⭐┃nospoilers_general

[wraith socket]

That would be great. I should have a broken foot or leg, not die.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[unreal raptor]

Right game is fixed, Steam Workshop. Didn't realise that was also pulling in one mod to stop the headshot sound 😂

I finally get to give 1.6 a go tonight. 🤞

[wraith socket]

What's wrong with the headshot sound?

[unreal raptor]

it's cap 😂

not for me

[copper jewel]

hey guys question im a day one buyer who has been loading in to the same save here and there to checvk progress and support, do you think the game is ready to be started from beginning and enjoyed as intedned ?

[wraith socket]

There are plenty of people, who not only have started and finished the game, but they've done it four different times to see each different ending.

[copper jewel]

okie dokie what difficulty is considered the most balanced?

[wraith socket]

Try Stalker and if you think it is too easy, you can always raise it.

[copper jewel]

ty ill check in later hahah

nini

[wraith socket]

Be sure to make plenty of Quick Saves and Manual Saves, at every little bit of progress.

[copper jewel]

yeah thats totally fair id do that in any game tho im ahh XDD

[worthy zodiac]

Not "as intended" but it's in a much better state than it was before. If you don't care about A-Life or don't know what it is – you'll probably enjoy it in the current state

[copper jewel]

i dont know the diffrence i just bought it lowk to support the devs i had never heard of stalker before so i had no expectations one way or the other tbf , i was super plesently enjoying wwhat i did play but mobs were spawning around the corner and the quests were like broken XD

so yay il stoked

[copper jewel]

NAHHHH

😭

[wraith socket]

These will scare the hell out of you. That can turn invisible until they attack.

[copper jewel]

can you see them with the new nvgs??

[wraith socket]

You really don't want to be out at night when they roam.

[copper jewel]

im forsure gunna scream everytime

are all the mutants still like bulletproof?

[worthy zodiac]

The quests are mostly fixed and the NPCs don't spawn right in your face anymore so yeah, you'll enjoy it now. We've also got nightvision goggles, states for reload animations (now you don't cancel the entire animation of reloading and just continue it when you get to hold that gun again), you can loot mutants, the NPCs are more natural now (they take covers more actively, they don't spam with grenades, heal each other, loot corpses, don't know about your position at all times during combat, etc)...

[copper jewel]

WWWWWW

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, it's much better than it was before but still not finished

[copper jewel]

ehh war innnit

they can cook aslong as they are safe

[worthy zodiac]

Oh yeah, they lowered their health for most of them

[copper jewel]

i remeber the dog one eating like 5 pump shots to the face hahah

[worthy zodiac]

Won't happen anymore, they always died from one, two max in my 1.5+ playthrough

[copper jewel]

also what do you do that effect what ending you recive?]

[wraith socket]

Always carry a shotgun. It is the best weapon against mutants.

[copper jewel]

ok thanks for the advice guys im off to eat bread shoot stuff

[worthy zodiac]

Some main quests give you a choice.
It's basically a "Choose what faction do you like more" kind of choice, don't worry about it

[copper jewel]

ahh okok

❤️

[wraith socket]

The first big decision you will have in Zalissya (Lesser Zone) is to either side with Ward or side with Richter and the Loners.

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

Richter

[urban basin]

What a jolly fella

[copper jewel]

ok test boot set to epic 120 fps i think ill be fine game is spoopy tho lol

[copper jewel]

i will never help the feds do anything

so whoever is like the not cops

[wraith socket]

I went with Richter, but I've been playing the same game since the end of November.

[copper jewel]

ahhh fair nuff lol

[hollow pelican]

compiling shaders

game crash

[long aspen]

Skip the compile.

[thick parrot]

Does shader compilation do anything?

[compact belfry]

my pc has a i9, rtx 3070, 32 gb, ram, HDD can i run stalker 2?

on lowest graphics i still have fps drops in settlements

[unreal raptor]

It's the biggest mystery in modern gaming

[tacit oracle]

i9 what?

the fps drops on settlements are due to cpu bottlenecks, unless you have an x3d that's common.

[dire dagger]

X3d don’t frame drop

I will not tolerate x3d slander

[tacit oracle]

yes, that's why I said "unless you have an x3d"

afaik even the 5600x3d can hold its own in zalissya while a plain 5800 will shit the bed

[nimble cipher]

ottomic has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tacit oracle]

wolf bud'laska

[magic coyote]

Serious question: many people I know are experiencing more visual artifacts and problems such as flickering shadows and issues with lighting in general that they didn't have before. They're not nerfing lumen to optimize the game, are they?

[sharp ridge]

Wouldnt bother me if they did tbh

[ripe patrol]

They're not. You can try to clean your shaders if you're having visual issues

[magic coyote]

We'll give it a try, but a lot of people are telling me this.

"flickering on stage, graphics look worse" is what I get from my community

[magic coyote]

okay? brhu

[tacit oracle]

[indistinct whining]

[magic coyote]

I'll ask somewhere else. brhu

[sharp ridge]

I mean you arent exacty in a tech support channel lol

[coarse sparrow]

get a load of this guy

are you the one posting on reddit "should I play this game now or wait"?

[magic coyote]

I can send you the comments from my YouTube channel, I was just asking

[coarse sparrow]

there is no stalker 2 game on your steam account

[magic coyote]

huh?

you're blind?

[long aspen]

Holy cringe!

[coarse sparrow]

I just checked

[magic coyote]

Well, take a closer look, buddy.

Literally, my profile picture cannot be obtained unless I purchase the game.

[sharp ridge]

jesus who cares

[magic coyote]

literally talking to me?

[magic coyote]

Besides, the same goes for you. Who asked you?

[sharp ridge]

you did

when you asked a question in the channel

[magic coyote]

I literally didn't ask you whether you cared or not.

The only one who responded to me was the creator of mods.

[sharp ridge]

lol thats not what you quoted but w/e dude.

[long aspen]

Oi, dial back the stupidity. The fake person dismissed the Romanian as being disingenuous. He was wrong.

[magic coyote]

What eight months of waiting do to a community

[ripe patrol]

Did cleaning your shaders work btw?

Seems like they changed something on the lumen for sure (not a nerf) and it's affecting occlusion and shadows a bit, but I constantly clean my shaders so I haven't seen it

[magic coyote]

It doesn't happen to me, but we've seen it happen quite a bit to people with 5000 series graphics cards.

Although some people with 4080 are also noticing it, I have only found that those who experience this use 16 VRAM graphics cards.

I'm not sure, but it could be a driver issue, or maybe they're trying to add hardware lumen=?

Everyone who told me this has a 5060ti.

[ripe patrol]

Probably not, might just be some slight changes if they're actually doing changes

[magic coyote]

maybe the borderlands 4 drivers for unreal

[hot canopy]

The gun Pomor gives you for the icon is still terrible. What a shame.

[hallow lichen]

I might be cooked, I was at work today and we were taking bolts out of fences and I couldn’t help but think of stalker 😭 cheeki breeki was being said in my head constantly and throwing them to check for anomalies

[long aspen]

Did it make the work go quicker or even bearable. You win buddy. I was had a rave beat stuck in my head punching holes in parking spot markers. Work with rhythm.

[hallow lichen]

Yeah it made it a little better, shattered by knees still though, I remember filling holes in cladding with ‘The Blue Danube’ playing in my headphones, it made it way better

[orchid gale]

Holy Yap

[verbal adder]

You know what I want, the sound of footsteps to change when you walk in water puddles. 😅

[hard sleet]

I'm a little confused - I am progressing through the campaign and all of a sudden the bandits are ...friendly ??

[jagged badger]

hello how tf do i loot mutants

[drifting niche]

Only 1/5 mutants can be looted

[lucid pagoda]

Really would love a mod to change that, maybe not every single time but for some common mutants it's annoying to take out a whole pack and just get one. Would be real pipe dream to have whether or not the item dropped depending on if you did damage to the part where it is located for each specific mutant, though I understand it's not a hunting game and couldn't imagine what coding that would be like

[hard sleet]

i guess it's also meant to add some scarcity - would be really cool to have had a "quality of kill" mechanic which would yield a mutant part or not. Like RDR2 and animal hide.

[dusk epoch]

Get real close. I find crouching works and then when you press f he will skin it

Sometimes anyway. Sometimes they can’t be looted

[undone schooner]

does anyone know are you supposed to be able to find mutant parts in npcs inventories if theyve looted a mutant?

[hard sleet]

anyone else have issues with subtitles not showing up? particularly in open world events where you run into someone or a radio transmission is received? it's usually the first line and then it starts

[summer stream]

Yes

[undone schooner]

thank u, yea i thought so. for some reason the mutant parts arent in their inventory in my game when they loot a mutant. i guess some issue with mods probably

[summer stream]

Could be a bug. If you look up vatislavovych on YouTube, he has a patch 1.6 details video that shows an NPC looting a mutant, then he kills the NPC and loots the part from the npc’s inventory

[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

[unreal raptor]

Just getting Skif setup with a new mortgage to pay for his NVGs

[wooden zenith]

nevermind I see it was mentioned

[unreal raptor]

Enjoying 1.6 so far. Cannot wait for the new engine upgrade, hopefully that unlocks the performance needed for A-Life to come online (and offline)

[rapid warren]

Me too, im iching for another playthrough but I'm keeping it for engine and alife upgrades later this year

[unreal raptor]

still find myself looking for binocs all the time (i know those are coming too)

yeah I really don't want to get further than where i am in the story, kinda stop my progression about 1/3 in so I can play it truly once it's really ready

tbh — stalker story is never my thing more the environment and dynamic AI situations

[flint cliff]

Hi, has anyone tried Tunguska? Is it really an isometric Stalker?

Hera's side quests are still bugged after 1.6 😭

[celest goblet]

I was doing a 2nd playthrough after 1.5 but once they announced the upcoming engine upgrade I decided to wait to continue it. The ARG has me intrigued though

[unreal raptor]

illuminate me on what ARG means?

[drifting niche]

What is arg?

[celest goblet]

In this case it is the trail of clues that started with the morse code in the update trailer. It's led to people finding new documents both in and out of the game

Probably a teaser for future content updates

[tiny token]

it's for the upcoming dlc, mystery of lymansk

[lucid pagoda]

I wouldn't say it's purely an isometric stalker maybe even as much as Zero Sievert is, leans a bit more into being pretty story-focused rather than freeplay & has unique lore that's more adjacent to Roadside Picnic itself, but overall it's very good highly recommend

[fleet cosmos]

unreal upgrade before Christmas? Before Thanksgiving?

