⭐┃nospoilers_general

[hazy helm]

you laid bait, so I laid mine

[hallow bane]

Whatever you say, sir, mam, it. Go back to your CoD brainless enjoyment and leave sophistication to real Stalker players

[hazy helm]

you gotta stop going so hard in the bait, its very easy to tell

no one is going to fall for it

[reef raptor]

you reminded me
like 2 months ago I spent 3 weeks fully modifying one of those renpy visual novel games purely to slander my friend on his birthday
renpy is so stupidly easy which is kinda fun (?)

[hazy helm]

too much honey is poisonous

[sly matrix]

As soon as someone breaks out the word "sophisticated" you know it's over

[reef raptor]

that word has been said only 88 times in this server 🔥

[storm kernel]

your pfp lookin like a failed WingsOfRedemption clone 😭

[hallow bane]

I dont even know what "baiting" means. I just have a large vocabulary

[hazy helm]

you are only allowed to use the word sophisticated in your slack channel with your boss

[hallow bane]

Ah, yet you have to hide behind an avatar profile pic. Well done. Kudos, cowards

[hazy helm]

your entire existance is AI trying to bait some reaction from people, bc a normal person, would never be, this stupid

[storm kernel]

me no understand big word, me know only little word

[reef raptor]

basically

fancy 🪄

[storm kernel]

grug now understand

[hazy helm]

gives me the same energy as using zalgo in your messages

[hallow bane]

Im stupid because I am defending a company that gave us a great game? A game that just isnt quite up to your par because you seem to be the center of the universe? I didnt know the Earth and the Solar System revolved around you. Are you that important?

[hazy helm]

tahnks for recognising it, it takes some time but soon people do realize

[storm kernel]

Yes.

[hallow bane]

Ah, so im dealing with a bunch of morons whos sole existence is to complain about gaming. At least thank you for conversing with me so I know who to block.

[reef raptor]

ur name is all gradienty and glowy and animated so ur very important ❤️

[dire dagger]

Vasim is important

[storm kernel]

Blocking the Emperor of Mankind isn't a particularly good idea

[dire dagger]

He’s an apex chatter

[storm kernel]

sparkly name = important very 👍

[reef raptor]

I agree
but so is you mr cheese thing I forgot the name of it

[hazy helm]

damn, I guess Jack was right
it really isnt in the common allowed topics

shame

anyway

S2 Alife doesnt exist

[reef raptor]

im surprised there's no fedora hat in the pfp man

[hazy helm]

its all smoke and mirrors to make you thing a world exists outside the render state of Chunks

[hallow bane]

I played Stalker 2 on release and didnt have a problem with it then. Its got better since. I really dont understand the disdain for it

[hazy helm]

nothing actually gets simulated outside of the loaded Chunks because the AI Pathing and Nodes are all tied to the chunk system, there is no persistance outside of the chunks

[dire dagger]

A life 2.0 is an illusion

[hazy helm]

you really like corn syrup dont you

[dire dagger]

It always will be

[unreal raptor]

People wanted and were promised more.

This guy is pure simp. I can't even deal with it.

[dire dagger]

Unless someone manually wrote an a life system for the game from scratch

[hallow bane]

You cant get everything you want and even then they are working on it. It takes time. Your wishes arent fulfilled over night

They even admitted they released it too soon

[dire dagger]

And that’s not necessarily the end of the world

[hallow bane]

They said if they didnt release it then, they werent going to release it at all. So be grateful instead of whining

[dire dagger]

But people have to realize the idea of “A life 2.0” is extremely miss leading

[reef raptor]

uhhh

{
when = player play game
do = game create a life
end
}

idk I never programmed but I think thats good enough

[hazy helm]

tough luck, they will get reminded over and over until the promises they sold are fufilled, only then will people stop complaining, because what they bought as finally been delivered to them

[dire dagger]

Yup

[storm kernel]

all GSC needs to do is just put alifeworking = true;

[dire dagger]

You can’t sell people a product that’s half finished at best and expect everyone to be happy

[hallow bane]

Did you buy the game? Yes. Did you get a game? Yes. So you were delivered a product

[robust kestrel]

Simp

[dire dagger]

Not the product that was advertised

[unreal raptor]

please for the love of god.

[hallow bane]

If you bought a game and werent delivered a product then I would understand

[storm kernel]

bro u gettin ragebaited

[hazy helm]

what was delivered was not what was sold to me, if I purchased a sandwhich and I get a taco, I will complain

[dire dagger]

Have you considered people bought the game under false pretenses

[reef raptor]

🔥

[dire dagger]

[hallow bane]

Did anybody force them to buy the game? Thats their responsibility and their choices and their consequences

[dire dagger]

If I buy a product because you told me the game is x y and z and it’s only x id be pretty upset about that

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-hyde-hydewars-candyman-ghost-of-kyiv-gif-26802433

[storm kernel]

no a life telling me that an NPC is looting a dead Flesh on the other side of the map. Literally unplayable 🥀

[hallow bane]

Oh I forget, mostly Americans really dont like having consequences. Thats probably 99% of the people complaining

[hazy helm]

I will sell you a house, and then give you a box to squat under

you wont even feel the difference

it has 4 walls and a roof

why are you complaining?

[worthy zodiac]

Have you played previous games and freeplay mods like Anomaly or Call of the Zone?

[hallow bane]

I mean if you really think its just a really lousy bad game, ask for a refund

[unreal raptor]

why you complain pal — build your own house?! I have built houses, I bet you cannot build houses.

[hazy helm]

hes a syrup slurper, he hasnt

[dire dagger]

I don’t even think the game is that terrible just an aggressively mid 7.5/10

But I’m not gonna pretend the game wasn’t sold using false advertising

[hazy helm]

🧎‍♂️ I hope you truly do get a brain that is able to attain a understanding that isnt 2D, however, judging by your speech pattern and looks, I feel like you are either canadian or brittish in which case

[unreal raptor]

I have built houses before, small brain no build houses. Until you can build a house you cannot have opinion on houses that are built by others.

[hallow bane]

Its as bad as the Dune players currently. I spent 200 hours on this game. "Do you enjoy it?" "No, its garbage"

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-giggle-top-gear-happy-lol-gif-5232893

[unreal raptor]

Love checking in on this server every now and then. Lovely.

[hazy helm]

yhea I would also be projecting my pain to others online if I was brittish

[dire dagger]

That’s entirely valid tbh

Sometimes you need to play a game for a while to figure out you hate it

[reef raptor]

it took me 1500 hours of cod to realize that

[dire dagger]

One of my most hated games of all time I probably played for nearly 1000 hours

[unreal raptor]

or the game runs out of steam about 1/2 in and there is nothing else to do — looking at you stalker 2

[hazy helm]

looking at the 80 cut quests

https://imgur.com/aKrAB99

[dire dagger]

To give them the benefit of the doubt

I’ll say not all of the cut quests were gonna end up in the game regardless

[storm kernel]

the games like a 9.99/10

[worthy zodiac]

Me myself I don't even hate stalker 2. I just wish it was a better game, something that could become classic... Now I'm not sure if it'll get there

[dire dagger]

But still at least half of them got cut

[worthy zodiac]

It's still good that they are updating it tho

[hazy helm]

now, multiply that by 0.5...

[storm kernel]

9.99/5 🔥

[dire dagger]

stalker 2 could be good

It’s not a game flawed at its core

It’s not bf2042

[worthy zodiac]

Wonder when will they drop 1.6 update

[unreal raptor]

it has a lot of potential, world & atmosphere is great, visuals look ok now and then, the gunplay is good — and then that's where it turns ugly.

[reef raptor]

I personally would have been really happy if it launched with the polish from idk, 1.5 or maybe 1.6 when it releases later this month

[worthy zodiac]

Looks like it took them the longest to develop it

[reef raptor]

im a bit bummed out since I played the game day one and my first experience will forever that 50 fps buggy mess...
its in a really solid state now imo but I cant ever re-experience it for the first time again

[dire dagger]

It’s just a matter of the game is blatantly unfinished

Which doesn’t mean it’s over look at no man’s sky

People really like no mans sky now

[hazy helm]

NMS updates look so good on the changelog it makes you forget its a grind game

[unreal raptor]

yeah I install NMS every update — that game just isn't for me. But man do I love the arc of the comeback. Same for 2077.

[dire dagger]

But no man’s sky is what it is after nearly 10 years of work

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, that's the biggest issue I have with that game, really

[unreal raptor]

boring as hell Spore game in space. Not for me.

[dire dagger]

I’ve not played but I really like Astroneer

I once binged that game for over 20 hours straight

[worthy zodiac]

Expected it to be about exploration or something like that but it looks like they still have one biome per planet and the biomes are still samey (there's nothing like a biome generator)

[reef raptor]

I tried NMS multiple times but ehh I just cant get into it..

[worthy zodiac]

Oh yeah, that's a cool one

[dire dagger]

They keep releasing more and more automation

And it makes me so happy

The thing I hated was the largest barrier to full automation was

I couldn’t move materials between worlds automatically and they are fixing that with the new dlc

Very excited

[unreal raptor]

what is the main point of the game (astroneer) I've looked into a few times in the past

[worthy zodiac]

I'm not really into the automation aspect but it's just cool to explore the planets and move around in that game, sliding down the slope into the cave and right into the center of the planet is really epic

[dire dagger]

There are quests and a loose goal to activate all the planet cores

But I play it like factorio

[storm kernel]

I hope stalker 2 becomes playable on geforce now soon

my poor ass NEEDS it

[worthy zodiac]

Wasn't it already playable in there?

[storm kernel]

not for GOG players

[dire dagger]

Like my favorite part of Astroneer was building fully automatic power grids

[tiny token]

Meow

[worthy zodiac]

When I hear about comeback arcs and people use nms and 2077 as examples it makes me sad, to be honest. Cause both nms and 2077 are just different games from the ones that were promised...

