#⭐┃nospoilers_general

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teal osprey
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you dont choose sidorovich, sidorovich chooses you

fading gyro
hazy raven
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Forgot where the song is played, in credits?

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(The original one.) 🤔

wary cove
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It's also played in the 100 rads

hazy raven
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In vanilla game or mods? Because I remember there playing other theme.

wary cove
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I think?

hazy raven
pseudo rivet
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100 Rads Bar

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Vanilla

wary cove
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Or sidorovich radio? I don't remember where but I'm 99% sure it was in vanilla

hazy raven
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Forgot what is played on Sidorovich radio in vanilla.

pseudo rivet
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But then the actual version

weak shuttle
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Will stalker2 have females?

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Talking to a lot of guys is boring

hazy raven
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We will see. Maybe Controller illusions? controller

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Also I don´t know if it´s vanilla COP´s rating or mod Winds of time messed it up, but why is Snork, who can be one or two-hit killed by a knife, as stronger enemy than Controller, who can mess my 🧠 up badly and takes tons of hits to die? 🤔

weak shuttle
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I wish to speak to the girls. I will use my Artitcats to peacock.

stone token
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What is a good mod in Stalker that every one should have

hazy raven
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For SOC I enjoyed OGSE a lot. Overhaul, which expands basic game a lot. And also, aside of disarming, has decent combat (though lots of people don´t like combat there). Though OGSE isn´t good for first playthrough.
For vanilla like games, at least in SOC I think ZRP.
CS, idk.
And COP - COC for sandbox.

weak shuttle
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If the developers wish the game to be easily moddable

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Does that mean a use for the Steam Workshop?

glacial quartz
floral ether
wary cove
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nice

glacial quartz
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Is S2 gonna be released during this year or its for 2021?

hazy raven
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Probably 2021? 🤔

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Or later? (at least 10 seconds later, like it´s set up there...)

glacial quartz
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Hmmm... I just find it odd if they released a trailer for it, wouldn't it be weird that it would come out next year?

hazy raven
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They still didn´t show any gameplay though. Only areas. And trailers can also announce the game, not its release.

glacial quartz
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Usually trailers mean max 3-4 months before pre-alphas are out

hazy raven
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Looking at No man´s sky and Starfield...

glacial quartz
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Hmmm, yeah that's true

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But I also read that S2 has a huge team working on it this time, so that's why it got me wondering

hazy raven
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I forgot if first Stalker had some trailers in its "vaporware" state.

glacial quartz
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I don't mind waiting til 2021 for it, but I would be extremely excited to see it come out this year too

hazy raven
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Also some games can have trailers and then never come out (looking at Prey 2).

glacial quartz
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Yes that's true 😅

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But then again, stalker has been silent for a decade and it gets announced two years before the trailer comes out

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That means they're going real hard on it

hazy raven
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Of course.

glacial quartz
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So yeah, I don't think a legendary IP such as stalker would end up a delayed fluke, especially not after the Chernobyl series

hazy raven
glacial quartz
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Since it did gain some fame around stalker

hazy raven
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Sometimes it´s better delayed than in broken state, like in case of No man´s sky though.

glacial quartz
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Actually yes, but the worst part is, us gamers have been betrayed so much that time is so valuable nowadays

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For example in the past (2010) they announced games and actually kept their promise for releasing them

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But now since 2013-15 some games have been announced and to this date we have seen nothing

hazy raven
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And tons of indie games instead get released as Early Access demos or free ones. And then Early access paid games, of course.

glacial quartz
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Yeah, at this point... What's if they use game titles as secret ADS? 😂

hazy raven
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Though I am happy that rumours about Bethesda acquiring Stalker franchise were proven false.

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The rumours were after Stalker 2 was cancelled.

glacial quartz
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Oh hell naw, that would've killed me

hazy raven
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I wonder what would Bethesda turn Stalker 2 into. RTS? Another Skyrim? (Looking at Fallout 3).

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But Bethesda would surely put dragons there. (Looking at Fallout 76...)

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And they would probably break A-Life system completely or replace it with broken Radiant-one. smile_degtyarev

glacial quartz
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They would've turned it into garbage

hazy raven
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But that would be nice topic for some parody. Short story about a stalker, who starts suddenly seeing entire Zone to break apart and going weird due influences of Bethesda (though there would be needed somehow explained the fourth wall break) and in the end, he would wake up from the nightmare induced either by some psi-anomaly or a controller. Or something like that.

glacial quartz
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And worked more on affection between two side characters more than working on the environment

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The only good game Bethesda made was Skyrim, period

hazy raven
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I mostly liked Morrowind. Arena and Daggerfall were nice too with their idea of life in a procedually generated life. Skyrim, while it has nice world, doesn´t use its potential much (majority of quests take place in dungeons). And you just save the world everywhere.

glacial quartz
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My dream is that, stalker will have the graphics of metro exodus, and the open world of the zone

hazy raven
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One thing which I like about STalker by the way- there isn´t anything like that (saving the world trope).

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I wonder how they will handle PDA and inventory.

pseudo rivet
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My dream is that, stalker will have the graphics of metro exodus, and the open world of the zone

Better

hazy raven
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Especially PDA could be in-game object.

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Idk about inventory. First person animation of opening bag and then inventory screen opening?

glacial quartz
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Can you even imagine all the amazing mods the community would create for a next Gen graphics stalker open world game??

hazy raven
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There is another competition in that regards though - Escape from Tarkov.

