse sparrow]

wolf'd

[bright sky]

No I think I hard closed the game and it messed up my saves. It started me back to the prologue and had to start over

[lunar lance]

Has anyone encountered a bug where you can't pull out an equipped gun? For some reason it is only affecting the monolith shotgun. It will show the ammo and even switch ammo types, but the gun doesn't get pulled out and can't be reloaded or fired.

Ok, scratch that, it's literally every weapon except for the knife, skifs pistol, and Valik's AK

The mystery extends further, I can use a PTM just fine, but not other pistols. This doesn't make any sense. I'll have to check my mods

[lunar lance]

Did you happen to figure it out? I am seeing a similar issue, though removing all of my mods has not solved it so far

[lunar lance]

Im not sure if this is the same for you, but what fixed it for me was removing the Faction Patches mod, if you have that one installed.

[wraith socket]

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

[celest blaze]

Omg
Keith

[zealous pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/pirates-of-the-plain-tim-curry-jezebel-jack-laugh-laughing-gif-4916404

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/pirates-of-the-plain-tim-curry-jezebel-jack-laugh-laughing-gif-4916404

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[sly matrix]

Goodmorning everyone

https://tenor.com/view/luna-hawow-awa-good-morning-morning-cat-cat-gif-1216186429259094074

[tardy wadi]

good meowning

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/meow-super-troopers-gaffigan-gif-26593847

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest blaze]

You too

[tardy wadi]

clear skies above your head :)

[sly matrix]

missed calls from Prypiat on your phone...?

[ebon hatch]

Good stalking (minors ofc)

[normal comet]

hmm

[latent kite]

Not even remotely funny. Sort your head out and consider that a final warning

[ebon hatch]

Bro think he police

[latent kite]

Say no more bud

[empty echo]

bro is the police

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/f-bi-raid-swat-gif-11500735

[safe badge]

Thanks ❤️

[gritty orchid]

did someone got banned

[sly matrix]

wait that's politics...

my bad, let me find another gif

https://tenor.com/view/agent-coleson-coleson-agents-of-shield-shield-marvel-gif-16488349

[stiff pasture]

What did I miss and was it funny or stupid

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/rule-7-rule-7-no-politics-no-politics-lego-movie-legocirclejerk-gif-4802307901799593459

[sly matrix]

depends on who you ask:' )

[stiff pasture]

Oh the Sam Hyde dude got banned

[celest blaze]

made weird comment about minors and that was the final straw

[stiff pasture]

Good riddance then

Anyways, been bouncing between all the games in the series while I wait for 1.4

[dire dagger]

We need another Sam Hyde cos player

[celest blaze]

maybe a less weird one

[celest blaze]

based tbh

ive been on peakout 4

[stiff pasture]

Also considering the dudes actual tag, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened earlier

[celest blaze]

Oh the lactationlover?

I wanted to do it much sooner but had to hold off until the sex offender post

[gritty orchid]

These kysteppin wannabes 😤

[celest goblet]

Its always exactly the ones you expect

[sand fiber]

fascist
"made weird comment about minors"
every time

[sly matrix]

Can't say I'll miss his constant attempts at starting controversy

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[tardy wadi]

every time i check stalker discord i see him saying something weird

what's that guy's problem?

[sly matrix]

Having internet access

[stiff pasture]

He either said some weird shit or was just an ass

[celest blaze]

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/janro-dancing-rat-rat-dance-funny-rat-dancing-meme-gif-15103469960801396656

That's funny.

[grim palm]

[static compass]

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[tiny token]

Meow

[open crypt]

Hello everyone! I have a question. Is there anyone here who canceled their order with the collector's physical edition?

I did it last Monday, I still haven't received a refund. The response, confirming the order cancellation, said that the refund will be within 5-7 business days. So, in theory, I have two days (today and tomorrow).

If someone canceled their order, did they already receive their refund? 🤔

[celest portal]

It might take a bit for your refund to reach your bank account. Something to do with the business days banks have (the refund process needs to clear out on their end for the money to land on your account). If still nothing on the second week, contact them and/or your bank.

