#⭐┃nospoilers_general

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light hollow
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Fair

ripe patrol
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Ultra plus is the only graphics mod worth anything. Optimax High Quality is also pretty good without severing FPS

summer cliff
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Yeah i gave up on these mods a long time ago, my performance is good enough

wanton flame
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HUZZAH

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BIP MOOP BIMP BOMP BOMP BOP BIMP BO

mild stirrup
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and CONTROLLERS. i encountered a controller just outside a abandoned village

rapid warren
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I ate it sorry:(

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rapid warren
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*walks away with a-life shaped belly

errant yacht
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hey guys have there been any updates within the arg?

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i haven’t heard anything about it in a while

rapid warren
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Nah no update in a while, even after malachite post (I guess lore had to catch up to the progression of ARG)

drifting niche
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I understand why, for example, the M870 feels like the worst weapon in the game, and that's because in S2 the mutants are much faster than in the trilogy; they also run in circles. If mutants slowed down more when wounded than they do now, the game would be much more enjoyable.

tacit oracle
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jesse what the fuh are you talking about

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870 is peak

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I'd contend magazine fed 870 is better than the saiga, hell, I would even prefer a souped up predator to a saiga

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not to say the saiga is bad, but the 870 is really good

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if you stagger your reloads in between shots you probably have higher RoF than with a mag fed anyway

rapid warren
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I really like the gun but it performs really bad at highest ranges and against tougher enemies. (YOU can see it on its stats from the game, there is one post on reddit that shows exactly stats of weapons after relaase).

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I really like it tho, Design wise and I like that predator got buff last patch

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Hopefully rebalance in 1.7 will make it shine even more

wraith socket
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No Mods. My A-Life is 1.6 as is.

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mild stirrup
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The Controller is supposed to be inside the Cherevach cemetery.

celest portal
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Why are controllers wearing jeans

crimson axle
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How do I get money in stalker two? It’s really hard cause I’m bad at the game.

celest portal
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celest portal
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Every single controller is wearing jeans tho, they do not have a sense in fashion.

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hm

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I don't think I want to send that

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long aspen
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Yup, since 1.3 they have been roaming. Also a very easy kill, the one from prcessing. The AI on the rookie village one still works. I usually just walk it unto rookie village for free mutant parts.

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lost tartan
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Burers can catch these hands, the amount of times ive had to reload a quicksave because one yeeted my gun under the terrain

drifting niche
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It's strange that no one except Texas writes about this.

celest portal
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well

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I spent 4 months not leaving the lesser zone, kind of sped up my gameplay because I was going to be away from home for several months. If it wasn't for that I honestly would have left the starting area only recently.

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I also use cloud gaming, which kind of limits my motivation to play. My internet has been crap lately.

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I wish you all a good day be well

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# safe badge Thats sad

People replay mainly just to get the different endings. Few people really do any deep exploring.

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drifting niche
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I flew around Garbage, Cooling Tower, and Lesser zone using the cheat code and didn't find any bloodsuckers or burers other than the scripted ones

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tacit oracle
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honestly, vanilla just throws money at you constantly

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you keep stumbling onto stashes, just sell the stuff you don't need

lost tartan
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I pick up every yellow condition or higher gun i find and made 100k in about 2 hours

steady lantern
tacit oracle
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There's been hyperactive burer spawning in certain areas for a number of versions now

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You'll see the occasional report but I'm not sure why this hasn't been more widely spoken about

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It's clear someone from gsc started messing about with the spawning, made things worse, and then just... Left it as is

coarse sparrow
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find artifacts -> sell artifacts

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I don't think you can literally swim in the money, but you can be pretty rich by like the mid-point, at least this was the case in 1.1, I mostly used the vendor double stack sell bug to get extra mula for upgrades

drifting niche
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Has anyone tested a Vintorez in night combat in 1.6? It should be even quieter than a regular weapon with a silencer...

tacit oracle
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I'm honestly not sure how sound works in stalker 2

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like, yeah, an integrally suppressed weapon firing a subsonic round should be very quiet... irl

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not really sure how in-depth these mechanics are

drifting niche
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Well, every weapon has its own volume settings. A Vintorez used to have slightly lower volume than silenced weapons. Most likely, the parameters haven't changed.

fleet cosmos
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Engine update when?

celest portal
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When the engine update comes

fleet cosmos
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How will multiplayer for this game work? Better question…will it actually ever come out?

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light hollow
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if you are asking for coop, no, they've been against doing it since the development of SoC

tacit oracle
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in practice I'd expect it towards march-april 26

coarse sparrow
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crimson axle
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How do I sprint in an exosuit in stalker two

terse pecan
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I'm pleasently surprised by the progress made in 1.16 I haven't played since launch basically and the AI and all is much better. Still a long way to go but I'm hopeful.

lost tartan
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Im having a blast with 1.6 so far. Still on a modded save i started in 1.4 but its been about a month and a half since i had last played

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hardy pelican
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Only exoskeletons with the running blueprint upgrade can run after being upgraded. Exoskeletons without the blueprint can only walk.

drifting niche
drifting niche
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I wish exoskeletons could tank a bloodsucker's roar or a boar's ramming, etc.

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I wish you all a good day be well

rapid warren
zinc apex
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zinc apex
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New bug?

tiny token
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You are the only one I see addressing this

rapid warren
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he's been hit with burer curse

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Also I'm not running any Mods to change the A-Life or game behavior.

fleet cosmos
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What’s today’s latest discussion/debat?

mild stirrup
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sorry i couldn’t resist it

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tacit oracle
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on the one hand he spends a lot of time in front of the tv like a bum

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on the other, gotta respect a man who can down a vodka bottle and only get slightly blurry vision

zinc apex
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Sidorovich is real tradhusband material 🔥

digital sapphire
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yeah more stalkers on the zone

nimble cipherBOT
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mytz1927 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

zinc apex
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Is no mention of A-Life 2.0 in PS5 Store concerning?

hexed pebble
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id say no

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because they probably just dont want more backlash from people saying its not up to scratch

zinc apex
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tbf the description there is very short overall

hexed pebble
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i think they still know theres a lot to do hopefully we will see for ourselves whenever we get these engine improvements

zinc apex
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yea the engine upgrade is substantial I guess

hexed pebble
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is it really thoug

robust kestrel
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Finishing what you made before bringing out the game to other platforms which also, will be incomplete, would be substantial.

tacit oracle
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imagine buying an incomplete game

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imagine being that sucker

drifting niche
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So game with Dave isn't content maker anymore...

tacit oracle
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yeah, he's made a video about the "abuse" he's gotten

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I don't know if he's gotten real abuse or if he's just overreacting to people's opinions

drifting niche
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idk I haven't noticed nothing too serious

