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[blissful jackal]

And not in the mass enemy spawn way.

[oak wyvern]

Is every mod in the game broken now?

Cus i download just one of any of my mods and the game has a seizure

My save relies heavily on those mods.......

Screw it been looking for a reason to replay the game

[celest portal]

Mods break after huge updates, nothing much you can do till those get updated.

[foggy pebble]

||is there a way to actually use the trader in the brood? or is that all still bugged?||

[finite dragon]

Good Morning or evening depending where you live. I was able to download the new update (30 GB) 1.7 and I got to say with an almost 8 year old CPU (Ryzen 5 2600) and a MSI RTX 4070 8GB, and 16GB 2933MHz RAM, the game performs much more better for me that the previous patch. 1.6 . I was having some serious stuttering when I was in Rostock. for some reason it was struggling to load the buildings, NPC, etc. other than that it is awesome to finally play this amazing game. Good job Devs !!!. On another note, I'm heading to Burnt Forest to explore the another emblematic icon of the The Zone /Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the former Duga facility. I'm super excited to finally explore the zone. Once again Fantastic work GSC devs, you're doing a great job.

[zinc apex]

Rostok is heavily CPU intensive

[jovial haven]

i kept thinking he was somehow more involved with the story and probably had a darker secret

[keen hedge]

Can anyone confirm that slagheap npcs walking into radiation bug got fixed or not?

[jovial haven]

it's like he was everywhere you go and knew everyone you met

[unreal raptor]

performance is better around the world but seems to be worse for me in the hubs. Everyone getting this?

[hybrid thistle]

Crazy that even a year after release the random fps drops still haven't been fixed

[magic arch]

modern gaming ™

[light hollow]

"modern" uh, no

[thick cosmos]

Hey guys does anyone else have this bug on Xbox where upon loading the game immediately crashes?

Like just as the main menu should pop up after backing up/loading data it just

Crashes

[stiff pasture]

Delete reserved space by managing the game then unsubscribe from your mods

[thick cosmos]

Okay. Will this do anything to my current game file when I unsubscribe from my mods or can I just re subscribe

[stiff pasture]

Mods are outdated currently so resubscribing will just brick it again, if you want to play start a new save, your old save will prompt you to reinstall the mods once you boot it back up

[steep briar]

You guys are letting the game be full of bugs the entire time it's available through gamepass. Now that it's coming out on PS5, there are fixes all the time. I'm definitely not investing a dime in this buggy game and I won't buy any of the studio's games in the future. Too lazy and money-hungry studio.

[hot canopy]

Ok, bye.

[stiff pasture]

Then quit grandstanding and leave

Bro liked his own message lmao

[steep briar]

Bro is playing broken game.. Lmao

[stiff pasture]

Yes and having a blast

[rocky shadow]

[steep briar]

I don't doubt for a moment that you wouldn't have fun with a buggy game. 😄

[sly matrix]

You need to change your pfp. Political figures aren't allowed

[thick wolf]

this guy is already on edge, this is gonna send him

[steep briar]

It's not political figure. You need to learn history more.. 👍

[nimble cipher]

✅

mamatico. has been kicked

Reason: change your pfp before coming back.

[sly matrix]

Ain't nobody got time for that

[stiff pasture]

There’s my laugh for the day

[sly matrix]

Then I'll be sure to ping you if he comes back for an encore. I'll offer him a second opinion by Meowkula

[thick wolf]

whoever had the issue picking up the body in the lesser zone, you can pick him up if you empty his pockets first. I know that goes against his buddy's demand that you stay out of his pockets, but he doesn't seem too upset. He just lets you keep the stuff as your payment for moving the body

what is it about gun balance that people feel is wrong?

[lucid pagoda]

Did this also reset all of your settings from controls through display etc? Thankfully I had the numbers down for a custom aim curve I had set up & remembered most others but fair warning to all those who use this method may turn everything to default

[stiff pasture]

I didn’t customize my controls

[lucid pagoda]

I noticed it had even reset like my FOV back to 90 and wholly defaulted display settings, so not sure if that was due to update or the clearing reserved space because of the mod instacrash to home screen

[lucid pagoda]

Damn that's always the first thing I do in a game lol. Meanwhile, I've been begging GSC for the ability to just set our own controller binds as possible with MKB enabled, imo there's no good reason in AAA game in 2025 we shouldn't be able to make the controls whatever we want; I think it would be smart of them to look to systems like Battlefield & Arma Reforger have for example, which recognize button holds and double taps as different inputs from single button presses, and the way that might give users more freedom as well as preventing issues with the limited buttons on controller.

[lucid pagoda]

@glossy blade With PS5 release right around the corner and a new swarm of rookies entering the Zone with controller in hand, I'm wondering if it would be possible to have an update in the future to allow custom binds on controller as is currently possible only with mouse and keyboard? I play on Xbox but think at least for some chunk of us speak for console players at large in this request. Maybe having some some pop-up warning to rebind controls at your own discretion like the one for achievements being disabled while using mods as well as of course a reset to default option for if you mess things up; this would be a very welcomed feature for those who would take advantage of it for personal preferences, and it would detract nothing from those who choose to not tweak these 🙏

[long aspen]

I am on PC and would not mind this.

[light hollow]

Bro, we know

We have known this since shadow of chernobyl

Ok nvm I just read the rest of the chat

And just saw their pfp

Truly an intelligent speciment I decided to argue with

[amber arch]

we all fall prey to bait in the Zone every once in awhile

[gaunt basin]

Lmao

[oak comet]

I followed 3 loners as they entered zallisya, and a few minutes later, all 3 of them plus another loner left Zalissya and traveled to the outer checkpoint in the Cordon, eventually dying due to bandits. I like 1.7.

[golden vector]

A true stalker

[blissful jackal]

Hes more of a tragic character than the "secretly evil" type.

[unreal raptor]

loving the update, slow/low healing at fires would be amazing in master

[feral apex]

Anyone know if the deluxe and ultimate versions will be on disc for ps5??

[flint cliff]

Does the PS5 version have anything more than the PC and Xbox versions?

[tiny token]

@rocky shadow been thinking about your statement regarding the current Alife not featuring overarching goals for NPCs and such. If they ever manage to implement said overarching goals, I think a really neat way to showcase its existence would be a new dialogue prompt with random NPCs where you can ask them what their goals are, and they would respond with what their actual goal is: owning a specific type of equipment, or achieving a certain amount of cash, or getting to a specific POI in the zone.

There's so much cool shіt they can implement and I hope they'll keep improving a-life long after the engine upgrade

[oak comet]

Not that person but I would love to see the implementation that COP had. Where you could ask NPCs what are they doing, and they say like “I’m going to the hill overlooking the boiler anomaly.” Or some such. And you could also travel with them there.

[tiny token]

Hell yea

Radiant quests to help them get there too

[unreal raptor]

these sound like amazing additions to alife, moving towards 2.0 instead of 0.5

[zinc apex]

We're at a-life 0.9 now. But we're getting there

[rocky shadow]

these goals are not that deep. Its just that NPCs did have something like life and not just "fight for lair" and if they win, they fight for another lair or just patrol around it

[rocky shadow]

something like that. ITs actually better than SoC and CoP. BUt still not on CS levels

[celest oracle]

Is it possible to have this mod for myself?

[rocky shadow]

No. Its still in development and Shay doesnt want it to be shared until its finished. Also it has it has flaws and it would make ppl have bad understanding whats happening. Bcs they would think, that these flaws are bcs of Alife and not bcs of mod itself

[celest oracle]

ah, okay. At least could you tell me, if its follows squads or individual NPCs?

[rocky shadow]

NPCs

but it doesnt show all NPCs and it doesnt show Mutants at all.

[celest oracle]

hm and what's the criteria, which NPCs are shown which doesn't?

[tiny token]

Looking at how it works, it tags every nearby NPC as a trader so that you can see them moving around the map, as proof that they're moving around in offline. I would assume it only shows you the NPCs that are in a specific radius around you

[rocky shadow]

Rly dont know actually. It depends on what type of NPC it is and mostly what faction. Like it shows all Wards and Loners (in location, that you visited at least once), but only few bandits

[rocky shadow]

no, it shows whole map. But you have to visit location at least once for them to be marked (maybe spawned at all)

[tiny token]

✍️

[rocky shadow]

whole Alife system works on this, that you have to visit the location for them to be spawned and then working. Probabyl for perfomance reasons, to fill the world gradualy

[celest oracle]

I would be interested, if the dude that you can save in Dire Thicket would be show as well? As in my testing he just gone after you get far enough.

[rocky shadow]

Idk which one you exactly means. Dont remmember that name of quest

[celest oracle]

its at the start of the game, south of Zalissya, its a small village, you can save a dude from a Bloodsucker.

[rocky shadow]

That NPC is probably scripted and not affected by Alife

[celest oracle]

he is my benchmark, as this is the farthest i ever made in the game.

i think they got it backwards then, bc the whole thing about persistency that you could find guys you saved/interacted in a way and you could see the effect you had in the world. So in my mind, as long as that dude just puff, gone there is no A-Life for me, sadly. I mean, random guys persisting in a squad is also cool, but it doesn't have a big impact.

[rocky shadow]

yeah. But i rly dont know, if this NPC is persitent or not. So cant say

[celest oracle]

im on my way with a new start, to test it, because my save was from last year, so updates might have affected it.

[thick cosmos]

😭

I'll just have to wait then I don't wanna restart

[fossil cairn]

How far ahead has a life come since release? is it worth replaying yet or should I wait for more patches

[zinc apex]

It's worth giving it another try imo

[thick cosmos]

It's pretty decent I bought it after 1.5 in July I however have only played soc and anomaly and nothing will come close to anomaly

It's good, I like the a life but it's not where it was back then. Doesn't have the same life that anomaly had.

[rocky shadow]

here perfect overview in video
https://youtu.be/Kc1OTaj4V8k?si=tqx-R8JSQxQrFxAV

[unreal raptor]

How do you get the artefacts to spawn above ground? I’m bugged in the cave with squint.

[oak comet]

I constantly have this issue with gravity artifacts. What I do is repetitive but it hasn't failed me yet is: Run up to the artifact until your detector says you're basically on top of it beeping like crazy, spam the pickup button on the ground where the artifact is, if you cant grab it move away so the artifact "disappears", repeat until it pops out the ground or you grab it.

I just did this with an artifact in the ribs anomaly too

[unreal raptor]

Tedious but will give it a go. Thanks.