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That game has nice animations.

glacial quartz
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Even now call of chernobyl, clear skies, anomaly, misery game modes are being regularly updated with mods

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And yes, escape from Tarkov has orgasmic animations

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That's what I wanna see in a stalker 2 survival world 😍

hazy raven
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Though I hope that they won´t mess up GUI by consolizing it too much. At least in PC version.

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Like it happened in Deus Ex: Invisible war.

glacial quartz
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To be honest with you

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In this day and age, all gamers want is the base content but up-to-date visuals and animations

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The entirety of the rest can be modded by community

hazy raven
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Today majority games are mostly focused on shiny graphics. Which is shame, as games can be nice with other things, like sounds too. (Looking at Thief).

glacial quartz
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And that's what we need for stalker series

hazy raven
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But yep, mod support is essential for Stalker 2 to live longer.

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Especially after how mods for Stalker 1 prolonged its life.

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And GSC even allowed standalone mods, which means that you don´t need to own original game.

glacial quartz
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I don't think it's the game that makes stalker so good, is more of the IDEA of the Zone, the diverse personalities in each factions, the abandoned rusty nuclear sites, the apartments that once belonged to normal people

hazy raven
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It´s atmosphere. Also A-Life is great. That you aren´t center of the game´s world. (At least until you quick load or exit the game. smile_strelok ).

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Shame there aren´t much other games with similar AI (I know only Space rangers, but that is 2d space RPG).

glacial quartz
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And don't forget about the best part, the underground secret X LABS

hazy raven
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Legendary X18.

glacial quartz
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Aw hell to the holy child of christ naw

hazy raven
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Really shame is that CNPP, instead of swarms of Monolithians GSC could make there tons of interesting things. As it´s center of the zone.

glacial quartz
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I've played anomaly for about 8 months now but never dared to step in one of the x labs

hazy raven
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Tons of wasted potential... 😦

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Like CNPP is center of the zone, so instead of swarms of monolithians, there could be the weirdest things like weirdest anomalies, some super strong mutants, etc.

glacial quartz
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Maaan, cnpp is really creepy..

hazy raven
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Not much. You just kill Monolithians and move on.

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Though that voice of the Wish Granter is creepy.

glacial quartz
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Yeah but knowing that this is the core area that this game remotely even is grounded by and originated from, it's like darn

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And all that caused the anomalies, mutants and so many homeless people

hazy raven
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And there is nothing like that inside.

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Sort of starts reminding me No man´s sky´s center of the galaxy.

glacial quartz
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Yeah it definitely has such vibe to it

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However, I am really eager for S2 to open up a pre-order feature

hazy raven
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I don´t pre-order games.

glacial quartz
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So I can help them out however I can to progress through the development of s2

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And even if I don't, atleast I'll show a gratitude to them by donating that money for all the unforgettable memories they gave me with their stalker world

hazy raven
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You can also buy some of their RTS games. GSC, while most known for Stalker, did some RTs games before. I remember playing Heroes of Annihilated empires, which was sort of hybrid between RPG and RTS.

glacial quartz
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Yeah, I have

hazy raven
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Also there is that scifi game which they made before Stalker, forgot its name.

glacial quartz
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Oblivion one?

hazy raven
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Venom. Codename: Outbreak.

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FPS which they made before Stalker.

glacial quartz
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Ahh I've read about it too

hazy raven
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Interesting is that Stalker was originally supposed to be about Marine on some alien planet fighting robots. I wonder if it was supposed to be in Venon universe before they change it into Ukraine´s zone. 🤔

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Me: "Stalker alpha gameplay".
Youtube:"Here you go with... Stalker:Lost alpha videos!".

glacial quartz
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Yeah the creator of Stalker decided to use the Chernobyl disaster instead

hazy raven
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Which was good choice. As thanks to it they could make its known atmosphere.

glacial quartz
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Man I can't wait to play stalker 2 😩

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Gonna be sooo goooood

hazy raven
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Also I see that they copypasted there Rail gun from Quake.

solid dome
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Robots! Plasma guns! Naked chickens!

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Worst was to happen before Grygorovych woke up

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I'm betting they were to call the franchise...

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S.T.O.N.K.E.R.

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From stone & keeper, maybe stoned keeper

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Three times the Strelok guy, Regi, are you feelin okay?

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Four times, oh Lord, send me home for Christmas

teal osprey
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cheeki-breeki intensifies

slim garden
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Now that the dust has settled about the game being released for console and PC at the same time

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Will it be Microsoft Store and Epic Store exclusive? :^)

pseudo rivet
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NDA

slim garden
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Guess that's a yes then

pseudo rivet
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Nope

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It's an NDA

autumn shale
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NDA = Non Disclosure Agreement

slim garden
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I know, but had it not been an NDA then there would be no reason to suspect an Epic Store more, more so due to the engine being used

pseudo rivet
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Doubt that's going to happen

slim garden
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Simply the fact that the distribution method is under NDA means somethings aloof

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Then again, if M$ Store is 100% in at least that's a good thing

finite dragon
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It's going to be on the epic games store

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100% definetly

pseudo rivet
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NDA

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Besides

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4Do not post or share private information about other people. Spreading false information about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and GSC Game World is not allowed.

finite dragon
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If this is false information then GSC has to come out and confirm on which stores it will release.