[dire dagger]

There wasn’t any direct way to do it with out having black outs so I loved how much you had tune it all to work seamlessly

[worthy zodiac]

Ah, I see

[reef raptor]

Dying Light 2 having 200 pages of cut content

that still hits me in the stomach so unbelievably hard

[unreal raptor]

Yeah maybe that's part of it — I was never into the hype around those two games. Where as Stalker 2, I couldn't be more into the hype and now just annoyed by it.

[dire dagger]

The leaked builds of stalker 2 that show the game pre censorship is honestly a shame

A lot of the game is actually censored from how it was originally

[reef raptor]

oof.. didnt know that

[storm kernel]

how was it censored?

[worthy zodiac]

It's not about hype, really. If they advertised it as an rpg before it was released and you've got an far cry game instead – you won't be happy if you thought that this game was supposed to be an rpg. Simple as

[dire dagger]

Soviet imagery

For example red stars

They use to be everywhere

On trains on gates on buildings etc etc

All gone in full release

[reef raptor]

I feel like censorship in terms of historic things like that always suck
best example is wolfenstein games in germany. I dont need to explain that one lol

[tiny token]

More commie shit = game gooder

Well established fact by Discord users

[dire dagger]

No…..

It’s just how the zone looks in real life

This isn’t about communism being good fucken hate commies

But it’s more immersive to have it there

[hallow bane]

I mean just realistically, if you have played the game Stalker 2 all the way through, all endings, etc and A Life 2.0 was all of a sudden magically here and working perfectly, would you play it again?

[storm kernel]

not the worst thing, in fact I think some red stars still remain in the full release

[dire dagger]

I’m waiting for the game to have more content

Or for the engine update

[reef raptor]

2026 :3

ok do you actually think we'll get the engine update before 2026
since ykkkk the roadmap does say for 2025... BUT

[worthy zodiac]

I'm still playing it even in the current state. It's kinda mediocre currently but still enjoyable

[hallow bane]

Right. Because even if the A Life was here, you have already seen it all. Nothing new really would have happened

[dire dagger]

For a brief moment someone put up a workshop mod that restores all of the censored content but it was quickly taken down

[dire dagger]

Is the catch 22

For many the experience is already soured

[hallow bane]

Thats if they choose to see it that way. The game had a lot of flaws and bugs yes, but i still found it highly enjoyable. If you view it a certain way, thats your choice

[worthy zodiac]

Nah, an A Life system like in mods for original games (or even better) would add a lot of replayability. That's kinda the whole point, really

[hallow bane]

How? It doesnt change the story, doesnt change the setting, doesnt change anything but game play. I play for story

[dire dagger]

Like some people are happy with what the game is and that’s fine happy for them but

Knowing what I know I’m not personally very satisfied

If you know the full scale of what we lost it really puts the game in a different light

[fiery heron]

I feel like the game could use more stuff

[hallow bane]

What did we lose? Ive played the originals, clear sky, call of pripyat, shadow. I wish factions were more fleshed out but I really dont see what the huge issue is? Not trying to argue, im just trying to find the answer because I really dont know

[storm kernel]

tbh I think most of the hate for S2 comes from either gammababies or youtubers telling people to dislike the game

[dire dagger]

Over half the games planned content was cut

Why so many iconic characters are just entirely missing

[storm kernel]

there is valid criticism as with any game, but some of it is just plain ridiculous

[sleek trout]

do enemy NPCs still spawn behind you?

[fiery heron]

put the cut content back in the game

please

[hallow bane]

I admit its been a while since ive played. I dont really remember all the characters. I did see we got some of them from call of pripyat and shadow of chernobyl

[storm kernel]

not as much, a life events still occur in a radius but it isn't as noticable that enemies just spawn in front of you now

[sleek trout]

yeah why would they develop it to just remove it

[storm kernel]

meeting deadlines

[fiery heron]

fr they should put it back in

[dire dagger]

Like there’s no nitro or Zulu for example

Why the game has no quest lines from freedom or duty

[sleek trout]

when a purely creative project has deadlines and other shit thats like corporate related

[dire dagger]

Noah too

He’s also cut

[fiery heron]

put the cut content back in so we can have more content and more fun

[hallow bane]

This I agree with. It would have been amazing like in Shadows and Clear Sky

[sleek trout]

yeah i quit the release version cuz these dogs were just spawning 2 meters away from me when i was turning around, it's just funny atp

[dire dagger]

Likes it’s difficult to explain with out diving head first into leaks how much content is truly missing

[gaunt basin]

Wait a min, uhh didn't Nitro change his name to Diode or something? I did remember diode mentioning that he helped Degtyarev back in yaniv station.

[hallow bane]

Does it feel like they got in over their heads maybe? Might explain why they released it as is

[dire dagger]

Idk if that’s true but maybe

[hallow bane]

I mean even then we have waited a decade at least for Stalker 2. I always thought it was more of a dream for there to even be a stalker 2

[dire dagger]

There are many theories for example some think the fire that happened in the Kyiv office was a lot worse than reported

And a ton of content was lost because of it

Other possibilities are when they switched from ue4 to ue5 a ton of stuff had to be redone

[hallow bane]

Thats possible. If the ideas werent saved somewhere then stuff gets lost and cant be recreated

[dire dagger]

And or it consumed a ton of the planned dev time

[sleek trout]

this is not the stalker 2 i waited for 🫠

[hallow bane]

That also makes a lot of sense. Its why Bethesda defend their choice to keep Starfield in the original engine

[dire dagger]

And we know for a fact a ton of dialog and mocap had to be completely redone after the war started

The story was also retooled allegedly

[sleek trout]

now include the fact that we live in the age of limitless cloud storage

[dire dagger]

I said it’s a theory

Didn’t say it was what happened

[sleek trout]

an excuse

[hallow bane]

A theory is just that, I think its probable. Not all countries have the same access to things that other countries do

[sleek trout]

ukraine and especially kiyv is not an absolute shithole as many think it is

i would actually compare it to the rest of the western cities if not the war

[hallow bane]

You also have to consider because of the war, they were most likely under major cyber attacks. Data gets lost or stolen in those situations

[sleek trout]

oh yeah cyberattacks and like half of them getting drafted

[hallow bane]

Yep

[sleek trout]

but thats by the end

what were they doing for like 12 years prior

[dire dagger]

The game wasn’t actually being developed till 2018

[hallow bane]

Right

[dire dagger]

And that was the very early initial planning stage

[hallow bane]

Mental health also. The war was on their doorstep. America hasnt had a war on its door step so Americans cant understand the psychological toll

[dire dagger]

Like it’s not really any excuse for the product being unfinished if they were just honest

[sleek trout]

that explains it

[storm kernel]

GSC was disbanded until like 2016 and S2 entered preproduction in 2018

[dire dagger]

Gsc as a company after the original stalker 2 got canned was dead

[hallow bane]

Yeah. They did put in an article that they didnt want to release it but they were burned out. They said if we dont release it now, we arent going to

[dire dagger]

Yah but the they never transparently said hey

[hallow bane]

I agree that was a fault on their part. They should have said "We promised you this but we apologize its not going to actually function this way"

[dire dagger]

The game isn’t gonna be ready for 1.0 but November 20th

But it was far too late for that by then

They over played their hand for way too long

[hallow bane]

They at least did try to do an article and apologize unlike CDPR with Cyberpunk

[dire dagger]

Like I’m not gonna pretend to know what gsc looked like financially

Maybe they could have delayed for a lot longer idk but the fact of the matter is

By November 20th people were simply out of patience

The hand had been over played too many times

[storm kernel]

game was still peak

[dire dagger]

The game is fine

[storm kernel]

goty 2024

[dire dagger]

The writing and voice acting leave a lot to be desired

[dire dagger]

You’re funny

[storm kernel]

writing is good, did you play with UA or english VA?

[hallow bane]

I get it, patience is a thing to have. Im used to being patient. 10 years for Starcraft 2, 10 years for this. Waiting 10 years is becoming a norm. Havent heard a peep about Elder Scrolls 6 lol

[dire dagger]

Writing is very lazy imo

The entire noon tide plot is just bad

[storm kernel]

to each their own, S2 has some great stuff in it

[sleek trout]

the game marketizes itself as an open-world RPG and it's just kind of empty 🙁

[dire dagger]

It basically just functions as they wanted to bring the monolith back and couldn’t figure out how to do it so they made noon tide

[hallow bane]

The way the story wrapped up was not ideal in my head. Its like hey this is just how we want to end the game. You dont see consequences, you dont see how it affects the world, its just "Oh you did all this, cool, game over"

[dire dagger]

Yah cus most of the stuff to do was cut

[storm kernel]

scar was an idiot, true

[sleek trout]

because they followed their imaginary deadlines or smth

[hallow bane]

Its not quite walking simulator like Death Stranding but its close lol

[sleek trout]

just finish the game

and dont announce the release date when it's unfinished and not ready

[storm kernel]

nah stalker 2 is far more peak than mid stranding

[sleek trout]

who was even pressuring them? investors?

[hallow bane]

From what i understand, they lost the desire to work on the game

Their mental health was shattered and they didnt want to do it anymore

[sleek trout]

yeah wouldnt be surprised

its like been canceled and back on development since 2010

and same history follows the first games when they overpromised so many things and just delivered whatever was done

[hallow bane]

I agree with this. Even go so far as to not even reveal a trailer. Just say, hey, this is in the works and leave it at that. The problem again is patience. So many people want something immediately and if they dont get it, then life is unfair

[sleek trout]

early access couldve worked too, giving them lots of space to breathe and winning time

like BG3 did it

[hallow bane]

Im all for someone taking the time to make sure a game is 100 percent and theres very little bugs if it means pushing back release

Its like I am waiting on the Gothic remaster. It did a trailer, 7 years ago? Still dont have a release date

[tacit oracle]

Baldur's gate releasing in early access was hacky and he only reason people aren't taking the piss is because it came out alright

[sleek trout]

yeah they estimated their abilities in making a game right

[tacit oracle]

But a big dev releasing what could be argued a AAA product in early acces is... Yikes 😬

[sleek trout]

and i wouldnt complain if stalker 2 had to be smaller

how much people they even have in the team?

