⭐┃nospoilers_general

[worn oar]

You won't really get those necessarily from NPCs, that's the thing. Some are unmarked, and some are gained from notes or pdas you find during exploration and such.

[molten void]

o well

[empty echo]

baller

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest blaze]

hope you do aswell king

[prisma goblet]

Why do you spam every channel

[tribal portal]

hacked

or bot account

[zealous pumice]

Someone needs to search this guys hard drive

[vagrant fulcrum]

jumping back in for my second playthrough after 8 months - whats the bibilically accurate mods or mod packs for performance and balance features

i've noticed that the maklanes better zone bpack is not updated for the new patches?

[grave lichen]

Correct, that mod is not up to date. It needs quite a few changes due to the last two major updates. I can't give you a date for when it will be updated, but given the current circumstances, I will wait for Stalker 2 v1.6 before making any further changes. Thank you for your interest

[tiny token]

meow

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/miau-cat-meow-gif-9406008167044251375

[worthy zodiac]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
Here's a little demo. As you can see, I haven't visited red forest but I've got stashes in Prypiat already (As you know, the names of locations only appear when you actually visit them so yeah...)

[ripe patrol]

Hi Maklane*!!

Stupid auto correct

[worn oar]

Yeah my apologies for giving incorrect information.

[worthy zodiac]

I know that feel... Did the same thing too a few times...

[worn oar]

I try to be accurate most of the time. That is why I hedge my language whenever I doubt my knowledge in a certain area. I did say if I'm not mistaken for that very reason

How can we be human without making mistakes yk

Even AI does

[grave lichen]

Hello!

Stupid tenor

what are you cooking, @ripe patrol

[ripe patrol]

Still working on weather stuff. And some house keeping on other mods

Prepping 2.5.0 for DWO which will be a pretty big update

[bleak knot]

https://tenor.com/view/awesome-bicep-muscles-arnold-schwarzenegger-gif-10817666

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/awesome-bicep-muscles-arnold-schwarzenegger-gif-10817666

[vagrant fulcrum]

thanks for touching base about this king! dont worry about an eta - it was an open question to the community asking for recommendations in the meanwhile.

thanks for your work on the mods so soon after release they made the game much more enjoyable x

[simple geode]

wew

[orchid gale]

How’s it going freaks and freakettes

[dense jackal]

I'm on my 4th playthrough of stalker 2 and I'm starting to realize that I need to play a new game soon

[orchid gale]

You tweaking stalker 2 is the only game

[hard sleet]

finally jumping in after waiting forever since launch --- could someone recommend the must-have mods from nexusmods to have for the game?

[orchid gale]

I’ve put 30 hrs in, in 4 days :p

[orchid gale]

I wish I could but I have to sit through 3 ue5 engine crashes before my game finally loads

[dense jackal]

I have a good 386 hours but you'll get there soon fellow stalker

[orchid gale]

Mhmmmm stalker 2, I love it, took a 6 month break or so, came back and it’s gripping me like a girl in the physc ward

[dense jackal]

Best way to describe my autistic interest of that nuclear wasteland that is the zone

[hard sleet]

crashes aside - what mods are a must have

[orchid gale]

Better ballistics and a performance mod

[dense jackal]

I only play on Xbox so I don't know many Nexusmods that isn't in Xbox but there's dynastic bweather overhaul, enhance combat VFX, NPC combat overhaul, better ballistics and better ballistics mutants are for if you want something a little more hardcore without changing too much

[hard sleet]

@dense jackal I see better gunfights - is that the one you're referring too? And i'm curious about the axii stealth fix one as well - not sure if the npcs have laser aim and 0.0ms reaction times

[dense jackal]

It might go by a different name on Nexus but for the mod browser it's called better ballistics but I'm pretty sure that's a different mod and yeah probably should get that stealth fix too I'm sad that it's not on Xbox yet

[orchid gale]

Just get a pc

[dense jackal]

No

[orchid gale]

😔 I’m just trying to help bro out

[dense jackal]

It's against my console religion to get a PC

Also my Xbox one is still kicking so I ain't replacing it just yet its working like a soldier to run my stalker addiction

[orchid gale]

Yeah but think of all the other games you could play with a oc

[dense jackal]

Stalker 2 is the only game out there my friend

[lucid pagoda]

meanwhile (especially as Xbox player) after playing near-daily since launch with 1000+ hours on vanilla, 100% completion, and SDK finally released + good console mods dropping I'm over here feeling like fat(ter) Cartman at the end of Make Love Not Warcraft falling in love with it again like "Now we can finally play the game"

[static pelican]

Can I put a silencer on shah;s mate?

[wraith socket]

Yes

[fading stone]

is there actaully bandits roaming around the world now or do they still just spawn in front of you?

[static pelican]

Okay cool, I bought a pistol suppressor thinking it'd work but it doesn't

[worthy zodiac]

Currently my understanding is this: NPCs keep spawning near your 100 radius bubble but after that they just start lurking around until they die to something. So yeah, you'll see some bandits roaming here and there but most of them encounters will feel "spawned-in near you and forced onto you" (At least that's how I feel currently). They don't spawn right in your face tho, like it was before

[wraith socket]

There are silencers and suppressors. Each one will tell you what it works on. Some weapons require mechanic upgrades for using them.
Don't buy a silencer or suppressor if its description does not apply to the rifle or pistol you are wanting it to fit on.

[fading stone]

thank you, may have to give it another go. Game was so empty before. Just running from mission to mission almost hoping something spawns so there's something to do

[worthy zodiac]

Ah, if you are worried about having something to fight - worry not. In that sense the game might feel "too alive" sometimes, lol

[fading stone]

Awesome! thank you

[worn oar]

[nimble cipher]

_thegerm_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[static pelican]

what a legend. I bought the pistol suppressor not the silencer. cheer man, thank you for showing me 😄

on a side note, seems silly I can't use the dreaded f-word on the discord server for a game the has the f-word in it as well as an M rating. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[wraith socket]

It's just Wolf. He likes to keep it clean here.

I'm glad you found the silencer you were looking for.

[static pelican]

wolf is an 'r-word' that would never last in the zone 😂

[static pelican]

Not yet! I'm running from swamps to duga for a SEVA. Marginally better than SSP-99M but I'll take the extra psi

[wraith socket]

Which SEVA are you looking for?

[static pelican]

SEVA-I

From what I've read theres one in Arms Depot

[wraith socket]

Good Luck.

[static pelican]

I'll let you know. Only died once getting an artifact at helicopter base. But I got it.

[wraith socket]

I've died a lot. I'm still on my first game, but I've been playing it for almost 8 months.

[static pelican]

My death count is like 48 rn on stalker. 24hrs in game. But I played a bit of shadow of chernobyl and a ton of gamma

[wraith socket]

These are all the pre-upgraded stats.

[static pelican]

the D looks best but the I is what I'm after!

[wraith socket]

I think the SEVA-V is better than the SEVA-D because it has two shielded artifact slots compared to one on the SEVA-D.
To me that's more valuable than the slightly better Psi Protection of the SEVA-D. The SEVA-V has really good rad protection.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[static pelican]

damn, the V looks way better on the rad. but I'm locked in

[wraith socket]

I just upgrade and compare all the weapons and armors that I find and buy.
If I don't like the upgrades, I return to a manual save before I spent the coupons.

[wraith socket]

All the upgrades I could do.

You can see the two shielded artifact slots on the SEVA-V, compared to the one on the SEVA-D.

[static pelican]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh spent all this time trying to upload the dead burer at my feet(he hates f1s) but I'm on linux and everything sucks

V totally seems better

but let me get this I and max it out

[wraith socket]

I've just stuck with Microsoft all these years because it works best for gaming. However, I'm still using Windows 10.

[worthy zodiac]

What do you mean? I'm also using linux and have no issues at all... (with stalker 2, that is)

[static pelican]

KDE just forced me to wayland and drag and drop from dolphin(file manager) to discord(AUR package) doesn't work

The whole wayland thing is a steaming pile of garbage

[static pelican]

I've been on Arch Linux(have to tell you that) as my main for almost 7 years. It's been great for the most part. Little hiccups here and there but it's pretty much one to one fps wise

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, I'm still using X11 currently... But I don't remember having these issues on wayland either. Don't forget that we, mortal ones, don't have a permission to upload pics in this channel

[static pelican]

LOLOLOLOLOL I joined the server today and it won't let me say the fword. Not sure what I was expecting. Ya, keep x11, it's far more mature. BC I'm bleeding edge on everything I got forced into wayland. I can switch over to x11libre but I've just been lazy.

I love how I dumpster burer but the game decides to spawn 7+ heavy dudes who hate me -_-

Gonna have to dumpster the burer again

[worthy zodiac]

I want to switch to wayland in the future because, even tho it lacks some features, it's a smoother experience overall. Currently on kubuntu 25 and I'm just switching between them from time to time

But yeah, X11 is simply better cause most stuff was made for it specifically

[sly matrix]

What lab is X11 again?

[worthy zodiac]

I don't remember anything like X-11 in original trilogy and if it is in HoC – I haven't got there yet

[sly matrix]

Then why ya'll keep going on about it?

[worthy zodiac]

We, linuxoids, have got our own X11...

[static pelican]

X-11, literally the best lab ever

[sly matrix]

Linux is the group?

Didn't see that coming

[worthy zodiac]

Very niche one

[static pelican]

Even gamma runs on x11

[worthy zodiac]

We are like "sin" or something, you'll never meet us in game itself

[sly matrix]

Also, apparently X11 is under SIRCAA

[static pelican]

No we're masochists

[sly matrix]

Where the thing happens

[static pelican]

Just like SIRCAA

[worthy zodiac]

So far my experience is unironically better than on windows... But that's probably because I don't actually have to do any sort of work on PC, I'm using it just for media and browsing mostly, some simple doc/image/vid editing here and there too

[worthy zodiac]

Ah, so if I'm past SIRCAA then I've been there already, right?

[sly matrix]

Yeah

[worthy zodiac]

Got it, got it

[static pelican]

As far as day to day, arch is fit for purpose. Plays all the stalker games(GAMMA) with a little finagling. But I run a wangblows shop so I forced into running win10 on some machines

HoC runs great on wayland but if you've got multiple monitors with different refresh rates, it goes to the lowest refresh rate of the group

[static pelican]

Sucks having to reload a past save after killing burer bc the game wants to spawn 8+ dudes all around me on saves after killing him

[sly matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/544757291682103300/1397190541900513421/pop_cat_glorp.gif

[static pelican]

@wraith socket @sly matrix what are you guys running? Windows 10 I hope?