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tacit oracle
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tacit oracle
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it was that obama caricature with the cow and it was like "gamewithdave when gsc mentions anything" or something like that

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I haven't seen anything serious either, though there's a reason I have like half the discord on block lol

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we have a buncha diamonds in the rough in here

drifting niche
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it can be refer to any youtubers cos we just don't have anything to discuss

tacit oracle
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I hope I'm not on the list, I genuinely tried to give him some honest feedback on overextending in his claims and the potential damage the rumor milling and misreporting could cause

tacit oracle
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that's what the description says

high fable
tacit oracle
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I honestly got pretty annoyed at the fact that I took some stuff he said in his videos at face value and it turned to be either misreported or straight up untrue

high fable
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Gotta take everything with a grain of salt though, seemed alot was just speculation

tacit oracle
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mostly because of the rumor milling those statements could foster

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right, my feedback was just to suggest him to please sleep on things before publishing them

high fable
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i mainly just watched his patch notes so i dont know

tacit oracle
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like, obviously he didn't have any malicious intent, but his over-eagerness was driving him to spread misinformation

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for example, if you ask about the engine update nowadays, you'll get a lot of people telling you that it's gonna be likely at the end of november

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because the ps5 version uses the new ue engine, and therefore it would make sense the engine update would be thereabouts

high fable
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Yup

tacit oracle
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this was echoed by him, from some rando's twitter account, implying that the ps5 teaser was un the engine update

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and many, including myself because I also didn't do my due dilligence, just took that at face value

high fable
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That makes sense

tacit oracle
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then mol1t had to come out and confirm that the ps5 teaser wasn't on the new engine, no footage with the new engine had been published, and that they didn't have a date for the engine update

high fable
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I still don’t think he should have been removed though

tacit oracle
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it's like, if you're a youtube channel, and one of the biggest youtube channels concerning a game at that, like... it wouldn't hurt if not to confirm with the devs, to at least cover your butt a little bit

zinc apex
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Imagine being that sucker believing anything some YouTuber says

high fable
tacit oracle
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yeah I don't know what happened with that honestly, just my side on what he may possibly have interpreted as "abuse"

drifting niche
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Any information can be useful smile_scar

tacit oracle
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obviously I'm sure there's many fine folk in this discord who don't have either the tact or the capacity to express themselves like I do

high fable
tacit oracle
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...there's also the fact that he was under NDA and he might have slipped something he shouldn't have.

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that, idk

high fable
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Probably what happened honestly

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He probably said to much about 1.6 or something while he was testing it

tacit oracle
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he did confirm binoculars before they were dropped

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probably other stuff, who knows.

drifting niche
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Yes something about engine update

zinc apex
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99% of stalker 2 Youtubers exists cuz GSC is spare with information themselves and people grabbed every straw they could find tbf

tacit oracle
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While I'm sure he didn't have any ill intention he did say a lot of stuff that didn't end up happening or had no basis on reality

high fable
tacit oracle
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but I haven't played 1.6 yet so idk

high fable
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Ive seen whats been going on im just waiting for the right time

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I basically beat the whole game before the first patch dropped and then i was done

zinc apex
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Wait for engine update if you haven't played yet

tacit oracle
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I wanted to give some time for mods to level off after 1.6 'cause it's been pretty disruptive for modding in general, but I think I might wait until the engine update honestly

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or, at least until the anniversary

high fable
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Yeah i think i will wait

tacit oracle
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duckov is keeping me pretty entertained at the moment lol

summer stream
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Most of his videos just seemed like copies or repeated information that he got from a vatislavovych video or something. His videos werent bad, but it just seemed like he wasnt really contributing anything new other than repeating what other channels had already said and didn’t really know what he was actually talking about.

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I think there is probably more context to what happened than what he is letting on, and now his audience is blaming GSC. I can’t imagine they’d give him testing rights, and then just all of a sudden ban him for no reason

summer cliff
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summer stream
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He just posted another video

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I guess his account was hacked or something and he wasn’t actually banned

tacit oracle
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he popped up in general saying something along those lines, yeah

tiny token
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Or so I was told

tacit oracle
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there's been a lot of hearsay, he's back on the same permissions he had and from the looks of it he just got hacked.

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however he assumed it had been due to gsc staff. he says it on the message I linked above

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bit of a storm in a teacup iyam, but it seems like it came down to a misunderstanding

tiny token
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Then I'm just talking out of my аss

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Good to know it's all good

tacit oracle
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I mean completely understandable, last couple hours has been gossip central

empty gorge
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I wish you all a good day be well

sly matrix
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Hello, Stalkers!™

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hard sleet
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Mine are orange. Are you using any Mods?

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I don't recognize this scope,

tacit oracle
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hard sleet
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Looks like the mod was just updated and the bug has been reported. I'm sure it'll be resolved soon. I always get nervous when a bigger update is dropped and I have to update all my mods lol!

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drifting niche
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Do NPCs use ap cartridges?

mild stirrup
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hollow pelican
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any leaks about next update?

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nimble cipherBOT
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davfis has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

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rapid warren
# hollow pelican any leaks about next update?

So far what we know is that they will focus on quality control with 1.7 (bugs and fixes mostly). I'm spamming ask GSC channel with questions about when and how many side quests can we expect according to roadmapsmile_scar

tacit oracle
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next update will consist of replacing the current version of stalker 2 with gamma

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thus finally fulfilling its destiny as the true stalker successor

celest portal
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Next update will be turning into gamma 2, you silly

tacit oracle
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gamma 2 will be stalker 3

coarse sparrow
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how well does the xbox controller work with PC version of S2?

tight pulsar
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Hello, my stalker 2 keeps crashing 24/7 redownloaded the game 2 time already and still nothing

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I have already played before its not like my pc cant handle it

dire dagger
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alpine hollow
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I really wish they could add more sidequest after a certain event of the story.
Without spoilers, this event is the destruction of a place where a certain faction held an experiment that has been tampered with by rivals.

coarse sparrow
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but then I saw that reddit post with side missions per region

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tacit oracle
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Dead chat

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Start barking loudly. Someone will show up.

celest portal
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Hello, Stalkers!™

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dim topaz
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Did you guys know that Stalker backwards is "Reklats" which is an anagram of Stalker?