[eager onyx]

Anyone experience wierd stealth behaviour? even if i take someone down with a knife or supressed gun, all enemies goes into alert and search mode

[twin thistle]

time to start a new save tonight

[keen bone]

1.7 the goat patch tbh, every time I've played S2 before it's felt shaky but 1.7 it feels like the world is alive and everything else is just right

[nimble cipher]

cornscorn has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[eager onyx]

got 4 suits at the detntion center...how tf am i gonna drag all this to garbage

[unreal raptor]

compiling shaders skip bugged af for everyone?

[thick wolf]

Been fine for me

[unreal raptor]

this is the update for me, master mode and expedition add a whole other level to the feeling of the game. Not to mention the upgrades to alife. Chefs kiss guys.

[wise geyser]

Facts

Still haven’t tried it yet tho prob after the next hotfix

[celest oracle]

Do they still plan to release the engine update this year?

[rapid warren]

I really hope with ps5 release there will be some Mirę ARG hints

[thick wolf]

That's probably gonna shift to Q1 next year

But who knows, maybe the team working on the upgrade has been toiling away while the patch team has been cooking

[flint cliff]

I started my second run on Master difficulty. I reached Zalissya. After that, I spent another 5 hours. Is it normal that looting corpses didn't give me any stash?

Is Expedition Mode automatically enabled when playing on Master Level?

[thick wolf]

Was it at the Outer Checkpoint in the north of Cordon?

[wise geyser]

Yes it is

[wise geyser]

And as for the corpses I know that the stashes are limited in master I believe, but you mean like absolutely no bodies are giving you stash locations?

[oak comet]

Not him but yes, I have gotten absolutely zero stashes from looting corpses

9x18 PST doesn't even sell for anything in master lol, literally sells for 0.

[flint cliff]

Yes

[tiny token]

I like seeing people becoming more and more positive about the game as time goes on

[thick wolf]

does anyone know if the enemy ai changes its actual tactics across difficulties currently?

I'm currently playing on stalker and having fun but wondering if moving up to veteran would change their ai or just hit stats

[thick wolf]

did you do the mission at the water tower north of zalissya? it feels like a stash tutorial to me. I wonder if it's required

[errant yacht]

hey guys, has 1.7 improved fps for xbox?

[thick wolf]

so I've heard

[winter crane]

I started another playthrough on 1.7 and couldnt pick up Bubbles body in the Lesser Zone side mission.
I figured it out that his PDA spawns twice, one next to his body and another in his inventory. So if you loot his PDA in his inventory and nothing else, you should then be able to pick up his body and complete the mission. Just an FYI if you run into the same problem as me

[torn patio]

So I see 1.7 is out, but wondering if I should wait to play again until the unreal engine upgrade happens.. unless that is going to be a while. Does anyone know when that is supposed to happen at this point?

[graceful cliff]

Why woukd you wait for that?

[torn patio]

I mean if it's going to be released end of this year or something soon it might be worth waiting for but if it's going to be a year I don't feel like it is

[wise geyser]

Wdf? Wait so have you found any stash locations at all?

[flint cliff]

No

[worthy zodiac]

I like that on master difficulty some stashes just don't exist. There were too many of them for my taste so now it feels better to search them

[unreal raptor]

ahh didn't realise that was the case! Yeah i just found i had too many resources full stop. I don't remember checking how many medkits I had until now on Master.

[blissful jackal]

I dont remember worrying about medkits until I started playing Master Diff.

[unreal raptor]

Weird bug poss, do people sometimes see the option for helmet sounds inside the sound settings menu? I thought I dreamt it, but last night it was 100% there. Now it's gone!

[blissful jackal]

I have to play more carefully more....Stalker like.

[blissful jackal]

You on PC?

[unreal raptor]

yeah on pc

[blissful jackal]

To be fair? You guys get more setting than us console players so..it was probably there but got removed.

[unreal raptor]

i can see it currently whilst playing, not sure it makes any difference from what I can hear audio wise with or without a helmet on

[blissful jackal]

Probably deafens you a bit. Reduces the amount of audio you hear through the helmet.

[spiral sun]

PS5 RELEASE ENROUTE

I’m gonna play as a pacifist. Killing nothing and nobody. Purely looting and enjoying the scenery.

How long do you think I’ll stay alive ?

I’m sure the Zone will treat me kindly if I take no lives. It’ll let me move freely and peacefully.

[latent kite]

You’ll change your mind after half a day

[light hollow]

Its most probably not going to be released this year

No one knows the date, probably not even gsc themselves, but considering on how many things they are working on, its not dropping this year

[unreal raptor]

do all artefacts spawn underground, Master mode artefact hunting is completely impossible at the mo

hot fix for ps5 release?! 🤞

[hazy helm]

not gonna survive the tutorial

[unreal raptor]

where are the checkpoint saves? On Master in the Sphere. Not one checkpoint?

[drifting niche]

In Zalisya

[unreal raptor]

haha that's wild.

save scum ahoy!

should at least be a checkpoint at solder

[spiral sun]

I thought I could befriend the mutants but looks like it’ll be guns blazing. A lot of pessimistic people here.

[empty echo]

Thats why its hard mode!

The game saves too when you leave, so if you must save, just exit to menu and launch the save again

[lavish fjord]

hello fellow stalkers. Is there a mod that lets me reduce/decrease running speed and sprint speed?

[unreal raptor]

walking?

[lavish fjord]

nah, like reducing the regular jogging speed and also sprint speed

if I could turn them both down a notch

[hazy helm]

save quit is a free save

[sand bear]

Haven't played since a little after Launch.

Ive seen some snippets and news of a variety of updates and various commitments to improve the game.

Questions, is A life where it needs to be? Is fully supported mod tools released? Ty I'm hoping I can come back soon!

[hazy helm]

Alife is at a state beetween SoC and CS
SDK is still Phase 1

[sand bear]

Thaaaanks

[twilit mist]

did Alife improve between the games? Like CoP Alife is more immersive than SoC and CS?

[hazy helm]

CoP has the worst Alife, being cut down from CS, CS had the best
in SoC NPCs walked and persisted outside the players loaded map, in CS they were able to battle and die with other squads and has Goals

[tired zealot]

stalker 2 looks like its in a great state for a replay, especiaally with the new difficulty and mode, I wonder if I should play on master or not

[lavish fjord]

for those wondering about the current state of A-life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YODoWeivix8

it seems like 1.7 definitely is a step in the right direction but not quite there yet

[worthy zodiac]

They are just different in every game. CoP is considered the worst one in that aspect because NPCs couldn't even travel between locations and they are just lurking around aimlessly on the map.
CS is the best on the technical level (all the npcs are actively fighting, the entire world is alive no matter where you are) but very predictable and repetitive because almost all of it is about the faction war which is very simple and there are very few routes that can be taken by the NPCs

[terse jay]

Alife is there but I noticed the game will calculate outcome of offline encounter and when you get there it will dump bodies in the middle of an area. It doesn’t look like there was battle but it does indicate that offscreen the game did simulate encounter it just shows the result very artificially if the player stumbles upon the area

[muted valve]

Vatis generally has better videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1OTaj4V8k

[twilit mist]

oh really? wonder why... usually CoP seems to be praised as the best game while CS as the worst

[hazy helm]

a shorter dev time and unskilled devs when it comes to AI plus the nature of the game being more Scripted

[worthy zodiac]

It was more or less the same in original games. Less noticeable because of the bigger render distance. Hope we'll see some improvement of the render distance with the engine upgrade

[hazy helm]

CS is the best stalker game
peak in fact

[worthy zodiac]

CS is the most unstable out of the three. CoP has cool sidequests (narratively) and is the most stable out of the three so many people really enjoy it

[hazy helm]

CoP truly was the streamlining of the series

at what cost...

[terse jay]

It should scatter bodies. I was passing by watch tower with pseudo dog and it spawned 5 bandit bodies close to ladder. But on the other hand that pseudo dog was attacked by boars and then Ward. Then bandits came by and shot me to death.

Close I mean on top of each other

Or 5 soldiers all under springboard anomaly

[rocky shadow]

its funny how certain dialogs and things, that were clevery done in CoP makes ppl think, that CoPs alife was best

[rocky shadow]

thats always how it worked even in OGs. The difference here is, taht they didnt write code for the bodies to be spread around, so they spawn on each other

its just easy fix of writing variables of distance from spawn point

[lavish fjord]

i've started a new playthrough on Master difficulty, but I can still save manually? Im at the very beginning, I just tried to scan the first anomaly

[rocky shadow]

are you sure you have Master diff? Any mods?

[lavish fjord]

I'm positive. And the mods I have are none that affects the saving mechanics afaik.

[tiny token]

People thinking CoP NPCs could hunt for artifacts when in reality it was just an animation of playing around with a detector 😻

[lavish fjord]

maybe in the very beginning it lets you save?

[rocky shadow]

thats weird. THere has to be something

[lavish fjord]

its pretty clever though, giving us the illusion of that there are more in the works than there actually is 🙂

[rocky shadow]

no, it wont

[lavish fjord]

man, thats wierd

[rocky shadow]

yeah ppl saw some scripted event and they thouhg, that its Alife. CoP is full of things like that, thats why it sells itself well.

[rocky shadow]

If you are just few mnts in, i would try to retsart again and be sure, that you have master (although, you should be able to see it in menu, so just be sure you have master on)

[lavish fjord]

I checked the options and indeed the master difficulty is enabled lol

[rocky shadow]

thats weird. Are you sure, you are not subrscribed in steam workshop to some mod, that changes Master? (if you are on PC)

[lavish fjord]

I only use nexus mods right now. And the only mods I use are:

• optimized tweaks
• Cinematic bullet impact
• deadzone
• real longer days
• bloodspats
• realistic death animations
• subtle laser sight
• better ballistics redux
• shay's impactsa

none of them should temper with the save mechanics, is my simple logic

[muted valve]

you'd be surprised, 100% one of those mods is messing with it

[rocky shadow]

i would suggest you to try to turn all mods, restart it and see, if its still same. IF not, some mod is doing it and then you can try to turn mod by mod and see for yourself. It would be good to know it, bcs you would be able to report it to mod maker

[lavish fjord]

good thinking. I'll do that

thanks for the tip

[lavish fjord]

look, I just noticed that quick save indeed is disabled, as it should be. But I can easily bypass that by hitting escape and click save

[tired zealot]

i think you do the CS mod that fixes ballistics and the game is suddenly amazing.

[rocky shadow]

yeah, that shouldnt be doable. Only when you are at HUB, you should be able to save manualy

[tired zealot]

those all work with 1.7?