Otherwise, no problem speculating that they took the exclusivity deal. Good money, good funding, no problem with that.

pseudo rivet
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They will

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In the future

fossil urchin
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Selling out 😭 😭 😭

finite dragon
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Omg they cant get external investors!!!!1@

native ibex
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Yo, guys

pseudo rivet
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Heya

fossil urchin
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How cna a merc be friendly Neighboor 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔

finite dragon
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He kills you with friendship

native ibex
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External investors, you say?
Nothing like rushed deadlines and microtransactions to spice up a franchise

fossil urchin
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Oh yes capitalism what an ingenious and efficient system

finite dragon
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SoC turned out great didn't it nu

Nah, it's just money, not deadlines. Besides, GSC is self-publishing this one

native ibex
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Have yet to see the better alternative, although I'm up for AI overlords

hazy raven
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They already have website in Gog Galaxy, so they at least plan to release it on Gog too.

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(Stalker 2)

finite dragon
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so no epic exclusive then?

pseudo rivet
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NDA

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But yeah, I doubt it's going to be Epic Exclusive

finite dragon
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well wouldnt make much sense for it to be on gog but not steam

hazy raven
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It can go Epic and after year everywhere.

finite dragon
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that still sucks

hazy raven
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Yep, especially with mod support. It would be stupid not to use Steam workshop...

finite dragon
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exacly

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but why are they so shy about givíng the answer

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or is it simply bc they are gsc

hazy raven
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Because they are going Epic and don´t want to make fans angry? Or because they just don´t know? But majority of Epic games were being shy or even deleted posts asking the thing...

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And we know the end. (Outer wilds and other ones).

finite dragon
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well for an pr standpoint it would make sence to also put it on epic

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like how they did with xbox

hazy raven
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The best sence would be to put it everywhere. But problem is 💰 for exclusivity...

native ibex
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Epic must have ran out of the exclusivity dollars a while back

glacial quartz
native ibex
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Harmonicas: Bringing the American countryside feel to the zone

hazy raven
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Did they add harmonicas in CS or COP? 🤔

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(No harmonica emote 😦 ).

tired anvil
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@hazy raven it's in SoC and CoP, not CS

hazy raven
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I never heard harmonicas in SOC, only 🎸 . 🤔

tired anvil
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Oh you meant like that

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I thought you meant like the item you can have

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Not sure in that case

smoky pelican
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breaking news stalker 2 sales plummet because of harmonica absence in game

tired anvil
smoky pelican
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I have been playing stalker for years and I still don’t know the fire modes key

slim garden
pseudo rivet
smoky pelican
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hoping stalker2 has similar hud/GUI elements like tarkov

tired anvil
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Uh oh

smoky pelican
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we need noises every time you move anything around for I m m e r s i o n

tired anvil
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You know what would be the opposite of immersion? The Tarkov inventory

smoky pelican
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how so

native ibex
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How so

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Current inventory looks a ton like it already, just without the organizating

smoky pelican
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was kinda dissapointed in stalker anomaly you could move stuff around inventory but once you closed it it auto sorted...

tired anvil
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Rip

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Also idk, the Tarkov inventory just looks weird to me

native ibex
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But there is a category feature, which rocks

pseudo rivet
empty hull
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i'm thinking about getting the russian version of ns 2016

smoky pelican
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stalker 2 H mod

empty hull
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when i play it i will tell everyone about my experience

sonic rampart
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NS 2016 is a good soup mod

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The 500 page manual is still needed tho

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there are so much VERY important quests you can miss for not reading it

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The whole avengers, Last day quest line is really vague

stone venture
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idk if this question is spam, but will it release on steam?

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or is it unknown rn?

tired anvil
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Unknown

hazy raven
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Nobody knows...

glacial quartz
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A game like stalker 2 would most definitely be released on steam, I mean why not?

slim garden
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It's under NDA so basically it won't, otherwise they would have no reason to have an NDA about it, is my opinion

hazy raven
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Because Epic 💰 .

glacial quartz
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I don't think steam is ungreedy enough to let stalker 2 go by without featuring it

hazy raven
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Metro Exodus was also featured. And how it ended...

finite dragon
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Hello again, me back

hazy raven
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Hi.

finite dragon
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Me waits stalker 2

hazy raven
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And I am going to play Winds of time mod. (Other people are complaining about constant crashing, so far, I had only one crash.)

finite dragon
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Ме вант сталкер 2

hazy raven
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*One eternity later...

finite dragon
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I'm waiting for a stalker online That Kids would play so i can take theyr loot

hazy raven
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There were two Stalker online games. Not made by GSC though. 🤔 Originally there was one, then it split into two due conflict between devs. 🤔

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Also Survarium supposed to be like that, but we know how it ended.

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I wonder how will end Ray of Hope mod. 🤔

finite dragon
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I wan't see 10 year old Kids videos on 2021 "stealing artifact from freedom"

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"buying gauss rifle"

sinful sky
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Rate all faction on basis how much you like them (no specific reasons)

  1. Loners
  2. Clear Sky
  3. Scientists
  4. Monolith
  5. Duty
  6. Mercs
  7. Freedom
  8. Bandits
  9. Mutants
  10. Renegates
  11. Military
tired anvil
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mutants
kuznetsov

slim garden
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Monolith and Clear Sky are the most interesting

pseudo rivet
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Renegates
kuznetsov

hazy raven
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OK, here I go. Scientists>Clear Sky>Military>Duty>Loners>Freedom>Mercs>Bandits>Monolithians>Mutants>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Renegates (isn´t that faction just generic enemies to introduce the faction war system in CS?).

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And you have it wrong. As technically, each mutant species are its own faction in relations file.

