⭐┃nospoilers_general

[worthy zodiac]

Because it's the internet, I guess

[shut cosmos]

Was it clear sky and cop only?

Wait which game is that clip

[worthy zodiac]

The video is from SoC that I've just launched

[shut cosmos]

Ok

[worthy zodiac]

Vanilla 1.0006 from steam

[shut cosmos]

Can you check the other games lol, im curious if its those games or if its an actual lie

[worthy zodiac]

Let me see

Need to download them first

[shut cosmos]

Ngl im curious about stalker 2's range too because isn't there a sniper mission that has you sniping from more than 100m away. The one where you decide who's in charge of the Verdansk?

[worthy zodiac]

I haven't left Zalissya yet so can't say anything about that

[shut cosmos]

I'll have to check that out myself

Cuz i swear that mission has you sniping from atleast 150m

[sturdy tusk]

Distance is a bit weird, never liked long range sniping in this game

[worthy zodiac]

Maybe some special NPCs ignore "Online bubble" limitations just for the special cases like that

[shut cosmos]

True

[sturdy tusk]

Thats the mission with ||fustercluck|| gun

[shut cosmos]

Yeah

On the crane

[sturdy tusk]

Its pretty far, you're probably right with 100-150

Maybe 200, been awhile

[shut cosmos]

I'll have to rush over there at some point when I'm sick of death standing 2

[sturdy tusk]

Can't play rn, at grandma's

Needed a haircut and didn't feel like making an appointment somewhere

[worthy zodiac]

Just checked CoP. You are right, in case of CoP the limit is somewhere near 150 meters
You can see how they disappear in this vid #💬┃en_offtop message

[shut cosmos]

Ahhh ok

So open world def puts a strain on the a life system it seems

Id be fine with them getting to 150m or like 170 to 180 in s2

I'd like 200 or 250 like SoC but I can compromise

[worn oar]

I think that would be cool, but in order to do that, some testing is needed to evaluate impact on behavior and performance. That is one of the reasons why the team is doing the ai improvements at a somewhat slow pace

I mean, at least, in my humble opinion

[sturdy tusk]

Personally im fine with how the game is rn, I haven't had too many issues or complaints since launch

But obviously improvements are nice

[loud gate]

GSC ups the radius to 200meters
Series S explodes

[shut cosmos]

Im fine with it but it still needs alot of work

[worthy zodiac]

#💬┃en_offtop message
CS has a bigger radius than 150 meters too (especially noticeable in the end, when I look at bandits that are 190 meters away)

[shut cosmos]

But im more fine with it because ik GSC is most likely going to stick with it and actually fix it

[worn oar]

I mean we are held back by console most of the time, so Ig it would be fair to revert the curse on these damn machines

[sturdy tusk]

Definitely, no denying that, but im having fun still and mods will help keep me entertained

[sturdy tusk]

Like how cyberpunk pulled a 180 hopefully

[loud gate]

Why does Series S fuccking exist

[shut cosmos]

The open world revolution and it's consequences

[worn oar]

Just imagine if S2 was wholly a PC title

[sturdy tusk]

I genuinely have no idea, i play series x and couldn't begin to comprehend why you'd buy a s

[shut cosmos]

I highly doubt it'd be better

[worn oar]

You doubt, but I don't

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah, with how pc is also having issues idk if it'd really be better

[loud gate]

It would be both worse and better lol

[loud gate]

Well, the double-edged sword is that Series S forces devs to optimise the games further. I seen how that worked out

[shut cosmos]

Literally stalker og, those games were pc only and were absolutely janky and still have gamebreaking bugs lmfao

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah thats a good point

[worn oar]

I mean on a technical level, console support would only cap certain potentials a game could achieve otherwise. So, yeah, if all focus was on PC, it would've been far better for PC users, but it's basically impossible to miss all these console users, so 🤷

[loud gate]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-versus-vs-alien-monster-vs-alien-gif-16037253809360562033

[worn oar]

Sad

[sturdy tusk]

Im more interested in how xbox is doing away with the "console" and essentially making a pc tower with the convenience of a console

[shut cosmos]

To this day I still cant play SoC without that annoying ass bird noise bug lol

CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW

And somehow that shit ended up in the console port lmao

[loud gate]

I mean, CoP is fine. CS at launch was worse than S2 (but I am not speaking for myself here but from my friend Char). Nice higgs pfp btw

[sturdy tusk]

Well then you have the problem of low end pcs capping potential

[loud gate]

That was a new bug introduced, I believe. But I thought it was fixed year ago lol

[shut cosmos]

Did they fix it?

Ill have to check

[worn oar]

In theory, devs have to keep everything capped in order to still have the same state in console. Console is kinda better in how it is uniform ,unlike pcs. So, technically, it is a bottleneck situation

[loud gate]

When was the last time you played?

[shut cosmos]

I last played soc like a year ago

[sturdy tusk]

Always gotta be something

[worn oar]

True, but bad specs are less common and there is a min requirement posted for a reason . I mean, I wouldn't expect my game to work on a system with less juice as min req says

[loud gate]

Probably been fixed already

[shut cosmos]

Ngl I always see people complaining about how their low end pcs cant run certain games

[worn oar]

I don't want to say anything in that regard cuz heck, it would be a bit offensive

Haha I'd like to keep my composure

[shut cosmos]

Mfs be like performance bad!! And their running it on a laptop from 2015 with the earliest version of directx11

[celest blaze]

still better then console

[worn oar]

I mean, I myself was on a potatomicrowave, but never really thought about it that way, never. Maybe I wished to have it work or that my pc was better, but never complained

[worn oar]

I'm not a console hater, but it is what it is

Truth must be told

[static compass]

Official console user here

[shut cosmos]

I will never get complaining about performance when you have lower than minimum specs

[static compass]

Haven't had any game breaking issues

[shut cosmos]

Lucky ass

[worn oar]

I still love you regardless

[static compass]

I love u too

[shut cosmos]

When stalker 2 came out like 10 main quests had a softlock

[worn oar]

(Joke)

I mean if it works fine for you, then lucky ass

[static compass]

[celest blaze]

still love you king

[worn oar]

Not about the part about love

I meant it

[static compass]

But ye, no major bugs, except for some crashing during the final quest

[sturdy tusk]

Me neither, only a few studders here and there that fix themselves

[static compass]

[worn oar]

Wolf is sleeping ig

Smugle time

[shut cosmos]

Speaking of console, ready or not being censored because of console ratings

I am livid and I am a console player lmao

[static compass]

Hmm? They had to change stuff?

[sturdy tusk]

Console ratings suck, tired of things being babied

[shut cosmos]

Which is applying to both versions

[shut cosmos]

Yep, theyre censoring some levels and gore. Idrc about the gore unless its in the levels specific but they're censoring some of the serious levels.

[worn oar]

again, I am not a console hater and I might own one at some point (but ofc with my PC), but ew

[static compass]

Hmm lame

[shut cosmos]

Like ones with the T word. Idk if I can say it

[sturdy tusk]

Isn't there a bad one about kids

[celest blaze]

ignored me

[shut cosmos]

Yes

[static compass]

Ye

[worn oar]

Trust?

[static compass]

Wut

[shut cosmos]

Traffic

[worn oar]

Traffic

[sturdy tusk]

Been awhile since ive watched ready or not gameplay

[celest blaze]

said i still love you

[shut cosmos]

Traffic With a k

[static compass]

Oh, I love u too bb

[celest blaze]

[sturdy tusk]

Involuntary human movement?

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/thor-avengers-chris-hemsworth-hammer-mjolnir-gif-7348302

[shut cosmos]

Theres a school one from what I remember and other not so good things

[static compass]

Transporting people from one place to another forcefully, yes

[sturdy tusk]

Yeah i remember a few

[shut cosmos]

Imo I dont think that should be censored because it ruins the tone

It supposed to be dark and disturbing

[sturdy tusk]

You know how some people are

[static compass]

Yee, that's the whole point of the game being called Ready or Not

[shut cosmos]

Swat 4 had that apartment level with the cultists and that shit was disturbing

[celest blaze]

im ready..