[celest goblet]

Well they're aiming for before end of year so I'd say before Christmas is likely

They go on holiday too after all

[sharp minnow]

I think it's be soon

Before ps5 release

[cursive parrot]

Hey guys not sure if I am having a mod conflic or not but the new laser does not appear on my shotgun or SVD and there is no laser options on the HK416, anyone else having these issues

[sly matrix]

LORD KEITH HATH RETURNETH! GLORIOUS DAY

[celest blaze]

praise KEITH

[frank vector]

what will the unreal engine upgrade provide>

[celest goblet]

Improved versions of unreal engine features that perform better and are more stable generally

[zenith crescent]

Can anyone else not loot mutants?

[stiff pasture]

Mods?

[undone flicker]

Am I the only one whose mouse aim sensitivity doesn't work since the update? It doesn't matter if I move the slider to 0 or 100 it has no effect on ADS sensitivity. Aim sensitivity now seems to be scaled off of general sensitivity which makes no sense. I can either have way to slow general sense and reasonable ADS or my normal general sense and ADS that is too fast.

[ionic crater]

Whats New around the zone

[jagged badger]

Hello why in the world can i not loot this god dam dog collar in dogfight quest, no mods installed tried reverting saves a bunch of times still no good

[flint cliff]

I positioned myself in a quiet area of ​​Duga and waited 45 real-world minutes with the game on. It never rained, and there was never any wind. Is it possible that the weather has decreased since 1.6?

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-drive-driving-car-gif-26521606

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint cliff]

Lootble and Craftable Zone are good mods?

[lucid pagoda]

They are phenomenal if you are looking for that sort of expanded sandbox survivalist experience akin to freeplay modpacks, but do add a lot of random variety & finding straight junk sometimes that can be very deterring to many players just looking to play the game. I personally find it very immersive and love having so much more variety in the lootpool. Can't wait till it's fixed again to use on Xbox, with its working PDA radio and ultimately with the Base Building, Temperature/Wetness, Radiation systems and more that Kyne is cooking up, Anomaly 2 is being born right before our eyes

[glass zealot]

You couldn't have said it better, Kyne is cooking up something huge with those mods, I love his work

[surreal mortar]

Both mods are definitely on my list for a future mod-enhanced playthrough, as I've only played vanilla up to now and I seem to have played enough of what the base game has had to offer so far (pre 1.6).

[tiny token]

meow

[coarse sparrow]

is multiplayer part of 1.7?

[topaz rover]

Does anyone know the console command for nvgs? please at me if you know

[topaz rover]

Not probable

[flint cliff]

Why do enemies disappear? I'm on Series X. Does it happen on PC too? Is it fixable?
https://youtu.be/aE2pYcE1wIY?si=GyKuNvyK3BSkBeEu

[long aspen]

If you just finished a bar bounty, usually kill zombies or bandits, there is good chance only theire weapons will remain. It's been a bug for atleast 3 months.

[flint cliff]

It's not a side mission, it's just some bandits that are out at the Malachite.

It is pop in? Is it also on PC?

[long aspen]

Oh, alright.

[flint cliff]

Can it be solved?

I've noticed sometimes that during rain, you can see the water drops on the ground but you can't see them falling from the sky.

[glass zealot]

I don't think so, I hope that in 1.7 the UE improvement will come along with the PS5 release

[tacit oracle]

I wouldn't expect multiplayer for the duration of 2026

[fleet cosmos]

so at this point i should just wait probably

[tacit oracle]

it's supposed to be before the end of the year, but the more time it passes, the less convinced I am

at this point I'm expecting it towards the end of Q1 26

[fringe tartan]

so glad I put off playing until recently when I built my new computer

game has been super fun and runs amazing now

[glass zealot]

When you say multiplayer, do you expect PVP or a Stalcraft-like co-op? It's like an Anomaly, but multiplayer

[tiny token]

Guy who only watched boss baby when watching another movie: "I'm getting real boss baby vibes from this"

[sinful crane]

Any news for when the hotfix is dropping?

[night blaze]

Does anyone know when the mouse sensitivity bug in scope will be fixed?

[gritty orchid]

it will probably be like the classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. PVP modes only (TDM, CTF, etc).

[fleet cosmos]

Will we get thermal optics/nods also?

[flint cliff]

With 1.6 did they reduce the damage of some weapons like the Mosin and Vintar?

[cursive parrot]

I was so excited for canted shooting with NVGs but so many guns dont have lasers. trying to find out if its a bug. anyone know if its normal to not be able to put a laseer on the hk416

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-drive-driving-car-gif-26521606

[amber elbow]

Did the new update fix mod compatibility?

[hazy helm]

made mod cfg compability more reliable but at times making mods harder bc of that

[tacit oracle]

right now it's kinda sorta broken everything lol

mods are slowly getting back up to speed, but most of them have required rewrites

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[spiral ether]

[safe badge]

❤️

[flint cliff]

I spent half a morning managing the game's economy to buy a new sniper and a new assault rifle and upgrade them with the bare minimum. Wear and tear reduction and aiming through the NVG.

My previous GP37s and especially the Mosin have been nerfed.

In fact, however, the Mosin did exaggerated damage before the 1.6.

[amber elbow]

So when another mod overwrites a different one its still broken?

[tacit oracle]

what

okay so I'm not the person to explain this because I'm just a dumdum that has things explained to him by smarter people but

what's happening to mods now is that instead of slapping entire .cfg files on top of what the game had, now it's a more reference heavy method

meaning you only write the lines you want changed, and it should just touch those lines

of course, this means that all mods need to be rewritten to accomodate to this new method

in theory, if two mods don't change the same thing, they shouldn't overwrite. If they do change the same thing, they should do in load order

but again, I must stress: this is assuming that both mods have been updated to the new method introduced in 1.6.

[flint cliff]

Real Longer Days also doesn't work with 1.6. Unforgiving Zone yes. On Xbox.

[fleet cosmos]

I’ve noticed something in Unreal Engine and wanted to ask if others experience the same thing. When you turn your character really quickly—especially at night—the world seems to “phase in.” It’s like parts of the environment are catching up as you spin, and it becomes noticeable.

I saw this happen with my RTX 4090 and now again with my 5090, so it’s definitely not a system hardware issue. My assumption is that it’s an engine limitation. Do you think this is something that will be improved or mitigated in the next Unreal Engine upgrade?

Also, will we get further draw distance with the engine upgrade? Like loading in A life beyond 100m?

[sinful crane]

That's a lumen problem

[sinful crane]

RLD causes crashes or something?

[fleet cosmos]

Thank you for confirming that it is an engine limitation (at least on current version).

Do you think the engine upgrade will solve some of this issue?

[flint cliff]

No but doesn't work with 1.6.

It's a shame because now the night passes almost twice as fast as the day.

[brave marten]

IF the engine upgrade is going well and it does come out this year...

[sinful crane]

Technically it should, but we don't know

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-drive-driving-car-gif-26521606

[sinful crane]

That's weird, it's working for me just fine

I'm using the 4 hours version

Sybau

[ripe patrol]

wait, is it really not working on xbox?

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint cliff]

Doesn't work, tested yesterday. Does it work on PC?

[ripe patrol]

Yeah works on PC. Damn another mod to add to the xbox queue

i dont even have the original files for this either... i might have to remake the mod just to send it to xbox

[lucid pagoda]

What version are you using?

[lucid pagoda]

I'm playing with 24-hour right now on Xbox working fine

Just tested with stopwatch too it's spot-on

[ripe patrol]

ah thanks for checking ❤️

[flint cliff]

I have tried all 4 versions

[lucid pagoda]

Strange maybe some conflict with something else? I'm playing as we speak with the 24-hour on Series X with no issues at least related to that

[flint cliff]

Do you also have other mods installed? I also have Just a Flesh Wound and Unforgiving Zone

[lucid pagoda]

Maybe that's the difference, I don't have either. I use Shay's Impacts instead and don't use Unforgiving Zone just not in love with the 0 heal from bandages always wasting a medkit even from something minor, plus whatever conflicts with Lootable Zone lootpool/trader rebalances and that is more important to me

[flint cliff]

I understand, but I prefer having Unforgiving Zone because it makes the game more hardcore. What problems do you think it can cause for loot boxes?

Medkits heal slower and bandages do not restore health

[ripe patrol]

massive issues

not just with loot boxes but also with NVGs and who knows what else, since the mod will also override the effects file that holds a bunch of those new features

[lucid pagoda]

for me BB & like no HUD, 1% opacity on an OLED esp so I can still see hunger icon plus I don't find the visual cues to be good enough on everything like health for example being same at 70% as 100% and then dying to something that wouldn't have one-shotted you if you could tell you had a minor injury without the health bar. Those together have been enough for me to turn it into more the Metro ranger hardcore style experience I prefer for Stalker gameplay & gunplay

[ripe patrol]

the game should work fine, but def with a bunch of caveats. If youre enjoying it then go ahead. I should update the mod soon ish anyways

[lucid pagoda]

and I'm glad I spent enough time typing that so @ripe patrol can explain your actual question way better than I ever could lol

[flint cliff]

Unforgiving Zone, I read directly on the console that it updated to 1.6. Maybe it creates conflict with RLD now though. I've been using it for many hours, both before and after the 1.6 update, and I haven't noticed any problems.

[ripe patrol]

unforgiving zone was updated for PC on modio for GOG and Gamepass users, not on xbo yet, sorry

[flint cliff]

Better ballistic on Xbox disables the offset crosshair when using the NVG.

[flint cliff]

Ok but I honestly don't have any problems with 1.6...

[ripe patrol]

BB on xbox also severely outdated, since there has been a lot of new changes added to those files

[ripe patrol]

not that youve notice... I honestly dont know what breaks. For example i know that BB will break Weapon Reposition Project, and might cause issues with NVG and offset aiming

RLD not working, i have no idea what could be the issue there, maybe the new AssetLibrary file or any mod that is conflicting with CoreVariables, althought i believe other modders have avoided touching those files for Xbox releases

anyways ive sent my request to update my mods, hopefully GSC has enough time to get those out by the end of the week, but there is a huge queue of updates

[flint cliff]

I'll do the second run on PC, if my PC can handle it. I have a Ryzen 5 CPU and an 8GB Nvidia 4060 GPU, is it ok to play at 60 fps?

