⭐┃nospoilers_general

[sharp minnow]

I think need to immediately switch to UE5.7, period, because there will be no tangible progress with 5.5.4!

[ancient loom]

It really struggles with open world games

[sharp minnow]

Yes, it may not be stable now and there will be bugs, but 5.5 is not super stable either 🙂

[ancient loom]

Updating Nvidia drivers has improved things. I’m at the start of the game though on a new save

[somber juniper]

there will be some, if the update isnt gonna be an undercooked mess

switching from 5.1 to 5.5 will allready help a ton (theoretically)
since 5.5 is much better on the CPU side, 5.6/5.7 even more so tho

[sharp minnow]

Well, I have doubts that anything will change very noticeably in terms of FPS and memory usage.

[ancient loom]

I never see the CPU get this high unless I’m benchmarking and stress testing 😂

[somber juniper]

5.7's main thing seems to be voxelised nanite for foliage (which the devs have to manually enable, and they might not even do that)
and Stutter 2 doesnt use nanite on foliage at all

[ancient loom]

I’ve got it running fairly smooth now but no NPCs around. Wish me luck for when I get to Zalissya 😂

[pale sedge]

is the bullseye quest bugged ? i saved 3 stalkers and beard says i didnt

ah i did it again and this time it didnt got bugged.

[pale sedge]

devs can we get a hold breath for non scoped weapons aswell ?

[primal pecan]

They probably died on their way away from the farm. When I played it, one of them died in an anomaly outside the farm and beard said "too bad not all of them made it"

So basically a bug yeah

Or maybe technically not a bug, but at least unfair to the player considering there's no option to lead them outside the anomalies yourself

[next kernel]

Anybody else have their NVGs provide a darker picture than not using them?

[coarse sparrow]

Did the devs spill beans on when it will be worthwhile to purchase "dlc pass"?

[summer cliff]

Guys how tf do you get green with Slug Heap

Almost every other faction patrols the Zone after alife updates, apart from Slag Heap. Can you get green just by farming Boozer repeatable quests?

[sly matrix]

Yes

After completing a mission you can get a new one after sleeping four times

[patent osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1210242423402536991/1424831692127993876/czarny_pan_z_zony.gif

stalker 3 leaks:

[tacit oracle]

barkeep radiants

takes a while but I eventually got it

[summer cliff]

How many though, I've done 7 and still white. Do i need to do more than 10?

[tacit oracle]

I have no idea, haven't played vanilla so even if I knew the number I wouldn't be comfy

but yeah probably 10ish or something I guess, depends on if you've done the side missions and such (I'm assuming you did)

[summer cliff]

Ok thanks, gotta keep the grind then

[tacit oracle]

not sure if there's budmo outcomes that count as "successful" or not

or even if the huron and akopyan sidequests count towards slag heap rep

[summer cliff]

Seems more like nah, since its easier to get green with Freedom and Skadovsk than it is with Slag Heap

[tacit oracle]

yeah slag heap took me a particular amount of time and I think it actually went from green to white on me once

I'm not exactly sure but I think they count as "bandits" so killing bandits in garbage might actually have a detrimental effect on rep

no idea though

[summer cliff]

I've gotten green on my previous save with Slag Heap by killing Fleshes near chemical plant trader (after farming barkeep sidequests)

I have no idea how it worked there

[hybrid rose]

i dont get the point of thermal artifacts

it seems their only purpose is to let you take less damage from thermal anomalies when you go out to get thermal artifacts

since most can be nullified with a simple 270 coupon medkit

[vivid oracle]

What's the status on A life? Do factions roam around taking areas?

[summer cliff]

I wouldn't say factions, its mostly stalkers in my experience

[austere phoenix]

hello fellows. played to swamp when it initially dropped. how’s things after 1.6?

[summer cliff]

Much better, zone is definitely more alive

[austere phoenix]

i remember it being front heavy and then swamp etc felt so empty did they fix any of that?

[summer cliff]

Well stalkers are actively occupying spots all around the Zone, so I'd say it's very active. They're also patrolling/moving around the Zone, i saved one guy in an encounter (sidequest) and met him later in a completely different spot chilling with a group of stalkers

[austere phoenix]

cool thank ya. i also have much better PC now so performance shouldn’t be a prob like it was before

[summer cliff]

In terms of performance nothing changed, at least for me.

Stalker hubs are less stuttery maybe

[tacit oracle]

bad game worst game

[austere phoenix]

im a snorkasexual

[wraith socket]

Comments about Snorks and sex have previously resulted in a lot of people being banned here. Just saying.

[austere phoenix]

hahaha ok last time i was in this chat thats all it was basically. and someone saying OMG Cat

[wraith socket]

OMG cat is gone too.

[heady remnant]

Hi guys, can you please confirm if Anyone have same bug. When moving Mouse fast with nvg equipped i can see edges tearing.

[austere phoenix]

def had more fun today playing than i did at launch

the combat AI and ballistic overhaul mod are great cuz i 1 shot people but also get one shot by the

[summer cliff]

Good old days of sn****ing it

[summer cliff]

Had a chaotic experience in a shelter during emission, since all bandits in the area, freedoms and stalkers ran there, followed by mutants. It was complete chaos

[austere phoenix]

thais magnificent. i had ward soldiers die during the emission part of the quest.

i rly like the flawless widescreen for this gsme. it makes it look really good. and the weapon repositioning mod

[graceful hemlock]

I feel like there should be a truce system for blowouts, otherwise you can often end up with a massive pile of birdies blocking the entrance lol imagine the awkward eye contact

[tacit oracle]

Emissions should be better handled than they are almost a year after launch that's for sure

[smoky lichen]

how are you here

[tacit oracle]

Even the first scripted one has ward dying inside the shelter and half of zalissya outside of it

[graceful hemlock]

yeah some NPC just dont seem to get the memo

[tacit oracle]

@sly matrix #⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

Link doesn't work, what am I supposed to see?

[tacit oracle]

There was a guy spamming the usual 4 pics

[dire dagger]

Kia gonna give them crypto fr

[tacit oracle]

He's gone now 👀

[sly matrix]

Ah yeah

[half heath]

Man I really like the "offset aiming without NVG" mod

Allows me to equip ACOGs on my rifles without issue for CQB

[tacit oracle]

I've always thought canted aiming is a stupid gimmick but honestly, gamma's making me turn around on it

canted aiming with a laser pointer is actually pretty good

[sinful crane]

Problem with the game engine, sadly you can't fix it

[coarse sparrow]

urine engine moment

[tacit oracle]

timsweeneylaugh.gif

[somber juniper]

UE 5.1 moment
https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-star-wars-laught-rire-emperor-gif-20151979

[hushed olive]

Finally got around to finishing the game while on break from film school

[heady remnant]

Too bad it was working all right after 1.6 patch but now its broken

[oak wyvern]

Yo I think I found a bug, whenever I fire snipers or something like a svd my game will either not register the hit or...just freez

I do have a mod for better ballistics installed so that may have broke in the new update

[tacit oracle]

no duh

[oak wyvern]

Idk just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this before I delete the mod and potentially brake my save further

[tacit oracle]

before that I would advise checking if the mod has updated

if it hasn't then yeah back up your save, remove the mod and see what shenanigans happen

usually for ballistic overhauls you should be good though

[oak wyvern]

It's stalker, there's allways shenanigans

[oak wyvern]

It could be weird glitch thats to all the mods I have

I have them all

Collected them bitches like Pokémon

[nimble cipher]

imvancingit has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[oak wyvern]

I can say bitches.....but not....

Wolf are you smoking meth?

OH I CAN SAY METH

mods get yo boy

[tacit oracle]

of course you can say meth

[oak wyvern]

But I cant say the f word

[tacit oracle]

but yeah the change to 1.6 absolutely threw all mods into disarray

so I would recommend just going over all your list and make sure they've been specifically updated to 1.6

bit of a miracle if you just launched post update with old mods and your game is still running tbh

[celest portal]

This guy is like the cavemen that just discovered fire

[left jewel]

Hello someone knows how to open the trapdoor between the 4 silos on agroprom?

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[unreal raptor]

finally enjoying the game for the rough state its in

hoping we get something akin to the promise of alife 2.0 — even 1.0 would be amazing at this point.

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[unreal raptor]

Anyone notice we have the headshot jumping bodies again — just not as pronounced?

[sly matrix]

PRAISE KEITH

[summer cliff]

Daddy Mol1t please drop 1.7 before or with PS5 version of the game

[small sonnet]

Is it "normal" that after sleeping in my bunk at Zalissya I'm thoroughly irradiated and need to down a bottle of vodka? Don't recall that particular dynamic from last time I played a year or so ago 😂

such a shame that the "fast forward" through all the starting stuff was removed . . . makes playing permadeath so much more tedious . . .

not to mention I would think it makes testing cerain mods a lot more tedious . . .

[small sonnet]

I took my list from ~ Nov 2024 (had only saved it as a screenshot as I had the game uninstalled in the interim) and tried reinstalling all: broken. Tested one by one. Surprisingly, there was only one which was definitively broken in so far as it botched app init. I believe it was "skip startup" or some such. So far a bit of testing in early game indicates that most of th eother ones still function okay (though I have removed a couple for precaution)

[fathom bramble]

Honta's mission was kinda short, right? But the teaching was on point. It should be closer to Zalissia, so new gamers to the franchise know how to fight mutants, at least the ones that Honta sends you to hunt

[thick parrot]

I cant play since last patch, keep getting the same crash in the same part. (Sorry for big message)

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Has anyone been able to fix it? 🙁

[fleet cosmos]

Unreal Engine Update when?

[zinc apex]

with ps5 release. maybe. probably. hopefully. I dunno

[fleet cosmos]

What’s missing from A Life 2.0 still?

[zinc apex]

it'd be awesome if we get a wave of brainrot talks in this chat once again with PS5 release though. Best times were back in November '24 when everyone gone nuts

[cloud tapir]

Does anyone know what snipers on Xbox u can acc use the canted aim when got nvgs on, none are letting me do it, can do it on a 4x scope when got it on the lavina bit cant with an svd?

Are all guns able to use the off set aiming, only a few work for me

[alpine hollow]

From a gameplay standpoint it’s a really nice idea. From a lore perspective Honta was in Zaton in Call of Pripyat, so either way I love it 🙂

[fathom bramble]

Yeah, lore wise doesn't fit, that's right

[unreal raptor]

got any mods running?