[tacit oracle]

I have no idea, and honestly I would usually not feel at liberty to talk about game development under normal circumstances, much less when a dev team has to deal with an actual war zone for about couple years pre release

[sleek trout]

well i wouldn't assume it's big enough to deliver actual AAA projects considering the industry in ukraine itself, it's just couple indie games that release each year and that's all

[tacit oracle]

what I'll say is, as someone who's only made it to duga, imo the story's execution is not that terrible.

[sleek trout]

yeah i'm fine with it, same with the old characters returning

it just felt empty that's all for me, because they just simply overextended

[tacit oracle]

I'll agree that a lot of the motivations are unhinged at best, but it's stalker

[hallow bane]

I feel like Call of Pripyat had more of the horror and jump scare feeling. Some times that would leave you breatless

I would see a cave and be like. Nah, that isnt worth going into

[tacit oracle]

Idk, not like I've played them that much, but to me CoP precisely undermined its horror the same way s2 does, by leaning on the mutants too much

to me 2 also has some tense and spoopy moments but since there's so many damn mutants around you kinda end up desensitized

[hallow bane]

Yeah. If there were mutants only in key areas like a particular place has a ton of mutants and then you rarely see them it would be more of a risk factor

[tacit oracle]

I mean cop is the game that famously crammed 20 bloodsuckers into a cellar so imo it goes into the same pitfalls

[terse bane]

it's difficult talk about the development of HoC because the game doesn't have 10 years and because almost none "important information/stuff" was published by GSC, not as the old GSC that released some builds of Oblivion Lost and Shadow of Chernobyl before the release of SoC.

[worthy zodiac]

My biggest issue with it is that the motivation of the main character is pretty weak... It would be fine if we could ignore it but he always reminds of his motivation to other characters and I kinda cringe at these moments, lol

[dire dagger]

Yah the lack of transparency makes it hard to see what exactly went wrong

[storm kernel]

smallest pack of bloodsuckers in S2 open world

[flint cliff]

Sorry, I'm confused. What are the uniform colors of the perimeter soldiers, the militia, and the mercenaries?

[tacit oracle]

Ipsf green/tan, mercenaries blue

Honestly I'm not sure you can tell ipsf from corpus, maybe corpus is browner?

[hazy helm]

IPSF are woodland camo
The Corps is dark blue-gray

[flint cliff]

Blu-gray are mercenaries?

[hazy helm]

no, Mercs are Blue

[coarse sparrow]

cop was developed like 15 years ago?

I guess game design should have evolved at least a tiny bit since then

[hazy helm]

have you played COP?

[coarse sparrow]

of course

still have the disk laying around somewhere

ur point?

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/anton-chigurh-no-country-for-old-men-ok-oops-javier-bardem-gif-10579690

[tacit oracle]

I mean we used to get expansions and now we get dlc

but I guess "backwards" is also a direction you can evolve in

[coarse sparrow]

that's called decay

[simple geode]

Are there any mods that let you do stuff like NG+ or give access to walk around the end game area after it's over?

[devout yarrow]

I just put like 250 rounds of 45 acp into a chimera

[nimble cipher]

lemon_boi. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[devout yarrow]

You cant swear on this server?

[tacit oracle]

you may not swear

mayn't swear

[stiff pasture]

Fucktangular

[bold oxide]

what if we came up with our own swear words
no erm tho i wish s2 had like almost skyrim levels of side quests i domt wanna keep waiting for this dlc

i have quite literally collected everything with a selling value of over 1 mill like documents, every artifact, every gun, every unique gun that is avalible to me, all mutant parts, amd i have most stashes JUSTTT PLEASEEEEE I WANNNTTT MOREEE CONTENTTTTT

[tacit oracle]

I hope you enjoyed collecting all those sausages

I want them to get the game working right so I can do a playthrough that I don't restart halfway because the vibes are all wrong

[gritty orchid]

My dream is to play STALKER 2 with that AI conversation mod from Skyrim, that would be peak.

[sly matrix]

I don't want wards to guess someone stole my sweetroll though...

[celest blaze]

Whats the matter.. did someone steal your bread and sausage?

[knotty pawn]

With the fan base this universe has it won’t be long until it’s integrated. Heck I’d even say, ‘hold your breath’

[nimble cipher]

darkiris666 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/bane-no-banned-and-you-are-explode-gif-16047504

[rapid warren]

How do we feel about 1.6 beggining testing yesterday chat?

[hazy helm]

no comment

[rapid warren]

doakes staring gif

[pale sedge]

If u already have the game can u also buy swag pack?

Goodies

[lucid pagoda]

🙏looking forward to more console mods finally

[rapid warren]

They came just with tirnkets not the game so yeah

[pale sedge]

Ah yea i saw wish there were smaller packs

389 is to much

[reef raptor]

lol so im learning a language rn and there's a word "duga" which means "to be able to" here
and I keep saying it wrong cuz I am used to yk.. saying duga, but in this language it is pronounced "duia" for some reason

stalker-pilled

[nimble cipher]

bigshow1496 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[long aspen]

If I see a pseudogaint or chimera, I press escape and set difficulty to soy. I can't be asked to deal with bullet sponges. Afterwards change it back to veteran.

[twin thistle]

I feel like I've waited for the physical Ultimate Edition longer than the game itself, and I waited over a decade for S2

[coarse sparrow]

people who ordered in 2024 are still waiting, while GSC is re-releasing habar stuff again 💀

[wraith socket]

No one would order now if they were told they would actually get it in 2027.

[coarse sparrow]

how hard can it be to print and make plastic stuff

any factory in china or india can make those en masse

[tacit oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-allen-willem-dafoe-patrick-bateman-american-psycho-chad-uv-uk-ondi-gif-27368842

[analog helm]

refund or file a lawsuite. Noone in this chat can help you in any way, unfortunately

[coarse sparrow]

yeah man, I dunno how can corps will basically unlimited production budgets actually produce cheap plastic stuff

send the blueprint to china factory people and they will get it done np

[unreal raptor]

Stop 👏🏻 shilling 👏🏻 start 👏🏻 patching.

[tacit oracle]

But I want to shiiillll

[unreal raptor]

The new shill has patches.

Why doesn’t the game?

[coarse sparrow]

At least A-life 2.0 is there now

[tacit oracle]

I mean it's not working great but it is yeah

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-allen-willem-dafoe-patrick-bateman-american-psycho-chad-uv-uk-ondi-gif-27368842

[hard sleet]

Is there a mod or a tweak to allow bodies to remain around longer? They disappear a little to quick.

[daring storm]

Be the change you want to see

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tiny token]

Meow

[gritty orchid]

[placid spade]

OMG RATS

[swift dragon]

[empty echo]

was gonna try using the wanderer suit for the first time until i got clapped with the 21k artifact container upgrades

that's exosuit cost for an effing seva, are we mad???

[tacit oracle]

Upgrade prices in cordon have truly gotten out of control.
Google "sidorovich inflation" to learn more!

[empty echo]

it was at rostok

i wasn't friendly with him, and it's veteran

but that's still ridiculous

[empty echo]

[tacit oracle]

This joke works better with Pokemon ngl

But look i try

[worn oar]

Maybe end of this month I can say at least that

The aim is that

Maybe mid

[unreal raptor]

Get the FLIP out

[worn oar]

It all depends

[unreal raptor]

Mid — most things are Mid

[worn oar]

I get a chance yo throw NDA

on you

Not that I know when it will he released, but well, my predictions are mostly right

[urban basin]

Got hit by an electric anomaly and the power in my house went out

[worn oar]

Hersay

Prove it

[urban basin]

Power is back so i cant

[worn oar]

[rapid warren]

Get out of there stalker

[naive goblet]

hi guys i’m a skinny tiny manlet with no beard and no facial hair and i wanna sell something on facebook marketplace will i be mugged

[hazy helm]

yes

bring a machete

[naive goblet]

will bear spray deter thieves

[hazy helm]

it will deter bear

[naive goblet]

but does it work on thieves

[hazy helm]

are they bears?

[naive goblet]

no they’re humans

[tacit oracle]

no you get out

[coarse sparrow]

1.6 soon

[oak rock]

Apologies since I'm off topic but I really need an advice ,I got an Ryzen 5 5600 / 16gbx2 (3600mhz )/ 9060xt 16 gb vram ,I'm currently running an 1080p Asus tuf gaming VG249Q3A 23,6 ips 180hz ,I'm currently planning in buying an oled monitor I found AOC AGON AG276QZD2 26,7 QD-OLED Qhd 240mhz 0.03ms hdr 400 for 414 euro ,should I pull the trigger ? Only reason I wanna upgrade is bcs of the backlight of ips ,plus blurry in 1080p because of TAA ! And I know oled have way better colors and darker darks plus no motion no ghosting ,would be very glad if someone can suggest what to do.

[tacit oracle]

#pc-specs might be a better place to pose this question.

[oak rock]

Thanks

[coarse sparrow]

what an info dump brother

ASDASF21412 KSAFJ343 ASDASD2 😂

[naive goblet]

should i sell off my PS5 and buy a 3060 build

[nimble cipher]

.getman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[analog hollow]

nah. if it was a 4080 sure

[nimble cipher]

diablo7565 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[naive goblet]

why a 4080 specifically

[analog hollow]

well you want something thats comparable to the PS5 no?

you wouldnt want to downgrade now would you?