[sly matrix]

Aye

It's the most tolerable still (semi-)available

[wraith socket]

Windows 95 > Windows 98 > Windows 98 Plus > Windows XP > Windows 7 > Windows 10.

[static pelican]

XP is the 2nd best.

But running windows is like loading a save and theres 7 dogs around you

[wraith socket]

You may have noticed, there were several Windows versions I skipped. Those were the dogs.

[static pelican]

ME, 8, oh I noticed

Windows had some hits. 7 was it, 10 was kinda

with 10 I jumped ship, sry you can't just install programs on my computer with out me doing so

[wraith socket]

I'm hoping Windows 12 will let me skip 11.

[worthy zodiac]

I've jumped like 15 months ago or something like that. Hope more people will do that too. The more people will jump ||out of windows|| ship – the more feedback and contributors linux will have...
Not my first time trying to start using linux but nowadays it has gotten pretty good for people like me

Not very techy kind of people, I mean

[static pelican]

Steam + Proton is an amazing experience.

[analog helm]

I miss Windows Vista soo much! Infinite boot times, fancy desktop widgets, and Frutiger Aero aesthetics...

[static pelican]

Been running linux + proton for almost 10 years now and so long as it's not COD typw anti cheat, it just works

[static pelican]

Vista was peak windows aesthetics

ahhh, I just convinced some loners to fight the burer for me LOLOLOLOL

This game is good

[worthy zodiac]

Funnily enough, I can run all the modern stuff with modern graphics with no problems at all... But then you try to play a game that looks like quake and it just won't give you a good fps. Like HROT, for example, which has a particle system that makes nvidia cards suffer on linux, for some reason...

(Works just fine on amd cards tho, funnily enough)

[static pelican]

The deepest of cuts

Oh wait, it's new game lol

"The developer used his own proprietary engine, programmed in Pascal" There you go

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, it's because of that, mostly. Cause all the games that are more or less popular or use a popular engine work just fine. Most of niche stuff works just fine too... Guess that game is too niche for nvidia users on linux, currently... Anyways

I've tested hundreds of other games during these 15 months and so far I had issues with 4, maybe 5 of them (except for games with anticheat systems like the ones found in fortnite/LoL/etc, obviously)

I can sacrifice HROT in exchange for "staying away from windows"........

Stalker 2, funnily enough, feels like it works even better on linux than on windows. Not sure because I didn't compare numbers directly but it feels a little bit smoother

[static pelican]

Ya, that's been my experience too, I dual booted for seige, bf4, cod, etc. But 95% of what I want to play now just works*tm

stalker 2 runs out of the box a linux, don't even need to mess with compatibility settings(thank you gaben)

I havent compared the fps on windows vs linux on my rig for HoC, I'm getting a smooth ~100 fps

@wraith socket SEVA-I acquired

[wraith socket]

Alright. Let me know how you like the upgrades.

[ripe patrol]

Bruh

[thick wolf]

I'm curious, how many hours ya got in Stalker 2 @wraith socket ?

[sly matrix]

The answer to that question is "yes"

[finite dragon]

they really need to fix their game, it's almost unplayable even on higher end gpus and cpus

[candid plaza]

x to doubt im getting 200+ fps on dlaa and everything epic on x3 fg

[celest blaze]

try turning all that off and running max native

of course you're getting 200+ fps when you're generating 3 times the fake frames lol

[candid plaza]

dlaa is better than native

[celest blaze]

Native all the way lol

[wise geyser]

Ngl had to check my own when I saw this

I got 10 days and 16 hours and 17 mins

Still haven’t beaten the game…

But every update and big patch I come back and prob drop a good 2 days and then delete the save at like garbage ain’t going past that point yet

Gonna wait until the game gets its additions and feels full of what the devs plan for it

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[pseudo rivet]

You too Ranjid, your dedication to wishing everyone a good day is commendable

[zinc apex]

He will never reply tho

[pseudo rivet]

Bet

[zinc apex]

[flat ravine]

Hey Is it worth downloading Stalker 2 after the update?

I know that the last update for Stalker was on July 9th.

[worthy zodiac]

Nah, the last one was July 24th... But it's such a small update that might as well say that it doesn't exist, lol

[worthy zodiac]

It depends on your expectations. In short: the game isn't finished yet

It's much better than it was on release: the mutants aren't as spongy anymore, most softlocks and crashes were fixed, we've got staged reloads (Now if you interrupt the reloading animation it will continue from where you stopped it instead of starting from the very beginning), we've got mutant loot, NPCs are persistent now and don't despawn as soon as you move away from them... But there are many issues: AI is still clunky, too many NPCs spawn around you (And it still spawns everything around you, just a little bit farther than 100 meters so you don't see them stalkers and mutants pop up right in your face), there are still some bugs here and there (some of them can softlock your sidequests, I also heard there are still some softlocks that lock you out from the main quest), the performance is still more or less on the same level as it was on the release....

[reef raptor]

wish I could wipe my memory since I played it on launch so my first experience was the mess it used to be 💔

[ripe thorn]

But without that experience you won't be able to appreciate all the improvements that were and will be made

Also replaying the trilogy made me realize how huge S2 actually is

[reef raptor]

true, but experiencing the story on launch was really rough.. and well, I cant experience the story for the first time again in a polished state

[ripe thorn]

I actually haven't had main story problems on launch weridlly enough, except being unable to enter that one bunker, you know the one

But had plenty of bugs and awfull stuttering in towns which is gone by now thankfully

[reef raptor]

mhm! I had a game breaking bug which fully soft locked the game, and the devs never made it a retroactive bug fix so I needed to wipe my 50 hour save and I was half way through the story :/

[ripe thorn]

Still, as much as I'm shill for stalker, the game still need a year in the oven

[reef raptor]

agreed

[ripe thorn]

The core gameplay is there but by god it needs more polish than entire population of Poland

[reef raptor]

[ripe thorn]

And also all of the cut content
So every zone is like Zalissya

[reef raptor]

oh yea the cut content.. ouch

[ripe thorn]

I mean even such things as ability to carry bodies, used once, never used again

Some quest to carry passed out scientist while fending off mutants would've been neat

[reef raptor]

good idea tbh

[ripe thorn]

Playing the trilogy I noticed several things that I never realized were there
Like minimap
Which is gamey, but it makes reading the situation that much easier

Also, sadly this size of the map needs more systems so player has something to do except for hoarding

Like I played CS and it's way smaller but even then I found myself wanting more

But also CS had way less food and medkits so you actually value them and even buy them in some places

[worthy zodiac]

True. But I'm not sure if we'll get anything special at this point

If we ignore main/side quests then, in the end, it looks like it'll be just a game about hoarding stuff. Sometimes it'll spawn some NPCs that have no goals and just walk around aimlessly, giving you something to shoot here and there... Doubt we'll have some complex systems that are very fun to interact with...

[ripe thorn]

Tbf I can't really think of system that will be a fit without turning it into Ubisoft style slop

Like mutant hunting can and probably will be expanded with Gonta's questline

As for npcs, it feels like loners duty and freedom are just one faction called stalkers at this point

They just have no aims narratively

Spark is barely there, ward is everywhere with dutyesque goals

Bandits are expanded in theory but idk, they are just meh compared to charm and colorfulness of CS bandits

They are toothless it feels like

Corps have no personality whatsoever

Like their biggest persona is a somewhat grumpy technician

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, A-Life system can be as advanced as you want it, really. They can make a dynamic system that changes the way the Zone repopulates because of your actions (the more pois of a given faction you've cleared out – the less of them you'll see in the world). They can make NPCs actually loot artifacts so you could get them from them after blowouts (and if they'll get to the traider before you get to them – the artifact will be gone). You can add some generic faction quests that would involve doing something against other factions thus changing your reputation with different factions. Assassination quests could be targetted at actual A-Life NPCs around the WHOLE map, not just "clear out a static camp that has been spawned as soon as you took the questz in the same region"...

And yeah, they could make different NPCs do actually different things

[ripe thorn]

But what are the incentives to do so
Some really cool gear locked behind high faction rep maybe
Additional story would've been mine preference

[worthy zodiac]

Like, make mercs actually headhunting for some specific stalkers, maybe even give the player the ability to find out who's being targeted rn so you could try and protect them. You could make duty actually hunting for mutants and not caring about artifacts or anything like that, etc

[ripe thorn]

Oh, yea, I forgot that the mercs are a faction

They always been like
Generic goon number 3, and Scar doesn't feel like a Merc in his game

[worthy zodiac]

The most important incentive is to have fun. If they'll make a system that is fun to interact with you won't need a "real" reward like loot or anything. The "adventure" and the interaction itself will be the reward, if you know what I mean

[ripe thorn]

Yea, I do, the experience of experiencing

[worthy zodiac]

Like... Throwing a bolt at a window with a glass doesn't give you anything but I bet all of us have done that a few times, lol

Same goes for these complex systems (just a bigger, different type of fun)

[ripe thorn]

I wish enemies switched to handguns sometimes

Just to feel like they also can run out of ammo

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, the actual mechanic of them running out of ammo would be really cool too

[ripe thorn]

Or react to combat situation, like if their primary is a sniper rifle they switch to pistol when the dog is biting their duty

[ripe thorn]

But then you need to make them smarter so they don't just shoot the cover all the time

[worthy zodiac]

The fear mechanic would be great to have too. You know, when you kill 5 stalkers and there's only one left: make him flee, make him give up and throw his weapon on the floor, make him kill himself if it's a guy from monolith, etc

[worthy zodiac]

Of course!

[ripe thorn]

Actually there was a precedent

But that was scripted, in CS the stalkers near bridge surrender if you kill enough of them

Also npcs should have an ability to go prone if combat situation calls for it

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah. Basically, the devs need to make NPCs interesting to fight and interesting to interact with

It's a shame that all the factions are still just a reskin of each other at their core

And they don't really have different behaviors

Imagine how cool would it be to find out that mercs can roll around, coordinate, prone, take better covers and not spend their ammunition on your covers compared to bandits that are straight forward, don't use any tactics and just run at you gun blazing

(Combine it with the mechanic of running out of ammo too)

[ripe thorn]

Also they can surrender if they run out of ammo

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah. Many things can be done to make everything more interesting

[ripe thorn]

But that requires such good AI that idk if it's achievable

[worthy zodiac]

Eh, lots of these things were done in many games already

Including mods for original stalker games

[ripe thorn]

At this point we are struggling for npcs not to block doors and not to spawn in the air like some multi handed monstrosity

[dire dagger]

Need I remind you guys

[ripe thorn]

Not human npc related, but why there is literally 0 bloodsuckers in the red forest, a place known for it bloodsucking population?