[wraith socket]

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

[left jewel]

What option should i choose Monoliths or Guards?

[hushed olive]

Most you have to get an upgrade for

[torpid escarp]

Are you sure you bought the NVG upgrade because all my snipers let me aim

[rustic perch]

What happened to the spoilers channel for Stalker 2?

[fathom bramble]

Since when is Psy bayun a thing?

[celest portal]

Isn't that just #☢┃stalker-general

[unique dawn]

What’s the limit like with modding stalker 2 on Xbox?

[golden rose]

I'm waiting for the Unreal Engine update before I try to play S2 again. How far have they come on the "Game update list for 2025"?
https://support.stalker2.com/hc/article_attachments/38051149179153

[balmy cobalt]

Can I ask if anyone else has experienced an noticeable increase in Stalker 2 freezing and crashing since 1.6 or is it just me? I'm using the same 5 mods I used before 1.6 with almost no crashes at all but now they are more common.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[worthy zodiac]

Wish we knew what they were planning in the first place

[hazy helm]

the basic A-Life stuff along with any new innovation that would make it a new system

[unreal raptor]

1.6 is a minefield for me of issues around asset loading, graphical glitches and the old headshot bug reapperaing. But — now playing with no mods — i'm getting no crashes.

[worthy zodiac]

No, it's not like that. We are happy that others are having fun with an unfinished game but we also want to have some fun with the systems that we enjoy and that were promised to be a part of the game. Imagine you order a food and there are some ingredients missing - I hope you'd agree with me that the argument "It is still edible, has a good taste too, come on, let others enjoy their food, stop telling them that it could be even better" doesn't sound as good as you thought

[ripe patrol]

What a fallacy, you can't just put a video game to the level of something like food. By the same comparison is someone having their order wrong and being "This is still pretty tasty", and the other person constantly whining in the room about how their order was messed up. Yes we get it, you didnt get what you wanted but i chose to not make it everyone elses problem, specially those who enjoyed whatever they got to eat

We get it, Alife and AI and bugs, but man S2 is like no other game out there at the moment, and comparing it to the decades of community driven projects like Anomaly or and Open Xray/Engine project does not count. They are miles apart, on both ways, and completely different things fundamentally

[wraith socket]

Where do you have in writing that your were "promised" anything?

Like in "We promise that you will get _____"

[ancient loom]

It runs significantly worse for me on my pc. The last two updates have progressively reduced performance. It ran better day 1 for me

No matter what settings I use I can’t get even slightly smooth gameplay

[unreal raptor]

Bait

[unreal raptor]

Yeah this update is the first time I'm seeing the massive lag spikes people talked about at hubs etc.

[ancient loom]

Me too. I first noticed a drop off in the last big update but this one has completely ruined the performance for me

I’ve even reinstalled the game after removing mods and deleting files etc. it’s still unplayable

[unreal raptor]

it's every time you see a pack of stalkers spawn in from nowhere and begin the usual firefight.mp4 with zero emergent gameplay (the main thing missing from the current interpretation of A-Life.

Every feels like a static corridor shooter — just in a open world.

[real wharf]

sometimes it helps for me to not load the newest save, but the one right after

If i then safe the game to exit it, i make 2 saves to load the second one the next time i play

its not a guaranteed workaround, but its mostly working

[vernal hull]

I have the same crash... I don't have any fix....

[ancient loom]

Ive discovered that my major performance issue is caused by a gamepad. Does anyone know a fix for this other than the obvious which would be not to use it lol

[light hollow]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice maybe
But you could report the problem to gsc

[ancient loom]

I think I found the culprit. It’s a Microsoft Windows problem. Apparently happens in many games.

Disabling Microsoft game input solves the issue

[nimble cipher]

tai_876539_t has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worthy zodiac]

https://web.archive.org/web/20241007224031/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/
"Discover legendary S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe and experience:
Life-simulating system “A-life 2.0” that makes the game world feel alive as never before"

They didn't just promise it, they were talking about it as if it was a part of the game on launch. Not my main issue tho. My main issue is that we still don't even know what "A-Life 2.0" is supposed to be because currently it looks like "Almost CoP A-Life" more than anything. The developers can call the current system (that is inferior to the original A-Life system) A-Life 2.0 and be done with that which would kinda suck.
I'd also give you a mention of A-Life 2.0 on stalker2.com but they used too much javascript or something so it looks like the wayback machine didn't save that page correctly, all I see is a blank page.

Also, don't forget about all the messages Mol1t has left behind, here are some of them:
#⭐┃nospoilers_general message
#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

Or a message from Kenny_Prophet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gw7djs/comment/ly8nabt/
"We will be working on updates to the A-Life 2.0 to make it really feel like A-Life 2.0. "

[worthy zodiac]

There's nothing wrong with demanding stuff that was promised to you. My analogy is perfectly fine, in both cases people ask for XYZ, but in one case people would be frustrated because of getting X and Z without Y and in other case people don't care cause "It's fine, I can enjoy it as it is". It's just that gamers like to be сuсked by game studios for some reason and they'll do anything to protect them from the "unworthy" players that dare to ask for something that was promised to them. That I will never understand.

I mean, just check this chat: one guy just asked if there are missing features in the current implementation of A-Life and PC Lover simply replied that yeah, it's undercooked in the current state. That's it. Nobody is making it a problem for the people that enjoy the game as it is. Not right now, at least

[ripe patrol]

Its a weak analogy. Food can never reach a complexity as a video game AI implementation, and it oversimplifies the issue to something so mundane.

Im not saying the AI is not undercooked, or that GSC didn't lie through their teeth with marketing previous to release. What I am tired is people talking like the AI is the sole driver of this game's "Fun Meter". I don't approve on how the moderator responded to the other person asking about whats missing, but also using the analogy is what perpetrates the narrative that the game is a unplayable mess with no AI/Alife. No one knows what A-life 2.0 is, because the devs haven't told us what they want it to be iether. Alife 2.0 was a marketing "miscalculation" at best, but what we have is not what people seem to complain it is (no alife, no intelligence, etc) and it is also not what the game shipped with (when the AI Director was an absolute mess). We did get bought into a Early Access in all but name situation, unfortunetly, but the dev obviously have the platform and foundations for their Alife implementation, as we have seen them improve it over time. I'd like to bring up a more apt analogy, Cyberpunk 77, that game took 3 years to get to 2.0 and S2 is on the same path, but it felt like the community could get behind the developers and support them instead of the incessant whining that this community has brought upon itself. I just would like more constructiveness and less shit posting/enmity (from both sides)

Not saying youre a shitposter @worthy zodiac , youre a big user and i know your passionate about the games. Its also a generalized rant at the current situation

[worthy zodiac]

There's no perfect analogy for this situation (funnily enough, I said that it was perfectly fine in the previous post... Sorry for that, lol) and it doesn't really matter. All I'm trying to say is that there's nothing wrong in frustration that me and other people feel (the people that were interested in A-Life 2.0) and it's only natural to ask for some closure on that topic: it could be an actual update that makes A-Life 2.0 good or just a plain "cancellation" of the development of the system, just like Cyberpunk2077 did with their multiplayer plans. Instead of that we were getting blueballed for months and now Tejas is implying that A-Life 2.0 wasn't even promised... That kinda sucks, yea

Other than that you kinda agree with me so there's nothing else to say, lol

[worthy zodiac]

Don't worry, I get it

[ripe patrol]

A-Life (either what GSC initialy called Alife 2.0 or whatever) is a core part of Stalker 2, and I have hopes that GSC will keep improving it for some time to come

I understand the frustation. Believe me that all us modders are some of the biggest critics of S2

(but we also love the game and why we want to "improve it" with our own ideas)

Honestly what this game needs more than anything is that UE5 upgrade and stability

I think the gameplay is pretty solid. I recently started really playing again after finishing the updates for 1.6, and I don't think any game this year gives me the same feeling S2 gave me. Walking at night back to a hub after a mission with low ammo is so butthole puckering

[hazy helm]

alife 2.0 doesnt exist if alife 1.0 isnt even there, alife was touted as a continuation of this system and the inexistance of it is its higgest tack against and the most justified, not matter how hard jt is to hear that

the fact it hurts so much to hear is primarily bc it is right

[ripe patrol]

I don't necessarily agree. Alife as in the OG alife is def not there, but there is certainly a "ALife" system in there, which is trying to handle everything as it can.

[hazy helm]

the original games didnt have the entire alife concept but they had the most basic and central concept of alife
NPCs are permanent and they move and exist outside of the players loaded position
Stalker 2 lacks that, and thus we can say that it lacks even the most basic makings of Alife as it doesnt even begin to have what SoCs stripped down Alife system had

[ripe patrol]

The OG alife was a product of the OG games design, with smaller sectioned maps, and somewhat linear world progression. The Factions were also pretty one dimensional (not that this game has complex factions either). In CoP they were pretty much static, and only in SoC did they have some autonomy. And well clear sky we all know how faction wars worked out

[hazy helm]

the core upon which alife is expanded is gone, and therefore, it doesnt exist to begin with

you cant build upon something thats missing

[ripe patrol]

The AI is persistent in Offline

It has been proven multiple times, even if it's pretty simple and just travels in a magic bubble, it is there

[hazy helm]

the AI is not persistent, as soon as a chunk is unloaded the AI will despawn
that is not persistance
as for CS the alife system from soc predured and was upgraded as faction wars progresses outside of the players loaded zone
the reason why cop didnt have alife was lack of capable manpower and time
this mistake shouldnt have been remade

walking a npc hand in hand is not a test of alife as you are feeding AI new ai nodes to it, as I have said before, alife basics is persistance and simulation on unloaded maps

[ripe patrol]

Hmm I can't refute that not being shitty, but I guess the key is "how big" is a chunk?

