⭐┃nospoilers_general

[zinc apex]

That's cool. Didnt notice

[zinc apex]

They greatly improved general AI in this patch. Combat feels so good and NPC movement when travelling around etc

[worthy zodiac]

I wonder if the devs will add the mechanic of NPCs claiming their loot and getting angry at the player for looting it. Would be kinda cool

[tepid gust]

1.5 is like a Beta. Like a Game test if they done a good job

[worthy zodiac]

I wish NPCs were seeking covers way more actively. They are sticking out too much, sometimes they just stand there doing nothing and waiting for you to pop their heads...

[zinc apex]

Does anyone have serious freezes since updating Nvidia drivers?

[tepid gust]

The mutants got also better but not in smart terms. Its more they are more Aggressive. Could be that Veteran makes them that way.

[wraith socket]

I saw that in SoC. A Loner in Garbage got mad I beat him to an artifact, and he started shooting at me.

[worthy zodiac]

Never happened to me. I think the loners have never attacked me in original games unless I hurt them accidentally

[shrewd blaze]

That actually happened once. I was entering the labs and i saw scientists fighting the zombified stalkers, i helped kill them and once i went to loot they aimed guns and threatened me

[worthy zodiac]

Interesting... So far the only similar thing that happened to me was two loners getting angry at me when I've got close to the stash near them. I think that was some kind of a scripted event but if it was the actual, "real and dynamic" claiming of the loot then it's kinda cool

Never happened to me with the artifacts in the anomalies and the loot on the corpses tho

[shrewd blaze]

I had that happen to me too, i went to a tunnel going through a small mountain and a guy on a radio said to not go to his stash and to back off

[tepid gust]

XD Thats why Alife if far from that in S2

[wraith socket]

I really didn't want the NPCs to beat me to looting the dead in S2, but there it is.

[worthy zodiac]

Considering that NPCs couldn't pick up any items on the floor in SoC and CS... I doubt that loner was hostile to tejas because of him picking up that artifact...

[livid moth]

This monolith will not stop killing his brother

[hardy bear]

I feel called out here

Tried to shift my approach to enjoy it and knew full well what state it was in when it launched, didn’t over anticipate or anything, just saw the trailers. Researched what it was like and started knowing what to expect

So is that bad?

[dense jackal]

I don't think so no

[static compass]

King of cats?

Omg

[dense jackal]

Yes that's me

[static compass]

[worthy zodiac]

It was okay to enjoy it. All I'm saying is that I couldn't, that's all

[naive goblet]

any animation mods from the trilogy that make the animations less floaty and old looking

for CoP

wrong channel sorry

[static compass]

I'll forgive it

This time.....

Jk

[dense jackal]

I like this one

[static compass]

Glorp

[dense jackal]

You're going into my cage now

[celest blaze]

The few, the proud, the glorp army

[static compass]

[celest blaze]

[wraith socket]

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

[dense jackal]

The newest faction in the zone

[celest blaze]

Hell yeah i hope someone mods in a glorp faction

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorpblicky-glorpcat-gif-16386230495360417372

[shut cosmos]

Damn id like the better ballistics mod if the npcs didnt play like siege sweats Holy hell

[dense jackal]

I play it with combat overhaul and the living zone for more fun

[shut cosmos]

I dont think those are on console sadly

[dense jackal]

They are tho I play on Xbox

[shut cosmos]

Combat overhaul?

[dense jackal]

Yeah I forgot by who tho

[shut cosmos]

I dont see anything called that

[dense jackal]

Ncp combat overhaul by @prisma cargo

[prisma cargo]

Hello?

[shut cosmos]

Ooooooh

[prisma cargo]

Ah I see recommendations going around 👍

[shut cosmos]

Oh I've had this mod on lol

[dense jackal]

Yeah your mod is pretty good

[dense jackal]

😭

[shut cosmos]

Tbh I havent really noticed any changes.

[static compass]

Omg

[static compass]

Omg...

[dense jackal]

In my game they started to act less dumb not totally but less dumb

[static compass]

Someone gotta make the glorp faction

[dense jackal]

I can't wait until people make mods for factions

[static compass]

The return of Sin perhaps?

[dense jackal]

That'll be cool and maybe more quests for freedom or duty

[static compass]

Troo

[shut cosmos]

I like how Skif says his name normally but other characters say SKIFA

[dense jackal]

I noticed that too lol

[celest blaze]

[static compass]

SKEEFEH

The way English Skif says Richter bothers me a little lol

He puts so much phlegm on the "ch"

[dense jackal]

I don't ever put the English dub on

[shut cosmos]

The English dub sucks

Idk why they didnt do what they did in the og games and give everyone accents

Also I wish I could kill the dude talking next to the bed in slagheap

[celest blaze]

Ngl hearing British accents was a little jarring

[static compass]

Heard a Scottish accent once

[shut cosmos]

WAIT DOES THE CROWBAR MOD REPLACE ALL KNIVES??

[solar nacelle]

Yeah it does

[shut cosmos]

Thats hilarious

I saw scar pick up a crowbar and went wtf and he stabbed it into the table

[solar nacelle]

[dense jackal]

This is peak stalker 2 modding

[glass cave]

Cool, not just me.

Sometimes, it freezes up my whole pc

[supple wedge]

Just play in Ukrainian with subs.

I really dig the Skif's voice actor

[zenith creek]

I couldn't really figure out the sub/dub thing on launch
Since there was no facial animation for Ukrainian it seemed like English was the "default," and I like English Skif a bit better, but basically everyone else sounds American or British which is really jarring

I know they added lip sync for Ukrainian but it still seems odd

[supple wedge]

each to their own, but ukranian skif sounds tough af

[naive goblet]

how i do that though

[supple wedge]

Its just in the options menu. Same as changing the resolution etc

[zenith creek]

That's the thing
I liked the emotion in the line "I've got nowhere to go back to, Hermann" way better in English

If I wanted tough, I'd play a CoD campaign

[supple wedge]

If I wanted to play an american I'd play a CoD campaign.

[shut cosmos]

Im so tired of the radiation in this game

It goes from nothing to insta rad bar full and dead

[supple wedge]

Probably just hanging out at the edges of certain areas. Some are killzones

[shut cosmos]

Im trying to traverse the storage area in wild island

[zenith creek]

That's the main reason I didn't like SoC, lol
Who needs invisible walls when you can just kill the player even though the full map looks open

[supple wedge]

The pontoons?

I wouldn't really argue that S2 map isn't open.

[zenith creek]

S2 is open
Shadow of Chornobyl kept killing me for not following an invisible "safe" path

[shut cosmos]

I hate this area so much

Everything in the area is full of rads and its hard to tell where the hell you're supposed to go

[supple wedge]

Go quick like a liquidator.

I haven't found radiation difficult as I've always had some gear/artifacts pretty early.

Electrical anomalies destroy me though.

[shut cosmos]

Mosin reload looks weird, why does he put his left hand so far back when he goes to pull the bolt

[shut cosmos]

Was the game fixed post siirca?

I remember during my first playthrough everything past siirca was completely broken

[shut cosmos]

Bro how is the bunker at noontide still broken

Almost a year after release lodochka's door is still broken af

How

[naive goblet]

That’s the beauty of the game

[shut cosmos]

If i get back to post siirca and the same softlocks are still there im gonna lose my mind

[wraith socket]

Yay! I finally got STC Malachite to go GREEN!

[shut cosmos]

Idk why but its always red for me

[dense jackal]

I have that same problem

[flint oyster]

Is there a working achievement blocker bypass mod?

If anything my mods make the game harder but I want to earn achievements lol

[wraith socket]

I went there way before the main storyline gets you involved in what happens later.

[sly matrix]

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

[flint cliff]

There are various mods to install on Xbox. Which do you recommend to make the experience more hardcore?

[hardy bear]

Worked flawlessly for me, so probably

[worn oar]

Either killing ward or spark members will get you to be the boogeyman of science

Killing in that vicinity can basically ruin your rep there. It's easy to kill resident NPCs during firefights there either by mistake or intentionally.

[dense jackal]

With the little mods we have on Xbox I say better ballistics, ncp combat overhaul, Instant aggression fix, and realistic death animations which I'm at it would I recommend Dynamic weather overhaul too

That list will probably grow as more people make better mods

[hardy bear]

What does that listed combat overhaul do

[flint cliff]

Thanks but there are quite a few mods, which one do you recommend? For now I have only installed this mod on Xbox called Better Ballistic.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/129

[hardy bear]

Might try that out

But enemies are already insanely accurate, and it says it makes them even more so

Does it alter enemy reaction times and weapon sway to compensate?

[flint cliff]

I can tell you that for two seconds you are discovered and they kill you; the akm for example has a lot of recoil but I don't remember what it was like before I installed the mod.

[hardy bear]

One thing I would like to see, which I don’t know if that mod does, is unique ambient sway for each weapon. Have it be consistent patterns for a weapon, but just different for each

[wise geyser]

Rostok crashes a shit ton for me man

It plays perfectly fine but then if I leave and comeback from like a job the second time I come back it just shits itself

Wild territory so far though seems to run good

[flint cliff]

Can someone pass me the user manual? It's not available on Xbox. Thanks...

[dense jackal]

I'll say say ncp combat overhaul if you want more hardcore combat as the NPCs use cover more than before

[hardy bear]

We need something that increases their strafe speed

[dense jackal]

Probably yeah

[worthy zodiac]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I wish them dudes were more spread-out in them camps when they have big numbers

[flint cliff]

Do you recommend other mods on Xbox, which ones?

[flint cliff]

No! I dont have a Doom game!