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Bloodsucker is different faction, controller same, etc...

finite dragon
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Hi everyone

tired anvil
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Renegades* btw

pseudo rivet
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Heya dude

tired anvil
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Hello Panda

pseudo rivet
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So, for all the actual in-game factions:

  1. Freedom
  2. Clear Sky
  3. Scientists
  4. Monolith
  5. Free Stalkers
  6. Mercenaries
  7. Military
  8. Bandits
  9. Renegades
  10. Duty
glacial quartz
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A question regarding anomaly and the dynamic faction relations, does it work for story mode?

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Haven't dared trying it yet

hazy raven
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At least for the randomly generated story it shouldn´t break it.

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In case of Lost to the zone trilogy, idk. 🤔

glacial quartz
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Hmmm, how does it work, do the factions have a passive ongoing relation with eachother or is it solely up to me how the factions react towards one another?

hazy raven
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I think that both.

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At least how DoctorX explained it.

glacial quartz
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That's pretty amazing

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I should try it tonight when I get home

sinful sky
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I think it stays the same as in base games for story mode

glacial quartz
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I kinda want to mix faction hostilities with base game structure to avoid activating warfare mode

hazy raven
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You can turn warfare mode off in new game settings.

glacial quartz
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Because in the story mode, it's utterly absurd how tough it can be all by yourself

hazy raven
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And Warfare isn´t compatible with story mode. In Anomaly.

glacial quartz
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Yeah I know, but I mean to mix out the ambient of the every day life zone with a passive ongoing war between factions that keeps you moderated in combat

hazy raven
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That´s what there is Warfare for? 🤔

sinful sky
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Every time in warfare monolith takes over the world for me i played it like 4 times

glacial quartz
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Hmmm, warfare is kind more likely to conquer locations

hazy raven
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But doesn´t AI manages it itself if we don´t want to take part in it?

glacial quartz
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I actually will try out warfare again in a new save and see how different it feels

hazy raven
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I shall try it sometimes too. 🤔

glacial quartz
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Thanks for the replies bois

hazy raven
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Np. Have fun. 🙂

glacial quartz
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Same, stalker 💙

hazy raven
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Now time to blow up X16 labs...

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Zombified stalkers can climb up ladders?!

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Almost caught me off guard.

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Got sniped away by a shotgun. Yep....

glacial quartz
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They can? I didn't know that

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Last night I was walking across dark valley and looked from far away and there were a squad of zombies walking together, turned around asap (was midnight and noticed them only by their flash lights)

hazy raven
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And not only Zombified stalkers. I had snork to climb up the ladder too.

glacial quartz
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Just when you thought stuff can't get more disturbingly scary lol

wary cove
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loners>monolith>duty>mercs>freedom>scientists>mutants>everyone else

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And not only Zombified stalkers. I had snork to climb up the ladder too.
wow I have never seen that

glacial quartz
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Oh wait, are dynamic faction relations built ingame of anomaly version or do you have to download it's standalone mod?

gusty trench
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It's built in Anomaly, but you can download it as separate mod for CoC

glacial quartz
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Okay thanks alot! I do see dynamic news in the menu but I thought I'd need to activate the dynamic relations somehow, which I can't see the option for

gusty trench
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You can activate DR in settings, as I remember. News are activated by default.

glacial quartz
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Oh?

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I'll recheck, thank you 😊

native ibex
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But what of the Spider-Psuedogiants of the CNPP

glacial quartz
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Nothing better than being awake at 4 am in the zone

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Too bad only mercs and duties know the pinnacle of beauty at such times 😉

open lintel
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weak shuttle
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so...

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uhm... what is it the... other stalkers and bandits chat about and laugh about in the language I don't speak?

finite dragon
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I really like fighting as a group in stalker

celest token
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Hmmm

smoky pelican
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Duty best faction fight me outside of cordon hoe

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😤😤😡😡🥵

sullen dragon
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oh my

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so it exists.. the zone's communications discord

hushed current
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Clear sky is the best faction well they were

sullen dragon
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ehh

finite dragon
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Clear sky is the best faction well they were
@hushed current we know

sullen dragon
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man you guys dont know how happy i found this discord lmao

finite dragon
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man you guys dont know how happy i found this discord lmao
@sullen dragon we know beacuse we found it

sullen dragon
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lol

finite dragon
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lol

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look at this discount ecologist

main thorn
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Yes.

versed hull
late acorn
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Hmm i just accidently thought of something

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I hope the devs didn't forget nimble

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It would be cool to see him again somewhere in the game

peak abyss
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Nimble already as a visiting card. One can hardly forget such a character. And that's where he hides weapons and flash drives

silent zenith
hasty citrus
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Hi all 🙂

pseudo rivet
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Heya

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Welcome to the server

hasty citrus
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ty 😄

toxic vector
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@wary cove how can Duty > Merc?