[shut cosmos]

That and Fairfax residence

[static compass]

Ready 4 Freddy

[celest blaze]

[sturdy tusk]

[shut cosmos]

Cp2077 moment

[shut cosmos]

"Its ready, when its ready"

[shut cosmos]

(It wasn't ready)

[sturdy tusk]

2077 was such a good comeback for a game

[worn oar]

@static compass did you know I can force embed fail ?

[shut cosmos]

I still think its a disappointment and I dont get the hype

[shut cosmos]

The writing is still pretty bad outside of the dlc and the side quests are a downgrade from the Witcher 3 massively

[static compass]

Oh?

[worn oar]

Send gif

[sturdy tusk]

Compared to launch its way better

[shut cosmos]

Imo thats a game that shouldn't have had a comeback with reputation especially with how badly they lied

[static compass]

And getting a new patch soon

[worn oar]

Not this one

[shut cosmos]

Its not like nms where the team was small and got too big for their britches

[static compass]

Another gif?

[sturdy tusk]

Oh yeah the voice lines are pretty meh but i dont really play games for story, only game I played and got into the story of was the first the crew game

[worn oar]

I wouldn't make my own fail

That'd be harsh

[shut cosmos]

It was an experienced developer who actively lied about the game and its still missing features that were promised

[worn oar]

[sturdy tusk]

Heard about that, I still want ng+ and console mods

[shut cosmos]

Patch was delayed

[static compass]

I don't think I have another gif

[worn oar]

Any gif man

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/long-tears-gif-11087877242190144149

[static compass]

https://tenor.com/view/mario-dance-moves-party-gif-21254682

[sturdy tusk]

Plumber guy

[static compass]

Yee

[static compass]

Did it not work

[finite dragon]

Xbox so cooked smh

[sturdy tusk]

How?

[worn oar]

Wdym

[static compass]

Omg

Epic forced embed fail

[finite dragon]

I finally bought the LOtz trilogy and it doesn’t even let me play offline 😢

[sturdy tusk]

Thats a game thing, not console

But yeah I dont get why every game has to be online now

[finite dragon]

I think it may work but I gotta do a home console thing

I don’t understand it but I don’t have internet so I can’t do that unfortunately

[sturdy tusk]

Internet down or not connecting?

[finite dragon]

Never paid the bill

[sturdy tusk]

I dont have mine until the 2nd

[celest blaze]

wait lotz has to be online only? thats retarded lol

[sturdy tusk]

But luckily its not too bad, only $76 for 1gig internet

[finite dragon]

I don’t think so. But even though I purchased the game on my account, it still asks me to make it my home console.

[sturdy tusk]

Oh, fallout 4 does that too

[finite dragon]

but why? how is fix 😭

[sturdy tusk]

I don't think there is a fix, just happens

[finite dragon]

On the bright side the enhanced edition runs on Xbox one thank god

I don’t gaf about the politics but the graphics look tastier

For a while I had to make do with a 9dxl setting on anomaly that was terrible but I’m excited for soc

[lofty fossil]

unfortunately the textures i extracted dont work ingame

according to the person implementing them

[worthy zodiac]

I also agree. Because yeah, CP2077 has never did a 180, it just fixed the critical bugs and some combat balance issues. Other than that - it's still just a far cry game in cyberpunk setting. No NPCs with handmade schedules (a promised feature), no ability to join factions (a promised feature), life paths don't really affect much, etc. Sure, it's a nice "far cry" like game but it isn't an RPG that was promised before the release

[sturdy tusk]

Idk, maybe im different for just enjoying the game for what it is

Especially compared to what it was

[worthy zodiac]

No, it's okay to enjoy it. I also enjoyed it, it's a good game. It just didn't do a 180 and it didn't deliver on stuff that was promised before the release. Important RPG stuff

[naive goblet]

CDPR set the bar too high for themselves. it’s not a bad game by any means but they overpromised and under delivered..

[lofty fossil]

how do i merge ucas and utoc mods together. turns out pak does not work the mods are only texture replacers they dont come in pak files

[sturdy tusk]

Kinda why i dont pay attention to new games coming out, listening to what they "promise" just leads to disappointment because hardly any game delivers anymore

[hardy bear]

Basically most games nowadays

[worthy zodiac]

Well, the biggest issue here is that people have expected an RPG. Even if you don't really followed the game – everybody else who knew about its existence knew that it was supposed to be an RPG. What we've got instead is a far cry like openworld game that is hardly an RPG. It's like... Imagine if we've got Tarkov like game instead of Stalker 2, lol (A good Tarkov like game, not trashy). It's not just promises or underdelivering, it's just a completely different game in general

A good game, sure, but still

[sturdy tusk]

I never really pay attention to what a game is labeled as, I just play

And tarkov is kind of the reason ive been looking into pc but mouse and keyboard just feels unnatural to me

[worthy zodiac]

How do you even choose what to play then?

Are you just randomly choosing whatever you see on the store page or something?

[sturdy tusk]

I play a massive assortment of games, from midnight club los angeles to bo6

As long as i have fun I'll play it

I think i have like 118 games installed and how ever many not installed

Have adhd so I bounce around alot

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah but how do you choose them?

Like... What makes you buy them and play them in the first place?

[sturdy tusk]

Watch the previews or look online for reviews, that or ive seen the series before

[worthy zodiac]

At first I wanted to continue the logic... But in the end your individual experience doesn't really matter. It's just wrong to sell anything as something that it isn't, that's all. CP2077 wouldn't sell that well if they'd be honest about it being a far cry like game during all these years of development, that's my point

[finite dragon]

I got it to work hell yeah

[worthy zodiac]

Like, they still have RPG tag in the description of every store page so yeah

[hardy bear]

Bethesda seem to be doing the same thing

It’s tricky, cause in situations like this it’s fine to like the game but saying anything good about it can feel wrong when there was an air of misdirection about the whole thing

[sturdy tusk]

Not saying it isn't, just saying idc what its supposed to be, I like it regardless

[worthy zodiac]

Honestly, it's just okay to enjoy bad games or games that didn't deliver on promised stuff. I just wish more people were concious about that when they say that this or that game is good/got better. Basically, one thing is to enjoy cp2077 and the other thing is to say that they did a 180 when they didn't

Same goes for Fallout 76 and No Man's Sky, for example

[shut cosmos]

NMS is actually a comeback and im willing to forgive since they were such a small team. They just got too big for their britches

[sturdy tusk]

I've always liked warframe, they keep true

[worthy zodiac]

How is it a comeback if it is still the same game that it was on release mechanically and isn't the game that was promised by the devs? Like... One feature that I was excited about is different ecosystems and the way they work – instead we have mobs that are dumber than mobs from minecraft and there are no real ecosystems on planets

[sturdy tusk]

Ok let me put it this way, its a comeback because the game was bad but got good. Simple enough?

[shut cosmos]

Have you played the game recently?

Its what they promised and more lol

[worthy zodiac]

I would agree in case of CP2077. In this case it's just the same grinding game that it was on the release, you just have more stuff to grind

[worthy zodiac]

A little bit, yeah

[worthy zodiac]

Not really

[shut cosmos]

Are you sure? Cuz they improved how animals and ecosystems worked massively

They entirely redid planets

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, same way GSC is "improving A-Life" currently

[sturdy tusk]

I-sure

[worthy zodiac]

Anyways, we are offtopping too much yet again... Doesn't matter, as long as you enjoy the game – good for you, yeah

[shut cosmos]

Not at all lol

They've overhauled the game entirely like 4 times with almost every single system in the game

[sturdy tusk]

The ai just kinda jump me whenever, but pripyat sucks because I just get in a huge fight with never ending monolith

[shut cosmos]

You can be an archeologist in nms now lmao

[celest blaze]

GSC wishes they could be NMS devs lol

we got baited and this is offically stalker 1.0 lol if that

[elder beacon]

has anyone had the bug where 6 burers spawn

[celest blaze]

the npcs still hardly react to people being shot beside them

[hardy bear]

It’s got a lot of side things to do but it’s still just Minecraft in space

Quick progression, a simple story, you have to like building and making goals for yourself. Got NMS on release and I still can’t enjoy it. But that’s on me for expecting something else lol

[celest blaze]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U5PweISK_so look at how braindead ai is lol

[worthy zodiac]

Okay, can you be more specific? Like, what's so special about the way current ecosystems work? From what I saw animals keep spawning randomly around you, walk around aimlessly and sometimes big thing attacks smaller thing

[worthy zodiac]

If GSC will keep going with the current pace – they are already better than NMS devs that have grown their game from a bad one to a very mediocre one...