[ripe patrol]

yes just make sure to adapt your graphics settings, and look into using the latest DLSS models, it improves the game massively.

[flint cliff]

I've uninstalled BB for now on Xbox

[ripe patrol]

Hopefully the mod is updated this week. Good luck

[flint cliff]

By downloading the game from the xbox app for pc, do you know if the saves are shared pc-xbox, so you can continue, the game started on xbox (250h played), on pc?

[ripe patrol]

no idea

[lucid pagoda]

It does sound like it's possible this is directly from GSC https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/articles/27917364727057-Cross-platform-save

[fleet cosmos]

How far can we expect draw distance for A-Life to increase with the engine upgrade? Will it be the same across consoles/PC or can we expect additional distances on PC?

[hazy helm]

we need to get A-life system first

[fleet cosmos]

We don’t have it yet? Thought some of it was in the game….no? What isn’t there now?

[hazy helm]

no

its still a spawner

[snow talon]

I'm pretty sure the very light framework of it

[empty echo]

it's better than it was but it's still not "a-life", it's kinda an alife simulation

[fleet cosmos]

Will we get A-Life though or will it be spawner….with the engine upgrade allow for A-Life?

[empty echo]

it simulates what alife would be like if the spawn circle was more than 100 mitres

[hazy helm]

its not, it has no persistence nor does it have simulation

[hazy helm]

I hope

[empty echo]

it's a lot better than it was at launch

[fleet cosmos]

Thought some stuff was still happening when the game is offline? No?

[hazy helm]

its not what Alife

[fleet cosmos]

Ya, def enjoying the firefights more now, flanking seems to work.

[empty echo]

I know, I wish it was too
but i'm not glazing gsc saying alife is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hazy helm]

if the game is closed nothing should be happening

[empty echo]

they're steadily fleshing out stuff, it's feeling better every update

[snow talon]

I swear they do but it's like a randomiser and not a simulation.

[fleet cosmos]

Steps in the right direction then!

[lucid pagoda]

Some improvements were made with 1.5 update https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=je-VV87hJKg&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB but 1.6 I don't believe has touched on it at all, just some (appreciated) fixes to NPC combat AI with focus on improving night combat and stealth options in general https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQSJ7TEH7cQ

[snow talon]

Like different positions and actions

[empty echo]

exactly, I'm truly waiting for the engine update, maybe I'll get decent fps on anything but 1080p lowest settings

[fleet cosmos]

Idk which is better….kinda like the “randomness” of the zone….but can appreciate the “simulation” aspect of A-Life. But then aren’t we talking CPU utilization to the point of like a fallout/skyrim game? Those game SIMULATE everything in the background…..

[fleet cosmos]

I’m hoping I can finally pull 4k then with my 9800X3D…I’m still having to put it on 1440p, max everything with my 5090. But I bet the upgraded engine will help EVERYONE across the board hopefully.

[hazy helm]

The game will spawn NPCs beetween the Loaded Chunks and the Vision buble, there is nothing happening outside of the chunks, if AI steps out of the loaded chunks they despawn, if you load a earlier save or quit the game the AI despawns with no data saved

[fleet cosmos]

Right which is awesome now. Example, I was in the early on abandoned building, sat in the dark and picked off an entire squad with my silence pistol. Super satisfying.

[empty echo]

yup, I'm on a 4060 laptop with a 13700H and I can run 1440p on playable fps but with pretty poor dlss settings, I've always prioritised 60fps over visuals but I would like to have my cake and eat it too.

[lucid pagoda]

Still though, the improvements in the combat AI make me recognize the gaps in the A-life. Was bringing up last night the fact that how intuitive is the system really that anytime a hostile NPC enters within radius of the player to engage combat, unless they kill the player/the player kills them or unless the player runs from them, they are just going to endlessly be hostile dumping unlimited ammo at the player, not make any decisions out of self-preservation like retreating when their entire squad has been taken out, and in general make the whole experience feel that much shallower. NPCs need some degree of self-preservation so A life is more interesting. Running into hostile stalkers you might have recognized rather than every single one ends up dead at your feet the first time because his unending desire to kill you was stronger than his will to live.

[hazy helm]

the system needs to exist to neable it to work in the first place, the game as it stands rn cannot have NPC nodes and pathfinding in unloaded chunks meaning that NPCs cant simulate objectives past the player loaded position

[tiny token]

That is not what he means by offline lmfao what

[snow talon]

When I meant randomise I mean if it gets derendered it and comes back into rendering it isn't simulated but randomised well when it first came out

[gaunt sundial]

what is the best upscaling method for AMD gpu?

[drifting niche]

Fsr 4

[gleaming musk]

dependant on which generation of gpu you have it is 3.2 since 4 isnt availabe for most

[runic pine]

Question: Where was the clear sky main menu background location located?

Is that some kind of old crashed plane or what?

[prisma goblet]

Am I the only one who think the NVG gen1 looks better ?

[runic pine]

like where exactly would that be considering we can see the sarcophagus?

[drifting niche]

It looks like a crashed military helicopter

[tawny comet]

Do we predict the engine upgrade will allow these "NPC nodes" you speak about? I am curious what your thoughts are

[glass wave]

how to get SSP-1001

[hazy helm]

this is a system that needs to be made, they need to makea layer that is unaffected by the loaded chunks where NPCs exist, a upgarde to engine has no consequence on this

[left terrace]

hey is vertical/horizontal sensitivity the same now?

i was gonna rebuy the game

[sinful crane]

It has been almost 1 week since the patch came out and they haven't released a fix for the sensitivity bug on controllers:/

[left terrace]

what about on mouse

[glass zealot]

The mouse works fine, but not all of us have the capacity to use a mouse

I play on a big screen for example, using a mouse and keyboard is a terrible experience

[jovial lotus]

So when will the 100m bubble be extended?

[left terrace]

is modding support out yet?

[glass zealot]

maybe with the engine update

[glass zealot]

on consoles there are still a few days left

[left terrace]

oh yeah the zone kit is out isnt it but is it still 100gb 670gb

[zinc apex]

that's not entirely true anymore. I've met NPC before and did meet them again at some other point, hours later. but still I don't believe in what GSC said "they live their lives until they meet their end". They still despawn somewhere, sometime

[hazy helm]

you can test this yourself, merely turn on flying and youll be able to fly up until the chunk deloads, when you fly down, the NPC that should be there no longer is

[sweet lintel]

Is Alife working yet?

[summer mesa]

Does 1.6 fix memory leaks / stuttering ?

[drifting niche]

Alife better

[gleaming musk]

not implemented

[pearl basalt]

Finally bought stalker 2 🙏

[unreal raptor]

Is everyone else has asset streaming issues? On load it takes about a minute for all the assets to appear in scene.

Not something I’ve encountered before.

Still loving the atmosphere and world. The lack of Alife is still a gaping hole. Made even more obvious with it being open world.

[sweet lintel]

I guess Alife will never be a thing

Without Alife it's not really stalker. This is extremely disappointing I wish I could refund this game I'll never buy another gsc product ever

[terse bane]

HoC already has A-Life, just, the level that has is not enough for a game of this scale or as for being called A-Life 2.0, better than CoP A-Life tho.

[silver shuttle]

Has a fix been found for the ADS sensitivity not working yet?

[sinful crane]

Nop

[zinc apex]

A-Life 2.0

[wraith socket]

To adjust ADS (Aim Down Sights) sensitivity in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, use the Controller Aim Sensitivity setting for gamepads or modify specific game configuration files on PC, as the in-game ADS setting has been reported as buggy. For controllers, try setting Aim Assist Type to Focusing and adjust Controller Aim Sensitivity to around 40 for better aim and accuracy. For mouse and keyboard, you may need to edit files like Input.ini to disable mouse smoothing and acceleration, as these can negatively impact sensitivity.

[zealous pumice]

You guys think the bugs are bad now, just you wait until they release it on the new unreal version lol

Performance might I increase but the bugs they've managed to fix, more will come out with the new engine update. This is gonna be a 2-3 year project until its in the best state. Lot of work ahead folks, buy the dlcs to help fund them 🙂

[stone yoke]

Almost a year passed, and they still haven’t added anything significant

400+ people are working on the game

Just saying

[unreal raptor]

it's been really slow progress and the only real reason I can look at other than the obvious is that unreal is tripe. Everything feels like it's held together with duct tape. Each update brings a slew of new issues. Knock on effects. Most evident is the lighting issues, now we have NVGs it's clear to see the lighting engine with Lumen is a mess.

[rapid warren]

yea I wonder how will it be. Either way is is ultimately a necessity for optymalisation and new a life features since 5.1 is cpu bottleneck

[unreal raptor]

the engine upgrade is the wish granter — either going to take us to the gloryland or destroy us

[rapid warren]

true but I believe its gonna be fine. We may face delays, and lots of bugs on release though ultimetly I think pros will outweight the cons

Also I'm very curios about the work at the studio, what is the stadium of engine upgrade and how long exactly have they been working on it?

[unreal raptor]

also remember that they have to keep the schedule of DLC, MP etc. I imagine it's been a crap year to work at GSC.

[rapid warren]

Yeah true

[unreal raptor]

So many moving parts it's a wonder the game runs at all. It's getting better but the progress for people who have now lost enthusiasm sucks.

[rapid warren]

Honestly I believe MP was a mistake. Doom tried to pull it off for 2 games before they gave up with new ages

[unreal raptor]

yeah me too — truly believe it

just a distraction of the highest order

[gleaming musk]

i mean it was kinda clear the state the game will be in is this

idk why people r complaining

[unreal raptor]

if it was coop or something progressive for the game cool — but MP TDM or whatever, doesn't really fit the game at all

[rapid warren]

I'd rather have them focus on docs rather than MP

[rapid warren]

True like in dying light coop is fun

[gleaming musk]

pretty much shows how little knowledge u have about stalker

[rapid warren]

Though it's a totally diffrent game but still

[unreal raptor]

Hot takes

[gleaming musk]

CS and SoC literally had TDM mp

[unreal raptor]

yeah and millions played and loved it?

oh no — it was niche tripe.