[zinc apex]

glorp

[celest portal]

[sly matrix]

@gritty orchid rat mentioned, fulfill thy duty

[celest blaze]

Omg
Keith

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[zinc apex]

Ong
You're not part of 40k kots anymore

[celest blaze]

no i want to be me again

[zinc apex]

Understandable

[celest blaze]

i'm still a 40k kot in spirit

[loud gate]

@hazy helm when are we bringing back Eco Gosling

[nimble cipher]

skystalker123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[granite mortar]

its 40Kotover
Imperium of Cat has fallen
Holy Koterra was destroyed

[celest blaze]

No emperor the empire is alive..

[granite mortar]

fake news

Koterra has fallen
Vulcat did his job
Koterra is no more

[sweet belfry]

when was the last A life patch

[worn oar]

[lofty helm]

[still parrot]

doing the final boss fight and the game has crashed twice anyone know how to fix that?

[late yarrow]

I have not received my refund either, but I suspect something like this will take a bit. I’d give it until the end of this week before you get too worried 👍

[hazy helm]

Spark Gosling or nothing

[sly matrix]

Corps Gosling

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest blaze]

You aswell King

[gritty orchid]

Keith wishes you well

[nimble cipher]

alexandr5214 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wraith socket]

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

[outer laurel]

what 2 new weapons will be? I realy want my fav F2000 back

[rapid warren]

Me too

[stiff pasture]

Tavor 7 or really any good .308 rifle

[dire dagger]

Pretty sure it’s the rpd and mosin

Given rpd already exists in game

Owl has it behind him

And mosin has been heavily leaked to have been planned so we will see

[outer laurel]

I see

[stiff pasture]

I mean I’ll happily use a Mosin as well

[outer laurel]

Seeing new weapons is better than adding those which we already know

[stiff pasture]

If I can find the bloody ammo

[outer laurel]

I still miss dearly my desert eagle

[stiff pasture]

If they do add a deagle, I hope it gets its proper calibers or they go whole hog on the weirdness like the 9x39 one

[outer laurel]

He normaly uses 45

9x39 was on Black Kite

[thick zodiac]

@vale quartz patch when, seriously

[granite mortar]

[dire dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1002609226205630575/1341549557791854632/cannyArrive-4x.gif

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[meager kindle]

ak.308

[naive goblet]

does low settings on this game look like absolute shit

[urban basin]

Not really
It still looks decent when i tried them

[celest portal]

Doesn't look too bad, and if your pc can run game on low settings, I'd say it's better than nothing.

[tardy wadi]

looked alright

[tardy wadi]

One of them is probably the RPD machine gun as it appears as a prop in the world

(around the gun traders)

[errant mantle]

Anyone else having problems with DLSS Framegen not actually enabling Nvidia Reflex? FPS are going way above even the monitor's refresh rate which should not be happening

[grim palm]

[midnight wagon]

All settings look fine.

[worn oar]

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

[sly matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/783337511018823770/1360616007558762658/pop_richter_1.1.gif

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[topaz surge]

rpd and possibly an akm

there likely adjusting 7.62x39 for the rpd's arrival so itd make sence to add another 7.62 adjacent weapon

[loud gate]

Kora/RPD and Mosin

[loud gate]

Mybe, mybe not - it's possible they will bring Kora first.

[topaz surge]

whats the kora again?

[sly matrix]

M1911

.45 pistol

[topaz surge]

ah yea from the trilogy, i preffered the kite

they removed the rpd from behind hamster too

[teal swallow]

Is there any news about the new patch 🫠

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/those-who-snow-those-who-snow-cat-gif-6299750748532064860

[jagged grail]

Funny cat haha

[loud gate]

Kora 1911 pistol

[loud gate]

We are still testing

[outer laurel]

Nevermind I messed up names

[loud gate]

[sly matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/783337511018823770/1360616007558762658/pop_richter_1.1.gif

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[gritty orchid]

The urge to install stalker gamma has hit me again

I guess I'll cleanse myself by reinstalling STALKER 2

[granite mortar]

you better believe thats 🫃

[gritty orchid]

[celest blaze]

You should

Gamma > stalker 2

[dire dagger]

Ight bro

That’s not true

[celest blaze]

It is though lol

[dire dagger]

[celest blaze]

Runs better, is better and sticks closer to established lore

[dire dagger]

[celest blaze]

You don't need ai tricks to run gamma well

Gamma also has functional alife and over 100 meter spawns..