[celest blaze]

eh idk about that

i tested 1.5 zalissya prefomance with no ai tricks maxed still and its still under 60 fps with a 4070ti and 17 12700 💀

[smoky bobcat]

60fps sounds pretty good to me

[zenith creek]

I feel like they've prioritized game content over performance optimization and honestly fair enough
I'd rather play a game at 40 FPS that doesn't crash and has a game economy than a game that runs at 90 FPS with constant crashes and just 5 side quests to complete over and over

[celest blaze]

average is 30-50ish range

im used to playing 100+ fps anything under sucks man

[smoky bobcat]

It sounds like you've stopped playing games to enjoy them and just play them to benchmark your rig lol.

[celest blaze]

incorrect i just like native prefomance in my games

[zenith creek]

I played at 14 FPS on an ultrabook in college, I can handle 30 FPS now 😛
I don't want to
But I can

[celest blaze]

but sadly UE5 is UE5 wish they could go to 5.6

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, good luck trying out NMS with the 2015 hardware (4070ti has been released in 2023, stalker 2 in 2024. Nms has been released in 2016). What's your point?

[celest blaze]

my point is NMS devs try harder

7 months in and still no NVG

NMS also beating S2 in steam player counts rn

[worthy zodiac]

The thing is you tried to bring up hardware. Go on, play stalker 2 with the hardware from 2035 or something, bet it'll also feel smooth as NMS with your current hardware

[celest blaze]

it would still run like ass

[zenith creek]

NMS and S2 are in completely different genres so I think player count is meaningless

[celest blaze]

4090s and 5090s struggle running it native

[worthy zodiac]

Good argument. Now try to use it while comparing CotZ to GAMMA

[celest blaze]

i can do 100+ fps in both native

[worthy zodiac]

Are you dumb? Can you see the message I replied to?

[celest blaze]

lol

ones super popular cuz its shilled by youtubers and the other isnt

this FREE game DOESNT FAKE survival

[worthy zodiac]

Excuses. The argument is just dumb in general

Player count shouldn't matter at all, that's just not an argument

[celest blaze]

i just want GSC to be better

[worthy zodiac]

Who doesn't. Just don't use dumb arguments like "I can play this shіtty game from 2015 with my new hardware from 2023 thus it's good now"

[celest blaze]

well its more then that

[nimble cipher]

baseddlite has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest blaze]

calling it that cuz you dont like it is retarded

its ok to acknowledge other devs who try hard to fix their game

@worthy zodiacmaybe in year 3 we will get night vision and 200 meter bubble

[worthy zodiac]

I haven't got nice ecosystems in NMS since 2016. Where's your god now?

[celest blaze]

you're speaking to him rn ong

(joke)

[worthy zodiac]

I kneel

[lusty mountain]

Your trying to convince others of your own opinion on a game you actively dont play, your whole argument is flawed man. If you wanna argue with people go to facebook

[hazy helm]

argue? thats literally what we do 24/7 here

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, my favorite argument: you didn't spend 1000 hours on this update to see how shіt it is before saying how shit it is

[smoky bobcat]

Were the devs of NMS in the middle of an invasion when they made their game by chance? Did one of their developers die fighting to defend his country? You sound like such an entitled child.

[celest blaze]

here we go with the war nonsense lol

[lusty mountain]

Meh, at least most of the time its stalker related lmao

[celest blaze]

they started dev before the war and half the studio moved retard

[smoky bobcat]

You need to go away.

[celest blaze]

i cant remember anyone asking for your opinon

i didnt realize GSC was making stalker 2 in the collapsed building of bakhmut lol forgive me

[worthy zodiac]

To be fair, your arguments were pretty similar... As in: they were a little bit dumb

Anyways, I'm stopping here for real. It's fun and all but I just need to go now

[celest blaze]

[lusty mountain]

"wow I over exaggerated a point because I have no valid argument" like cmon man, thats just a dumb ahh take. If you played NMS since release you would actively see the drastic changes and improvements. I agree I dont care for the game as much as I hoped I would but credit is due for what they have done

[smoky bobcat]

It took months after release before we even heard from the devs of NMS. No communication, no nothing. Until they released the first content update.

[lusty mountain]

But we still had content released when they couldve taken the bag and dipped?

[hazy helm]

I mean, if you played NMS youd also see its a boring game

🤷

[lusty mountain]

Objective, you think its boring. Not a valid argument tbh

[smoky bobcat]

It's 100% not boring. That's crazy,.

[hazy helm]

its valid bc its mine and its the only one that matters as far as Im concerned

[lusty mountain]

Than don't make it out like its the correct opinion. I dont see any mention of that in your original comment :0. "I mean, if you played NMS youd also see its a boring game" making it out like everyone should have this opinion if they played the game

[hazy helm]

it is the correct opinion bc it is the opinion I have chosen and I dont need anyone else to be correct bc I know I am correct to myself
wah wah he didnt say in his hyper relative subjetive opinion

idk

I am calling it an objective fact juyst to annoy you redditor

wah wah

[worthy zodiac]

Maybe if you'd actually read my argument then you'd see that I've pointed out an objective truth: promised ecosystems aren't delivered to this day, even the newest version of it isn't near the level of the promised stuff. That's my final message, goodbye

[hazy helm]

aye, hes gonna leave the world, that is his final message

[lusty mountain]

Dawg lmaoo, I'm not annoyed more dumbfounded by the whole stupidity of your argument. "If its not my view of the game, than your objectively wrong" ahh argument. Then when someone criticises you on it you go back to "everyone's allowed to have a different opinion" like have some consistency

[hazy helm]

this is unquantifiably the worst maninuminous argumentatious vitae that my eyesusitius have ever seenititus, mayhaps you should considiridis gettinging a fiew women

[lusty mountain]

I did read that, good on you for bringing up a valid criticism 🙂 but I dont know what kinda ecosystem your expecting from the game. Maybe bring up what your expecting in the NMS discord?

[hazy helm]

brother, hes talking about Alife 2.0

[worthy zodiac]

Just for you? Because I already did that a few years ago, lol

[hazy helm]

maybe the guy crying I dont preface my feelings about games with "in my subjective opinion" should learn how to read

[lusty mountain]

You that upset over someone else bringing up valid points that you gotta make up stuff to try and put them down? 😦 kinda sad tbh

[hazy helm]

youre still upset I called a game boring, shame for you, Im gonna keep doing it

[worthy zodiac]

In the end I don't need to go anywhere... But I'm going to play something instead, that's enough of texting with the people from the internets for today...

[smoky bobcat]

He's just trolling you, stop engaging

[lusty mountain]

He's a pretty sad individual, I wouldn't call it trolling lmao

He's actively making himself look dumber and dumber with each message, and its making my day 🙂

[hazy helm]

the pretty sad individual can get someone pretty mad over a small combination of words and keyboard clacks, maybe, youre the sad one for getting up on everyones case in a high horse when you dont even know what a persons talking about

[smoky bobcat]

Here we go...can y'all both stop? OGSR are you a moderator? You don't act like one.

[lusty mountain]

LMAO, again man. You gotta stop making up these scenarios. The messages don't disappear, everyone can read them yknow? You've got a pretty active imagination though, should try art or sum 🙂

[smoky bobcat]

You are still engaging with someone who has stated they are saying things to upset you. Stop.

[hazy helm]

I dunno man, you sound pretty mad for someone whos saying others are mad

then again, projections a very wide symptom

[sturdy tusk]

Tf happened here

[hazy helm]

ppl getting mad about others way of writting

[smoky bobcat]

Two people are having a flame war, and one of them is somehow a senior moderator.

[sturdy tusk]

Grammer police?

[hazy helm]

we still ahev em

I guess also a NMS player

[sturdy tusk]

I was gone for like, 20mins tops

[lusty mountain]

Im not actively trying to put others down over a "argument" on discord. It kinda sounds like you got upset over sum and now trying to say I'm angy 😦 are you sure your not upset over sum? this is a safe space 🙂

[smoky bobcat]

This place sucks lol. I don't even know why I'm in here. Bye.