[gleaming musk]

stalker is niche

[unreal raptor]

so by that stalker mp is fricken tight niche

almost — pointless

[rapid warren]

Hmm yeah development sure wasn't stable buy we did come some way since launch and I think that engine upgrade and following fixes to it will give new opportunities for players and devs

[gleaming musk]

well im not saying its good or it should have priority over other features that need to be implemented, but i see why they wanna add it

[unreal raptor]

getting there for sure. Just hard watching each release suffer from something new!

[unreal raptor]

could of been a cool — nice to have. I'd hate to think of people focusing on this whilst the game is in a semi set state.

plus side — NVGS are good I just wear them all the time, better than Lumen 😂

[rapid warren]

For me it's more about the tempo. First patches were mostly about most important stability fixes, we started getting real stuff only since 1.5, 1.6 had long realise window becouse they started working on engine upgrade I suppose. So as you said, lots of moving parts

[unreal raptor]

yeah the pace would really help to keep interest

[rapid warren]

But hey, if we do get rodmap finished (like the last one) by the end of the year it's gonna be in a decent shape. Besides you have to give it to GSC that they do really want to support this title in the long run

I can still cope about return of my glorious swamp faction (I know its cope)

Also what guns would you guys like to be added the most? I really miss F2000, my favourite fishy sci fi rifle 🐟

[graceful cliff]

im getting warning that im using mods all of a sudden, but im sure im not.. where would they be installed? what folder?

[unreal raptor]

Check your steam subscriptions in workshop too!

Otherwise in the ~Mods folder

[fading kiln]

Is the stuff from the 2021 gameplay trailer gonna come in DLC?

[charred wraith]

i love jumping down in the cave under the old mill at the start of the game when its bugs out -> jump down -> get knocked down by first bloodsucker -> animation locked while 2nd bloodsucker comes running -> get killed WHILE animation locked by 2nd bloodsucker. oooooooooooooooooh i love it feels nice

great design

btw Zalyssia getting attacked by dogs in the emission quest fails the emmision quest and cancels the emmsion all together - what

AND it locks all the doors in the town..........

[hot canopy]

Just had a power outage right in the middle of sneaking into the sphere. Come on!

[charred wraith]

i wonder if bugs ever gets fixed in this game or if they are just happy with a lower chance of them happening

[unreal raptor]

Looking at track history — happier with the lower chance/community will fix the annoying ones.

[charred wraith]

randomly got attacked by bandit AI - shot back - both of the bandits started running away -> followed them for 2 minutes untill they just suddenly turned around and started shooting again. I mean this AI is borked as foooooook still. Really no difference.

[graceful cliff]

tghats called teh reverse retreat

common tactic

[charred wraith]

stop.

[graceful cliff]

stop cryinmg about the ai shooting you

[charred wraith]

the AI bugged out and started running to a fixed spot, the other one followed 1 min after ran to the same spot - stopped at the very same place, turned and started shooting me

[unreal raptor]

*dont' fall for the bait *

[charred wraith]

Im not crying that im getting shot? im literally just saying the AI is so borked still they just randomly do something that makes no sense

restarted.

[graceful cliff]

a stalker is only as good as his weapon.

[charred wraith]

im sure it will turn out just fine

but i mean if you dont want bugs to get sorted i mean, sure

[graceful cliff]

i dont think the reverse retreat is a bug

[charred wraith]

aboslutely restarted.

[unreal raptor]

hahah

can't tell if zallows if troll or daft

[graceful cliff]

BITA BOTH. i wish the cool blue pistol had the samr damage as skifs pistol

[dreamy mantle]

to much nonsense right in the announcement channel

[rough horizon]

Alright, fellas. Time to explore that quarry.

[hot canopy]

Inbound

[safe shard]

what's wrong you don't wanna get pinged about another unrelated garbage post?? it's like gambling except you know there is no jackpot

[celest blaze]

just mute notifications people make a big deal over nothing

[dreamy mantle]

exactly

[dreamy mantle]

Maybe I want to receive notifications about actual game updates

[safe shard]

by your logic you're making a big deal right now

[celest blaze]

if you say so

[safe shard]

lmao 🫵 😂

[celest blaze]

🤷‍♂️

[hot canopy]

now now kids, let's be nice.

[tiny token]

It's a clue for the ARG which teases the next DLC. Actually quite interesting

[safe shard]

lol they can't even finish the game and add in the multiplayer they initially promised, why should I be excited to pay more money for this?

also ARG 🤢

[tiny token]

village idiot tries his hand in bait

[safe shard]

nope I genuinely just want the finished product I paid for

only bait I ever see in here is people shilling

[unreal raptor]

is there any mods that make the scopes better? The zoom level is terrible almost 1:1 for SVD for example

[safe shard]

I doubt it. Most modders gave up on this trash

[dense dragon]

most likely

[safe shard]

can't mod a poor foundation into a good game

[long aspen]

Wait, did they patch in the quarry on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2?

[rough horizon]

Nah that was there before

But maybe they added something

[long aspen]

Ok because the announcement said something about the quarry.

[tiny token]

It's a clue for the ARG

Guys got stuck on the malachite door and didn't know what to do

lmfao they found a new archive already

the edges of the pictures posted in the announcements an hour ago feature a hex code or whatever

[rough horizon]

Lets go

[nimble cipher]

stormtigrex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest portal]

Wolfed

[rough horizon]

Pretty funny if the devs are going full steam ahead with the ARG and dont care about people not getting the malachite door code

[tiny token]

it has to lead to the malachite door code

we know it's 4601 but only thru bruteforcing

[strange maple]

is there a discord or smth?

[tiny token]

There's a telegram chat of a youtuber vatislavovych but it's in ukrainian. I don't know any other chats where they solve the ARG

[strange maple]

ok

[rapid warren]

Its gonna be funny if it's just a Code they bruteforced earlier lmao

[sweet lintel]

I didn't realize CoP had bad Alife . CoP is my favorite stalker game. So maybe the alife currently in stalker 2 will be enough to trick me?

[sweet lintel]

I don't even want multiplayer just a working single player experience but I guess thats too much to ask for. I just wanted a game with Alife. Something that felt alive. I feel so betrayed

[safe shard]

apparently wanting the game that was advertised is considered trolling here 💀

[long aspen]

No, you are whining like a roadmap goblin... That's why people are dissing you.

[rough horizon]

I got all the corners and it's in hexahue

I'm decoding it now

[safe shard]

I'd rather be whatever pea brained simile you can muster up than a nut riding fanboy defending a 6/10 game that is inferior to games that came out almost two decades ago

[long aspen]

Oh, I take it you are now saying I'm a fanboy. You are wrong btw. It's a well known fact I deter people from buy the ultimate edition, it's not worth it. I tell people to rather write a review on stean saying don't buy as well as refund the game. I also tell pond scum whino's and roadmap goblins to rather leave the discord. We currently have a arg going on. The xbox lads are having a rough time sorting out bugs and generally folks are get to terms with the patch. You are not helping... P O S.

[safe shard]

Ask chatgpt to clean up this EU nonsense. I can barely even understand what you're saying. Took your sweet time typing all that up too lmao

[rapid warren]

What is going on lmao

[celest portal]

[hot canopy]

The kids are fighting again.

[long aspen]

It fine. I should not be so easily baited by losers and just block them, my bad.

[hot canopy]

There you go! Cheers

[summer stream]

Except you know, a ps5 port, enhanced trilogy, working on dlc, working on an entire engine upgrade, a major update to the base game almost every single month which always has massive patch notes, and released a gigantic modding program, all in 10 months. But yeah, lazy devs I guess

[long aspen]

Wolfie, my man, we literally just talked about this. Don't get baited.

[rapid warren]

Give that man a ,,true"

[summer stream]

An94, beretta m9, AKM, another bolt action rifle, ks23, sig 556, and maybe a scar 17 or Galil could be cool

[rapid warren]

oh yeah I do kinda miss obokan

[flint cliff]

Do you all play with the compass active here?

[terse bane]

Well, the NPCS are few for these big maps and there's a system broken in CoP.
And the NPCS can't travel through levels (by fault of that broken system), is really poor.

[stiff pasture]

Also, give us a Walther PDP or Beretta for 9mm pistols in S2 (sent in wrong chat, I am mildly stupid)

[summer stream]

All the games have always tricked you

[summer stream]

I turned it off, ended up preferring it that way

[safe shard]

funny I don't remember stalkers spawning mid air right in front of me infinitely on soc or cop but I guess that was another trick

the cope in here is insane like I guess I could understand if the game had something like a good story to lean on but nope

[sweet lintel]

Do NPCs still spawn feet away?

Do entities still spawn in the same chunk you're in?

[drifting niche]

When will be get information about the sdk new tools?

[sweet lintel]

That's what made me stop playing because enemies spawning right behind me is like........like...... something I would expect from a hobby project or an alpha build not even from an early access title

But I assume that was fixed long ago. I uninstalled shortly after the original release date and I'm waiting for it to be fully featured

[undone flicker]

@sweet lintel yeah it's still a long ways out from being a complete functioning game with acceptable performance. This last update was rough and broke a bunch of things that were issues at launch.

[tiny token]

I turned it off because I didn't like the objective markers and the stealth alert indicators

[gloomy vector]

people really still in here doing tricks on it for a busted game a year later

[flint cliff]

Why sometimes during the rain you don't see water falling from the sky?

[ripe patrol]

Bug

Please report it like this on their feedback form online

Bug Report: Weather VFX Instantly Disappear During Transitions
Version: 1.6
Issue:
Weather particle effects, specifically rain, abruptly disappear at the start of a transition to a non-VFX weather type (e.g., from 'Rainy' to 'Clearly'). The VFX should fade out naturally over the course of the transition but instead vanishes instantly, breaking immersion.
Steps to Reproduce:

• Load any save in the vanilla game.
• Open the console and force a rainy weather: xforceweather 5
• Open the console and initiate a transition to a clear weather: xswitchtoweather 0
• Result: The rain VFX will immediately stop rendering, instead of fading out as the transition progresses.
  Analysis:
  This bug appears to be a side effect of the new modular weather VFX system and its reliance on the Dynamic Particle Table.
• The system separates weather effects into components (rain, thunder, debris) and uses the Dynamic Particle Table to assign them to specific weather types.
• The core problem is that weathers without these effects (like 'Clearly', 'Cloudy', etc.) are not assigned the VFX in the table.
• When the engine begins a transition from a weather that has a VFX (e.g., 'Rainy') to one that does not, the Dynamic Particle Table immediately blocks the VFX from rendering. This causes the abrupt cutoff.
  Suggested Solution:
  A functional workaround is to modify the Dynamic Particle Table to allow all weathers to spawn all VFX. This ensures that when transitioning from a VFX-heavy weather to a clear one, the particle effect from the source weather is not blocked and can fade out naturally as intended.