[dense jackal]

Instant aggression fix, realistic death animations, and dynamic weather overhaul

There's also weapon reposition tecticool but that's hit or miss for people

[zinc apex]

Had to downgrade. It kept getting worse

[hardy bear]

it's more fun when there is a slight aim challenge

when they use cover its just about peeking when they are in cover and clicking when they reveal themselves, it's too easy to just dome them when walking, so have them strafe faster.

Requires greater awareness of space and flanks, requires you to aim a little better, enemies become more spread out so you need to watch more angles

win win

it's what your oh so amazing gamma pack does

[dense jackal]

I wish I had a PC to enjoy gamma 💔

[flint oyster]

What exactly does instant aggression fix do?

[dense jackal]

Sometimes the NPCs immediately get aggressive even if you're behind cover sneaking by

So it just makes it so the NPCs don't have spider Sense and you can actually use stealth

[flint oyster]

Nice. I grabbed it. Also trying to stop the achievement blocker from using Steam Mods...

Seems there is a workaround. I'm working on that now

[dense jackal]

I hope you can find it cuz I already gave up on achievements after I downloaded my first mod

[flint oyster]

Right now it's very much just a PC thing. I saw above you don't have one so sorry it won't work for you.

It basically involves copying the steam mods to your own mods folder in the game files to serve as a proxy 'injector' for your mods.

Funky method but the logic seems solid. Testing now.

[dense jackal]

Lucky PC players 😔

[wraith socket]

Yes, there is that one side-mission where after you get the Flash drive,
Ward captures the Scientist and threatens you. Fighting and killing Ward
at that point, will definitely be the wrong decision to make. There's a
way to not kill them and not lose the Flash drive to them. However,
since we are in the No Spoilers channel, I will say no more.

[naive goblet]

there’s no way skif runs all across the map back and forth 7 times a day everyday

[dense jackal]

He should have been a Marathon runner honestly

[hardy bear]

Got a question for the board, doing some personal research just to improve my own understanding of things:

In anything, from stalker 2, it's mods, or other games, what features and design elements do you consider immersive, and why

[naive goblet]

dude i was going to say this word for word

[dense jackal]

It's a life (when it works) can be really immersive and turning off your HUD helps too

[naive goblet]

the most immersive thing for me is talking to NPCs and feeling bad for them

[hardy bear]

how relevant do you feel realism is towards immersion

cause I've seen plenty of requests by people to make changes that are intentionally unrealistic, in order to improve immersion, but many people make suggestions that seem to only remove those layers of abstraction and steer towards realism, assuming it will make something more immersive

I've always attributed the idea of pursing realism as using our own understanding of the world to give in game actions more of an easily understandable meaning, as you can better attribute certain actions to personal feelings when the actions and responses feel more accurate to what we might feel in that situation, meaning immersion is more of a connection between the person playing and the narrative being told through gameplay itself

[naive goblet]

what’s the lore behind the poppy field putting you to sleep

[hardy bear]

it just does

[naive goblet]

is it an anomaly

[hardy bear]

essentially

[flint oyster]

Can confirm. Worked. What a G; the guy who came up with this is.

[hardy bear]

now they know about it though :(

[merry verge]

To me, immersion is being able to put myself into the world, either as a character or as a spectator, and have it be believable and work within its own rules. I want to feel like decisions and gameplay make sense given how the setting and world is explained through gameplay, lore, and dialogue. For I almost always make fallout LESS of an RPG mechanically and more toward a more or less hardcore survival game. Humans have a set amount of health with minimal variance based on level, (this goes for the PC as well) armor is more effective, mutants have differing health pools and stays based on what would make the most sense lore wise, (bugs have minimal, as they're more of a nuisance, but are quicker. Deathclaws have high armor and are very quick, yaoi guai have massive health pools and deal tons of damage etc etc.) ammo and loot is harder to find, but the economy is more important.

My pals always give me shit for modding fallout "to just be stalker." But that's kinda how the world is portrayed imo, just with a more whacky whimsical side than a dark and depressing side.

[hardy bear]

Cheers, this aligns well with the other responses i've got too, appreciate it.

If engagement is how well the challenge and reward systems work together to make solving those challenges fun, immersion feels like a more intrinsic satisfaction that relates to exactly that.

[celest goblet]

I guess just to call one particular thing out that comes to mind, it's the audio and audio mixing, at least when there aren't bugs causing it to misbehave. The sense of place in more than one way is pretty important and the game pretty much nails it in this regard, from the sounds of gunfire and mutants to the trees creaking in a windstorm to the reverberations when Skif's foot kicks over a tool in an enclosed space

[hardy bear]

Expectation of how the world should behave and act seems to be a big contributor.

So many mods say they aim to reduce the number of bullets needed to kill, saying it's more immersive, which makes sense if you view it as their expectation being that it should only take a couple to kill. Hence, a bullet sponge enemy breaks that immersion as it doesn't play into the dire and weak nature the setting tries to portray. Something tanking shots isn't necessarily because it's not realistic, but because the setting doesn't make it seem like everyone should have the ability to.

But mutants, anomalies and brain controlled super soldiers are fine because the setting contextualises them and makes them the norm rather than the exception

[hardy bear]

So another follow up question to this, are there cases where you would take the other route and make something less realistic in order to bolster that immersion? Since we talk about immersion often pertaining to the consistency of rules as declared by the setting, did you ever make changes to fallout or any other game that people would consider more unrealistic?

[celest goblet]

I think the key thing is for things not to feel arbitrary, imo, at least within the context of the game

[hardy bear]

This whole thing also makes the example 'This technical bug breaks my immersion' because said bug would cause the world to behave in a way that doesn't match the expectation.

[merry verge]

None come to mind that I can think of, i do personally prefer a more realistic approach to immersion where it fits into the setting. That's just what I like myself. Uhhh id have to look through my mod list and see if I can find anything tbh. Fallout in of itself is a pretty unrealistic game so I tend to make it more realistic. For stalker I'm kinda waiting for more balanced gunplay stuff (for console) better ballistics is awesome but it trivializes mutant fights and I think those should be tough, so maybe that? I'm not sure I would go for a less realistic more immersion friendly mod personally.

[hardy bear]

I've seen some people criticisting the carry weight and stamina, saying that you can't run far and can't carry enough, and end up modding them out so they can carry lots and run for ages. That to me seems like an unrealistic change that to them somehow makes something more immersive, which did confuse me a bit

cause having those weight limits is arguably going to create more realistic inspired gameplay that fits the theme of trudging through harsh landscapes with stuff, just trying to make a living, yet somehow was treated as unimmersive

[worthy zodiac]

My guess is that it makes it more immersive for them because they don't need to traverse the same routes over and over again. One thing is being immersed into the game, the other thing is getting bored because of it and starting to "fall off" into the real world and start thinking about your real life? Dunno

In any case, I've had zero issues with the weight limit so far

[celest goblet]

Well I think having to run back to base to stow away or sell your stuff breaks the flow state you can get into exploring the world

[hardy bear]

my take on it was that any moment where the game doesn't feel seamless, like when a challenge interrupts your natural flow, is often considered immersion breaking

hey, both had the same idea

I know I personally like that return phase, for the same reasons as described. Maxed out on weapons to sell, low on ammo, avoiding fights to not incur greater repair costs or engage in fights I don't have ammo for. THAT really sells the themes of the game, so I love it. But i've seen equal comments from people saying it's just annoying

[worthy zodiac]

Agree, I also like that part of games like these

[hardy bear]

it's the only time where those survival elements ever really appear

I think a lot of people mix engagement and immersion together too, understandably so. It's just tough to figure out how to separate mechanical engagement from that more atmospheric and narrative feel that immersion seems to be about when discussing things like this

[celest goblet]

I do think this is one reason in the original games that picking up weapons off enemies was never really a viable way to make money

[merry verge]

Yeah I agree with most of this. I think the weight limit stuff is fine. Maybe a bit more stamina for sprinting but that's not a huge deal to me either. I also personally like having to trek back to deposit extra stuff I don't Wana lug around.

Is unrealistic? Yeah probably. Because in reality your stalker is just going to leave anything that wasn't a necessity ande would be a burden to carry. But since it's a game the players don't necessarily have that reaction, we want to save anything we think might be useful or valuable at all. Which in itself is unrealistic but immersive.

In fact that's why most NPC stalkers have stashes. So they DONT have to carry extra shit they don't need right now. But that's not an option for the player (unless we just reuse one of the stashes we find) so that whole gameplay loop is unrealistic.

[gritty knot]

[zenith creek]

I'm going with yes
Nobody has ever called Hand Simulator "immersive" even though it's "realistic" in how a hand moves

There has to be some level of abstraction at some point, whether that's in the controls or the UI or in how combat plays out. If it's not fun, it can't be immersive to me because I get stuck thinking "I should not play this."

[modern ginkgo]

Realistic does not mean immersion

That’s just in simple terms though, and people get the two confused hardcore

They say call of duty is immersion breaking because of how the gunplay works or smth or maybe because there’s no jamming, and that’s because the game is explicitly designed and balanced to support its gun system like that

[zenith creek]

Realism mod where Skif has the same carry weight limit as my real-life body (I am a weakling)

[modern ginkgo]

Stalker also does the same, it’s balanced to support its gun system and player handicaps. People may call the backwards MP5 “immersion breaking” but that is always what stalker has been, not to mention that it is easy to get used to.

[zenith creek]

Personally I spend more time looking at the crosshair than at the ejection slot in an FPS but that's just me 😛

[modern ginkgo]

Imma just use gamma as an example, gamma turns stalker into a more harsh and bleak world that demands more careful consideration and thinking than the original stalkers, by changing up its economy and side quests for it. S2 however does not need to do this, as the world is inherently not getting you to do that.