[hazy helm]

no man, youre the one whos actually angry, trust me, I can telepathically tell from the clacks in of your keyboard

[lusty mountain]

Ahh I see, do you also write fanfics?

You've got the imagination for it 🙂

[hazy helm]

I dunno, youre the one creating the scenario

[lusty mountain]

Nah, asked a question 🙂 very different

Though I did say you have a very active imagination, so Ill give you that 🙂

[finite dragon]

This game so damn hard

gotta get a shotgun or something

[gritty knot]

[shut cosmos]

Hes just like me

[shut cosmos]

So correct me if im wrong yall

The 1911 doesn't let you see the bullet casing in the back of the gun right?

[finite dragon]

I wonder if they’ll refund me for this hot garbage

[plain minnow]

The part where the hammer hits is just colored gold on Stalker 2’s

[shut cosmos]

Oh really?

[plain minnow]

Yeah

[shut cosmos]

Bro joined just to say this begone clown lmao

[shut cosmos]

Thats odd

That looks so weird. It makes it seem like the casing is clipping thru the slide

[finite dragon]

SoC becomes awfully realistic when you are the one getting shot 🤔

[plain minnow]

I actually like the look of it

The casings are a bit darker

[lofty fossil]

the gold thing on the 1911 looks weird lmao

hopefully they address that in the next patch

[shut cosmos]

Bruh, I forgot I had the crowbar mod on and I was utterly bamboozled on why I skinned a rat with a crowbar

[static compass]

[fathom cedar]

If you refer to Volodymyr Yezhov, he was a Clear Sky dev, not S2. He has left GSC 16 years ago.

Otherwise, no S2 devs thankfully died in the war.

[shut cosmos]

The first part is still right tho

Stalker has a very special place in my heart and they got invaded so im willing to wait for them to fix s2

[sturdy tusk]

Gorden would be proud

[fathom cedar]

It’s just my personal issue when people do this whole appeal to emotion but they never even played the game the deceased dev put his work into

Go buy clear sky mofos

[static compass]

Me and the boys being peak

[storm kernel]

another gammatard filtered 🚬

[static compass]

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint oyster]

Just doing another periodic check. Is the spawning system and all that which was bad at launch fixed yet?

This has been in my backlog but I only have time to play it once so wanna experience it at it's peak

[ripe patrol]

It's much better than release

[tepid zinc]

Is the game worth? I like Stalcraft. I wish I could play stalker 2 atleast with 1 friend

[hazy helm]

lol

lmao

[hardy bear]

Is very different to stalcraft

[shut cosmos]

💀

Stalcraft

[sly matrix]

LORD KEITH BLESSETH US WITH HIS PRESENCE

[worn oar]

Rat

[candid plaza]

im trying to do the 75 meter hs achievement and i place a ping on the map where i see my enemy it says like 80-100 meters to the target and when i headshot him it doesnt count for steam achievement any clues? im using new mosin maybe thats why/

[worn oar]

Any mod on?

[gritty orchid]

if i recall correctly, you cant be scoped for that achievement.

[candid plaza]

no i got the tit for tat achievement

[candid plaza]

ah okay thanks

[tiny token]

Do NPCs use the new mosin and 1911?

[gritty orchid]

if you want, theres a way to "cheese" that achivement, you can aim at the enemey and right before you shoot, you stop aiming. The game will count as a no-scope and you'll get the achievement

[candid plaza]

i found 1 kobra 1911 on an npc and i found my mosin on top of a building in garbage

[tiny token]

Have you actually spotted NPCs firing the new guns at you

[candid plaza]

i see will attempt it ty Otavia

no i havent but i can barely tell what gun they using a part from being ar smg or pistol anyway

[frozen merlin]

Hows the Xbox (Series X) Performance ? Thinking about diving into the game now but still unsure how enjoyable the game is yet

[green cipher]

Hey could someone explain me the difference between the editions ? and is it worth it too get them ?
Im a hardcore Stalker fan and now with Summer Games Sale on Steam its about time 😎

[hazy helm]

yes

[tiny token]

Biggest stalker fan excited about playing stalker for the first time

[green cipher]

I played the Trilogy back too back then played Stalker Anomaly and then Stalker Gamma

STALKER is the goat

I had not much time too game sooo yea now I took care about life and gooing back intooo Stalker

stalker 2 was about the only game I was hyped about last times..
Stalker 2, GTA 6 and Payday 3 lul (and Elden Ring + BG3:)

[vale quartz]

anomaly 🤮
gamma 🤮

[green cipher]

and NOW idk what VERSIONS too get ;D

I dont care about cosmetics and shit, but dont want too miss some quality side quests or content.. I dont wanna miss out on DLC weapons thoo.. would feel cringe

[green cipher]

those mods were epic, soo much more enhanced then the base game soo yea..

[gritty orchid]

gamma is peak, wdym

[green cipher]

gamma is great

[vale quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-house-md-gif-18372227

[gritty orchid]

gamma is ass, anomaly is alright imo (if you only look at it as a "sandbox" platform to shape the game like you want)

[ripe patrol]

Oh please let's not start with the Gamma debacle again.

Gamma is fine and a good time for those who want to play and enjoy it, if you don't like gamma/anomaly there's dozens of other x-ray mods out there. here, the conversation is over, we're all happy right ?

[worthy zodiac]

Ultimate edition gives you a season pass (Future CONTENT dlcs will be free for you, not just cosmetics). Deluxe edition doesn't. Currently there are no dlcs so yeah, currently it doesn't matter if you get the ultimate edition or not (Deluxe edition gives you just one quest with some additional stashes, nothing special)

[gritty orchid]

not really

[green cipher]

I hope my 3080Ti can handle Stalker 2 xdd

[worthy zodiac]

Agree, GAMMA is the best thing that has happened to stalker

[ripe patrol]

I guess I mostly meant dozens of ways to enjoy stalker, including base game and mod packs

[worthy zodiac]

My gtx1080 can handle it... On 1080p with the the lowest settings and with the drops to 20 fps...

[ripe patrol]

I played an okay amount. Like a few dozen hours. It's aight but it gets a bit on its way a lot of the times... I wish there was a Gamma Lite

[zinc apex]

My only gripe with gamma is that it wears off quite fast every playthrough. Gameplay loop is too repetitive

[ripe patrol]

Yeah that's what I mean. Theres way too much and it all kinda muddles itself together. I really like the weapon progression, but the artefact progression with the artefact melter kills my interest so much. Also really like the medical system but theres like a billion medicines and managing them are a pain.

[primal salmon]

So hows A-Life ?

[static compass]

Better, still not perfect

[celest blaze]

bait

[primal salmon]

[zinc apex]

Would say it's almost there. Persistence is in so that's a huge step

[hazy helm]

to the man who has only ever played anomaly
100% of mods are garbage unfit for human consumption
think about that...

[zinc apex]

AMK mod = peak

[green cipher]

?? o7

[worthy zodiac]

We don't know what's the end goal of A-Life so we don't know if it's doing good or not. We don't have the tools to see how it works so nobody can say anything specific about that either... Maybe ZoneSlug is testing it rn, maybe somebody else, who knows

[green cipher]

sooo idk.. im thinking about getting the Ultimate edition, just because the reason how much STALKER gave be back in the time

[worthy zodiac]

It's your call but beware: the game is simply unfinished currently

[green cipher]

but on the other hand... watching gameplay this game could have released 2019 o777

[worthy zodiac]

And there's a possibility you won't enjoy it in the current state

[zinc apex]

I don't think there was an actual game in 2019 lol

[green cipher]

2017*

before covid o7

[worthy zodiac]

What does o7 mean?

[hazy helm]

yhea it couldve come out one year after they started conceptualizing the game

[hazy helm]

it means hes brain rotten

[worthy zodiac]

For real though, what does that mean?

[hazy helm]

supposedly, hes saluting

[worthy zodiac]

Oh yeah, makes sense

[zinc apex]

Boomer online emoji

[worthy zodiac]

Weird that I didn't see it... Probably because of multiple 7s in some of his messages

[green cipher]

Stalker 2 looked sooo wild in the first Traielrs... but the quality just drpped rappidly sooo... I was sus about the game and decided too buy it late till things settle down too enjoy a mostly bugfree, stable first game experience..