[flint cliff]

Did SoC have any bugs too?

[ripe patrol]

Just a heads up that DWO, my mod, fixes this. Youre welcome to test it out to add to the evidence of reports

[flint cliff]

I haven't seen any thunder or lightning storms since the 1.6 update. Just light rain or emissions. Have they removed them?

[terse bane]

has several bugs.

But most of them aren't a issue for the majority of players.

[ripe patrol]

youre on xbox right?

[flint cliff]

Series X

Why?

[ripe patrol]

yeah not much you can do there. Sometimes the weather brainfarts. Are you using Dynamic Weather Overhaul

[flint cliff]

For example?

[flint cliff]

Now yes but it's the same thing without the mod.

[ripe patrol]

the rain bug is vanilla. But i would not recommend DWO on for now. I should get the mod update for Xbox soon, but so its fine if you want to keep it, but the weatehr patterns being broken might be because of it being outdated

[swift path]

damn im trying english voice acting my third playthrough and it sounds better than the ukranian one xd

[gritty orchid]

bait used to be believable

[celest blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[celest blaze]

praise KEITH

[sly matrix]

[clear elm]

The trilogy is outsourced to a different company

GSC is not working on it

[icy tangle]

The zalyssia quest where the doors don't open is still bugged after one year of release

GSC tf U doin

[glass zealot]

"fixing the game" when it seems like with every update they fix 1 thing and break 40 others in addition to adding 1 new notable feature PER MONTH

[glass zealot]

sometimes they took like ammm, 3 or 4 months without 0 fkn updates

[wraith socket]

If your Skif hasn't taken a shower in a year, those doors aren't opening.

[mystic nova]

I’m coming back to the game now with 1.6 and planning to really immerse myself and clean the starter areas (lesser zone, garbage and maybe cordon) waiting for more updates to come as those are the ones I got to see on my first playthrough before putting it down.

My question is about the mid/late game content, I read that there’s a lack of things to do at that point and the game feel a bit empty and boring. I don’t want to spoil myself too much so asking here. Is this something that has improved with the stash rebalance and the new secondary missions added? Or is this still an issue?

Thanks!

[tacit oracle]

Imo neither of those are going to do anything for you

The stash rebalance if anything gets you faster to the point where you have entirely too much shi

And the "new missions" is just a sidequest chain

There's a few mods I could recommend if you want more purposeful and engaging progression but "more stuff for free" imo ain't the way

[wraith socket]

Anytime anyone uses the word "rebalance", what they are really saying is things are now "out of balance".

[surreal mortar]

They were. Many not-so-easy-to-get-to stashes would give you absolutely basic crap. Now, I haven't played the game since 1.6, but that particular situation felt pretty unsatisfying/lame. It's imho very good that they took steps to address it somehow.

[wraith socket]

I'm talking about weapons and ammo.

[surreal mortar]

Sorry, I thought you were following Ottomic's earlier points. I can't speak to the weapon and ammo rebalance part.

[wraith socket]

All Stalker games and Mods generally suffer from crappy stashes. Same for the inventory NPCs are willing to sell you.

[surreal mortar]

Maybe, I don't recall. I stand by my earlier point about the not-so-easy stashes (in S2, since you mention the OG 3). A lot of them just felt bad (and they really didn't have to).

[wraith socket]

I've seen people carry 30 bottles of vodka. 30 Medkits and 50 bandages. 20 cans of food. 30 sausages. 40 pieces of bread. Why?
There are a lot of crappy stashes with not much in them, but at least they have enough basics, so all that shouldn't be carried around.

[surreal mortar]

I wouldn't carry that with me. I rarely if ever carried vodka (just used the pills), only take about 3-4 food items, but I did typically pack 30 medkits and 30 bandages on Vet (instead of 20/20 on Stalker) just to be extra safe on longer hauls. Lots of stuff was simply stored in my stash, for later use and/or for sale (nevermind the collection of weapons + armor + other stuff).

[drifting niche]

What else remains to be done from the roadmap?

[rose plover]

can someone help me with a bug ive been having, basically when i enter some buildings light seems to pass right through walls and glitch all over, i have a video i can send in dm's

[tacit oracle]

engine update for one

binoculars, sdk tools, stamina rework, idk if they did the new weather scenario (though overcast nights I guess count as that)

most of the rest is vague enough that you could argue they've done something regarding those points

I'm hoping the "immersive display" mode is more than just a tweak somewhere

[drifting niche]

I think the moderators know?

[tacit oracle]

most of the mods in this server are not affiliated with GSC nor do they have any particular insight into the game

unless GSC specifically publishes an up to date checklist (and they aren't going to) there isn't a way to definitely tell if they consider a certain item in the roadmap as done or not

(except the obviously not done yet stuff such as the engine upgrade ofc)

[ripe patrol]

no new weather, afaik. Whats this overcast nights tho?

[glass wave]

The dedication of this team is amazing. I jumped back in stalker after a lot of months, so many updates so many stuff to do to explore. I also loaded some mods to make it more realistic imo and I love it.

[tacit oracle]

heads up, 1.6 broke most mods, so be careful with what you install

[tacit oracle]

apparently there's overcast nights now which look darker. Afaik this wasn't a thing before 1.6

someone posted in the gamma server about it lemme repost their picture

not my picture, but apparently nights look more like this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524231625039413249/1422893111960403968/image.png?ex=68de53f9&is=68dd0279&hm=9c638884c98047a2c274ff0fe3a6454fb490a6ffcdd7c392a30c906338655f15&

[ripe patrol]

that... looks more like my mod lol

are you sure its vanilla?

[tacit oracle]

instead of like this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524231625039413249/1422893112837275758/image.png?ex=68de53fa&is=68dd027a&hm=a5f079b81baa18ce49e0627857687c93613e97f8588cc7d1bc151440ecfed4af&

[ripe patrol]

okay i mean those two are modded, first one looks like DWO and second is Clear Sky

[tacit oracle]

oh so it's dwo that does it

I read somewhere that overcast nights weren't possible due to engine limitations

and I'll be honest, I don't like a lot of the dwo weather combinations

feels like half my playtime has some kind of ass looking grey/green overcast tint to it

(also yes, second pic is with the clear sky mod, which makes nights slightly darker compared to vanilla but I wouldn't be able to tell with a gun to my head)

but anyway, if weather hasn't changed then the "weather scenario" box would remain unchecked as of now ig

[flint cliff]

Have you seen any storms with rain and lightning since 1.6? Not emissions, but actual storms. I uninstalled all the mods, but I haven't seen any more storms.

[glass wave]

It’s mostly blood, ragdolls, combat ai and weather

But thanks for the heads up

[ripe patrol]

thats very strange lol i dont think DWO does anything like that

DWO removes alot of the tint that vanilla game has, specially the blue night tint

or the blue rain. Maybe if you played a long time ago with it, when it was very early in dev

[tiny token]

that one stash in the helicopter field west of rostok that requires you doing a parkour puzzle now actually gives you some good stuff

i was seething when i did that whole puzzle only to find out it's a non-unique stash lol

also it's a small thing but i was really disappointed to find out the perun's hill POI doesn't actually spawn any artifacts. it's like one of the anomaly POIs with lore explanation, unique setting and yet it doesn't spawn artifacts. sad!

[surreal mortar]

It still had a nice stash there, right? Near the moving lightning anomaly?

[tiny token]

I don't remember. I only remember being disappointed after going to that place twice to check haha

[flint cliff]

The red weight of the backpack. Have they fixed it? Now you can't run anymore?

Sometimes I see enemies shooting only at me, not caring about other Stalkers a meter away. Is this normal or a bug?

[drifting niche]

They're allies probably

[rancid zephyr]

Does anyone know when the next update will be released, due to mods updates

and can you please add in the next update that you can skip the intro like on the release day, that would be epic

❤️

[hasty inlet]

Is it recommended to carry 2 suits on you (1 hazard for anomalies, 1 combat protection) or just switch them from stash as necessary?

[sly matrix]

It's recommended to do as you prefer, as either tactic has its pros and cons

[tiny token]

Physical resist is generally preferred due to the fact that you can negate all anomaly-related damage once you're good enough

And during fights with stalkers you will at least catch a stray bullet

So for the sake of optimizing a loadout you could take just one suit so you have more space for loot

[surreal mortar]

Probably not, due to carry weight concerns and better options. If you are at the point where carry weight doesn't matter as much to you, you probably are already aware of the 'better options' (basically upgrades to either one of your armors + artifacts).

[tacit oracle]

I usually carry a normal ballistic protection suit unless I'm heading into hazardous area

[hot canopy]

I just do everything in the SEVA V suit over by rostock.

[flint cliff]

Again. Has anyone seen storms (not emissions) after patch 1.6?

[hot canopy]

Yes

I actually got struck by lightning in game about an hour ago.

[flint cliff]

However, it seems to me that they have been drastically reduced.

[flint cliff]

https://youtu.be/xckP7rVR0nw?si=89Y72GBoC9dLbykV
This?
Not emission but storm

[hot canopy]

Yes, that.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[hot canopy]

Cheers

[gritty orchid]

[celest portal]

Damn, when did Harpy get bangs

[thick wolf]

1.6

23 september

@wraith socket do you miss gsc forums?

[tacit oracle]

the real rapture

as foretold

[thick wolf]

i love a good rapture

[tacit oracle]

apparently we're getting another one in a week

[wraith socket]

Yes, I do. I was active there from 2007 to 2022. I was there on the final day, when the war made it disappear.

There were a lot of good people there I lost contact with.

[thick wolf]

That must be really difficult, I'm sorry to hear that 🫂

[supple nymph]

I'm sure this has been answered a million times already, so sorry about the question, but: I can't get the NV goggles to work. They're in the right slot and I've tried rebinding the key, double tapping the key, holding the key and restarting the game several times. Nothing has worked. Any solutions??

[wraith socket]

The worst part is the GSC Forums was the largest archive on the planet, of the games, the mods, the lore, the history of each of the games, and so much more. All lost in 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine.