[dire dagger]

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

[ripe thorn]

We are having late night copium huffing session

[dire dagger]

Fair enough

[ripe thorn]

So far previous patch was about a door

A door that worked fine before 1.5 and then got rusted and stuck in 1.5

[tawny comet]

Far Cry 2 used to drag injured enemies to safety if I remember correctly

[ripe thorn]

Such a great game actually

I still remember booting that and being in awe

But also I remember tedium of getting malaria pills and checkpoints respawning like the enemies hired C-con teleportation technology

And that fire spreading technology was goated

[worthy zodiac]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I had an interesting encounter today, actually (first time visiting that place too)

[worthy zodiac]

Oh yeah, that one had many cool mechanics. I just wish it didn't spawn millions of enemies all over the place, couldn't rest for more than 30 seconds without somebody shooting at you

[wraith socket]

I've seen that in other places too, since the 1.5 patch.

[velvet yew]

I think they got killed by all the Snorks, 'cause I very quickly got that Snork Vertebra quota filled for Dr Lady at Malachite

[velvet yew]

Yeah, her. I mean, I don't think any mutants would survive if she left the facility, those guns behind her are actually hers

[wraith socket]

Viktoria is a lot more pleasant than Harpy.

[velvet yew]

Miss Viktoria is not a cruel entity, she is simply all-powerful. Should she be relieved from Malachite, she could conquer the Zone in less time than it takes to compile shader pipeline

[flint cliff]

Hi, how is it possible that in the game there isn't a list of all the blueprints found necessary for modifying weapons? How do I know what weapon it's for after I find it?

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[wraith socket]

I could answer that question but since you chose to post this in the NO SPOILERS channel, I can't.

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorpdrive-drive-glorp-drive-charborg-gif-5783026409085825543

[flint cliff]

Why? Would the answer be a spoiler?

[wraith socket]

I can give you a list but it comes with all the locations too.

[wraith socket]

I sent you a DM with the answers.

[flint cliff]

Thanks but I also don't want spoilers. I didn't explain myself, I didn't want the list of locations, but I wanted to know why the game, when you find a blueprint, doesn't tell you which weapon it's used for.

[ripe thorn]

For me it's tushkans all day every day

[wraith socket]

Are you on an X-Box?

[worthy zodiac]

Does it matter? I'm on PC and I couldn't find a list of blueprints either (the ones that I've already found)

Feels like Skif just eats them

Cause they simply disappear and never show up anywhere

[wraith socket]

This is what I was trying to answer "How do I know what weapon it's for after I find it?"

[worthy zodiac]

It's not just this that bothers me. I just don't have a good memory for little collectibles like that. Like... I don't even remember what blueprint did I find a few hours ago, generally. It would be good to have an additional tab somewhere in the inventory with the list of all the blueprints you've found

[flint cliff]

Yes

[wraith socket]

Not trying to dis X-Box, I just don't know how it works.
With a PC and mouse you can hover over things that tell you more.

[flint cliff]

On PC, does the game keep track of all the blueprints you've found? Is there a list of all the blueprints you've found? I've been playing on PC for a few hours now, and I've never seen the list.

[wraith socket]

You're asking two things. Is there a list? How do I know what each item goes to which weapon?
I was answering the second one. Searches on the internet list them but with the locations.

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I wish you all a good day be well

[dire dagger]

https://youtube.com/shorts/9HYG_oI8iS8?feature=shared

[zinc apex]

Can't stop playing stalker 2 guys. What should I do?

[thick wolf]

Play Stalker The Board Game

[fiery jungle]

how is alife now¿?

[lucid pagoda]

The major improvements to offline A-life as of 1.5 can be found in this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=je-VV87hJKg though I recommend using one of the Shay living Zone mods to further improve your experience and do take note, we are still currently limited to 100m player bubble for online/offline a-life rendering

[lucid pagoda]

and NPC online/combat AI got a nice improvement in 1.4, details from about 2-8 minutes in on this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hM0Uv0yHAxY&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB

[magic root]

in general we have improvements,but after 1.5 a lot of bugs with ai

[worthy zodiac]

NPCs don't despawn anymore if you move away from them and they also move in offline mode (aimlessly mostly) but the way they spawn is dumb: too many of them in the same spots + the game keeps spawning stuff near the player creating very fake scenarios. For example, you can follow an empty road then turn around and that same empty road can become populated with two different factions fighting each other: boom, the immersion is broken

Still, for me personally the game has become playable after 1.5

[magic coyote]

Interestingly, if you go far enough out of range and then return, the offline mode will also affect the state the NPCs were in, often causing them to stop shooting, and most of the time, many of them disappear without following a realistic objective. Rarely do you encounter an NPC again

or at least, I’ve never seen one again.

[hollow citrus]

that ai spawn scenario has never happened to me within my 6 day save. No mods apart from disable auto lean. YMMV

[worthy zodiac]

Happened to me a few times on Cordon, between the farm and the northern checkpoint

And a few more times in some other places too

[worthy zodiac]

I've encountered a few but yeah, can't say for sure what's actually going on. Maybe they get killed off in offline mode, maybe they actually just despawn and only "some" npcs are staying offline forever just to maintain the illusion. Wish we had some kind of tools to monitor NPC status on the map, like in Clear Sky or Anomaly

(I also wish we had more systems to interact with A-Life itself)

[magic coyote]

At this point, I'm not interested in a life system. It makes no sense to look for a system like a life when artificial intelligence still leaves much to be desired.

As much as I love a Life, I'd prefer my battles against NPCs to be at least on par with Far Cry 3...

[hollow citrus]

how do you mean? I havent played farcry 3 since release

[magic coyote]

I mean that it should at least be on par with a PS3 game. (AT LEAST)

[hollow citrus]

lol i think people are exaggerating on how bad the ai is

if you've played tarkov then you can know what to expect from the ai

[magic coyote]

Well, mine are blind. They don't react indoors when they see me or hear the sound of a fully automatic AK. They often seem like inert NPCs

[magic coyote]

i have 2k h brhuu

[worthy zodiac]

Combat AI and A-Life are pretty different things that aren't really connected to each other. To make one system good the other one doesn't need to be good. But it's true that most people care about combat AI more than A-Life, unfortunately for me

(I also care about combat AI, don't get me wrong)

[magic coyote]

I simply don't see the point in focusing on the life system when the battles are repetitive and boring.

it's like building a house upside down

[hollow citrus]

imo, the ai works very similarly to tarkov ai. Its just that the ai in this game has more aim lock but getting shot at is less punishing

[magic coyote]

You must not have played Tarkov recently, brhu.

[hollow citrus]

yeah i skipped like last two wipes, but ive got around 4k hours

[magic coyote]

Well, there are going to be PMC NPCs that alone explains everything. Plus, they've increased aggression, and now they even hide from you unless they're Rogues, to attack you more silently without speaking

[hollow citrus]

lol i never messed with the pve stuff really, but the ai in this game is not as bad as people claim imo

[magic coyote]

I actually think the opposite the fact that a 13-year-old game is on your level, and in many cases has better AI reactions, puts you in a bad spot

[hollow citrus]

hmm its alright. Maybe my expectations are different? I dont see this as a tactical shooter really. Its an open world adventure game with tac shooter inspired elements

[magic coyote]

It's an offline, single-player shooter, and the enemies are basically deaf they don't react properly, shoot in full-auto with sawn-off shotguns from a distance instead of getting closer, and they can't even move indoors without getting lost

[hollow citrus]

I dont have that issue with ai getting lost indoors, nor do i notice them not being able to detect me properly

[magic coyote]

Like we weren’t all expecting something better before release. brhu

[worthy zodiac]

I get that you care about combat AI more than A-Life systems, no need to repeat yourself. Have you played Mount and Blade? Basically, it has a similar concept: it has two different parts that don't really interact with each other and some players love the game because of one part, others love it because of the other one (lots of people love it because of both, of course). I'm talking about real time battles and global map gameplay, yeah. Would global map gameplay become worse if there weren't real time battles in that game? Could people still have fun with all the systems that the game has to offer on the global map? I think they could. Same goes for me with A-Life - if we'd have some cool systems I'd still have fun with them even if the combat AI doesn't change from the current state. For me it's just two different parts that have very little to do with each other + there are like millions of games with nice combat while 0 fps games in openworld that try to create something similar to A-Life. You can always go, let's say, to Tarkov or something. Maybe even something like F.E.A.R. or something, I dunno, lol. Hope you understand what I mean

[hollow citrus]

my main gripe were how the spawns acted on release. They've mainly addressed this. Its still not enough to make the game a true sandbox, but its enough for an open world story driven single player game

[magic coyote]

People have just gradually lowered their expectations for this title over the months, until they’re satisfied with whatever they get.

[worthy zodiac]

I have these issues all the time too

[magic coyote]

I completely understand, but I still think everything needs to be worked on in a certain order. A-Life intrinsically depends on the AI behaving at least somewhat believably to create that feeling of life we enjoyed in the classic STALKER games.

How to put it... STALKER 2 isn’t like Skyrim, where the AI can be a bit dumb but you can still enjoy the game. At least for me, it pulls me right out of the experience

[hollow citrus]

thats the thing tho, Im not experiencing the issues you mentioned with the AI. When indoors, they will often flank and check my last seen location

[magic coyote]

With STALKER 2, we’ve been dealing with this for months the ‘it doesn’t happen to me’ I'd rather hear 'it usually doesn’t happen to anyone,' honestly. We’re basically in a beta, or at least that’s how it feels.

[hollow citrus]

well, we are comparing anecdotal experiences. So, what can you expect 🤷

[magic coyote]

I don’t think these are just isolated anecdotes.

[worthy zodiac]

Like, I even made two funny vids of NPCs being stuck in them doors, you can check it out if you want:
#📸┃screens_and_videos message
#📸┃screens_and_videos message
Here's one for bloodsuckers being weird:
#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I also had a vid of "stealthily" clearing the entire camp without using knives and silencers, I did it with my mosin nagant cause bandits couldn't care less about all the noise I make as long as I don't miss my "stealth" shots but I didn't upload it anywhere in the end and it's lost now. Bet I can recreate it some time later

[magic coyote]

At this rate, I’ll just wait for Dezowave to release STALKER 2 2011 Lost Alpha in 2030 XD

[worthy zodiac]

Also, there were many situations that happened to me and I didn't record them in time

[magic coyote]

it’s incredible how they lied to me with this game it’s surreal.