[green cipher]

o7 🫡

[worthy zodiac]

I'd give it some more time then

Not just a few weeks or months... More like a year or two, lol

[green cipher]

daaamnhahah, somehow I dont doupt you about that xdd

I just seen gameplay and... yea haha

I just saw on youtube tho that the game got a 32GB update recently ???

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, 1.5 patch, it's a pretty good one. For example, it has added modular reloading animations

[hazy helm]

yhea, a-life and mutant loot with 2 new weapons

[green cipher]

the graphics just looked soo 2018 lets say that... and the AI was Dumb.. and soo many things are just off..

[worthy zodiac]

Although I'm still not sure how good A-Life is, didn't have that much time to test it (And didn't feel like doing it cause it's just... Hard to do it, lol, I don't feel like doing it currently)

[green cipher]

I remember there was like nooo hitfeedback and it looked like you would shoot airsoft haha and the immersion was jsut not there..

[worthy zodiac]

Maybe nothing has changed and it's literally the same thing it was before but now NPCs don't despawn in 20 minutes. Instead it's 2 hours or something

[hazy helm]

the a-life is as good as STOC a-life, it doesnt allow interection with the player if the npc is outside the online bubblet but it has attack outposts and purge commands for AI patrols

so its balanced to as good as STOC

[worthy zodiac]

Stuff like that is hard to test without some actual debug tools

[hazy helm]

are you expecting it to play like gamma or a ultra realistic survival game perchance?

[zenith creek]

As a new player my thoughts don't really count but I'm curious about what might be coming next because aside from engine things (Lumen) and the online radius I don't have a lot of complaints

[hazy helm]

what I hope is complete lumen destruction, A-Life is actually completed

add back the quests they cut

minimum

[empty gorge]

stop settling for mediocrity, its 2025. 6 months post release, over 10 years since last installment. what we have is okay ish but nowhere near alife is there now lol

just because a bunch of scripts run in render and cause some resemblance of life doesnt mean you should accept it as a stable foundation for more work

[static compass]

Yo, it's a modder

Hi modmaker

[empty gorge]

hi moderator!

[static compass]

[zenith creek]

I don't know, Shadow of Chornobyl's system didn't seem all that different except it had loading screens and much smaller areas to explore so the AI was calculating things in detail for a bigger portion of the map
The combat AI was smarter, though.

[static compass]

Combat AI is still pretty smart for me

They still know how to flank

[empty gorge]

well yes thats what i mean, that isnt much different from now, expect better now so what will be added will be even better

[orchid cave]

where do i go to find help on my gameplay

[zenith creek]

Okay, I misunderstood what you were saying

[static compass]

Probably https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034529889615963

[orchid cave]

thank you

[tiny token]

vati made a vid testing it

[zenith creek]

Sure, things can always be improved, and the game definitely feels a bit more empty than I would personally like so restoring cut content or adding new things would be cool
There's just not a whole lot left that I can specifically point to and say "this is objectively broken and I can say what needs to be done to fix it." Graphics/FPS is one of them.

[frozen merlin]

Does updating to a new game version corrupt your save?

[tiny token]

Nah I was able to play my 1.2 (or 1.3) save today just fine

This save was there since day 1 of the game and it never broke during any patches

[frozen merlin]

nice nice

I am still thinking about starting the game now since I've got no exams anymore, but still unsure due to its current state

[ripe patrol]

It's a great time to start, but of course it never hurts to wait for a patch

The best compromise is to wait for 1.5.1, since they will iron out the most egregious bugs like the silly ragdolls

[zinc apex]

Who dat

[tiny token]

@Vatislavovych

[unkempt sphinx]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930528933584199710/1381254450882019348/KrogerSteroids_-_1931501682199826891.gif

i knew it

mods abuse image perms

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/damn-right-breaking-bad-gif-14029087

[prisma goblet]

How persistent the NPCs are now? Do they still delete after a while?

[worthy zodiac]

Who's vati?

[worthy zodiac]

Ah, I see now. Can we trust him?

(How did he test it so quick tho?)

[tacit oracle]

I wanted to wait for the followup to the Infinity mod but I don't think I'll have the patience

[hazy helm]

hes one of the testers who was testing 1.5

[tacit oracle]

that oxa mod looks dope asf

[hazy helm]

testers have the tester role

[worthy zodiac]

#💬┃en_offtop message
Not a fan of this part of the video... Cause both SoC and CS had 200-300 m radius of online bubble (not sure about the exact numbers)
(Turns out I am wrong and the guy on the video didn't lie)

[safe shard]

I genuinely don't know who would have been opposed to having areas with loading screens instead of open world for stalker 2, especially if it means gutting a-life to achieve open world

[tranquil tartan]

Weapons is nice but A life 2 would be nicer

[topaz surge]

Casuals that just play whatever sounds good

Stalker 2 def tried to appeal to a much wider audience Big open world!

It just sounds better in marketing.

[analog helm]

The exact numbers is 150m for all games in OG trilogy (aka switch_distance). And 180m for despawn radius (aka switch_offline_distance). Anomaly had 300-350m by default.

[worthy zodiac]

180m
#💬┃en_offtop message
Vanilla SoC 1.0006

[analog helm]

I gave you the exact number for the A-Life configs. That may not apply for scripted NPCs

should be
gamedata/config/alife.ltx
switch_distance = 150

[zinc apex]

We've got A Life 1 at least now

[worthy zodiac]

Interesting, I'll try to see if I can find some other NPCs that definitely aren't scripted and aren't despawning at that distance

(Would be funny if they won't do it due to bug or something, lol)

[thorny locust]

I'm waiting for someone to make a good AUG mod for console anyone else looking forward to weapon mods?

[elder beacon]

when do you think performance mods will be released

[weak delta]

hi guys returning after months, how is alife

[clear raft]

Better but still pretty lackluster

[tacit oracle]

I don't think performance mods are a thing

I mean you can make custom configs and disable certain graphic effects to a point but

there usually aren't mods that just... add performance

[zenith creek]

The performance configs I know have basically given up, a lot of problems come down to the engine choice and aren't exposed by the SDK

[elder beacon]

so we're basically relying on gsc

[tacit oracle]

whatever wiggle room UE5 allows GSC more like, but tomyto tomato

[zenith creek]

That's my understanding
It's truly ridiculous that I'm bound to 50 FPS with DLSS in Zalissya

[elder beacon]

tbh with the current version of ue that the game runs on it seems like it would take more time to optimize it compared to updating it to 5.6 which already outclasses 5.1

[tacit oracle]

it's the same ol same ol with unreal

maybe eventually gsc will be able to port it up to a better version. Nightingale ported from 5 to 5.4 pretty alright so it's not that out of the question

[elder beacon]

5.6 is far superior when it comes to optimization and efficency

[tacit oracle]

I haven't touched the game since launch, lowkey not looking forward to sircaa if performance hasn't been that improved.

[zenith creek]

If they can update the engine, my hope is that the freed CPU resources could be used for things like a larger A-life radius
Hopefully one major fix can lead to another and we finally get an awesome game out of it

[topaz rover]

BOYS!

Does anyone know where the new 191 or 1911 (new pistol) extended mag is located???

please @ me

[elder beacon]

this is what i want

[elder beacon]

i got my 1911 at slag heap

[topaz rover]

but the extended mag??

I already have the pistol

[elder beacon]

im not far enough but my guess would be Rostock

or yaniv station

[viscid blade]

Is it normal in S2 for NPCs to go flying when I headshot them?

It happens half of times...

[elder beacon]

its a known bug

[viscid blade]

oh, ok, thanks for the info 🙂

[elder beacon]

i find it funny, it reminds me of team rocket

[viscid blade]

For me, everytime it happens I start singing "I believe I can fly..."
😂

[tacit oracle]

apparently it's a bug introduced in 1.5 from what I read?

[celest blaze]

Yeah they said should be fixed next patch

[viscid blade]

I haven't been playing S2 in months. Is it possible to destroy red guns somehow now?