[naive goblet]

i’ve been thinking to sell off my playstation i.e after it’s repaired because my dad got mad when he died on the game and smashed the PS5
i wanna sell it cuz there’s no mods on playstation and im limited to a small library of games

[analog hollow]

well in that case go for it but Id try to least get a 4070

[naive goblet]

also some AAA games charge like 10 extra bucks on the console and the discounts are always bad

[analog hollow]

thats just me though

[naive goblet]

i heard the playstation 5 was equivalent to like a 3060ti/2070 super

my requests are humble and i only care for 60 fps med-high @ 1080p

[analog hollow]

nawwwww 2070 no way. PS5 is borderline 4k

[tacit oracle]

he's... trolling?

I mean not really trolling, but he's trying to be funny ig

[analog hollow]

i mean if he said PS4 I guess would be closer but PS5 comparable to a 2070/3060 uhhhh I dont think so

[tacit oracle]

I don't think the ps5 is comparable to a 4070, p sure a 3070 can pull as much if not more

but eh potyto potato

[analog hollow]

eh I said 4080 only because its better but if hes looking for the equivalent id say 4070.

[naive goblet]

4080 is like double ps5 power im pretty sure

[tacit oracle]

there's so many revisions lately that even within the same "name" you can find several levels of performance

[naive goblet]

no how is this a joke

i mean isn’t the ps5 gpu like an rx 6700

[analog hollow]

not double but it is better

[maiden belfry]

Do we have any idea what the expansion(s) will be about? Wanting to pull the trigger on the Ultimate Edition for a long time now.

[naive goblet]

probably not

[terse bane]

There's details about the expansions in-game, like, random mentions of locations.
but the thingis in-game related are spoilers, sooo, isn't ideal that about that in this channel.

[earnest edge]

The most accurate thing I have read lol

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/starving-alien-gif-21681479

[wraith socket]

Does this go to a movie?

[sly matrix]

I don't actually know where it's from

[wraith socket]

I had to do a Google image search. Got this: https://www.slashfilm.com/1269851/cocoon-ending-explained/

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[teal swallow]

Hey guys

Are binoculars part of 1.6 ?

Or it's just a rumor

[tacit oracle]

As confirmed by gamewithdave, both binos and nvg

https://youtu.be/p36C1dyGjtM?si=IiZBr-IIJjUo04-i

(i think that's the video)

[analog helm]

Hmm, this is strange - usually, he doesn't "confirm" anything that has not already been announced in #gsc-answers by GSC community managers. And they were very careful to only mention NVG, but not binoculars for the 1.6

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/dancingsoldier-gif-23004799

[surreal mortar]

I think both him and Vatislavovich at times gave us details that GSC hadn't given us yet.

[tacit oracle]

That's cause he wasn't a tester up to now.

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-hicks-mic-tap-mic-test-gif-13906564281384227237

[long aspen]

The sound of one hand clapping. I'm such a happy consumer.

[sly matrix]

No need to be testy about it

[long aspen]

No, those were qoutes from the show.

[sly matrix]

Ah, I failed that test then

[twin merlin]

I would like a game mode with humans only = no mutants/monsters.

[sly matrix]

Nah, might as well remove humans as well then

And the anomalies

[zinc apex]

Just remove game from harddrive

[terse bane]

If u want an stalker without mutants, play Global War.

[twin merlin]

Wow... good behaviour guys. 10 points.

[tacit oracle]

at the moment alife is acting wonky but you can disable mutants from spawning in the zone, assuming it eventually gets to work

maybe now that we'll get a map editor in the sdk people can more easily change the alife lair as well as the scripted encounters, you could make it human only then.

[celest blaze]

peak war mentioned

[naive goblet]

S🏳️‍⚧️ TALKER

[long aspen]

From what I have seen of this discord... Come complain the game is hard, don't mention any ideas other then "can we get anomaly in base game?" and don't mention the fury mods.

[naive goblet]

😂 BRO Anonaly 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️

You @long aspen that’s anomaly

[topaz surge]

Me and the boys when we jump back into Stalker 2 after 1.6, by that I mean a few months after 1.6 when the bugs for 1.6 are adressed and the bugs from the engine swap coming after 1.6 are also patched.

(I joke but tbh im pretty excited seeing the level of continued support and upcoming content)

[tacit oracle]

I am going to stay on 1.5.3 until I can be guaranteed a certain degree of mod functionality, yes

I'm excited for the changes in 1.6 but I honestly cannot afford a smidge more jank than the game currently has

also I'm not restarting my playthrough because the update broke an essential mod

[topaz surge]

fair

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-like-nobody-is-watching-richter-dancing-richter-slag-heap-stalker-gif-12313168116865261724

[worn oar]

Good choice

[graceful hemlock]

I'm just going to get the last achievement I need then put it down for a while, I had a lot of fun 🙂 maybe wait till either the games performance is improved or I get a better GPU and run through it in vr

[placid spoke]

Now that ive played soc id like to say that stalker 2 is way overhated by the community

I think its absolutely a worthy sequel

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tacit oracle]

No it's a terrible sequel because it doesn't meet my arbitrary set of standards and therefore is the absolute worst insult to the franchise rrreeee

[coarse sparrow]

get a load of this guy

[rapid warren]

Give that man a true

[tacit oracle]

True given

[celest blaze]

it's hated for a variety of reasons and most are valid

[placid spoke]

Ppl dont have to like it but hating it is just dumb

[celest blaze]

fair yeah not good wasting energy on hating

[zinc apex]

🫃 You guys should better use up your energy posting mpreg emojis again

[dire dagger]

No it’s not hated enough

[junior turret]

.

'-'

[flint cliff]

I haven't finished the main campaign yet. The counter shows 250 hours. If I want to explore the entire map and do everything, I estimate it will take me another 250 hours. I'm playing it by saving only at camps, without the compass or the on-screen crosshair. This has significantly increased my anxiety while exploring.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[analog helm]

well, and now in the new video he says the binoculars are probably not coming... lesson - tester or not, only trust the official GSC announcements

[summer mesa]

There is a A-life implemented? And fixed shatter lags?

[tacit oracle]

a-life's been in the game since 1.2

at least in the sense that npcs are simulated offline and that they're persistent up to about 1-2km

[summer mesa]

I played the game like for just week after premiere, so i come back from time to time asking same question that never been " yes, it is"

[tacit oracle]

maybe you should read the patch notes instead of asking on a discord then

do you want to know the degree a-life's been impremented to, or are you just looking for someone to tell you that it isn't because it doesn't meet some arbitrary standard?

[tacit oracle]

kinda annoying how quick he's to jump the gun with "announcements" that end up on nothing

that whole bit with the polish magazine was kinda embarrassing tbh

[summer mesa]

Actually im quite interested that you said there is something like A-life into game. But still i stopped playing because of stutter lags mostly, not AI.

Maybe its the time to check it and finally complete the game

[tacit oracle]

I mean I'll take a tester's account at face value but it's clear that guy kinda prioritizes putting anything out before checking on the validity

[oblique dagger]

real asf i've heard performance is shit or at least was at release
is it any better now?? :/

[tacit oracle]

not much better no

the big performance boost will come with the engine update at the end of november

[summer mesa]

Damn.

[surreal mortar]

To be fair, I think youtube's algorithm cares about frequency of uploads (besides engagement, etc). I think he might often feel like he has to

[summer mesa]

Thats quite soon then.

Worth to wait a bit

[surreal mortar]

I also would rather he only made videos once he really has something consistent to share. With the pace of STALKER 2 news since 1.5, I think very few videos would've been made that way (and that might have been bad news for the channel, unless he took a firm step to branch out, etc). 😕

[tacit oracle]

I saw a noticeable increase in performance with the last nvidia drivers, I can now keep pretty stable 60 fps on high-ish settings at 2k pretty much anywhere outside of hubs with my 5060ti

But the game itself hasn't had any noticeable performance upgrades to my knowledge

That's cause it's shit performance is intimately tied to the fact that it's in ue5.1

[surreal mortar]

Does the implementation of DLSS 4 count? That one did appear to improve performance and clarity for me. 🤔

[tacit oracle]

probably tbh

[faint oasis]

Anyone know any urbexers?

[tacit oracle]

honestly for someone who's making videos catering towards a very specific fanbase and people interested in news about the one videogame, I think he should be better off holding on the nothingburgers he's put out every other day

you'd think someone at gsc would have already asked him to after the whole "1.6 won't come out until november" announcement which imo would have been very, very easy to double check before release.

[surreal mortar]

Oh he said that?

[surreal mortar]

Like Shiey, of Illegal Freedom?

[faint oasis]

Exactly like him

[surreal mortar]

Only from Youtube. And he has a few friends with similar channels join him on his adventures. 🙂 I am reminded of him whenever I do some sketchy Parkour in S2 and my hands get all sweaty. 😂

[faint oasis]

Oh okay I was looking for people to take a few trips with to irl locations from games n whatnot n figured urbexers would be a good place to start

[tacit oracle]

yeah, here he said it looked like 1.6 was going to be released november off an article in a polish internet magazine which already read like a miscommunication to begin with. He sorta walked it back next day next day and finally confirmed the next one.

[oblique dagger]

ooh ok guess i'll wait for that to get the game

[tacit oracle]

1.6 is on testing right now and should come out by the end of september

it's just that a polish magazine asked about it, and in a convo about the ps5 version, they told them that it would come out to ps5 with 1.6 already in the game

[oblique dagger]

wait so it is confirmed that it'll be on november or was it fake?

[tacit oracle]

the polish magazine then made a confusingly worded statement about the ps5 version coming out with the 1.6 patch

[oblique dagger]

ooh ok lol

[tacit oracle]

and gamewithdave interpreted it to say that 1.6 would come out when the ps5 version would (which is end of november)

yeah it was an absolute clusterfucc that was entirely avoidable

but just to clear things up, to the best of our knowledge 1.6 is end of this month, the ue5.5 update is end of november

[oblique dagger]

are we certain that it'll come with the unreal 5 update? cuz i've heard on reddit that they weren't going to update or something

[oblique dagger]

oh aight i see

[tacit oracle]

the ps5 version has been confirmed to be running on ue5.5, and it would make sense that they will update the rest of platforms to it when the ps5 version comes out

so while I don't think it's been confirmed, it would be reasonable to believe that, unless there's a delay, we should get the unreal engine update by the end of november to coincide with the ps5 version. Maybe earlier, but I wouldn't count on it.