[modern ginkgo]

Real

[exotic relic]

it's more unimmersive to have a Makarov jam after like 200 rounds 🥀

[modern ginkgo]

So when someone says that something unrealistic is “immersion breaking” it’s mainly going to be because of personal biases and taste in games

People may say a game is “immersion breaking” because it doesn’t fit their narrow view of how a game does immersion, and it’s disingenuous that a lot of people will do this

[modern ginkgo]

Real it should jam in 5 rounds

[zenith creek]

The most immersive game is Ubisoft Monopoly

[modern ginkgo]

Facts

[exotic relic]

American propaganda

[modern ginkgo]

Mb 2

[solar nacelle]

Nah, make it jam after every single shot

[modern ginkgo]

Yeah real

[plain minnow]

Ok, trying to do Act of Mercy, and for some reason the no killing part keeps auto failing even though I haven’t killed anyone

I think a mutant wandered into the underground area

[zenith creek]

Add hangfires to the game so you have to wait 10 seconds to know if it's a jam or the round just goes off late
If you try to reload a round that was just going to go off late then you take damage and weapon durability substantially drops

[exotic relic]

if you try and holster it you end up shooting yourself 🙏

[zenith creek]

Yes perfect

[exotic relic]

now you just have to pray you don't ever get a hangfire Infront of a chimera

[solar nacelle]

Wait would that work on the rpg 😭

[zenith creek]

🙂

(I have no idea, summer camp didn't let me shoot an RPG for some reason)

[plain minnow]

Seriously, why does Act of Mercy count a mutant killing one if the guards as you killing them?

[exotic relic]

is that the monlithian mission from doc

if so that probably is the issue

[plain minnow]

I have no clue where the mutant is so I can’t kill it before it kills them

Wait, they’re f’ing friendly firing their wounded is what it is the F?

[zenith creek]

That's pretty funny tbh
Frustrating as hell for you I'm sure but that's such a weird bug for a pacifism quest to have

[solar nacelle]

Bro 😭, I swear this has to be a bug

[plain minnow]

They start shootings their wounded as soon as I pick up the thing Doc wants

[exotic relic]

that mission sucks even if you don't get any bugs because stealth as well as stealth mechanics in this game just don't work

[plain minnow]

I can stealth it fine on veteran

[solar nacelle]

Did you try reverting to a save before the mission?

[plain minnow]

Yes

Still happening

[exotic relic]

I can stealth it "fine" unless I need to escape then I get like soft locked out of any opportunity to escape unseen because some monolithians have a super strict patrol route and they for some reason just can't be distracted by anything to divert them from their routes and I just have to be seen by them and leg it out

[plain minnow]

I even let myself get detected so they would shoot me but they’re prioritizing the wounded instead

Why

[plain minnow]

Question, can I wound them like that one mission for the Medic at Icarus?

[solar nacelle]

Maybe, if the enemy’s are shooting their men when they see you I don’t think so, but you could give it a shot

[exotic relic]

bros going thru the 5 stages of grief

now he's bargaining with the game

[solar nacelle]

Went straight to the wish granter

[plain minnow]

I’m asking cause only one of them is shooting their wounded wounded

[exotic relic]

also I mean you're the one who's already there and it doesn't sound like the mission is gonna be working anyways so you might as well try

you can just save scum it like you've been doing if that doesn't work

[naive goblet]

New A-life improvements are impressive.

[plain minnow]

Ok, loaded a save, the guy that was friendly firing got replaced by a Exo medic

[timid egret]

The game crashes right after launching. Here's the error message:

makefile
Копировать
Редактировать
LowLevelFatalError
[AsyncLoading2.cpp:1660]
ObjectSerializationError: /Game/UETools/Blueprints/BP_StalkerGameInstance
Bad name index -39/84
What I’ve tried:

Verified game files (Steam / Epic) – didn’t help

Cleared shader cache

No mods installed

Happens every time I launch (new game or continue)

[zenith creek]

UETools is still broken isn't it?

[timid egret]

Nothing is broken in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., there are only anomalies XD

All right, I fixed the problem.

[solar nacelle]

That’s what I was saying before, not bugs only anomalies

[timid egret]

Xddd

[naive goblet]

GOTY GOES TO STALKER 2

[reef raptor]

2024 is over 💔

[thin locust]

Hello people. Ive restarted S2 since Ive not played for months and most things go well.
However, can someone guide me to a respectable and recent graphics guide?
UE5 is a b*tch to figure out for me. Also, I'm new to HDR capable screens and Im unsure how to set up the HDR settings.
Can you help? 🙂

[zenith creek]

This guide is a bit outdated (7 months old), but I don't think performance has changed that much since launch. TL;DR there's very little difference between the various settings in terms of FPS or looks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814y2OPLsX0

HDR is broken, the contrast is set crazy high so everything is pitch-black until there's a lot of light. You'll have to tweak the settings yourself. If your OS has an HDR calibration tool (Windows has one you can download, idk about consoles), run that first.
https://www.hdrgamer.com/2025/01/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-hdr.html

Personally I set contrast to be as low as possible without making dark interiors look hazy/washed out, which for my monitor is around 20% (the HDR default is 75%)

[thin locust]

Thank you kindly

[naive goblet]

whaaatttt they drastically improved performance

[zenith creek]

They fixed a bunch of crashes but FPS and latency are the same with 1.5 as in 1.2 and 1.1 on my PC

The difference between Epic and Low settings for me is all of 10 FPS

[thin locust]

In a way I wish they developed a new xEngine, instead of going UE5.
But I understand that simply isn't feasable anymore.

[unreal raptor]

Same. Miss the crisp and legible games of that gen. Current gen feels like GTA 4 brown blurry blown out bloom slop.

UE games always feel like this to play. Just a mess. The first FF7 remake was nice for a UE game, the second is a blurry mess.

[zenith creek]

For the last several years the call from every gamer was "Why does development take so long, everyone should just use Unreal"
So it's hard for me to blame studios for doing that

[unreal raptor]

And they still take just as long if not longer. Just release half baked and then fix for two years.

[shut cosmos]

Tacticool is bad but the vanillaplus is peak

[shut cosmos]

If only they were good games

[dense jackal]

I did say hit or miss

[zenith creek]

Hey we could be back in the 1990s when you'd buy a floppy drive full of Doom maps to find out only 3 of them worked and 1 of them was kinda good

[celest blaze]

i like tacticool but only in franchises where it makes sense like arma

stalker never was or is tacticool imo

[thin locust]

Oh absolutely. I will not criticise the devs, but I shall criticise Epic 🙂

[zenith creek]

I don't know much about programming (let alone game development) so I can't seriously comment
I can, however, make snarky suggestions that are so stupid nobody will take them seriously

[thin locust]

In a way it is, but not in a Western style. Remember the tacticool pictures of navy seals in jeans and flannel from the vietnam era? And later the special forces with beards and oakley shades from the nillies? They used what worked and they had a certain freedom when it came to gear to get the job done. Are Zone dweller any different here?

[thin locust]

End of. I adored UT99 and I still do.

[zenith creek]

Personally I think every game should be coded entirely in Scratch

[solar nacelle]

Gives the devs and the players equal opportunity

[candid plaza]

where can i get a role

[worthy zodiac]

That's actually a good comparison

It does feel like 2008-2012 all over again

With all these games that are barely running in 720p

(In the case of gta 4 it was changing its resolution to 480p on ps3, IIRC)

[solar nacelle]

Like your faction?

You can get that in #👥┃faction-choice

[candid plaza]

ty

[shut cosmos]

Is there a mod to delete burer's from the game

Garbage enemy

[hearty widget]

Hello, how do I loot mutants? I can see some of them has an "X" indicator on HUD but cant loot them

[shut cosmos]

HOW DO I GET THESE DUMB ENEMIES TO DROP THEIR SHIELDS, WHO TF THOUGHT OF THIS

IM GONNA LOSE MY MIND

[prisma goblet]

Patience is key

They can't maintain their shields for too long and have to recharge it every now and then. Use these moments to shoot and hide when the shield is back

It's useless to shoot them when the shield is on

[shut cosmos]

I hate that they can still attack with their shield, cuz I dont remember them doing that in the original games

[prisma goblet]

I feel like they attack less when their shield is off, but it may be just me

[shut cosmos]

Altho theyre still annoying af in the og games

I hate burer's so much

[prisma goblet]

Yeah worst ennemies

[ripe thorn]

The shield makes a loud noise when up, hide until you don't hear the noise, run and magdump your shotgun

[prisma goblet]

Fortunately they are rare

[ripe thorn]

With spas or saiga it's 1 magdump
Even assault rifles do the job

Don't throw nades at them, they can catch nades and throw them back at you

[prisma goblet]

I also hate the new ability for controllers to spawn hostile NPCs
It's just a pain in the ass

And it doesn't even make sense. Like how does a hallucination make you bleed?

[ripe thorn]

Is it new?
They always had psy aura that gradually increases your psy "meter" and phantoms spawn on late stages, just like with any source of psy damage

I thought their new ability is the clap that does normal dmg

[prisma goblet]

It's not only new for controllers, every psi emission does that

[ripe thorn]

Psy blockade pills give you 60 seconds of psy immunity, once again, eat a pill run and dump your arsenal

[prisma goblet]

That's what I do

[ripe thorn]

Phantoms were in game since the release

In version 1.0.0

[prisma goblet]

When I say "new" I am talking about new in the franchise

[ripe thorn]

Ah
That's true
IDs I don't mind this, it forces you to act aggressive while with burger it's the opposite, hide and be patient

[nimble cipher]

eldorado6743 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ripe thorn]

Used a bad word there(
Was saying that burer weilded guns are fare more annoying and deal so much damage, even basic ones, like Ak74u

And God help you if burer stole and then lifted your modded saiga or spas....