[lavish fjord]

allegedly

[rocky shadow]

whicn reminds me, where are you in game? It would be funny, if you would be in village, bcs there, you can save

[lavish fjord]

im at the very beginning. I just literally dropped in. ive killed the first blood sucker, scanned that first anomaly and killed the first enemy patrol.

so I thought that maybe in that area you can actually save

[rocky shadow]

hmm, there it shouldnt be doable, SO its bug

try those mods

but idk, if just turning off mods would be enough. Maybe you will have to restart the playtrough. IDK. Or play this way if you want

[lavish fjord]

trying a new save now just to see. I cannot choose expedition mode when choosing master difficulty but maybe it is suppoused to be that way

[rocky shadow]

it is, bcs Master has it included, you cant turn it off

[lavish fjord]

thought so. And also, which genious dev decided you can't skip that intro scene lol

[rocky shadow]

its bug

and pretty ragefull one im always mad about it

[lavish fjord]

ah ok. no biggie for now. But man, I'm not sure which does it,if its the ballistic mod or master difficulty or both - but damn, one burst of an automatic weapon and I'm insta dead. I think I'm gonna both love and hate this 😄

[rocky shadow]

both i guess

you would die in master also. But Ballistic mod makes it even worse i think

[lavish fjord]

yeah, the damage drop off is almost non existent in battles at longer ranges, shot guns dont get nerfed to oblivion after 10 meters etc

[dire dagger]

It’s been broken for almost an entire year

[lavish fjord]

alright, in what way?

[dire dagger]

The prompt just doesn’t appear

The latest version it was ever reported to work in was 1.2

[keen bone]

I think ppl's memories of Stalker are v fogged up by the huge modding community that's formed post OG trilogy. S2 rn feels like a fully realised CoP so I'm v happy with the state its in. All the more hardcore stuff like campfire saving etc, those are all mod inventions that were never in the OG games from the orignal creators

patch 1.7 completely transformed it

[dire dagger]

One day that might be true

[lavish fjord]

that and also anomaly/gamma has gotten some people confused about what stalker is and isn't.

[rocky shadow]

that is indeed true

[keen bone]

Yeah exactly. I love Anomaly, but I played through SoC, CS, CoP, then Anomaly. Anomaly and everything else is like Stalker Fan Fiction where everything is made extremely hardcore and doesn't actually resemble the original games much

[rocky shadow]

i wouldnt say fully realised CoP, but CoP has some immersion details, that S2 is missing, but generaly its true about ppl and fogged memories and opinions

[rocky shadow]

exactly. I liked Anomaly. I liked EFP, i liked Gamma. But some of those fans of these mods are completely lost in what Stalker games were about and what was their gameplay

[lavish fjord]

yeah same here. I thought I'd start with anomaly but then read somewhere that it could be helpful and also impactful to actually play the trilogy, first. And so I did and that is when I came to love the stalker series

[keen bone]

I always thought in an ideal world I just wanna play CoP, but actually open world/all the locations of the OG trilogy combined, and S2 v much feels lke that to me, post patch 1.7. We can always have Anomaly 2 pop up further down the line

[hazy helm]

a fully realised CoP game would be a Western RPG with better choice reactivity
S2 is closer to SoC

[rocky shadow]

this is the way. Anomaly is nice, but you should play it only after Trilogy. I hate that ppl recommended Mods before OGs.

[hazy helm]

CoP just sucks

[rocky shadow]

thats true, it is closer to SoC

[dire dagger]

Cop is the purest mid ever crafted

[keen bone]

interesting take, how so? in terms of gameplay mechanics it's the one I had the most fun with by far

[hazy helm]

Balancing, Complexity, Mechanics, Story, Looks
its inferior to CS and SoC

[keen bone]

Clear Sky was traumatic, I got close to the end and gave up on realising it was so hard it killed all the fun

[rocky shadow]

dont mind Vasim, he just doesnt like the changes made in it compared to SoC

[lavish fjord]

yeah, and then they play stalker 2 and wonder wtf this and that is, and wonder about the lack of customization and sandbox features.. I'm like "no no no no, you're not getting it"

[keen bone]

I was like forcing myself to finish it

[rocky shadow]

exactly

[keen bone]

and then realised - why am I doing this lol

[rocky shadow]

Clear Sky isnt hard, but you have to know its mechanics to know what to do

[hazy helm]

if you bother reading item descriptions you arent gonna have a hard time in CS

very easy

[south spear]

Let’s say my friend pre orderd the full edition on ps5, I game share with him , do I get the full pre order bonus as well or only him?

[keen bone]

nah the balance is completely screwed up. I was in the home stretch of the game, but really struggling, because I was very low on ammo, yet there were no vendors around, no traders, I couldn't backtrack to get more ammo or search the area fairly to find more. At that point I threw the towel in. Just badly designed balance in that one

[hazy helm]

are you on steam Family?

[lavish fjord]

I mean dont get me wrong, I've had an incredible time with GAMMA. In fact I think its a fantastic mod of a mod, so to speak, and I would love it if something like it ever happened to S2.

[keen bone]

didn't have that problem on SoC or CoP

[south spear]

Ps5

[rocky shadow]

nah, they are tied to Accounts. At least generaly, so i think it will be the same with S2

[dire dagger]

Grok is never making gamma 2

[lavish fjord]

I know, that is why i wrote "something like it"

[keen bone]

@tacit nexus and that was like, second playthrough where I took a lot of time thoroughly upgrading my armor and weapons before getting to the end. I did max prep and I was still getting one shotted, killed by grenade spam, Clear Sky is not a fun challenge it's just very very annoying because of bad design

[hazy helm]

like I said, Cop has the screwed up balancing for allowing you to buck break it with unmodded low tier weapons, no actual challenge to be had in a game that takes its combat not srsly

[dire dagger]

Cop is just kinda boring

[hazy helm]

even CS wasnt good at balancing but it was miles better than CoP, should've made sure your AK wasnt viable endgame at all despite upgrades

[keen bone]

So you make one unoptimized decision, your entire playthrough is screwed and you have to start again? Nah. I think that's just extremely bad design

[hazy helm]

the unoptimized decision to stick with underpowered equipment?

load an earlier save and get better equipment

[keen bone]

I shouldn't have to be opening a Wiki and learning about weapon stats for the most optimized gun just to finish a video game lol. It supposed to be fun, not tedious. I didn't have that problem in the other Stalker entries

[dire dagger]

You don’t

[hazy helm]

you dont

[dire dagger]

You just look a the stats in the game

[hazy helm]

hover your mouse over a weapon and upgrade

[keen bone]

it was literally maxed out upgrades guys, are you reading

[hazy helm]

i have played the game with a fully upgraded ak

skill issue I guess

[keen bone]

scroll up

reading issue I guess

[hazy helm]

i dont know what your problem is aside from the game doesn't let me steam roll.it without mr putting thought in at a basic level kr load a earlier save and try another thing
🤷

[lavish fjord]

ok, so "better ballistics redux" messes with save mechanics in master

[dim topaz]

FInally stalker 2 is out on ps5 so I can stop being pinged about it

[rocky shadow]

ohh, interesting

[pale basin]

@azure nimbus Can you guys please stop spamming the ps5 launch. Thank you!

[twilit mist]

Which mod is that?

[rocky shadow]

[tiny token]

There is a clear difference between a sawn off shotty you loot from a bandit at the start and a fancy VSS

You didn't have to look anything up in the OGs statwise. Power differences in weaponry was clearly communicated by how late into the game you get them

[rocky shadow]

highly recommend this mod from CharCharo and Vati. Its lore friendly, while it does good rebalance
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3535255619

[dire dagger]

Let bro have his moment

[ripe dagger]

"We've worked hard on optimization so the world is truly alive and resposive on any hardware", for sure it will finally run on my rtx 2050 xp

[lavish fjord]

the minimal conversion does not, though. I notified the mod author

[rocky shadow]

jesus, thats like 1650 desktop version

[flint cliff]

Do you think it plays well with the PlayStation 5's Dual Sense gyroscopic aiming?

[ripe dagger]

Weeell... happens to the best of us, and they did say "any" tf

[thick wolf]

Congratulations GSC, on the PS5 launch!!

[tired zealot]

I sold my PC for Ps5 stalker 2 money

[signal grotto]

Stalker 2 a year old already, latency still an issue

[ripe dagger]

But tbh Ive tried it out at launch, and even with most of the config edits I could find it was completely unplayable xD

[rocky shadow]

[rocky shadow]

yeah, expectable

[ripe dagger]

Weeell... I thought that disabling pretty much all shadows would at least make it somewhat playable with dlss, but nuh uh

[fathom bramble]

As the letter says in the announcement channel, the game is running, looking, and playing better than ever. Good job guys.

[thick wolf]

Stalkers love GSC

[lavish fjord]

any of you good at reading crash reports?

happened at the last (third) anomaly scanner cut scene

[hollow pelican]

I kinda agree , for most of its time in gamepass it was buggy and when it started to get good it got pulled out , hope the devs put it again on gamepass when stalker 2.0 comes out

[dire dagger]

Don’t think it’s gonna come back imbr

[south spear]

So what does this “master” difficulty consist of?

[rocky shadow]

i dont think they will. It costs their sales. Their contract was for one year, so it elft and for them, its better, when its not there

[rocky shadow]

Rebalance of everything and expedition mode

[hollow pelican]

Nah u dont get it , microsoft pays a ton beforehand adding games to gamepass

[dire dagger]

Considering Xbox seems to be winding down

I doubt it

[hollow pelican]

Its upto microsoft honestly but they are backstabbing xbox and just going on ai race

[dire dagger]

Well Xbox is already dead

The new xbox is a series x replacement which is only 20 percent of the current xbox user base

[rocky shadow]

i do get it. Its set for specific time period and this ended. And they know, that moneywise, tis better for them to not have ti there. Its that easy

[lavish fjord]

Is there any mod that makes it easier to pick up loot?
Right now it feels like I have to aim exactly at each item for the prompt to show up, and it’s a bit clunky.
Just wondering if there’s a quality-of-life mod that improves this.

[hollow pelican]

They let it die, they were earning alot but they just focus on AI now , they have so many banger studios

And this year gamepass was goated before the price increase

[rocky shadow]

Its not up to microsoft. Its up to both sides. If GSC doesnt want it, it wont be there. If Microsoft doesnt want it, it wont be there.

[south spear]

Would you guys recommend master difficulty for a first play through , I do like hardcore and challenges and did play previous titles

[rocky shadow]

And i bet, that GSC got more money after it ended, bcs a lot of ppl bought it, bcs they couldnt continue playing

[hollow pelican]

Nah Its upto microsoft coz money always win in end , they can just throw in lot of cash and get the game if they feel potential

[hollow pelican]

Yeah go for it

[rocky shadow]

Which is dumb, bcs who would have paid insane amount of money, if ti wouldnt return back. You are making it sound too easy. This is complex decision, not just microsoft throwing around money to get games on Gamepass

[hollow pelican]

U can change difficulty any time if u feel hard

[hot canopy]

That was an excellent trailer.