[wraith socket]

Make sure you didn't bind it to a key that is still assigned to another object using that same key. Look through your entire listing of controls to see if you are not double binding.

My advice is to move it to your mouse wheel, if that's the same for your headlamp.

[supple nymph]

Thanks, I'll try putting it on the wheel. Now, the game suddenly, out of nowhere, just ctd......awesome.....this game, man......this game.........

[terse bane]

GSC should simply "close" it, not replace it (the site for GSC Forums now is for the official GSC web).

[wraith socket]

GSC had no control of the GSC Forums, since it was on a Server in Russia. The Russians simply took it off-line. GSC did have a backup but I was told they nuked the half that was all in Russian. They decided to keep the English half and no longer allow access to any of it .

The software was very outdated, from 1999 and could not host pictures or video. GSC expected people to move to modern social media like Facebook, Discord and others.

[terse bane]

A monky closed the server of GSC Forums , what a shame.
I guess that the "english-half" has much less interesting content compared to the RU half*, but thingis of the past.

[wraith socket]

There were only two half's. English or Russian. No other languages.

[supple nymph]

Just letting you know that what worked was uninstalling the two mods, "craftable zone" and "lootable zone", and then following your advice with rebinding the NV goggles key to the mouse wheel. The NV goggles do, however, only turn on when I hold down the button which is odd because I didn't set it to "hold to activate"

[wraith socket]

At least you are able to turn them on now. Good to know those two Mods are not compatible with the 1.6 patch and NVG.

[thick wolf]

Thank you for the history , that's fascinating

[celest portal]

Crazy

I think Harpy looks cute with bangs

I just realized, do we have our factions roles at the top now, where we retain the colors. Regardless of the experience roles.

Interesting

[wraith socket]

Choose a faction.

[celest portal]

Will it change my porple color

[wraith socket]

The lower ranks have their Faction supersede their rank. I think it stops at Master.

[celest portal]

Well that's unfortunate

[wraith socket]

I could be wrong. It might stop at veteran.

[celest portal]

I just tried, kept my purple role

[wraith socket]

I just know Experienced and below have Faction replace Rank colors. It was demanded by the masses.

[wraith socket]

So you could choose a faction and keep your purple, I guess.

[celest portal]

Nah, I was preferring the faction colors, but no big deal I guess.

[tacit oracle]

You're now PURPLE and you will LIKE it

[celest portal]

Stinky

[somber portal]

Hiw does one acquire the purp?

[sly matrix]

Lack of oxygen

[somber portal]

Fascinating. I will attempt.

[celest portal]

You eat enough grapes obviously

[somber portal]

Hold my breath and eat grapes. Okay, I'm on it.

[celest portal]

I will now eat enough oranges to make my role orange

[somber portal]

Orng

[sly matrix]

Carrots work better

[celest portal]

Ah yes the beta-carotene

Carrots have more of those

[somber portal]

Held breath for 4 minutes and ate 3 grapes. No purble yet.
I think I've been scammed 🤔

[celest portal]

Maybe you will have some luck eating purple cabbages. They have more anthocyanin compared to grapes.

[somber portal]

An intelligent opinion! I will now go and buy purple cabbages

[tacit oracle]

Purple will come to you when you're ready

[somber portal]

What if I throw some bolts at it?

[tacit oracle]

Purple may like it or not. It's hard to say

[dire dagger]

🥬

[tacit oracle]

I think I've reached the point of table flip with gamma but my stalker 2 mods aren't updated yet 😩

[somber portal]

Nah. Nothin

[ember summit]

Done the Brain Scorcher on GAMMA yet?

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[deft pond]

New patch?

[unreal raptor]

do you think we will ever get an update to the shadows cast in stalker 2 — the shadows cast from the torch as so awful. Should a weird effect.

[rancid zephyr]

what is the actually 4,5 gb update ?

[flint cliff]

Hey guys.
Will they ever make a hardcore total conversion mod like they did for the trilogy games? Or is there already one?

[ripe patrol]

Probably Stalker Infinity is the closest right now

There was Modular Hard Mode but I'm not sure if that's gonna be updated at any point for 1.6

[worthy zodiac]

Anything is possible after the engine upgrade

[flint cliff]

Does this mod work well? Is it stable?

[unreal raptor]

hahah hopefully — i can't be the only one thinking how did stalker trilogy have better shadowing that this

[worthy zodiac]

To be fair, it just had less things that could go wrong...

[ripe patrol]

Mhm? No it's been out of date since 1.3

If you're on Xbox, you can try using better ballistics, unforgiving zone and Mutants rebalanced. But those haven't been updated for Xbox yet (waiting for gsc)

[rancid zephyr]

someone know what was the 4,5 gb update today

[pearl basalt]

So I'm curious what's new in the new patch

[prisma goblet]

What is the new patch on Xbox?

[prisma goblet]

I guess it's only small fixes, otherwise we would get an annoucement

[rancid zephyr]

Yes, that's what I thought too, but it's a bit strange given the size

[flint cliff]

I am on Xbox. But Better Ballistic disables the Offset Aiming when using the NVG!

[rough horizon]

Time to have all my mods broken again

[opaque badger]

It will depend on the mods you put in I think

[rough horizon]

Yeah, mods I have not installed will work just fine, while mods I have installed will break

[thick wolf]

Can anyone tell any differences?

I'm not home rn

Maybe controller fixes? Sensitivity was broken

[simple brook]

Is the performance okay now on a 4060ti?

[opaque badger]

There has been improvement but I think the biggest improvement will come with the engine update

[simple brook]

And when will the engine update drop?

[reef raptor]

agreed
im casually waiting for the engine update
haven't played since patch 1.4

[reef raptor]

thats just unknown
developer's roadmap says by the end of 2025 so thats the best answer

[simple brook]

Ohhh okok thanks!

[main frigate]

New Rusted Dawn update is preety cool also. Recommend

[opaque badger]

Given that there is a PlayStation version in development I would say that logically the PlayStation version will already have the engine update.or rather I would say November at the latest January

[ripe patrol]

Gotta wait for the Xbox updates :/

[tacit oracle]

I'm getting styled on by a single zombie tanking 3 mosin hits to the head

[nimble cipher]

ottomic has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tacit oracle]

the problem with gamma is that if I play it without ironman I feel like there's no stakes, but when I do, it hits me with such monumental bullshi that I regret giving it a chance to play fair

people can say whatever about stalker 2, go give gamma a whirl and then come crying about how accurate and unbalanced the AI is

[magic coyote]

Operation spam of chernobyl

[magic coyote]

The problem with Stalker 2's AI is that a 17-year-old game feels more alive.

[celest portal]

glorp

[static compass]

Indeed

[safe shard]

can't believe it has been 16 years since GSC made a good game, insane

[sly matrix]

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

[civic shuttle]

Hello, upgrade today ? what is the changlog ?

[glass wind]

Controls are fixed allegedly, should I begin a new save for this kind of update?

(it’s what I’m gonna do anyway)

[celest portal]

It was a pretty small update so nah

[glass wind]

Didn’t you used to be able to speed up cutscenes?

[tacit oracle]

before like 1.2 yes

they broke it and haven't fixed it yet

there's a mod that lets you skip the starting cutscene if you're interested, and there's still a couple cutscenes that can be fast forwarded through, but literally one or two

[glass wind]

…

okay

[smoky lichen]

how are you

[unreal fjord]

What is this update?

[urban basin]

Aim sensitivity setting and bug fixes

[unreal fjord]

Ooo

[glass wave]

so the mods now do not work after this patch?

[heady remnant]

I play with mods (sleeping bag, weather, changed loot) and all looks ok - nothing crashed the game

[glass wave]

yes same for me. for now all good

[tacit oracle]

Some have been brought up to 1.6

[zinc apex]

🫃

[celest portal]

[gritty orchid]

[ocean shadow]

i swear the swamps are so annoying

movement in water is such ass

[wraith socket]

One time I tried to wade out in the water to what I thought was a small island. It turned out not to be land but a tree and some shrubs.

When I tried to go back, in the water below my waist, I reached a point where I could make the motions of movement, but no progress. Like I was stuck.

Good thing I made a manual save before entering the water.

[glass wind]

Just avoid the water

[ocean shadow]

I was trying to but it was night and i was getting hammered by the wild boars and some other mutant at once lol

[lavish roost]

anynody knows what couses th egame to crash while leaving the tunnel at the begining

[lavish roost]

is there anyway to contact support their website seems to be not functioning same as their game

[unreal raptor]

ASMR

[rancid zephyr]

Hey, I got the extra mission where I'm supposed to find the journalist's chests. But not all of the chests have appeared. The one at the sphere isn't there, and the one in Zalissya isn't there. Only the one at the junkyard, the swamp. Does anyone know why some are there, but not the others? You're supposed to have one of the extra versions, but I seem to have that one, if some of the chests are there, right?

[junior turret]

Do you think we dont know what happened to molt? do you think we are dumb? we all know he was a russian FSB spy, he was captured by azov battalion one week ago fighting on the front, we know molt talked so now everything is gone, we are not going to be able to see him or Ernesto Guevara...

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[tiny token]

the last 2 messages are this server in a nutshell

[sly matrix]

let's dial that back a few notches

[finite dragon]

FSB operator detected

[sly matrix]

read the room

[sinful crane]

Lmao

[celest portal]

Damn, what happened here

[stiff pasture]

Dumbshit

[celest portal]

That wasn't very stalger of him

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/dinosaur-shades-that-wasnt-cash-money-of-you-gif-16901889

[tacit oracle]

delete all mods

[lavish roost]

NO SHIT SCHERLOCK allready did it checked 3 times and reinstaled the game

[tacit oracle]

I take by your response that you have made sure that your mods folder has been deleted?

are you using any workshop mods? Just to make sure.

workshop can be fecky

[lavish roost]

no workshop no mods folder

deleted it myself and no paks mods

[tacit oracle]

has your save been modded in the past?

[lavish roost]

no i just came backl after the joke of a launch the game had

[tacit oracle]

okay, whelp

[lavish roost]

updated all drivers too

[tacit oracle]

sucks

[lavish roost]

unreal engine 5 at its finest 70 euro of useless data XD

[tacit oracle]

wish I could help but haven't encountered that problem in over 300 hours of play nor I have heard of someone having had that problem either.

(unless it was mod related which is why I asked)

[summer stream]

Your profile picture is exactly how I imagine you look after this response

[wraith socket]

I think his choice of that PFP is automatically making his game crash.

