⭐┃nospoilers_general

[twilit mist]

From what I hear patch 1.5 is really good.

So happy to see them keep supporting the game like this

[wind crow]

qwq

[reef raptor]

need to try 1.5 at some point but death stranding 2 is currently what is sucking up all of my time rn lmao

[short oak]

Aah,ok!

[wind crow]

this is pain

[ripe patrol]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508948639&searchtext=

@celest blaze

your wish has been fufilled my lord

[viral heart]

Hopefully a pc port doesn't take too long

[celest blaze]

aye thank you

[ripe patrol]

thank @calm prism

[reef raptor]

my guess is one year

[quaint nacelle]

Has anyone figured how to have mosin iron sights? They literally show it in a picture, but it comes pre attached with a scope.

[wind crow]

annnd the response.. was stuff i already did..

[viral heart]

Sounds about right, pretty sure the 1st had a port a year later

[wind crow]

bruh,..'i guess ill never play S2 again

[proven shadow]

Specs ? Did it work before ?

[ripe patrol]

what sort of error do you get?

[wind crow]

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\Serialization\AsyncLoading2.cpp] [Line: 1660]
ObjectSerializationError: /Game/UETools/Blueprints/BP_StalkerGameInstance (0x5C693617EE8598FD) /Game/UETools/Blueprints/BP_StalkerGameInstance (0x5C693617EE8598FD) - BP_StalkerGameInstance_C /Game/UETools/Blueprints/BP_StalkerGameInstance.Default__BP_StalkerGameInstance_C: Bad name index -46/94.

0x00007ff66a816510 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a810b6e Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a91a6a4 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a7f4277 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a81097a Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a91a3f6 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a8109de Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a90cb19 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a8379b0 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a835148 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66c22040b Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a81328f Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a81413b Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a814e7e Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a81b1a4 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a7970e7 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff66a794891 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffd567e259d KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffd56f0af78 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

Crash in runnable thread FAsyncLoadingThread

[quaint nacelle]

Holy jesus

[wind crow]

mb didnt realise its that big

[quaint nacelle]

Jumpscare

[proven shadow]

Error jumpscare lmao

[wind crow]

lmao

[quaint nacelle]

^^^

[ripe patrol]

dude... get rid of UETools

[wind crow]

tysm

[quaint nacelle]

Had same problem

[calm prism]

lmao was simply needed

[wind crow]

folder is gonee

so itll work now? :D

[ripe patrol]

go go go go

[wind crow]

its still verifying files lol

I assume thats a yes then? itll work? :3

[proven shadow]

[wind crow]

:3

tysm lol

lets see if it works in a few when its done

[proven shadow]

Im happy they work hard to fix the game and are constantly adding stuff like mod support and new weapons

Imagine 2.0 drops with phantom liberty style dlc. Its cp2077 all over again lmao

[proven shadow]

We are rootin for you bro <3

[ripe patrol]

The error you have is from UETools, lets see if that works, if not we see what the next error is

[wind crow]

V I C T O R Y

[proven shadow]

[quaint nacelle]

I played cyberpunk on release on an Xbox one bro. That shi was way worse than stalker.

[ripe patrol]

now.... GET OUT OF HERE STALKER. go enjoy 1.5

[quaint nacelle]

Actual horror show

Love cp2077 and played through it's faults tho

[proven shadow]

I loved Cp2077 at launch tbh. Game was in a rough state but the story,music and gameplay was good imo (when it worked).

Just needed more time in the oven from the start tho

Played on PC tho

[quaint nacelle]

Can someone PLEASE help me with getting mosin iron sights😭

[quaint nacelle]

Same for me, I got the worst ending possible first.

[ripe patrol]

youre screwed. I think OXA allows you to remove the scope

[proven shadow]

Same bro haha. I was young and got tricked by corpo lies

[quaint nacelle]

No I shot myself💀

[proven shadow]

Now I always go for the solo ending where its you and johnny

[quaint nacelle]

I didn't even know it was the suicide ending

[proven shadow]

Lol

Eh I still think corpo ending is worse ngl

[quaint nacelle]

OXA? I can't remember a gun named that, haven't played in a few weeks.

[proven shadow]

Tbh maybe the dlc ending where NUSA or whatever its called, is also one of the worst. Cuz you are basically a human in a world where everyone has implants..

[quaint nacelle]

Oh it's a mod

[quaint nacelle]

No that's one of the better endings in a way. It's also left open ended so there's potential for v to regain their cyberware.

It's sad, but realistically the only one where V survives without a shadow of a doubt

[proven shadow]

I dont know if its open ended to where V can regain his cyberware. They make it clear he cant use anything including small neural enhancements or whatever.

Personally I think V and Silverhand vs Arasaka is the best ending

[ripe patrol]

Oxides Expanded Armory. Check it on Nexus. There is a lean version that just adds stuff to the game, and Prototype which is a complete overhaul with a new repair, equipment and upgrade system

[proven shadow]

Even if you die (kinda impossible unless you are very low level) you still die a legend

[ripe patrol]

This is a mod not someone in game lol

[quaint nacelle]

Just checked it out already, looks sick as hell.

Thought OXA stood for an abbreviation for a gun

[ripe patrol]

its one of the best mods but a bit complicated. I suggest just try the Lite version

adds NVGs into the game

[quaint nacelle]

I love complexity, I might try the prototype if it's stable.

[candid plaza]

does new update need new save or i can continue on my current one?

[ripe patrol]

if you're willing id recommend starting a new game. otherwise, its safe to continue

[candid plaza]

i have a veteran save at the first zone intro 30-40 min after intro

[ripe patrol]

start fresh

[candid plaza]

ok

[placid spoke]

I know thats why im wondering if they changed it because its totally useless at the time you find it and they made a few other things like the saiga drum lootable before point of no return

[empty gorge]

u running uetools or simple mod loader huh?

[hollow pelican]

downloading stalker 2 after this update , i wish it was not 140 GB though XD had to sacrifice battlefront 2 to make up that space

[ripe patrol]

[hollow pelican]

After patch 1.2 there has been 3 updates right?

[ripe patrol]

yes

[supple wedge]

Found a new unique gun already

It’s very cool

[shut cosmos]

Damn still no new mods approved on xbox?

[dire dagger]

Is he gonna port it to the sdk so it can be on the workshop?

[ripe patrol]

eventually. I think he's going hard on it rn. Problem is his mod has some dependencies like UE4SS which cannot be added to Workshop

and there is no support to load custom BPs yet so he needs ue4ss

[dire dagger]

Oh

[dire dagger]

Kinda funny bro made one of the most advanced mod so far with out even using the sdk

[ripe patrol]

dude is a genius

[unreal raptor]

so the patch is better but still plenty of old stalker jank

[vestal flicker]

Oooh nice! You shall have muchly fun! if you are new to painting, Check out Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy channel on YouTube. His techniques are PERFECT for beginners to find their feet. He also prsented a bunch of the painting guides on the Warhammer YouTube channel until a few years ago so dig those out too.
And whatever you do: for the love of Dog, THIN YOUR PAINTS ^_^

[hazy helm]

I like my necrons with 100 layers of aluminium

as a treat

[vestal flicker]

Duncan is weeping tears pf pure Agrax Earthshade reading those words 😄

[dim topaz]

Right now i'm just thinking about what colors to paint them. I think I'll go for a standard grey-ish metallic color with a bronze secondary color, just nothing fancy so I can get used to it

Thin your paints... legendary video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c

[vestal flicker]

Necrons are a great starter choice as they are not a super complex clour shceme and allow you to try a bunch of methods, from dry-bryshing, edge highlighting and detal painting to weathering, glow and light effects. I think you'll have a blast 🙂

[dim topaz]

Cheers! Heres hoping the wife doesn't get too upset lmao

[vestal flicker]

Hey, from her point of view you falling down the Warhammer hole gets you out from under her feet 😄

Also, welcome to the Warhammer hole. You are one of us now 😄

[left terrace]

is the mod kit really 670gb?

[vestal flicker]

Yes, it is essentially the studio's editing suite plus all the uncompressed assets. If the game you buy is a sausage, the mod kit is the sausage factory 🙂

[prisma cargo]

The real fun part is when there is an update unless something changes. You need about 1000-1100gb for the sdk and updates. Otherwise you have to delete the main .pak to have room for the update process. Even if the update is 25gbs....

[wind crow]

Okay so I know I can find the mosin in the detainment center but where can I find the Kora?

[prisma cargo]

I think I found one in Cordon and I'm pretty sure Quiet & Rookie Village traders occasionally had one for sale

[left terrace]

this is absurd kek. wouldnt this severely restrict the modding community?

who is going to download this much even if they have a connection capable of it

[prisma cargo]

It's the initial 450-500gb download and then you need 500-600gb free to unpack and repack the update changes in this example 25gb update.

[left terrace]

i like to mod games, i have a connection that could eventually download it, but no space. so its even more restricted

have they addressed this?

[celest goblet]

People have suggested both allowing the tool download without the main pak and also selecting what types of assets to download. No promises but prophet noted it yesterday

[prisma cargo]

It's something they are aware and was brought up a lot. So I'm sure they're trying to find a solution.

[left terrace]

great, thanks for the info

[prisma cargo]

I specifically called it out a few times because there are lots of people with data caps

[hazy helm]

Im still stuck with a 33mbp/s connection

[knotty gull]

Guys, your thoughts about the current state of the game with 1.5 ?
What's still missing besides NVG's, binoculars and larger render bubble ?

Waiting since the initial release for game to be properly patched, then play.