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unreal raptor
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GSC Answers is trolling at this point. I imagine the questions in the piles of A-Life? Next Update? Engine Upgrade? are casuing chaos for the discord servers

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Suppose at least it feeds the Stalker 2 youtube algo — three obscure answers = one ten min video with ad-roll

drifting niche
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I don't understand why they removed stat penetration; now it looks like they want to bring it back.

unreal raptor
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I'm not sure if it's part of a bigger redux of damage in general. The whole everything has the same health but different armour values sounds odd to me.

zinc apex
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I wish you all a good day be well

coarse sparrow
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dead chat

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I hope it gets better with PS5 release

celest portal
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dead chat

coarse sparrow
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I remember the chaos of the release day 😢

celest portal
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same

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Do you remember the days when the enhanced versions first released? Fun times.

coarse sparrow
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but not worth, I barely played before unistalling and waiting for them to get better

celest portal
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I also bought the OGs a while ago, I don't think I ever touched the EEs

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Listening to Aspirin 3000 freestyle by ERU to cure my migraines rn

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unreal raptor
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Dead chat theory

celest portal
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dead chat

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💀

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chilly flax
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But fr tho, Ts is deader than disco

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dead chat

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@sly matrix Oh Weird Al Kenobi...you are our only hope.

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dead chat

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Anyway, 7:00 AM. So I need to start at work. Otherwise I would help create some action around heresmile_strelok

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celest portal
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Same

wide fable
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anyone know how to fix the slowed talking?

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thick cosmos
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Hey guys, where can I find a trader who sells 5.56? I am currently in garbage at the slag heap and just gave diode his keycard so I’m at that stage and using monolith ar416 from journalist stash

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I’ll see which is closest and try

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Alright. I’m sure Rostok will have 5.56. Sadly I blew most of my money on upgrades so I’ll have to find some jobs there too, doesn’t help the fact that the trader at the slag heap is out of jobs

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unkempt dragon
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So i simply go to him for everything so i dont have to worry about "can he do it or not"

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Is it possible that multiplayer is coming with PS5 release?

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# coarse sparrow Is it possible that multiplayer is coming with PS5 release?

Absolutely not, I doubt it even comes next year, given how slow things go.
My understanding, is that right now all their effort is focused on the first DLC and the engine upgrade, while the leftovers of the team work on the recurring patches to the base game and SDK.
Even after DLC is released, most likely they will focus on the next DLC, and multiplayer only after

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yeah I wouldn't even expect it to be out in a year from now, personally.

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if they've done the engine update, and fixed all the things the engine update will break, and finish up the sdk, and... maybe release the dlc they've been teasing with the arg?

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I think that would be short of a miracle frankly

coarse sparrow
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let alone the "season pass" DLC

dire dagger
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Ps5 launch likely won’t even contain the engine update

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coarse sparrow
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take any SVD and see how npcs dissapear

analog helm
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so at least no need to make it worse

tacit oracle
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Afaik models would retain render even if they go over distance, up to a respectable amount

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At least from what wool told me, I haven't exactly tried to reproduce

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Alife works in mysterious ways indeed

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orchid gale
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POV I’m at Olive Garden and they say sir we cannot keep giving you breadsticks

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Wouldn’t be in anyone’s best interest to launch on ps5 with a brand new engine. I assume there’s going to be a lot of new bugs with the upgrade

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burnt prairie
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People who didnt want to waste ammo in the swamps, rostok, or yantar would often look if mutants or patrols are in the way.

analog helm
# summer stream Does anyone actually even use bino’s? I don’t think I used them once in the og t...

One of the key components in the OG Stalker gameplay mechanic was the pushing the player to always measure if he wants to fight or not based on multiple factors:

  1. feasibility of victory (e.g. you can easily win if there are 3 blind dogs, but have issue if there are 6),
  2. the amount of resources player is willing to spent fighting (medkits, ammo, guns durability),
  3. is there an alternative route?
  4. if there is - will it indeed be safer to take a detour instead just fighting your way through.
    This was very important part of the gameplay, adding another layer of depth as player constantly need to analyze the situation around of them.
    Higher rendering/simulation distance + binoculars allow you to get all the information necessary to make that decision. E.g. you can notice some movement on the horizon 130m-150m away from you with a naked eye, and then estimate, what is the level of threat (e.g. enemy type, number of enemies etc.) looking into binoculars or scope. Also, you can analyze the surroundings from a far to check if the alternative route is indeed safer.

In S2 currently, because 1) rendering/simulation distance is shorter you get info much later 2) without binoculars understanding the details about the situation is harder. This is not just a "role play thing" - it strips a layer from the actual gameplay depth and dumbs-down the way how you interact with the world.

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I'm really getting confused with factions. Some are friendly and some are not within the same faction. I just saw a faction take out one of its own members. What am I not understanding?

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Maybe I’ve just gotten too used to the “random encounter” style from Japanese RPGs, so I’m pretty familiar with this kind of system where enemies spawn based on time or number of steps. However, most games still give you a warning — usually, when you hear a growl or a call, it’s a signal that random enemies are approaching. They typically spawn at a distance of around 75 to 100 meters.

If you think shooting mutants is just a waste of ammo — since even with loot the drop rate is only about 10%, and with bad luck you can clear out an entire group and still get nothing — then when you hear the sound, using a 2x scope or just spotting where they are and moving away from them is the simpler and more efficient choice.

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# drifting niche Bandits?

Nope not bandits. Regular factions. The one with the S and globe. They were friendly to me, some weren't (not zomviesy) and then the same group killed their own and again wasnt a zombie

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if at all-

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only explanation i could have is that one of them was probably a monolithian spy lmao

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or there was a flycatcher or something (i.e. a flycatcher in stalker 2 is a area or building rigged with psi, explosives etc, but they have good loot too..)

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unreal raptor
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just random to see what/who is fighting who at points.

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the choice to make all the camos/uniforms look the same is a terrible idea too. Used to be you could ID people from a distance and make your choices from there. Now it's just run up face to face and see what unfolds.

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Not only camouflage, but soldiers (IPSF), for example, should only patrol the border, shouldn't they?

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I wish you all a good day be well

zinc apex
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Stalger 2

unkempt dragon
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I'd love to know more about this award, congrats gsc!

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Have they just stopped updating the game now? It's still horrifically unplayable because of the latency issues

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4070 super, 9950x3D and 32GB RAM for anyone interested

hazy helm
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no, they havent

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they are now making 1.7

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The games hardly play out like this

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We all know what areas the enemies are in and what they are

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And even if you don’t, that necessity of being super analytical careful really only applies to the starting areas like the swamps and garbage. Once you reach Rostock you already have enough resources and good enough equipment that the only reason to play like that would be for role play. These games really are not that hardcore

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I’m not saying Bino’s shouldn’t be added, I’ll take any content we can get. But I’m willing to wager the vast majority of people never use them

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Most of us probably just sprint half the time, running through anomalies and smoking everything with a shotgun without really caring

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Most people don’t even shoot at you in call of Pripyat until you get to Pripyat lol

unreal raptor
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Binocs are a signal for huge improvements. I’d binocs are in. Things spawn more than 100m. Think_about_it

left terrace
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as a tarkov main could STALKER 2 keep me busy until release?