[hazy helm]

it doesnt matter how big a chunk is or isnt, if the NPCs arent being simulated and their position saved outside of a loaded chunk they arent persistent in alife simple as, the solution ISNT to make loaded chunks be as big as the entire map, that defeats fhe point of a chunk system and yes you can have npc simulation outside of loaded chunks

im p sure shay talked about it before but by having a separate persistent layer that saves and has squads and stalker information, you can effectively sidestep the entire problem and iterate on their goal system

[ripe patrol]

I guess we will have to wait and see what GSC is able to do. If it's just a matter of them enabling some thing in their backend that could enable that persistence

[hazy helm]

it isnt, you need to create the system, its not impossible to make is my point

[ripe patrol]

We've only just broken through most of the most egregious game breaking bugs like mission and campaign bugs. And slowly GSC seems to be turning more towards meaty functional improvements and content, and even then we haven't reached the very highly desired engine upgrade which will be massive by itself

[ripe patrol]

None of us have seen the source code to know what does or doesn't exist

[hazy helm]

you can make a guess as to ehat is and isnt in the game rn by their behaviour and what the sdk has tho no? my point isnt that this will never happen it rather is that despite it being a very hard thing to be reminded of it is the most correct bit of criticism that can and is levied against stalker 2

[ripe patrol]

None of that is exposed on the SDK and the CFG only has whatever the devs have exposed to the game engine that is working. They could have a whole other layer that's disabled and we wouldn't know

[ripe patrol]

The criticism is always valid

Like 100%. The AI system on release was atrocious and I dropped the game before finishing it. But playing today you can clearly see the seams of what GSC is tailoring

[hazy helm]

neither or us can prove or deny its existence on this alone but the burden of evidence stands on the side of proving its real as opposed to proving its not there since
not seeing the system anywhere neither the sdk or game interactions is already enuff to say it isnt

[hazy helm]

yhea I really it is preparation towards making the alife system and not engeniering a fake simulation system director that feeds you encounters

[ripe patrol]

It's true. I'd like I never proved it being there either. But it's also not non-existing as we can all see how the alide keeps improving

Typing while walking and autocorrect is not helping

[hazy helm]

the existence of alife is binary, their improvement on their spawn system to me isnt indication that things are getting better rather its scary bow people are ok with this sort of appeasement and happy that people still remember this isnt alife

[zinc apex]

i'm a hopeless optimist and still think they have the a-life system in backhand and probably will drop with the engine update

[sly matrix]

That is very optimistic of you

I confident they'll at some point try to implement something better, but not without hyping it up first

[sly matrix]

[celest portal]

Might as well pray for the monolith if you're keep wishing for A life.

[terse bane]

"Multiplayer mode, that will be added soon after release as a free update"

[lucid pagoda]

The free multiplayer is coming in here to shitpost

[drifting niche]

NPCs should have some goals in the game and not just spawn for the sake of entertaining Skif

[dire dagger]

We were all so hopeful back then

Just a few more months we thought

Can’t be that much longer till it’s all fixed we thought

[flint cliff]

I wonder if they made the better ballistic mod compatible with 1.6 then... on Xbox I mean. Is compatibile now?

[summer cliff]

Nah i didnt have the illusions even there

I was only waiting for door opening and zalissya fixing patches and they came quick, rn I'm coming back after waiting

[worthy zodiac]

I was expecting to wait for a few years or so. Still, I didn't expect them to just... Well... Not talk about the system at all. One mention in the roadmap is kinda cool but it couldn't get more vague than "Well, ummm, we'll improve it or something...". Improve what exactly? Make a slightly bigger bubble or something? Like, if you don't have any plans to develop it into a good state that is at least resembling OG systems - just say it right away and stop pretending it's A-Life so people like me could fuсk right off already and stop caring about further developments of the game, lol

[celest portal]

You can just save yourself the worry and time by just taking in the fact right now that there is no 'a life'

[worthy zodiac]

I like to care about things and talk about that, to be fair

[celest portal]

A life is never going to come, and if it does eventually then good. I have been proven wrong.

[worthy zodiac]

Who knows, maybe a wild dev will go through this chat, see my messages and think "Oh, poor soul... Fine, I'll implement A-Life 2.0 with blackjack and hооkers. Just for you :3"

Yeah, that'll definitely happen, just watch

Aaaaany second now...

[celest portal]

Too much expectation to put on GSC

[worthy zodiac]

Any second...

[celest portal]

This isn't KCD

Had to say it, because technically what you described that game has all of those

[worthy zodiac]

Haven't played KCD2 but the first one doesn't really have a system similar to A-Life. It has some routines for some of the NPCs but it's a system similar to gothic, not OG stalker games and mods

[celest portal]

Just sayin

that game going places, meanwhile stalker 2...

[worthy zodiac]

I remember all these ambushes that kept spawning over and over again in the same places... Made me kinda sad, lol

At least it has some nice grass that you can touch

[celest portal]

KCD2 is much more realistic than the first game, you can't punch and steal chickens without getting into trouble anymore

[worthy zodiac]

I'm waiting for the last dlc and the last update in general to release before I start it

[shadow swan]

is stalker 2 worth it?

[celest portal]

maybe

[wraith socket]

Bloodsucker says Yes.

[light hollow]

Do you like really big open world and science fiction and guns shooting mutants and people?

If so, then probably

[wraith socket]

I don't think you understand what I am trying to say. I understand what you are saying.
I have a problem with the choice of words you are using and abusing, and you don't understand.

Let me give you an example using your own analogy.

Let's say you go into Burger King and you look at the menu, and you order a burger with everything on it.
You get your order, you sit down, you open your burger, and you see it is missing the tomato.

You get up, go to the counter and look at the menu, where it lists the ingredients. You see tomato.
If you show them your burger and say: "I didn't get my tomato", they will most likely remake your order
or some places might take your burger and then bring it back to you with the missing tomato. No problem.

However, if you go to the counter, look at the menu, show them the burger and say to them: "You promised me a tomato. You promised!"
They're probably going to look at you like you are crazy. No one "promised" you anything. No where on the menu does it use the word "promise".
My point being you are using and abusing the word "promise" as if you don't know what it means. It's like someone says: "I like you" and you hear: "I love you".

[tame field]

So complicated. Why? The NPC AI system implementation is not as good as everybody wanted. That's it. You can call it whatever (alife, rsim, omegAi), that's on you. It is just underperforming in the eyes of consumer. Not like it is missing or something, it's just not as users expected it to be.

[tame field]

IMO if you ask this, the answers most likely NO. You will be better off watching immersive playthroug or realistic gameplay videos TBH.

[worthy zodiac]

Of course different words can sound differently in different contexts and of course there are no perfect analogies for the stalker 2 situation. For example, if we'll use my food analogy then we'll see many other issues with it: for example, if you won't get your tomato in the burger you won't hear "The tomato is actually in the burger, give us your burger and we will be working on tomato to make it really feel like a tomato" - of course that would never happen. Analogies are never perfect, they are just used to explain some basic logic of the point you are trying to make, not to demonstrate a perfectly identical situation with the same variables.

The use of the word "promise" is very normalized in the game industry too, I see it everywhere all the time and the literal meaning is "a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified" so don't give me that "I like you" and "I love you" comparison. Saying "They said they will do X" and "They promised they will do X" is the same thing, both phrases have the same semantics.

Anyways, if the use of that word is the only issue you have with my posts then... Well... I can refrain from using it just for you, it's not that hard, hah

[real wharf]

Is it really worth discussing this?

[wraith socket]

Your profile says "English is not my native language. My native language is ukrainian." so maybe it's a translation error between the languages.
It's not a promise unless someone uses the word "promise" in their declaration. If someone says they will do something, that's called intent. It is NOT a promise.
There is no logic that makes that a promise. If they don't do it, you say you stated you would do this or that. If they say they will guarantee something and don't,
you can say you guaranteed it. I just used your analogy of food to show how ridiculous it is to say something was promised, when it is never stated it is promised.

No one can break a promise, if it wasn't promised to begin with. I've never heard of the game industry misusing the word "promise", only people that don't know better.

[wraith socket]

Sometimes it takes more than once to try to explain something to people who come from different languages.

[real wharf]

Yea, i get it
from an outside perspective it looks like talking to a wall 😅

[wraith socket]

It's almost to that point, but there still is some hope.

[worthy zodiac]

Whatever, let's say you are right about the use of the word "promise". As I said before, that doesn't even matter. The thing is: the developers have advertised A-Life 2.0, they have said it's in the game, they have said that they'll make it feel like A-Life 2.0, they've added the "improvements" to the system on the roadmap. Currently it doesn't even feel like A-Life 1.0. Do you have any issues with these statements?

If you don't then the issue is still the same. I don't really care if it's rephrased from "they broke their promises" to "they lied". It's all the same to me

[wraith socket]

The one big change I've noticed, is where I used to run into Bloodsuckers everywhere, now its Burers everywhere. Out in the open, not just underground.

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, I also had a problem with bloodsuckers spawning every 2 minutes near me on the release. Didn't have anything like that on 1.5 and 1.6 tho, I've seen like 3 burers (if we don't count them scripted encounters) in the whole game. To be fair, I haven't visited red forest yet and some other places like the burnt forest, maybe it's just too early for me

[wraith socket]

I'm seeing massive Burers everywhere in Garbage.

This one was right outside the Duty base front gate. (Cement factory)

[real wharf]

never had seen any burer spawn outside of scripted stuff, does the spawning depend how far you are in the game?

[wraith socket]

It seems to be new with the 1.6 Patch.

[real wharf]

interesting

[wraith socket]

Here was a Burer at night at the broken bridge near the Cement Factory.

[drifting niche]

only during the daytime?

[wraith socket]

I just posted a screenshot of a Burer at night above your post.

[drifting niche]

Have bloodsuckers stopped spawning completely? Except in lairs?

[wraith socket]

It's mainly Garbage and the Cement Factory territories I've seen all the Burers and less Bloodsuckers. So far, that is.

I did meet some Bloodsuckers at the Dam, but those were probably scripted.

[drifting niche]

That's interesting, YouTubers haven't mentioned this.

[wraith socket]

I bounce all over the Zone. I go back and forth to places I've already been many times.

[unreal raptor]

Ok so who's playing with the dodge mod? The mutants feel so balanced with it.

Question — do things repsawn in the game? Like when you wipe out the Brood or kill trhe Burer in the bunker. Do they populate again or is it a one and done kinda thing?

[wraith socket]

When I return to the Brood, it is filled with Bandits again. Places I killed a Burer, I returned and so did a Burer.

[unreal raptor]

Thanks!