[coarse sparrow]

you are too early

come back when they do da engine upgrade

[lavish roost]

yeah ill wait till summer

[celest blaze]

I hope we get the 80ish cut quests added back soon

[wraith socket]

A lot of the side-missions you can redo, since they will take you to many different locations.

That's a good way to determine if a location should be avoided, as it may later be part of the main mission.

I figure If a side-mission takes me somewhere, most likely it will never be a main mission location.

[glass wind]

Is this for real?

[wraith socket]

Yes

[sly matrix]

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

[wraith socket]

https://cdn.7tv.app/emote/66e066acb0b438a2f8395cdd/4x.gif

[rapid warren]

Cement factory my beloved please lets put some content there the locstion is really cool

[wraith socket]

There's some broken side-missions there. Always make plenty of saves as you do them.
When you return to Hera on some of them, you can't clear the marker that you completed them.
For that reason, you can go back to a save before you did the objective, to return to Hera to decline it.

[rapid warren]

Huh I didint have any issues with siędę quests from hera, more as general duty side quests.
More about duty related side quests, theres only a few of them and some are avaiable only post-SIRCAA

[wraith socket]

There are a lot of Faction side-missions all over the Zone, that disappear once you go to SIRCAA.

[rapid warren]

Yeah kinda shame cant wait for GSC to add some more

Especially on duty side

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[torpid escarp]

man I wish I knew that 😭 that’s dumb if you ask me

[lucid pagoda]

It does make sense narratively with the events at SIRCAA with those respective quests, as well as encourages multiple playthroughs. I do agree that some are really easy to miss if you aren't crawling the whole map both before & after SIRCAA for the side missions

[torpid escarp]

Yeah I understand it lore-wise

I was starting a new playthrough soon anyway so it’s helpful now at least

aiming to get all weapons and weapon upgrades

I want to get 100% achievements so hopefully getting it soon

[lucid pagoda]

The blueprint and artifact ones are a grind I wish upon no one, and both took painfully-long amounts of time as well as meticulous documentation to make sure you haven't missed anything because that's when it really sucks, thinking you got them all and the achievement doesn't pop. It does feel nice to play with mods knowing that sitting at 100% achievement completion anyway as far as them being disabled goes (consolepleb)

[fleet cosmos]

is there a way to attach/detach a suppressor with a single button?

[torpid escarp]

I have around 14 achievements left, I’ll try to name them but some of them are hidden to give me a bit, they all seem like a drag which kind of sucks

I’m on console as well

[lucid pagoda]

Nah, not as far as I'm aware. I think you'll always have to use the little attachment sub menu, but that would be a sweet mod to see 👀 @round bolt would such a thing be possible?

[lucid pagoda]

a lot of those ones that are hidden are because they would be big story spoilers, so don't go revealing them unless you're willing to take that risk because there are some definite ones in there that are like oh didn't know x happens and the description of the achievement is literally that

[torpid escarp]

good point, I’ll send it in regular stalker general probably then

[round bolt]

maybe through Blueprint? I'll leave it to other people though, as I'm not a fan of this idea myself and the current attachment system is already good enough

[lucid pagoda]

Word your canted aim fix recently made me think of you for that sorta thing but word. Generally I agree, but also I like to play with no HUD & often the only thing I'm swapping on and off of that menu is the suppressor anyway, so I could see the craving for a bind explicitly for that just for >muh immersion to not still have that UI element coming up on the screen, as well as I feel like that menu has always been wonky on controller and sometimes it will just deselect everything

[eternal crag]

well you could just unequip the suppressor from inventory instead I suppose.

[torpid escarp]

I’ll send it here because I’m not gonna describe them
Goodnight
Bingo
The Four Winds
Miracle Hoarder
BOOM!
Loner Shooter
Flash Royal
Wiped Out
Brave New World
Today Never Ends
Wardens Drool
Stalker’s Smarts
Scanning Complete
Between the Lines

it’s going to be such a drag

[lucid pagoda]

True, but if the goal is maintaining immersion & fluidity that's yet another step further away, having to bring up a menu to do it & imagining you are rooting through your bag for it lol rather than what could be done with one button, as an example CoD WW2 think it was with single input on/off quick-thread suppressors

[wise night]

Hey everyone, recently i got a problem with my automatic rifles. When i shoot with for instance ak, ar416, integral or any other automatic rifle bullets doesnt hit anything they're like vanishing. But with sniper rifles and shotguns seems ok. Has anyones faced with that problem?

i tried to shoot the wall or any surface and bullets are not doing any hit on it

[stiff pasture]

First: are you on console

Second: are you using mods

[eternal crag]

just uninstall Better Ballistics until GSC updates it for 1.6.

[wise night]

yes im using a lot of mods, am on pc

[eternal crag]

well, WW2 can do that on console because there's a spare button to implement that. and S2 opted for the menu system instead

[wise night]

on nexus it says that its updated, and it worked fine until certain moment when i got this problem

[eternal crag]

mod conflict then, uninstall any weapon related mods that's not new model/textures (except for Shay's)

[lucid pagoda]

I do recognize it doesn't make sense to have a bind for that single use like that instead of the much more intuitive system that they went with, still would be cool to me for those aforementioned reasons. Personally, the only attachment I'm really messing with on the fly is ever the suppressor

[tacit oracle]

I would strongly recommend absolutely deleting every single mod you have and redownloading the entire list one by one, making sure it explicitly states it's 1.6 compatible.

[wise night]

for weapon related mods i have: bb, shay's rda and impacts, reticles by flash, less weapon degredation, red shells (textures), weapon reposition, black x2 scope, real weapon attachments

[tacit oracle]

because with the changes to 1.6 if something is not specifically been brought up to 1.6 it'll have a high likelihood of causing all sorts of trouble.

[wise night]

thing is that ive been playing with that mods on 1.6 and used only mods that have been updated to 1.6 or the mods that are not needed to be updated, and yes everything was ok until for some moment

[tacit oracle]

hey, just my recommendation.

[eternal crag]

oh yeah, gotta love conflicts. remove that weapon degradation mod first, and absolutely make sure BB is updated to 2.6.2

[wise night]

yeah thanks, i know thats logical to make it like that

[eternal crag]

if that still doesn't work, then well there's another conflict somewhere with BB.

[wise night]

BB is updated, so degredation mod is the problem?

oh yes i also forgot to mention weapon resound mod

[eternal crag]

yeah lol I redone all the weapon HP myself, so any mod that edits stuff like ADS, degradation etc will automatically be incompatible with BB

resound probably should be fine

[wise night]

ok thanks, ive just deleted the mod

[wise night]

will try it without degradation, see if it helps, thanks btw

[vernal lion]

Why are enemies standing up after headshots I can’t loot them ither

[wise night]

ok, i deleted less weapon degradation and have slept for 24 hours in the game and it didnt help unfortunately

[eternal crag]

there's still other mods conflicting then, I don't have such issues on my end

[fleet cosmos]

it would be great right, like NO games except for R6 Vegas and Ghost Recon do the quick attach for the suppressors. I feel in today's age, that would be a given for these types of games.

[static compass]

[lucid pagoda]

True forgot those, I enjoyed that in Breakpoint it's a nice little QoL feature for these games in which you're regularly going quiet vs. loud

[hazy helm]

there is a quick attach, detach animation for waepons that have that option, just use the attachement menu, instead of a button, its 2

[magic coyote]

I opened the game and immediately saw people spawning in the air to create a fake event. Damn!

[slate juniper]

Sleeping on the job, smh

[wraith socket]

They picked the wrong location to be Highwaymen.

[unreal panther]

i really need to replay stalker 2

[slate juniper]

Moment before disaster?

[wraith socket]

Yes, it did not go well for me, after running into my third Burer.

[slate juniper]

Big rip

[celest portal]

Never thought I'd see a burer out in the wild like that

[wraith socket]

I'm seeing them everywhere. It's like the 1.6 Patch swapped the Bloodsuckers with Burers.

[stiff pasture]

Burers are manageable away from their gun hordes, as long as some jackass bandit doesn’t run up and die or something

[wraith socket]

I literally ran over a hill and right into the face of the third one. I was not expecting to fight so many of them.

[stiff pasture]

Sounds like you got caught in a perfect storm of unfortunate timing lmao

[wraith socket]

Good thing I made a save after killing the second one.
When the third killed me, I reloaded my save and then
took off in a different direction, to avoid meeting it again.

[stiff pasture]

Smart, burers are decent money but I ain’t fighting three in a row if I can help it

[unkempt sphinx]

@flint shoal im not really sure what caused it, but your aggressive response wasnt necessary at all. its borderline racist to use the term "gun nerds". and the audacity of you assuming to know what the creator of that artwork implied with his work, knowingly not using the correct guns or deliberately doing it is beyond your knowledge. its presumptuous. please refrain from doing so in the future.

[flint shoal]

?!??? you cannot be serious
I wasn't even upset when I said that, sorry if my tone sounded rude I guess?

also how is that anywhere near racist, I'm literally a gun nerd myself lol

[celest portal]

Where was the aggressive response, lol

[unkempt sphinx]

im not, but imagine i was a guy that was easily offended. i also wasnt really serious with my response to his artwork, but i always wanted to respond like an offended person to someone commenting about it.

[flint shoal]

what

[unkempt sphinx]

embed failure

[flint shoal]

[celest portal]

I am just going to go ahead and eat the shrooms the monolithian priest from meme channel warned about not to eat.

[celest portal]

My next playthrough is going to be cooked

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[balmy hound]

Long time no see since release Ranjid, good day to you too !

[tiny token]

The revolver is from the ultimate edition innit

[summer cliff]

Guys what has your experience been with patch 1.6?