Mutants are fine in S2, I'd like to see less bloodsuckers, more boars, fleshes and snorks, and maybe 1 new mutant, mid-tier, like bloodsucker but with different twist, maybe a ranged grab that you need to dodge or something like that

[sly matrix]

Telekinetically enhanced bullets

[prisma goblet]

Another problem with burers is that they can shoot with empty weapons

[celest blaze]

psi suckers from the mods would be cool

[ripe thorn]

Ye, that's clearly unfair, unloading should stop burers from using guns

But that ties generally to the fact that enemies' guns don't jam or anything like that
Never run out of ammunition, never switch to sidearm

Also some small things in mutants behaviour, like them limping when injured or running away if they lost majority of numbers (for dogs and rats)

But I don't think that these things are a priority, community wants better a-life, better AI, stability and performance, nvgs and thermals, new guns and armor and more quests in later zones
Atleast that's my personal list of things I want, since I don't like mods very much and prefer to play developer intended experience

[prisma goblet]

Same

When I play with mods I always feel like it's "not legit"

[ripe thorn]

The only one I used to use was UETools just to unglitch myself when I get stuck in terrain or when quest body with the key just never spawns or clips through terrain, that is clearly not intended experience

Oh, also to add to the list of things I want to see, gun balance (buket being more effective than hk416 is kinda immersion breaking) and master difficulty (I want to scrounge for resources and not drown in food like I'm in sausage factory)
More punishing sleep deprivation, my first playthrough I never even realized the game has this feature untill first baiyn encounter, and even then it is kinda meh
And a timer for sleep, i think having an alarm clock is not unrealistic

But I see why they don't add controlled sleep duration right now, since they want us to see the zone at night but without nvgs or quests that take part only at night noone will choose to venture out during nighttime

[frozen yacht]

How's the game performing after 1.5?

[ripe thorn]

Highly depends on the rig
Mine became somewhat better, more fps both with and without framegen, less stuttering and graphical artifacts, although they are still present

[coarse sparrow]

lads, is multiplayer still on the table?

[vocal vapor]

Is something broken with item durability? I just repaired my stuff and was in 1 combat encounter and my Exo suit is at 0% my shotgun which I fired 2 times is 12% my “Hunter” unique 308 rifle which I fired 8 times is at 33% and my pistol which 8 time is at 31%

[static compass]

Coming later

[exotic relic]

did you try and tank an emission at any point between repairing your armour and realising it's broken

[vocal vapor]

No

[stable holly]

is there a way to play with performance mods and still get achievements?

[shut cosmos]

So when is there gonna be mod for the controller making you kill yourself lmao

[shut cosmos]

Honestly I hope not

Love the game, mp is an unnecessary diversion

Im gonna crash out

Just fought a burer and when it grabbed my gun it despawned

My last save is 2 hours ago

[static compass]

No autosaves?

[vocal vapor]

I reloaded a save and had the same exact combat encounter and this time my stuff didn’t crumble at the site of a stiff breeze. Before passing out because I was tied

[shut cosmos]

Nope

[static compass]

Damn

Sorry to hear

[shut cosmos]

I actually want to go into a rage and punch a wall i am so mad rn

I cant even get it back because it was the Lynx

[exotic relic]

how did you not autosave for 2 hours

did you sit afk for 1 hour and 50 minutes

also mfw the Devs still haven't patched guns just falling thru the floor with burers

[solar nacelle]

Rip lynx 🫡

[dense jackal]

I would uninstall the game ngl 😭

[wraith socket]

That's why you always keep energy drinks on you, to keep from passing out.

[wraith socket]

2 hours ago, means you didn't make a save in 2 days game time.
1 hour equals 24 hours passing in the game. That's way too long.

[worthy zodiac]

More or less same for me. Just less stutters and crashea

[worn oar]

It won't despawn tbh, it may have landed in a bugged spot or something.

Either way, it's likely to be lost

[exotic relic]

there was a bug where your weapon would just fall thru the map/phase thru a wall

[worn oar]

Gotta either try to go back your most recent save or just move along

[worn oar]

Yeah. I noticed it when I dropped my Mosin

It just went down to hell

[exotic relic]

i wonder when enemies will start to drop the mosin cos i cbf buying ti off hampster or having no ammo for it

i havent seen any in lesser zone yet

i think my game just crashed trying to load a save

[worn oar]

It's good. I believe it's very better optimized than it was before, but there are some few bugs here and there, most of which are going to be addressed by the upcoming hotfix.

[exotic relic]

actually it didnt it ended up working it just had a weird hiccup

[worn oar]

Not sure if I saw it being used, but you can get it either from most traders or find it laying around some place beside a dead NPC.

[exotic relic]

i cant be bothered spending like 12000 koupons on a mosin

[worn oar]

Crashes are really rare at this point, at least for me. I kinda had flawless gaming sessions lately. One crash tho, and it was caused by something I messed up hehe

[exotic relic]

i had a random crash yesterday when adjusting my sens

[worn oar]

Honestly? I'm kinda rich, so I just bought it right away. I wouldn't expect anyone early game to be wasting coupons mindlessly, but it'll get better if you exploit everything you encounter in the zone.

F.e, I have enough items and ammo of each caliber to pull me through another run without the need to loot anything

[exotic relic]

also why is it faster to crouch strafe while ads'd then it is when not ads'd

and even worth a slight enemy agro/detectionrebalance mod turns out the stealth is infact still broken

some random enemy insta spotted me from like 200 meters away thru like a bunch of senses and shrubbery and pipes with no visability and now the entire sphere is after me

also how did the ragdoll bug even start like it didnt happen to me on my runsi did like 6 months ago but now its every few kills with or without the revised death animations mod by shay or whatever

[flint oyster]

Do mutant parts have any purpose aside from selling them the first chance you get?

[exotic relic]

rahhhh watching skif recock a makarov after taking a shot as if its not self cocking

[flint oyster]

Intimidation check

[exotic relic]

hollywood ah move

[flint cliff]

On XBOX I also installed a mod that configures the same duration between day and night, actually without the mod, the night really lasted too little.

It's very good.

[wraith socket]

I reported this bug to GSC. They are demanding video and screenshots, as if they don't understand.
I kill people in various situations. I see their guns drop and vanish. This just started with the 1.5 Patch.

[exotic relic]

leaves the lesser zone via eastern checkpoint towards wild island/cordon
game: congrats on taking the pontoon bridge on the west towards the chemical plant

im going to visit sidorivich
plus it means i get the VSS vintorez super early

[dense jackal]

I use real longer days 12 hours for realism honestly

[worthy zodiac]

I've only seen it in the hands of friendly loners

[supple wedge]

Is it even possible to go without autosaves for 2hrs? Like I feel like combat encounters and traversal set it off.

From GSC
Autosaves - " These occur at key moments, like when moving between locations, starting a cutscene, or just before important story events. "

From personal experience playing a lot without doing missions and just exploring and running into combat encounters, the game will save regularly.

[shut cosmos]

Nah it literally popped out of existence

[shut cosmos]

Also funnily enough its a specific spot still in the abandoned tunnel

[exotic relic]

ewll i dont think loners have any specific faction affilition so sounds like free game to me

[thin locust]

I feel like the devs still have their work cut out for them. Nevertheless, I'm enjoying 1.5; just like I was enjoying the orgininal stalker SoC unpatched 18 years ago.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[thin locust]

It feels like the devs did a Cyberpunk. It'll be excellent in a few years time, but in the meantime they have bitten off a bit more than they can chew.
However the motivation is clearly there. I have a humongous game backlog, so I can be patient. But I do understand the frustration of someone that doesn't own may titles and invested in this title.

You as well, Ranjid

[worn oar]

We reported that bug, dw about it. it'll be fixed, hopefully with 1.5.1 or the next hotfix coming up after it.

[worthy zodiac]

I don't like it when people expect a cyberpunk out of stalker 2. Don't get me wrong, cyberpunk ended up being a good game – but I don't want just a good game, I want a good stalker game. A game that tries to innovate a little bit, that tries to make interesting systems for the player to interact with. And the devs were promising these systems before the release. Do you know what's the issue? Even tho Cyberpunk is a good game, it didn't deliver on the stuff that was promised: there are no handmade routines for the hundreds of NPCs, there are no factions that you can join, the world itself is static in general (I bet you remember the same NPCs doing same things in the same places, even the enemies are spawning in the same spots over and over again), your lifepaths have minimal impact, etc. Basically, they've promised RPG but ended up making a far cry in cyberpunk setting...

[shut cosmos]

Imo no, they didnt do a cyberpunk.

Cp2077 overpromised severely

Kept saying dumb bs like "its ready, when its ready"

[tribal portal]

cyberpunk atleast isnt nearly as buggy as it was

[shut cosmos]

And was the most broken, and unfinished game. And to this day it still didn't deliver.

[tribal portal]

💀

[shut cosmos]

There is still tons of shit promised that is nowhere in site

[tribal portal]

it definitely delivered but still left things to be desired

[shut cosmos]

Maybe with PL, but with the base game hell no.

I still cant believe TW3 and Cp2077 were made by the same people with how much slop there is.

Copy and paste gigs everywhere compared to tw3 which had a crazy amount of unique side quests

[tribal portal]

i do agree on the gigs

gets stale quick

[dense jackal]

The cyberpunk hate is still going strong

[thin locust]

Alright, alright, fair points ^^'

[tribal portal]

personally my 2nd favourite game

the vibe is real

[shut cosmos]

Now compare that to GSC. The game was unfinished yes but they literally had to move to Prague because of a whole war. Part of their office burnt down, and had to deal with hackers. Altho that last is debated.