NVG and binos..

[urban basin]

[dire dagger]

Come on bro consume your daily dose of ai slop

[celest blaze]

[dire dagger]

My phone has stopped alarming

I’ve failed to wake up twice for work now

[celest blaze]

Oh shit that ain't good

[dire dagger]

Because dumb ass phone decided it didn’t wanna alarm today

First my push notifications stopped working now this

[sly matrix]

This is how skynet starts

Makes us all late for work

[summer cliff]

No

[sly matrix]

TrilOG >>> everything else

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/544757291682103300/1367224622529122325/mood.gif

[gritty orchid]

agreed0

[celest blaze]

Op2 >

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-crazy-stupid-love-judgmental-head-to-toe-gif-3464405

[urban basin]

Stalcraft>>

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/office-space-scared-lock-door-locked-gif-22426669

[granite mortar]

no

S2 may be laughable mess but it is a game that has some redeeming things in it
Gamma is just bunch of garbage and clutter clapped onto the poopy fork of poopy fork of poopy fork of mid and boring mod of the worst trilogy game

[valid folio]

i have the same situation

[open crypt]

Today I received a response from the store where I placed the order. That the refund should arrive by the end of this week. If not, I will write to them again on Monday

[nocturne monolith]

One of these has a functional a-life system and is better optimized.

[granite mortar]

its not optimization lmao
its built on old game and uses low poly assets

performance =/= optimization
its not that simple

[nocturne monolith]

You can look back on gamma patch notes and see optimization improvements

Either way point still stands 🤷‍♂️

Stalker 2 has 1 huge strength tho, and thats its story

[granite mortar]

no the point doest
using old assets isnt optimization
not to mention Groks "improvements" are removing unecessary garbage that he put in and didnt use in the first place

[nocturne monolith]

So, removing unnecessary barriers that hinder performance….

sounds like optimization to me

You can still say “runs better” and the point remains.

[granite mortar]

removing issues that werent supposed to be there
if I dump bunch of trash on the street and then clean it, its not public service
its fixing my own screw up
hes not optimizing the basis, hes just cleaning trash that he littered there himself

and again
performance doesnt mean optimization
gamma uses small maps and old low poly assets
any game would run decently with those

[nocturne monolith]

Doesnt matter where the trash came from, if its optimizing from the previous patch then its optimizing.

Idrc what it does to run decently, it still does, the methodology is irrelevant

[granite mortar]

optimizing should be taking something and improving it
not taking something, making it worse and then slightly patching it up

[nocturne monolith]

It improved it from the last patch, its still optimization. 🤷‍♂️ , the last patch did as well.

S2 absolutely has the capability of surpassing gamma in evrey way

Just its been half a year, and still unfulfilled promises

[granite mortar]

half a year of constant improvements
the game released in terrible state and is still rough
thats just how it is
not to sure what it has to do with well
anything

[dire dagger]

This heavily depends on how much of the game they decide to finish

[nocturne monolith]

one of the main marketing promises, if not the biggest one, is broken, and performance is abysmal still

It has to do when comparing the current state of the game with somerhing else

[nocturne monolith]

Im a glass half full kind of guy

[dire dagger]

Need I remind you they cut 3/4 of the quests in the game

[nocturne monolith]

Let me enjoy my optimism 😭

[dire dagger]

The shining zone contains the full truth

[granite mortar]

yeah but what does it have to do with gammas optimization not being actual optimization but just the usage of old assets made for 2000s computers