[oblique dagger]

then what i heard on reddit was people saying they probably won't update unreal 5 cuz it'd be hard to code and stuff

[oblique dagger]

oh guess they were wrong then lol

[tacit oracle]

well reddit be reddittin

[oblique dagger]

loll

[surreal mortar]

Unless I'm mistaken, he's hinting in today's video that 1.6 might be ready for next week (maybe just doing wishful thinking, as he's about to leave for holiday and won't be here next week).

[tacit oracle]

I mean it just started testing like what, this past week?

idk, maybe I guess.

[surreal mortar]

It could be rather limited in scope, for the amount of time that has already passed since 1.5, so maybe it makes sense that way

[tacit oracle]

I mean we're getting sdk stuff, the nvg, sidequests apparently

and not like, offhand, apparently "an old friend" so go figure

at least one new anomaly too apparently

I mean hey, I'm all for it. The sooner it comes out, the sooner they'll be able to fix the stuff it will break lol

[surreal mortar]

What was it... NVGs, stash rebalance (?), some controller setting stuff, and some new quests (if it's like Malachite mutant loot quests, that's not a lot, imho).

[tacit oracle]

yeah apparently something to do with stashes I guess? Thought then again, since everything I've seen comes off gamewithdave I'm inclined to take every single statement with an increasingly larger grain of salt

[surreal mortar]

Forgot about SDK and the new NPC for those quests.

[oblique dagger]

i was about to ask about the night vision goggles before i realized it was the acronym lmao

[surreal mortar]

Understandable. He will rightly catch some flack and maybe will do better in the future.

I believed him with the binoculars, then realized I was bamboozled

[tacit oracle]

I think he's just trying his best to do a good job but considering gsc has been heavily critisized about promised stuff not being in the game, if you care about the community and the developers you need to make an effort to double check your sources

I personally don't care much about what 1.6 has, I just want the game to run better and modders to be given better tools honestly

but I know there's people jumping at the bit to shit on the game and will latch onto stupid stuff like that.

[molten condor]

Can someone please respawn

[summer cliff]

It's funny how again PC players turned into beta testers for console players

I doubt PS5 players will suffer as much day one as we did

[bitter chasm]

I'd rather have an empty zone than bandits spawning in my face every 100 meters, that's not A-life, that's nonsense

[placid spade]

Wasnt necessary at all if the devs had left the consoles out

[long aspen]

Bandits is peak easy mode. From time to time I still get 3 bloodsuckers out of nowhere.

[bitter chasm]

Well, not when 5-6 people discharge at you and drop your HP to zero and this is a diamond in the exoskeleton, you can at least run away from bloodsuckers as well as from other mutants because they don’t stagger you with shots.

[untold smelt]

anyone else able to see the CNPP on the map with no clouds or anything? is this a glitch or something purposeful cause I just noticed it on my new playthrough?

[bitter chasm]

it will disapear

[untold smelt]

yeah but why is it like that and why only on my new playthrough

[bitter chasm]

I don't know, maybe it was a bug, in any case you can't get there, what's the point in bothering

[untold smelt]

just want to know if theres a reason... like how in some games devs will do similar things to hint at new updates/dlcs/etc...

[tacit oracle]

I'm not going to completely discard this happening but to all intents and purposes this doesn't happen with current alife anymore

like, as far as I'm aware, there's even some amount of safety distance the game spawns bandits at, and it's not "in your face"

[oblique dagger]

the video of the guy inside a building and bandits kept spawning outside the window as he killed them lmao

[urban basin]

Yeah, it also happened to me in release while i was exploring that building lol it was funny but annoying

[oblique dagger]

so it wasnt that uncommon? lmao 😭

[tacit oracle]

not on release

they had to basically turn off a-life for the release and leave only the spawning director

that caused close spawns

[urban basin]

You turned around and someone would spawn behind you

[oblique dagger]

yeahh i saw the clips

hopefully its better now
what would yall say is the best a-life mod if theres any?

[tacit oracle]

there's two, a-life found a way (afaw for short) and shay's living zone

afaw right now works kinda wonky, shay's is basically vanilla +

so I recommend slz

[stiff pasture]

I’d class Shay’s as controlled chaos

AFaW right now is more ‘CONGRATULATIONS YOU’RE GETTING JUMPED’

[bitter chasm]

dude ive start litteraly with last update and this kind of shit happends all time, i dont even talk about a lot 7,62x39 ammo type which should be cut of

[tacit oracle]

here's the thing though,

I would bet you would not be able to tell between two situations where an enemy wanders in behind you, and one where they spawn in

but, I bet that if you were to blame the game for getting killed, you would favor the latter

[oblique dagger]

ooh ok thx

[stiff pasture]

I genuinely think I’ve seen more Chimera in one run with AFaW then in all my previous runs combined

[tacit oracle]

afaw touched a bunch of stuff that due to 1.5 silliness isn't working right

like I got 5 burers back to back within 15 minutes in garbage

and 3 chimeras in the train depot near icarus, so fast that I basically got two at the same time

the author did what he could but it was still getting way too crazy with the spawning

it's not that it made the game that hard, but it basically ruined unlimited's economy 'cause I was getting way too much loot lol

[oblique dagger]

oh theres an economy overhaul mod?

[bitter chasm]

I played on release and compared to now the only difference is that there are fewer bugs, repair costs are more reasonable, there are mutant parts and insane NPC spawning. Even the same cyberpunk didn't screw up like that

[tacit oracle]

it's got very noble intentions and I hope it gets it working right because it's a much more interesting concept of a poi-centric alife system

[tacit oracle]

several thousand yes

[bitter chasm]

Of course I can use the work of modders to neutralize all this trash, but I want to get some achievements

[tacit oracle]

I use unlimited which basically cuts like 75% of the loot and freebies you'd get during a normal playthrough, while overhauling the stash system into something more purposeful than "stumbling onto backpacks full of chochkes every 5 meters"

[urban basin]

I havent had any crazy npc spawn situation and i made a new save file for the last update

[tacit oracle]

there's an achievement enabler mod that was available the second the devs disabled cheevos for mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1493

[bitter chasm]

thx mate

[urban basin]

Compared to release where they never stopped spawning so exploring some buildings was basically impossible

[oblique dagger]

oh ok lmao

[oblique dagger]

yup i saw that
didnt know why it was there but i hadnt realized mods disabled achievements til now lol

[clever finch]

the devs gotta add the ability to continue the same save game after completing the story

im begging

[coarse sparrow]

or NG+

[sly matrix]

How about NG-?

[ripe thorn]

Guys, have any of you had an issue where if your stash contaings too many things it gets all messed up and unclickable?

[coarse sparrow]

that's like a demo

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint cliff]

Hi. Please don't spoiler anything, but I'm having a problem with Hera at the Duty camp. At a certain point, the game tells me to return to him, but then he doesn't give me any more side quests. Is this a bug? Can it be fixed?

[urban basin]

I had to load an earlier savefile to fix that

[flint cliff]

Unfortunately, I've progressed so far in the game that I can't go back. I didn't think it was a bug at the time. So it's a bug and I won't be able to get side missions from that character anymore? I'll be free to kill everyone at the Duty base...

[urban basin]

Yeah

[flint cliff]

Damn.

[empty gorge]

how so? the complete and gold or like all of em

[stiff pasture]

Gold currently, I see more enemies for sure but I’m not getting buried

I think my worst one was four squads outside Sultansk but nothing unreasonable

I am also running OXA prototype on this run so any actual issues quickly spiral into ‘Last life’s problem’

[flint cliff]

After a very tough battle, I managed to make enemies of the Duty. Their symbol in the camp is red, but it cost me a lot of medkits and a destroyed suit. The side missions in their camp were bugged, but during the battle, someone escaped and unlocked a side mission nearby. Will the Duty hunt me down across the entire Zone? I have two other factions hunting me. Will it be hell?

[flint cliff]

It was fun though...

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[reef raptor]

[flint cliff]

They announced night vision goggles. Finally. After 250 hours, I was wondering why they weren't there...

[robust kestrel]

Because they didnt implement them, thats why kek

[tiny token]

These NVGs are goated

[flint cliff]

I seem to recall that there were various types of visors in SoC. Some of them didn't work well.

[hard trench]

I'm happy I put the game down early after launch, so I can enjoy the game as it was intended. I'll probably pick the game up again late next year

Happy to see the updates😁 keep at it, make it worth my financial support💪

[tacit oracle]

honestly I think oxa's are still way better

[zinc apex]

🫃

[thick wolf]

too true

[tacit oracle]

real pregman hours

[worthy zodiac]

#📜┃gsc-answers message
Dude, am I the only one who's kinda triggered by the answer that don't answer the question directly... Like come on, it doesn't say if NPCs will react to your flashlight differently...

[unreal raptor]

That is Answers channel 100% for me.

[worthy zodiac]

Anyways, good day to you all or something like that. Hope 1.6 will be really good, been a long time since some big update

[unreal raptor]

NVGs are going to be fun — I can't wait to see how much Lumen hecks them up.

[worthy zodiac]

Sometimes they do reply directly but yeah, it's pretty rare

[worthy zodiac]

Isn't it just a filter on top of the picture? How can lumen affect it?

Although we'll see, maybe they've done some extra features that aren't just filters...

[unreal raptor]

Looks like its reacting to the light too — so I think in situations where lumen is already flakey its going to be funny.

Also the clip show pretty drastic low gamma.

[unreal raptor]

Has anyone ever had a night that dark in game before? Or is this a new thing now we have NVGs?

[midnight wagon]

Yes.