[real wharf]

i like it

[summer cliff]

Is it even possible to find NVGs in the wild? I gave up and bought one

[real wharf]

Yea, there is one i remember finding it

its the gen3b

[summer cliff]

Trillinear rifle is also cool asf

[real wharf]

yep

i even started a new playtrough for the update

[tacit oracle]

unlimited now makes it so lummox's rifle is a mosin

which makes heaps more sense and gives the mosin some reason to actually exist to begin with tbh

[tiny token]

That is actually really cool

The quest gives you a scoped ak a bit too soon for my taste, the devs themselves acknowledge this and they manually decreased the damage of that specific unique ak

Which makes little sense so it would be cool if they just swapped the ak for a mosin, scoped or not

[tiny token]

*if I remember correctly, I recall some modder talking about this

[molten void]

decreased the damage, durability, jam tolerance and so on

[ripe patrol]

thats fantastic

[molten void]

thing jammed on first shot when I picked it up in my last playthrough

[molten void]

I shall be blunt, the mosin has a LOT of reason to exist even with that AK

[summer cliff]

Ok new alife actually makes radiant quests worse now

I have to kill stalker thieves and there are normal non-aggro stalkers walking nearby

As soon as I shoot the aggroed stalkers everyone in the closest vicinity becomes aggroed

How do i deal with ts

[molten void]

wait it out I guess?

suppressor or knife the guy I guess too?

[summer cliff]

I already baited and killed three guys with a suppressed kora, however other guys are staying close to each other and I cant stealth kill them, these goddamn alife stalkers are walking there in numbers

I guess I'll wait in the bushes for more opportunities, immersive experience

[tacit oracle]

I think in general the game hands out way too much gear that is way too good and way too often

like, first weapon you get? Scoped ak. Alr.

first mp5 you'll probably get your hands on? Shah's mate. Ok cool

[stiff pasture]

‘First MP5’
‘Shah’s mate’
????

[tacit oracle]

even the combatant is pretty much useless since you can get an even better ak por 100% free right before that

[tiny token]

i wouldn't say it's too often but i could be dialed back a lil bit

[tacit oracle]

I would dial it back a hella bit yeah

[tiny token]

also no shah's mate is not the first mp5 you get

[stiff pasture]

Not even close lmao

[tacit oracle]

I'll admit it's been a while since I last played vanilla but I don't remember bandits having mp5s by the time you reach garbage

[molten void]

doesn't the guy at the mail house give a viper?

[tiny token]

i am pretty sure i had an mp5 in zalissya

[stiff pasture]

Yes

[tacit oracle]

and you get the shah's mate as soon as you reach slag heap

[molten void]

incorrect

[tacit oracle]

I mean could be, been a while since i've played vanilla honestly.

[tiny token]

shah's mate is a quest item from a series of quests if i remember correctly

[molten void]

you need to do a quest to nab it

[stiff pasture]

Yes

[tacit oracle]

slag heap > huron > boiler house > shah's mate

"uhm ackhsually you need to kill 2 dudes and speak to a third first ☝️🤓 "

[tiny token]

either way it's not "as soon as you reach slag heap"

and you get the basic mp5 considerably earlier in zalissya

[molten void]

Sorta I suppose, Drowned doesn't break(And is easily missable I suppose), combatant has more durability

[tacit oracle]

my solution would be to actually push everything back by a good couple steps honestly

[molten void]

within ten minutes or less from the end of the prologue/intro I suppose

[tacit oracle]

like, I'd make the shah's mate maybe like a unique golden 1911 or some tacky shit a warlord would order from the mainland, not an actual useful weapon lol

[tiny token]

more unique weapons would be goated

[molten void]

to be blunt, the kora is useful

[tacit oracle]

I have no idea where or how you obtain the kora

[tiny token]

the G36 doens't have a unique variant apart from that one in the swamps without a scope rail IIRC

[tacit oracle]

not that I care that much, I play with a mod that specifically disables like 75% of the handouts for a reason

[molten void]

mercs, find it, buy it from various vendors, the unique night stalker, etc.

[tacit oracle]

oh wait "kora" is the generic name for the 1911 right?

[tiny token]

ye

[nimble breach]

is a life fixed?

[molten void]

yeah

[tacit oracle]

I've never had much use for it, I go kiparis > udp > deadeye/gambit

[molten void]

Kiparis?? that isn't a side arm last I checked

[tacit oracle]

no, it's an smg

[tiny token]

kiparis is a side arm i believe

it's an smg you can put into the sidearm slot

[tacit oracle]

oh right you can't use the sawn off as a sidearm in vanilla

[molten void]

the only one I know you can do that with is the mac 10 aka gordon

[tacit oracle]

yeah no I use the sawn off on the sidearm and the kiparis on its place

[tiny token]

wait

[molten void]

(kiparis in this game is buket)

[tiny token]

you can't put the kiparis into the sidearm slot? damn i might be misremembering lol

[tacit oracle]

for the longest time I modded it so you could but I don't think you can in vanilla

'cause like, the point of that family of weapons is to be a pdw that you can holster as a sidearm

but anyway, besides the point

excited for the changes to handouts that infsolv is working on

[zealous pumice]

Got any of those lips lips snork masks

[sage sphinx]

Hi everyone, I have a question: did you fix the frame rate drops in the game to 5-10? It was really annoying on release.

[fleet cosmos]

When do we think we’ll get the UE5 update?

[opaque badger]

the release of Stalker on Playstation logically but want to say when she will be ready

[tacit oracle]

The only indication we have is that gsc wants it to be done before the end of the year

I personally would temper my expectations and expect it towards the end of Q1 26

[opaque badger]

It's even very likely because you have to redo everything on the new engine, you have to check that everything works, that there are no bugs, that the quests launch correctly etc

[tacit oracle]

I heard from some people that the ps5 version looked like made in ue5.5 and it was an indication that the engine upgrade would be ready at around the ps5 release date

however we got confirmation from mol1t that the ps5 teaser was not, in fact, ue5.5

(it does look particularly well but I guess it's just zuzhed up footage)

[opaque badger]

ah but the question is since when did they have the idea to move to version 5.5; it is even very likely that since the beginning of the development of the PlayStation version they had already moved to 5.5

[tacit oracle]

yeah that would be what you'd logically conclude yes

[opaque badger]

I would even say that the PlayStation version is much more advanced than the PC version.

[tacit oracle]

however from what I've read I wouldn't put much stock on it

I mean hey I'd be the first hyped off his mind if the engine update's out in less than 3 months, mind you

[opaque badger]

In both cases it's a very good thing, we will normally have a little more performance.

[tacit oracle]

oh no it's gonna be huge imo.

we just have zero idea as to when it'll come out lol

the only official statement we have is the roadmap which specifically marks it as something they want to put out before the end of the year

rest is just speculation

[opaque badger]

in three months if the guys know the engine it's possible

there is still a big difference between U4 and U5

I say we'll have the update by December, they'll release it just in time for Christmas, that will be the gift. ^^

[tacit oracle]

well, 5.1 to 5.5.4

but yeah there should be a yuge performance difference yeah

[opaque badger]

10 %-15%

[tacit oracle]

strongly tied to how well gsc does on the porting process but the engine itself is less of a dumpster fire

[opaque badger]

The big problem with the game is the CPU overload because the CPU has to manage too many things given that they want a world that is constantly evolving so that there is no cutoff I can understand the performance concerns

[tacit oracle]

yeah and right now the biggest fps losses are due to cpu bottlenecks

[opaque badger]

I think it should be like a certain game sorry I don't have the name anymore but the game uses both the CPU and the GPU to dispatch

[fleet cosmos]

Is there any game currently running the latest version of UE5?

[tacit oracle]

...I would assume so

but I have no idea, I was actually looking up what version of ue5 were cronos and silent hill 2 remake on but I don't think I can find the version

most I can find is that these games are in "unreal engine 5". It's like oh jeez thank you

[fleet cosmos]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hVo0l34-N2o

5.7 is coming…

[wraith socket]

Yes

[sinful crane]

Man they really haven't published any new mods

[glass zealot]

Maybe tomorrow? idk bro, I'm sick of going on Stalker for any news. I'd rather go on Discord and see if there's finally anything new instead of turning on my Xbox

[wraith socket]

Who is they?

[sinful crane]

The devs, they are the ones that decide if a mod gets uploaded or not

[wraith socket]

Right now, you are waiting for the creators of the Mods to update them for the 1.6 Patch GSC released.

[sinful crane]

I think the creator of craftable zone has already submited his updated mod for us xbox users but he's waiting for GSC to approve it...

So yeah a lot of mods have already been updated to work with 1.6

[wraith socket]

You're on Xbox?

[sinful crane]

Ye

[dense jackal]

A lot of modders already have it's just in gsc to actually accept it

[somber juniper]

SH2R is 5.2 IIRC (could be 5.1 as well) and cronos is 5.5

[somber juniper]

Industria 2 demo is running 5.6

No game is on 5.7 yet

[flint cliff]

Will the PS5 version support mods on day one like on xbox?

[wraith socket]

I doubt it.

[ocean marlin]

Idk prolly not

Sony is real stingy there

U would need a even bigger shitstorm than the helldiver one(s) to make em do that

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[ancient loom]

Anyone got any tips for performance on pc? Each new update seems to significantly worsen the performance for me

It’s driving me crazy trying to figure out what is going on

[sharp minnow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYals-kKKBI

[ancient loom]

I’ve got 4080super and 7800x3d

[somber juniper]

🤓

[cold gyro]

Guys I need help, I’m at Varan camp after completing the first part of his quest, and all the npcs appears in fight mode, compass is red and shows them as enemies but they don’t attack me, and I can’t talk to Varan

[somber juniper]

As randy would say "just use FG"

[ancient loom]

It’s even running terribly with frame gen buddy.

It’s slamming the CPU, so the GPU isn’t getting any where near max.

[somber juniper]

Each update adds more A-Life functionality
And that ends up eating up more CPU performance
So you get worse and worse perf
Maybe 5.5 helps but IDK

[ancient loom]

Yeah if I was the devs I would have held back on the a-life stuff. The game was already struggling without the a-life updates. I know it was a popular thing for the fans to fix but the game clearly isn’t ready for it

[somber juniper]

You could try forcing off lumen, that would help CPU perf but it would ruin the visuals

[ancient loom]

I might try it. How do you force lumen off?

[somber juniper]

AFAIK only mods can do it

[ancient loom]

I’ve just updated Nvidia drivers to see if it makes a difference but I doubt it

[somber juniper]

Use this one https://github.com/ColesyM/S2SettingsGenerator/releases/tag/1.2.2

[ancient loom]

Thanks mate, I appreciate the help 👍

[somber juniper]

I just whish they'd have stuck to UE4, since it started development on that engine
And i bet that version would've ran a ton better

[somber juniper]

Its not an easy mod to use will give you instructions for it in a bit

[ancient loom]

I agree on that

[somber juniper]

using UE 5.0-.3 for games is shameful IMO

just stick to UE4 if you have to choose between those