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Merc faction got best base location and Nato weapons

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Duty base is safest but not ideal for everything else

pseudo rivet
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We don't know where the Merc base actually is lore-wise

toxic vector
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Dead City

pseudo rivet
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lore-wise

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Can't count mods

toxic vector
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Isnt merc base in Dead City in Clear Sky game?

pseudo rivet
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Dead City isn't in any of the games

toxic vector
pseudo rivet
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Build

pseudo rivet
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Build

hard stirrup
pseudo rivet
hard stirrup
pseudo rivet
hard stirrup
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bro, i cant even type fast here

pseudo rivet
hard stirrup
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they should only do chat timer when there is a major announcement, righ tnow its pretty slow

pseudo rivet
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Yeah

hard stirrup
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i like coming in here and seeing all the devs with green dots.. it means they are working on sidorovich aPES2_HappyTalk

pseudo rivet
hasty citrus
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I am thinking right now...how people already know system requirements when game is not finished yet?

rare dome
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they havent ;et out anything on what maps were getting have they? cuz id like to think we get the OG ones like cordon garbage ect, but what if its as big as COC?

hard stirrup
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yea i think some old maps will be put in and i hope some cut ones would be too like dead city and others

rare dome
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i just wanna see generators in UE4 with highest graphics

hard stirrup
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and full pripyat

pseudo rivet
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Army Warehouses

hard stirrup
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yes thats a good one too

pseudo rivet
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I kinda want to see the other Army Warehouses on Merc territory

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I could make a suggestion for that, I guess

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Maybe a bit late

hard stirrup
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yea maybe their plan is already layed out and what areas is there

pseudo rivet
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Likely

hard stirrup
rare dome
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cant wait till arsenal overhaul 3 gets ported to UE4 so i can run around the zone with a 100 different types of ammo

visual cove
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They officially stated that all maps are returning with the inclusion of new maps.

pseudo rivet
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Not exactly

hard stirrup
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bro... why do you want a port of arsenal overhaul guns when people can literally add better ones with better animations. when stalker 2 comes out its a whole new community and mods

pseudo rivet
#

Pretty sure they didn't say ALL old maps

hazy raven
#

Weren't there more merc bases in Call of Pripyat in Zaton? Also I think that in SOC, Army warehouses there is their base, never entered it though.
But yep, their main base was supposed to be in Dead city.

teal osprey
#

that place at zaton wasnt a base at all i think

pseudo rivet
#

Not a real base, honestly

#

More of a temporary outpost

hazy raven
#

What about the hostile ones? 🤔

pseudo rivet
#

Temporary outpost

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As for the hostile ones, CoP or SoC?

hazy raven
#

COP.

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

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Temporary Outpost

teal osprey
#

getting deeper on mercs interests in stalker 2 would be great imo

hazy raven
#

There are ones which are neutral, looking for a job, and them base of hostile ones, who shoot player if he goes in after warning.

pseudo rivet
#

Temporary Outpost

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If you haven't interacted with them and you've gone to Pripyat, you'll find out they've left when you return to the Waste Processing Station

#

Besides, seen how the Mercs control one of the exits of the Army Warehouses and how they are at Limansk, I think they own the Red Forest as well

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Which makes it even more difficult to get to the Bridge to Limansk

teal osprey
#

Forester joined mercs

hard stirrup
#

yea, if all cut maps were put in with the lore. mercs control alot of the zone if you think of it

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or at least they have a lot of outpost

pseudo rivet
#

They own a huge area, if my speculations are correct

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Second only to the Monolith

hard stirrup
#

monolith held pripyat and generators

teal osprey
#

and radar

hard stirrup
#

oh yea that too

pseudo rivet
#

They hold the CNPP, Pripyat, Radar, Deserted Hospital, Limansk and the Pripyat Catacombs. Before the Brain Scorcher got turned off, they also held Zaton and Jupiter

hard stirrup
#

zanton and jupiter?

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

hard stirrup
#

is that from lore?

teal osprey
#

monolith is in decline

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

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They have stashes in both Zaton and Jupiter

teal osprey
#

true

hard stirrup
#

well they were pushed back then because they werent there in vanilla

pseudo rivet
#

Yup

teal osprey
#

before the brain scorcher was disabled all factions pushed

pseudo rivet
#

You mean after?

teal osprey
#

yeah sorry

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

hard stirrup
#

CoP is after SoC and CS right?

pseudo rivet
#

You can even see Rookies making it as far as Jupiter

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Yeah

hard stirrup
#

ok so brain sorcher was already disabled then

teal osprey
#

yeah

pseudo rivet
#

Well, the area CoP plays in is exactly beyond the Brain Scorcher

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With Zaton being the closest area near the Brain Scorcher itself

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Geographically, it doesn't make any sense, since Pripyat is on the right of the map

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But that's how it is lore-wise

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The problem is that they based CoP's map from the actual Zone

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Whilst SoC and CS are not accurate towards the actual Zone

hard stirrup
#

since the whole zone is supposed to be put in, in stalker 2 i hope they lay things out how its supposed to be

pseudo rivet
#

Hopefully

teal osprey
#

maybe they mix both concepts

pseudo rivet
#

Inverted CoP map when???

peak abyss
#

Limansk general made from district in Kiev

hard stirrup
#

having all vanilla maps and even cut maps put in would be cool

teal osprey
#

yeah

hard stirrup
#

like milrad

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i know it was only a driving map but still

peak abyss
#

Stalker is a sci-fi shooter with its own Zone and Ukraine

pseudo rivet
#

Milrad?