[drifting sinew]

Who sells Gen II NVG?

[finite dragon]

Why is offset aiming without NVGs something that needs to be discussed first? So many games have it, it doesn't break the game or anything it's just nice to have...

[finite dragon]

If they decide against it I hope they at least release the mod that enables it for console bros. Been playing with the PC mod and it's really cool

[ripe patrol]

Better Ballistic has been updated for Xbox already

and it should enable offset aiming

[finite dragon]

Better ballistics is such a peak mod, completely changed my experience with stalker 2.

[coarse sparrow]

probably low priority for them given PS5 release and engine upgrade approaching

[spare ore]

did they put out any hotfixes since the 1.6 update?

[lucid pagoda]

One mostly related to console sensitivity issues but apparently it is not true 1.6.1 & we never got patch notes

[rapid warren]

i cant wait for the engine upgrade, holding on my 3rd palythrough for it

[worthy zodiac]

Maybe it's because of gamepads lacking buttons for so many features? I dunno, tbh

[tacit oracle]

I'm going to assume because it affects a very restrictive balance with attachments.

I mean I'm in favor of offset without nvg, hell, I'm all for more availability and more options for optics, oxa standard is required for me to play this game anymore

but this is probably the reason imo

...or maybe it's just a byproduct of extremely compartmentalizaed development that requires 3 organizational layers having separate meetings to agree in the minutest change.

[finite dragon]

Does it tho? The way I see it, it just makes laser sights actually useful. I also use OXA!

[tacit oracle]

laser sights did have a use as hip fire but yeah I play gamma so I see the point of canted aiming with lasers

always thought it was a stupid gimmick but gamma's made me turn around on it

at the moment there's a mod for canted aiming without nvgs, which I guess eventually will make its way to consoles

and I would assume it'll eventually be integrated into vanilla

[hollow pelican]

Bruh what was this random announcement

[magic coyote]

stalker 2 spam of chernobyl

[elder plank]

maybe something to do with the ARG? other than that no reason for the ping

[brazen field]

We need full modding asap...

[gritty orchid]

First we need the zone kit to be widely available

[sullen vessel]

Is this announcement about the dlc expansion?

[finite dragon]

I always play Stalker (as well as GAMMA) without a crosshair so its nice to have something between just hip-firing and aiming with a scope.

[tiny token]

seethe

[finite dragon]

Its a Stalker 3 announcement.... Brain of Chornobyl...

[tiny token]

continuation of the arg

[finite dragon]

And Stalker 4 will be something like the skeleton of chornobyl until we have it all concluded.

[unreal raptor]

A-life 3.0 confirmed

[ripe patrol]

@acoustic snow you video just got removed from youtube. Literally as i was watching it

[acoustic snow]

lol yea

[ripe patrol]

Why is youtube so ass

[foggy spire]

same here, was so excited but only got to the third minute or so

[ripe patrol]

the most ironic part in the beginning is Nikolai reviving himself from his previous strike

Revived only to get put back down immediately

[acoustic snow]

removed due to self harm

i dont even know what they want me to do

[ripe patrol]

thats so stupid. Do they tell you at which point in the video they found this?

[acoustic snow]

scar... thingy

[ripe patrol]

good save lol. Hopefully we get reupload soon. Looking forward to your vid

[acoustic snow]

i edited it, just put a giant blur over that scene and submitted it

[fair jackal]

you still make videos?

[light hollow]

He just uploaded one

[fair jackal]

unless it's on another channel, i don't see it. last upload was like a year old

[finite dragon]

"long awaited balance adjustment for 1.7"

Hmmm 🤔

[light hollow]

It was taken down, as the convo above mentioned

[foggy spire]

video is back!!

[zinc apex]

🫃

[small sonnet]

this mod sounds amazing: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/129

[ripe patrol]

its amazing

early game is rought tho. Armor matters against bullets

[small sonnet]

Any other's you'd suggest to go with it? Just installed it on top of: longer days 8h; reasonable degradation; Mouse/Vertical fix; Lighter items; passive detector fix; reduced jump stam drain; real explosives; Increased Melee range; Sell Broken; Reduced Repair cost; Better Stealth. Most of those are ~year old but they seem to be working.

kinda feel like avoiding mutant over hauls and just see how they feel vanilla.

[wispy forge]

The old error has returned

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000008

I love my life, anyone having a similar issue?

[mental mirage]

it means that your mothers weight is causing a memory leak

[wispy forge]

Walk into an anomaly

[celest portal]

omg
Keith

[whole ferry]

So does this better yet or is it still running like poo poo

[celest portal]

Depends on what you consider something as 'better'

Most game breaking bugs should be fixed

Every once in a while someone has issues with some side missions

[tacit oracle]

it's bad it's awful very bad game from very bad devs it runs terrible

it will steal your computer to mine bitcoins if you install it, it will make your computer explode and kill you with the cpu shards

it will make the computers on a 5 km radius run worse just by installing it, running it will have you put on a list

your gamer card will be revoked

[tacit oracle]

YOUR KEYBOARD WILL STOP MAKING FUNNY RGB COLORS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND

[celest portal]

I still see blinding rgb lights on my keyboard

[wraith socket]

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

[wraith socket]

STC Malachite

[rustic perch]

Anyone know which suit the seva-1 shares upgrades with?

I'm missing the dielectric aerogel lining from the meta-ararmid suit treatment blueprint and I don't know where it is

[mild stirrup]

who else sells Gen II NVG..?

[bold oxide]

keith

[orchid gale]

New build just dropped gamers

[tacit oracle]

nah

they're waiting for me to start a new game to launch the new mod-breaking update

[wraith socket]

Isn't that a spoiler?

[orchid gale]

No lmao, my PC I’m building another one for the 7th time in 2 years

[tacit oracle]

ooh

[wraith socket]

I'm joking. Always glad to see you here.

[orchid gale]

https://tenor.com/view/beyondbelief-beyondbelieflive-beyond-belief-beyond-belief-live-naughty-gif-17729017760726112100

Still no gif privileges😔

[orchid gale]

Yeah good to see you too 🙂 just busy with life atm, been that way for a min

[wraith socket]

How is school going?

[orchid gale]

Went well! I’m back at work now but for the semester I averaged a 3.8 gpa which I’m super happy about. Unfortunately I’m back to being a cog in the machine again, this running trains thing is getting to me

[wraith socket]

3.8 is outstanding. Good job!

[orchid gale]

Thank you sir 🥹🥹☺️

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[devout imp]

fr i be scared to start a new game every week

[tacit oracle]

I knew 1.6 was going to shrek the hell out of the game so I just made the conscious decision to find another game to play to give mods time to level off lol

[devout imp]

i get a ping from this server and i immediately just start praying

no embed privileges 😭😭😭

going to pretend that never happened

[devout imp]

i don't have the discipline

i've like started 4 games atp

and finished all of them

[tacit oracle]

to be fair the other game was gamma lol

[drifting niche]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/uQCziRGr6D A-life 2.0 already exists in olr 3.0

[worthy lagoon]

Always has been

[hallow lichen]

do enemies still spawn in front of you in stalker 2? I'm debating buying the game whilst its on sale

idk if its worth it still

https://youtu.be/GGrmeubNWUg

watching this rn (its a spoiler free review)

[unreal raptor]

This makes me so sad. Comparing this to stalker 2.

[light hollow]

That would probably be the least of your concerns

If you are debating whether its worth it, then maybe try to tell us why you are hesitant

[hallow lichen]

ive heard bad things, side quests are my favourite from stalker, and apparently the later stages have none? I like exploration but it seems the late stages of the game give you no reason to explore buildings

plus, the feel is very different, removing soviet references just feels like hardcore Ukrainian nationalism and idk how that sits with me, placing politics over realism

[tacit oracle]

the problem is that the game gives you too much incentive to explore

in the sense that the world is crammed with backpacks that give you assorted shit

at a point you have so much that it's just not worth exploring, that much is true

it's a linear story driven game with some open world-y dressing and systems but whose focus is for you to get through a campaign, just like every open world game

[hallow lichen]

I don't want to spend £35 on a game I'll play for like ten to twenty hours

[tacit oracle]

then definitely don't buy it

I've played it for 300+ hours and only gotten to halfway through its campaign, but I'm definitely a fringe case

[hallow lichen]

I got 40 out of stalker soc because I ignored the main story and did side quests and stuff, Clear Sky and CoP I've had fun exploring for artefacts

[hallow lichen]

I never searched stashes in clear sky, the loot was just not worth it

[tacit oracle]

I mean I could recommend mods that certainly make the game more entertaining

and there's certainly a whole bunch to explore, including rare stashes with unique weapons everywhere

[hallow lichen]

I usually play a game unmodded once before I go for mods

[tacit oracle]

but if you're looking it from a cold analysis of what you get, take it as a 20ish story driven game

if you don't like that, then you should probably not get it.

[hallow lichen]

Idk if I'm the edge case here but I'm not into unique weapons in stalker (I am in fallout new vegas though idk), once I've got the "best" for how I play, I won't branch out

[tacit oracle]

again, that's an accessory to a 20ish story driven game.

you don't want to look at that if you just want to take it for what it is

imo there's definitely more and better to explore than in the originals (particularly soc) but I would still not take that into consideration for the value of the actual game

[hallow lichen]

also, having a side quest locked behind an extra £20 is insane

[tacit oracle]

...it's a side quest for basically the reskins you pay for.

like, it has zero connection to the plot

[hallow lichen]

hmm

[tacit oracle]

also I woulnd't recommend getting it imo

[hallow lichen]

idk how that sits with me still

[tacit oracle]

look if you want to find reasons to be mad at the game you can find them in spades

and I won't fault someone who doesn't want to pay whatever it is for what amounts to a linear story game with quite flimsy set dressing around it

[hallow lichen]

im just weighing up things before I make a decision

[tacit oracle]

I think you already made the decision to not buy it, it's fine

[hallow lichen]

I can always try it out and then, if I like the first five hours or so buy it

[tacit oracle]

just wait one to five years from now and get it for dirt cheap, probably will be a better game for less money

play anomaly in the meantime, it's free

[hallow lichen]

If I paid a fiver or a tenner for it, the value to cost is drastically transformed

[tacit oracle]

you could always sign up for gamepass, I think the first couple months are still like $1

yup, still on gamepass

[hallow lichen]

linux user :(

idk if game pass works for me, knowing how microsoft treats linux machines

[summer cliff]

Hello guys was anyone able to get green reputation with Noontide? I've gotten green with everyone but them

[long aspen]

Good question. I never even tried.