"And to think that a community manager once told me right at the last delay of the game:
'As you’ll see in the "Deep Dive" video and in our upcoming announcements, the game is turning out just as we imagined. All our effort is now focused on the final quality of the experience. That’s why we set the release date for November 20, 2024

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, deep dive vid was... Weird

Almost like they were mocking us (And I mean... I've preordered the game so I get what I deserve, I guess)

I still hope that they won't drop the ball but I fear that they'll just suddenly stop releasing new updates and we'll get a radio silence or something

And then everybody will forget about it and move on

Cause the amount of work they need to do (for stuff that not a lot of people care that much, realistically) - is still massive

[magic coyote]

This game is so politically tied that if they ever decide to stop updating it, they’ll probably be able to do so without any problem.

[worthy zodiac]

I mean, even if it wouldn't - what would the players do, lol

It kinda worked with cyberpunk because it got very poor reviews on the release. Stalker 2 would have many positive ones no matter what, simply because it's stalker

[magic coyote]

Nothing, if that’s the case it’s just plain sad.

They’re already calling negative reviews 'Russian reviews' and asking content creators to speak positively about the game what more can I even expect at this point

I just hope they at least optimize it, so my fellow Latin American players who spent their savings to buy this game can finally experience what it’s supposed to feel like.

[worthy zodiac]

Let's see what they've got for Q3

(If we'll get that map before Q3 ends, of course, lol)

(There's no point in the roadmaps if we get them at the end of the roads...)

[magic coyote]

It’s like my student scholarship they give it to me once I’ve already finished university.

[gritty knot]

[ripe thorn]

So far they are contemplating 1.5.3 i guess to get rid of most presistent current bugs

[tribal portal]

and add more bugs

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[magic root]

1.6:
Fixed 100 bugs
Added 50 more to fix later

[empty echo]

Slugs actually more effective against exos than buckshot? If so, how much more effective?

[ripe thorn]

That's how it goes

I hope that 1.6 will be nightvision googles and master difficulty
That cuts all the loot like to 25% of what we have on veteran

[magic root]

Im also hope for smth like this to finish game 1 more time for last ending

[ripe thorn]

Also if they finish couple of questlines, like hunter questline that is sneakingly mentioned in game files each patch

[tribal portal]

1 shot to the head

[empty echo]

what's the range like? also, that's a worthy improvement

[silver raptor]

It is disappointing how this game released. GSC removing A-Life 2.0 description on Steam was extremely shady and the excuses they gave to a reporter was laughable. “The new guys accidentally deleted it”.

Let’s see how 1.6 goes for combat AI and A-Life, but it’s not looking great.

I love S2, but she’s rough.

[tribal portal]

idk like 100m or something the usual AR engagement distance

[empty echo]

Not bad

[tribal portal]

Saiga full of slugs eats monolith for breakfast

[exotic relic]

for some reason 1 whole buckshot to the face point blank can't 1 shot exos

[tribal portal]

armor

buckshot is for hunting and defence

those pellets cant penetrate too much

[exotic relic]

i shot a monolithian straight thru the visor of his exosuit and he tanked it

[molten void]

So does anyone use weight artifacts (that isn't werid water)?

[ripe thorn]

Yes, nightstar in particular
Weird water is for when you're lugging stuff to the base and need that extra kilos

[thick wolf]

58 hours in my playthrough and I literally just got to the Cordon last night lol. This game is massive

[dawn sedge]

i played about 38h when i go out from Lesser Zona first time 😉

[thick wolf]

That's wild! I've been to other areas as well, most of the center of the map over to Zaton but haven't gone into the swamp yet. I had some side quests in the lesser zone to wrap up and then found the path to the cordon. I love stalker so much

[dawn sedge]

That game is awesome with its huge world and locations... last fraction that i discovered their base was Duty - it was after about 150 - 170 hours of playing 🤣

[warm moon]

Stealth work properly? If i snipe someone 300 yards away with a suppressed rifle will it still notify every enemy not in viewing or hearing distance?

[lucid pagoda]

Enemies won't be rendered beyond 100m out lol

muh crippled A-Life bubble

[warm moon]

But does the jedi “i detect a death in the force” still occur?

[storm kernel]

im like 120 hours and im almost at point of no return

[worthy zodiac]

I'd say it's other way around now: sometimes the enemies don't care if you kill them with guns without suppressors (as long as you make one tap kills without missing)
I really need to make a vid demonstrating how silly it is, lol

I've got my achievement for clearing out the whole camp "stealthily" by using my mosin nagant and all of the guys were in one building

So yeah...

[warm moon]

Thats awesome i love stealth but back in September was impossible to do.

[worthy zodiac]

No, I mean... The NPCs are kinda deaf now, sometimes. They SHOULD investigate the noise if you make a lot of it (like shooting that mosin inside of the building, lol). But yeah, stealth is possible now

[warm moon]

Yeah it was bad before like Vulcan hearing levels of how can you hear that suppressed weapon

[reef raptor]

@lusty void says "No Access" lol #🤨┃stalker_memes message

[lusty void]

Oh, okay. I'll ask the managers about that in the morning

[reef raptor]

alrighty!

[tight sapphire]

I miss the pda chatter, it made the world feel so much more alive

[worn oar]

Yeah

[lusty void]

I understand. Don't Push the Horses. Access is granted upon reaching Veteran level.

[reef raptor]

guh only 7 levels to go

[worthy zodiac]

The only vanilla stalker game that had something close to it was Clear Sky and the NPCs didn't really chat in there, they just notified you if their camp was under attack or something like that...

I always thought that this system was weird in all the mods that implement it. It doesn't make sense for stalkers to share what are they doing, what do they see and where they are rn.

[hazy helm]

What are we doing

[reef raptor]

wahuh

[tight sapphire]

Maybe ive played too much gamma and im just misremembering but yeah some of the interactions are really dumb like "I heard someone melee in Garbage"

[empty echo]

Just got lossless scaling, anyone getting good results with it or do I not know what I'm doing? Playing on a mobile 4060

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorpdrive-drive-glorp-drive-charborg-gif-5783026409085825543

[empty echo]

Oh, yeah ok that makes sense
Thanks for the help guys
:D

[tribal portal]

why tho you got dlss and fg on 40 series

[empty echo]

I was curious, seen lots of ppl talking about how its almost a holy grail, besides it was 10 bucks and I can use it for my older laptop too

So far I've got no better results than yes, "latest" dlss setting in the nvidia app

[tribal portal]

i tried it for me it causes performance to be worse

and i got a 3090ti

[dim topaz]

For me it's more like I shoot once and then every NPC gains the telepathic ability to know where I am at all times.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[upper adder]

Same

[worthy zodiac]

It happens to me when I miss, yes

[exotic relic]

550w power draw just to be in line with a 4070 ti running at 280w 🥀

I'm pretty sure I could OC 4070 super to match it at like 220-240w

[tribal portal]

450 smh

[exotic relic]

some AIBs raised the PLs to 530-550w

450w is just based on founders although "usually" most cards don't get their PLs raised by third parties by such an exceptional amount

[tribal portal]

mine doesn't go above 430w

[tropic sequoia]

Hi

[exotic relic]

which aib is it

[edgy notch]

anyone here still waiting for Gamelegends to finally ship the Collectors editions, like me?
i have seen that people recommend to cancel and get my money back, but i wanted to wait

[dire dagger]

It’s too late to cancel

It won’t come till April 2026

[edgy notch]

Meh
Now i have to wait.

By the time it arrives, i am propably not able to play S2 anymore. Its now already pretty bugged out XD

[unreal raptor]

same timeline as this roadmap

[dire dagger]

Yah same day the game should have launched

[pearl sentinel]

hey does anyone want to talk while playing

[hollow pelican]

why are there so many dead body in brai scorcher

in malachite

[reef raptor]

april 2026?! SHEESH! thats a long while haha

[dire dagger]

Yup

[exotic relic]

brain scorched

if you mean actually lootable NPCs and not environmental storytelling corpses then thats prolly just A life being wacky

[hollow pelican]

20-30 people died there with 30 rounds for free

[naive quest]

I canceled mine the moment they announced the delay 💀 got the game for free pretty much

[mint helm]

Yeah I saw that .Think they stay there ?I have Farmed them twice now..

[oak rock]

Eny news about fps issues in town ? Bcs come on Ryzen 5600 32 gb ram 3600 cl18 and rx 9060xt 16 gb ? I should be playing ultra 100 fps not just 60-70 fps in high setting

[dire dagger]

You tripping if you think that bruh

[grim rivet]

Mid range rig for modern ultra demanding and unoptimized ue5 game ultra 100fps 😂🫵

[dire dagger]

My 9070 xt and 7950x3d can barely managed that on high

[lost stream]

hey , i have problem with upgrade game on steam

[static compass]

?

[naive quest]

U can't upgrade ur edition if that's what ur asking

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/glorp-glorpdrive-drive-glorp-drive-charborg-gif-5783026409085825543

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[fiery jungle]

i have r7 7700x and rx 7900xtx 32gb ram and still fps drops

this is unreal engine for you 😄

[zinc apex]

Understandable. Have a great day

[storm kernel]

beat the game today!! When dat dlc coming?!

[worn oar]

https://tenor.com/view/imagination-rainbow-soontm-spongebob-gif-9161732869085950743

[zealous pumice]

Lol dlc when the game is still bugged asf after the halfway mark is a crazy ask

I had to replay about 2 hours of the game because its still bugged at the zalyssia midway mark 10 months later

[worthy zodiac]

There's no info about that

[worn oar]

Bro literally said he finished the game already and asked for dlc release time.

[molten void]

I'll be blunt, I would enjoy seeing what the roadmap looks like since they are dividing it into first half & second half from what I hear

Kinda hoping (Excluding the obvious such as bug fixes, optimization, and the like) we get a RPD

[zealous pumice]

@worn oar bros flexing that he was able to actually finish the game 😂 ive been playing the same save zal quest for the last 5 hours between having to reload and restarting the game due to crazy lag spikes and stuff this is becoming a chore. Second time ive tried to finish the game and encountering the same bugs in the same areas or even more immersion breaking glitches 😂

Game released in november and its still knackered its disappointing but just a game at the end of the day. Hoping the community stays and makes some good mods.