[zenith creek]

I thought you could sell them to a specific trader since launch but I don't think anything has changed on that front

[viscid blade]

oh yeah, you are right, I forgot about that 😅

[zinc apex]

This ragdoll bug is funny af

I also got catapulted while running over some clutter today

[zenith creek]

They should add a Silly Mode toggle that reintroduces the bug
(This is a Bad Idea)

[zinc apex]

Yes pls

[worthy zodiac]

It could be cool to leave it in the game as an easter egg that gets activated by some kind of cheat code

Or when you wear some special artifact, lol

[hardy bear]

Reminds me of arma 3

The physics made that game incredible

[celest blaze]

cant wait for arma 4 in 2027

[storm kernel]

thinking about getting arma 3 bc its only like $3, so I need any of the dlcs because the version with "contact" and "apex" is like $20

[storm kernel]

sell them at rostok to ragman for profit

[hardy bear]

to play in any server you basically need all of them

[storm kernel]

like all of them?

even the go karts one?

[hardy bear]

You don't need the creator dlcs, and can do without karts, but the rest add maps and gear that'll be used everywhere basically

[storm kernel]

alright

is the game good single player or should I just get everything so I can play online?

[zenith creek]

Yeah I tried getting into Arma 3 once
It was... A lot
And the single player Exists but was very confusing IIRC

[hazy helm]

you just shoot the enemies the AI points you to

svery easy

buy apex and you should be good, just download as many mods as you like

[celest blaze]

There's a ton of great single player content aswell

[worthy zodiac]

It has lots of singleplayer missions made by the community

[hardy bear]

If you are fine playing through a campaign, yeah. As D lite said there's some good singleplayer stuff, but to get into multiplayer requires a little bit of work depending on what kind of experience you want

[worthy zodiac]

My favorite genre is "escape the island" or whatever it was called. Where you need to gather stuff more or less stealthily and then... Well... Escape the island, lol

[hardy bear]

I'm a basic betty and just mostly play antistasi

[celest blaze]

Antistasi is cool theres a ton of maps you can play it on aswell

i like cherno from arma 2 and dayz

[hardy bear]

even better when you play with idiots

[grave sparrow]

Who can help you guys? In Stalker 2, when I move the mouse from right to left, twitches appear on the screen. How to fix it?

[tacit oracle]

describe "twitches"

you mean screen tearing? stuttering?

[grave sparrow]

When I walk, nothing happens, everything is fine. But when I start moving the mouse, there are just twitches, as if I'm pulling it myself. There are no gaps.

[tacit oracle]

dumb question but have you checked that there might not be some debris on your mouse's sensor? like a hair or something?

[grave sparrow]

No

[tacit oracle]

is your vsync on?

[grave sparrow]

It's already been fixed

[tacit oracle]

oh okay

[storm kernel]

I cannot imagine a single computer on earth being powerful enough to run stalker 2 at such a framerate that screen tearing could occur 😭

[hazy helm]

I could

its called the ancient art of, lower your mf resolution

[storm kernel]

-800x-600p resolution

[tacit oracle]

I could swear I've experienced tearing and low framerates at some point. But yeah you make a good point

tbh it was the first easy to check thing that came to mind

[storm kernel]

technically, screen tearing is your framerate being out of sync of your monitor's refresh rate, so a low framerate could technically have that happen, it's just more unlikely

[heady plank]

i’ve never had too high frame rate to get tearing on any game, only low fps tearing.

haven’t played stalker 2 yet tho! it’s sitting in my steam cart bc of the sale…

[naive goblet]

i’m gonna wait until the end of the sale to buy it

[storm kernel]

I'll only buy it at full price, and I'll buy an additional Ultimate Edition for each of my 16 alt accounts

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/xrd-exrd-crypto-btc-eth-gif-23801255

[short oak]

Still waiting for the 1.5.1 update to fix the ragdolls! I hope it comes this week!

[lofty fossil]

hey um is oxa a good mod to use? i love guns. and from the looks of it standard expands how the vanillla gun attachments work while prototype adds hundereds of extra attachments, but is the least stable hence prototype

[ripe patrol]

Did you already beat the game?

[lofty fossil]

nope

[ripe patrol]

Then play standard. Prototype changes alot of the core game and its still in a very early stage

you can do a second playthrough when prototype is more developed

[lofty fossil]

standard doesnt need a new game right?

[ripe patrol]

it doesnt

[lofty fossil]

k good

i aint doing that intro 5000 times when cool mods come out. im not pulling another fallout 4

[ripe patrol]

lmao

[clever finch]

I Have been on the same paythrough since january and i dont remember the decisions I have made, are there multiple endings or just one?

[lofty fossil]

ace. i read that oxa standard has issues with attachment anims. it says its inconsistent some work with the "attachment screen" while others need to be in the inventory

can i do all of them in the inventory for more gamma style attachment "gameplay"?

[celest blaze]

that style predates gamma lol

[lofty fossil]

i dont play gamma either.

tryed it and thought it was too much and too inconsistent

[fathom bramble]

Are subtitles bugged in 1.5?

[short oak]

Yes! It seems that it has some delay!

[clever finch]

dude fuck, I didnt know which desicions I made months ago so im on the wards side😭

it is what it is I guess🤷‍♂️

[frigid thorn]

is the mosin just not spawning for anyone else?

been playing for around 12 hours and it hasnt spawned yet. ontop of that i went to the detention centre roof. not there ether. weird.

[fathom bramble]

I went directly to Zalissia and there it was, I bought it for 14k

But I haven't seen it in the world

[sturdy tusk]

I dont think it spawns in game, only trader inventories

Mainly early game inventories

[lofty fossil]

i have a very bad visual glitch. every few seconds to minutes this stretched grey silver and black texture flashes across the screen

[brittle heart]

I cant seem to be able to skin the mutants

it just wont let me press f to do so

[celest goblet]

It can be a little finicky. Also it's a % chance to be able to harvest a part, not from every one

[tacit oracle]

crazy that 6 months later they still haven't fixed the cutscene skip

[grim rivet]

Does the game still run pretty poorly fps wise?

tryna play tha game yuknow

[zenith creek]

I have seen no improvement since launch
I can't get better than 50-60 FPS with DLSS on, with a 9900X3D and a 4080

[grim rivet]

Yeah pretty much same here... I'm rocking a 12600k and a 4070. Picked up a 7800x3d in anticipation for either AMD's new high end GPU or Nvidia's terror induced rumors of new GPU's (maybe they'll be good)

[frigid thorn]

it wasnt there for me 😦
and the guaranteed spawn on the roof of the detention centre didnt have it ether

[finite dragon]

I got attacked by a pack of 5 bloodsuckers

its was very annoying

[wraith socket]

What territory and location were you at?

[gray glen]

Just wondering, does the game look extremely grainy for anyone else?

[finite dragon]

great swamps

[wraith socket]

That's the territory. What location?

[finite dragon]

uh

middle of nowhere, great swamps. No specific location, it was just, swamp

[wraith socket]

I was hoping you could at least share, what was the closet building, ship or object, to have a vague idea where you meant.

[finite dragon]

between the pumping station and the boat house, more northern of the clear sky base.
Had a bunch of wooden bridges.

[tacit oracle]

Yeah same, haven't messed around with settings too much but I'd say performance is pretty much same as launch (ie, awful)

[wraith socket]

Okay. Thanks.

[zenith creek]

For me, the difference between max settings and minimal settings is only about 10 FPS lol
Something is taxing the CPU hard

[tacit oracle]

I just hope I can get somewhere decent ish fps, it was barely acceptable with the 3070, with a 5060ti I wasn't able to get over 45 average during the intro.

But I still need to get fiddling around the settings and tbf I wasn't using the official drivers

Sircaa's not gonna be fun though, I can already tell you that

[celest goblet]

Upgrading my CPU and RAM while keeping a 3070 was the difference between only mostly getting 60+ on low to med settings and consistent 60+ on high outside towns sometimes

[supple wedge]

Tbh that's better than the alternative ^

CPU is the best thing you can get for the game.

I get rock solid 60 with a 5070ti, when others with better gpus will say the game "Can't run at 60". It's the cpu.

[celest goblet]

It's not even top of the line, just a 7700X

[supple wedge]

Yeah? Nice!

Budgeting lower I really don’t know what to say other than use framegen. Which isn’t a good answer. As that will put a 60fps cap at 30fps native internal.