[summer cliff]

I tried to wait until bandits spawn near Quiet's camp to "help" Noontiders in a firefight but it happens very rarely and was just a waste of time

[terse bane]

OLR 3.0 A-Life is possibly much better than the future A-Life 2.0, and seems that both have different focus, i remember read several times that A-Life 2.0 was planned to have Faction Wars and related-thingis as main characteristic.

[drifting niche]

Faction wars? That's kind of boring

[terse bane]

Well, i think that has sense on the narrative of HoC, while in OLR 3.0 the faction wars isn't a thing because never was mentioned on the desdocs.

[drifting niche]

I would like, for example, for NPCs to hide from the rain under a roof, sleep when they are tired, something like that

[worthy lagoon]

You pretty much can't because of the main story

It would be a spoiler

[summer cliff]

Yeah I know but before that point theyre treated as your usual faction, just without a barkeeper who would give you infinite quests

Maybe its possible but very hard without the quests

[worthy lagoon]

Yeah, sadly that's the way it is

[worthy lagoon]

Highly doubt, i simply think that it is meant to be like this

The only exception is when you heal an injured noontider but that won't boost your faction reputation

[summer cliff]

Its very hard to get any noontider injured since theyre keeping to their island, so ggs is guess

[worthy lagoon]

Yep, do be like that, it's pretty much scripted

[summer cliff]

If only there was any way to tell about your reputation progress in the PDA...

[worthy lagoon]

Maybe some mods can do that

[bold oxide]

i miss the zone leader board

imagine bounties

[bold oxide]

idea for a challenge

you go from the cordon all the way to the hotel in pripyat in one life, all you have is a pistol or toz or that iron sight mosin on stalker or veteran difficulty

this is for players who have completed the game and want something else to do

i imagine it as the oregon trail game but stalker

oh and you cant look at the map either

you just gotta use ur game knowledge

you wouldnt need anything in your pda anyway

[bold oxide]

keith

i think i might either start at the cordon or the clear sky base

[celest portal]

Omg
Keith

[wraith socket]

I'm not exploring just to empty stashes. I'm exploring to see new locations.

[wraith socket]

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

[wraith socket]

The biggest regret people have, is not buying it when it was on sale.

[light hollow]

To be completely honest, it's almost always on sale when steam has sales

Its not a rare occurence

[orchid gale]

We have fishing update uet?

[celest portal]

Oh damn I remember that, Molt never answered that question 🥀

[whole spindle]

is the ks-23 in any of the games?

[stiff pasture]

No

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[long aspen]

Hello!

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[real wharf]

thank you, you too!

[hearty vector]

Не лізь небеспечно!

[summer cliff]

Guys my Loners reputation keeps resetting to white. Did you experience something similar in 1.6?

I've already got it back to green 2 times, and it reset to white 3 times

[long aspen]

Who are the loners?

[celest portal]

I think he means the guys at rookie village, forgot what base Loners main in S2

[summer cliff]

Lone Stalkers, their bases are Zalissya and Rookie Village

[celest portal]

You may be accidentally killing them somehow while you're exploring, otherwise my best bet it's some sort of bug.

[long aspen]

Oh, ok recently me and one other individual got randomly attacked by the npc's in zalissya. So I don't know if you somehow is going through something similar.

[summer cliff]

Nah I'm in Zaton and the only people I kill are randomly spawned aggro bandits

Probably a bug

[zinc apex]

🫃

[worthy lagoon]

White? That's odd because white is not a rep indicator

[grizzled herald]

@summer cliff It‘s the new gonta quest that resets it. The second you enter the house to start the quest. I already opened a ticket a week ago but no news yet… (even got that bug on video) 🥲

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good night be well

[wraith socket]

Do you mean when you point a weapon at Loners the dot is no longer green but white?
Or do you mean on the PDA, when you hover your mouse over a Loner Faction base, it shows white instead of green?

[ripe patrol]

damn i thought i was going crazy. Also happening to me

[ripe patrol]

on map it resets. also you lose the trading bonuses

[haughty rivet]

I played last time one year ago. This game is playable now? 🙂 Because last time a lot of glitches and bad optimalization

[light hollow]

It has a lot less bugs, but if you want optimization, wait for the update to Unreal 5.5.4

[wraith socket]

The game has not been out a full year.

[light hollow]

Should've been kept on the vault then xdxdxdxdxd

[velvet yew]

So I've done a lot of testing and wrote up a lengthy and in-depth analysis on what we all have called the "flashbang anomaly". It's a bit of a read with many lines of information, but I think you all will find it highly informative:

It sucks and is awful.

-Researcher "upset", 2025

[haughty rivet]

Yeah, my bad

[wraith socket]

Not good, to start off calling it the wrong name.

[tacit oracle]

I mean it's been playable for some time

but it's also scuffed throughout

[flint cliff]

I haven't finished the game, so no spoilers, thanks.
I started it in mid-June, and after 330 hours, I finally arrive in Prypiat this evening.
It's always a thrill. I've played the entire game so far without manual saves, without a compass, without a crosshair. Obviously, on Veteran difficulty, and I've currently suffered about 1,500 deaths.

What an epic!

[wraith socket]

You are in the nospoilers_general channel, so no one should be giving any.
Congrats on finally arriving in Pripyat. Which ending are you going for?
You can just say the person's name who you are following, without spoilers.

[flint cliff]

Is what you wrote a spoiler? I just arrived in Prypiat. I made some choices in the last missions and during the main campaign . You mean those?

[orchid gale]

The choices in the game give different endings yeah, it’s not really a spoiler though

[flint cliff]

Yes, I knew about the multiple endings. If you want the name, I'll tell you. I'm collaborating with ||Strelok|| although I was very undecided before arriving in Prypiat.

[tacit oracle]

lol, vibes #🤨┃stalker_memes message

I legitimately quit a save 'cause I was embarrassed at the number that showed up when I died lol

[wraith socket]

I don't think it is a spoiler to congratulate someone for arriving in Pripyat.

[flint cliff]

Died 1500 times. Not even in Dark Souls...

[tacit oracle]

I think I was getting into the 300s right around just after sircaa lol

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[unreal raptor]

Psydog's still suck

they either need a better tell, spawn less dupes or dupes have shorter lives. Just boring, wasting ammo, wasting gun durability.

gone from quite a cool mutant to one I just run from as it's just boring/ballache to deal with.

[rapid warren]

or have dupes deal no damage like in OG

[worthy lagoon]

What? The phantoms dealt damage lmfao

What stalker were you playing

[rapid warren]

i replayed clear sky recently and dupes probably either not deal any damage or its reduced

Or maybe its freedom grass im smoking

[worthy lagoon]

You are

[zinc apex]

This is crazy. Need to get that mod

[long aspen]

There is a tell, quite subtle, but that would be a spoiler.

[drifting niche]

Unfortunately, the mod is not as fun as it seems.

[ripe patrol]

It is not, and the alife albeit how cool it looks, wasn't super well cooked in practice

I do like the individual needs and goal system tho...

That's pretty much the last thing it is needed for S2 to feel more alive and zone-y, seeing NPCs leave hubs and POI to actually do stuff

I really don't need simulated persistent life across the whole zone, just per surrounding regions would be enough. Just need 150+ m NPC/Online simulation bubble and NPC goal system

[grand rivet]

My fav old Stalker

[sinful crane]

https://mod.io/g/stalker2/m/powerful-bright-flashlight#description

Anyone know if this mod would work with lootable zone?

[drifting niche]

I don't know why the GSC decided that rare artifacts can spawn in any anomaly area. What's the point of going somewhere so far away?

[nimble cipher]

freeeagle has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[oak wyvern]

Psa for fellow American stalkers, Please, even if you despise the guy, do not share Charlie kirk memes ANYWHERE they are arresting people for it.

And fo non Americans....yes shit has gotten that bad here

[frank vector]

Hey folks, i've been holding off on playing this for over a year now and i wondered if the A-Life is fixed and if the draw distance has increased? I played at the start but these things held me back and i didn't want to ruin the experience (the sniper rifle was redundant if the enemy spawned within touching distance). Is it worth dowloading and palying again or best ot wait? Is there a mod for the draw distance if nothing is fixed?

[tacit oracle]

a-life render distance is 100m still

there's offline simulation off to about 2km around the player.

this has been the case since 1.2 though, there haven't been any significant recent changes.

[frank vector]

shame on the 100m 🙁

[tacit oracle]

I mean to me it's fine

[light hollow]

Maybe the engine update could improve that

[tacit oracle]

I've played the game for over 300 hours since launch and I've only had a couple instances of pop-in (and that was last patch, with mods that made spawning kinda silly)

[tacit oracle]

I think I read something from mol1t saying they were expecting that

[light hollow]

[tacit oracle]

to me it's less about the render distance and more about having a proper spawn director tbh

people have the wrong impression about a-life imo.

[light hollow]

I'd they both are correlated, yeah

[tacit oracle]

like they picture in their heads this incredibly intricate rdr2 level simulation when it's not really

[light hollow]

Tbh, personally, A-Life isn't a game changer. Its cool its there, but npcs could have a fixed path and I wouldn't care much

Or maybe it was so seamingly added on the trilogy that I never noticed the upsides of it

[tacit oracle]

I would be hard pressed to find a lot of clear 100m long sight lines, both in the originals and in 2, which makes any higher render distances kinda irrelevant, but hey, I'm not going to complain about more detailed background simulation if done well

like, it's true that the offline AI simulation is... definitely lacking right now

[terse bane]

That's because A-Life isn't a great thingi in the most mods and because in the trilogy just Clear Sky has an great A-Life system because the game has the faction wars as main atracttive, and CS is the one with less mods.

[wraith socket]

It's not just the person you mention, but no politics are allowed in any form or fashion.
No US politics, no European politics, no world politics from any countries, regions or religions.
If you can't understand why, it is very simple. We do not want people arguing or getting upset.
In fact, now that we are on the subject, you need to change your PFP, if you want to continue to be here.
We don't allow political PFPs from current politics, past politics or historical politics. Zero tolerance.
If you change it to something non-political, you can remain. If you refuse, you will get banned. Thanks.