[worn oar]

Finished the game twice myself second go was almost flawless to be true.

[zealous pumice]

You're so lucky I'm having a hard time here 😂

Almost put it down twice but determined to see it through

Im at the same place in the story I quit last time, the ai is still really dumb 😂😂

[worn oar]

We mostly will. There is an actual mod that brought it forth from the game files. I talked with one the mod authors and he said that everything was almost fully done, except for animation. Yet, the whole thing worked great with an existing animation from the machine gun we already have . I'd say we'll get it in Q3, by official means I mean.

[worn oar]

Perhaps I am luck, one among many. Well, I honestly hope your issues get fixed cuz I'm having almost none.

[zealous pumice]

I wouldn't be annoyed if it wasn't the same issues and new ones. Performance is a bit better tho

[worn oar]

I'm sure they are. I heard similar accounts at this point, so the issues are real and somehow, they are mostly showing on random users

Idk what could be the issue tbh

Not gonna guess anymore at this point

[zinc apex]

Wit ps5 release

[zealous pumice]

Another restart due to memory leaks, if I die once or twice the game just starts lagging like crazy. Might put it down for another 10 months 🤔

Always get to midway through the story and it just starts to misbehave 😆

[ripe thorn]

This calls for deathless run

[real meteor]

Yea all of the chimeras just became real happy about that idea

[ripe thorn]

All 2 of them?

There's literally 2-3 chimeras in the game and only one of them respawns I think (haven't checked Pripyat' one)

[real meteor]

i know of

3

[pliant fox]

The Stalker 2 Zone Kit is not available in Australia? It was available a month ago but now seems to be a blocked content?

i don't see an announcement anywhere about this block, and i'm confused

[feral totem]

Did they say anything about the next roadmap?

It’s already August

[unreal raptor]

Roadmap.

ha — they got you there.

[silver raptor]

Yeah nothing so far. Hopefully we will hear around GamesCom.

[viral wren]

No sense to announce roadmaps if you can't present it in time. Childish politics...

[dire dagger]

You must be new here they were 6 months late to deliver the first one

[ripe thorn]

Do we have an S2 channel where spoilers are allowed?

[unreal raptor]

Q3 2026 idiots, it's Q3 2026

[worthy zodiac]

#☢┃stalker-general

[ripe thorn]

Ty

[zealous pumice]

Roger that

[dapper zinc]

anyone else run into a bug where you can't show a ward badge to the gimp at the gate for Camp Icarus? I've tried both entrances and I'm at the main story mission where I need to go into the swamps so I should be able to go in I think

[worn oar]

You'll be able to go in when your active story mission tells you to go in

It's part of the quests dialog

Not an everyday option let's say

[exotic relic]

did get given the ward badge in the first place? and your mission should tell you to go to camp Icarus or whatever not do smth else

[dapper zinc]

I am pretty sure I was. I thought it was somewhat unavoidable after the main quest in Garbage

[exotic relic]

if you ||gave korshunov the unusual PDA and got handed it at slag heap|| (story before getting the Icarus mission) then you should have it iirc

it should literally be a marked quest item in your inventory if you have it

[dapper zinc]

Ahh heck. I think I didn’t show him this time around

[exotic relic]

yeah so you get told to go do something else as the mission is probably telling you and you got a voice comm for

||star tells you to meet him nearby or whatever and you do not actually go into camp Icarus||

literally just follow the mission prompt

[dapper zinc]

Yeah, that happened. So I’m just locked out of the Icarus side quests
For good?

[exotic relic]

it's not a side quest ||it's the main story and yes you do not do any Icarus quests|| you do something else instead

you get differant quests to do you don't lose out on playtime

[dapper zinc]

Okay, sweet, thanks for the info!

[coarse sparrow]

do you guys think multiplayer is still on the table?

[zealous pumice]

Found a stalker outside some basement and skme friends deceased in a certain basement called Artyom Submariner. Metro reference? To the 2 colonels dlc?

[solid dome]

It'll be worse if its under the table

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[celest blaze]

[solid dome]

Wheezeuph Dee-Lite, Master of Dodge

[celest blaze]

🫡 not to much man playing some guild wars 2 before going to a friends place what about you? hows it going king

[solid dome]

Ordered SSD, received SSD and now I'm reorganizing files for transfer, installing Linux, setting everything up, installing S2 and getting into the biotch FOREAL.

Never too late to go full Skif mode

[celest blaze]

hell yeah i need to go skiff mode and get a new SSD

2TB is not enough at all

[drifting niche]

GSC is late with the roadmap and patch?

[rapid warren]

Its gonna be Q3.3 roadmap cause the whole month is gone:(

[celest blaze]

instead of waiting for a roadmap play better games while you wait lol

[ripe thorn]

They are even late with patch to EE, which they said will be done late July

[civic wyvern]

Yes some are saying it will be a H2 Update

[celest blaze]

They are cooked atm sadly

[drifting niche]

H2 update?

[thick wolf]

I think it means the second half of 2025, rather than q3 and q4

[civic wyvern]

In a business context, H2 typically refers to the second half of the year, encompassing the months of July through December

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[empty gorge]

I NEED ACTIVE TESTERS FOR PC ASAP, LMK IN DM

[visual iris]

yo

uhhh is there a mod where the difficulty is similar to the old stalker where its easier to kill and die instead of bullet sponges

respectfully 🙏

[hazy helm]

The difficulties in the older stalkers made the enemies tankier and you have less health
It did not make it easier to kill only to die

[thick wolf]

I don't understand this watermelon announcement

[hazy helm]

Happy watermelon day

[visual iris]

oh was it anomaly then

[hazy helm]

The cursed being disguises itself in sheep's clothing

[twilit mist]

soooo how is the game right now compared to at launch?

I have been thinking of coming back to it and starting a new playthrough from the beginning (never finished the game anyways, maybe got under half way done)

[plush rose]

Think the game has updated a bit if im correct

So there might be new mechanics

Or its just optimizations nerfs and buffs im not sure

[unreal raptor]

What’s this Garbo about watermelons

[plush rose]

Idunno tbh

[naive rover]

If you're looking for performance improvements, I think you're better off planning a PC upgrade.

If you're waiting for bug fixes, you will likely have a much better time now.

[clever finch]

Do you get pinged if you get an answer from #📜┃gsc-answers ?

[twilit mist]

I mean I have an RTX4070ti and i7-13700k haha. I think the last time I played it ran fine enough.

But yeah bugfixes, balance changes, AI changes etc.

the combat changes to human AI especially seemed really good from what I read

[naive rover]

It is better than launch, though longtime stalker players will likely still feel a yearning for the A-Life from the originals.

I am a slow player (I think I'm finally at 120 hours) but I have found the updates as only good 😁 the combat definitely feels better to me

[modern shadow]

Does the watermelon thing have to do with something related to Palestine??

Genuinely confused as to what this watermelon signifies

What is watermelon day

[hazy helm]

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-watermelon-day-august-3

[modern shadow]

Never heard of that

Interesting

[exotic relic]

better ballsitics+better ballistics mutants (install both together)
I won't say it's "like old stalker" cos I don't even remember what it was like verbatim but it makes mutants and enemies less tanky and you take more damage from bullets

so instead of exoskeletons ttaking 60 9mm rounds to the chest it's more like 4

and sometimes even enemies like standard ward soldiers only take 2 body shots from 5.45

[weak shuttle]

Canned Melon

[obsidian flicker]

this my first stalker play through ever

gotta saythis game freaks me out sometimes xD

[sly matrix]

as it should

[coarse sparrow]

guys, did Mol1t tease Q3 already?

[lucid pagoda]

You know, maybe he did... That post is teasing that Q3 roadmap is gonna be thick 🫃 & juicy 💦 like a watermelon 🍉

[dapper zinc]

so I know science wifey will pay for 3 bundles of mutant parts - when I complete the bundle does that refresh to new requests or should I just sell the massive stockpiles of anatomy I have in my box?

[worthy lagoon]

Mel0n

[empty echo]

can't play stalker because it's too damn hot where I live and my laptop gets to almost 100 degrees

[zenith creek]

Time to build a walk-in fridge in your house

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[hard sleet]

Does the game have mouse smoothing and/or acceleratinon? It also seems to have a disproportionate speed rating for x vs y -- how can I resolve these issues?

[wraith socket]

Usually most of your settings for your mouse are specific to the brand you bought.

[hard sleet]

number of games have mouse acceleration or smoothing - think S2 may have it - feels floaty even with frame gen off

[wraith socket]

You're just going to have to adjust it wherever you find it and see how the changes help or hurt you.

[hard sleet]

not sure where to find it but thanks.

on another note, there are two friendlies standing around an area and there is a loot bag on top of an archway that you need to get to by triggering two anomolies... whenever I land on theground they inexplicably aggro and kill me instantly. It's confusing what is happening here.

[wraith socket]

You're stealing their stash.

[hard sleet]

the weird part is... I"m not even accessing the bag, i"m just jumping around the area

[wraith socket]

I guess you're getting close enough to it, they no longer like you.

This is the location west of Zalissya across from the Cow Sheds?

[hard sleet]

it's west of there ...don't see a cow shed though ..it's just a series of concrete blocks and the archway with the lootbag on top - two dudes just sitting there. when I jump around the area, no aggro, when I jump off a concrete block they are leaning on, aggro. It's just so bizarre

[wraith socket]

If you hang out near there enough, some hostile men or mutants will come along and kill them.

[hard sleet]

I think the game still needs another 8-12 months. I'm running into a lot of bugs and jank. I waited till release to give it a go again. Given up on AL2 so now just hoping for a smooth and rich story to get me through the campaign but I really do want to play it in its best light. Just needs more time to cook I guess.

[flint cliff]

Hey guys what is mod WEAPON REPOSITION PROJECT TACTICOOL? Is good?

[exotic relic]

it makes your character hold your weapon slightly differently

[median nimbus]

Hey, wanted to ask how stalker 2 shaping up, played 30 hours at launch, but couldn’t be bothered to finish it, the zone just felt so dead, none of your actions had any affect, the exploration was unrewarding and all of the factions just felt the same, with their generic grunt scream 01 sound effects, do you guys think there’s hope still for the sequel? (Not trying to be negative, just want the best for the game and gsc)

[coarse sparrow]

its much better in terms of overall polish now than 6 months before, but content additions have been relatively minor (2 weapons).

you can compensate with some good mods for the lack of new content tho

[ember summit]

Can’t wait for people to make 200 renditions of the same mod like this again.