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Yikes

teal osprey
#

or even new places we havent seen in other games and mods

hazy raven
#

Stalker was supposed to be much more scifi though. @peak abyss

hard stirrup
#

yea, i know even if its boring its still part of the stalker universe all maps were so all are the same to me

peak abyss
#

Well this is definitely not post apocalypse, because post apocalypse is Fallout

hazy raven
#

Yep, world around Zone lives normally.

pseudo rivet
#

yea, i know even if its boring its still part of the stalker universe all maps were so all are the same to me

Build and not on the Zone map, so not Canon

hazy raven
#

I wonder why GSC removed the choice to side with mercs against Ecologists at Wild territory though? 🤔

hard stirrup
#

older builds of SOC are more interesting though

hazy raven
#

Though I think that later Ecologists helping us wouldn't make sense.

pseudo rivet
#

Some of them

hard stirrup
#

and has way more lore

hazy raven
#

I wonder how is the Oblivion lost remake standalone mod. 🤔

pseudo rivet
#

I wonder why GSC removed the choice to side with mercs against Ecologists at Wild territory though? 🤔

Documents

peak abyss
#

there used to be freedom instead of mercenaries

pseudo rivet
#

Mercs love their documents

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Freedom attacking the Ecologists wouldn't make any sense

hard stirrup
#

Sin faction would of been interesting too... i just hate that a lot was cut

teal osprey
#

keeping kruglov alive was always my goal

hazy raven
#

They are hostile against them in SOC though.

pseudo rivet
#

Sin is semi-Canon in Lore

hazy raven
#

Sin was cut out and probably replaced by Monolith though.

pseudo rivet
#

They are hostile against them in SOC though.

They never meet, so they can't even be actually "Hostile"

#

Besides, look at CoP

hazy raven
#

Relationship files say otherwise.

pseudo rivet
#

They'd love to help them

peak abyss
#

In the Shadow of Chernobyl, they had a feud. Because they are state

pseudo rivet
#

Relationship files say otherwise.

Because SoC had a lot of cut content. Not everything that is in SoC is actually true

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Like, there are still a lot of Build remnants in SoC

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Cap says that north of the Barrier lies the Wild Territory

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Meanwhile, Duty says that they are at war with Freedom at the Wild Territory

#

Build content

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Just forgotten to be scrapped

hard stirrup
#

yea thats what i mean old story before a lot was cut is more interesting

pseudo rivet
#

Sometimes

hazy raven
#

And less linear game. But original idea of ending was weird though.

#

Protagonist getting controlled by C-con, then going out of the zone and breaking destruction everywhere he goes.

peak abyss
#

This can be explained to the fact that Lukash is more an anarchist then Chekhov or Miklukha, but no information

pseudo rivet
#

Loki works as a commander under Lukash

hazy raven
#

Also originally there was supposed to be no story, we were instead supposed to get all documents before other stalkers and then get to CNPP, before other stalker manages to do it. 🤔

pseudo rivet
#

Merc Moment

peak abyss
hazy raven
#

Though the biggest question is - who hired the mercs? Other states or secret organizations?

pseudo rivet
#

We don't know

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Likely the Group

teal osprey
pseudo rivet
#

Besides

#

Not all Mercs work together

hazy raven
#

Yep.

hard stirrup
#

i think a faction in the zone hired the mercs and no one knows about it yet

#

which can thicken the plot

pseudo rivet
#

Bandits definitely hired some Mercs

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As stated by one of the guys around Rostok

tired anvil
#

They got the $$ for it

pseudo rivet
#

Not sure if it was Barkeep of a Dutyer

tired anvil
#

Or the RUB I guess

hazy raven
#

Bandits having 💰 for it? They even don't have decent equipment.

pseudo rivet
#

They've got plenty of money

peak abyss
#

Well, judging by CoP, the mercenaries are looking for information about the laboratories. Plus in their ranks there were very strange dudes with names instead of nicknames and in costumes of scientists

hazy raven
#

Why they don't buy better equipment then? 🤦

pseudo rivet
#

They've been taxing Stalkers for as long as everyone can remember

hard stirrup
#

in CS they are rich at least it seems that way

pseudo rivet
#

Why they don't buy better equipment then? 🤦

Probably just GSC being lazy and not making more models

#

in CS they are rich at least it seems that way

Even Thrush scams you when you trade with him, so yeah

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Definitely

hazy raven
#

And in COP there even some bandits are in Zaton's bar (Sultan).

pseudo rivet
#

Besides, they tax everyone who comes into the Zone and even have slaves who hunt artifacts for them

hazy raven
#

Loners can scam you too. (Dark valley - "Tesla rifle" offer).

hard stirrup
#

yup a lot of loners were pretty bad

hazy raven
#

Or COP, where they steal one artefact you get during one quest at Zaton.

pseudo rivet
#

Tuna

hard stirrup
#

there were bad loners in all vanilla games

pseudo rivet
#

That's it, though

teal osprey
#

i actually hate that guy

pseudo rivet
#

Not all Free Stalkers are good

#

Same with Bandits

hazy raven
#

With player included (if he wants).

pseudo rivet
#

Not all Bandits are bad

hazy raven
#

I found Sultan fine as bandit.

teal osprey
#

senka is a good bandit

hazy raven
#

But don't remember his story much.

hard stirrup
#

he was fake nice (senka)

#

he was a snake though

hazy raven
#

I guess I shall replay vanilla COP sometimes...

pseudo rivet
#

But don't remember his story much.

Basically, he's like CS' Bandits but less aggressive, actually taxing stalkers to prevent them from getting killed

#

Basically, it's like this

teal osprey
#

sultan is the best bandit leader by far

hard stirrup
#

sultan wanted to do shady business and kill stalker in CoP

pseudo rivet
#

There are Rookies who come to the Garbage with barely any experience. The Bandits over there take his equipment and send him back to the Cordon to get more experienced and better equipment. Once this Stalker returns, he'll be accepted to the Garbage, but he'll be taxed by the Bandits for protection

hazy raven
#

Also bad loners, there is one at Jupiter, stealing deeds of other stalkers, with your ones included. He also left his friends to die and you can uncover later his true identity.

teal osprey
#

flint

hazy raven
#

@pseudo rivet Shame that bandits in SOC try to just murder everybody instead.

pseudo rivet
#

It's because they're in a frenzy to get the second key to gain access towards X-18

#

Borov has one part

hazy raven
#

Oof m

pseudo rivet
#

He just needs the other one

hazy raven
#

And second one is owned by Barkeeper.