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hexed pebble
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I'm waiting for the game to get to 2.0 before trying again. I know i like the game but want my first full playthrough to be mostly bug and stutter free.

left terrace
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release put me off so much

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so im the same

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zinc apex
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When will Stalker 2 win best game of the decade awards?

steady arch
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when will stalker 2 qin best game ever in the world ever made award???

mild stirrup
celest portal
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Stalker 2 is going to be a game? Damn, I wonder when it's releasing

bold oxide
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why did they not put x16 in stalker 2 anyway..

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alot of stalker 2 buildings dont have interiors either

lucid pagoda
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hollow pelican
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is ue5.6 update coming next year

spiral ether
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can someone suggest me some game with best enemy AI?

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burnt prairie
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play on nemesis mode

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people often praise mgs5 ai but i find it kinda weird and unrealistic

burnt prairie
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fyi the game i just recommended is if assassins creed was in the Lord of the Rings setting with actually good combat.

hollow pelican
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i have heard about that game

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icy tangle
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Does stalker 2 still crep itself with 8gb vram or it has gotten better?

coarse sparrow
icy tangle
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Eh

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I wish you all a good day be well

light hollow
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zinc apex
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tacit oracle
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asks about game with good AI
is recommended game by Monolith
game is shadow of war

wise geyser
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Goated game fr

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Remember my first time playing that shit nemesis system blew me away tbh was so cool

gaunt basin
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For that time

light hollow
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It is pretty decent, yeah

unreal fjord
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How's the multiplayer for this game coming along

light hollow
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apply that motto for the engine upgrade, and alife upgrade, and every other planned update

unreal fjord
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oof

graceful cliff
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anyoneknow what mod makes my ammo etc say "sid_misc" in fornt of it

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and in the menus etc

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So if you're playing with mods I'd recommend making sure they're updated, and if you aren't I'd make sure you clear any leftovers

drifting niche
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This is rarely talked about, but a good SDK would make things much more interesting than these patches.

worthy lagoon
tacit oracle
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there's people who get butthurt over the idea of giving the community the ability to fork and tailor the game to individual tastes instead of having the developers work on exactly the features they think the game needs because it's their game because they paid for it, though.

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'cause ynow, force multipliers are for chumps

tiny token
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It would be cool if they officially implemented features from most played mods. Like better ballistics perhaps. Initially I was opposed to the idea of per-caliber damage because the game needs a feeling of gun progression, and universal damage per caliber would leave you with no incentive to switch to newly found guns. But I was also sad they сuсked the ar416 and the g36 by making them early game guns, so now I'm in favour of caliber based damage

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Hopefully they feature that in this 1.7 patch, which is supposed to be all about rebalancing

fierce panther
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I hate how you kinda dont need to worry about repairs too much since a jam isnt neccesarily too annoying to deal with, having to keep it maintained so it keeps its stopping power adds enough incentive to actually yk look after your guns

golden dawn
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hey, how do you play against humain AI ? feel like they lazer beam me constantly.. it's is planned to fix AI aiming and behavior by the devs ?

finite dragon
sharp minnow
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How are you still not tired of talking about Multiplayer when Singleplayer has such problems with NPCs? In the trilogy, the enemy and NPC AI is still better.

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  • Optimization is terrible
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And there are very big doubts that when the game moves to the new version of the engine, practically nothing will change in terms of optimization. Why did I decide so? Because now every AAA game on UE5 is in terrible condition!

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UE5 can hardly be called an engine 🙂 it's more like a super alpha version of the so-called engine!

drifting niche
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I would argue that the AI is worse than in the trilogy.

sharp minnow
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First, you need to polish the game to perfection, like they did with cyberpunk, then we can talk about multiplayer!

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Why there are still no subspecies of the same bloodsucker in the game is mystery number 1 for mesmile_degtyarev

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I understood this at the launch almost a year ago, but in 11 months it was possible to at least color them and make 2-3 different ones, at least in terms of skin tone!

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One complete playthrough of the game takes up to 100+ hours and all these 100+ hours we are chased by the same bald bloodsucker

light hollow
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Dude, first let them polish the game, then talk about bloodsuckers skin!!!

safe badge
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I wish you all a good day be well

drifting niche
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The illustrations feature various types of mutants. I don't see any problem with adding them; it won't increase the system load.

nimble cipherBOT
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legendgamer1870 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

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makhno1337 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

lucid pagoda
icy maple
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By the way, why there are no publicly available source codes for Enchanced Editions` engines?
I mean all the original games has X-Ray Engine sources open for everyone. And lack of them for Enchanced limits modding much.

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@azure nimbus, it wouldn`t be a big deal for you to release them in open git hub repo as-is. No need for docs etc., we will figure it out - like we did previously all the way before.
Please, give them to community 🙂

finite dragon
finite dragon
# fierce panther Maybe durability could affect gun damage, you never really get your hands on a d...

I think we could go deeper with the durability mechanic as well. In Far Cry 2 guns could not only jam, but actually break if they remained uncared for too long.

Though I don't know if I am a fan of the idea of worse damage, since I already dislike the fact that damage is tied to the gun itself instead of the caliber in stalker 2. Maybe instead the guns accuracy and handling could become worse as its durability decreases.

fierce panther
finite dragon
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Anyway I hope we soon learn what Master difficulty will be about. PLEASE don't just make everything spongier that's the last thing this game needs. 🙏

celest blaze
worn oar
finite dragon
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You can tell me in secret, I swear I won't tell anyone here. 🤞

worn oar
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All I can say that I'm pleased

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Mol1t might share more about the patch through GSC ask &answers

summer cliff
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daddy mol1t please bring us 1.7 and engine update afterwards

coarse sparrow
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Honestly I think 1.7 will ship with PS release

light hollow
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I like your hopes

summer stream
wraith socket
terse bane
wraith socket
sly matrix
drifting niche
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If the beta test of the patch has already begun, what about the beta test of the SDK?

ripe patrol
tacit oracle
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I mean last patch was supposed to bring SDK improvements and I haven't heard much about those (or seen them in the patch notes for that matter)

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unless you consider "breaking every single damn mod" as an sdk improvement lol

ripe patrol
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They did bring huge improvements to modding

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Like massive

safe badge
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I wish you all a good day be well

sly matrix
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Hello, Stalkers!™

tacit oracle
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I can't remember where I saw it but I'm fairly sure I saw it in the context of improvements upcoming in 1.6

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though maybe it was in that roadmap they put out hmm_cheeki

dire dagger
rapid warren
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LOW TAPER FADEE

drifting niche
tacit oracle
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yeah that's what I'm asking, I can't remember if that was either on the roadmap, or announced for 1.6 specifically