[keen bone]

roadmap when

[exotic relic]

ace* himself already has 2 versions of it, tacticool and vanilla plus

[ripe patrol]

Shay?!!?!

[exotic relic]

i apologise ace I mixed you up

[ripe patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/he-cant-keep-getting-away-with-it-gif-19335672

Lol all good mane

[exotic relic]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/524231625039413249/1391358022042910810/bfb2beed-7a4f-42b7-9c53-827edd515e07.png?ex=6891d622&is=689084a2&hm=a56115ee3a3591fb47b6be89cde9049b2a16783207aefe7e486962e08cf1b8ba&
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/524231625039413249/1391358023171182642/7610fa7d-c04c-4133-9adf-44217d75ffb5.png?ex=6891d622&is=689084a2&hm=c535c8eda42e09b8a15ea3611e3bdd85649bdf9897ca2ec7598c6664f8b227c6&
also comparison images for base game vs tacticool

[obsidian flicker]

im curious when can we expect performance focused updates? i want to love this game but the performance issues is making me hold back a bit : /

[keen bone]

never, optimizing UE5 is difficult

[obsidian flicker]

not tryna be difficult but like bronem how can people even accept that? rather downgrade shit than having an unstable chaotic release which is broken, dont u agree? lumen and nanite aint that important :p just dont get how other games can but this game can't

i want to love it, its fun and thrilling, but at the cost of choppy frame rates and bad input latency?

icl it feels like an alpha build

even on my 5080

[fierce ermine]

Part of the problem with input latency is fake frame stuff like DLSS, and nVidia pushing it as some kind of solution to low framerates

If your rig has low enough FPS that you need fake frames to get a reasonable framerate, you're going to suffer from much worse latency

[hard sleet]

I literally did the same thing. It's been tough getting into this time around because I still feel there is a lot of jank and bugs. I think it needs 8-12 more months of polish but I don't think it'll be night and day unfortunately. I've given up on AL2 completely. I doing think we'll ever see its implementation to full potential.

Think I need to white knuckle a few more hours and perhaps I'll get into it again.

[zinc apex]

🫃

[zenith creek]

That Q3 roadmap better be absolutely phenomenal for how long we've been waiting for it

[unreal raptor]

In Q4 you might find out.

[oak rock]

Ikr I have 9060xt ffs and can't play in 1080p in epic setting ,high setting barely 70 fps

[zenith creek]

It's playable for me but it doesn't run super well
60 FPS average at 1440p native, but with a bunch of microstutter

[obsidian flicker]

i got a 5080, only way i can play with "acceptable fps" is with frame gen and i hate it.

[grim rivet]

Idk about everyone else but even with decent frame rates without fglike 70-80 I feel like the game has too much input latency, makes the game feel sluggish in comparison to other titles

[obsidian flicker]

fg and dlss with reflex on somehow just fixed it for me, either that or i got used to it xD

[void iron]

latency is super bad for some reason (without fg)

[wide fiber]

I’m stalking it

[zealous pumice]

Its morbin'(stalkin') time

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest blaze]

hope you do aswell

[empty gorge]

Theoretically - if there was a radiant quest/mission in game that was one of following, which one would you want to see the most?

• horde vs mutant/human
• assassination vs mutant/human
• extraction-like
• package retrieval and delivery

[sly matrix]

*escort missions with NPCs that walk faster than walking speed but slower than running speed

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

[empty gorge]

awww hell naww

[sly matrix]

though in all seriousness, scientist escort missions could work if done properly

[empty gorge]

thats not one of the 4 i mentioned tho

[nimble cipher]

greenlightyt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[thick wolf]

What is extraction like?

[wise night]

guys, is modular hard more currently not updated for current version of stalker?

[mystic sigil]

no you should check gamma discord mod page has a mhm page and ani (the creator) said he is taking a break and if he comes bk will probably be 1.6 or 1.7 update (this is what he said)

[wise night]

that's sad, even maklane haven't updated his overhaul mod yet

[wise night]

maybe you know some alternative for mhm?

[mystic sigil]

yes oxa prototype and stalker unilimited or inifinity i dont know which ones better out the 2

i think unlimited is the same w more features not sure, i advise you go to gamma discord and ask and check the mod pages will be a lot more information from there

[wise night]

alright thanks anyway

[mystic sigil]

np bro

[silent tinsel]

Sounds like a cpu issue

This game really needs at least a 9800x3d imo

For example way stronger than a 5800x3d in this game

[dire dagger]

More like 7800x3d but yah

Game needs that cpu

[wise night]

guys, i cant run stalker 2 it crashes everytime, right now ive reinstalled it and added mods that should work (they're updated) and i still get the crash. Even starting a new game crashes. What can cause that?

[naive quest]

Uninstall ur mods and test it out and does ur system meet the game requirements? (Prob does but just wanna check)

[wise night]

yeah ive been playing it always, just haven't played since they added mutant loot to the game, dropped the game like 2-3 months ago. Now trying it without mods, see if it runs

yeah just ran it and it comes up with the same crash

without any mods, dont know what happened

[naive quest]

Yeah that is weirddd have u tried verifying ur games integrity?

[wise night]

yeah i did like 10 minutes ago

not sure but maybe i have to clean cache or something, not sure what to do

[naive quest]

Someone here had smt like that let me try to find it

#☢┃stalker-general message

@wise night see if this helps ya

[wise night]

Thanks man, I'll try to ask tomorrow it's a bit late for me, but thanks again

[naive quest]

Np sorry that ur games like that hopefully it gets fixed

[oak rock]

Damn,I through my GPU is weak lol

I'm only one who have visual noise in native ? Only way too fix it is upscale

[naive quest]

No clue I just run upscaling cuz even w a 5070ti I can only get 70-80 fps w out frame gen

[oak rock]

1440p ?

I get 60 up too 90 but in 1080p ,no upscale no nothing ,40 in towns

[naive quest]

Yeah

[oak rock]

Glad I didn't go for 70 serie for thes game then lol,it seem I'm not only guy with issues ,one question ,I tried frame gen once ,begining intro ,had video not matching voice ,neither in native or frame gen,been wondering is it normal ?

Should I turn frame gen anyway ?,I can get like 200 fps or Soo in 1080p fsr 4 with frame gen

[naive quest]

Yeah framegen is like okish but stalker 2 definitely has a worse implementation of it

[tacit oracle]

I'm getting like 30-40 fps in zalissia despite my gpu and cpu sitting at around 60% utilization and I'm mystified as to why

best explanation I've heard is that my mobo is pcie 3.0 and 8 GBps is somehow too little for my 5060ti to process the full glory of it

highly dubious that's the case but hey, found a cheap-ish pcie 4.0 mobo so I'll try I guess

idea is to do the lossless scaling thing where you render the game at 1080 and then you blow it up to 4k on a secondary gpu

[celest blaze]

UE5 was such a mistake lol

[worn oar]

True

[hexed leaf]

whY diIDnt thEY mAKE TheIR owN ENgine?

[worn oar]

[hard sleet]

what weight carry mod would you folks recommend? Inventory management is a bit of a pain but I also don't want to be able to carry the entire zone with me - which mod offers a good balance?

[dire dagger]

CPU bottleneck

[tacit oracle]

No that's the weird thing, cpu is also hovering around 60% utilization, even checked the individual threads

It's like my computer's like "look chief we're gonna work up to here, but that's it"

Computer unions, man

I went over the metrics on OHW and the only thing consistently going 100% is the gpu bus, which honestly doesn't make much sense and I'm suspecting a wonky reading but idk

[hard sleet]

is there anyway to fix the insane amount of flickering when you have sharpness past 60%?

[wise night]

Guys i have a problem with runinng the game. Yesterday i installed the game but it was crashing after the loading screen, no matter if it's an old saves or new game. I tried it with or without mods and still get crashes. I used to play it without any problems 2-3 months ago. And yes i verified files thorugh steam and updated all my drivers. I dont know what to do. Can anyone help with that?

[naive quest]

Don't use any cuz they all break mutant loot

[naive quest]

There's a mod on nexus for that I'm p sure

[dire dagger]

It’s a cpu issue the game will never fully tax the cpu

The game wants v cache

[naive quest]

my 7800x3d has a use

[dire dagger]

Yup

[hard sleet]

Really? How can I confirm mutant loot is broken? I've been able to harvest some parts from a couple of them

[hard sleet]

Do you know which one by any chance. Lots of mods on there 😂

[naive quest]

Oh if the weight mod is working well just keep it all the ones I've tried to use broke mutant loot tho

[naive quest]

STALKER 2 Anti-Stutter Mod and Massive FPS Boost at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Nexus - Mods and community https://share.google/x5eelgW8DkGmnk598

Btw what weight mod r u using ?

[hard sleet]

I'll try this mod, but the only thing right now that seems to fix the flickering when moving around with sharpening higher than 60% is turning it down below 30%.

This seems to be a performance mod? I'll give it a go either way, but I'm playing on a 4090 and FPS has been pretty good.

[hard sleet]

I think it's called real real weight mod or something like that. It was linked on another mod that attempted to reduce not only carry weight but stamina and something else. It seems to have been updated recently. I'll have to find it when I'm back on my computer

[naive quest]

Also r u using frame gen or dlss try tinkering w those settings as well

[hard sleet]

Yes I have DL SS specifically dlaa turned on and frame generation.

The sharpening that's built into the game looks much better than anything on reshade, but I'm sure I can get close to it. Reshade doesn't cause any flickering at least.

[naive quest]

Hopefully u find a solution

[coarse sparrow]

so the new DLC is coming this winter I hope?

[dense jackal]

Maybe but I wouldn't get my hopes up yet

[placid spade]

had any one of you slipped through a certain spot behind the main scene in Pripyat?

[celest blaze]

getting dlc before night vision and binoculars is wild ngl

[fathom cedar]

NVG is in 1.6

But I would expect them to bring a lot more content to base game (cut quests mostly) before a dlc

[coarse sparrow]

separate devs work on those

[dire dagger]

Both are useless giving the 100m bubble

[celest blaze]

They should be all hands on deck getting the bubble to 500-1000m imo

[dire dagger]

In 1.0 modders could manipulate the size of the bubble they then made it impossible to do this in later versions

Which is just so lame

[celest blaze]

What no way thats WACK

Shoulda just had a disclaimer saying game could become unstable when modded and left it at that

[hazy helm]

they do that every update

[ripe patrol]

They could push it but it brought up an insane amount of issues that was just not worth it

If we want render past 100 they need to change all the other mechanics that play a part

[tacit oracle]

if they haven't been able to re-enable skipping cutscenes I am not confident on their ability to increase the activity bubble around the player tbh

[dire dagger]

I mean to be fair why not just let modders do it then work out the problems

[unreal raptor]

time will tell. if there is a more annoying answer to questions in this community I would like to hear it.