[dire dagger]

Bros gonna take a whole week to download the dev kit

[hardy bear]

Better resource and supply distribution is something I’d really advocate for. But binos we definitely do need, the ones that highlight enemies would be perfect

[glossy blade]

!export

[dry ridge]

Exported 608 standard messages to messages_history.csv

[glossy blade]

!export

[dry ridge]

Exported 1040 standard messages to messages_history.csv

[celest blaze]

[glass wave]

Shi, game be dropping updates every week and still runs bad ah

[sand slate]

Curious what it means by “phase 1”, what isn’t possible right now with the SDK?

[finite dragon]

Anyone got a bug with bodies flying off the map after a headshot?😅

[proven sequoia]

Yeah, same thing here

[nimble cipher]

pocket1 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[manic oriole]

Crazy how I went from not playing since launch to this update and the game still spawns enemies and encounter squads right ontop of me plus POIs still respawn the same enemy after leaving for 2 minutes. The gate that you pass from garbage to Rostok is the best example. Spawns bloodsucker there, I kill it, come back after a quick stop at Rostok and another Bloodsucker turns up in the same spot...

[gritty knot]

Legend

[hazy helm]

brother, if you wanted a message exporter, you couldve just downloaded one from github, theres loads of em

[finite dragon]

moved since that channel is all troubleshooting and less gameplay fgjhkdfgh

[shut cosmos]

Im waiting so patiently for these mods to come in (I keep checking every 2 hours)

[tawny comet]

Anything good yet?

[sly matrix]

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

[empty gorge]

ayo choomz
homie of mine wants to buy starfield
good idea or nah, i keep telling game is dogshit

[coarse sparrow]

guys, any news on when season pass is going on Steam separately from the ultimate?

also, good time to pick up the game as its -30%

[celest goblet]

Nope unfortunately

[remote compass]

Found an emitter next to a Monolithian corpse in Cement Factory area, south of Temporary Warehouse. Shot hundreds of bullets to it but seems indestructible, I noticed after a couple of shots and the emitter changing colour due to damage, spawns psi radiation enemies and eventually psi damage is dealt to the player, anyone found it too?

[restive sentinel]

Are people who are actually playing finding that the 100m radius is noticable in moment to moment gameplay or are engagements feeling natural. That feeling of looking out to the zone with your scope isnt gonna be possible with the 100m bubble

[copper jewel]

new update finally did it for me ❤️

[plucky bough]

sad cause ive to start a new save. Old one keeps crashing with update. Assuming its some incompatibiltiy with mods i had installed. Oh well

[merry verge]

Starfield is actually not close to as bad as alot of people would lead you to believe. especially with mods now. I thought it was fine vanilla, but the mods really do make it much better.

[summer stream]

The one with the mushrooms growing out of the bodies?

[summer stream]

I had fun with starfield. It just didn’t live up to whatever idea people had created it would be in their minds

[remote compass]

The exact one

[summer stream]

I’ve seen it. Same thing, tried to destroy it but nothing happened. I think it’s just there as something interesting to find

[remote compass]

I'll add it to my list of finds 😅

[remote compass]

Also, in Icarus Station, in the infirmary there is an "unmarked" quest item in the floor next to the crazy warden, looks like a document but when I grab it nothing happens, just the sound queue of a quest item being obtained, thoughts?

[safe badge]

I love you too ❤️

[gritty knot]

♥️

[lofty fossil]

hello

i finally finished my custom made optimized engine config tweak that i spent hours and hours learning what each thing did for!

[lofty fossil]

hello

[worthy zodiac]

It is shіt. Mostly because it lacks the only thing bethesda is good at – a handmade world that is fun to explore. So you are left with the horrible bethesda writing, horrible balance, horrible interactions with the world of the game, horrible exploration of daggerfall like environments without all these neat daggerfall rpg mechanics and complex dungeons. It's impossible to fix that game simply because the issue is at its core.

[lethal lantern]

i had a lot of fun with it, between the different handcrafted poi's the cool fauna and flora and i really enjoyed the story and its recurring nature. Shipbuilding was surprisingly well thought out and so was the weapon upgrade/legendary system. Depends on your tastes i guess.

[short oak]

Hey friends, any word of GSC releasing a hotfix to fix these flying ragdolls in this new update?

[shut cosmos]

Nah

Theres still not new mods atleast on xbox

[placid spoke]

Fun fact, Alexander Graham Bell invented snapchat, the combustible fuel engine, and gears of war!

[shut maple]

How do i get the console commands to work?

[broken mountain]

Wouldn't buy the game.
I played it through gamepass.
I completed it with side missions and companion missions, and also played ng+ a bit.
Game is good but not worth buying imo, maybe he should try it a bit on game pass before buying

[summer stream]

They usually do one a few days after a major patch

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tacit oracle]

It ok. Solid gamepass time waster, modding scene looked absolutely barren though. Like all bethesda games it's a few mods short of being good, but it did kept my interest enough to beat the story (which is actually shockingly okay)

[wraith socket]

I thought I killed you in the Wild Territory?

[elder beacon]

its kinda funny ngtl

[hollow birch]

Now i kbow why everybody or most of everybody hates swamp....i have enjoy everything the game has thrown at me till this haha

[rich kestrel]

The woman I recently asked from my circle of friends and acquaintances when Stalker 2 will finally come to the PlayStation 5

[supple wedge]

Huh?

[lusty mountain]

Ahh brings me back to release when you could get soft locked leaving the swamps from a scripted emission 🙂 though the trip down memory lane was cool

[hollow birch]

yeah honestly i was enjoying it "hey this is from this!! and This if from that!!" until certain parts where it went down

[kind dragon]

hey what other sights can i put on the three-line? wiki hasnt updates yet so im not sure

[stiff pasture]

A red dot

[kind dragon]

more importantly how do i take the sniper scope off

[supple wedge]

Yeah it's a bit of a shame you cant use it with irons.

Wait. I just read someone say they got one with ironsights

Is that legit? Anyone confirm?

[cyan cargo]

It’s the most boring game ever. They destroyed the one thing that made bethesda games good - exploration. Even the mods are underwhelming (unless you are willing to pay for those better ones). The characters are robotic and boring, the story is BAD. The shooting and building your own spaceship are nice tho. And dont forget about loading screens (it’s 33% of game).

Since we don’t have mods channel - does anyone is working on scopes/sights that would look like in the first trailers? That zooms only view in scope with fisheye look, not the entire screen

[hollow birch]

we have mods channel go to browse channels and select the ones you want visible

[cyan cargo]

Sorry, im blind. Thanks for info 🙂

[merry verge]

Hoping Xbox verifies some mods before the weekend, started a new game but don't Wana get too far cuz I'll probably restart again after I add mods anyway. Some of the ones on mod.io for windows look like game changers.

[glossy blade]

We did it our way

I asked digital marketing team for help and they made a bot

[hazy helm]

A custom bot? now that's snazzy

[glossy blade]

makes life easier

[elder beacon]

what are the stats for the new weapons

[jolly solar]

either im blind or is there no modding channel here still?

[honest galleon]

You're blind, there's a catagory fam 😉

[jolly solar]

ah discord threw it into that weird shit again

in reality the question i have is simple but i would need someone crazy enough to have done it themself (aka trying it with 16gb of ram instead of "minimum spec" 32gb required)

[spring wedge]

Hey guys i got a question, with 1.5 the game tells you it will disable achievements, is this only with mods that are added through workshop or is it from everything?

[jolly solar]

since i wouldnt be doing stuff that would require that much ram (no texturework etc.)

[worn oar]

Barman? Why not snitch?

[glossy blade]

we werent putting effort into the design xd this is a technical bot only, not Wolf's buddy

[naive rover]

still wild it's a chat command instead of a / command

[hazy helm]

Should be slowed but should be possible

[nimble cipher]

kingsnakemarty has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[candid plaza]

hello i deleted all my mods so it can count for achievement but i still get the warning

[ripe patrol]

check workshop. Did you save after enabling the mods?

[hardy bear]

if that warning appears does it mean you don't get any achievements? I thought it was just saying that if you use mods it won't give you any

I'm thinking it may be broken if so. Got no mods and it pops up, got no achievements from pripyat onwards

[jolly solar]

yeah i got the same anwser on gamma server (a bit more active modding chats so got my anwser way faster) from a modder, as long as i dont try loading the world map that is (he said even 128gb of ram could crash if you try to load a partition of it)

[worn oar]

You will only block achievement if you use mods.

[sly matrix]

Unless you use a mod that blocks mods from blocking achievements
/j

[celest blaze]

actually isnt there achievement reenable mods out already? i could be wrong

[sly matrix]

I'm the last person you should ask mod-related questions

[ripe patrol]

I don't think I ever played this game without mods, even since 1.0

Too bad for new comer s that won't be able to unlock then

[hardy bear]

I’m not using any, so I guess there just aren’t any achievements after entering Pripyat

[celest goblet]

Well there are the ones for the endings

[hardy bear]

Welp, it’s broken then.
Nice

Broke just in time for me to finish the game :|

[worn oar]

Why would you assume that it is

Try progressing through achievements (pick one that stacks points and check)

[thin shuttle]

what’s the function of the pda you loot on the game, is it only for sale at the trader? I have a pda named silencer pda and seems like specific item, could this be related to a quest?

[celest goblet]

You pick them up and it'll copy over a note or audio log to your PDA journal. After that you can safely sell them

If it's a quest item it won't let you sell it

[thin shuttle]

Thanks!