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I didn't see anything on the patch notes, but then again I'm not really sure if you should include SDK changelogs on the game's or not

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finding specific info on the sdk is kinda iffy overall, and I don't have 700 spare gigs to try myself lol

drifting niche
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They don't say anything about SDK, there was only a video from Rbwadle

rapid warren
light hollow
rapid warren
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something like that, right

light hollow
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But, seems like in CS, there's || "Damage to Last Boss" ||and it does make it spongier

rapid warren
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But yeah, revamped AI for master diff would be amazing

light hollow
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Im guessing that final boss is either ||the helicopter or strelok||

rapid warren
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or both

light hollow
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True

rapid warren
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spoiler btwdrinksmile_scar

light hollow
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I forget what channel this was lol

rapid warren
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yeah me too

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its just general and nospoilers are both general hah

dire dagger
rapid warren
dire dagger
celest portal
rapid warren
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hello doctor faust

celest portal
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hello

rapid warren
celest portal
sly matrix
rapid warren
solid dome
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Hoedy hoe

gritty orchid
zinc apex
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dead chat

tacit oracle
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master difficulty can't be anything other than just moving numbers around a little on a few cfgs

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otherwise known as "what you can do with a mod now"

rapid warren
tacit oracle
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mind you, I'd love if they also somehow revamped enemy AI to go along with it, but I don't think it's gonna have to do with master mode, in particular.

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(also you should probably download npc combat overhaul by letswoolgather, imo it tweaks enemy AI on all difficulty levels across the board)

rapid warren
sly matrix
tacit oracle
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I think the AI is working okay enough to not warrant a rework, barring some tuning like the one they did for detection in the dark last update, but obviously I'm not gsc and I'm not a tester so idk

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not the first time gsc focuses on something completely irrelevant while other aspects of the game are a raging dumpster fire

steady lantern
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Adding squirrels

sly matrix
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Squirrels are of vital importance and anyone disagreeing is clearly a C-consciousness agent

coarse sparrow
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IS master difficulty is part of 1.7

coarse sparrow
tacit oracle
#

alife

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well, spawn director and background simulation which we could simplify into "alife"

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sdk

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cut quests (rumored to be 100+)

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and obviously DLC and multiplayer, not because I think they're pressing from a design standpoint, but the game was sold with those two being promised so it is important from a liability standpoint

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though the people working on the two latter point are probably a completely different team than the people working on the two former

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regardless, like, you need to make AI kinda dumb. It's implicit on the game design

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by which I mean, even being able to take like 4 times the damage of your average npc, skif wouldn't have a snowball chance in hell against, say, 4 competent enemies

worthy zodiac
coarse sparrow
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my current understanding is that the DLC development is not going too fast rn

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probably we see someting announced in the summer of 2026

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then MP I think is kind of shelved

steady lantern
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the multiplayer is one of those things they recklessly promised before the reality check, and which they are contractually obligated to release, but which at this nobody believes will actually happen. At least not anytime soon, with how the base game development has been going. It's more of a meme at this point, like half life 3.

tacit oracle
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They're kinda legally obligated since they're selling content with specific ties to multiplayer, unfortunately

steady lantern
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Multiplayer was never stalker's strong focus, so not many people care about it anyway I think.

tacit oracle
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like not really and I'm obviously not a lawyer but yeah that was definitely a more-than-you-can-chew moment

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to me the biggest problem to address is the obviously malfunctioning enemy spawning, and to ensure that the moment to moment gameplay feels organic outside of the strictly on-rails single player missions

coarse sparrow
tacit oracle
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stalker 2 has this kinda dissonance between it almost being designed as a very defined mission based linear progression, but also having to include the open world stuff on it

steady lantern
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Yeah, the most pressing issue right now is AI, and general lack of content. The game's gameplay loop has potential, there's just only so much you can get out of it.

tacit oracle
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and it's evident they had to cut down on everything open world related to the point that it's kinda set dressing though not super really but yeah kinda is

steady lantern
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Most locations are significant for maybe one quest but later you have no incentive to visit it ever again. Duga is such a wasted potential, and Pripyat too from what I heard

tacit oracle
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I personally don't really care about if you can be like omg you can follow every single npc on their day to day or whatever,

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but the spawning is so painfully artificial it's immersion breaking yeah

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it's like, if you pass by a campfire with 4 bandits on it, you know you'll find 4 bandits on it on the way back, and tomorrow you'll find 4 bandits again

steady lantern
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Or 3 bloodduckers always in the same spot on the way to the brain scorcher

tacit oracle
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imo the 2 things the game needs the most is 1) deep, borderline rework level changes to its spawn director, and 2) changing the AI so enemies actually show some amount of self preservation

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for a very simple reason, which is, ai with self preservation dies less, which means less need for artificial respawning in the first place

steady lantern
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I don't like this common trope rpg/open world game devs fall for with 'enemies underestimating the player cause it's just one guy'. It's very unimmersive when you're stacked with endgame gear but still get mindlessly attacked by bandits not even worth looting

tacit oracle
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it's a problem in most games, yes, the fact that every single enemy and npc yearns for the bright gates of valhalla

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with npc combat overhaul you can have enemies fall back to the point that they kinda sorta disengage if they're in an unfavorable position. Not quite, but it could be feasible with the current AI I think.

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would also be a way to add personality to the different factions without necessarily just increasing difficulty.

steady lantern
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Yeah, bandits could easily be the more cowardly ones who only fight you so long as they're in favorable position, and monolith as the endgame ultimate fodder that fanatically stays in the fight even if all odds are against them

tacit oracle
#

even animals

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like, far be it from me assuming what a pack of irradiated dogs would do, but one would think that if humie go bang bang and blows up a couple of them, there's a chance the rest would piss off

coarse sparrow
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most games have the same cookie cutter AI copypaste, which I find a bit odd given all the advances in "AI"

lost tartan
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It was sort of done with Skyrim, where Lydia would use ChatGPT or something similar to create responses to player input "dialogue" in real time

tacit oracle
#

I mean FEAR 1 didn't have that good of an AI, it was just a very very verbose one

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combined with tight level design

unkempt dragon
olive estuary
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fear holds up pretty well. I was playing it a few months ago.

tacit oracle
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not only because it holds up very well, but because it is a great study in videogame design in general

unkempt dragon
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I cant find 1 on xbox only 2 and 3

light hollow
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The only good one and you cant find it feels_bad_stalk

tacit oracle
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2 is imo so far removed from 1 it might as well be a spinoff