[unreal raptor]

hmm most ofthe NVG thing just looks like eye adaption. Wonder how much you could see in that room once you just, walk on in.

[surreal mortar]

I've realized that I use way higher brightness for Stalker 2 than in any other game, because otherwise I can't see sh!t.

[unreal raptor]

mostly that's just the ropey renderer making things look like a weird voxel smear in the distance

[midnight wagon]

You can't, because the lighting in this game is shit when it comes to the light-dark balance. It's either fully bright or fully dark. And light sources don't actually work to light areas up.

[oblique dagger]

i just hope theyre still usable even if you pump your brightness up to max

[unreal raptor]

yeah the lighting in this game/engine is total toffee, sunsets look nice, that's about it.

[surreal mortar]

Also sunrises. 😁

[tacit oracle]

you guys don't get nights that are only slightly darker than noon?

smh gotta feel bad for those not living in midnightsunland

[ripe patrol]

if youre running hdr try RenoHDR

(and also DWO of course) https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/164

[tacit oracle]

Honestly, I would vastly recommend this over DWO now that I've tried both:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1606?file_id=10918

(in fact I would recommend the entire modpack https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1619)

the guy making the modpack did all he could but apparently you can't change the amount of light the moon puts out, despite being able to change its path and phase

[thick wolf]

Man I'm STOKED for 1.6

Then again I'm stoked for any update since launch

[atomic adder]

how do i get into the chemical plant?

[coarse sparrow]

guys, are NVGs part of paid DLC for the game?

[thick wolf]

no they're part of update 1.6

[coarse sparrow]

cool

[orchid gale]

No way I joke predicted a update announcement

[tacit oracle]

they're a subscription

you first need to get them on a dropbox with a 0.001% drop chance

then you have to pay a subscription for them to work

and every week or so they'll run out of batteries that you also need to purchase

each battery costs 1000 coupons but you can only buy them in packs of 900

[wraith socket]

It's a bug I've reported multiple times. The only solution is to return to a save made before you took that specific side mission. His other jobs work okay.

If you have been failing to make frequent manual and quick saves as you progress, then this is your wake up call to start doing so.

[flint cliff]

Unfortunately, it's been many hours since the bug occurred. When it happened, I didn't think it was a bug. Yesterday, I returned to that camp and killed several Duty units, who will now hunt me down as they are now hostile.

[wraith socket]

Your system didn't make any auto saves going back before you went crazy?

Hera is the only bugged side mission giver, I am aware of.

[flint cliff]

The autosave must have overwritten itself, and dozens and dozens of hours of gameplay have passed since that happened. I play on Xbox.

[wraith socket]

I always make a manual save before I take a mission, during the mission and after a mission.
If a failure comes as you try to get a reward, you can go back right before that and either decline the
mission if you have not done it yet or even before you take it. Hopefully you will start doing this in the future.

[flint cliff]

Okay, you're right, but in my case, I thought it wasn't a bug, but for some reason related to the plot, Hera no longer allowed me to do any more missions. Only much later did I realize it was a bug.

[wraith socket]

Yes, being unable to get the icon to change, completing the side-mission,
and having it show you still need to return, means he is unable to give you any more.

Next time if something goes wrong, post or look at previous posts here before you go further: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308035959530586122

I'm just disappointed I posted about this months ago and GSC still has not fixed it.

As far as I know it is just the "package" side-mission. All the others seem to work.

[flint cliff]

Maybe they'll fix it now that it's coming out on PS5 😁

[flint cliff]

Now the Duty are my enemies and entering the base is almost impossible and all the base markers are red

[wraith socket]

Non è una bella situazione in cui trovarsi.

[flint cliff]

Why?

[wraith socket]

It is always better to have allies, to use their Trader, to use their Mechanic, to have shelter from an Emission, to get side-missions from.

[flint cliff]

In my case, given the bug, I can no longer have side missions from Hera so I decided to do something unconventional and attack the Duties and during the attack on their base, the game unlocked a side mission of a lone stalker under the Concrete Forest. I then remember that even in Shadow of Chernobyl, Duty had become hostile at a certain point even though I had never directly attacked their base but I managed to finish the game anyway.

I have to say that when this happened in Shadow of Chernobyl it was also fun to break into their base (which in that case was the Rostok Bar) and take everyone out.

[wraith socket]

You should go to the Chemical Factory next and kill all the Ward.

[flint cliff]

You ask too much of me

[flint cliff]

If I can buy enough ammo for the rocket launcher though, I can do it.

[urban basin]

Nah, it happened to me with the "kill mutants" one too

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

You too, king

[clever finch]

I guess ill start a complete new game and gonna hope they add the ability to continue playing the same game after completing the main story

[past basalt]

When will they finally fix the Skadosvk doors?

[tacit oracle]

last patch notes referred specifically to fixing them, I've never had a problem with them to begin with tbh

[lucid pagoda]

Ironically I've actually never had a problem with this till the most recent patch allegedly fixing it, and it's just the Shevchenko affected for me

[graceful hemlock]

A save load at the doors sometimes opens them up if they're clos d due to nearby enemy you can't find. Otherwise you can try the locksmith mod, or noclip (,both require uess)

[lucid pagoda]

console

Fortunately you can still get into both through the top access if you do a little parkour

[flint cliff]

When I attacked Duty, they became hostile, but then I discovered that over time they revert to non-hostile. Is there a way to make them always remain hostile?

[tepid oriole]

Have you've lost your freaking mind

[flint cliff]

No, I just want another faction that will always chase me all over the map.

[tepid oriole]

Nope, you lost it, too much vodka stalker.

[copper shale]

My dude wants the fight. You got mutants, bandits, and more. He wants another faction to fight.

We need more Arena. My Coupons are on this man

[tepid oriole]

just kill varta, monolith,bandits,freedom, mercs

[wraith socket]

Go to the Chemical Plant and attack the Ward.

[flint cliff]

Ward are already hostile

[wraith socket]

Just attack everyone if you want to be hated.

[copper shale]

Does it breathe? Shoot

[inland vector]

Hello guys genuine question how is Stalker 2 these days? I played few hours on release day but decided to wait a bit longer for patches 😊

[wraith socket]

Sidorovich has been looking for you.

[inland vector]

Obi-Wan Kenobi: 'Thats Why Im Here"

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint cliff]

Are there already mods to make Stalker 2 even more hardcore?

Since I have the Hera missions bugged on Xbox, if I notified the game on PC, edited some files to fix it, saved the game, and restarted it on Xbox since saves are supposed to be shared, would that work? My PC can't run the game well because it's not very powerful.

[ember summit]

Samesies to you hombre.

[loud seal]

was Alife added properly so far?

[thick wolf]

Nah

[unborn palm]

It’s better than it was at launch (you can follow people around, they do persist) but it doesn’t really work well beyond that for organic encounters

[loud seal]

thanks fam

[mental sage]

Why does every game developer add this "bweeeeee" sound to NVG's when they get powered on, they literally do not ever make that sound reeeeeeee

[sly matrix]

Thermal cameras do when you start them up

The one I worked with did at least

[lucid pagoda]

exaggeration of tube whine on first-gen devices + Hollywood effect = SAM FISHER

[glass wave]

we asked for NVG and we got a green filter instead 🥀 #📰┃announcement message

[weak sandal]

Is it impossible to satisfy you. When you haven't even tried the item for yourself yet?

[glass wave]

i will when it comes out

[weak sandal]

So why are you complaining about a screenshot?

You can see with the blue one that it's affected by light. They aren't thermal so realistically they're doing exactly what they should be doing.

[tacit oracle]

Bishes gon bish 🚬

[weak sandal]

Foreal

[wise geyser]

yooo it looks like if you goy nvgs on with a laser you use a turned stance to aim with the laser ❤️‍🔥

[weak sandal]

Yeah I saw that too and that's sick. I hope certain scopes like the holo get treatment where you can lower the brightness to work with the nvgs

[tacit oracle]

I don't think nvgs have really a point in the game at the moment, but if they improve the ai detection and allow modders to adjust moon light and whatnot it could work okay

Fwiw oxa has had nvg for a while and I have never ever e v e r felt the need to use it

[tacit oracle]

At the moment it's a solution looking for a problem that people are excited about because they haven't yet asked themselves why would they want it in the first place

[versed jasper]

I wish the NVGs didn't have the big black borders, but it's better than nothing

[fickle apex]

Is it just me or is Numpad 1 still moving the Camera to the left

[bold oxide]

i like it cause its cool

it gives me the thing called immersion

[versed jasper]

it does?

[bold oxide]

yessss its awesome when games do it

[versed jasper]

but it's not how they work

you should be able to see outside the tubes

[bold oxide]

it also kinda helps me in a way know which one is which cause most of them are green

[versed jasper]

you would still know by the design, I'm not asking for the whole screen to be NVGs, only the part that is actually the NVGs, anything outside would still be normal vision, like how they work

[bold oxide]

also alot of them do have the border i do believe

just like less or something

[versed jasper]

idk how to explain it but I think you're misunderstanding me and I can't show with a picture because of permissions

[bold oxide]

theressss dms

[summer stream]

Dear god

[bold oxide]

its possibly like that cause its just easier to do without having to optimize 300 things cause i do believe its just a shader thing that overlaps the screen or something like that, a game that better explains this is mobile arena breakout with the fact that the thermals in that game are able to see through glass and optics and such which isnt possible with thermals but who knows i could be dumb

[bold oxide]

no bro I NEED NVGS I NEEDDD THEMM I CANT KEEP GETTING SHOT 500 MILES AWAY WHEN I CANT SEE A GUY 2 FEET AWAY FROM ME PLS

[glass wave]

It would have been better if there was nvgs to wear with a bit of fisheye effect

[bold oxide]

i think ima just be happy with what i got and hope that mods will bring some of this stuff to life especially on xbox

[summer stream]

They aren’t just a filter though

[ember summit]

IWP?