[hollow pelican]

I mean thats basically how they got cod

[rocky shadow]

yes, and it backfired badly

[hollow pelican]

it didnt backfire money wise , microsoft got greedy and just wanted more profit than they were already getting

[rocky shadow]

Stalker is not game with huge playerbase. They deffintiely know, that most of players already played it and its just not good bussineswise to invest again in it, when it wont return its costs troug amount fo ppl playing it

[hollow pelican]

but microsoft printed money with gamepass , they got greedy just like netflix

[rocky shadow]

it backfired, bcs they bought it for CoD and the franchise is such a bad spot, taht tehy just dont have enough players to return the invesment, Maybe in longer time period

[nimble cipher]

som5251 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rocky shadow]

they didnt tho. Which is why they needed price increase

[hollow pelican]

for eg if they got 50 they now want 100

[hollow pelican]

Yeah and That was pure greed

[stoic nest]

Hello just bought the game today on ps5 and have been struggle to find a good sensitivity on controller, it feels way to slow

[hollow pelican]

Microsoft mostly focus on AI and costcuts on xbox

[rocky shadow]

if you invest in something, and the product doesnt get you enough money back, you increase the price, if there are enough money to pay for it, so you are not loosing money. THats just normal behaviour.

[hollow pelican]

but they were earning profits already they wanted higher margins

Its well known too

[rocky shadow]

PPl are jumping with word "greed" like its not normal economy shit for bussiness in every industry

[hollow pelican]

Microsoft has basically backstabbed xbox division with those margins

Its basically netflix situation , give things for cheap make it look too good to be true and then get hungry and price increase

[rocky shadow]

Nah, They have insane ppl behind them and they deffinitely calculated, that the amount of more income would be higher, than the amount they will lose from plp unsubscribing. I bet, that after financial reports, they will have even higher profits

[hollow pelican]

Anyway it was good while it lasted for consumers like us , i completed lot of games whixh i would have never tried like this one

[rocky shadow]

Idk. I dont rly care, bcs i use PC gamepass and that is still good

[hollow pelican]

Also cod mostly focus on kids now

[drifting niche]

How far have you gotten in master mode?

[ornate anvil]

So is master mode like the original where it makes everything less bullet spongey, both player and NPC's? or is it just an increase in AI health and damage?

[rocky shadow]

Yes and no. Its myth, that Master in OGs made it less bulletspongy. Its did opposite, but in other way. On easy difficulty, you did 120% damage to enemies. On Master, you did 100%. So it was more FAIR. There was no bulletspongines in comparing difficulties.

Master in S2 is better, bcs its fair fight and veteran compared to it is bulletspongy

[celest oracle]

Just started a new game, and the first stash you get from the stalker you save, when you get there a dog just spawns next to you. Is this common through the game? That enemy's just spawns out of nowhere scripted like?

[patent mortar]

Some enemies are scripted to spawn yeah. But I don't think the dogs should spawn that close to you if that's what you mean.

During missions*

[celest oracle]

There is helicopter, and inside a stash in the middle of a swamp with reeds. You can even hear, when the dog just spawns in. I tried to shoot the spot where it appears, but nothing there until you get close enough.

[tired zealot]

why is that, why is veteran the bullet sponge and master isnt, what are the percentages?

[latent kite]

They literally made acquisitions that cost billions lol

[latent kite]

Ignoring the fact that the consumer screamed and begged for day one releases achievable through million and billion dollar acquisitions

A price increase was imminent from the moment the Activision Blizzard acquisition became a distant reality

But a handful of YouTubers and comical news outlets know better I suppose

[hazy helm]

you got better and aimed for the head in master and counted your shots

[tired zealot]

i feel like that didnt answer my question

[rocky shadow]

dont know the numbers

[tired zealot]

my brother in christ, I mean the brand spanking new stalker 2 hot new update hot update with the new hot update and Addition of Master mode to Stalker 2 ( latest hot update)

[hazy helm]

their SDK is still 600GB so I cant say sorry

if only...

[rocky shadow]

700

[hazy helm]

150 optional gb

[tired zealot]

okay I guess I dont need numbers, but how do you know masters is less bullet spongy? just based off of feel? in stalker 2

[rocky shadow]

Bcs Veteran was made before and it was just number changes. Master is more complex. To be fair, idk how they touched veteran with this patch, so maybe im telling false info, but veteran was buletspongy before, while in master, you need muuuuch less ammo for same enemies compared to veteran before

[tired zealot]

well that sounds nice atleast, I remember the last time I played was before they tweaked mutants hp, and fighting bloodsuckers was just tedious, so it would be nice to play if the difficulty allows me to kill them quickly, but they can also kill me quickly. like fallout 4s survival difficulty does that well

[rocky shadow]

yeah, mater is good with this. But keep in mind, that economy is hard on Master

[hazy helm]

forced expedition sucks tho

[worthy zodiac]

It's not common. There are a few scripted spawns that happen once in some POIs but that's it

[nimble cipher]

som5251 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow pelican]

Is the g word banned

[nimble cipher]

som5251 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow pelican]

Nice everything is censored

Oh wait why the hell is currency name censored

[hollow pelican]

The thing is that they already were sustainable and then raised stuff , thats just unfair corporate thing to do by them (i hope this dont get censored)

They were like no no nooo we want higher margin

We want to fund ai , ai ai ai xD

And then Xbox got backstabbed

They basically broke the rule “why fix something which isnt broken” coz they wanted to lessen the load from xbox to ai

And their market cap backs their decision

Also who the heck allowed bo7 to release its campaign is literally so weird , its like cod only targets kids now they forgot about the ppl who grew up playing older titles

[lavish fjord]

Is there a way or a mod to make picking up loot less clunky?

or just interacting overall

the sweetspot is so damn tiny lol

[brazen field]

When more content / SDK / Multiplayer? Its taking Forever

[small hollow]

The game came out like yesterday lol

[brazen field]

It has 1 year on PC already

[small hollow]

Has it really been a year?

[hazy helm]

it was early access

[small hollow]

Oh lol yeah

[brazen field]

It dindt say Early Access anywhere, Game out as 1.0

[lavish fjord]

irony

[brazen field]

Oh okay XD

[bold creek]

probably when there are no fundamental change/update to the core game, then the SDK will be fully released for modding, releasing sdk before the game is finish will have modders and GSC banging their heads to each other all day , mod breaking the game, gsc breaking the mods.

[brazen field]

I understand

But What about multiplayer?

[hazy helm]

the sdk is being update in conjunction with the game rn
tho its still at phase 1

as for MP, tba

as with DLC

[bold creek]

same, when no fundamental changes are made to the base game

[hazy helm]

this wasnt actually said anywhere

[bold creek]

my assumption

[bold creek]

i predict multiplayer dropping with the last DLC of the game just throwing this out there

[lavish fjord]

afaik the multiplayer will not involve any serious Coop, which makes the multiplayer abundant at least to me. I'd never play stalker for some kind of tdm, ctf or whatever

[hazy helm]

i want SOC again

[lavish fjord]

what I mean is, don't expect to explore the world together with a friend

[bold creek]

give me the SOC

[hazy helm]

i hope gsc does

[brazen field]

I completed the Game on release, Is It much better now? The only thing i didnt like was The stash system, i felt too many of them with almost nothing in them. Also not being able to banter (but solved It with a mod)

[hazy helm]

yes

[brazen field]

I meant vaulting not banter hehe

[bold creek]

seems like it improved a lot, still some thing needs improving but the game looks really promising, it seems to be a comeback/success story if they keep going

[brazen field]

I actually enjoyed as It was, might give It another run

[timber orchid]

folks I just did the fourth ending, Now I want to find all upgrades. So far, I played freely, picking them all up as they got marked for me. Anyway to track down which I still need to find? Would trying to upgrade an item be the only way to know which I still need to find?

[bold creek]

im replaying the original saga SOC, CS CoP for the 5th time and then playing S2 most likely from start to finish since i didnt like the state of the game back in 1.1 S2

[brazen field]

Oh cool. I really would like a Stalker gamma like mod for S2

[bold creek]

eventually, modders are obsessed with this saga , someone will do it

[brazen field]

Would love some hideout feature too, i know that some people think It breaks The point of being a nomad but i like it

[bold creek]

even i would like to mod the game, and usually i have enough programming in my working hours to even care about doing even more programming in my spare time but i kinda dig it

[muted valve]

yeah i'm sure some modder will at some point steal all the mods people made and slap them together into some monstrosity that's utterly detached from the intended gameplay

[bold creek]

this is the way

[hazy helm]

many such cases

when will we get demosfen 2

[bold creek]

and then take all the credit.

[twilit fjord]

wanna ask, what GSC actually celebrating? game is still in pretty bad shape without life and today was release PS5 version without engine update? I Love stalker series and stalker 2 but c'mon, whats going on?

[hazy helm]

alife is in the game

added in this patch

[limber shard]

People still insist it isn’t even in my comments it just confirms they’re talking nonsense

[lavish fjord]

yeah, it just needs more work. But its there

and enough so to make me reinstall the game. I'm having fun

[limber shard]

Exactly im having a lot more fun then I’ve had with the game in months

[lavish fjord]

wish we could organize our stash tho 😄

[sharp minnow]

Where is hotfix artifacts bug??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[lavish fjord]

like auto organize

[limber shard]

You can auto sort just hold sort button

[lavish fjord]

bro

[unreal raptor]

enjoying it so much more — but expedition mode is not ready for primetime with the current bugs

[twilit fjord]

nah bro, i didnt meant alife, there is an alife but without life

[drifting niche]

I was hoping for a DLC announcement on the anniversary

[twilit fjord]

i hoped for multiplayer that they removed from list before releasing the game

[grizzled herald]

the day is not over yet (how is the quot? hope dies last but it dies 😂 )
besides there was no new ARG hint for weeks now... would be a good time for a new one.....

[drifting niche]

The day is over for Kiev🤔

[grizzled herald]

17:55 nearly over xP

[tropic cobalt]

is the artifact at the RIBS bugged? it glows up as it would appear, but it's not there

trying since 15min

[rare venture]

Kyiv not Kiev btw

[drifting niche]

My bad

[rare venture]

Np, common mistake

[grizzled herald]

yes the all have a high chance to spawn in the ground right now it's a bug

[south spear]

Is there a weapon inspect in the game ?

And if so how to do it on console ?(ps5)

[fathom cedar]

still worse than AMK

[lavish fjord]

uhm ok so some dude just strolled into salyssa guns blazing and locked on to me, nobody batted an eye?

[stoic nest]

Hey do you struggle with sens on ps5 too?