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not a bad game, mind you, but it's kinda a pale imitation of what made 1 so good

unkempt dragon
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The fewer syllables the better

tacit oracle
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what I mean is, it's that it shows why it's a great game

unkempt dragon
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Im gonna see if i can find it on steam or something or ebay i dunno

light hollow
unkempt dragon
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All i know is its got some spooky ring chick and you shoot stuff

unkempt dragon
light hollow
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But it just shows. When you play doom, you are like "ok cool nice monsters amd varied maps", amd they are so well implemented that you dont realise it, its like a background check that gives little dopamine effects to your brain.
When you play a bad game, you do realise

unkempt dragon
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Just like when i play a soulless game you can tell it wasnt liked by the devs

tacit oracle
#

it's at the same time a very no-nonsense, tightly designed game, that also has a completely superfluous "the ring" spooky story that barely interacts with its gameplay lol

unkempt dragon
#

Sounds legit

tacit oracle
#

very mid 00s yeah lol

unkempt dragon
#

meanwhile me on my way to play duke nukem again

tacit oracle
#

trepang2 would be considered a spiritual successor to fear and it's not terrible at it

unkempt dragon
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Ive heard people call it that yeah. Thinking about buying it since its on sale for me rn. Looks really cool

tacit oracle
#

doesn't really hold a candle to fear 1, but it's more of a sequel than fear 2 lol

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fear 2 isn't terrible though mind you. Now 3 on the other hand 🤮

unkempt dragon
#

I read the description for 3 and compared to 2 it sounds mildly schizophrenic

tacit oracle
#

actually, come to think of it

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I think condemned is more of a fear 1 spiritual sequel

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also good game, very different and yet a lot of similarities. Also by monolith

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and also has a sequel that's kinda disappointing lol

#

both perfect for Spooky Month™ tbh

unkempt dragon
#

Just like freedom became crypto bro's

tacit oracle
#

unfortunately warner closed the studio like, last year

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so they're probably back to the wish granter grind

unkempt dragon
wraith socket
wise agate
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im late to seeing this, i wished more agreed with this. gsc is just like all the triple A game devs. releasing a half baked game is insane.

light hollow
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We have known about this since before launch even

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Not the A-life this, the next statement

summer patio
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Does this game have a frame gen feature?

wise geyser
#

Bugs be pissing me off n sh plus some lack of features but they been cooking man and it’s not like they just only focusing on adding stuff and bug patches but they also taking in player feedback and build systems and features from that which to me can only be commended

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But nonetheless stalker 2 will get there eventually I hope

celest portal
wraith socket
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I don't know if people complained the Zone had too many NPCs walking around,
but I've noticed since the 1.6 Patch, it's like a ghost town going to places that used to be more lively.

celest portal
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We should start complaining about the lack of squirrel population in S2.

wraith socket
static compass
wraith socket
celest portal
wraith socket
summer patio
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Is there really no radio feature in this game despite how many good cheeki breeki songs there are

wraith socket
light hollow
dire dagger
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Imagine telling a women “its impressive if you turn framegen on”

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Think she’d be impressed?

empty echo
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LOL

dire dagger
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My Toyota Corolla makes 500hp with frame gen on

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Makes 90 with it off

light hollow
dire dagger
nimble cipherBOT
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gordonsf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

light hollow
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Dammit!!!!!!!

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Can't even make a joke smh smh smh 1984

dire dagger
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All they extra performance is fake

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It’s just for appearances

light hollow
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Because she is a cool person smile_scar

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Nah but like, she would be actually impressed, she likes this kind of softwares

hazy helm
light hollow
hazy helm
dire dagger
dire dagger
light hollow
dire dagger
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Lego car

light hollow
#

Finally

#

Where is stalker car

dire dagger
#

No where

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This isn’t halo buddy

light hollow
#

I want master chief riding a boar to victory

dire dagger
#

Halo is a dead brand

safe badge
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I wish you all a good day be well

sly matrix
#

Hello, Stalkers!™

trail yoke
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hello

zinc apex
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🫃

rose solar
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hi, how is performance on xbox after all these recent updates? (seriesX)

light hollow
rose solar
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Hey! thanks for the response

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I guess I'm waiting for the engine upgrade

rapid warren
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God tier profile pic btw

summer cliff
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1.7 is going to come out in november and engine update will be next, probably in january-february

unkempt dragon
#

Been on a downward trend since 4

tacit oracle
#

||halo was never good||

dim topaz
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An engine upgrade by itself is not going to magically make the game run better unfortunately

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And I'm kinda doubting that they're going to optimize the game to any reasonable degree at this point

coarse sparrow
dim topaz
tacit oracle
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The only engine update I've experienced with unreal was nightingale and the difference was quite substantial

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While it's true that an engine update alone isn't indicative of a performance upgrade, in the case of unreal engine and it's atrocious lighting system, it's kinda warranted tbh

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Lumen runs like absolute dog on every single game that uses it

opal sage
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is there any 1.6 mod that removes the crouch vignette and radiation noise?

safe badge
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I wish you all a good day be well

finite dragon
wraith socket
worthy zodiac
dire dagger
#

Fortnite loses to pubg once again

finite dragon
light hollow
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Well, not like pubg is that much better hehehe

finite dragon
light hollow
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Although now that I remember, I don't think there were that many stutters

zinc apex
#

Tick-tock heavy like a brinks truck

rapid warren
#

*oiled up tf2 characters

tacit oracle
dire dagger
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Pubg never had any issues when I use to play it all the time

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Ran just fine on my 1060 back in the day

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Never had issues with stutter other than initial load when you would land at a location

zinc apex
fathom bramble
#

Guys

I finished the game with the Spark ending

||It's so sad||

dire dagger
#

Yah cus spark ending sucks

#

Literally worst ending

flint cliff
#

Hi, is there a mod that prevents you from doing the Honta Hunter side quests? They don't activate...

oak rock
#

Engine Upgrade when

opaque badger
#

when it's ready

celest portal
#

When it's done cookin

worthy zodiac
tacit oracle
#

they said if anyone else asked about it they weren't doing it

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so ynow, thank you

dire dagger
#

Engine upgrade tomorrow

sharp minnow
oak rock
#

Remeber No Ukraine

oak rock
sharp minnow
worthy zodiac
worthy zodiac
oak rock
#

If u dont i feel sorry for you

oak rock
rapid warren
#

To be honest I'd be very pleasantly surprised if it'll come put this year

#

Im expecting february/march next year

tacit oracle
#

I think end of q1 26 would be a more realistic expectation yes

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but, it's still on the card for 25 so 🤷‍♂️

rapid warren
#

Well I mean they had to base this deadline on something so who knows

#

Maybe they'll just fully focus on it after 1.7 ans get it out before christmas but I'd say thats far stretch