[celest blaze]

thats most likely cotz

[ember summit]

Ah nice, awesome mod.

[celest blaze]

fr one of my favorites RIP DocX 🫡

[twilit mist]

How is the peformance now compared to launch and the following week/two?

[thick wolf]

Better, still room for improvement

[zenith creek]

Yeah wait for the engine version upgrade if you're worried about performance

[clever finch]

thank god the three line rifle is purchaseable in zalissya so I can use it in my second playthrough : )

[clever finch]

are u able to upgrade the ar 416 that u can get from pomor aswell as put attachments on it

[wooden zenith]

Is there even a point in getting a suit with psi protection? It seems almost pointless. I am at duga now and got the SSP-1001 survey suit, but should I even bother with upgrading the psi protection part of it?

[clever finch]

u wont encounter that much stuff that involves psi so I guess not unless u have a lot of coupons

[wooden zenith]

Okay thanks for the tip

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[coarse sparrow]

Is multiplayer still on the table for S2?

Extraction shooter would be cool

[hot gate]

Has something happened recently to make the game more unstable? It used to have issues with crashing now and then, but now I can barely play the game for 10-30 minutes without it crashing on me.

I play on PC btw.

[urban basin]

Still works like normal for me so no idea if something changed sorry 😭

[wraith socket]

CotZ

[tacit oracle]

Multiplayer will eventually release but I wouldn't expect anytime soon

Or anything too complex either for that matter (though I'm sure modders will probably be able to utilize the framework to do their own thing)

[wraith socket]

People asking daily for Multiplayer. Sigh.
When it actually comes out, you won't have to ask.

[hot gate]

Honestly, co-op for this game would be tons of fun.

Question though, I found a bug. Where do I go to report a bug here? Did the PC bug reports channel get removed?

[tacit oracle]

Coop is not considered. Gsc has said so multiple times.

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/articles/29872226088209-How-to-Report-a-Bug-for-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl

[hot gate]

Darn.

[elder beacon]

How do you guya organise your load order on steam

[hazy helm]

i don't

[elder beacon]

Dosnt it affect they way the game loads mods

[hazy helm]

i wouldnt know

[mortal quail]

back after a long time CRAVING stalker. in your opinion is this game fixed now? no spoiling please, i just want to know if i need to wait more or if i can continue. last played december 2024

[hazy helm]

wait for 1.7

[mortal quail]

how so, a big update?

maybe i should try to find a roadmap or something to see

[hazy helm]

1.7 will update engine to 5.5.1

[mortal quail]

so, just better performance/visuals?

[nimble cipher]

sir_whiterabbit has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sharp minnow]

maybe 5.5.4

[untold smelt]

no 5.6 with nanite + lumen optimisations 🙁?

[sharp minnow]

I think no be 5.5.4 still no info for 5.6

[hazy helm]

peak would be to just port it to Unity

[celest blaze]

naw man creation engine 2..

[untold smelt]

Godot confirmed?

[hazy helm]

godot is confirmed to be at the bottom of the bin yes

[untold smelt]

Actually I mean... STALKER TWO PORT TO PYGAME CONFIRMED???!?!?!?!

[analog helm]

5.6 is currently buggy. I literally encountered a bug in the very first hour doing beginner-level stuff (Swarm was absent for baking the lighting). No reason to touch it for production-level projects until 5.6.1 at least.

[untold smelt]

I havent had too many issues so far with it- but I use it for different purposes (Film+VFX) and not games so itll be different

[hazy helm]

cancer (aka film applications )

[untold smelt]

whats the supposed to mean.....

[hazy helm]

exactly what it means
may UE crash on you and your yee yee hass VFX application with no need for runtime optimization

[untold smelt]

No houdini has never crashed on me....

why would you assume that!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/dog-computer-gif-14860983

shii forget I cant post gifs

[lone oracle]

we made

[fathom cedar]

SoC story on co-op CoP engine is not the same as SoC co-op

True soc co-op would be based on soc

[terse bane]

He is talking about SoC Together, not XRMPE.

SoC Together it's on some X-Ray Engine 1.0 X32* that even is compatible with some SoC story mods.

[fathom cedar]

Oh holy that’s actually based

[lone oracle]

We made soc together based on soc

[lone oracle]

So we made true

Now playing different mods released on SoC platform

[lone oracle]

x32

[terse bane]

Payback with payback bros

[lone oracle]

CoP Together also upcoming with possibility to play sum mods in co-op

[terse bane]

Yeah, i read one article that describe that some mods like Spatial Anomaly are compatible.

[lone oracle]

Already played

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[clever finch]

the icons for traders and such mean that theres a discount for the stuff right?

[hazy helm]

last time you were here you were making anomaly coop, then op coop, now SOC coop andm it is within the SOC engine?

https://tenor.com/view/james-doakes-doakes-curious-suspicious-questioning-gif-14390669560130901665

[lone oracle]

We made Anomaly 1.5.3 coop on X-ray monolith engine + GAMMA Support possibility and addons, we made SoC Co-op on vanilla X-Ray 1.0 + possibility to play mods, now we're in pre-release stage of CoP co-op with possibility to play mods.

[hazy helm]

of course, all of this working for sure but not to the public, you need to join your own server right

https://tenor.com/view/james-doakes-james-doakes-sus-face-james-doakes-suspicious-james-doakes-reaction-erik-king-gif-14404252364057104628

[lone oracle]

Not to the public? Wdym

[hazy helm]

despite you having been making this anomaly coop for years and years on end and starting more projects since

[lone oracle]

Download on appro

[lone oracle]

For years? We made first version of anomaly coop after 2 months of development

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/james-doakes-doakes-curious-suspicious-questioning-gif-14390669560130901665

this sounds like bullshit

[lone oracle]

The latest version of Anomaly Together (2.3) released since 1 year of development and based on mrredemonized fork

I don't know why you need much years for this, we made it faster

So we released SoC Together now public. Developed it 3-4 months

[clever finch]

being able to use the axes/hatchets that are on a bullseye board or whatever u call it would be so cool to see as something u could use instead of the knife

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/no-country-for-old-men-old-men-gif-10439924

[lone oracle]

Also it supports steam/gog version (not enhanced one off course)

CoP Together will also support this and we're now playing some vanilla based mods.

If you don't trust that we're released it, you can ask Colonel Rahmi, he can approve it (meant SoC or Anomaly)

[coarse sparrow]

Stalker 2 coming on Switch 2?

[thick wolf]

It just has to run at 540p internal with dlss, lumen disabled, 30 fps

I don't think it's a good idea personally

Maybe if the engine upgrade gives crazy performance improvements

[grim rivet]

480p can’t render NPCs within 10 meters and anomalies cause more anomalies because of hardware incompatibilities

There are actually real living humans that believe the Switch 2 is a good console it’s comical beyond belief

[empty echo]

there are actual real humans who would give money to nintendo

[spark kettle]

Are NVG already in game? Or was that a teaser?

[tacit oracle]

they're coming with 1.6 which should drop at some point in the next couple weeks

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[surreal mortar]

I expect it at the end of this week. Am I too optimistic?

[teal swallow]

They have been testing for two weeks now

It should drop this week

[rapid warren]

Me too

[hallow pollen]

I hope so. I finished the game last weekend and want to start it new after the release of 1.6

[unreal raptor]

Skif is built different. So crap.

[surreal mortar]

Frustrating. I hope they revisit that in the future. I don't want pseudogiants nerfed, but that interaction (pseudogiants knocking you down by stomping their foot while you're in the air) makes no sense and is punishing just for the sake of it. I'd rather they gave pseudogiants another charge attack that can actually knock you off stuff you've climbed on (for the 'cheese' you'd often do to kill them on Veteran, for instance).

[thick wolf]

it is sort of a silly question

[tacit oracle]

Yeah the slam spam is very real

I use a mod that straight up removes it

Also increases the burer and controller cooldowns

I get that it's like, half of their kit, but when your kit sucks that's what you get ig lol

it also makes it so deer can only spam phantoms, not actual mutants

[fathom cedar]

Serious question — why would it not affect you? It’s not like he shakes the literal ground, he sends a shockwave. That goes through the air.

I googled it. I stand corrected. The shockwave would mostly be seismic vibrations, the air blast would be minor in comparison.

[analog helm]

It is not that much about realism, as it is about interactivity and engagement of the player. When an enemy does something, player should be able to do something to counteract it.
Otherwise, game just punishes player for nothing, knocking him on the ground without giving any opportunity to avoid that. Being able to jump to dodge is a perfect mechanic to make battles more interactive and less frustrating.
Same with "roar" for bloodsuckers - it is bad, as you simply cannot do anything to avoid it. Things get even worse, when there are multiple of them and they chain it, and player has to just afk wait until it is over. What's sad, that instead of recognizing the mistake devs doubled down on it, by adding same thing for controllers. This is just a lazy and outright bad game design...

[surreal mortar]

See, that's what I'm talking about! That is a really good way to go about it, I think (especially if they're phantom mutants).

[tacit oracle]

At first I thought it was kinda easy but between the charges, its hp, and the chip damage you'll get from the phantoms it will actually put up a fight wihout being frustrating

[surreal mortar]

Undodgeable CC is an annoying mechanic. Imho we are lucky there appears to be a shared cooldown between the mutant CC like Bloodsuckers' roar and knockdown effects, else players would so often simply get stunlocked/CC'd to death (especially with multiple mutant encounters). Also, the sometimes borderline mandatory on Veteran counterplay of simply getting on top of something to stop some dangerous mutants' attacks is not too satisfying to have to use. I can't be too critical about it, but I hope they revisit this along with mutant sponginess (and maybe have different attacks with potentially even higher damage values, higher speed, instead of undodgeable CC + battle tank HP/armor). Fingers crossed for good news to come (whether from GSC directly or from modders). 🙏🏻

Sorry for the wall of text.