[tribal portal]

still rank rdr games 1st for the insane story telling and character development

[dense jackal]

Still haven't played it but I've heard both good and bad things about it

[tribal portal]

definitely acquired taste game

[shut cosmos]

I can excuse it because of the garbage they went thru. As long as they fulfill their promises and finish and polish the game. And also im biased cuz the original games are very special to me. Lol

[tribal portal]

for how long was cyberpunk in development

[shut cosmos]

Like 10 years

[dense jackal]

CDred had like a decade and gsc had to come back from the dead to make this game happen

[shut cosmos]

Sorry 8 years

[shut cosmos]

The company tried making it in 2010

Died in 2012, came back. Resumed it 2018, and then actually released

It is a genuine miracle this game came out

[tribal portal]

stalker 2 needs some work

[dense jackal]

Then had to go through a pandemic a war afterwards

[tribal portal]

but wasnt nearly as bad as cyberpunk on launch

[shut cosmos]

This game should not have come out, im very surprised it managed to release because of how hellish the development and cost was.

[tribal portal]

biggest complaint i got for stalker 2 is the ue5 engine

[dense jackal]

Stalker 2 at lunch was still playable for most people remember that

[shut cosmos]

Idk for the 2nd half

[tribal portal]

but that isnt their fault really its the engines fault of being so unoptimised slop

[shut cosmos]

It was almost unplayable on launch after siirca

[dense jackal]

No that's true I forgot about that

[shut cosmos]

Imo thats not the engines fault

[tribal portal]

why does every ue5 game run like shit

[tribal portal]

i actually didnt get the game spoiled and i thought the mission in sircaa was the last one 😂

[dense jackal]

I don't think the sircaa mission was even half way through 😭

[shut cosmos]

Wukong, Robocop, RoN, Finals, and Remnant 2. Theres others i cant think of off the top of my head.

[thin locust]

I was merely pointing out that they had a buggy release and I hope it will age well, guys ^^

[tribal portal]

nah id say duga and faust is half way

[dense jackal]

Also I'm pretty sure the reason that they released the game as buggy as it was probably cuz the studio would have gone bankrupt again if they didn't sell anything

[shut cosmos]

They would have

[tribal portal]

investors forced cyberpunk to release thats what i heard

[shut cosmos]

It was ridiculously expensive for GSC

[dense jackal]

Yeah honestly I can't blame them too much for how buggy it was

[shut cosmos]

They did

[analog helm]

I would say the game development got really unlucky with the timing of acquiring UE5 . UE4 had already been outdate (it maybe would be better performance-wise on release, but in perspective - releasing something on UE4 now is just a dead end).
On the other hand, when they started the work, they had to deal with 5.0.0 before it even came out - I can only imagine the number of issue it had. And most good stuff came with the later versions of the engine, so 5.1 is really underwhelming..

[shut cosmos]

But can you blame them? 8 years and still pretty much nothing to show for it. A literal beta of a game for 8 years lmao

[tribal portal]

but still 8y and game was so broken

ue5 is kinda bad in the aspect it forces rt on you so old hardware suffers

[shut cosmos]

And unfortunately idk if this is true but apparently the updated versions of ue5 run better but their version is so customized that they cant really just switch

[tribal portal]

but i can run the game with my 3090ti comfortably

[shut cosmos]

Forced RT is a plague on gaming

[tribal portal]

cyberpunk is somehow even more slop to run than ue5 titles

[shut cosmos]

Idk if they do it because maybe its easier to implement? Idk cuz im not a dev. But its not worth it for the awful fps loss.

[tribal portal]

my 3090ti suffers

[shut cosmos]

Tragic

[tribal portal]

you would expect me to be able to run the game 1440p with rt on and dlss q

jokes on you

[exotic relic]

i mean it technically doesnt force Hardware raytracing (unless the devs opt to do so) so you are capable of using gpus like 10 series nvidia ue5 just uses lumen and nanite for software ray tracing

[hazy helm]

forcing these is just as bad

[exotic relic]

it definately performs poorly but atleast youre not locked out by hardware

[tribal portal]

i wish i still had my 6600xt to try it on

it would probably run 40fps on low setting 1080

[exotic relic]

also unrelated to stalker 2 but i hate that the marvel rivals devs were lazy and used UE5 so it means rivals performs like garbage on any and every system and to worsen it they had a bug that meant you moved faster/further/did more dps with higher fps so you literally got paywalled from your character actually working properly

[hazy helm]

this is good bc you shouldnt want people to play slop and therefore a smaller splashzone means less infected

[shut cosmos]

Id still be playing rivals if they didnt start nerfing everybody

[exotic relic]

also why is the attachment menu on stalker so buggy im clicking on the attachment and it just removes all my atachments even when im clicking to add the attachment and it only works like 1/4 of the time

genuinely i cant get it to work

it hovers over the attachment then boom it unequips them all i cant even put 2 on successfullly

ok it FINALLY worked after the 15th attempt

[dense jackal]

The attachment menu is a pain especially when you accidentally unequip all your attachments in the middle of a gun fight

[exotic relic]

it outright just doesnt work properly

[dense jackal]

No it doesn't at all

[exotic relic]

also do we have numbers on the kora's damage

[supple wedge]

It's quite cpu intensive. A lot of the time when the discussion comes up, people start throwing around gpu names, when I think that's missing the point (like right now)

[worthy zodiac]

Wait, Lumen is forced on UE5? There are 0 games on UE5 that don't use lumen?

[supple wedge]

No.

Not unless it's changed recently.

[thin locust]

I was so happy with my 5800x3d. Don't feel like upgrading yet. However, UE5 might change that.
Though, tbf, I still get 60-70fps.

Just don't like Lumen much.

The graininess... Ugh

[supple wedge]

Most of the time it looks great, but it does have some pain points.

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, when you are standing still...

[supple wedge]

Nah, it still looks good in motion, it's just in specific dark situations it struggles to resolve.

[worthy zodiac]

I can't really judge currently cause of my gtx1080... But from what I saw on the pc of a friend of mine – it looks noisy and blurry no matter what you do

[tribal portal]

maybe try installing the dlss to fsr it basically enables you to use dlss on 10 series and it looks great

i used it to enable me usage of the dlss on amd cards

[supple wedge]

That's not ideal.
Can't speak for your friend's PC, but I found it cleans up a lot when you have performance. It does a lot of sampling lighting in realtime from your screen, so if you're running a lower resolution, then upscaling, then generating frames, you're losing a lot of raw input data.

It's not going to be perfect in every scenario on high end systems, but it's definitely not blurry and noisy all the time. And the lighting is pretty amazing.

[hardy bear]

when it works it looks great

seeing the harsh silohettes of windows and the ambient light bouncing off it is great, but I really don't know if it's worth the performance hit

[dire dagger]

We should rename this discord “the official lumen hating community”

[thin locust]

Not wrong, heg

[hardy bear]

baked light for the win

[dire dagger]

Hw rt for the win

Should have had 2 options

Baked lighting

And hw rt

[hardy bear]

I've never toggled on hw rt in any games i've played so I don't really know what it looks like

[dire dagger]

If your gpu has hw rt

You can play the new Indiana jones game

Requires hw rt but it looks awesome

[hardy bear]

trouble is I don't really play games modern enough to have it as a feature

and those that do are pvp games where I want frames over visuals

[thin locust]

Controversial opinion: while I don't mind RT developement, for now I still prefer rasterisation

[dire dagger]

You failed the wealth skill check

[hardy bear]

but I passed the epic gamer skill check

[dire dagger]

True

https://tenor.com/view/greasestain-woody-dap-up-dapping-toy-story-gif-16829324021208675735

[thin locust]

I'd like devs to concentrate more on modern audio techniques like RT audio than visuals.

Cos muh immersion

[hardy bear]

more ray traced stuff?
Wouldn't that just make it run even worse?

[dire dagger]

Hw rt runs better

[hardy bear]

hardware raytraced audio?

[dire dagger]

Lumens approach is like using a Swiss Army knife to cut down a try

I love work laptops

This is literally sitting idle at desktop

[thin locust]

Yes. Valve has a demo for it. Its available, but not much used. Sounds amazing though. Its not heavy on the CPU and I don't know exactly why devs don't use it much. But then again, what do I know? /:)

[short oak]

Hey friends,is the new patch coming today? I read that the devs delayed it for this week 😛

[dire dagger]

The patch already dropped

🤨

1.5 is out right now

[tribal portal]

nah

[dire dagger]

You right

[thin locust]

No, no, the new new patch

[dire dagger]

The new new new new patch I see I see

[hardy bear]

the cancellation of the stalker space program patch

[short oak]

So,maybe the new new new patch comer mid week

Comes*

[celest goblet]

There's a hotfix happening... Soon(TM) sure

[flint cliff]

I use 2 hours, 12h is too long!!! For me is good 2h.

On xbox I lowered the brightness from 45 to 40% to make the night more realistic. What about you?

[tribal portal]

oled+hdr

[flint cliff]

I have OLED and HDR, what HDR value do you set?

[tribal portal]

cant help you with that now

im not home

[flint cliff]

Can you let me know what settings you used? Send me a private message, thanks.

When you are at home.

[zinc apex]

Stalker 2 > Gamma

[gritty orchid]

couldnt agree more

[zinc apex]

🤝

[elder beacon]

what is the difference between veteran and stalker in 1.5?

[static compass]

Omg
Keith

[zinc apex]

Who do you guys like more? Keith or Glorpcat?

[worthy zodiac]

I thought DLSS is a hardware feature

[tribal portal]

dlss is a upsacaling software which is locked for any toher gpu than nvidia

[worthy zodiac]

How did they "unlock" it then?