[hardy bear]

Well if there are achievements for finishing and getting an ending, I never got any, which implies it’s not working

[worn oar]

Usually PDA entries including stash coordinates and info. You can sell those, but yk, it's not really a source of income

[hardy bear]

Looked them up, yeah there are some I’m missing

Ah well, I don’t care about achievements anyway, but I’ll make a support ticket about it

[worn oar]

Idk tbh? I'll push through an uncompleted achievement and see if that's the case

Meanwhile, perhaps you should report that after making sure you have no mod folder in your directory.

Like literally no folder, even if it has nothing in it

[celest goblet]

Yeah not much money but it is inventory cleanup

[hardy bear]

Would one have been created by the game automatically with 1.5 do you think?

And I’ve gone and done a bug report for it

[worn oar]

Idk

Better check

[hollow pelican]

Headshot to a npc is starting a space programme

[hardy bear]

Will have a look when I get back to my pc then

Too late now though

[spring wedge]

I havent really either I dont think i can enjoy this game without at least the vaulting mod or your weather mod and neither change the game at all

Hope someone can make a mod to reenable achievements

[hardy bear]

It’ll take a day at most

[hollow pelican]

Mods like cinematic bullet effects and removing bullet sponge enemies are must for me

[hardy bear]

Was I the only one who went vanilla

Found the base game fine

But then again I shifted my approach to enjoy it rather than the other way round

[celest blaze]

Im vanilla rn tbh I have a rule I gotta play game vanilla first then mod

[ripe patrol]

im usually this way, but the bullet sponginess was too much for me. OG games on Master had really low TTK, even for players

[hardy bear]

Guess it depends on the weapon cause a lot died in one to two headshots for me on stalker diff

[celest blaze]

Thats fair imo

[celest goblet]

Headshots are still usually pretty lethal except for low penetration vs exo helmets

[hardy bear]

Yeah, just using ap rounds and you can feel the difference

And stuff like the economy felt perfect to me anyways

[dire dagger]

9x18mm ap on apsb go brrrrr

[celest goblet]

They nerfed it a little in 1.4 I think but yeah it still shreds

[hardy bear]

God the vector hits so hard when you first get it

[celest goblet]

I do think difficulty related stuff is on their radar. I remember it being talked about closer to release. Obviously they have had higher priority things to work on

[hardy bear]

The one thing I would like to maybe adjust is their reaction time when you peek. It’s instant, so you need near perfect pre-aiming

[livid basin]

Does some of you guys have a way to re-enable achivements when playing with mod for Steam? Im hunting Achivements but I have some mods Installed, like better blood and some performance mods, and I really want to use them in my Playtrough

[ripe patrol]

No reenable achievement mod available yet

[celest goblet]

Not yet

[livid basin]

Do u guys know if someone is working on it?

[ripe patrol]

not yet. Give it a month lol

Its a great time to start a new game with mods. Your savefile will always be there for you

(you can also pretend to get the achievement, load a new save file with no mods and console command the achievement in)

[livid basin]

I already tought about that but it feels a little bit like cheating

[ripe patrol]

In my rage, i just unlcoked all achievements

but im not an achievement hunter, i just did it out of spite

[hardy bear]

understandable

[livid basin]

https://tenor.com/view/understandable-have-nice-day-have-a-great-day-have-a-good-day-nice-gif-20850110

[celest blaze]

Based tbh

[left terrace]

did you actually make this how to video and ping everyone knowing its 500gb

[celest blaze]

Some people are eager to get to modding

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/live-slug-reaction-gif-25051024

[tiny token]

zone kit releases all compressed: wow gsc is hiding their assets we can't make proper mods that is absolutely abhorrent
zone kit releases with all assets uncompressed: wow gsc i can't download 700gb that is absolutely abhorrent

[celest blaze]

[tiny token]

you know the patch is good when the only thing the doomer brainlets are whining about is their immersion being broken over that headshot ragdoll bug

[celest goblet]

I'm gonna miss it when it's fixed

[hazy helm]

downloading all those assets could be optional

I wish it was...

[hardy bear]

I’ve only heard people praising it for being funny

[celest goblet]

Well it's on their radar as a future feature

[frozen merlin]

Play now or still wait ? Note that I am on Xbox Series X and did NOT play the OG trilogy, but I watched it on YouTube. I heard, especially on console, that there are big gamebreaking/save corrupting bugs and everything, or is that mainly ragebait?

[ripe patrol]

It's a great time to start. There still bugs but the game feels like a complete experience now

Mods for Xbox will come sometime soon as well. You can wait for those too

[lunar sky]

Yo, fix please ammo in death from 3-5 to 20-25, now is very low

[celest goblet]

If you have patience the game will only get better with age but yeah it's like night and day vs launch now

[frozen merlin]

Is the game very very hard or doable ? I'm one of those dudes who normally only please on easy mode, the closest game to Stalker would be Dying Light, I quit Metro because of its difficulty 💀

[mystic sigil]

game is easy if u dont install mods that make it harder

can find tons of medkits and bandages and they both heal and food heals on vanilla i believe

[frozen merlin]

alright, thanks

[hazy helm]

if he dropped metro hes prolly not gonna like stalker since he has to aim

[mystic sigil]

true

[nimble saddle]

Does any trader sell expansive ammo other than the trader in Pripyat? I went to Rostok and Yanov and still couldn't find any for sale.

[hot walrus]

I'm just here to glaze on the 1.5 patch and SDK release. Great job GSC!

[glass wave]

What is the zone kit about? Purpose?

[celest goblet]

Official tools to make mods and upload them to steam workshop and mod.io

[merry verge]

Oh of we're waiting on GSC to do the mod verification for Xbox were not getting any before next week for sure lol

[empty gorge]

im looking on making it a permanent mod just for fun

[sly matrix]

Rekt

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

[shut cosmos]

You should've seen earlier. There was a dude complaining about ammo icons in the inventory screen cuz muh immersion.

[shut cosmos]

Imo its exactly like SoC

SoC enemies are tanky af

[tiny token]

It's funny because a lot of people actually used an ammo icon mod to deal with the issue of ammo types not being distinct enough in the inventory

[shut cosmos]

If you dont get headshots its just a waste of time cuz they'll tank like 20 ak rounds even if its a regular bandit

[tiny token]

The master low ttk stuff is a myth

[ripe patrol]

I have more memories of CoP

[shut cosmos]

Valid

Tbf SoC was much more an rpg. (To its detriment imo)

The guns are so bad in soc

[ripe patrol]

is it? i remember CoP had only very tanky Exos, but everything else went down easy

[shut cosmos]

It is

CoP has very fragile enemies

Only one that aren't are exo's, giants, and burer's

[ripe patrol]

guess it is

just looked it up

https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/7fxvt5/what_do_difficulties_actually_change_in_stalker/

[shut cosmos]

I thought that was a myth for SoC anyways wasnt it

I remember people saying that shit about soc but not cs and cop

[zinc apex]

are yall enjoying a-life now or still borked?

[celest goblet]

There's still work to be done but it's light night and day from release to now

[hot walrus]

Except for Vintar and Val, my beloveds

[celest goblet]

Don't tarnish my beloved GP37

[shut cosmos]

Good damage

[hot walrus]

I walked from Malachite to Cordon, then up to Rostok. The Zone feels alive, but definitely not overcrowded

[shut cosmos]

Fugly gun

[zinc apex]

do npc walk between the locations and perists or are they still spawned in?

[shut cosmos]

Im sooo glad stalker 2 let's you remove that God awful scope

[hot walrus]

They persist. Render bubble is still only 100m though

[shut cosmos]

I'd be playing more stalker 2 rn but ds2 just came out and it is evaporating all my free time

[celest goblet]

Yeah online radius is one thing that still needs to be improved but offline improved massively this patch

[shut cosmos]

I dont think online radius will ever be past 200m

Or maybe even 150m

[celest goblet]

Well I think it was 150m in the trilogy so I'd take that

[hardy bear]

Npcs don’t even seem to impact my performance too much, looking up I can get 90-100 frames in initial zalyssia, 30-40 when looking ahead. If it’s the Npcs causing that, that doesn’t make much sense. There should be room to spawn more and it not take up much

[shut cosmos]

Maybe its the ray tracing

[celest goblet]

But also general behavior improved this update with things like attacking/capturing lairs and settlements and patrolling. Not perfect but definitely better

[shut cosmos]

Can we like remove rtx from gaming as a required thing. Ds2 looks better than most games that even have it and it runs astoundingly well.

[hardy bear]

I never used to see anyone walk in and lean up against walls before

But now that I’ve finished the game I’m gonna go back and see how the rest of the world feels with these changes. They added it right when I was in the one place where it couldn’t really be seen 💀

[summer stream]

Oof, texture LOD’s look awful on series X now

[merry verge]

I'll eat my words, they just added 6 more mods to Xbox

[hollow pelican]

Can u create animation mods with this mod tool

[shut cosmos]

Yoooo what are they

Nvm dont tell me

[hollow pelican]

what are the type of mods added?

[hollow pelican]

more important than online radius imo rn is add more interactions in a life faction based stuff more quest and side stuff to do and make the zone full of life , some areas are empty

[merry verge]

Better ballistics, some qol and alife spawn changes

[hollow pelican]

man i wish there is someone who mods a car into this game lol

[hardy bear]

Any changes to the resource distribution?