[tacit oracle]

I've been wombocombo'd by giants and chimeras both

and bloodsuckers but that's apparently some kind of "rage mode" that can activate while fighting them

[surreal mortar]

Sure, Otto, but you play heavily modded, likely a much harder game (which I very much respect and will likely mimic soon, as I think I've exhausted the current content of the game). Or have I got the wrong idea?

[surreal mortar]

In your experience at least with fighting packs of bloodsuckers, have you not noticed that you cannot get repeatedly roared or knocked down by them in quick succession? On vanilla S2, there is always time to pop a medkit, no matter the difficulty, no matter if 2 or 4 bloodsuckers.

[tacit oracle]

they have some amount of cooldown yes, but I've always played with this mod so I can't really speak a lot for vanilla

which, just for reference, it's this: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1494

[surreal mortar]

Right, as I thought. Quite a few changes there. Just to name one, that removal of weapon sway from bloodsucker roar is pretty major. But so is the removal of the bloodsucker jump attack knockdown cooldown. Interesting mod. 🫡

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[wise geyser]

Indeed to you to man

[tacit oracle]

it kinda tries balancing things around, not just making it a full on nerf

[unreal raptor]

all of the mechanics you can't fight against are whack — they need to fix these. There is no clear design intention, it's just cheap. Even if you can use a medkit, it never feels like you skill up, you have to take the hit and heal. Which people have noted it sucks for gameplay.

[tacit oracle]

I've always contended that mutant design in general has never been good

that stems partly from the fact that melee enemies in a shooty shooty game are always going to suck, but more importantly, stalker 2 in a lot of senses is shackled to a legacy design that was never that good to begin with

[unreal raptor]

Agreed! Maybe the reason it feels so whack in 2 — there's too many mutants?

I for one hate this 50/50 split of mutants and humans. In the first it was that shock of a suprise mutant rocking up that got the blood pumping. Not a pack of bloodsuckers in the same spawn spot, growling and drunking you.

[tacit oracle]

I can't super speak for the original games but I'm doing a radiophobia playthrough and I'd even say there's more mutants there than in 2

but honestly, I've always been a proponent that mutants should be used very, very, very sparsely

like, miniboss amounts of sparse

[opal torrent]

I think that would get a little boring unless it wouldn't be in pre specified locations

But then people would complain that the Zone feels empty and you cannot come across mutants and so on

That being said, i do think some mutants would benefit from this design. Namely lore accurate Controllers or Bloodsuckers (those shouldn't attack you in the open field really, rather do it in closed places like tunnels, caves and such where your mobility is limited)

[languid pilot]

So hey im new to the Stalker Games
Have some hours Not much in Stalker 2

And i heard a Lot of Bad Rep about the state of the Game
But i Just wanted to Share my Love for the Game
I never fellt so free and Sometimes even rewarded to Play lets say moraly Grey

I cant remeber the Last Time when a Game was able to let moraly Grey be a valid choice of Playstyle with own Interactions and rewards

If i think Back to Mass Effect for excample when you were in between good and Bad you didnt get neither of the perks and Interactions

So yeah i Just wanted to praise the Game 😅 ❤️

[sly matrix]

They put in a lot of work since launch

[wise geyser]

bro player stash items being able to be sorted is HUGE for my OCD 😂😭

[surreal mortar]

Wasn't that always the case?

[wise geyser]

Yea they auto sorted but based on wha molit said in gsc answers and the coming changes it seems we will be able to finally do some manual sorting with it

[tacit oracle]

that's nice I guess

[wise geyser]

indeed

[tacit oracle]

I was thinking it'd be cool to have like, filtering or smth

[wise geyser]

thatd be cool to

[tacit oracle]

bit of a pita to have to dig through the entire stash to find weapons and such

[surreal mortar]

Ah, I think that means sort button also works with stash open and will also sort the stash. Or do we think it'll be something more complex/involved?

[tacit oracle]

I mean right now when you opened your stash it would sort it

idk if it'll keep some amount of memory now so you can sort it and it'll stay that way unless you click a "sort" button or smth

[surreal mortar]

Right, but you can put extra stuff inside, and it won't get sorted until you re-open.

[wise geyser]

O i see wym

if its just that bruh 😭

im more hoping its manual

[surreal mortar]

I know, I like yours and Otto's idea much better. 😅

[tacit oracle]

the sorting situation as is right now is a bit of a mess yeah

like, there's a whole lotta stuff to dig through

then again I'm playing through SoC now and I'm very much missing my magic stash box

[surreal mortar]

I think I missed that initially in Mol1t's answer (the stash sorting part). Or maybe my mind simply assumed it was what I was thinking about, which sounds more like a bugfix than anything else.

[wise geyser]

Yeah

well acording to molit if testing goes smoothly we wont have to wait too long

patch can possibly be this week

[surreal mortar]

Yeah. Hopefully the Monolith is merciful.

[wise geyser]

fr lol 😭😂

[sly matrix]

Soon™

[signal grotto]

Not to be that guy but performance is still terrible to me

[urban basin]

For everyone

[nimble cipher]

theevilmelon. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[signal grotto]

I hate it, I really wanna play and immerse myself but it just runs awful

[hazy helm]

use the sacred resoltion

[signal grotto]

What

[hazy helm]

800x600

[signal grotto]

[pliant lodge]

Will any more quests get added to norther area like pripyat and anything on if the CNPP will be a location, with the game centered around it I was disappointed its not acceptable and there is a lack of quests in Northern areas other than the starting area :/

[quaint knoll]

damn is this how stalker look on rtx 5090? (last announcement)

[tacit oracle]

I've seen a concept map, I don't know how firm it is but afaik the northern area is being developed as part of an expansion

[zinc apex]

sure, but at this update pace you gotta wait 5 more years for more quests to be added

[summer stream]

With the exception of the last couple months, there had been a major update every month since release, sometimes multiple updates

[zinc apex]

yea with stuff which should've been in the release version

and hotfixes which took several weeks and fix 2 bugs

[tacit oracle]

wah wah wah

oh noo they're improving the game 😭😭😭

[urban basin]

Crying when there is no updates
Still crying when there are updates

[long aspen]

It's the 'roadmap when?' Guys that annoy me. Can't we just leave them to fix the game? I have been on multiple linux distro with and without swap(virtual memory on windows) and it's clear the zone has more memory leaks late game then anomalies.

[tacit oracle]

Imo it's more 5.1's atrocious performance than leaks per se, I've never seen an actual memory leak

but, every day we inch closer to validating or refuting that hypothesis

[long aspen]

It's doing my head in. I might actually put windows on a drive and try S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 1080p 30fps a go to see if I don't get the past 12Gb RAM crash.

[tacit oracle]

jesus, what settings are you playing on my good man?

I'm playing with high textures on 2k and my vram barely goes over 6gb over like hours and hours of gameplay.

I don't think I've never ever gotten an OoM in this game

[zinc apex]

you're a corporate slave bro

[zinc apex]

anime pfp opinion denied

[urban basin]

Loool

[sly matrix]

Let's remember to play nice, people

-# I feel like damn Collosus in the deadpool movies: "That's not very nice..."

[hazy helm]

it's completely understandable to want to know GSCs plans on how they will fix and improve the game

[long aspen]

RAM, not VRAM. I have 16Gb vram that doesn't really see use. When RAM hits 12/32Gb, crash.

[tacit oracle]

huh

[long aspen]

And when they don't hit targets, then what? Does the ESRB give them the whip like in starship troopers? It's literally a waste of time.

[tacit oracle]

it really is

roadmaps are only excuses to get angry at developers

but people don't understand it because the gamer culture is inextricably tied to vapid hype

"this game disappoints me! They should give me more reasons to be even more disappointed!"

[zinc apex]

usually a roadmap is not necessary if you don't release games in an early access state for full price

that's what people don't understand

[hazy helm]

then the community has reasons to be even more upset and people outside will know if they want or dont want to get the game
this whole thing of "roadmaps are what makes people angry"
people would be more pissed off without a roadmap, they would be even more mad that the company is closing their ears and isnt laying a plan out, theyd feel worse, the plan is a promise and a commitment to the community

[long aspen]

Do you play PvP games like rust, dune and tarkov?

[hazy helm]

roadmaps, are a good way to appease and promise to a community that you are listening and working on it

[long aspen]

Stalin and Hitler made promises too bud. Go ask the ***s and the farmers how much their outrage meant.

[long aspen]

Alright then, did you play deep rock galactic?

[hazy helm]

so youd rather everyone shut the hell up and didnt say anything even if an injustice is made, if youre upset with a product why are you talking online?

thats what Im getting from you

[long aspen]

Nope. You call a broken w@nk game, a broken w@nk game. Tell people not to buy it. Write a smug review on steam and move on. When you buy meat at the butcher and it's rotten. You get a refund and tell people about it. You don't repeatedly go into the shop and ask them if they are still selling rotten meat.

[hazy helm]

so, you think that a game, especially nowadays, is like food taht is dispensable and one use only, that it is finite at time of purchase and that it even has a shelf life? This is an awful comparison, its more like you go and order a cabinet from a woodworker, he sends you the cabinet after a few months and you see that the wood is rotting and it doesnt even have rows, what do you do? yhea youre gonna go and talk to them and keep talking until you get what you payed for and what you expect, no you dont let it go and stay with the awful cabinet you got you go pester them until they fix it to their faces

[long aspen]

You win, congrats.

[hazy helm]

completely and utterly rotten idea, that even if nowadays, games are worked on well past their release date and still get content purchases, the people who expect those games to be good at launch or when the developers are releasing updates, shouldnt make their voices heard and shape how they want the game to be fixed or push the developer to actually go thru with their fixes
I do like roadmaps, it gives a lot more information to the players and forces onto the developers a promise and duty to do what they promised, ON TOP of what they already promised when they advertised and sold you the game

and quite honestly, I find anyone who doesnt like that, suspicious\