[worthy zodiac]

A pc of friend of mine has rtx4090 and i9 something-something (He uses that card for his work mostly, not for the games themselves... But I've decided to use that opportunity to try out stalker 2 on his hardware, yea)

When people say that it always looks good it feels like we aren't looking at the same picture, lol

[tribal portal]

i will link you later the mod you need

[supple wedge]

Well, likewise I don't see how people think it looks bad.

[worthy zodiac]

By definition AI can't "imagine" all the assets with the 100% accuracy thus there are ALWAYS some issues if the picture isn't static. We also know what Stalker 2 looks like if you don't use any sort of TAA/AI (It looks like a pixel hell, even 4k screen wasn't saving it). Thus it's a question of you noticing the issues. If you don't – good for you. But if you do – welcome to my club or something... I kinda envy you people, tbh

[supple wedge]

Yeah, and likewise all games have their own issues. I don't see your point.

[gritty orchid]

keith owns me and all <3

[worthy zodiac]

My point is simple: we didn't have these issues before forced RT in games and "kinda forced" TAA/AI

[supple wedge]

You had garbage lighting. That's an issue.

[dire dagger]

Forced hw rt isn’t so bad

It’s just a poor people skill check

[supple wedge]

Go play indie jones

[dire dagger]

Exactly

[supple wedge]

Where's the indiana jones game discord?

[dire dagger]

I’d join that

[supple wedge]

mod that

[dire dagger]

I loved that game

[worthy zodiac]

And then we can compare something like Metro Exodus (non rt edition) to stalker 2 – it literally looks better in many cases, lol

Especially indoor/outdoor contrast

[supple wedge]

No it really doesn't

I've played them back to back and even with enhanced, stalker looks better in overall look

[worthy zodiac]

Even tho it does......

[worthy zodiac]

Talking about lighting strictly. Of course there are some scenes in stalker 2 that look photorealistic when you are standing still

[supple wedge]

Metro lighting doesn't look better. In the enhanced edition there are apects of it that look better and more stable, but overall it looks worse.

And if we don't care about that you may as well say HL2 wins the contest of stable lighting.

[worthy zodiac]

Whatever, it's pointless to keep talking about that when I can't even prove my point with actual screenshots that are made by me with no tricks

[exotic relic]

mr beast nooo dont give me a promo code to give me free moneyyyy

[worthy zodiac]

Even if I'd agree with your point of stalker 2 having a better lighting overall – I'd still be against rt (even hardware one) because of all the noise it generates in dynamic scenes (Because I notice it, I don't care if you don't)

[exotic relic]

also imagine being a serial experiments lain fan and getting your account hacked

clearly didnt watch the show

[worthy zodiac]

Ummm, imagine being a stalker fan without actually killing hundreds of bandits and mercs irl...

[exotic relic]

do you guys just ping mods here or do they rather you go thru some modmail thing

[worthy zodiac]

I never ping them but I think it's okay if you'll do it with a good reason (Like that shіtty post)

[exotic relic]

those new scams are literally everywhere on public servers theyre like the hot new thing

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, not the first time these pics are posted here

[supple wedge]

How do you notice all these issues with RT lighting with a GTX1080?

[tribal portal]

https://youtu.be/wxlHq_EuxFU?si=363jPGHOgP_3QIuG

he talks about frame generation

but this allows you to use dlss on 10 series

i have a 1070 laptop and it really works

[nimble cipher]

chezet.​gg has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tribal portal]

@worthy zodiac

[worthy zodiac]

I didn't do it on my pc, obviously

(Although I do prefer how KCD2 looks on it compared to stalker 2...)

[worthy zodiac]

Thanks, I'll check it out

[zinc apex]

Worst thing is that overexposure effect (or whatever it's called) when you're inside and look outside and vice versa it's too dark

[worthy zodiac]

Agree. Not sure if that's Lumen issue tho. Does that happen in other games that force you to use it?

I dunno, does that happen in oblivion remastered, for example?

[zinc apex]

I feel like this is some kind of tech you'd implement for snapping screenshots and videos for some promo material. It looks great sure, but sucks for actual gameplay

[worthy zodiac]

I wouldn't even say that it looks great. Never liked bloom, never liked overexposure/underexposure (?)

[thin locust]

I had hoped ( without proof) that a HDR screen would help there, but I don't think it does.

[worthy zodiac]

Wouldn't it make it even worse?

[zenith creek]

Depends heavily on the screen

HDR just means it can get bright, it says nothing about how dark it can get one pixel or a couple of inches over

Which makes monitor shopping a royal pain

[static lynx]

Is the tornado artifact unobtainable because i just get one tapped by the tornado even in the lowest difficulty?

[exotic relic]

you mean the big tornado that has the altered bolt up near the top of the map?

there's a specific route you have to follow along the cargo containers to climb up the crane and then when you're at the peak of the crane the bolt will fly by and you grab it you're not meant to just run into the tornado

[static lynx]

The way i used to do it was wait at the top let the tornado hit me, pick up the artifact and heal

Now i get one tapped

[exotic relic]

I just remember climbing up the crane and sitting at the end and grabbing the bolt as it flew by (which took like 15 attempts)

[worthy zodiac]

They say it requires an rtx card

[tribal portal]

it doesnt

you know what i will send you my files i used on my laptop

[shut cosmos]

This game has a severe issue involving zombified stalkers

Every mission involving them spawns 5 thousand of them

[flint oyster]

Fantastic Mod recommendations btw. Really enjoying my playthrough and the difficulty is fun

Only issue I keep running into is some enemies really look like there are 2 different AI modules fighting over control of them. They'll run away spinning or do really really spazzy movements while shooting. pop in and out of cover a dozen times in the span of 2 seconds like they're gears of war cover sliding

Is that a mod issue or is that literally just base game and no one's modded it to fix it yet?

It's not just bad AI... it literally looks like 2 are fighting for control with how spazzy it is

[ripe patrol]

Do you have combat overhaul by wool?

[flint oyster]

I have all of the ones in your collection you linked except no PDA marker and +1 or 2 more that aren't that

That includes "NPC Combat overhaul"

But that's by some guy with "fighter" in his name

Snub_Fighter

[ripe patrol]

then you do have combat overhaul. Might be a good ide to post this in https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1387663648448577536

Wool is snub fighter btw

[flint oyster]

makes sense lol

[flint oyster]

Done. Thanks. Hopefully it helps

Regardless of issues. Still really enjoying myself.

[flint oyster]

2 questions: Do all these random PDAs I find have a use? I just keep them in my stash.

Do mutant parts have a purpose?

[rapid seal]

Sell the random pda’s
Trader at malachite asks you to collect mutant parts.

[hearty compass]

holy moly i finally got to player proper after 1.5 dropped

a-life is really here, i met a stalker while doing the poppy field quest, he was heading somewhere, but i just went and did my quest, when i got back to zalissya he was chilling by the fire, which means the stalkers actually enter and leave the towns instead of just being static population

i hope they add so they actually have a chance to find artifacts when they do the artifact hunting animation, i saw on reddit someone posting dead NPC stalkers with loot in their inventories, which atleast suggest that they loot eachother in offline mode too, which is super cool

we are so back

[ancient loom]

I’m having issues with scoped rifles. The effective range seems to be much lower. I’m literally shooting across a road can’t be no more than 50 metres in real world distance and the rifle is doing nothing to the enemies lol it’s like putting a high powered scope on potato gun 😂 I don’t remember the Valik lummox being this poor at a relatively close range. I wonder if it’s due to the FPS, where it’s a visual bug. It looks like I’m aiming at their head but because of the poor frames the enemy has moved before it can be rendered 🤷‍♂️ I have had to turn frame gen on because the FPS is all over the place. Maybe it’s a frame gen issue? Has anyone else had a similar issue? I wasn’t a big fan of the gun when I first used it but I could make it work early game. Now it’s best use would be to throw at the enemies 😂

[dense jackal]

Sell them of those they can make you a quick buck

[static compass]

I collect them

[dense jackal]

Weirdo

[hearty compass]

PDA's are the pokemon cards of the zone

[naive goblet]

in the next 6 months this game will be optimized perfectly and be abundant with combat and all its bugs will be fixed

[ancient loom]

I hope your right, although people said that when the game first released 😂

[coarse sparrow]

and then we will wake up

[shut cosmos]

What does be abundant with combat mean?

[coarse sparrow]

there will be a muty or bandit dice roll on every tile

d&d style

[naive goblet]

my ideal vision for this game is that each time you take a step a bandit nearby will notice you and shoot at you

For difficulty purposes

[static compass]

Too crowded at that point

I want a living zone, but not THAT alive

[tired zephyr]

Does anyone know why when i take a headshot the body goes flying?

[static compass]

New bug

[flint oyster]

Your bullets are injecting a lethal dose of helium into their head... thus causing them to take flight

[tired zephyr]

Oh okay thats why, i thought it was a bug but its a feature

[flint oyster]

A mere... Anomoly

[supple wedge]

Not artifacts....?

[zenith creek]

Generally I think the way that bug works is

• getting shot causes slight flinch/knockback
• corpses have minimal weight so you can move the ragdoll
• ragdoll is created before knockback is applied

[shut cosmos]

They already do this 😭

Bro wants it be like launch day stalker 2 hell no

[river minnow]

On my first SOC playthrough rn and I’ve been using the Obokan

Went from the AKM-74/2 to it

The Obokan jams more than it shoots for some reason, even when I burst fire (I use the two shot firing mode thing anyway)

[indigo marsh]

The worse the condition a gun is in the more that gun jams.

[river minnow]

It’s in pretty good shape, not rlly that damaged or anything

Should I just sell it and find another one? Don’t think I can repair things yet if at all

Tired of my gun jamming when there’s a gang of ||bloodsuckers|| trying to kick me in the legs

[topaz rover]

anyone know how to mod?

Is it hard to change color and or texture of armor right now with the SDK?