[light hollow]

It is true that CS felt more alive, yeah

I honestly want to give it a try with certain mod you love to talk about

[terse bane]

Because the game it's about that, even Dimitry Iassenev/A-Life creator say that on a video of the development of Clear Sky.
Don't matter what anyone says, Clear Sky it's around that system.

[light hollow]

Because it does look really cool and I want a bit of a change in CS

[wraith socket]

The only politics people can talk about are those found in the game.

[celest portal]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-falling-building-fall-woodz-gif-24715383

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-falling-building-fall-woodz-gif-24715383

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/big-chungus-gif-21904924

[celest portal]

I need my embed perms

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[celest portal]

https://tenor.com/view/mouse-hamster-run-fast-speed-up-gif-21940488

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/mouse-hamster-run-fast-speed-up-gif-21940488

[celest portal]

Tejas got faced with no embed it's so snorkover

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-get-raked-idiot-rake-fast-silly-gif-7087338371236205613

[celest portal]

Could have sworn the embed didn't go through but guess it now did

[sly matrix]

Embeds go through as long as you believe™

[nimble cipher]

raxaty has been warned

Reason: to promote your content you need a content makers role

[vocal kiln]

Did they fix being unable to loot mutants with mods on yet?

[ripe patrol]

it was never a problem, only for outdated mods and thats the mod authors responsibility

[zinc apex]

Fix A-Life 2.0 pls

[summer cliff]

No

[spare ore]

I'd prefer if they unveiled some hotfixes lmao

[fair jackal]

are these types of books normally this much

[magic coyote]

20 euros? yea

[fair jackal]

huh, where does it say 20?

when i went to the site it said 55 usd

[magic coyote]

I did the currency conversion I’m not sure if it’s wrong.

[magic coyote]

douuu wtf

[magic coyote]

They’re charging about 30 euros for shipping.

[fair jackal]

idk if it was right but the place that the zip code thing took me to was a place in the netherlands or something

and i sure don't live there

that means there's no store nearby either lol.

even when i let it use my location it just seems to marm a store in the US

[magic coyote]

I have no idea what publishers or distributors they’re using, because the one I used to work with would never charge that much, what a crazy price.

[fair jackal]

i wasn't really interested in the book at all

[magic coyote]

Me neither, it’s just another way to try to make money off Stalker (probably to cover the development costs).

[fair jackal]

but i guess it helps when there doesn't seem to be a store anywhere near me anyway even if i was and that's not mentioning how much they'd want on top for shipping lmao.

[magic coyote]

55 dollars is over the top.

[fair jackal]

55+ shipping that you seemed to say was like 30 euro

[magic coyote]

55+ shipping??

[fair jackal]

yeah no thanks i'd rather get a game with that 80 or so bucks's worth of money than i'd get an art book for a game that i already paid like 110 or whatever it was back then and i still don't have like half of the promised shit from.

[magic coyote]

Wait, they are literally charging more than in their own country?? Not including shipping😭

[fair jackal]

i don't know

the site doesn't mark any store in my country so i can't see what they'd expect shipping to cost.

[magic coyote]

2 links

[fair jackal]

but the site just lists the book for 54,99 USD

so that means that shipping will be on top

[magic coyote]

1 080 грн

what is that 22 euros?

[unreal raptor]

I kinda get it — but please ease off the shill whilst the game is in full price beta.

[fair jackal]

even if i get it from amazon, it's 55 + like 17 for shipping

[magic coyote]

And well, it's normal with so many weirdos with 2k hours defending this half-baked game

[unreal raptor]

i can't take it

[magic coyote]

The thing is that in the listing they have 2 links: one in Ukrainian for €22 and the other in English for $55

[unreal raptor]

i see improvement but i also see a year after release we are still in a fairly poor state here.

no real significant improvement on the main issues (cut content, sub par performance and a-life)

[fair jackal]

that's fucked.

anyway i guess Nikolai's video is back on youtube. so i guess i better watch it before it's killed off again

[terse bane]

Has 224 pages, i mean, id say that is a good price.

[magic coyote]

shevi trabaje en barcelona en una maquetadora de libros no me vengas

[terse bane]

Omg

[magic coyote]

The problem, aside from that, is the price difference between sales in Ukraine and sales abroad; the original price is the correct one

[terse bane]

While in darkhorse it's in 55$, in malopus the price is +- 30$.

[magic coyote]

1 080 грн not 1200

is like 28 dollars max

[summer stream]

You can pre order it on Amazon and a handful of other online stores

[fair jackal]

did mention that after

still, 55 bucks + 17 for shipping, for an art book? nawh

[oak wyvern]

Forcing me to change my pfp on my own account to be able to stay here is crazy get help

Genuinely is this stalker or is this 1984

[oak wyvern]

Literally no one other than you had an issue with it

[wraith socket]

Just because you are not aware of all the Putin, Hitler, Kennedy, Obama, Biden, Trump and others that had to be changed, doesn't mean you are being picked on.

It's not 1984. You had the choice to keep your PFP and go anywhere else on Discord. This is GSC's Discord Server. They make the rules. They have a reason for them all.

[stiff pasture]

Looking through his post history, the dude thinks it’s hilarious and will probably just find another name just as stupid

[wraith socket]

Some people are their own favorite comedians.

[stiff pasture]

He has less talent then a dead rat

[wraith socket]

A dead rat PFP would be within the rules.

[oak wyvern]

Yes big brother

[wraith socket]

Feel free to leave the Server if you feel oppressed.

[oak wyvern]

Im sorry it just perterbs why gsc is being so careful when really they got nothing to worry about

[oak wyvern]

Hope you enjoy the show we got soda fountains to the left

[light hollow]

One thing I do ask is why not permitting insults, even on casual language, considering they make +18 games

[wraith socket]

Politics, Religion and other sensitive subject like the War in Ukraine, tends to bring out the worst people, that easily get offended and wanted to argue about the side they support.

[light hollow]

But well, thats just the rules. Dont do it, its simple

[oak wyvern]

Wait....tejas......texas? Fellow texan stalker?

[wraith socket]

That's where I am located.

[oak wyvern]

Ah, not from texas I'm guessing?

If so then welcome don't mind the drivers they're all idiots

[wraith socket]

Born in Texas. Here my whole life except for Military Service.

[oak wyvern]

Oh ok, sorry when you said thats where you're located I thought you was from somewhere else lol

[celest portal]

What a turn of events I never thought I'd see from this interaction

[wraith socket]

Especially if it rains.

[oak wyvern]

I usually just park when it rains

[oak wyvern]

It's the Texan magic

We're all born with it

Seriously I have seen times where people have legitimately stopped fistfighting cus they both learned they're from texas 😭

[wraith socket]

Surely you can use your Texan magic to come up with a better PFP than the one you have now. How about a bottle of Shiner?

[celest portal]

LMAO

[oak wyvern]

Oh no read into this one

Look at the date

Im a og stalker

Been playing since before chernobyl

[wraith socket]

Your PFP is too small to read whatever message you were trying to convey.

[oak wyvern]

Oh dang

The date says 1969

[celest portal]

I haven't seen that happen, even though I was also born and raised in Texas. It always resulted in something I can't say. Out of the 3 reactions I have seen just passing by.

[oak wyvern]

You have to go out of state to see that happen

Im state we fr just a whole gta server

[celest portal]

Not really, but oh well

Caught in the wrong time I suppose

[oak wyvern]

Ig we just have different experiences

[celest portal]

It's a terrible screenshot of a pda from stalker, that looks like some sort of day written.

[oak wyvern]

No its a photo of my computer on the load save screen

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/better-call-saul-kim-wexler-jimmy-mcgill-huh-bewildered-gif-4290902276013537570

[fiery vault]

Hows the game

[nimble cipher]

jimi has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fiery vault]

Wow this discord is dead

[tacit oracle]

very sad

[fiery vault]

Is A-Life to a point where it shouldve been at launch? How're the quests?

[tacit oracle]

no, it's terrible, you shouldn't buy it

[celest portal]

A life will never exist

[tacit oracle]

in fact if you install stalker 2, it will kill a-life in other stalker installments in your steam library

[celest portal]

To be fair, the spoiler channel is most active

[fiery vault]

I already got it gang. Ive had it since I preordered it a while before it came out. I purchased the most expensive physical copy but refunded the physical edition items because of the horrible procurement and shifting timelines

[tacit oracle]

then you will have to live with that mistake for the rest of your life

have you considered crippling alcoholism as a way to live with yourself?

[fiery vault]

Mistake? They messed up bad lol

[tacit oracle]

I mean you bought it

[fiery vault]

word

[tacit oracle]

but yeah it's bad it's terrible it's a scam game from scam devs

truly terrible, unforgivable, very bad even.

[zinc apex]

No a-life and same quests in as it was released with the exception of a very small new one

[fiery vault]

Serious or memein?

[wraith socket]

Don't listen to Losers that have no Life of their own.

I've been playing the game for over 10 months straight.

[celest portal]

Who's the one memein

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

Seems like you're the one with no life bro

[zinc apex]

Serious. AI was improved, but can't be really called A-Life at this point

[celest portal]

What do you mean he has no life. There's green grass in stalker 2, I think.

[wraith socket]

Why? Because I'm enjoying a game and exploring every corner of the Zone?
The only time you seem to appear here is just to cry and whine about your life.

[zinc apex]

Until you install that new winter mod which looks quite cool

[celest portal]

Sometimes I wonder if people here are actually being serious. Half the time I think not and I shit around along with them if they're funny enough.

[celest portal]

cries in Geforce Now

[wraith socket]

The biggest complainers here have all one thing in common. They come from the Gamma Server. They can't stand Stalker 2 is not like Gamma.

[celest portal]

Well, I am in that server too, but only play that mod pack if I want to willingly consume slop.

[zinc apex]

I don't play gamma, just following mod discussions there

[wraith socket]

Sounds like you don't play anything.

[zinc apex]

That's true

[wraith socket]

Have you ever tried "The Long Dark"?
Not the story mode, but the sandbox mode.