[hazy helm]

Piece by Piece

[fathom cedar]

Yeah but I think complaining is what drives change, just saying “oh alife is already there” will make people confused

[solid dome]

Alife is there, just on paper

[celest goblet]

Very interesting bit from an interview done this week

Zakhar: This update is quite close, so the answer might end up being more of a spoiler.```

[main frigate]

@pastel ledge His talking about 1.8?

[celest goblet]

Perhaps! That was all the detail he offered

[main frigate]

Hope that 1.8 will bring the engine update 🫣

[celest goblet]

Well they still offered no specific date for that either because it is a complicated process

First expansion should be next year too he said, but that is not a surprise

[solid dome]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-quintero-jesus-quintero-los-socos-de-cemento-risitas-gif-18238996613441764633

Yeah good luck getting any more updates with holidays literally being tomorrow

[main frigate]

Yeah, no hope that there is engine update soon

Jus joking to be honest

[solid dome]

I'm not

[celest goblet]

Yea I wasn't expecting anything before the new year with the holidays approaching. But maybe something additional early December idk

[main frigate]

Roadmap stated that some things can move to another year, so that thing is propably 5.5.4

[solid dome]

See what I mean?

https://tenor.com/view/shaq-laughing-shaquille-o'neal-insidethenba-nbaontnt-gif-5191253828443713184

[main frigate]

I know what you mean

[lavish fjord]

ok so the game got some way to go yet lol

[celest goblet]

The work takes however long it takes

[solid dome]

The work needs transparent glass

[summer stream]

Me when I haven’t played the game

[solid dome]

https://tenor.com/view/greed-greedy-greed-will-imprison-us-all-rush-hour-rush-hour-2-gif-9883095038108814091

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/mistwol-cat-his-greed-will-consume-him-eating-silly-gif-14271929065765266047

[summer stream]

They knew from release that they still needed to work on the game, even said it in their release not. They generally know what still needs to be worked on and added. Majority of the complaining isn’t even constructive

[solid dome]

They generally know what still needs to be worked on and added
Unsure about that

[worthy lagoon]

Multiplayer is a later update, they said it before the release of the game, while regarding alife they updated it, there are offline fights and tasks for NPCs

[solid dome]

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-gif-27311681

[fathom cedar]

did they know a-life 2.0 needs to be worked on if they were doing an interview a month prior to release talking about the system?

did they know people would hate the economy on release?

hell, for EE complaining brought back CNPP sign

[summer stream]

Ask gsc is right there, have at it cowboy

[fathom cedar]

It's rhetorical questions disproving your point, there is no need to ask anybody.

Negative feedback is what improves the game, period.

[summer stream]

Please, don’t pretend like they didn’t already know that a life and optimization and bug count weren’t up to par

[solid dome]

Negative feedback is hate!

[summer stream]

And don’t pretend like the majority of people weren’t saying anything helpful other than just bashing the devs

Let’s not be thick here

[solid dome]

Well, women like it thick so...

[fathom cedar]

They obviously were, but how much would they bother working on it? Or would they go straight to direct money makers like DLCs?

[summer stream]

So edgy and cool, I hope I can be just like you when I grow up

[solid dome]

I'm already dead

[summer stream]

From gsc’s socials on the day of the first release

“Nevertheless, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is a massive game. We understand that in such a game, there may still be rough edges: we literally havent released anything of this scale before. We're absolutely committed to being here, monitoring your feedback, and quickly fixing any issues that need our attention. In the first days after release, we'll be working with hotfixes, rolling them out as precisely as possible, but as frequently as we can. Then, we'll switch to larger updates that include constant
improvements. There will also be free in-game content - we'll share its roadmap later in December. We have big plans for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. In a way, today is both a return and the beginning
of a grand new journey.”

[solid dome]

and quickly fixing any issues that need our attention

Introduces a bug in some patch, leaves it there, releases another patch without the given being fixed. Very quickly, lol.

[summer stream]

Don’t pretend like yall are some white knights that saved everyone cuz you’ve cried every day and bashed devs

[summer stream]

My god you are insufferable and painful to talk to

[solid dome]

Are you the PR advocate of this company? You sure talk like one.

[hazy helm]

it is true that alife is there, 1.3, not at CS level which is like 1.5

[summer stream]

Yes

[solid dome]

https://tenor.com/view/lost-in-the-sauce-itstommylove-stalker-stalker-2-mad-gif-6959223634258171748

[summer stream]

Make sure you get that neck beard taken care of today brother

[solid dome]

I dont have a neck nor a necklace

I'm a rotting corpse

[summer stream]

I can smell you from here

[fathom cedar]

Do you think EE blurriness issue would be fixed without negative reviews? Because GSC was aboslutely confused about what people mean by that.

Do you think CNPP sign would be back if not for the backlash?

You're making obvious points - they're aware the game is not perfect. What direction they take it in is only up to feedback.

[summer stream]

Omg, not the cnpp sign, ohhh nooo game is literally unplayable 🙀

[fathom cedar]

receives a valid argument about how the game got changes only due to backlash
disregards it

Yeah not worth arguing with you, keep on living with your pink-stained glasses where devs are ultra competent and know what they're doing and fans should just suck it up and be silent

[summer stream]

Sounds good to me 🫡

[stoic nest]

Hello just bought the game today on ps5 and have been struggle to find a good sensitivity on controller, it feels way to slow

Is this a know bug?

[latent kite]

That isn’t the only reason prices were increased though

Typically when billions are invested into acquisitions, changes in prices are imminent

Everybody wanted more day one third party releases until it cost them

[flint cliff]

https://youtube.com/shorts/LzsSvJmmUgw?si=yHrh0P3dpVVs2fTw

[rocky shadow]

what interview it is?

[south spear]

Can I do the 1st main quest before the 1st side quest to get an auto save (playing on ultimate) or will the side quest fail then?

[rocky shadow]

Ok, nevermind, found it

[rocky shadow]

it wont. Btw, you can save in HUBs, aka in villages and other places

with expedition mode i mean

[unreal raptor]

This is an issue I have on pc also. Feels about 50% sens at max?

[stoic nest]

Exactly

[unreal raptor]

Hoping this gets an update now we have more console players. It makes fighting bloodsuckers nearly impossible.

You can tweak the curve but I find it doesn’t help with the top end speed.

[stoic nest]

Yh it’s the top speed that’s the issue also separate x and y axis would go a long way but if they just raise max sense that would be a big difference

The game is awesome for the rest but I’m gonna wait for a little with playing, I’m not used to this kind of sense

[eager onyx]

On master when I'm picking up blueprints and other usb`s/memory cards i dont get any notification on what i just looted like i did previously. Anyone else experienced the same?

[long aspen]

On rookie I get a notification bottom right of the screen.

[eager onyx]

hmm okay. bug maybe. or Intentional

[keen bone]

ya can confirm S2 is great now

[long aspen]

Bug or maybe you have reduce screen prompts.

[keen bone]

I think the balance still needs tweaking - mission rewards feel v low considering how long they can be, mutants are bullet sponges with no reward, drowning in bandages with barely any medkits on corpses - but it's actually fun to play now and the zone doesn't feel like an empty map any more

and I wonder if my opinion comes from playing lots of anomaly AKA an extremely hardcore difficulty take on stalker that doesn't remotely resemble the OG games anyway

[gray loom]

Do you think we can expect a 1.7.1 tomorrow ?

[keen bone]

donno about tomorrow, but certainly soon. I think GSC is in 'make a good first impression' mode for PS5 players which means quick hotfix patches for major issues

Maybe a week or two hopefully

[eager onyx]

I like it.

economy is alright if you know how to mange stuff
mutants doesn't take that many hits, goes down pretty fast on master, but can kill you fast as well
medkits where raining from the sky before, zone is a harsh place i don't think there should be a million of them left around
But this is solely my take. i want stalker to be abit of a challenge.

[unreal raptor]

does anyone notice any difference with the helmet sound option, is it bugged?

[marsh plinth]

Has anyone else had performance issues? When I walk into starting town and especially the bar, my frames go to single digits. All drivers updated. 1.7 seemed to have made it a little worse for me

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[finite dragon]

binocs or nvg in game yet?

[sly matrix]

NVGs, yes. Binoculars, no

[unreal raptor]

yeah noticed this as well, much better in the overworld but in the hubs i'm getting worse performance than at launch

[keen bone]

@eager onyx I mean I'm playing on Veteran and I think I'd prefer if there were half the number of bandages and slightly more med kits. Right now I am swimming in bandages but med kits are hard to come by

[unreal raptor]

Binocs are supposedly coming before the end of the year according to the roadmap

[keen bone]

Combat difficulty feels just right, but you can get food and bandages so often off corpses that kills off any tension from encounters

Like I'm routinely wondering around with 10+ bandages but one or two medkits lol. Balance not quite right there

[unreal raptor]

bandages are still fair to frequent, I like the medkit balance in Master mode

at least i'm not just dropping 50 of each into my stash each time i do a mission

[eager zodiac]

Overall the availability of all sorts of supply needs some redesign. You can become independent from traders pretty close from the beginning. You don't even need to worry about food.

[radiant chasm]

why whenever I select anything in my PDA or inventory it selects anything to the right but my cursor is normal

[unreal raptor]

yeah agree on this, you just become a hotkey spammer, I'm not sure I've ever suffered any negative effects from buffs since I'm always ladden with stuff

[eager zodiac]

Yeah, only the overweight effect bothers me anyhow

[oak comet]

I survived an electrical anomaly in Master difficulty, you need 2.5 electrical protection bars filled to survive one hit.

[thick wolf]

animation team at GSC is absolute top tier

gyro aim on ps5 is fire

[frozen yacht]

so was 1.7 an actual improvment >

is it worth going back in if i havent played since launch?

[molten fulcrum]

Yeah well

When the game sees fit to spawn 7 burers in a row on top of a bayun and dogs and a rat, the excess medical supplies balance themselves out, eh?

[fallow shell]

100% i was playing my first playthrough on 1.6 and was blown away from the game and story missions. with 1.7 it is even more polished

[frozen yacht]

how is peformance?

[fallow shell]

what are your hardware specs?

[frozen yacht]

3060ti, i7 9700, 32g ssd

[light hollow]

What monitor resolution, 1080p?

[frozen yacht]

2k

[light hollow]

Oh

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
Yeah, idk if you'll have 60 fps all the time

Not unless you do some tweaking in graphics, which is not bad tbh

[frozen yacht]

well i was getting 60fps on launch

but the suttering was bad

[light hollow]

Oh yeah?
Well, then, yeah, you'll get better performance

Maybe try it again a bit, but its nuch better than release from what people say

Not from my experience, cause I dont even own the game

But well, majority of opinions are very positive towards 1.7

[frozen yacht]

why not??