[merry verge]

I don't think we'll see a car maybe a bicycle lol

[shut cosmos]

Man I wanna download the shay QoL changes but I really dont like the weapon durability increase lmao

[merry verge]

Yeah I wish we could modify it but I think the other changes are worth it

[hardy bear]

Just download the 700GB kit and you’ll be able to make your own :>

[shut cosmos]

I like the aspect of my gun failing more often in combat

[merry verge]

I think the guns already break too much in vanilla

[shut cosmos]

Tbh i don't think they break enough lol

Ive had maybe 2 guns actually ever do the jamming thing once each

[hardy bear]

The damage reduction is a good enough incentive to go repair

[shut cosmos]

Screw it whatever I'll download it anyways

[merry verge]

My guns jam at 50% like all the time

Maybe my RNG is just bad lmao

[shut cosmos]

Mine rarely ever do even at yellow durability

They only ever actually jam at almost completely broken

[merry verge]

Just had a mp5 jam at like 60%

[shut cosmos]

Somebody make a mod so that guns jam more often lol

Wait is the mod limit on xbox actually 139gb

Now i wait for a made that brightens enemy muzzle flashes

[hardy bear]

That’s a nice idea

[topaz valley]

i comming late to the party, but i put the game on fridge since release, i just made 1 playtrouth and comming back now.. i see... they removed the "penetration" stats from weapns.. and looking the bright side, i love if is true, cuz, i reallly like the ideia of penetration come from bullet type instead from weapon itself..

[hardy bear]

It’s still unique to the weapon but just hidden

[topaz valley]

god BLESS the MOD community who will make the game fine in that matter, cuz be forced to use DNIPRO or Kharod really sucks

[worn oar]

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

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/poong-cat-eat-tuxedo-cat-fast-gif-13130318234642969709

[topaz valley]

any info why they set hidden such important stat?

[hardy bear]

No clue
My first guess was because it isn’t ’modifiable’, and they wanted to only show stats that can change. But it’s just hiding vital info which is silly

[merry verge]

We have better ballistics now, which after using for about an hour I can already tell is much better to vanilla!

[gentle wyvern]

I have a question for everyone because I can't find anyone talking about it, what happened to the questline for taking Rostok back for Duty teased in some of the earlier trailers? Is it cut or what?

[ripe patrol]

Might be DLC

Some data mined stuff hinted at that

[gentle wyvern]

I see, thanks.

[lusty mountain]

Anyone know if better ballistics conflicts with any of shays mods (on console but I assume its the same for pc if any conflicts). Just reading through and it seems like they might have some conflicts

[merry verge]

I don't think so, if I come across any I'll post em

[smoky bobcat]

I'm frustrated they haven't done the ultimate edition upgrade yet. I preordered this game in 2021. I don't want to try and refund it just to get the ultimate edition.

[limpid matrix]

Question - is anyone else noticing that bandits in particular just stand still during random events?
As in they will not seek cover during firefights, 8 of them just stand next to each other and wont even react to grenades
They're shooting back but they are not maneuvering

[smoky bobcat]

It's hard to record footage, or stream this game. There's so much detailed folieage that it kills the bitrate and everything goes pixelated lol.

[oak rock]

a life fixed now ?

[topaz valley]

just like me... lol

[oak rock]

enyone ? game worth it now or wait for more updates,thanks

[prisma cargo]

It's betterish

[oak rock]

soo,should i start playing now or wait one more month ? i see they are aiming for new stuff in 1.5.1

preformance wont be an issue,my rig definatly can max the game,just wondering about bugs and features,if it worth it or no

[prisma cargo]

I would say it's likely more comfortable to play now than initial release. It's still not Alife 2.0. I don't think there are any crazy quest bugs that I've heard of.

Performance is a bit more stable I believe. I have come across some reports of lower textures being displayed. Not sure if that's a bug or on purpose

[oak rock]

probaly purpose,too ease up on vram,i could be wrong,well thank you,

[nimble cipher]

grimgearheart has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[smoky bobcat]

(ง⇀,↼)ง

[smoky bobcat]

I just decided to buy the deluxe edition, said to heck with it. They deserve the extra money, and it just adds the deluxe edition content to your preorder purchase.

[keen bone]

Trying out patch 1.5 now. Came across two groups fighting very naturally and without weird AI for once. But also their corpse flew into the air

And wondering around the zone still feels empty as hell

[smoky bobcat]

Yeah, they're aware. Working on a fix for 1.5.1

[keen bone]

Deffo still need to work on the spawn rates/radius

[keen bone]

ya I know it's on their radar that's good

[smoky bobcat]

On the flying corpses I mean

[keen bone]

It's still nice to see A-Life works as it should finally now

[plain minnow]

Is there a list of suits that let you get all their available upgrades without some getting locked out?

[keen bone]

I don't envy the poor GSC staff working non stop

[smoky bobcat]

Yeah, they're doing a great job. A lot of people are crapping on them, and on the game unfairly I think. They look at past games and forget the polishing those games took to get to their peak

[keen bone]

I mean, it IS rough though... I just did a quest involving doing a favour for some ass of an NPC. Trying to kill him now and... He's just invincible. Doesn't even react to bullets.

I keep coming across lots of immersion breaking bugs I don't think is that common

[smoky bobcat]

Yeah, saying it's rough is a fair critique. But some people are being quite shitty. Sensationalist for clicks on youtube.

[keen bone]

Great, another example for ya - I just did a side quest to kill some bandits causing trouble. Big old group. They just... All spawned at the same time by a random radio tower. I killed them all with one grenade

it's just like, rough on multiple fronts

[supple wedge]

I can only assume people have this weird idea that if they’re mean enough then it’ll fix the game.

[smoky bobcat]

I don't know...there's a weird outrage culture that's come around lately. Like in the last few years it feels like. I believe it's just another form of clout chasing. People make content for youtube, tiktok, whatever, and outrage gets them views.

[supple wedge]

Having worked it game dev it’s pretty thankless considering the passion of the vast majority of people working. And sometimes things don’t work out how you planned.

[empty gorge]

that the only thing you dont like about it or?

[empty gorge]

no mention of conflict heard on both our end afaik

[eager onyx]

cool little patch, will there be more ai improvments so they handle gunfights like in older games

[shut cosmos]

Thats pretty much the only thing

Its not a big deal tho so I downloaded it anyway lol

[limpid matrix]

100% people are super entitled and think they can bully devs into doing x-y-z.
As a longtime mod creator - it has the total opposite effect on me, lol

[eternal crag]

Shay's QoL mod also modifies AmmoPrototypes and PlayerWeaponSettingPrototypes, and as such will conflict with mine. All his other mods should work fine however

[tacit oracle]

oh damn this stalker infinity mod looks dope

I was kinda miffed to see like half the mods I was using aren't available anymore, I'm not a fan of the super comprehensive mods 'cause I'll invariably have problems with one thing or the other, but this reads amazing

apparently author's releasing a new mod next week so I'll wait for that before I give it a try

[shut maple]

Is there a way to enable dev mode from the files?

[thin shuttle]

is the sleep debuff removed from the game?

my character never gets tired

[supple wedge]

Drink energy drinks?

[lusty mountain]

Hmm good to know, thank you. I'm currently running the QOL mod with ballistics and haven't noticed anything major so far but Ill have to try without QOL to really get an idea if anything is amiss. Very nice work on the mod otherwise! Can't wait to see whats next for both of y'all!

[lusty mountain]

I'm pretty sure energy drinks stop you from getting "tired", I could be wrong though

[thin shuttle]

it could be since i did recently the poppy camp quest and i have to spam those energy drinks

[tacit oracle]

at least at launch you'd have to spend a long long long long long LONG ass time awake to get any tired effects. Not sure if they've changed it.

talking about like spending 3 days awake in a row to get the effects like the slower ADS

then you could get a bug where that tiredness never went away lol, so watch out what you wish for

[plain minnow]

Only time I’ve seen the sleep symbol recently is while I was fighting one of the Cats and after every round if the Arena

[lusty mountain]

Honestly have a funny feeling the tired debuff is directly related to time played and not the day/night cycle, though makes sense since having to take a nap every 30-60 mins would be annoying after awhile lol

[celest blaze]

this makes the most sense ngl

[supple wedge]

Just like real life.

[tacit oracle]

tru dat

[plain minnow]

So do yall prioritize Thermal or Electrical protection?

[urban basin]

No protection

[supple wedge]

Ballistic, but between those two electric I guess. I’ve found it to be way more ruthless.

[plain minnow]

It one shots through any armor I’ve had so far on Veteran so I’m probably gonna prioritize it this run

[supple wedge]

I wonder if it’s proximity based as well. Like if you get clipped by one you take less damage.

On stalker difficulty I can survive some electrical anomalies with a stock exo.

[plain minnow]

Yeah getting clipped one shots on Veteran

[keen star]

Fairly certain that the energy drinks around the Zone are what keep Skif awake 24/7

[solid ridge]

Has anyone had any issues trying to reload with the new night stalker pistol while using a detector?

For some reason at any point if i try to reload the gun while having my veles detector out, none of my options function anymore.

I.E. Aiming down sights, shooting the gun, trying to reload etc

none of the options are available if i try to reload WHILE having a detector out, very strange.

[lament goblet]

Does anyone know if it’s possible too port the MHM mod Xbox now that mods are a thing on console?

I really like the mod from what I’ve seen of a few playing with it, it’s awesome it adds items, patches etc. but I feel like it won’t make it to Xbox

[worn oar]

[wraith socket]

[elder beacon]

does this game automatically detect refresh rate

[worn oar]

Yeah

You can say so

[elder beacon]

under the resolution setting refresh rate isn't mentioned

[worn oar]

Isn't it greyed

[supple wedge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3509645506

[worn oar]

The system detects your refresh rate and select it depending on your monitor support

[supple wedge]

This is a image of a 3 line rifle with iron sights

How does this exist in some people's game

"No mod" apparently

[worn oar]

A mod perhaps? I don't remember it having an iron sight in the base game.