[ripe patrol]

Y'all gotta relearn how to enjoy things. Internet slop has removed your joy. The game is great, buggy and with some undercooked features (I'm not excusing GSC from lying before release), but the game is a blast and the fact that you got mods, even on consoles, and continuous patches should be proof that GSC hasn't just pulled the rug from underneath us... Play it now, play it later, the game will still be a good time and that's an Ace guarantee

[zinc apex]

Have this in my library I think. Any good?

[zinc apex]

100%

[celest portal]

I mean, jokes aside, I did enjoy playing this game even during launch.

[zinc apex]

I enjoy stalker 2 also, have 200 plus hours in it. But I still want proper gamesystems like advertised

Never said it's a shit game. A-Life is shit though

[ripe patrol]

I was having trouble at launch, but after 1.2 the game was much more stable. After 1.5 the game was honestly at the state the game should've released as

[stiff pasture]

1800 hours on console and coming up on a hundred on Steam, I haven’t had a single player game grab me like this in years

[ripe patrol]

Daaaang

[stiff pasture]

I’ve also never broken more steam saves experimenting with mods

[wraith socket]

It's excellent. No other people. Just you alone, trying to survive in the Canadian wilderness.
There are towns and buildings and real places where you scavenge for food, but the cold weather
is your biggest enemy. You can hunt wildlife for food and cook it. Some wildlife hunts you.
I used to take a break from the Stalker games & Mods and play it. Great style of visuals and music.

[ripe patrol]

Did you play with New Game Start at all?

[stiff pasture]

Nah, I’ve got a bad habit of just ripping shit out root and stem without backing up my stuff

[celest portal]

The only distaste I have is some people on this server but that's just a matter of opinion

[zinc apex]

Sounds cool tho but also like a hardcore survival experience

[ripe patrol]

I can understand the issues people have with this game, especially with the AI, but it's also tiring hearing the same whining after a while

[wraith socket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4-nW2h1r7A

[ripe patrol]

AI updates are coming

[stiff pasture]

This is also the only game where I’ve actually enjoyed interacting with the community on the official server

[ripe patrol]

I wish I played more of The Long Dark

[celest portal]

I wish I had the same opinion, frankly I even wonder why I even came back.

[wraith socket]

It doesn't get more hardcore than this.
I've literally frozen to death in a snowstorm seeking shelter.

[stiff pasture]

Perks of not having been here for years and watching a bunch of people leave or get outted in some way

[celest portal]

Figured I'd return to a game to keep me distracted from life, rejoined, but then said interests died days later.

[celest portal]

And never being a mod

[stiff pasture]

My stance on being a mod on discord will never change:

F.U.C.K T.H.A.T

[ripe patrol]

This is the only discord community I've interacted with

[stiff pasture]

I’m here to shoot the shit, learn about lore occasionally (when it isn’t the usual near deathmatch arguments ) and hell, maybe years down the line once the SDK is done I might take a crack at making something stupid for myself

I still need to get my mitts on a multi terabyte SSD before I do any of SDK stuff or apply for tester if this job drought keeps up

[zinc apex]

Is SDK size smaller by now?

[stiff pasture]

No

It’s apparently much better with speed though from what I’ve seen

[zinc apex]

😭 was thinking about reinstalling but can't free up that much space

[zinc apex]

That's good tho

[stiff pasture]

Truthfully once the modders get their hands on narrative tools or something, I think we’re gonna see mods explode

[zinc apex]

Yea the point where sdk opens up to stuff like this, it will be golden era for sure. It's already more than impressive what modders put out before sdk or with version 1

[stiff pasture]

Gun mods will probably explode up as well once the SDK matures a bit (and people start importing stuff)

[zinc apex]

Interesting stuff ahead for sure

[stiff pasture]

Look, import the RoN Supernova shotgun and I’ll be happy

[zinc apex]

I want Judge as a lifesize waifu pillow in hub beds

[stiff pasture]

You need to cease and desist

[celest portal]

please make this come true

Next make Richter pillow

[zinc apex]

Oh yes

[celest portal]

Add makarov to the list (not the reboot version)

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/tts-cease-and-desist-gif-18135041

[zinc apex]

We also need glorp cat in every form and shape in the game

[sly matrix]

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

[unreal raptor]

Snork pillow would be genuine merch

stop mucking about trying to sell art books and get on the pillow train for godsakes

[zinc apex]

But that would lure back in the snorkers back from November 24

[celest portal]

Advertise as snork pillow, but what they end up getting is a bag of coal.

[zinc apex]

Krampus would be proud 😈

[rapid warren]

Its not snorkover yet

[unreal raptor]

Never had a problem with the snorkels.

[flint cliff]

I'm on xbox when I go to Honta there is no audio.

[rapid warren]

[unreal raptor]

PRAISE BE "We are going to add a setting that allows to turn off headshot sound in 1.7, lets call it a first spoiler =)"

[rapid warren]

I yearn for more side quests, will make a ritual so that we will get some in 1.7

[zinc apex]

Finally 🙌 first thing I disabled through mods

[unreal raptor]

Yup — my first mod too! Horrible sound and also doesn't signify they are dead, kinda pointless!

i just pray that UE update brings A-Life — otherwise I think I will crawl off to GAMMA whilst I wait for modders to pick up the slack.

[zinc apex]

Possibly

[oak wyvern]

What kind of black magic did gsc use to get stalker to run on the switch!?

I get the xbox and ps5 releases but daymn did not expect the switch to be included

[zinc apex]

Stalker 2 is on switch? 😳

[oak wyvern]

No og trilogy

[oak wyvern]

I can see it on the switch 2 tho

The switch 2 runs cyberpunk surprisingly well so why not gsc?

[unreal raptor]

cyberpunk isn't on ue5 — terrible engine, especially for openworld games

the red engine runs great now — even on steamdeck!

[oak wyvern]

Oof yeah forgot about that.....but isn't cyberpunk 2 gonna be on ue5?

If so then...............oh god

Gsc should pull a Bethesda and heavily mod their old engine

[unreal raptor]

Yup supposedly!

and witcher 4

[oak wyvern]

Whatever abomination comes out would probably be better then ue5

[unreal raptor]

but witcher 4 and cyberpunk might be on more recent versions — might be a bit better. FF7 remake part II has loads of issues very similar to Stalker 2. Asset pop in and weird artifacts, terrible hub performance etc.

[zinc apex]

Not looking forward to more unreal engine games tbh. These always come with the same issues and have that similar look

[oak wyvern]

With what modders have been able to do with the old engine makes me ask why gsc didn't just use their old engine to make stalker 2 instead of ue5

[oak wyvern]

It's allways grainy and blurry

[unreal raptor]

Yeah the look of UE is — just off. Kinda reminds me of PS2 era. Muddy, brown, no fidelity etc.

Saying tha the look of FF7 part one on UE4 was so crisp. UE5 just looks so bad, the lumen and scaling stuff will go down as a terrible innovation in gaming.

[oak wyvern]

Apparently the only fix for that is a Nvidia GPU.......well according to rumors idk if its true

[unreal raptor]

I have NV — dread to think what this looks like on ATI then

[onyx cobalt]

Hey stalkers, does anyone know if the “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl Limited Edition (PC)” on Amazon includes the game? The CD is probably not included (which makes sense because the game is 150 GB), but someone wrote that there is a link that redirects you to Steam where you can redeem it (the game) or something like that. Does anyone know? Thank you very much!

[vale quartz]

yes it does have the game, just the steam code u put on steam

[onyx cobalt]

Oh so just a steam key? You know that 100%? Thank you!

[vale quartz]

yeah it's a steam key u redeem on steam, it should be written in the amazon page (does not include disc, include digital download or something like that)

[onyx cobalt]

Yes, it just says “Contents: The game bla bla” And further down it says “Base game bla bla” I already checked that carefully, which is why I'm asking here 🙂 Thank you!

@vale quartz In a review, someone writes in Spanish "The game comes with a link to redeem it via STEAM, which is much appreciated, as it weighs in at 150 GB and I don't think it would even fit on several Blu-ray discs."

[dire dagger]

Pc games never came on blu ray to begin with

[onyx cobalt]

That's what I thought too, but I think he just meant that even with Blu-ray discs (which have more volume), you would need several of them 😄 Anyway, I've ordered my limited edition box set and am really excited, as if Sidorovich were giving me an artifact as a gift (which he would never do).

[stiff pasture]

He’d give it to you then hire mercs to kill you, take your stuff and the artifact back to him

[onyx cobalt]

And then sells it for double the price to the next rookie in the village! 😄

[tacit oracle]

Do NOT trust the Spanish

They are treacherous like the jamon they're so fond of

[nimble cipher]

servig has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zinc apex]

🫃

[alpine hollow]

Quick question, it seems to me that Sidor is not buying gear at the same price as other vendors (like he’s trying to do us dirty)

[tacit oracle]

that is correct

the zone changes but you can always count on sidor trying to scam you.

[light hollow]

In life, there's only 3 obligatory things:
Death
Taxes
Sidorovich being a scammer

[summer patio]

Is it safe to assume the frame drops and general fps issues in high volume places is a UE5 problem and is there to stay for middle to lower end rigs?

[tacit oracle]

yes, it's mostly cpu bottlenecks and it's mostly down to how ass lumen runs

the game is supposedly being updated to 5.5.4 which should massively help with that before the end of the year

[summer patio]

Its really just the crowded areas for me (I'm on a 13th gen with rtx3090) I've still got a good amount of years before I'm due an upgrade but man these games are really heavy

[tacit oracle]

yeahh I mean unless you have an x3d cpu it's going to suffer

but yeah it's normal and expected

(unfortunately)

[summer patio]

I thought 14th Gen Intel was BIS?

Or is x3d just the bare minimum

[tacit oracle]

you'll probably get a more techie oriented explanation in #pc-specs but afaik it's less about the raw power of the CPU and more the fact that it requires some specific kind of work that only x3d cpus have a dedicated cache for

I've read anecdotal reports of 5800x3d owners stating they don't get those dips in hubs, and that's a 3 year old cpu,

idk if intels have an equivalent technology honestly

[drifting niche]

I wish they would add ugly, unattractive faces to the game

[wraith socket]

Done.

[drifting niche]

Lol she's not ugly

[wraith socket]

She looks like a bald man, that took a mop, cut it off the handle, dyed it brown and plopped it on top of his head.