[light hollow]

I am a patient person and have a lot of games to discover still. I have no fomo for stalker 2, no matter how much I love the trilogy.
I prefer to wait for more patches, like the engine upgrade thats coming some day, to have a better experience overall, instead of just getting a worse experience than what I could be getting

[frozen yacht]

100% agree. I bought at launch and literally felt ripped off. Trusted them in a way I don't trust over devs.

[light hollow]

Well, tbf, you had experience with them, with all their previous games

But well, hey, at least they are updating it to making it better

So you'll do get a good experience at the end

[frozen yacht]

We all know their history, but the game was literally unplayable and they removed core content features like A life.

I can handle a little bit of bugs

[light hollow]

Yeah, it wasnt a great start tbh.
But hey, now its better, its got a nice update to the AI, and runs better in general. So maybe hop on a little bit and see

If you dont like it yet, wait for more

[fallow shell]

i think u could upgrade to a better gpu because for playing 2k for 8GB of Vram is outdated. especialy if we are talking about UE5

[light hollow]

You could lower the textures tho, and argueably get a decent experience

But it is rough at 8gb vram

[frozen yacht]

3060ti for normal 2k gaming is fine

but yes. ue5 is demanding.

[fallow shell]

yeah but with all the upscaling and Multi frame gen 16GB of Vram is pretty much required

[frozen yacht]

yeah it wouldnt hurt no doubt

i run just about everything 60+fps on 2k with high settings, even other UE games

[light hollow]

Thats cool

[frozen yacht]

their optimization plays a major role as well.

[tiny token]

I wouldn't expect it. I assume they'll add binocs when the online bubble gets increased, and that's presumably coming with the engine update

[velvet yew]

I disagree, I got lost in Stalker 2 at launch, even without A Life and a bunch of bells and whistles.

[frozen yacht]

5,000+ known fixes / improvements across multiple patches since launch. game was objecivley unfinished. If you enjoyed it then great, but the game was nowhere near finished

[velvet yew]

Oh I agree I don’t think it was finished, but I think what we got, on a surface level, was still pretty good. I’m looking at the game for what it is, not what it isn’t or could be atm

[frozen yacht]

did it run well for you at launch? i couldnt hold consistent frames

[velvet yew]

Sometimes it did, yeah. My specs are not great, and there were a few times I’d get what I think were memory leaks. The worst of it was at that one fight near the antenna (trying not to spoil)

Now it feels fairly solid

[frozen yacht]

maybe ill try it again and se

how is the modding scene? any must haves?

[velvet yew]

ATM it’s rocky cause of the 1.7 update, but there’s some mods that do things like extend the day/night cycle, or there’s extra weapons (kinda finnicky sometimes). I think the one I would recommend the most modifies the exposure, so you don’t have difficulty seeing out of windows while you’re inside. There’s also a couple of balance mods I use as well

I’m more minimalistic when it comes to mods for the most part

[thick wolf]

Idk why it took me this long to bind sausage to a hotkey. Having a sausage button is peak gaming

[static compass]

Welcome to the new PS5 players

If there are any here

[thick wolf]

It's a great experience on ps5 so far. Coming from playing mostly on Xbox and a little on PC

Happy to throw gsc the money to keep working on this incredible video game

[static compass]

BE GONE

Scammers man

[molten steeple]

Same I just started about 2 hours ago on ps5 and loving it so far

[long aspen]

@static compass Well done.

[static compass]

Glad to hear!

[static compass]

[thick wolf]

What path are you taking through the lesser zone?

[molten steeple]

Got lucky and found a three line rifle not to long after I got out of the prolog

[static compass]

Sweet

[molten steeple]

Been doing side quests and now I'm sitting at a campfire

Campfire feature is the best hands down

[thick wolf]

I feel like I don't utilize it enough

[molten steeple]

I waited a year to look at anything about stalker 2 and im glad I waited

[thick wolf]

Just listening to the music and dialogue?

[static compass]

It's much better now than it was at launch

[molten steeple]

Gotta say the night be very dark

[long aspen]

I would like to hear what the stalker new guys think about the story and it's endings. But you got to give them time to take in the atmosphere first.

[molten steeple]

Makes me want to get nvgs

[static compass]

I think they made the nights a little darker when they added night vision goggles

[molten steeple]

The atmosphere is a huge part of what drew me into the game years ago and sitting down with the game and just taking it in feels like a rite of passage for the experience

[static compass]

They also reworked how enemies can see at night

Some have NVG's and some don't, it determines how well they see at night

[molten steeple]

So far nights are a bit scary

[static compass]

I don't travel much at night

[molten steeple]

I gotta say I love the death counter

[static compass]

[static compass]

I've died over 350 times in total lol

[molten steeple]

Rip the homie sitting at the campfire with me

Just got attacked by dogs while talking about duga🤣

[radiant chasm]

since i started my save before 1.7 will A-life and the new stealth work?

[thick wolf]

yes

[orchid gale]

I’ll release stalker 3 for a white 5080 super

[molten steeple]

These anomalies be beating me up

[wise geyser]

Yo are stashes like even possible to find now?

I’ll keep testing but so far it’s like I can’t find not one unless it’s like one given to me from a quest or a dialogue or something

And I knew they were limited in master but it’s like god damn lmao. Is it just the bags are blotched out so you can’t just loot stashes if you don’t have them found or is it just that they’re not even a thing in master diff

[blissful jackal]

The addition of Master probably bugged the other difficulties out a bit.

[wise geyser]

Maybe but yeah found out after some more testing that some stash bags in certain locations and stuff still have stuff in them and ect and I’m getting stash locations from pdas so that’s chill but still get to get one from looting a body so maybe that’s just not a thing in master

Another thing I love how the damage is now you gotta really watch out in gunfights but one thing that I started thinking about is the situations which there are multiple in the game when your put into a gun fight against multiple people out in the open

I haven’t even beaten the game but there are a good amount of time I recall especially with bandits not gonna spoil any specific moment but when your maybe say in a dialogue with them out in the open that inevitably go’s hostile and there’s like 3 or more guys

On veteran sometimes even it was like wtf cause you just had to run to whatever cover you could find real fast while possibly getting melted but if you spammed heals and ran you’d have a chance of escaping more times than not

Haven’t tested yet and prob am not tbh but I could definitely see how in master that shit wouldn’t be possible lmao 😭💀

The damage you take from sustained fire is way higher so I couldn’t imagine how in the situations where your forced to fight like 3 guys out of dialogue in the open wouldn’t result in death but I could be wrong tbh maybe it’s just as simple as in veteran just spam heals and run lol

[blissful jackal]

More B-Hopping than ya think.

[oak wyvern]

Bro a mod is currently crashing my game so bad I cant even load into the main menu

[wise geyser]

Yeah lmao that’s pretty much how it is on veteran is it the same on master?

[oak wyvern]

Im on xbox

.....cloud

[wise geyser]

You play off cloud?

[oak wyvern]

How tf does this even happen......

[oak wyvern]

Yeah had to sell my system

[wise geyser]

Hmm damn

I was gonna say maybe check if you see stalker 2 in your games and apps section go to manage and clear your saved data

[oak wyvern]

I have a feeling its lootable zone.....problem is....I cant delete it

[wise geyser]

But I don’t know if that works when you play off cloud

[oak wyvern]

Iv effectively paid 80 bucks to play "sorry your gaming session has disconnected"

[wise geyser]

Oh wait so you own the game?

[oak wyvern]

Yup

[wise geyser]

Oh yeah it is off of gamepass I’m slow

Okay yeah nah you gotta clear your saved data man

[oak wyvern]

70 for the game 14 for the world's worst cloud streaming service

Stadia was better than this crap

[wise geyser]

It’s likely the mod brother not Xbox

[oak wyvern]

Oh no im not talking about that

[wise geyser]

Oh

[exotic ridge]

https://youtu.be/RA3vvVX2ipc?list=LL

[blissful jackal]

Yeah dawg.

[oak wyvern]

Half the damn time the game doesn't even stream do to connection issues even tho 1. I live in austin which is right next to their San Antonio data centers, 2. I have extremely good high-speed fiber optic internet

[blissful jackal]

Except there's also more caution cuz it feels like what I saw for SoC on max Diff.

[wise geyser]

Well yeah nah that’s the point so wait which dialogue situation have you been caught in like that so far on master?

As a matter a fact I’ll just test it myself later tbh

[blissful jackal]

Oh, we're talking about Dialogue?

[wise geyser]

Nah I was talking about like you know how in certain situations there are moments with skif your talking to bandits for example where at the end of said dialogue is a fight and your out in the open with them or maybe in a room and there’s like maybe 3 to 4 guys around you and pretty much how would that play out on master

[blissful jackal]

Oh, caught dead in the open like that?

[wise geyser]

Like for example without spoiling. There’s a moment when you in the lesser zone and there’s a path you can take where your talking to bandits in a building but the dialogue almost inevitably ends in you having to fight them but there’s like 3 in front of you and even more in other rooms in the building

So I was saying like for those moments when your forced out of dialogue to have to fight how would that play out in master when you die a lot quicker from bullets

And bare in mind you only save at safe zones so you would be set back far possibly if you do die

[blissful jackal]

You know that spot in Garbage where you find 2 artifacts and get jumped? On master I shot the first guy then ducked behind radioactive cover. "Oh shit, radiation killing me." I move out of cover, take a bullet, lose a quarter of my health. Whip out my Gauss Rifle and Hipfire into another ones Penar. (Solely cuz I went to Pripyat first thing.) Then 5 other dudes pop out of the cut with a huge pack of Rodents, they start fighting I'm throwing grenades at both

[wise geyser]

Is that a moment where your in dialogue with the guys who jump you I don’t recall it?

[blissful jackal]

They usually engage you before you grab said Artifacts. Like in conversation.

[wise geyser]

Oh okay hmm

Yeah nah I just gotta test it I guess tbh

[blissful jackal]

Wait. So you've been getting attacked WHILE in a conversation?

[wise geyser]

No I just mean out of dialogue a forced fight out in the open

All I was saying was pretty much how would those play out on master where you die quick from gunfire

[blissful jackal]

If your Quick enough, you wont die.

[wise geyser]

Yeah that’s pretty much what I was wondering

[blissful jackal]

Although Skifs draw speed sucks.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[wise geyser]

U too brother

[oak wyvern]

This game is pissing me off

[shadow rune]

What are the best PS5 control settings for Stalker 2?

[placid spade]

scrapping the console and build a keyboard for a PC

[solid dome]

Why not PeSe5?