Idk tbh

[supple wedge]

It bothers me. Because I want one.

He said he got it from detention center roof. The one I found was the regular with scope

[worn oar]

I didn't really spend much time playing with the Mosin, so I can't quite remember if it had one with or without scope mount upgrade.

[supple wedge]

It starts with a scope and can have a red dot with an upgrade, but you can't take off the scope, only replace it with the red dot.

mysterious.

[worn oar]

This is the standard one

[supple wedge]

The ones I've found in game all have scopes

Unremovable

[worn oar]

Idk man, I remember having a no scope one (I'll check later)

Maybe there is two variants

Or I'm just confused

Haven't slept for two days

[astral kiln]

Hey are mods on Xbox yet?

[spark glacier]

Not many

[astral kiln]

Damn, what mods are there? Do they disable achievements?

[spark glacier]

1. Mainly QoL mods
2. Yes

[astral kiln]

Fuckkkk, thanks for telling me before I try the game out again lol

[spark glacier]

Give it a few weeks lol

[elder beacon]

im confused on why the mosin is so weak

[supple wedge]

Starter/early gun.

[hazy helm]

It's p good early game, and that's what it's for

[supple wedge]

Also ammo is much more plentiful.

[hazy helm]

You can get a svd in the starter are anyway

[supple wedge]

After the patch I went out with my SVU and a stack of ammo only to find I couldn't use any of it.

[shut cosmos]

Le mass produced rifle

[elder beacon]

7.62/54 is quite powerful

i believe its similar to 308

[shut cosmos]

Mosin isn't a great rifle to begin with tbf

They probably made it a lil weak for that reason

Altho they could've just made it inaccurate

[elder beacon]

they should have made it how it is

two version's the pu and the infantry

[gritty orchid]

mods will fix it, don't worry

[elder beacon]

i pray

[deft estuary]

Gloomy doesn't want to talk to me...

[celest goblet]

Yeah they did say the mosin would be an early game weapon. And for that it's quite good. Cheap and reliable, and if you do the pen upgrade it can stay good into the mid game

[elder beacon]

so there's no damage upgrade

[celest goblet]

No just one that doubles the armor penetration

It is true that you can get an svd before you leave the lesser zone, and I did, but the handling on it is pretty bad by comparison

[elder beacon]

yes

its north east from the main camp

[sly matrix]

PRAISE KEITH

[shut cosmos]

Theres ammo caliber change that increases damage by alot

[elder beacon]

what caliber 308?

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[merry verge]

I find it is a bit underwhelming. Multiple chest shots to drop bandits with a 54r is wild.

[viscid blade]

Hello, I haven't been playing S2 since the end of December because I had big life changes.
Anyway, I want to start playing it again from scratch, when I have some time. I haven't finished the game yet.
I just wanted to know, how is the game doing right now?
Are there still a lot of bugs?
It's A-Life fixed?

[celest goblet]

There are still bugs but way less than December. And A-Life just got a big update. It's still got some work needed but it's far better than even a couple weeks ago

[celest goblet]

Well every gun in this series is a little underwhelming if you aren't going for headshots except for the gauss

[viscid blade]

Great, thank for the info

[tardy wadi]

You can't use iron sights, it's either the default scope or a red dot (rails upgrade required)

shame, really
hope they change it

[thick cosmos]

Atlast, finally I can buy stalker 2 in peace

I was waiting for my birthday in july so I could have an excuse to get it, hoping it will be better by then, and look, patch 1.5

And the AI is nicer, I dont think I NEED it to be stalker og level but its getting better

[thick cosmos]

https://youtu.be/eu9k0uT98eI?si=SuYS4JCWw1zx0Kvq

[clever finch]

do I actually have any use of a flesh eye that you get from mutants? or should I just sell it?

[hazy helm]

the AI is already at the level of the og stalker, it needs to be better

[hazy helm]

sell

[thick cosmos]

Yeah, some gameplay from patch 1.4.2 looked pretty good.

[hazy helm]

I mean the 1.5 AI

[thick cosmos]

Yeah, but 1.4 wasnt bad, 1.5 I havent seen yet so I have faith

[plain minnow]

Are they intentionally leaving the quick save strat for artifact hunting or is it just further down on the list

[clever finch]

has the high quality rounds always been called "high quality"

[plain minnow]

They’re new I think?

[clever finch]

nah I have a bunch of them in my stash

[plain minnow]

Also is the green 7.62 ammo supposed to still spawn or was it the maroon colored one that got replaced with 7.62x54?

[plain minnow]

I have both regular 7.64x54, ap, and the High quality version so…

Never saw high quality 5.56 in any of my old playthroughs

[thick cosmos]

Is there normal fmj and ap variants of ammo in S2?

Or is it the high quality and normal

[thick cosmos]

Oh wait....

So there is ap

[stiff pasture]

It used to be called ‘flat’ rounds

[plain minnow]

Oh

[flint cliff]

Hi, I'm on Stalker 2, what should GAMMA be in the settings? https://ibb.co/s9VLcYmf
what value should it have?

[rustic perch]

Are there PC mods that re-enable achievements?

[clever finch]

ah

[celest blaze]

It usually tells you how to set it

[flint cliff]

he doesn't tell you here

[celest blaze]

naw they mean gamma settings not the mod

[worn oar]

Soory

XD

[plain minnow]

So is Better Ballistics safe to add mid save or does it require a whole new playthrough?

[worn oar]

Ghost ping

my brain is not braining

It only read gamma and discarded the rest

[celest blaze]

if its how it is with other games lower gamma till the one on the left is barely visible

[worn oar]

It's easier to keep default

[celest blaze]

that aswell

[worn oar]

It usually is the optimized value

[celest blaze]

ah fair haha i know each game is diff

[worn oar]

Give or take

You can either lower it by a grade or two, or the opposite

[vocal vapor]

Now that mods are out on Xbox someone please make a mode for me to get my precious exo suit immediately

[worn oar]

But default is usually the base reference to change

[elder beacon]

are they going to fix the npc xray vision

[stiff pasture]

Give me a mod to let me sprint in the cuirass Exo

[plain minnow]

Better Ballistics and the QoL mod aren’t compatible correct?

[stiff pasture]

Apparently not

[elder beacon]

do mods cause performance loss?

im using weapon reposition project / powerful bright flashlight

[celest goblet]

It depends a lot on what they do but typically I wouldn't expect so

[lusty mountain]

They do have two conflicts from what the mod dev said, Ive used them together and haven't noticed anything major but still have yet to try ballistics without QOL to see if anything is truly off

[plain minnow]

I’ll wait till I get a definite answer before I install QOL

[plain minnow]

Are all of Shay’s mods on xbox causing Mutant part Dialogue to be muted? Living Zone Silver and NPC Interactions seem to be

Do mods just mute the mutant part Dialogue now?

[astral kiln]

7.62.54R is the equivalent of 308, the R at the end stands for Russian

[elder beacon]

its rimmed

[astral kiln]

Wait really I was told it meant Russian

[elder beacon]

🤣

[astral kiln]

I'm a tard pardon me 😭

[elder beacon]

i personally want the devs to focus more on optimization and bug fixing rather than content

what do you guys think

[sturdy tusk]

I think now that modding is officially set up focusing on optimization and bugs is the better choice given modders can fill the content void

[clever finch]

if I remember correctly, theres an artifact that looks like a water bottle or sum right? where do I find it

[sturdy tusk]

Weird water? Hate that artifact, so annoying

Its in ||zaton inside the wandering lights anomaly||

[tepid gust]

I got a question about cats in stalker. Why dont we have missions / side quests that are all over the map where a guy is screaming for help. It would be perfect for the cats where sometimes it’s just a cat that is waiting for you to get lured. And you are thinking that you are about to make a mission and earn some bucks.

It would make it much more sense to have it so.
Now they are just tanking rodents.
Just screaming at you.

And while I am at is there any answer to why zombies are now coming back from the dead. Before they were just brain mushed humans. Now they work like zombies from films

[shut maple]

do artifacts stack if they are the same?

[sturdy tusk]

Weight artifacts do up to a certain point so I think others do

[shut maple]

ok i was looking at endurance with my exo suit

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah i was just about to test a double liquid rock setup

[sly matrix]

For endurance it's only 2 thunderberries. More doesn't add any effect

Or so I've been told

[sturdy tusk]

I just mainly use hypercube, thunderberry, liquid rock, flytrap since im looking for the star artifact, and a weird ball if I can

[chrome iris]

whats with the crazy shader compliation time on s2, it hjas been like this since release and is the main reason im having such a hard time playing frequently

anyone know how to mitigate it? as it happens every time I launch the game

[worn oar]

You can skip it now patch 1.5 made it possible

[unreal marsh]

So im still debating getting the game even after 1.5 and on sale? The reviews are very mixed idk who to believe rlly...

[tepid gust]

Still bad in context that the game is still not full fledged.

A-life got kinda in still not perfect

[dire sage]

I think personally the game is in a much better state with the 1.5 update

[tepid gust]

The mutants are pretty generic except maybe 1 or 2. Like vs legacy.

Not enough side quest.

Really big map to walk around for too few filled locations.