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Would be nice to know at what level of progress is engine upgrade right now. I heard some speculation that recent duga post pictures were taken on update engine but I dunno

worthy zodiac
#

But yeah, doesn't matter, really

tacit oracle
#

(video did look really good on those teasers but I guess it was just normal video just zhuzhed up)

rapid warren
#

yeah I heard that its same engine, which further undermined idea that it could come out this year

rapid warren
tacit oracle
#

I still don't think that's just raw live video of the ps5 version lol

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but, we'll see I guess

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at this point, and even though I'm sure stalker 2's twitter and youtube orbit are as best intentioned as possible, I'm just not going to believe anything until I have it in front of me

zinc apex
#

Stalker 2 in Unity Engine when?

rapid warren
#

yea I think engine upgrade is going to be a game changer, I have no problem waiting for it a little longer

rapid warren
sharp minnow
#

Even if they postpone it to 2026, it should be version 5.6+, so at least there will be some increase in FPS!

zinc apex
tacit oracle
#

chasing that bleeding edge only results in problems.

rapid warren
rapid warren
tacit oracle
#

imagine not only the ballache but also the content cutting, and now engine upgrading, we would have been saved if gsc would have stuck with ue4 as originally intended

sharp minnow
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Yeah go back to x-ray

rapid warren
#

true Im still butthurt by all the missing side quests:(

graceful cliff
#

where do i get my art book?

tacit oracle
#

imo ue4 was the best option at the time of release. Of course, nobody would have predicted that the engine that supposedly intends to take over game development was going to have such thoroughly dogass performance.

rapid warren
#

im definetly getting one too

rapid warren
sharp minnow
#

its cringe no engine=)

tacit oracle
#

and also stalker 2 was riiight at that impasse where they kinda did a leap in the dark with the confidence that it would run well

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I mean, still, look at bl4 or cronos to see how well it's running on current versions still but ynow

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the games on the initial versions of ue5 did draw the short straw unfortunately

graceful cliff
rapid warren
#

Yea cronos looks JUST RIGHT

rapid warren
sharp minnow
#

Well, you shouldn't compare the corridor Сronos with Stalker 2 🙂

tacit oracle
#

cronos might look okay but it also runs like a cinder block

tacit oracle
rapid warren
tacit oracle
#

lumen is kinda the worst

#

I mean it may look fine, but at what cost

rapid warren
drifting niche
#

UE5 has tools that make your work easier.

rapid warren
sharp minnow
#

Silent Hill F works more or less normally, purely because it is very graphically broken 🙂

rapid warren
#

I never heard anything positive about it

tacit oracle
rapid warren
tacit oracle
#

"better" unfortunately doesn't mean "well" but yes, I mean I've seen a substantial change in a game moving from 5.1 to 5.4

sharp minnow
#

Now game developers on UE5 are killing the graphics so that the game works at least somehow normally, it's a disaster 🙂

rapid warren
tacit oracle
#

my main problem with modern games in general is that they have no scalability

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by which I mean, if it runs like ass on "high" settings and you turn it to "medium", it'll run exactly as ass, just looking worse lol

rapid warren
#

Fact status: true

tacit oracle
#

the main thing with pc gaming is that we can dial the settings to our computers, but settings increasingly matter nothing because games are made to be run on a very thin band of settings (those being what consoles can run them at)

sharp minnow
#

It's like in Black Myth: Wukong they updated the engine? Because there was some patch for 90+gb fps increased a bit but the graphics also became worse 🙂

graceful cliff
rapid warren
#

I dunno honestly

tacit oracle
#

I haven't played wu-tang, but I did hear that it is one of the few unreal engine games that runs okay

graceful cliff
#

wondering how i get the one thats meant to be included with the special editions

rapid warren
graceful cliff
#

seems like its digital artbook etc that you pull from steam

#

im guyna get that other artbook tho looks awesome

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amazon better not throw it around like they normally do

summer cliff
gloomy vector
#

debating on if i should do the deluxe to ultimate upgrade

#

what are the odds i get rug pulled twice by the same game though

fiery heron
dire dagger
tiny token
dire dagger
#

no where you side with scar

zinc apex
graceful cliff
#

is stalker meant to be played through in release date order?

light hollow
#

Thats how a series is built

#

You dont need to play them all, you wont get important plot holes

#

But they all add to the story and "what happened" there

graceful cliff
#

aight

#

congrats on the divorce btw

celest portal
graceful cliff
#

i wana know what kinda "tourist" visits the zone,

light hollow
tacit oracle
#

who wouldn't

#

I also want to think that every person in the zone is just different shades of boiled cabbage smell

graceful cliff
#

guess im starting SOC tonight

#

any recommeneded mods so my 7900xtx fans turn on?

tacit oracle
#

radiophobia 3 is basically a standalone mod of soc which imo is much more tuned to modern tastes

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however I would not recommend that mod as-is since it has some infuriating design choices

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which is a shame because I think it mostly manages to be a net improvement over soc imo.

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you could give autumn aurora a go, I think it's pretty much vanilla with just qol improvements mostly (if memory serves)

coarse sparrow
#

Dear Devs, I will happily buy your Ultimate Edition upgrade once you give concrete days of DLC release. Your loyal fan.

graceful cliff
#

yeh i want the full lore and story, but it also look good lol

light hollow
graceful cliff
#

sure!

light hollow
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Looks and plays great, while keeping story the same

graceful cliff
#

sounds ideal

light hollow
#

Looks sus as hell for some reason

graceful cliff
#

A 1drv.ms link is a legitimate shortened URL used by Microsoft for its OneDrive cloud storage service. ( sure it issssss)

light hollow
#

I promise you its not 8gb of hairy monolith people

graceful cliff
#

7gb of virus porn thanks

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thats a lot of floppy disks

light hollow
#

As for radiophobia, I think it sucks for a first playthrough. Changes story a bunch, add some harcore stuff that arent well implemented and it looks like any anomaly pack you'd expect. Maybe a mod for a 3rd or 4th playthrough

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Are you able to download it btw? Idk if I set the share link properly

graceful cliff
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yeh im at work but it worked when i tried it

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ill download it on my pc tonight

graceful cliff
light hollow
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Havent tried it but I heard goid thing from it, even from fans of vanilla

#

Just be aware of save corruption for AA, so make hardsaves and hit quit game before loading a save

graceful cliff
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oh real ok thanks!

light hollow
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Oh and dont take too many quests at once

tacit oracle
fathom cedar
fathom cedar
light hollow
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Well that is first of course, but because they wanted modded, oh well

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I do think you should try shen's pack, its really good

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Of course it has zrp drawbacks that I know you don't like, but he made manual changes too for some cool loot in some areas, so it balances out hehe

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Yo I just had a thought, if there's mod support for stalker 2 then why not the older games?