I went from a 3960X to a 9800X3D and the change was nuts.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/bonjour-party-inglourious-basterds-gif-14867086

[hardy bear]

With no AA on, yeah. It’s an optimisation technique that is overcome by AA. A necessary evil for a sharper image

[worn oar]

[spark vigil]

I did, it was even in relatively good state, so seems I am lucky 😁

[gray glen]

Is it possible to get rid of or no? It gives me a headache to look at and makes it harder to aim

[hardy bear]

unfortunately not

[tacit oracle]

I was trying to get a 5070ti, I just refuse paying 4 figures for a GPU

the 5060ti was a third of the price and while it's not that big of an improvement over a 3070, at least I get dlss framegen and double the vram, will have to do for the next couple of years or so

in a couple years or something I'll get a new rig with an AM5 mobo and hopefully a decent gpu if I'm lucky with the prebuilts

[dire dagger]

Just get a 9070 xt

I got one and I’m loving it

Upgraded from a 3090

[tacit oracle]

about 3x the price of a 5060ti over here as well, though I could get it for just over double on a discount.

too late, and honestly not a fan of paying that much to ditch the nvidia software suite just to save about 100 bucks on the difference

still, not paying over 600 for a gpu, I'm aware prices are like they are, it's just not worth it.

[dire dagger]

The software is functionally the same

I’ve actually found it to be better

[tacit oracle]

when a new GPU is more expensive than an entire ahh console is when I'm starting to question my choices of platform

[dire dagger]

It doesn’t do the stupid thing nvidia does where it randomly Disabled shadow play

Radeon software doesn’t do that

[tacit oracle]

if it was substantially cheaper it'd probably be worth it

but anyway, no point in looking at that, I'm stuck with the 5060ti for a couple years now so whatever

[zinc apex]

Is Zone Slug still (alife) tho? No vid until now

[dire dagger]

Unlucky

[tacit oracle]

for the record, a 5060ti is plenty to run any game that meets a minimum of optimization

[worthy zodiac]

To be fair, you also get something that is more powerful than the console for that money + you can do much more than just playing games on it

But yeah, I get what you mean

[warped relic]

Anyway to get a Mosin nagant with just iron sights ?

[gray glen]

I really hope there's a mod on consoles that allows the duty exo to get the running mod soon

[dire dagger]

There isn’t a mod for duty exo sprint at all on workshop

[celest goblet]

Id suggest going AMD too tbh. Nvidia has been dropping the ball this year

[dire dagger]

Praying the next generation Radeon is the big kahoona we’ve been waiting for

[worthy zodiac]

Don't you have two 4090 cards or something? Do you really need another upgrade?

[dire dagger]

What gave you that idea

[worthy zodiac]

I don't remember

[dire dagger]

Well I have a single 9070 xt in my current rig

[supple wedge]

Problem with AMD is no CUDA.

Great if you only game though.

[tacit oracle]

Imo fsr is still not up to par with dlss

Way I see it, you can access fsr with both, but dlss only with one of them

And if amd was that much more competitively priced that'd be one thing, but it's not really, not where i live anyway

I wouldn't mind taking the plunge if I find a deal on a good amd card though, but yeah 9070 vs 5070ti is a moot debate when both will run you 900€ anyway.

[reef raptor]

kinda crazy seeing the gpu prices going up again
when I bought my 4080S 9 months ago I paid 1100$ which was still pretty pricey, but now I find it being sold for minimum 2000

[celest blaze]

you lucked out when you did

[celest goblet]

Doesn't matter when Jensen pisses on your face and tells you it's raining, people buy their stuff up anyway

[reef raptor]

[obsidian trail]

[celest blaze]

[reef raptor]

WAIT HE'S GONE??! :(

[celest goblet]

Has been got a bit 😔

[obsidian trail]

yeah

Been a month now.Seeing cats and not having Chymo say ''Omg Cat'' feels different

[reef raptor]

damn.. what happened ?

[celest blaze]

@reef raptor his last message and why he left

[obsidian trail]

damn

[celest blaze]

hes in C-Con though

[obsidian trail]

Chymo always brought joy with his Omg Cat thing.Nobody except the UA mods(and a few other people) found It annoying

[celest blaze]

fr chymo was PEAK

[obsidian trail]

that's why I made sure to take pics/videos of the cities wandering cats just for him

[celest blaze]

UA mods are a bit too sensitive tbh they muted him for OMG kot

[celest blaze]

👑

[obsidian trail]

Chymo also had a love for other animals like foxes(who he called catdogs) and birds too

[celest blaze]

goated

[reef raptor]

agh, I see. Honestly ill agree with his takes but ill still be in here cuz uh.. stalker :D

[winter stump]

I don't blame him. Some of the mods here are definitely on serious power trips.

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-unlimitedpower-crazy-power-gif-4860994

Jokes aside, yeah I miss Chymo too

[static compass]

I miss that silly little cat dude

[static compass]

Oh look it's Zek

Hi Zek

[reef raptor]

hewooo :3

oh wait ur a mod now? awesom

[static compass]

How u been?

[static compass]

Yus

Been a mod since right before S2 came out

[reef raptor]

doing fine here and there
existing rn, deciding if I should play death stranding 2 or rot and listen to music

[static compass]

I wanna play DS2, but I never played the first one

[reef raptor]

I must have dementia then lol
or I just never bothered to look at the roles. I clicked on your profile because ooo animated purple gradient (purple is my fav color so I NEEDED to check it out)

[reef raptor]

you should get the first one! its on sale right now. It is so good imo, but it does not click for everyone that's for sure

[static compass]

The purple gradiant is peak

[reef raptor]

ourple,,,,

[static compass]

Glorple

[static compass]

I might check it out

[sly matrix]

yeah the pruple gradient is fantastic

[static compass]

I know it's a LOT of walking

[reef raptor]

DS2 has even MORE walking :D but I love it nonetheless

[reef raptor]

since im Romanian would it be fine if I steal that gradient (role) thanks

[celest blaze]

Fr i want that color fr

[static compass]

But you no longer a mod

[celest blaze]

Im legit mod though

[reef raptor]

maybe ex-mods should get their own role with a cool gradient as a thank you, just saying

[static compass]

🍊

[celest blaze]

I want pink gradient ngl

[static compass]

Pink gradient when?

[celest blaze]

Soon purple and pink goated imo

[reef raptor]

purple, pink & blue my beloved

[static compass]

Someone made a pink sniper mod

[reef raptor]

amazing,,

[static compass]

I'd like to be senior mod

But

I want purple

[reef raptor]

is it a worthy sacrifice?

[static compass]

I think not

[near badger]

its been more like year since nvidia don't produce 4xxx series anymore no wonder you see 4080 for 2000 this is how market usually works you can even find 3090 for 3000-4000.

[reef raptor]

ah, fair enough tbh. Makes sense
glad I went for it lol

[reef raptor]

mmm.... yeah

[near badger]

but 5000 series are slowly crawling down right now tho we won't see anymore cheap GPU prices

[dire dagger]

It’s simply lack of supply

Gpus don’t gain value with age

And if they do it’s not for decades after they were relevant

[static compass]

Purple is the most peak color 💜

Fr

[reef raptor]

my steam profile is all purple
I got a purple hoodie, jacket and phone case
purple based roblox avatar, purple based outfit in cyberpunk 2077, minecraft skin is ourpl, wallpaper is ourpl

EVERYTHING is ourple!!!!!

[winter stump]

DS2 is peak on PS5 Pro, never drops below 60 & looks incredible.

Decima Engine is definitely a masterpiece (unlike some other engines I know)

[tacit oracle]

5060ti has a shockingly good msrp, but it's essentially a 3070 16gb vram

Marginally more powerful, but marginally

At basically the same price I got my 3070 4 years ago 🥲

[reef raptor]

uugh I need to hop on DS2.. I sadly play at 30 fps but oh well! gotta stop rotting on my pc

[winter stump]

It's a game changer on 60, but still a great game even if you're on 30.

[prisma goblet]

The ability to turn off laser pointers would be great

[static compass]

Omg

Super purple

[reef raptor]

[static compass]

[tiny token]

Possibly true

[tiny token]

Honestly I might actually get it later down the line

The 16 gig version

I decided to spend most of my money on hema gear and swords so I don't have enough for a fully new setup

So this old setup of mine will be a ship of Theseus

It already is tbf

[little bridge]

Hi. Is there any mod request channel or anything like that?