The locations look cool but sadly have nothing to do.
So not really a fledged game

[clever finch]

whats the best artifact for carrying more weight

[shut cosmos]

I just want their awareness and accuracy to be lowered

Its way too ridiculous

Especially for common bandits

[plain minnow]

I’m still annoyed that guns used by Burers completely ignore armor

[shut cosmos]

Common burer activity

Ngl thats a monster id honestly wish they'd cut sometimes lmfao. They're not fun to fight at all

[plain minnow]

Better Ballistics just makes em impossible to kill if they have guns

[clever finch]

you dont have any use of the "controllers brain" right? the thing you get for searching ones that u killed

[shut cosmos]

Stalker? Perfect? I dont think those words go to together

[shut cosmos]

Wdym

[tepid gust]

Before they were Just brain dead people. Now they can get come back from the dead? Like one mission they are a just laying and standing up. Or Are those just Psy emissions i thinking that they exist? And if so are there no zombies? Even before on legacy?

[tepid gust]

Meaning Legacy standard.

[shut cosmos]

I dont recall them ever coming back from the dead

[tepid gust]

In stalker 2?

[shut cosmos]

The game talks about psy emissions but you never experience them

[shut cosmos]

Yeah

[tepid gust]

They are dead laying around and after doing something like pressing a button they just wake up and try to kill you

[shut cosmos]

I think s2 they play dead now

[tepid gust]

It feels like they are there to just have enemys to kill

[shut cosmos]

Mfw that one controller building full of 30 zombies

[tepid gust]

But like they are waiting till i press something and after that they wake up? And they are only in missions i never saw them outside

[shut cosmos]

Stalker 2 still cements that zombies are because of psi radiation so they're not dead

[shut cosmos]

Thats smth stalker has always done

Spawning enemies after you do smth

[tepid gust]

True

One question about Flesh. Any Idea why they can jump?

[nimble cipher]

papa_levan has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shut cosmos]

Idk but its terrifying af lol

I was genuinely surprised playing s2 and they made flesh's so dangerous

[tepid gust]

Yea i like it too. Some mutans still dont feel terrifying or fun. Least fun i had with Chimera. His attack is Annoying and he just cant die.

Tho he is terrifying

[left terrace]

whats with the mixed and bad performance reviews?

[tepid gust]

Performance still bad it got from worst to bad

[left terrace]

thats a shame i was gonna buy it again. i guess ill keep waiting

[sturdy tusk]

Performance issue could also just be on your end, mine runs just fine

[urban basin]

Mine doesnt

[left terrace]

it couldnt be getting review bombed this late into its release, surely?

[tepid gust]

Nobody does have good performanc

[sturdy tusk]

I just said I do though?

I get others dont and that sucks

[sturdy tusk]

Well some problems seem to persist and others appear after something else is fixed so it makes sense getting bad reviews but ive honestly had a fun time

[north violet]

Sorry for replying to this....10 days later, real life got in the way as per usual.

For sure, CS A-Life still had tons of issues, I'm just saying that it seems to have been the most fully-realized iteration in the original trilogy.

[tepid gust]

If you have a Nasa PC i guess but for many the game always drop below 60FPS. You would have to have a CPU that is not really made for Consumer since every CPU cant hold up with this game. Its basically the new "Can it run Crysis?"
Even without a 1500$ PC struggles without any Place that are hard to run.

[sturdy tusk]

I play on an Xbox and it runs just fine for what is essentially a pc game on console

Maybe they lower quality for console but I haven't noticed a difference between pc and console on my end

[clever finch]

stalker 2 uses ray tracing right?

[tepid gust]

Could be that Xbox is better optimized But here on PC we get 40-30 FPS dips in places like rostok. And you cant change anything in the setting to reduce CPU load.

Maybe Lumen i think but that would be it.

[tepid gust]

A yes and no kinda...

[clever finch]

wdym by that

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah an in-depth graphics setting tab would be nice/helpful

[tepid gust]

Its not the kind of RT that Nvidia has or AMD or even Intel. But it has software RT (called Lumen) its slower than HW RT = AMD, nvidia... and cuz of that it needs to be worse to be faster run.

[elder beacon]

my game runs decent i have high graphics on

textures
materials
object detail
draw distance

i use dlaa

and 71% sharpening

no ffr

[tepid gust]

Damn

Thats high.

Try out FSR AA its now much sharper and uses less performance.

[clever finch]

I feel like most games with standard RT run better, I guess thats UE5 being straight ASS, I can run cyberpunk with path tracing at 60 fps lol

I guess its cyberpunks engine being pretty good

I really wish devs wouldnt relly on frame gen and stuff like that, sure I get 200 fps with mfg x4 but the image quality gets so much worse

[tepid gust]

But for that people with no HW RT card can play with RT and people with older RT cards get same FPS than with HW RT. So there are trade-offs.

[clever finch]

btw have you played star wars battlefront 2? the optimization on that game is INSANE, its 8 years old and still looks amazing today, frame rate limit is sadly 200 fps and it stays there all the time without any upscaling or nun

[nimble cipher]

bauderbaumeister has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[clever finch]

wdym with HW? hardware, im kinda slow

[tepid gust]

Thats the magic of not bloading. Games still can look good and run even better without those kind of settings

[tepid gust]

Yea HW=Hardware SW=Software

What kinda of card you have?

[clever finch]

rtx 5070

used to have a 3070 but my bigger brother really needed an upgrade so I gave it to him and got a new one

[tepid gust]

Many dont have such a card so SW RT is better. It also gets updates to work faster you just need to update the engine. Tho its easier said than done.

[clever finch]

arent they able to give u an option to disable RT fully? like on GTA enhanced and cyberpunk for example

[tepid gust]

But need to say some Stalker mods for the legacy games look insane with many techniques for lighting and they dont even use RT.

[tepid gust]

They could but i guess GSC never made non RT lightning that they would need to set up. That cost some work.

SW RT is basically on of button for Devs.

[clever finch]

so people that dont have RT capable cards cant launch this game or is that lumen allowing u to play it on non RT capable cards?

[tepid gust]

They allow you to play with RT on a Non RT capable card and on those that dont have enough powerfull RT HW. Like RTX 20 Series or 6000 and 7000 AMD.

[dire dagger]

Should be an option

Cus it would massive boost performance for those with hw rt support

[tepid gust]

There are some stuff that make some RT Weak Cards stronger or it can run it as fast as other cards but that has to do how RT is made/used. But i think that would go to much in depth

[dire dagger]

Considering disabling lumen completely can over triple fps

I think hw rt might be a good thing

[clever finch]

is it possible to take off the scope on the new rifle?

[dire dagger]

Yes

[clever finch]

how???

[tepid gust]

Depends on how RT is going to be in this game it could also almost as bad.

[dire dagger]

I think some version can be found with out a scope

[dire dagger]

At least it wouldn’t be so noisy and gross

[clever finch]

u got any clue where?

[dire dagger]

Nope

[clever finch]

oh did I pick up the only one that has a scope

[dire dagger]

I mean it’s shown with a red dot in the reveal trailer

[celest goblet]

Has a scope by default but once you get the rail upgrade and put the red dot on it won't have the scope

[dire dagger]

Ty

[clever finch]

@dire dagger it doesnt have one in this pic

[clever finch]

thats not the case for me😭

[clever finch]

oh I think I get what u mean but i wanna use the iron sights

[tepid gust]

I saw a video about a mod but i think Nanite was also off. And i think this game has a serious Overdraw issue.

[dire dagger]

Well it makes the game look terrible

lol

The game has no lighting or shadows

[tepid gust]

Yea thats when you heavily rely on Lumen

[celest blaze]

I wish the devs didnt decide to put a red dot sight on rifle that released in the late 1800s give us an option to use the iron sights will they go into detail why they went tacticool?

[clever finch]

what is the chance of getting struck my lightning in this game lol

[celest blaze]

Kinda high actually as its happened to a few here i just barely got hit

[ripe thorn]

Zeus is angry, especially in some locations, like burnt forest

[clever finch]

I got hit in prypiat where that base is

palace of culture

[ripe thorn]

It can happen anywhere

[clever finch]

btw check #💬┃en_offtop , what the hell was going on in the vid I sent

[ripe thorn]

Answered in dms

[plain minnow]

So do any guns still use 7.62x39ps cause I keep finding it

[tepid gust]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

Really cool gonna leave it on for 12h

[dire dagger]

It should be fully removed

Cus no none do lol

[plain minnow]

So just sell the boxes I have found then

[clever finch]

which ones did before?

[dire dagger]

The pkm and the dnipro conversion

That’s it lol

[clever finch]

oh they changed it on the pkm

[dire dagger]

Yes

[clever finch]

is the damage still the same? and the stats overall

[dire dagger]

And dnipro now fires 7.62x54r for the memes

[dire dagger]

Dunno haven’t played

Probably

[clever finch]

ight, btw which artifact is the best for carrying more weight

[dire dagger]

Nightstar

Each night star gives plus 9kg

[clever finch]

damn

does it say MAXIMUM on the weight category when u look at the stats?

[dire dagger]

No

It says strong

No maximum weight increase exists

[plain minnow]

Do I keep Decider or give it back?

[clever finch]

shit idk if I have a nightstar or nah

[clever finch]

I guess there is more than one of them?

[plain minnow]

Nightstar is what you’re thinking of weight wise

[dire dagger]

Night stars are fairly rare

[plain minnow]

I got one equipped right now

[dire dagger]

There’s an infinite amount of them

Because all artifact respawn

[plain minnow]

Should I keep Decider, kinda want a better gun that uses 5.45

[clever finch]

i think I can carry like 72kg till it goes to orange

[plain minnow]

But don’t have the coupons to upgrade a Dnipro

[clever finch]

are u able to get to pripyat yet?