[steady lantern]

Add more goonbait to the game pls

make all female characters look like anime girls

male ones too since we're at it

[wraith socket]

Done.

[steady lantern]

nut

[celest portal]

Damn, I never actually seen one in S2 this close

[steady lantern]

It's funny seeing people glaze pre-update Harpy when she had the same face model as the Rostok merchant, just with a bandana

[wraith socket]

That was the first time I met one. It did not end well for me.

[celest portal]

People who actually don't know and getting mad about new harpy vs me who brings up the new update Harpy as rage bait

we are not the same

[wraith socket]

Her hair style is definitely not the same.

[drifting niche]

No, she's not ugly, she looks sloppy, but that's because of her clothes and hairstyle.

[steady lantern]

If I had reached Yanov before the update I would've been mad because that's such a blatantly reused face model

[celest portal]

Can't tell if people are actually mad about the new Harpy, but it's funny to stir up the pot

[wraith socket]

Yaniv

[celest portal]

well that's just gsc for you

[steady lantern]

she looks like an average ukrainian woman tbh, it's just rightoids whining about DEI and wokeism whenever a femoid doesn't fit their subjective standards

[wraith socket]

No politics, please.

[steady lantern]

Imo there's actually not enough rugged looking characters in s2, be it male or female

[celest portal]

Still kind of miss her dark hair

[celest portal]

Ayo I see Dark listening to 93

[robust kestrel]

Turn off the screen, check reflections

[drifting niche]

That's rude mate

[steady lantern]

Hilarious and original

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[drifting niche]

I am against putting labels on people just because they want more attractive characters in games

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[celest portal]

Hey I remember you

[unreal raptor]

let's keep our focus here guys — we need a-life not comestic surgery

[sly matrix]

Speak for yourself

I definitely also need the latter

[unreal raptor]

*1.7 — the sexy patch. *

Faces get sexier. Stalkers get stacked.

still not sure i've ever seen one of these elusive squirrels

[sly matrix]

I've seen one

[wraith socket]

The 1.6 Patch gave us B-Life.
All the Bloodsuckers out in the wild got replaced by Burers.

[unreal raptor]

yeah and they are so useless in the wild without a pile of guns and props to hit me with

just run up on those little dudes

[wraith socket]

Not so. A Burer can just wave its hand and suck all the health out of you, as I discovered.

[rapid warren]

..... what about snorks?

[unreal raptor]

Snorrrrrrrrrrrks already quite sexier

[rapid warren]

[tiny token]

There's one thing I realized recently that kinda bummed me out about the character models

I am pretty sure all the suits and armours have no significant dirt nor wear and tear

They all look mostly brand new

Would be cool if all the suits were more worn on average, with perhaps veteran stalkers having patchwork and damage on their stuff

[alpine hollow]

I really hope 1.7 overhauls the sleep and stamina mechanics.

[alpine hollow]

Exactly apart from the monolith trenchcoats, wear and tear seems not too present. The Seva I has rusted belt straps on the gloves.

[rapid warren]

side quests pleaseeee

[finite dragon]

@digital valve

@digital valve

[zinc apex]

I agree but will demand stalkers are able to use dinosaur and pirate patches

Maybe racecar ones too

[steady lantern]

Begs the question where factions even get their distinct brand camo suits and armors. Who makes those? Where? Are they made in the Zone or on the Continent?

[summer cliff]

I like burers more than bloodsuckers, bloodsuckers move around too much and with frame gen input lag its sometimes hard to shoot them (blind dogs too)

[sinful crane]

I wish blind dogs went extinct, the most annoying mfs in the zone

[summer cliff]

Yeah i don't care about wasting bullets i just go wild on these mfs

They're not even that deadly, just very annoying with how dodgy they are + how they cause bleeding all the time 💀 💀 💀

[tacit oracle]

I prefer bloodsuckers cause burers will one tap you with any levitating gun if you use a ballistic overhaul

They're annoying but you can hear when they get aggroed and you can sorta kindasidestep them as they come in

At any rate, either are better than controllers lol

[sinful crane]

Came across a burer yesterday and he yoinked my spas and one shotted me with it lol

[coarse sparrow]

why are there no prisons in the Zone?

[light hollow]

The Zone itself is one

[wraith socket]

What do you think the Detention Center is?

[celest portal]

Who needs prisons in the Zone when one could just cap them quietly for breaking whatever rule or done something wrong.

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/waldo-guns-ip-me-and-my-niggas-gif-19891446

(This looks like it's from Monty Python skit or movie)

[tacit oracle]

I mean technically nobody's supposed to be in the zone at all

only the ipsf and, at most, sircaa (and Ward by extension ig)

[wraith socket]

Yet the IPSF and Ward make no effort to remove everybody.

[outer laurel]

waiting for any info regarding dlc

and multiplayer

[ripe patrol]

Why? It's not gonna be any good

And I'm sure it's gonna be DoA, no one will play it after a day or two

[hazy helm]

I want TDM on old maps

tho it wouldnt be as good without the OG Gunplay

[ripe patrol]

Like big OG maps

[hazy helm]

no, the multiplayer maps

why would I want just the OG Maps put into the MP?
what do you wanna make a open world MP? that sounds awful

[flint cliff]

When I go to Honta I can't hear the audio, why??? I'm on xbox.

[crude scroll]

co op would be good

[hazy helm]

this is the part where I tell you GSC have continuously said no coop since 2021 and that sentiment carrys over to 2025 and probably in the future

[analog helm]

the would need to make a brand new game for it.
Syncing the world state for multiple players (especially if the world is so big and simulated) with AI, physics, bullet ballistics etc. requireds gigantic netcode codebase.

[crude scroll]

yea thats quite sad to be honest
i wanted something like far cry style u know where u could both do the same missions or like dying light but oh well

[light hollow]

Wait for mods if you want coop

Thats as far as you can get

[worthy zodiac]

Imagine "personalised" visual damage. Every single item in the game could have a randomised damage pattern and stuff. So you could distinguish your personal gun from all the other ones just by scratch marks... A dumb lil feature but yeah, would be kinda cool

[unreal raptor]

Please can we bin MP — fix the game please. MP can be just remembered as a whacky idea some Microsoft guys shoe horned into the roadmap.

No harm, no foul

[hazy helm]

no

I want a MP

[sharp minnow]

When will the developers address the problems with NPCs and enemies??? Well, it's really crazy, with every patch the same problems with flying NPCs and everything else!!!!!!!!

fix finaly this no real alife 5.0!

It seems like the patches are not being worked on by GSC, but by a bunch of outsourced Indians!

These problems with NPCs and enemies have been haunting us for 3 major patches, how many more???

[ripe patrol]

Like the tears who don't fall, this dude is crashing out around me

ill see myself out

[viral onyx]

З моменту виходу гри звертався у техпідтримку гри СТАЛКЕР. ЩОБ через свої канали повпливати на Майкрософт ХБОКС і виправили момент з текстом що українська мова в грі відсутня ! Пройшло вже скільки часу, а віз і нині там(((
В їх магазині на сторінці гри СТАЛКЕР 2 пишеться що українська мова в грі відсутня!

[sharp minnow]

I understand that we need to work on the DLC and the engine, but it's time to fix these NPC problems.

[ripe patrol]

MP was definitely GSCs idea

[ripe patrol]

I want MP but just so the EOS is implemented natively so MP mods can exist later with less hassle

[finite dragon]

where are saves for s2 stored?

[ripe patrol]

/appdata/local/stalker2

[finite dragon]

found it, ty

[storm kernel]

lead them into Electro anomalies for a Hasan Piker playthrough..

[storm kernel]

does he know?

[sly matrix]

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

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[sinful crane]

Lol

[unreal raptor]

I feel like adopting Duty theology when it comes to MP. We need to contain and destroy it.

[alpine hollow]

The game is great. I do find odd that emissions are less frightening than thunderstorms (which are one of the best I can remember in game…I sometimes jump of my chair thinking skif’s gonna get thunderfried, huge kudos)

[wraith socket]

this is the part where I tell you GSC have continuously said no coop since 2001 and that sentiment carrys over to 2025 and probably in the future

[normal comet]

UFO f2000

[wraith socket]

Look at the copyright date in the lower right corner.

[normal comet]

Is this refferencing to what stalker was going to be in its very early* stages of development?

[lunar heath]

Hey! Is stalker 2 worth playing now?

Like is the A-life improved?

[wraith socket]

The A-Life has had steady improvements over time,
until the 1.6 Patch came out. It's really terrible for A-Life.

There are less NPCs out and about, and all the Bloodsuckers
you would normally see in the wild, all got replaced by Burers.

[ripe patrol]

no alife mods?

for 1.6 there werent a huge amount of changes to alife iirc

[tacit oracle]

afaik both shay's and wool's are updated to 1.6

though from what I've been able to gather, alife is as loopy as it's been in 1.5 so mods or not it's gonna be a bit flaky regardless

[long aspen]

Waste processing or the back of rookie village?

[placid niche]

Anyone able to help with offset aiming not working on Xbox, it just keeps opening the PDA

[summer cliff]

Nah I'd say I'm meeting a lot of the NPCs in the wild, haven't played since 1.2-1.3 and returned to 1.6

[ripe patrol]

You probably have outdated mods

[placid niche]

I restarted the game and it seemed to fix it

[lunar heath]

So the A-life is good now?

Also, are there any mod recommendations to make the game run better, A-life, and perhaps a perma death mode?

Or more survival mechanics

[hazy helm]

it isnt there

[lunar heath]

Ooooh gotcha

But there are mods for it that enhance the experience?

[hazy helm]

there is no Alife

[tacit oracle]

it is better

still not there but it is better

there's two big mods for a-life:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1301
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1122

I personally recommend living zone, alife found a way tries for a more radical approach but honestly doesn't super pan out considering how alife works at this point in time.

I wouldn't bother with any performance mods personally, at most I'd wait for the engine update at the end of the year I guess

but every single "performance" mod either will make your game look like ass or just not help performance (and sometimes worsen it)

[light hollow]

Makes performance mod
Performs worse
Uploads it
Chad emoji

[tacit oracle]

Makes game look like ass
Makes game run worse somehow
"stalker 2 performance mod must download +50fps"