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

hard stirrup
#

i guess flint was a free stalker before he was freedom though right?

pseudo rivet
#

Before that though, Borov probably acted like a better Yoga

#

i guess flint was a free stalker before he was freedom though right?

Correct

hazy raven
#

Why I can't just go to agreement with bandits? One thing which I like about OGSE mod.

teal osprey
#

in LA you can infiltrate on bandits base

hard stirrup
#

LA is a game i didnt really get into.. i know a lot of it is old story but i think they changed some stuff so idk

hazy raven
#

One thing which is wasted potential in SOC- there is faction system, but almost all relationships are preset.

#

And LA's story is known to be more as weird fanfiction, with illuminati instead of C-con and other stuff.

pseudo rivet
cursive bobcat
#

;

hazy raven
#

Amusing A-Life animations - Dutiers with masks are sitting around campfire and one of them can somehow through the mask drink Vodka.

#

So Winds of time mod skips Wild Territory completely. When I go on the route, it´s Yantar->Rostok. 🤔

#

Author of mod ran out of ideas what add there? 🤔

#

I wonder if anybody accidentaly thrown a grenade to investigate an anomaly instead of bolt... smile_strelok Because I almost did it.

teal osprey
#

And LA's story is known to be more as weird fanfiction, with illuminati instead of C-con and other stuff.
@hazy raven thats true lebedev_f

finite dragon
#

Aaaaah i killed the stalker demon and now i enemy public of duty

hazy raven
#

RIP. Or maybe should I say... have fun kicking them out of Bar?

finite dragon
#

you can kill all duty and and keep doing the bartender missions?

pseudo rivet
#

Think so

finite dragon
#

Good bye duty

winged flax
#

duty more like poopy

hazy raven
#

And had a second crash.

#

Also I think there is some NPC who you can pay to fix your relationships with factions.

#

I think Barkeeper or Sidorovich with loners, forgot who can fix your relationship with Duty.

finite dragon
#

duty more like poopy
@winged flax perdon what?

wary cove
#

you can kill all duty and and keep doing the bartender missions?
Possibly you can, but I don't remember if more dutyers can respawn later or they're gone for good for the rest of the game

pseudo rivet
#

They likely respawn

winged flax
finite dragon
#

@winged flax you are playin 4 days WoW in a row?????

winged flax
#

yes

finite dragon
#

damn

#

i kill my game save

#

duty more like poopy
yes

finite dragon
#

THE FRICK DID YOU SAID TO ME YOU LITTLE SHEAT

hazy raven
#

I hear Cheeki breeki...

remote plume
tired anvil
grand pendant
finite dragon
#

twitter?

tired anvil
#

It's VK yeah

visual cove
#

I hope GSC will put the game on steam for wishlisting, this would get it some more attention on the internet.

finite dragon
#

is that just some render or is it actually from the game

hazy raven
#

It looks like ruins of church in Swamps.

finite dragon
hazy raven
#

But otherwise, locations in Stalker are photorealistic.

finite dragon
#

did you even read the post

hazy raven
#

Yep.

finite dragon
#

its yanov station

#

not a church

hazy raven
#

Ah, Yanov station in Jupiter map.

pseudo rivet
hushed aurora
hazy raven
#

Allways found confusing that the entire map is named after one facility, Jupiter station, while the first area I see is Yanov station instead. 🤔

finite dragon
#

maybe because thats the biggest landmark in the area

hazy raven
#

Where I won´t enter majority of time. (And when I do, I get creeped out by mutated dogs smile_degtyarev .)

pseudo rivet
#

Agroprom, Army Warehouses

tired anvil
#

is that just some render or is it actually from the game
Basically render

pseudo rivet
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

finite dragon
#

@tired anvil Twitter?

tired anvil
#

seems like vk
It's VK yeah

#

Yeah bro it's Twitter

finite dragon
#

Ok

#

Why they didn't anounce

#

Theyr Twitter page

tired anvil
#

Jesus Christ

#

It's VK

finite dragon
#

What is vk

tired anvil
#

Also why should they

#

The image is from VK

finite dragon
#

Vine

Komrade

#

What is vk

tired anvil
#

Vkontakte

finite dragon
#

Its like russian Facebook?

tired anvil
#

Yes

finite dragon
#

But why, why they do that

pseudo rivet
tired anvil
#

Because they reached a milestone on VK

#

Same way they posted something when they reached a milestone on Reddit

#

What is so special about this to you

finite dragon
#

Noooo, why they Make vk if Twitter Facebook reddit exist and other Social apps

tired anvil
#

They use all of them

#

And I told you

#

Because they reached a milestone on VK

#

What do you not understand

finite dragon
#

Why someone Made Vk

#

he's trolling kuznetsov
@shrewd lion no

pseudo rivet
#

It's more kek, tho

tired anvil
#

I won't get into why VK was made because I'd get into a political talk

#

Let's just say it's easier for Russians

finite dragon
pseudo rivet
#

And it's more kek

finite dragon
#

What more

tired anvil
#

Research it yourself

#

Plenty of things

finite dragon
#

😐

#

Okey

past shuttle
#

I wonder if we will be able to see the main characters from the previous games in s2

#

I mean those two: Strelok and Degtyarev

pseudo rivet
past shuttle
#

at the end of CoP, degtyarev started to research the secrets of the zone

#

I hope we will

pseudo rivet
#

Nah, he became a Permanent Observer

tired anvil
#

Scar GWsetmyxPeepoCry

past shuttle
#

well, I suppose what i meant is also correct

pseudo rivet
past shuttle
#

scar is either dead or in monolith faction

stoic mango
#

cordon be looking good

pseudo rivet
#

Or a Marked Agent

past shuttle
#

marked agent?