[plain minnow]

No

[clever finch]

oh nvm I thought of the kharod, the kharod is pretty good though

[dire dagger]

You can go to Pripyat at any time

[plain minnow]

I’m supposed to be meeting Scar at the mill but I want to explore and gear up for the Swamps early

[dire dagger]

They just keep making it harder

[clever finch]

yea with glitching lol

[dire dagger]

Highly advice this method

Cus all the loot in Pripyat is useless otherwise

[plain minnow]

Kharod uses 5.56 last I check

[celest blaze]

ngl they are goofy for that lol lets make our new stalker game open world until its exploration we dont want you to do

shoulda kept it leveled if you dont want people going to pripyat right away

[plain minnow]

Could at least let us earn entrance to Pripyat early for doing a bunch of jobs for Dgetrev’s faction

[clever finch]

whose idea was it to make the diamond exoskeleton only accessable during a mission if thats what they did in like 1.4 or sum

[celest blaze]

its not like you can even quest there

[plain minnow]

Peope kept glitching onto the spark bunker

[dire dagger]

Glitch into Pripyat

[clever finch]

as if it wasnt already a pain in the ass to get up there already

[dire dagger]

Get the freedom exo

Profit

[clever finch]

its better than the diamond one?

[celest blaze]

gsc should spend more time fixing ai then patching glitches into pripyat

[plain minnow]

F it gonna keep the Decider, but in a way Mytryk no longer has to worry about his debt

[dire dagger]

Yes in my opinion

Higher carry capacity

[clever finch]

in what ways

[plain minnow]

Ok, omminous sounds started occurring right after I killed Mytryk for the rifle

[dire dagger]

And a stamina buff

[clever finch]

hmm

[clever finch]

I guess it has worse protection?

[dire dagger]

It’s actually better

But has slightly worse anomaly protection

[clever finch]

damn might gotta get it, where can I find it?

[dire dagger]

Library

In Pripyat

[plain minnow]

Ok, Zones not happy I killed Mytryk for the rifle, just got struck by lightning thrice in the span of a minute

[clever finch]

idk exactly where that is, ill check a yt vid when i hop on the game cuz ive been playing for like 7 hours🥱 😴

[celest blaze]

how long until someone mods a way into pripyat faster without having to glitch

[dire dagger]

A story accurate way to go to Pripyat

[sly matrix]

Is no_clip story accurate?

[plain minnow]

Just set it where it opens up early after completing enough jobs for the faction guarding the entrance

[dire dagger]

By romancing the mechanic lady there you can gain a pass to Pripyat early

BEST MOD EVER

[sturdy tusk]

Im waiting for someone to make something like a cheat terminal from fo4 or cheat room like skyrim

[plain minnow]

Wow, Decider doesn’t have much recoil

[sturdy tusk]

Fora in general doesn't really kick too hard

[tepid gust]

Just noticing that the mosin is not called mosin

Why in the world would it not have the name?

[sturdy tusk]

Trademark

Copyright

The reason why most games dont have accurately named guns

[celest goblet]

Yeah the same reason as all the guns

[stiff pasture]

HK especially

[wraith socket]

I've been hit multiple times. Barely survived each encounter.

[sturdy tusk]

I dont think ive ever been hit once, then again it only ever lightly rains, fogs over, or is sunny out

[wraith socket]

I've seen many, many people hit and die.

[tepid gust]

Is skifs pistol still OP with like how lil it cost to repair or not?

[urban basin]

Yeah

[celest goblet]

Still quite good though the new one is also pretty good

[tepid gust]

So still better than using other pistols cuz before it was useless to use anything besides Skifs pistol

[dire sage]

Yeah and it has decent peneteration

[worn oar]

I did

Got stuck during a fight with some monolithians

Already had low hp

So, it only finished me off

[wraith socket]

Died? What armor were you wearing?
Where you already wounded in battle?

[worn oar]

Liberty exo

Less than half

Hp

Was Kinda flexing cuz there is no way they could kill me

So, I didn't heal and kept picking them off

But the lighting stuck me down and got me crying my ass out as I know I haven't saved my progress even before the encounter

[sturdy tusk]

The game took that as an insult and smited you

[wraith socket]

All it takes it one big lesson, to make you to remember to make frequent saves.

[worn oar]

Well, even a zone veteran can still be toast if not careful enough it only killed me once cuz usually I could take it with full HP and live

[plain minnow]

Zone really disliked me killing Mytryk for the Decider during my current playthrough, three lightning strikes in less than a minute

[sturdy tusk]

Now im gonna go there and kill him for his gun

[plain minnow]

He doesn’t have it on him when you meet him the first time

[sturdy tusk]

Im aware

[plain minnow]

I only gave it back to him then killed him so it was no longer considered a quest item

[wraith socket]

Oh yeah. Even myself who makes frequent saves can get caught off-guard by something I didn't expect.

[shut cosmos]

Bro never heard of copyright lol

[static compass]

None of the guns have their real world names

Licensing is a pain

[storm kernel]

I think they rebalanced penetration so now the round the gun fires is what matters instead of the gun itself

[static compass]

Although... the Mosin has been referred to as the Three Line Rifle IRL

[sturdy tusk]

Mosin may be taken but the nickname isn't so fair game

[storm kernel]

by God I despise that ai overview

just give me normal search results like old google...

[sturdy tusk]

Its actually pretty helpful

[wraith socket]

Google does, right below that. You can skip the AI if you want.

[storm kernel]

scrolling past the ai isn't enough, I want it gone. I do not consent to big tech companies forcing me to use their AI features

[sturdy tusk]

Oh boy

[wraith socket]

I'm the one that clicked on the AI tab.
I found it very useful and to the point,
for finding the answer that I want.
However I do despise AI art.

[storm kernel]

ai art is satan's work

although one thing I find funny is how 99.999% of tech startups now are literally just reskinned chatgpt

kinda like how back in early 2020s we had all those cryptocoin scams

[sturdy tusk]

Well most crypto is just influencers that are full of themselves

[lament goblet]

So I’ll take it that’s a no or no one knows as of now..?

[sturdy tusk]

Depends on if it even is ported and how long testing takes to release it to console

[lament goblet]

That’ I don’t know last I checked the mod authors page I didn’t see a mention of it getting ported etc. & seeing how in depth it is I would assume it may take awhile if it does ever come to console it would be so dope though, it looks like a sick mod

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah thats the downside to console mods is that first it needs to be ported, then tested to make sure its ok for console, and then uploaded to the console mod page

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[elder beacon]

where is the weak spot for bloodsuckers

[ripe patrol]

It's nuts

[elder beacon]

[wraith socket]

The torso seems to be the best location to hit them with a shotgun,
since their limbs and head twist around and move around so much.

[elder beacon]

makes sense

[flint cliff]

I'm in the early hours so don't give me spoilers.
But I have a consideration.
I find it very good especially for those who love the series.
Full of points of interest and missions.
By adjusting the gamma well at night it then works very well.
And finally you can no longer save during battles.

I don't understand all the criticism it has received

[native acorn]

I don't either...the hate on this game is based on the old games having a more dense structure but it was also smaller and easy to maintain rather than a persistent open world

[ripe patrol]

The hate for this game is 50% that and 50% people comparing it to over a decade of work from the modding community, which set people's expectations unrealistically

[native acorn]

Exactly

Yes anomaly and gamma are good but they rotted this community brains and expectations 😭

[ripe patrol]

Game has issues, but it's a great base STALKER game. With SDK,this game will become what everyone wanted it to be and more

[native acorn]

The main focus was tailoring the fact they aren't a few guys anymore...they are backed my Microsoft meaning they have to make the game accessible to play for anyone

[ripe patrol]

Which is fine I guess, but I wouldn't have minded a PC exclusive release first and then a port to consoles later

[native acorn]

Oh for sure lol but Microsoft got them out of that mess in Ukraine and as I see it got the game to even release in the first place

[ripe patrol]

But Xbox is adamant on making all games release for all consoles, including series S

[native acorn]

Tbh I played both on X and S and the S for some reason ran smoother on launch

Both on performance ofc

The series S is a mighty lil machine it's just a series x without the disc drive pretty much

[lofty fossil]

is the new flying npc bug what i see? shoot a npc they fly in air and then spasm out back to their original position?

i can get around that. lets say its one of the new anomalies of the zone. peoples bodys become unstable, the zone trys to rid them (throw them up), sometimes they come back, some times they disintegrate

[ripe patrol]

It'll be patched 1.5.1

[woven shuttle]

miss playing this, does it feels any different from release?

[urban basin]

yep, i started a new savefile for the 1.5 and its way better on fights against npcs and also didnt have softlocking bugs (yet)

[tepid gust]

I would not be the first time a Gun is called Mosin Nagant in a game. Fun fact other games have it too.

Makes sense if you cant use the name of a going Company like Mauser or Glock what are still companys that exist.

[empty gorge]

the hate on the game is justified

[tepid gust]

Well very Early. Wait till you are 25% in to the game

[worthy zodiac]

Not really. Stalker 2 is missing stuff that made original games unique, it has nothing to do with the mods - vanilla games already had it all. A big online bubble (not just 100 meters), a working A-Life, none of the original games were this bugged at the release (Even Clear Sky didn't need thousands of fixes to become playable). Most of the critique has nothing to do with the mods

[hazy helm]

meh, you see people comparing and rebuking S2 for some weird stuff less than people having justifiable and understanding critiques about the stuff that was cut or it lacked

[worthy zodiac]

In any case... At least it's nice to see that they keep making some progress. For example, reloading animations bothered me a lot on release and I thought that they'll just fix some timings or something. Instead of that we have literally modular animations for reloading. That's really cool... Kinda hope A-Life will get this kind of attention too, lol. A little bit tired of shooter games caring about gunplay only while ignoring everything else

[ripe patrol]

I mean that's one half of the issues people had, but the other is still people expecting stalker 2 being something it's not

[hazy helm]

they said they would, and they need to, what we have is like a A-Life 1 iteration, not Alife 2

[worthy zodiac]

I just wish they were more open about their A-Life vision. Like, 7 months have passed and we still don't know what's the "endgame" for A-Life here, what are their plans about it. I understand that they can't talk about what they'll actually do because nobody knows if they are actually capable of doing anything... But it would be nice to hear about their plans, about their vision, about the objective of A-Life in stalker 2

Like... I just wonder if there's an actual design philosophy for A-Life or is it just "Well... UUhhh... Now stalkers can walk between random points on the map in offline mode without any real logic behind it" or something like that

[hazy helm]

you can always pull out the old image

going thru the pins is painful

ouch

[tepid gust]

Even 1.5 Update is not the Alife we would/should have. Just a beginning for a fully working stalker game.