I would like to change the color of the DLC sircaa armor that you find in burnt forest

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/a/ad/T_IFI_HeavyAnomaly_SIRCA_Armor_upgrade.png/revision/latest?cb=20241206123439

[nimble cipher]

the_silver_salesman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[river minnow]

I saw a bloodsucker kill and eat a man earlier yet I can’t swear

Up yours, stalker

[indigo marsh]

Technicians are added in Clear Sky, so there's no way to repair weapons in vanilla. You can't repair armor without using ||bugs||.

[sly matrix]

You can repair weapons by using bug too

[shut cosmos]

Love SoC but thats genuinely one of the worst parts about the game

The progression is sooooo ass

[indigo marsh]

Really? I thought only armor that could be repaired that way

[sly matrix]

Something about giving your weapon to an NPC and then taking it back

Haven't tried it myself yet

[indigo marsh]

Oh nice

[worthy zodiac]

I didn't. I expected a few years of patches before the "final version"

[worthy zodiac]

There's a difference between a living zone where NPCs spawn with some sense behind it and where the whole population of every faction is accounted for... And whatever we have right now (A spawner that doesn't stop throwing random shіt around you just to entertain you)

[worthy zodiac]

(If they don't drop it, that is)

[shut cosmos]

Why tf does GSC keep changing weapon spawn locations for special weapons?

Hell not even just weapons, theres a couple stashes with armor I saw 1st playthrough and theyre just gone

[worthy zodiac]

Cause the game isn't finished yet and nothing is definitive currently

[tribal portal]

ive only had SOFMOD spawn in different location

[shut cosmos]

Ive had like 4 armors not be where theyre supposed to be

Especially the military armor in cordon is just gone now

[worthy zodiac]

Not gonna lie, I'd like it if we had a randomizer for some special stuff

Because otherwise the game will become like CoP on new playthroughs

[shut cosmos]

I would too especially it too but I hope the game would specify lol

[tribal portal]

maybe they trying to combat people cheating by using interactive map to find stuff early

[shut cosmos]

True

They prevented you from getting the diamond armor early

[tribal portal]

yeah but thats fair ig

literally S tier armor and you could get it after finishing lesser zone

[shut cosmos]

I dont get why they changed why they changed sofmod's spawn

Its literally like 800m from its original location

Idk if this a hot take, but the dnipro, kharod, and the fora. Look ugly af

[tribal portal]

dnipro i can agree with

fora default yes lullaby no

kharod you can make look good with all the attachments

[shut cosmos]

Does the GP have a special variant?

[tribal portal]

nou

[naive goblet]

best free play mods?

[worthy zodiac]

I'd say CotZ for original trilogy (Pretty close to vanilla balance and has lots of cool features without bloat and boring inventory management)

[ripe patrol]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1211

Ekkaia crying right now

its pretty rudimentary tbh, but its a start

[worthy zodiac]

Interesting...

[spiral ether]

yo, is it potentially this’ll be ported to console?

[ripe patrol]

mayhaps.... youll have to ask Ekkaia

[spiral ether]

that’d be awesome if so

[exotic relic]

the devs really need to make it more efficient to get stuff ported to the console mod browser cos at its current pace its a bit of a slog waiting for it all

[dense jackal]

I've been checking every 5 minutes to see if they added anything

[exotic relic]

espeically when some of the mods they actually do roll through are like qol 25/75% when they already have QOL 50 or theyll roll thru something tiny like no player icon on pda

[dense jackal]

My disappointment was high last night

[ripe patrol]

will be added at some point

[hardy bear]

It definitely feels nice to play, but getting some clear sky armour and a good weapon after only 2 missions felt a little quick

[ancient loom]

Has anyone watched the dev tutorial for the mod kit? How does he get the mod browser into the game main menu?

[sly matrix]

#en-mods-general

[ancient loom]

👍

[ancient loom]

Anyone experiencing a weird visual bug when it’s raining? It looks like triangle shapes flashing on screen when raining

[tribal portal]

yeah but only on people

[ancient loom]

When your looking at NPCs? I was in Zalyissa so maybe it is caused by NPCs lol

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, I also had a quickstart once (Vintorez as a reward in the first quest) but even then it kinda balances out with dynamic rewards

[ancient loom]

Just reloading the game fixed it for me

[tribal portal]

ЗА МОНОЛИТ

[lunar shadow]

I love my new god

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[lunar shadow]

[celest blaze]

cotz, stason 6.0.5, legends return, teamlite

[earnest edge]

My friend got me the ultimate edition for my birthday which is coming up on the 19th because my computer stopped working so he wanted to cheer me up. Let’s just say it worked

[lunar shadow]

Aww thats sweet

[empty gorge]

@karmic seal so what is the point in spamming every single reaction slot on gsc answers?

atleast when i used to do it i had some respect to keep room for other reactions instead of posting those

to be expected response

[hazy helm]

what is the point of any reaction tbf?

[empty gorge]

show community feeling, atleast when people did performance related reactions and alife and ps5 we knew thats kinda info they want, now its all positive spam

date for 1.5.1 is not know, people are stuck with hubs, bodies fly to the moon, yet the reactions are hype, party, fire, chad, etc

[zenith creek]

A patch with no release date feels the same as no patch at all. Guess I'll check back at the end of the month

[empty gorge]

it shows off the wrong community feeling by allowing 1 person to dictate what reactions people can reply with, whereas few answers back, there was room for the shitpost reaction and the genuine ones

[dire dagger]

I was gonna purge them

But apparently I can’t

[hazy helm]

if you wanted that then there would only be 2 emojis, a thumbs up and a thumbs down

[dire dagger]

UNLUCKY

[dire dagger]

Tbh not a bad idea

[empty gorge]

thats better

[dire dagger]

[empty gorge]

wht do the reactions for past answers say? its the only way to show some community feeling to an answer

[thick wolf]

you're upset about what emoji people are using now?

[dire dagger]

Or better yet

[empty rock]

Lowkey valid idea

[empty gorge]

its not the what that is used, its the amount overtaking and not allowing room for others

[dire dagger]

🔥 🥶

[empty gorge]

if the answer is about ps5 date unknown, its right to have all reactions be fire and hype?

if the 1.5.1 date thats delayed by 1 week date is not known that very week it should come, does that warrant positive reactions by community only?

leaving no room for a thumbs down perhaps?

[dire dagger]

This is like YouTube commentary

[thick wolf]

I seriously doubt the emoji reactions are the guiding hands for GSC

[dire dagger]

No but he has a point

It’s hard to gauge community feeling about answers

[empty gorge]

oh no its def something they dont look at, its one massive pr channel and right now PR is bussin cus all reactions are good

[dire dagger]

When the responses are total nonsense

[empty gorge]

oh 1.5.1 date unknown in gsc answers? 10 hype reactions

WHAT U HYPING ABOUT BRO ASK YOUR UPDATE

[empty rock]

Btw for the record the person doing this is probably very young

[empty gorge]

i tagged them, they wont explain

[dire dagger]

Okay and

[empty gorge]

atleast if they did like a few okay sure express that

but taking over all reactions so yours are the baseline? even i didnt do that

[empty rock]

What I'm trying to say is they're probably flooding reactions for the sake of flooding reactions

[empty gorge]

it controls the narrative in a way and yes i know it sounds crazy
and yes its totally what they are doing

its like the answers are surrounded by yes men, its all good all the time

[dire dagger]

I mean I’m divided on it’s a nothing burger but also he’s kinda got a point

[empty gorge]

yeah i totally understand but yeah i kinda got a point tbh

like if i spam every comment with PS5/CONSOLE/and some shitpost whats the uses?

[hazy helm]

if youre upset with anything you can talk in the chats and the CMs will read em, tho yhea reactions gauge it faster, shoot a DM to mol1t proposing it to him

[dire dagger]

Yah I’d support that change

[empty gorge]

totally, atleast with thumbs up and down u can gauge the reception of the news

but on the other hand, gsc knows, its not like they announce something like 1.5.1 date unknown and expect hype

but for mainly other users it shows a wrong value of how many people are on board with the news

like if i occassionally check gsc answers and start seeing hype and positive on all i might start thinking this community is hype about pretty much anything

[dire dagger]

Why we all hated when they removed YouTube dislike button

Makes it way harder to gauge community feeling on something

[empty gorge]

i just turned notifications for it back on, its on janex

[dire dagger]

Yah but the thing is

Those plugins don’t work well on controversial videos

[empty gorge]

oh the return dislike? yeah for sure but i meant for gsc answers notifications is on

so time to spam usefull reactions before him next time

[dire dagger]

Ohhhh

[empty rock]

Good luck on your mission

[empty gorge]

oh i used to be the fastest emoji reacter in the west until i turned notifications off cus it was too much pr

[empty rock]

It's alright

I don't check on this server too often overall, I do get up to date on answers to have an idea of s2 updates though

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/nothing-ever-happens-chud-chudjak-soyjak-90-seconds-to-nothing-gif-9277709574191520604

[empty rock]

ehhh

[empty gorge]

see exactly and if someone like u goes to answers they might start thinking what a bunch o simps

[empty rock]

Enough happens in my real life for me to stay entertained in my free time lately

[empty rock]

That's fair

I mean I don't really care about the reactions, I add some every now and then and that's it but it does make perfect sense

[empty rock]

I actually still haven't played 1.5 yet

[dire dagger]

Me neither

Waiting for more substantial content

[empty rock]

Oh I will totally play it at some point but I just don't have time for that lately

[empty gorge]

same

[drifting niche]

Patch?

[dire dagger]

One day we will have fishing one day

[empty gorge]

for me its prob either this summer to rush story so i know endings

and then 2026 dlc 2 or something next playthrough

[drifting niche]

I mean 1.5.1...