[finite dragon]

😂

[finite dragon]

To be honest mate you are prob best to buy a mouse n keyboard, plug em into your PS5 and use them for the game.

[ripe thorn]

I did this by bolting out of the room as soon as dialogue closes, there is a toilet to the right and bandits are not that quick to draw

Then just potshotted peeking from the doorway

[ripe thorn]

After bf6 the gunfights are like underwater
Altho it fits stalker for sure
It's like dark souls of shooters ahahahah
Slow and deliberate combat and such

[safe badge]

What happened?

[south spear]

Can I sell all the paper notes worth 100? They are in my PDA after picking up right ? Or do I have to hand some of them in for quests

[grizzled herald]

yep, they become part of your pda and you can sell them. If it is needed for a quest, it is marked as quest item and can not be sold.

[flint cliff]

I would have expected from 1.7:

A notable increase in markers that can be activated on the map and a list of blueprints found.

None of that...
Yet it doesn't seem impossible to me...

[bold creek]

its just not priority right now , they are changing more fundamental systems.

[unreal raptor]

This patch and these commands in the AppliedSettingsPC.cfg & AppliedSettings.cfg have been a gamechanger.

GamepadSensitivityCoef = 2.0
AimGamepadSensitivityCoef = 1.0

Have ragdolls hugely improved? I'm doming bandits now sitting down and it's so satisfying, they just fold up. Headshot sound off ofc.

[ripe patrol]

From what we understand, we got some ragdoll changes yes. @empty gorge is having a field day for RDA

[empty gorge]

[bold creek]

i think they added stiffness to some parts of the npc body so they interact better when ragdolling

[unreal raptor]

space program is concluded — god rest those brave souls

feels so much better.

[ripe thorn]

Sometimes they try and jump like a meter high

[teal dove]

One thing I miss from OG stalker is when they would fire their gun as they fell

I'm glad that u don't have to mag dump people anymore though 😂

[bold creek]

true , it should be added but make it less frequent than before, in SoC sometimes happens over and over again , would be much cool if it was quite rare like 15% chance

[teal dove]

Yeah it would definitely happen nearly 4 or 5 out of every 10 kills in clear sky at least

[sly matrix]

In CS they would sometimes autofire for a full 2 seconds while slow-dropping

[teal dove]

That's what I mean

I kinda wish they did that in stalker 2 just have their gun go off as it hits the ground or something

[bold creek]

would be cool to have more death animation like npc shaking or moving their legs in panic while they die

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-bateman-stare-card-scene-going-insane-american-psycho-gif-26261029

[teal dove]

Yeah or they drop legs backwards body torso forward when you shoot them in the legs with a shotgun etc

So they drop face first basically

[golden vector]

update 1.9: traumatized NPCs

[nimble cipher]

danfromulster02 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[teal dove]

I mean some NPCs do run away when you F their buddies up

As of 1.7

Does anyone know where I can buy 7.62 or even find it brood bar in Garbage ain't got 💩

Normal 7.62 not ball

[crude arch]

I've got some settings that I found that work relatively well. It's not pixel perfect, but it's much more serviceable than default settings.

[unreal raptor]

1.71 next week. Hopefully brings artefacts back. Are PS5 users also getting this bug?

[oak creek]

Did UE 5.5.4 happen? Was hoping PS5 release would be it.

[stiff pasture]

No, we don’t have a release date yet

[celest goblet]

It's a "It's done when it's done" sort of update

[unreal raptor]

def next year

hoping that really adds to the performance side of things.

sad to live through a 2077 esque redemption arc for stalker 2 but, seriously impressed by this latest patch

[sick glacier]

Are artifacts constantly spawning underground for anyone else? I know it’s always been an issue, but it seems way worse since 1.7

[wise geyser]

Yeah I saw it while I was testing yesterday shit was cool

[unreal raptor]

yeah all of them are spawning underground for me, just ignoring them for now. Think hotfix is next week.

[celest oracle]

Guys where could one report a bug?

[celest goblet]

#s2-support has information on this

[celest oracle]

yeah, i gave up, its too much hassle 😄 its a language problem, probably not fixable.

[crisp lintel]

I had an artefact spawn under a rock at death cave on ps5. Not a big deal but it’s the first it happened and it’s a bit annoying. Hopefully they fix!

[bold creek]

worst thing, if you dont pick it up , it stays there, an easy fix from GSC its to make every artifact change position every time the player goes to sleep.

[crisp lintel]

Huh I thought they reset eventually? Well here’s hoping they fix it. Of course it had to happen around those awful gravitational anomalies. Hate those things!

[bold creek]

unless if they fixed it, last time i played the game (1.3 patch ) artifacts location are saved in memory and the exact X and Y position is always the same until you pick it up and when the anomaly respawns a new artifact it appears in a new position.

[crisp lintel]

Ah well I think if enough people report it they should find a fix. It’s the first real bug i encountered and I found a few artefacts. If I recall even the old games had it happen on the old x ray engine.

[bold creek]

maybe its already fixed and you just have to wait a couple of hours until it gets fixed on its own

dont know really

[crisp lintel]

Yeah it’s only one potential artefact of hundreds so I’ll see how often it happens. But it still needs to be looked at for sure

[nova steppe]

am I the only one experiencing a bug after 1.7 where skif is stopping midrun but continue to jog in place?

[dry frost]

anyone know if the yanov station traders can still sell a veles detector? only mods i have are bb redux and oxa standard

[nova steppe]

here is a video i recorded from the bug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvM3sUIeaM

[unreal raptor]

This is a new feature not a bug

[wraith socket]

Did you try drinking an energy drink?

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[flint ravine]

A good day to you too!

[spare ore]

any word on a hotfix for artifacts disappearing underground as soon as you get near them?

[ripe patrol]

Hopefully soonTM

[nova steppe]

lol, but really, this made the game unplayable for me, it is quite immersive breaking

[flint cliff]

Did they put the rubles in the stashes scattered around the map?
On Master difficulty, when I loot corpses, it no longer shows me any stash indicators.
A bug, or is it really like this on Master difficulty?

[fair jackal]

that is intented apparently, from an answer someone sent in that was answered.

[hushed dove]

Just hopped back in the game, in one of the MSQ missions where I have to clear this area of a bunch of Burer's, and they're literally hitting me through walls with the objects they pick up and throw.

It's the "Subtle Matter" quest

Just tested, and literally watched the object go right through the wall

Is there a better place where I should posting this?

[light hollow]

#s2-support seems like a bug
Maybe #❔┃seeking-for-advice if you want help on how to beat it

[hushed dove]

I think the first one you posted is the one. I don't need help beating this, just need to report this bug to GSC. I have a recording of it, you can see the object thrown by the Burer, literally go through the wall. Not something that should be happening.

Apparently I dont have permission to send messages in the support. Hopefully someone from GSC sees my message on here, because this is something that needs to be addressed. I shouldnt have to dodge objects when Im on the other side of a wall.

[light hollow]

yeah, then the report channel would be it.
I'm pretty sure they know about this bug and its on the bug-fixing list, I've heard quite a few people with the same complaints

[hushed dove]

Okay thats good to hear. Did it just start with the latest update?

[light hollow]

The channel isn't used to post, but rather to show you the website on where to post them: https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us

[hushed dove]

Ohh ok

[light hollow]

afaik, yes

[hushed dove]

Ok, I look forward to this being fixed. For now, I will just tough it out lol

[keen bone]

Is anyone else experiencing flickering white dots when in underground areas? Seems like lighting glitching out

Doing Behind Seven Seals and it's particularly noticeable in the underground bit

[ember vale]

I’m having this problem too. It causes motion sickness after about 15 mins of playing, and some enemies are made so much harder cause you can’t turn. I made a reddit post, asked on here, and submitted a support ticket. I really really hope they fix this

[bold creek]

https://youtu.be/E5qBgx5XGIg
crazy S2 looks better than day 1 and finally some well needed optimization.

still need work, would be cool to run at constant 90fps on medium/high specs in 1440p

[silk frigate]

Anyways to turn the ps5 controller volume down but not off? I don’t mine hearing the beeps but this damn thing is screaming at me

[brave marten]

i thought i'd get like, half or less the amount of random stashes with Master, but I legit got none, made it to garbage and not a single random stash

that's waaay too much. stashes should be a joy to find in master because they'd be rare, not removed completely (besides quest-attached stashes)

[wraith socket]

Stashes should be everywhere. You don't have to activate them to find them.

[brave marten]

i thought the way it worked was:
if you find a stash by simply exploring, you can loot it, but it'll have way less items
get coordinates for a stash, it'll contain many more items

only a select number of stashes contain attachments/armor pieces

am i wrong?

[wraith socket]

In my experience, I have found stashes that are full of items that I take.
Later, when they get activated, I go back to the same stash, and it's empty.

[hushed dove]

Isnt this just the radiation effect?

[finite dragon]

Stash coordinates are nothing more than coordinates to a stash

[jolly basalt]

I'm hoping this is the right channel to ask, sorry if it isn't. Is there any known fix for this strange graphical artifact where the terrain goes completely black for a second or two, like it's enveloped in shadow, before slowly fading back into colour? It seems like a lighting issue, and it only happens when turning the screen, especially quickly. I've changed every possible graphical setting along every step with no difference, and it's not a general hardware issue as it only happens in Stalker 2. I'd send an image to illustrate the issue but I don't think I have that permission.

[cinder pivot]

on ps5 when motion sensor assist is disabled, it will secretly enable behind the scenes when you aim assist at someone and will remain deactivated in settings

what helped for me was enabling the setting moving the sensitivity values to 0 and then disabling again

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[keen bone]

If y'all could pls vote on this poll about Immersive Mode having subtitles that'd be appreciated: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/j01x3nrBHj

good to get a sense of whether ppl other than me think it should have that or not

[molten steeple]

I mean it woild be nice if you were ease dropping

[light hollow]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[thick wolf]

time to learn ukranian

[drifting niche]

What does [STOC gaming] mean?

[muted valve]

it means they're silly

[sly matrix]

Generally means the person has completed the "no hit holy run", meaning you got away from me cordon machinegunner without getting hit

[light hollow]

The CS cordon? Or from stalker 2

[sly matrix]

aye

CS

[light hollow]

Ez aah section

[thick wolf]

Are there rules around loading saves? How did it come to be known as STOC Gaming?

[sly matrix]

idk, saving mid-run seems impractrical as there's no real safespots. as to the origin, that's well before my time here so you'd have to ask @pseudo rivet

[pseudo rivet]

STOC Gaming™

If we're talking about the Holy Run, that's just the Holy Run

[sly matrix]

oh shit, we changing the tag?