Also still missing Missions in the game you get 2 areas that are kinda full of Side missions all the other places are just empty places. Just nothing to do.

[fair jackal]

definitely wish there was a lot more quests that took you to installations and what not.

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, I've read these already... 7 months ago. Still, that description is very vague, it doesn't describe the design philosophy. Because one thing is to implement something on a technical level, something that "just works" without any meaning behind it. Another thing is to implement it and then adjust it to your design, your "vision". Like, for example, is it just a system that gives them NPCs persistence in the world and generates "cool situations" (Spawning two hostile groups of NPCs a few hundreds meters away from the player that will start a fight as soon as the player approaches) to entertain the player? Or is it a system that tries to generate some interesting global interactions between the factions on the map, interactions that happen with or without player input so the player could "live" in that world and try to shape it in different ways or maybe just adapt to these changes (Something closer to Mount and Blade, basically)? There can be many different visions for the future of A-Life and all we know for now is that it doesn't work like it's supposed to work... But when will we know that it is working like it's supposed to work if we don't even know what's the end goal? What if the stuff that we already have IS what we were supposed to get? Yet again, my expectations are very low but still, it would be nice to know what's the vision of the developers

All I know for sure is that they are definitely not trying to make A-Life that old GSC was trying to make for original game (The one where NPCs actually trade stuff, complete quests, can beat the game for you and all the other insane stuff that we can only dream about, lol)

[fair jackal]

there's like a total of like 3 quests that ever take place in Cooling Towers and it's like 1 where you help Duty and one where you can meet a loner from CS and then the last story mission or something

[worthy zodiac]

Hey, careful with stuff like that in #⭐┃nospoilers_general

[fair jackal]

it sucks learning that there was supposed to be an X-lab out there in the water.

[fair jackal]

i feel like i was, i gave no details about what it is you do, nor who the Loner from Clear Sky was nor what the story mission is about other than it happening in that part of the map

[worthy zodiac]

Talking about the existence of a loner from CS is kinda "spoilery" on its own

[fair jackal]

hardly

[tepid gust]

Worst part the zone still does not feel like a living part.
Like even how the Mutants work does sometimes dont fit.
Blood sucker are now trying to be invisible hunter that are sneaking around to kill you but then scream before they attack. Also they aint invisible when they scream.

And i am not for a 100% replica. I find the Flesh update Good. But things that made the old games fitting was the AI. They are fitting in their role.

Sadly the cat is also something i would say its not made that well. Or the execution is bit lacking. I might fall for the first time playing but after the first encounter i know what they are. There is nothing that would make me think that someone needs help since there are no missions tied to it.

[elder beacon]

i agree, life in the zone doesn't feel right mutants don't behave and interact aa expected

[native acorn]

after 1.5 ive seen them be a lil better, not perfect but better

[elder beacon]

i think the biggest annoyance for me is the requirement to use dlss and other technologies, quite frankly the world looks really blurry

[hazy helm]

using DLSS will hurt your perf

[elder beacon]

what rendering mode gives the best motion clarity and sharpness

[hazy helm]

native, believe it or not

[elder beacon]

what sharpness scale do you use for native?

[tepid gust]

Use FSR AA its taking much less performance and they updated it and now its looking sharper.

And use 20% Sharpness if not non

[elder beacon]

are there any drawbacks like increased input lag?

[tepid gust]

No. That would be FSR FG but you are using the Upscaler-

Just change DLAA to FSR AA

[elder beacon]

i will try

[lofty fossil]

honestly they should get rid of the ram 2, maybe replace it with a protecta, they should also add back the f2000, maybe add a full varient of the boomstick and rename the boom stick to the sawed off shotgun idk. just ideas to make stalker 2 a little more like the originals

[celest blaze]

They need to add back the AN-94 aswell

[lofty fossil]

the ram 2 doesnt fit. its out of place. atleast the protecta as little as it meant in stalker made more sense, its a cheap garbage rotary shotgun, looks kinda russian in a way

if you didint know what a protecta was but only saw the image of a stocked one. would you think it was some crappy russian gun?

it gives me russian vibes personally

[celest goblet]

seems like a weird criterion to use when like half the guns in the trilogy are from other places

its a later game weapon which have traditionally been nicer than cheap junk

[celest blaze]

It screams american to me personally

Saigi is peak russian shotgun

[lofty fossil]

how do i spawn in guns for testing a texture mod

im not gonna play the game like that i just need to see if the texture mods are consistent with the vanilla weapons

[low latch]

tried to get back into stalker 2 with a good pc, got into zalissya drops frames constantly down to 50 even sometimes 40 on a ryzen 7 5800x, is this a game we are meant to play or what ? how can a game look so blurry and feel so bad to play is beyond me, half a year has passed since last i tried and it was exactly the same, shame on you gsc

[mystic sigil]

pretty sure its something to do with unreal engines version and it having cpu issues, i think most people say if they update it it will be fixed but will be long time until then if they do it at all

[low latch]

yeah iam aware of this fact but upgrading the engine isn't an option just bake the damn lighting and give me screen space shaders only, i really do not give a crap about lumen, i tried to use engine.ini to turn it off and it looked awful while also not running much faster which is an achivement

[elder beacon]

its better

its allot sharper

[mystic sigil]

what if i dont use native? is DLSS better for quality mode etc

[elder beacon]

use fsr with aa native

its crispy

[lofty fossil]

i need help. how do i unpak a pak mod and merge it with another similar pak mod (texture replacer)

[mystic sigil]

i got 8gb vram bro i get 5 fps in places like zalyissya rostok

[elder beacon]

what card?

[mystic sigil]

3060ti

pretty sure 3060 got 12gb

[tepid gust]

not fg fsr change dlaa to fsr aa

[mystic sigil]

yes but if i use native i get memory leaks in places like rostok because of 8gb vram so i use quality settings which one is best for quality setting

[tepid gust]

even on low? and do zou use FG?

[mystic sigil]

i use fg because if i dont i get 40fps which is not fun, and i use optimized settings from benchmarkking, i think only setting on low is hair quality

with fg i get 80fps and its playable and its only a singleplayer so the delay is not much

[tepid gust]

Thats why you get 5FPS since its using Vram more

[mystic sigil]

but if i use quality setting i also dont drop fps

[zinc apex]

Did you start with S2 by now, my man?

[lofty fossil]

how do i get multiple texture mods working at once?

only one works at a time

i would assume because it uses the same path so its either all or nothing

[sturdy tusk]

Texture mods are iffy, most conflict with each other across any game

[lofty fossil]

how do i merge them into one so all of them apply ingame instead of just one

[sturdy tusk]

That'd be something to ask a modder, I play console so I just play with default textures

But for games like Bethesda you have to specifically order them and pay attention to what mods say they conflict with others in the description

[lofty fossil]

where do i ask a modder

[sturdy tusk]

#en-mods-general try here

[celest blaze]

i reinstalled it and loaded in but im currently playing stason 6.0.5 atm

[coarse sparrow]

modder discord?

[naive goblet]

should i buy stalker 2? i mean, i really really wanted to buy it but i didnt have the money, now i have the money but i mean, game just seems disappointing. should i keep playing anomaly?

[hexed leaf]

If money is tight to the point where buying a game is pushing it, then hold off for a little bit. You'll only resent the game if it doesn't live up to expectations. It's headed in the right direction, and I think it'll get to a good place, but if you're enjoying anomaly then keep enjoying anomaly for a little longer

[naive goblet]

i can buy the game three times over and have extra

is it optimized well and is the gameplay better than anomaly

[static lynx]

Have any unique varients of the three line rifle been found? I got the 9mm kora

[shut cosmos]

"Big online bubble" and it was 150 meters

Unfortunately even if we get to that 150m range for s2 it'll still look like npcs are spawning in cuz the map is so big and you can see so far.

[shut cosmos]

Ngl that was big thing before release but after it i didnt really ever see people saying shit like that.

The amount of anomaly players complaining about the game's trailers was astounding tho lmao

[worthy zodiac]

150 meters
Are you sure we've played the same game?
#💬┃en_offtop message

[worthy zodiac]

The optimization is bad, the gameplay is pretty similar to vanilla stalker games (not like Anomaly/GAMMA). Many people prefer vanilla over anomaly and vice-versa, it's for you to decide what to do with your money. I'd say the game is simply unfinished currently

[shut cosmos]

I've rewatched this like 10 times and I still dont see that npc at all

[worthy zodiac]

You can see him run inside at the first second of the video and then I simply demonstrate the distance between that point and the player

(+ binoculars don't detect npcs that aren't rendered in)

[hardy bear]

What were they saying?
I chose to stay away from here and form my own opinion on things but I’m curious

[shut cosmos]

Ah ok I see em

Why tf are people saying the og games were 150m then lmao