[ripe patrol]

[dire dagger]

Like it seems silly to make it impossible just cus well if you mod it causes problems

[ripe patrol]

Honestly we just don't know the whole story behind that. Let's just cross our fingers they start addressing this, even if it's slow at first

Console parity was the biggest mistake of Xbox... Specially considering they need to also optimize for XS:S

[celest blaze]

I only have 13 hours since release waiting for the game we were promised

[tacit oracle]

stalker unlimited is pretty good ngl, been trying it out these couple days

really nice balancing of the economy and combat in general, it does really feel much more like the murder hobo simulator you'd expect

so far my only gripe with it is that catching any radiation, whatsoever, is going to ruthlessly drain your health down to dead, no questions asked

[dire dagger]

Pray they kill off Xbox hw

So we can get the stalker 2 god intended

[coarse sparrow]

true

[rapid warren]

That would be amazing but most likely would turn your PC into tactical nuke

[wooden zenith]

Hey fellas is there a reason I cannot pick up mutant loot? I can see the white dot on mutants I kill, but there is no prompt allowing me to pick it up? I am coming back from a pause in playing on an older save. Does this mean need to start a new game? Also I have a few mods. Should I uninstall them as well?

[dapper zinc]

I find I sometimes need to kick the muties around a wee bit before I get the prompt

[hexed leaf]

You probably have one of the crappy "UNLIMITED SPRINT NO COST REPAIR TECHNICIANS GIVE HEAD" mods that was released in December and never updated

[wooden zenith]

Yeah I cleared my mods and restarted. I can loot mutants now

[storm kernel]

Which would you rather have "unlimited sprint no item degradation" son or "stalker gamma fan" son?

[tacit oracle]

I think he would prefer "goatedest weapon system" son

[hexed leaf]

I believe that somewhere, in the infinite cosmos, there is a detailed and complex form of gameplay that doesn't require a crippling degree of autism to enjoy. Maybe one day we'll get there

[magic coyote]

new update when?

[tacit oracle]

The hell? I'm having enemies respawn literally as I turn away from them.

I was under the impression that this should not happen anymore since 1.5

[hollow hull]

Completely normal as for now, just wait until 5.0 and then it will be fixed

[tacit oracle]

hm, I thought that wasn't supposed to happen anymore. Going anywhere means fighting the same group of enemies twice

[hollow hull]

Yeah, If you go to a POI/Lair, its empty most likely, and then u turn your back to it, poof enemies spawn

[magic coyote]

nana 2033 the year of stalker 2 mod remake patch

[hollow hull]

Maybe in uh 2086? proper stalker 3 lmao

[magic coyote]

stalker 3 (is a mod)

[hollow hull]

When is stalker 2 releasing?

[magic coyote]

2027

[tacit oracle]

yeah I just went to the ||bandit hideout|| next to zalyssia, fought a ||group of fleshes|| in the pig farm on the way, hadn't even left the place that already bandits were respawning, and the ||fleshes|| were waiting on the way back

[hollow hull]

Ah so in 2027 it will be a good release state and not early access

[tacit oracle]

like, I have played before and the respawning hadn't been this hilariously broken

[hollow hull]

Yes welcome to stalker 2, a-lie 2.0, it will be like this for 90% of the game except for scripted spawns

[hollow citrus]

is this the hideout with the basement?

[tacit oracle]

it is

[hollow citrus]

theres a scripted spawn if you go down to the basement for the first time. Idk if thats what happened to you

[tacit oracle]

yes but again I have played on release, with a-life mods, and I don't remember things respawning this egregiously the second I turned away from them.

[hollow hull]

Yeah GSC ruined stuff with their ''alife fixes'', its more broken now than on release

[tacit oracle]

I went in, got the scripted spawn, fought them off, was about to leave, noticed the detection ring, they had respawned when I wasn't even out of their detection range

same with the bonfire and the spawns around where squint is, barely moving away from the area respawned eeeverything again

[hollow hull]

Like what you experienced is normal for most people, they just dont notice it and say a-life and spawns are fine

[tacit oracle]

I mean I don't particularly care about the alife hype but having everything respawn the second you aren't looking is kinda irritating

[hollow hull]

Been like that since release, Nothing GSC does will fix it, the more ai fixes they do the more the ai breaks

[tacit oracle]

there's a middle point between "omg every entity has its own persistence and birth certificate and I saw them here and then I sucked them off 5km away" and "everything respawns every time you aren't looking"

idk man I distinctly remember this not being the case at launch, maybe it's 'cause of the mods I was using

wanna take a gander, though afaik the alife mod situation got kinda borked on 1.5, I wanna see

[hollow hull]

At launch they spawned infront of u mostly, now GSC made it so they spawn behind you instead so that the spawn ''seems'' more natural

[tacit oracle]

the alife mods tended to crank spawns even further anyway

[hollow hull]

Like i don't get it, spawns and stuff were fine in x-ray engine mostly? Why is that impossible in unreal engine, its almost like its not the same developers anymore lmao

But tbh i gave up on this game, spent over 150 hours just trying to make the game playable but nope

Iove the game, but the god damn ai spawn issues just kills the game for me

[tacit oracle]

shay's looks like does what I'm looking for but I remember it turned the zone into a battlefield

[hollow hull]

Try a-life found a way, its lair based mostly i think

Shay's a-life stuff is great, but it does turn into a clusterfuck after a bit since GSC messed with spawn settings, so now ai spawns inside themselves stuck inside each other lmao

[tacit oracle]

yeah this alife found a way mod seems pretty comprehensive, I just hope it plays ball with unlimited

(it should, the author of unlimited recommends shay's)

it's gonna have to be that anyway, because it looks like both maklane's and a-life extended are awol

and yeah I remember shay's beeing way way too much, even on the "chill" version

[hard sleet]

z_weightmod is the one I'm using -- assuming it's working with mutant parts ... i haven't had any issues collecitng them if what your'e saying is the bug is that you cannot collect mutant parts.

[naive quest]

ty

[verbal cipher]

Have they fixed NPCs having an aimbot? I haven't played in a long time.

[naive quest]

kinda ur not gonna get beamed across the map or anything but they still have that aimbotty aim but way better now

[simple geode]

it's better, they won't nail you instantly from say 300 meters, it's more like 100m and cover effectively does work. It's still a little jank through foliage and forest.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[ripe thorn]

Actually comparing og trilogy and S2 I think it's the same there, it's just S1 is way more readable with less foliage and trees and bushes everywhere, and enemies stand out more in environment

[safe badge]

Guys, I am sad

[thick wolf]

Sorry to hear that Ranjid, I hope the rest of your day is better

[unreal raptor]

Release the god damt roadmap — this is insane.

[safe badge]

Someone ate my cake

[thick wolf]

Is it your birthday?

[austere tusk]

Apparently GOG and MS Store have access to edition upgrade now

[rapid warren]

When steam

And announcment

[austere tusk]

No idea, they haven't announced anything in regards to this in the discord

[rapid warren]

Yea should be any minute now I guess

[safe badge]

My birthday is next month 😁

[austere tusk]

Out now

[rapid warren]

Yay

[keen bone]

I was gonna be like 'wow why did it take so long for an upgrade path option' then my logic kicked in - $$$, duh

[warm moon]

Least they aren’t Factorio tgat game never goes on sale 😭

[austere tusk]

Weird

Says I already own the following upgrade, but I only have Deluxe

[hollow pelican]

Bruh i thought they dropped roadmap in annoucnement from reading notif

[keen bone]

me too 😢

Ah well, at this point GSC have supported S2 non-stop for 9+ months post-release. Hats off to them. Just got to be a bit patient I guess

[safe badge]

I like the Mosin Nagant. Became my new main weapon. Just missing the ironsight

[nimble cipher]

jizziath has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tranquil tartan]

You cant say the f word here ???

[nova terrace]

Could we also get 30% off if we get a 2nd copy on PS5?

[tiny token]

They deliberately took too long to get more money? Makes no sense

[hexed leaf]

[hollow citrus]

have bloodsuckers always suck corpses?

[celest blaze]

Fr

[robust kestrel]

-.- fkkn dlc. Produce nv already

[unreal raptor]

No more pennies from me spent on this dead end game until significant updates. Bin DLC

[wooden zenith]

goddamit can they fix the pda bugging out already?

[unreal raptor]

Too busy trying to cash in on upgrades pal.

[brittle hull]

no way that GSC has BARELY added the upgrades as DLCs, instead of having to re-buy the same game

[safe badge]

Its a really good gun. 5 People, 5 shots, 4 dead and 1 wounded. No need to aim for the head

[sly matrix]

question for those who already upgraded on steam: did you get the steam profile things as well?(profile background, pfp, pfp frame)

or were those limited to preorders?

[hexed leaf]

oh I know, I just saw a potential 'sale' (if you're not on console)

[drifting niche]

I expected them to show the dlc and future content before giving access to the upgrade version of the game

[tranquil tartan]

Imagine not releasing a key feature that they hyped up and promised still, its almost been a year BTW

[rain patrol]

Patient gamer here, decided to get the game a couple days ago, and im enjoying myself and I got like three questions

Is there a way to buy detectors?

And I've played fallout before so I was really expecting companions but is there a lore reason why there no dogs or cats?

Or women lol

[wise night]

hey guys, i need realistic damage for humans mod, anyone can suggest the one? Realistic damage mod which is on nexus isn't compatible (not checked by myself it's been said on nexus)

[robust kestrel]

Women dont exist on the internet dummy

[wise night]

no need for overhaul, just want to change damage to npc's (humans) and to the antagonist

[hexed leaf]

Better Ballistics

and I think you mean protagonist?