[dire dagger]

Patch never

Game is cancelled

[coarse sparrow]

he is excited ig

or maybe he is trying to combat russian flag spammers, who knows, we can only conjecture

[worthy zodiac]

Reactionism

[dire dagger]

Can we get a moist critical reaction on this

[static compass]

https://tenor.com/view/penguinz0-yeah-baby-meme-gif-18635064

[river minnow]

Are gas masks in SoC?

Seeing conflicting stuff online + i haven’t found one yet

Some outfits I’ve picked up have had gas masks on the icon but not on the Marked One’s inventory model

Just want to cover his unfortunate hairline

I’d like one of those funky PBF’s I’ve seen NPC’s wearing

[sly matrix]

Your model gets a gasmask with Berill, Bulat and exoskeletons, your model won't get a gasmask with most other suits

[river minnow]

At least the exoskeletons look pretty cool, heard you can get one in CoP but that’s 2 games away for me so I’ll worry abt that later

[zenith creek]

Gas masks (and by extension lungs) are for wimps

[sly matrix]

You can get exoskeleton in any of the games

[river minnow]

Dude’s got bionic lungs

[zenith creek]

Get a free tattoo with every bionic lung order

[elder shard]

Do mutants not 100% give loot on kill? or is there a specific way to kill them to guarantee loot

[dense jackal]

It's not 100% sometimes you get some loot other times you don't

[shut cosmos]

You know my main criticisms for the game isnt even the bugs or performance lol

Its how bad they messed with the geography to the point where the previous games dont make sense

Especially SoC

[elder beacon]

did they remove the swamps+ emition+ chimera?

[plain minnow]

Well 2’s map is based on the irl geography , don’t think the old games were

[shut cosmos]

No

[elder shard]

Does the sphere still have infinite spawning enemies ?

[elder beacon]

thats odd because i didn't get attacked

[thin locust]

Question: does showing merci on foes in S2 bite me in the ass?

[elder beacon]

the emition only started when i reached the bridge to clear sky base and i didn't get attacked

[thin locust]

I ask because... Watching war footage where UAF took PoW's and when asked if they were tonbe shot the Ukr. soldier answered "we're not like you".
And I felt that. I wish to show the same humanity in game, I just hope it doesn't bite me in the ass.

[shut cosmos]

Its supposed to start right before then

The chimera still spawns but much further away

Ik because when I did rhe last psi installation he spawned in while some boars attacked me and chased the entire 200 meters there

[shut cosmos]

No

[thin locust]

Thank you

[magic coyote]

Question: what did you think of the story of Stalker 2? Taking into account that it’s supposedly one of the most important parts…

[hardy bear]

The overarching theme of the zone being a place that takes the form of what you interpret it to mean I feel was amazing, and viewed through that lens I loved it.

It wasn't a red dead 2 moment or anything, but some moments really hit the spot.

I think for me the 'story' I focused on was the one not necessarily told through words or cutscenes, more... inferred I guess based on common themes that characters both main and secondary share

[shut cosmos]

They did well

[river minnow]

Snorks can jump into an anomaly icl

Why am I getting jumped by 3 of them immediately after entering a new zone

Not complaining tho, game’s fun asf

[shut cosmos]

This game has one of my favorite moments in the series

|| when the monolith is activated once again, the tension is thru the roof and seeing strider trying to fight back ||

[hardy bear]

testing spoiler tags? hehe

[shut cosmos]

Yes lol

|| i dont think I've felt more tension in a game than when theyre fighting to prevent the wish granter from being reactivated and it all falls apart ||

[hardy bear]

but yeah, was gonna say that

just in general though, the idea of the zone being something beautiful just resonates well with me.

The trilogy felt like an exploration of it's direness, 2 feels more like an exploration of how it can be perceived differently

[shut cosmos]

Agreed

[coarse sparrow]

lads, is multiplayer part of this year roadmap?

[hardy bear]

honestly can't remember

[dense jackal]

Honestly without the monolith or mutants I would probably like living there it has a weird sense of beauty

[hardy bear]

Yup

I know some people criticised the visual direction's lack of grease and grime, looking a lot more 'golden' than the brown and moudly look of the trilogy, but I feel that can be considered a purposeful attempt to make the place look more like a death pit and something with some more meaning

[naive goblet]

the most immersive thing about a game is when the game artists spend their time designing culture slang and logical explanation on why things happen in the game

[shut cosmos]

Genuinely hope its not

[dense jackal]

Multiplayer would probably break the game

[shut cosmos]

Real

[dense jackal]

Maybe co-op could work

[shut cosmos]

Only mp i want is coop and thats never happening

[dense jackal]

You're sadly right

[shut cosmos]

A full mp mode like pvp would take too much away from fixing the game imo

[thin locust]

I genuinely thought " Stalker, if that's your home and rest place, you really could tidy up a fair bit" a few times ^^.

[dense jackal]

Co-op would be fun cuz then I could make my friend play hell with me

[shut cosmos]

Real

Plus the game has enough enemies to support coop lol

You have to fight a ridiculous amount of enemies in every mission and even when traveling

[dense jackal]

I'll probably send them off to a place full of bloodsuckers without telling them

[shut cosmos]

Lmfao real

Or hell a freeplay mode and you can play coop lol

I'd prefer a freeplay mode over mp massively

[coarse sparrow]

these are different teams of devs

not the same people working on 1 thing

[dense jackal]

I hope there's a mod for it at least if gsc won't put it in

[shut cosmos]

Yea

Not likely since even anomaly is struggling with coop but itd be dope

[dense jackal]

At least a freeplay mod which also allows us to join a faction would be cool if not better

[hearty compass]

Brothers the blurry ||tired|| overlay at the ||poppy fields|| at the edges of meshes both in hand and in the geometry like houses and such is super pixelated at 1080p, is that just how it looks or is something on my system borked?

[storm kernel]

the game is already peak

[hearty compass]

Do NPCs swap armors yet? or just weapons btw?

[static compass]

Uh, they never have

[hearty compass]

Oh yeah right they didnt do that in the OG trilogy either, just saw a dude i know wearing a new model just now

thats why i was wondering if he equipped it or if the game bugged out and swapped his character model lmao

[arctic perch]

Co-Op would be the way to go.

[winter stump]

Would be, but they're not willing to do it as it somehow violates the spirit of the zone (it doesn't considering they almost always travel in pairs in the book).

Not to mention you literally run into stalkers, bandits, duty, freedom, etc. In groups.

[dire dagger]

there will never be co op

[arctic perch]

Me and my friend have dreamed about co-op stalker game since we played the original back in 2007. Regular MP doesn't interest me or my friend.

[dire dagger]

well im sorry to say

[winter stump]

Also there's a night vision mod on Nexus that's incredible. Makes me wonder why it's taking so long for them to implement it.

[dire dagger]

its been confirmed since 2021

there will never be co op

[worthy zodiac]

Same, tbh. I've never played a mp of original games tho (Cause I didn't have internet at the time when I was playing them stalker games for the first time)

[winter stump]

Freeplay mode as Monolith. Change hostility settings to friendly with Monolith, hostile with everyone else. Add some quests. Ez.

[dire dagger]

how do you play as monolith

if monolith don't have free will

[winter stump]

Roleplay consistently praying, killing everyone else, eating tourists delight. Idk.

[tribal portal]

who needs freewill when they got that drip

[dire dagger]

me cus its not murdering people if i don't have free will

[tribal portal]

we do what the Monolith (C-Con) says

[dire dagger]

but you can't refuse

a decision was not made

[tribal portal]

[winter stump]

I decide to not refuse. I made a decision.

[dire dagger]

they can't refuse though

they are not capable of refusing

[winter stump]

Yes

I am not refusing, it's my decision.

[tribal portal]

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[oak wyvern]

Hey were can a fellow stalker go to vent? I wanna do it here cus people in this discord are the most reasonable ones I've met

Would I be able to do so in offtop?

[tribal portal]

actually true this is like the chillest server i am in

[winter stump]

Stop venting, it's sus.

[oak wyvern]

Bro just casually giving me anime ptsd with a user name

[tribal portal]

I will take you to the moon even if its the last thing i will do

[oak wyvern]

I gotta cus one of the mods on into the radius somehow had a problem with my user handle when every one else was completely fine with it

There's allways that one stuck up mod in every sever EXCEPT this one, idk what it is but the mods here are hela chill

[tribal portal]

truee

they smoke that premium freedom ganja

[oak wyvern]

The one mod, aduilted I think is the handle warned and then immediately perma banned me

[dense jackal]

I would use an among us gif if I could

[winter stump]

Amogus

[tribal portal]

bogus

maybe you should

[oak wyvern]

Sorry

Was on the verge of imploding honestly

It kinda feels like I'll never fit in anywhere lol 😆

[hearty compass]

uh oh youre getting moderated

[zenith creek]

This isn't the mods channel! /j

[winter stump]

Moderate deez nuts

[dense jackal]

Wait what happened?

[dense jackal]

Link Deez nuts

[oak wyvern]

Apparently "911wasaninsidejoblol" as a username and saying "so ice can deport me to norway" when asked about my pfp is considered "insensitive" and that warranted a warning that I was like "ight 👍" too and then 3 secs later an immediate perma ban.

[dense jackal]

Sorry I spit out my water reading the username

[oak wyvern]

I've had that user for months

No issue, even some of the other mods laughed at it

[dense jackal]

God that is pretty funny even as an American

[nimble cipher]

okfineillhaveanormalusername has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dense jackal]

But do be careful tho I think there's a rule about talking about politics in anyway so just letting you know

[oak wyvern]

Really

[dense jackal]

And wolf does that a lot

Can say damn tho

[quick wasp]

Hiiii