[pseudo rivet]

STOC Gaming is STOC Gaming

STOC Gaming was just a tag back in the day of STOC dudernios playing mostly the same games

Later on it kinda became a sort of badge of honor for completing the No Hit Holy Run because people wanted to earn that tag for some reason

Bonus respect points if you manage to do the No Hit Holy Run the other way around

From the Cordon to the Swamps

[sly matrix]

maybe I'll try that on my next trip through CS

[keen bone]

Yeah they said 'most likely no', but it seems to be a feature most people want. So need to start gathering up data showing that it's something people want for it to be something they consider doing

Poll already sitting on 75% people want immersive mode to have subtitles

I get they have more important things on their plate but that doesn't seem like a big ask, yet they're responding 'we probably won't'. Need to start showing them it's something most people want. Just need a menu toggle turning subtitles on or off

[crisp lintel]

I’m at the poisonous hole in garbage and I’m pretty sure the artifact is underground. Anyone else have this issue?

[drifting niche]

Yes I do have that's a bug too

[crisp lintel]

Ah man I hope they can fix it soon

[flint cliff]

In Master level, is the damage that enemies do also increased?

[finite dragon]

I think so yes.

[jolly basalt]

Hope bumping isn't against any rules. Also replying to say to @ me if anyone knows anything about this issue.

[flint cliff]

Real Longer Days mod works with 1.7

[drifting niche]

It's not a bug. This is how Lumen works, unfortunately

[molten steeple]

I finally made to yaniv just to pick up a revolver

Longer nights would be awesome for console

I decided to go with veteran for my first run and oh boy am I glad

[jolly basalt]

I don't suppose there's any way to disable Lumen and go back to a more "static" lighting like the original trilogy had? 😭

[molten steeple]

Ive played the original trilogy on master but didn't know what to expect

Death 176 death by rads

Without knowing i discovered the bridge of death

First time review for bridge was not disappointed it was all in the name

[lost tartan]

I know exactly which bridge youre talking about lmao

[flint cliff]

When I aim with the holographic sight, I get this bug. I'm on Xbox. Do you get it? Are you on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox?
https://youtu.be/Ni-ckFB-B7Q?si=KaFUBaxhFx5Su_uR

😩

[finite dragon]

This is a known bug and there is a fix coming.

[flint cliff]

Thanks with the 1.6 it didn't do it

[hushed dove]

I posted on here about a bug I was experiencing and just wanted to clear up a mistake I made. I got my mutants mixed up, it's the Poltergeists that are throwing things through walls, not the Burers!

[oak comet]

Poltergeists and burers are both throwing shit through walls rn

[hushed dove]

Oh ok so I wasn’t wrong! Ty

[bold parrot]

No HDR settings for ps5 like Xbox has? 😭

[south spear]

I have a small issue (per chance)
I have killed some friendly’s on accident (playing ultimate mode) will this mess up any of my story line missions or side quests etc ?

[fathom bloom]

I'm also having this exact problem. Started today for me.

[celest oracle]

guys, how NPC naming works? Can you find the same name on the same looking character twice?

[celest goblet]

Probably possible in theory but very improbable

[celest oracle]

I just did the early game side mission: Lost Boys. The one insde you can save is called Max Saturday. And then i went on exploring further ahead, and i run into a same looking dude with the same name. Wandering randomly close to where the game started. Is this the same dude or just random?

[celest goblet]

Probably the same NPC since I think he does leave the location after the quest

[oak comet]

Only lower your reputation slightly and sometimes make nearby friendlies hostile too. But no, it will not mess up any story line missions or side quests.

[light adder]

Patch 1.7 AI still utterly stupid

Love this game so far so immersive but AI ruins it

Also they need to fix reload animations speed like I'm in middle of the fight but he patiently reloads like wtf

[bold oxide]

if your detected you get new faster reload animations

but undetected its the normal ones
now that would be cool

[jolly basalt]

Was reading up on some other posts in the discord and forums. I'd heard about the devs working on updating the UE5 version, does anyone know if that would maybe help with the lumen issues? Or, if they'll ever add hardware-based lighting? Maybe I'm misinformed, but I've seen people attributing a lot of lighting glitches and framerate issues to the lumen being done on software rather than hardware.

[light adder]

Yeah that's what I think

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[crisp lintel]

Anyone know when the hot fix drops? Getting tired of bugged artifacts

[finite dragon]

I’m hoping it’s today.

[tropic cobalt]

uhm. my max weight is 83 right now due to an artifact.
80 is my normal max.
everything red before hitting 80, slows me down drastically.
everything exceeding 80 makes me walk completely normal again

that's a bug, right?

now I am at 83.2 and still able to walk? the heck? 😄

[drifting niche]

Why isn't there automatic target acquisition in the sights in Stalker 2?

[leaden scaffold]

what?

you want aimbot?

[drifting niche]

What?

[leaden scaffold]

automatic target acquisition?

[drifting niche]

yes, it's not aimbot. High quality scopes have it in trilogy

[leaden scaffold]

i see

[sly matrix]

High end feature in CoP. Scopes getting the same target auto marking as the binoculars

[bold creek]

lots of lumen and nanite optimization coming with the engine update, Unreal devs repair lots of glitchy and unoptimized rendering with each updates

and in the last update i think 5.7 UE improve on foliage and vegetation quality and performance too. in early UE versions grass and trees tanks the performance quite a lot.

[thick wolf]

patch dropped?

I see the public branch was just updated on steamdb

[viral wren]

I'm downloading smt at the moment

[tardy trellis]

oh you guys are also getting an update?

[viral wren]

yep

[thick wolf]

nothing on ps5 yet

[bold creek]

1.7.1 dropped already, im downloading it

[crisp lintel]

Did the PS5 hotfix drop?

[viral wren]

seems like, but no changelog available yet

[crisp lintel]

I need me those artifacts

[agile widget]

Dropped on xbox so probably

[crisp lintel]

Nice

[thick wolf]

I'm not seeing the update on ps5 just yet

[crisp lintel]

Would be nice if they gave us an ETA or something though

[finite dragon]

Xbox is updating now.

[celest goblet]

If it hasnt rolled out already Id expect it to be very soon

[crisp lintel]

Yeah still no PS5 update yet

[celest imp]

Its just a hotfix for some bugs dw

[unreal raptor]

Is there change log about somewhere?

[thick wolf]

In gsc answers

[torpid frigate]

Not the full patch notes btw

[thick wolf]

Ah

[unreal raptor]

No mention of the artefact issue 🤡

[thick wolf]

yeah, I'm surprised honestly

Figured that'd be a top priority

[torpid frigate]

They said they will try to fix that ASAP, I need my god damn money, it is most likely in the patch

[dire dagger]

Bet you 20 bux it’s not

[unreal raptor]

Yeah getting cooked whilst fishing around on master difficulty has resulted in me save scumming.

[unreal raptor]

This guys on the money.

[torpid frigate]

I'll do you 10% of the price of compass artifact

[crisp lintel]

Yeah I had to kill a controller in the cave in cordon for an artifact stuck in the rock

[unreal raptor]

While the controller wall bangs you with trash

[torpid frigate]

Yeah, i had that too, free artifact gone

[crisp lintel]

Yes some bodies in the floor too so it’s not just artifacts. Something going on with the physics in the game

[unreal raptor]

New ragdolls are great though. Really feels like a vast improvement

[dire dagger]

2 steps forward one step backward

[unreal raptor]

2 steps forward and into a bad electro hitbox.

Head shot sound off improved this game ten fold for me. Hate that muddy COD like sound effect.

[onyx kettle]

That's not physics. The Spawner must have a bug where it gets the z axis value wrong.

It had to figure out where exactly is above ground to get the z axis correct.

And it's very easy for that to go wrong.

And it's been like this since day 1.

1.7 has been the first time Weird Water was above ground for me.

[light adder]

Devs​ were good at implementing A-Life in OG Stalkers what happen in Stalker 2? Why this is such a letdown?

[crisp lintel]

Apparently the Xbox got an update? Did they notice any change?

[unreal raptor]

Rushed. Total mess at launch. Needed another year to release imo.

Only just getting A-Life 0.9 of the promised 2.0.

[onyx kettle]

This is a completely different engine and maybe the whole war in Ukraine could be a factor...

[light adder]

I mean most of basic features they couldn't make it until now it's been a year

They should be able to do it...

[torpid frigate]

Its almost like clear sky A life

[unreal raptor]

Yeah I’ve been following along with stark disappointment all year. This is a good push forward. Just need to iron out the bugs and push it forward again.

[tiny token]

good at implementing alife in the OGs
lol

[onyx kettle]

Did y'all even play unmodded stalker og?

Alife always has issues and it always took mods to have an actually good experience

[tiny token]

The barely existing alife of SoC, the utterly broken alife of CS and the streamlined and neutered alife of CoP

[onyx kettle]

In CoP the whole faction/territory system was broken with unending spawns at the capture points.

It tooka mod to actually fix that.

[tiny token]

I'm sure the newfren who watched 2 videos of gamma knows a lot about alife in the OGs

[onyx kettle]

I think a lot of people forget that their memories are of a heavily modded stalker.

The unmodded originals are each broken in their own unqiue and special way.

[tawny comet]

Hotfix - Fixed an issue where npc could continue moving while peeing, hahaha

[elder beacon]

1.7.1?

i have a update on steam for 6.5 gb

[celest goblet]

Yeah mol1t confirmed a hot fix

Patch notes were shared in #📜┃gsc-answers message

[spare ore]

stuff going underground not fixed 😔

[celest goblet]

Hopefully soon

[sly matrix]

Soon™?

[elder beacon]

do you knwo when more performace improvments will be made

[celest goblet]

Not likely in a hot fix but there is still the planned unreal engine version upgrade coming at a TBA date

At least in my experience this patch improved my fps by ~20% in bases and a little less in the open world

But now I get 60 or higher everywhere except occasionally in Rostok it goes into the upper 50s

No framegen because it makes the game unplayable imo

[unreal raptor]

Hotfix already has workarounds. 🥴

Might miss this one since it doesn’t even fix the main issues for me.

[torpid frigate]

Try FSR 3.1

[celest goblet]

Workarounds for mods breaking things at least. This is why I have not been installing mods

[torpid frigate]

It runs better, same with instead of DLSS use the last one X something on balanced

I run stable 80-90 fps, only slows down in safe zones because of the npcs

[frank vector]

Anyone know why the AKS-74U has the wrong stock on it?

[celest goblet]

Wrong in what sense

[south spear]

Just got a suit that’s a tiny bit better , should I sell my 1st suit or keep it incase my new one breaks ?(playing ultimate and it’s my 1st play through)

Also can I sell the journalist’s flashdrive or will that remove the info from my map?

[narrow otter]

I personally always sell the older suits that I don’t need anymore