[wise night]

hey oxide, using your mod as well, thanks. I just want faster ttk to human npcs

[hexed leaf]

or do you just really hate that one fight with the glowing things

[wise night]

yeah sorry protagonist of course)

[hexed leaf]

a man of taste

[wise night]

just need faster ttk like in real life

[hexed leaf]

Yea better ballistics plays nice with Prototype

I mean Standard

It does NOT play well with Prototype, at all

[wise night]

thanks mate, yeah im using standard

[hexed leaf]

If you're ever in the mood for an overhaul playthrough, Prototype's weapon damage model is based heavily on BB

[wise night]

sure, but for the next playthrough, ive purchased game when the game came out and still havent finished yet) thanks again, hope you're gonna surprise us with your mods as always

[hexed leaf]

oh yea, always do vanilla first

mods are New Game Plus

[wise night]

i have pretty solid amount of mods so its not vanilla) but also not gamma-ish)

[hexed leaf]

haha yea I got halfway through before I started

but by that point you know what the vanilla gameplay is like, and you know what you wanna change

[wise night]

yeah sure, vanilla was a little casual for me, so i decided to make it more immersive. Actually i was thinking about to start a new game and drop my current playthrough with MHM overhaul, but then saw that its not compatible with current patch

[rain patrol]

Fair enough lmaoo

[safe badge]

What do you mean?

[hexed leaf]

just scope changes in OXA

[safe badge]

My car died today

[hexed leaf]

well I can't do anything about that, but mosin uses ironsights by default in OXA

[safe badge]

OXA?

[hexed leaf]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939

[primal salmon]

So pre order bonus was a fomo bait, understood lads.

Unfortunately I cannot refund

Monkey business

[sly matrix]

preorder bonus was this, and you ain't getting that with ultimate edition, if I'm not mistaken

[stiff pasture]

Yeah, ultimate edition does not give you this stuff. No idea where that guy got the FOMO stuff from.

[sly matrix]

From misunderstanding, presumably

[coarse sparrow]

it only took GSC 9 full months to introduce edition upgrades

[unreal raptor]

UPDATE THE GAME YOU BEASTS

[rain patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/what-gif-6783093799622414595

Ah damn, dying light the beast gif lol

[thin veldt]

Is there a fix for the super slow compiling shaders ? I quit the game because waiting 15 minutes every time you boot the game to compile shaders really takes the fun out of it...

[vocal cape]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369280920

It is in this list. For me it is in between 40-60seconds of shader compiling on gamestart (M2 drive and DDR4). Using this ini changes

[crude scroll]

you know you can skip it right? you only gotta do it once then you can skip it o nthe next launch

[thin veldt]

Sounds like something they should put on the screen when it's installing shaders 🤷‍♂️

[crude scroll]

it is actually

when you are in the game and you see the loading shaders thing it tells you at the bottom you can skip it

[thin veldt]

The message then says it may result in performance drops & visual bugs

[errant yacht]

hey guys, if i have a current run of stalker 2 going on and i buy the upgrade to ultimate edition, will it mess up my saves or anything

[rain patrol]

No but I always make a copy of my save no matter what for anything and everything

[vocal cape]

It worked for me 🙂 110 houres in, and I found the journalist flash drive in my private stash

[vocal cape]

Correct, but you can still skip it though. You may have loading in textures while playing the game for the first minute.

So I prefer to just wait and pet my cat.

Compiling shaders is a typical UE thing,

But if I compare the total loading time of the game tonother games I play with different engines (Forza Horizon 5, RDO, modded ETS2) than it is almost equal for me

[worn oar]

Yeah

[worn oar]

Pre-order I think it's self explanatory

You don't expect it to be included in the ultimate or deluxe post launch yk

[manic sorrel]

Guys I may missed some patch notes, did they implement NPC hunting for artifacts? I know they can loot bodies now but artifacts?

[hollow sentinel]

[tacit oracle]

teehee
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3544495378

[worn oar]

They already do, but most are scripted. Matter of fact, they already have the animation, but for some reason, they don't usually actively hunt tho. Should be fixed as part of AI improvement process.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[thick wolf]

Did you end up getting a piece of cake?

[clever finch]

I forgot if someone answered me before but do you get pinged if yo get an answer in #📜┃gsc-answers

[sly matrix]

I don't think you do

[magic coyote]

wujuuu spam update

[alpine hollow]

Hi stalkere, are repair costs exponential or linear ?

[safe badge]

Nope

My cake is gone. Looking for a new SUV. My old one died on monday

[worn oar]

[oak rock]

Should I use mods in my first playthrough or bad idea ?

[tacit oracle]

I mean as long as you know what you're doing

that is, as long as you are aware of how the merging process works and which mods you want to be on top of which others

[oak rock]

Tbh all I wanna add is some weapons optic,nvg and stuff like that ,items that it ,maybe make exoskeleton look good too

[tacit oracle]

depending on the mods the merging can be a majestic pain in the ahh though, but that's up to how much you're willing to put up with it

[oak rock]

Does mods have txt file that meantion how and what? If so it ok

U played the game probably few times ,is there nvg ?

[tacit oracle]

no, not on vanilla no

[oak rock]

Even in exoskeleton?

[tacit oracle]

I mean if you want weapons and nvg and stuff like that, you could look at OXA

the OXA prototype is a pretty comprehensive overhaul, it doesn't play ball with most other mods, but as a standalone it looks pretty alright

[oak rock]

Is there mode that remove blurry in distance too ? ,I think I'm gonna go for that and oxa?

[tacit oracle]

"blurry in distance" ._.

[oak rock]

Yea lol,long distance blurry asf ,trees too.

[tacit oracle]

I don't think there's a mod for that, that'd either be a config.ini, or just changing your graphics settings

[oak rock]

I did change it ,ATM only fsr native that rid off visual noise ,and remove blurriness Abit

[tacit oracle]

probably try changing the depth of field and render distance settings, but other than a just a config.ini (which isn't strictly a mod) or maybe a reshade, that's it

[oak rock]

Thanks ,I will look Into it ,bcs tbh game fun now lol ,I get nice fps too 110 in rx 9060xt 16

Got eny suggestions for mods ? If u got some time too suggest ofc

[tacit oracle]

I use stalker unlimited, oxa standard and shay's complete

stalker unlimited also has a few recommendations like faction patches and whatnot as well if you want to throw a few more in

[oak rock]

Oh I just look at the Mods,I need new playthrough lol

[little olive]

https://tenor.com/view/clippy-terminate-survivors-evil-sinister-gif-1264220431037217276

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/clippy-terminate-survivors-evil-sinister-gif-1264220431037217276

[clear elm]

It will eventually be added.

[tacit oracle]

fyi in case y'all haven't checked the nexus in a while

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1559
this some peak shi 🖐️😩👌

(it's a mod that translates most graffiti and stuff into english)

[fathom cedar]

I miss the days when devs actually translated textures

[tacit oracle]

yeah it's weird how they didn't even have one of those subtitles when you hover your crosshair

[sly matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1397342374618857583/pop_richter_glorp1.1.gif

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[thick wolf]

Same to you

[rain patrol]

Is there like a preset graphics setting for making distant enemies more defined

[lucid pagoda]

I mean come on. have you ever seen a game that has something like that lmaoo

[robust kestrel]

There is a setting though. Move closer to them. Change walking forward to "w" and press it 😄

[tacit oracle]

draw distance, maybe depth of field, and sharpening

[hexed leaf]

we talking visual acuity defined, or like, chad jawline defined

[tacit oracle]

also don't use any performance mods, every single one of them works by tanking your graphical fidelity in some way or the other

[hexed leaf]

^ is this what you want

[prime ledge]

I tried using the console forest mod and was on 15 fps ☠️

[hexed leaf]

Ultra Plus is nice, just gotta dial it in for your system

[tacit oracle]

I tried optifine today and I mean, it works

it just makes everything look like aggressive ass lol

even on ultra quality the ground textures and npcs looked like smeared 💩

oh this ultra plus mod looks actually pretty cool, comprehensive as hell

[hexed leaf]

yea, I hate to sound like a salesman but it isn't like the other girlsoptimisation mods

it uses UE4SS to directly control various elements of UE

[tacit oracle]

that was the premise of S.2 but honestly I haven't seen much difference with that mod

this guy looks much more granular and serious though, gotta give it a shot

[zenith creek]

Just remember to dial down your graphics settings a notch or you'll lose like 15 FPS because "Epic" under U+ is higher quality than in vanilla

[tacit oracle]

if I'm being honest my hope is that it somehow might help me lower my cpu overhead lol

but yeah, barring that I'm just gonna set it on "medium" and go from there

[oak rock]

Anyone know how too remove blur in long distance ?

[rain patrol]

?

[rain patrol]

Sharpening doesn't help forcthat, draw distance just makes them visible for farther and I've never seen depth of field, gonna turn that on

[tacit oracle]

That plus ultra mod is the real deal, damn

Won't help performance much in my opinion, but it does make it look hella pretty for very reasonable performance costs

Poor 5060 can barely keep 55@2k but it is now officially giving it all lol

[wise night]

Hey guys I've got a quest "on the edge" where i have to defend monolith's attack, i know that there is a bug, however it's seems like i defend it and it constantly continues attacked by monolith's again and again , is it intended to be like that?

I mean defending zalissya

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tacit oracle]

#☢┃stalker-general please, this is no spoilers.

[magic patio]

Guys, Im looking for the Cement Factory / Cooling Towers regions OST. Anybody has it?

[silent blade]

Guys how is the state of Stalker 2 right now? Worth getting in or wait another year for them to cook?

[rapid warren]

It's okay but I'd say wait for 1.6 becouse I believe it's gonna be clear then how future update will shape up (1.5 was very good becouse it started adding actual content and gameplay mechanics as well as groundwork for future improvments)

[teal swallow]

Is there any news about the release of 1.6 ? It's been quite a while since 1.5

[tacit oracle]

1.5.1 came out a month ago

[austere tusk]

Later this month

Likely around the 22 of august

Since the xbox gamescon or whatever it's called

[worn oar]

No news yet. I'll just throw the Soon rock at this question

https://tenor.com/view/imagination-rainbow-soontm-spongebob-gif-9161732869085950743

[magic coyote]

nice update

[worn oar]

Maybe news this week

[rapid warren]

PLEAASEEEE

[dire dagger]

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

[magic coyote]

I'm going to Venezuela for a whole month, so I won't be able to try it.

[worn oar]

I usually guess right

[tacit oracle]

I mean 75% of this sentence is inevitably true

[worn oar]

It all actually depends

But yeah, I think we might

[tacit oracle]

almost guaranteed we'll get news one week

[sweet lintel]

Does alife work yet?

[robust kestrel]

Do you?

[rancid flume]

Read it as “wealth and safety” at first

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[worn oar]

Thank you, Ranjid

[empty gorge]

define, work

[dire dagger]

A life is an unemployed shut in