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I mean I get that they are old games but a lot of good mods are built off of them

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I wish you all a good day be well

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drifting niche
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Red weather during emissions looks cheap

rapid warren
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I think emissions look great

dim topaz
drifting niche
ripe patrol
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What about DWO emissions

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Y'all like em? :3

dim topaz
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I read that as OWO emissions first

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unreal raptor
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Hey upgrade your game!
Hey upgrade your game!
Hey upgrade your game!
shiller

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this discord's comms are 90% marketing/ads

hazy helm
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you're on the official discord complaining that they advertise the games discounts

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yup

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Since it's not worth the sticker price still — A YEAR LATER...

Where's the notifications to tell me sh*t has been fixed and we are looking to do this next?

rapid warren
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They are there its called roadmap and pachnotes

sly matrix
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Yeah but not reading and just complaining is more cathartic apparentlysmile_scar

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unreal raptor
rapid warren
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I mean, they completed the previous one entirely.

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in a timely fashion?

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this one is already slipping

rapid warren
drifting niche
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Does Gamepass give only base version?

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rapid warren
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Most important thing is that we will get it at all, I want expecting it when second roadmap relased tbh

unreal raptor
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you are more optimistic than me then. Hope it happens but i won't hold my breath. Need some vast improvements to hold a candle to the OG trilogy still a year later.

rapid warren
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Yea, cant say I'm fully satisfied with how the game looks while year later, but I do also think that it's at least partially becouse they started working On engine upgrade after 1.5 (90 days wait for 1.6 was wayyy to long)

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And that's why the patches slowed down

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I just hope well get more side quests soon, before UE upgrade, this and A life are the main things missing

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And I also do find it annoying that we have no idea about Additional quests, there is a lot of cut content And stuff in the files And while I think honta quest was a great start they do lack transparency with what they want to add (answer my questuons mol1t please)

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yeah i think transparency is the main issue with this discord — just wait for three motnhs and then the patch notes and ambitions for the next are very ambigous

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*i'm calm now. *

Will play other games until the UE update I think.

rapid warren
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Like make it at least twice a week

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And share more info what they are working On currenty

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For example I've been seeding questuons regarding more side quests for 2 weeks now

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Would be nice to know some more

rapid warren
signal grotto
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Another pointless announcement Peepo_Eyeroll

magic coyote
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Gsc spam of chernobyl

magic coyote
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Ups

lucid pagoda
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Agreed rarely do good questions get answered, it's more often repeated slop or very vague teasers

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This is 95 percent of announcements

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1.7 is shaping like a nothingburger patch I gotta say

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oak rock
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WE need hookers in the zone

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Also I didnt like the comment in gsc answers about there being more stashes in 1.7, zone is already oversaturated with them

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what you guys dont like rain?

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is there a clean easy way to mark a stash as looted on the map?

oak rock
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Hopefully they add Viagra later on

oak rock
graceful cliff
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4 Months ago

graceful cliff
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the journalist stashes still show up when they are looted,

oak rock
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It an Bug

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They dont in my Game

rapid warren
oak rock
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That skife after 2 pills of Viagra and got voileted by the zone lol

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Also, if they rework energy drinks, I would assume they as well bind it with sleep mechanics (maybe letting you choose when to wake up), which in turn lets us hope for day-night cycle changes included (it would be logical to address all those system together).

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zinc apex
terse bane
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vernal minnow
ancient loom
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I don’t know if this is the right place to ask but I want to know how to fix a problem with graphics. The problem which is bugging me is vertical lines never look perfectly straight, they appear jagged. I noticed this when it first came out but just put up with it. I’ve recently started a new save and the problem is more noticeable than before. I know it sounds petty but does anyone know what is causing it?

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ancient loom
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Thanks mate, I will have a play around with the settings 👍

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Do you use Nvidia AA or the in game one?

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ancient loom
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Thanks again, I will try both out and find which one I prefer

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Did they hint at a mask overlay?

oak rock
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Game Wörth getting QLED for ?

coarse sparrow
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terse bane
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bold oxide
summer stream
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Anyone go to "Mist Anomalous Area" in the Burnt Forest and the Bloodsucker does not appear?

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dim topaz
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I wish you all a good day be well

drifting sinew
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Is there anything you should do specifically before doing the mission " extreme simplicity" I'm reading a bunch of posts that it changes the world quite a lot and that there are things you can't do afterwards/places to see afterwards- but I can't really find any exact details about places I should see or side missions I should do first

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sharp minnow
sly matrix
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Hello, Stalkers!™

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yo

rapid warren
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Yo

celest portal
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Yo

dire dagger
celest portal
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Silly Jack

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sly matrix
smoky bobcat
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lucid pagoda
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I have both, my take is that the QLED is better for brighter rooms but the OLED really pops more when the lights are off, going into a dark corner with no HUD and thinking my display is off is a pretty wild notion. The other night I forgot I did exactly that and went off to bed, through closed eyes by the third flash of lightning I realized why my room was being illuminated

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static compass
chrome gorge
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bra just add content

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these announcements man ...

lucid pagoda
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I'm just glad to see the radio beats series is continuing, I love to leave these videos up in the background

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True

summer stream
# oak rock Im getting an Q-oled is better then normal OLED

One isn’t better than the other. They are entirely different technologies that excel in different aspects. Oleds have better black levels and contrast, qleds are typically brighter but don’t have as deep blacks. It comes down to personal preference

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coarse sparrow
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total L (but that's normal)

summer stream
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They are completely different panel technologies

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hdtvtest on YouTube has a lot of good information about this

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QLED absolutely does not have better blacks. Qled tv’s are backlit, while oled pixels are individually turned on and off, given true blacks and better contrast. There is a ton of info on this online

lucid pagoda
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@summer stream is totally right, OLED is individual pixels providing their own brightness whereas QLED is similar to regular LED but with an added layer to simulate local dimming

summer stream
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If you are looking for true blacks and better contrast, oled is your answer. If you want a brighter image and more color pop, qled will be your answer. Though, I would argue that oled is still better anyway. Newer oleds are plenty bright, and if you’re properly calibrating your tv, then the colors will be true to intent anyway. Oled’s also have faster response time than qleds and led panels, making them typically better for gaming as well

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I would do a fair bit more research before buying one if I was you

coarse sparrow
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by the time they release DLC, the ultimate upgrade will surely be on sale -50%

alpine hollow
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Hi does anyone know how to get a green (friend status) with malachite and / or Yaniv ? Did sidequest and mutant parts. Yet it doesn’t move from neutral white.

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summer cliff
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Daddy Mol1t what sacrifice would it take for GSC to drop 1.7 on me?

rapid warren
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Ritual monolith prayer

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And sacrifice

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tacit oracle
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A more-reliable-than-usual source has suggested that an update with beeg changes may be around the corner

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Changes beeg enough to warrant holding off on continuing/starting a new game