[sly matrix]

#en-mods-general

[little bridge]

Thank you!

[nimble cipher]

iska_mc_96167 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[unreal raptor]

had my first alife experience today whilst playing, came across a dude in the rookie village. 2 hours later saved his skin against a bunch of bandits. I can't describe how much better that feels. There is a damn lot more to fix and reinstate to make this the game it should be, but 1.5 feels like a honest step in the right direction.

[dire dagger]

What is this

You saying something positive about stalker 2

You doing okay bro

You didn’t fall down the stairs recently or something I hope?

[gritty orchid]

[sly matrix]

stood too close to the psi-emitter and got his brain melted

[topaz rover]

boys!
Mutant looting isnt working for me, how does it work?
Does every mutant get a search prompt?

or just like 10%?

[sly matrix]

you get it from missions if I understand correctly

[topaz rover]

I went to malachite and asked for one of the missions, but she just told me to find some parts, but no location on map. So I have to find them freely in the sandbox

[celest goblet]

A real sign of the times tbh

This patch does feel like an inflection point

The gamma honeypot continues to lure in people who leave reviews on HoC surprised it isn't the same

Wdym the retail game doesn't have 30 different AKs

[trail palm]

It's a %

[topaz rover]

hmm ok

ca how much? 50%?

[trail palm]

Yeah, I feel like something around 50%. The prompt is kind of hard to click though, depending on the ragdoll, it's a small dot.

[topaz rover]

OK, tyvm

[dire dagger]

i mean im not against having like a few aks

[celest goblet]

I could live with a couple more for sure

[dire dagger]

game needs a gun that actually uses 7.62x39 lol

[clever finch]

wait I cant ||continue playing on the same game if I completed the story?||

[dire dagger]

nope

there is no new game plus

[clever finch]

duuuude

[dire dagger]

i mean the game does tell you as much

[clever finch]

100 hrs into one game

[dire dagger]

load an old save

[clever finch]

I killed scar and got his special gun and I can only use it at the end of the game?

[sly matrix]

correct

[clever finch]

thats lame as shiet

[dire dagger]

its literally just a gauss rifle with no scope and a big mag

[clever finch]

and much more that u get to pick up

[dire dagger]

we are trying to convice mol1t the game needs a 1895 lever action

[celest goblet]

Lets just keep going back in time until we get a flintlock in there

[dire dagger]

well

the 1895 makes sense for the universe

[clever finch]

the game definitely needs an ability to continue playing on the same game after completing the story😭

[dire dagger]

they made over 300k of them chambered in 7.62x54r for the imperial russian army

[celest goblet]

Well it's not really different from the normal gauss other than the sight and mag. Gauss is already perfectly overpowered too

[dire dagger]

why you think i tell people to glitch into pripyat early

all that epic loot in pripyat totally useless by the time you get it

[clever finch]

I mean its just a dumb decision to not allow u to play the same game after completing it

[celest goblet]

Once you pick one up there's no reason to use anything else against humans for the rest of the game

[dire dagger]

my thing i would hope for

if they added more odd weapons

you can't just find them

they gotta be something like the trophy akm from clear sky

a one of a kind weapon

[celest goblet]

I wouldn't mind something that only shows up as a unique yeah

[dire dagger]

you gotta do something for someone can't be easier either

[tepid gust]

#pc-specs message

ANyone interested

[dire dagger]

i voted in your poll

[clever finch]

btw is there an extended mag for the original 1911?

[clever finch]

whose poll?

[dire dagger]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[worn oar]

Why Q4

[coarse sparrow]

yeah, we need NG+

[worn oar]

We are yet to have Q3 stuff

[clever finch]

I cant decide between better optimization or more guns

[celest goblet]

Id presume the Q3 plan is pretty set by now

[coarse sparrow]

1.6 + 1.7

[worn oar]

It would've been posted if it was the case

[coarse sparrow]

we hit 2.0 by 2026 🔥

[worn oar]

Maybe half ready and it's under revision

[celest goblet]

Not 100% but I imagine the big ticket items have been prioritized at least

[storm kernel]

karaoke minigame in 1.6 or dead game

[coarse sparrow]

like season pass

[celest goblet]

Fishing questline

[clever finch]

a russian/ukrainian revolver would be cool to see

[coarse sparrow]

or like, the actual Chornobyl nuclear plant

[dire dagger]

been there done that

i want fishing

FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coarse sparrow]

can you guys imagine, we have a game about Chornobyl, but don't have the power plant itself???

[clever finch]

getting those chornobyl fishes

[celest goblet]

Gotta catch the big one in the cooling pond

[clever finch]

the amount of deceases u would get from eating is insane

[dire dagger]

THATS WHAT IM SAYING

[celest goblet]

Yes because we already had a game in the series like that

[hardy bear]

Considering how drastic some of the endings are that sounds like a fair bit of work

[storm kernel]

you also saw the "rating pistols in stalker 2" video?

[clever finch]

the one where he points out everything the devs did wrong?

[storm kernel]

different fishies in different regions

skif could get an aquarium...

[dire dagger]

dude yes

and skif needs to be able to get a shack

so i can display all my loot

[storm kernel]

yea that one, same guy who did it for starfield, fallout 4 and cyberpunk

[dire dagger]

I FUCKEN LOVE

when i can display my loot

[clever finch]

I did watcch that vid yea

[dire dagger]

thats like the most fun part of collecting loot

[sly matrix]

The flex-quarium

[clever finch]

wait jack were u the one talking to me about the suit thats better than the diamond suit?

[dire dagger]

probably

its kinda perspective

there are like 3 *BEST * exos

the advanced ward one

the liberty one

and the diamond one

they are all similiar

its really just personal preference

[sly matrix]

Which is good

Having one be the objectively best suit is kinda boring

[dire dagger]

liberty gives very good defense and highest carry capacity

with stamina buff as its passive ability

so i think its the best

[hardy bear]

Min maxing doesn’t really feel worth it anyway either. Anything from that area of progression has you set for life

[clever finch]

@dire dagger uhmmm, I cant load a save thats from before the last mission, and the one that I can load that isnt the last mission isfrom january at zaton😭

[hardy bear]

No auto saves from before?

[dire dagger]

are you on xbox

[clever finch]

is there any way to load them without it popping up in the game

[dire dagger]

there is a new game plus mod im pretty sure

but its pc only

[clever finch]

pc

[clever finch]

can u link it if its the steam workshop?

[dire dagger]

it was on nexus

not ported to workshop so

L i guess

[clever finch]

I have 0 clue how to install mods for stalker

[dire dagger]

literally

easiest shit ever

[clever finch]

is there a yt tut for it?

[dire dagger]

don't need one

i can explain it in 2 seconds

go to this file location

then create a file called

`mods

that exactly

and then put the mods in the folder

kaboom you mods

[clever finch]

am I supposed to go to appdata?

[dire dagger]

no

thats from steam

[clever finch]

can I see whats before S.T.A.L.K.E.R... etc

[tepid gust]

We are in q3

[dire dagger]

common

literally just go to stalker 2 on steam

click show file location

and go from there

[nimble cipher]

daddywoopy123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[clever finch]

aint no way my file explorer crashed😭 😭 😭

[dire dagger]

owned

[clever finch]

oh wait, its just needed some time to load

@dire dagger ok im in "paks" now, I create a folder called mods right?

[dire dagger]

no

you create a folder called

`mods

[hardy bear]

Squiggly line, not the apostrophe looking one

[clever finch]

the lil dot in the beggining aswell?

[dire dagger]

yes

if you don't add it nothing will happen

[hardy bear]

~mods

[tepid gust]

#pc-specs message

if still someone wants to vote 🗳️

[clever finch]

ight I need confirmation which one is it, the one jack typed or the one that u typed

[dire dagger]

oh right

my bad lol

yah it needs to be ~mods

[hardy bear]

I looked in the folder 30 minutes ago to delete that very folder, it’s ~mods

[clever finch]

alr

[hardy bear]

Gsc support said to delete it to try and fix achievements not working right

[clever finch]

I need to extract the files before I drop it into ~mods or nah?

[dire dagger]

someone dropped a new mod to bypass that lol

[hardy bear]

Amazing

Trouble is I never installed any mods to begin with, it just broke and wasn’t giving me any achievements

[dire dagger]

well