[nocturne monolith]

Its not optimization by your own subjective definition. And idrc if theyre using 2000s models, they certainly dont look like 2000s models, sounds like a smart idea to me and a positive. Maybe s2 should have done that

[dire dagger]

Yes bro import raw xray assets into stalker 2

[celest goblet]

I'm sure it'll work

[dire dagger]

I’m sure it would but it would look terrible

[sand fiber]

gamma a-life is so good it doesn't start simulating until i enter the location

[dire dagger]

Clear sky had the best a life system

[sand fiber]

took a red forest assassination quest at the start of the game, 20 hours later still there, the moment i enter the location though? oh no sorry killed by mutants

but no ummm this is different actually IT ENHANCES THE FEELING OKAY

[granite mortar]

usually it doesnt start even after that
theres like 5NPCs per map and they all just sit on their asses

[sand fiber]

I AM IMMERSED

[granite mortar]

except for hostile factions
Im convinced at this point that only faction that actually moves is Monolith

[sand fiber]

a-life in gamma is so good that people at bases are permanently tied to their gulags

took a quest at freedom's base and then went on a 2 hour detour? oh no don't worry they're still in literally the same place

i won't say there's no movement or simulation at all, i had like, squads replace each other and people moving across the zone, but god are they reaching with "GAMMA A-LIFE SO GOOD"

[dire dagger]

Clear sky has best a life

[sand fiber]

i will clear sky you

[dire dagger]

[sand fiber]

oh also like, squads just respawn and don't care

wiped out a sin encampment? don't worry, they're still here after literally 1 location transition

[granite mortar]

any real activity is usually only in warfare mode and with that the engine shits itself usually

[gritty orchid]

This is why tark-

I'll see myself out

[dire dagger]

More milsim slop please

[granite mortar]

Its always "tarkov this tarkov that"
But never "man world of tanks fuсking sucks"

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[dire dagger]

You know what fucken sucks call of Pripyat

Everyone hating stalker 2 so much they got no room left to hate call of Pripyat

[granite mortar]

At least 90% of guns and suits arent lategame premiums for 40 bucks each
I hate world of tanks

[dire dagger]

I mean war thunder got the e100 tank which costs over 2k dollars

[granite mortar]

Yeah but thats on market
Players sell that, not devs

[dire dagger]

Fair

[granite mortar]

Most expensive vehicles sold by devs are like 70 bucks
But they get discounted twice a year iirc
To 50% of the original price
So thats cool

[rapid warren]

MOL1T, DROP THE 1.4
AND MY LIFE
IS YOURS

[tiny token]

meow

[thick wolf]

I want it baaad, but Phil Spencer said no 🙂‍↔️

[rapid warren]

[celest portal]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1066801269882232906/1180585452667940974/caption.gif

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-begging-viralhog-cute-cat-please-give-me-im-begging-gif-24009310

[worn oar]

Soon

That's all I can say

Very

[celest portal]

Soon™

[worn oar]

[thick zodiac]

in May

[granite mortar]

Omg
Cat

[rapid warren]

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[rotund widget]

I'll chime in for a sec with a snarky remark: have you seen all those guys complaining about the absence of some labs & characters from SoC/CS in S2? Guess what game didn't have any of the original locations whatsoever & only 3 characters from previous entries in it — that's right, the one that most of those lads are calling "the best STALKER game in the series" 😏

[sand fiber]

why should an addon have locations that you already saw and played through (TWICE)

CoP is not the best, because SoC is, but if for sure is better than CS

[rotund widget]

You're not wrong, but why won't we keep this energy for the labs that have lost their purpose long ago & have been "mothballed" by either military or the Ward several years prior to the events of S2, especially given how many of the new ones we got instead (while in CoP the only new ones are essentially X-8 & the Gauss testing lab)?

[sand fiber]

x8 isn't even really new, it's a redecorated warlab from SoC

but the problem here is the fact S2 is set so far into the timeline in the first place

s2 should've been the most fanservice game imaginable imo