#

@pseudo rivet wdym bro

pseudo rivet
#

So, have you played CS?

past shuttle
#

no, never played it

pseudo rivet
#

Wack

#

Even got the CS role

tired anvil
#

Sad

past shuttle
#

never had the chance

tired anvil
#

That's a lie kek

past shuttle
#

I, at least, had a similar experience

#

by playing CoC

tired anvil
#

Nah no way you had a similar experience by playing CoC

pseudo rivet
#

LMAO

#

Dude

past shuttle
#

Most of the maps in CoC belong to CS

pseudo rivet
#

CS in CoC is NOT CS

wary cove
past shuttle
#

3 maps belong to CoP

pseudo rivet
#

CoC totally doesn't know what CS is about

past shuttle
#

CS in CoC is NOT CS
@pseudo rivet I at least went to swamps

pseudo rivet
#

Lmao

tired anvil
#

That means nothing tbh

past shuttle
#

I know CoC is no close to CS

pseudo rivet
#

Dude

#

Bet you actually believe that CS wants to destroy the Zone?

past shuttle
#

Idc

tired anvil
#

Bruh

pseudo rivet
#

Bruh

tired anvil
#

I bruh'd at what you wrote Crimson

#

Had no idea CoC CS like that

past shuttle
#

now look at this:

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

#

CoC CS is like that

past shuttle
#

every faction in the game has their own bad thing

pseudo rivet
#

Yes

#

We know

past shuttle
#

duty for ex. you described this to me a long while ago

#

so whats the point?

pseudo rivet
#

The point is that CoC Clear Sky is nothing like the actual Clear Sky

#

At all

#

Ideologically speaking, of course

past shuttle
#

even if i joined ecologs, i would still have enemies in front

pseudo rivet
#

Obviously

#

There's nothing you can do to be friends with everyone

past shuttle
#

So what i mean is im not interested finding the bad spots of every faction

pseudo rivet
#

That's not the point

#

The point is that CoC Clear Sky is nothing like the actual Clear Sky

past shuttle
#

So? I know this already

pseudo rivet
#

Hope so

past shuttle
#

at least Ive seen cs maps in coc

pseudo rivet
#

That means nothing tbh

past shuttle
#

this argument is so fruitless

pseudo rivet
#

Depends

past shuttle
#

lets stop

pseudo rivet
#

Clear Sky - coexistence or destruction?

past shuttle
#

in CoC, the story goes with coexistence for clear sky

pseudo rivet
past shuttle
#

in CS, I suppose its the latter

pseudo rivet
#

Other way around

past shuttle
#

hm

wary cove
#

Clear Sky - coexistence or destruction?
more like containment (?)

pseudo rivet
past shuttle
#

I play lttz maybe thats why there are differences

pseudo rivet
#

Perhaps

#

Anyways, about the Marked Agents

#

I can't tell you about them, since that would be both SoC and CS spoilerinos

past shuttle
#

its ok dont tell me anyway

pseudo rivet
past shuttle
#

I will play all 3 games when the time comes

#

its only a matter of time

#

Im not a regular person bro @pseudo rivet

#

so take this as a note

pseudo rivet
#

How do you mean?

native ibex
#

He's a filthy weeb

tired anvil
#

I don't think you being different from other people really means anything to the games

native ibex
#

But he's QuIRkY(TM)

grand pendant
visual cove
#

I hope GSC will finally make a coop mode for the new game, it would be amazing!

native ibex
#

Bald Sidorovich or no Sidorovich

still ridge
wary cove
#

but this one cool_story_sidor_ross is cool too

finite dragon
#

I hope GSC will finally make a coop mode for the new game, it would be amazing!
Yep, stalker 2 really could use a Co-op system, playing alone gets boring after a while

remote plume
finite dragon
#

Like for example in Stalker SOC, I couldn't get the true ending because i was too much of a puss to go through/was bored.

#

with a partner you don't get these

remote plume
#

If you play with someone you can let them go first and watch them die from monolith

finite dragon
#

that too

grand pendant
#

Basically the problem DS1 had with co-op, kinda wack

finite dragon
#

DS1

grand pendant
#

You'd just get a friend and problem solved

#

Dark Souls 1

finite dragon
#

ah

#

another thing to mind though, would it ruin the game's atmosphere?

#

like, not having the chills and fear like in singleplayer

remote plume
#

I dont think so

grand pendant
#

Probably

#

Unless you two are roleplay masters

remote plume
#

If you play with someone who doesnt take anythimg seriously then yes

grand pendant
#

But it would make the game way easier, which is kinda the point of story co-op

wary cove
#

i dont think so
it would be like the bloodsucker lair mission, but with a friend instead a scripted npc

finite dragon
#

i dont think so
it would be like the bloodsucker lair mission, but with a friend instead a scripted npc
stalker anomaly?

#

i remember you have to clear that place with a bandit

grand pendant
#

except it would be the whole game, you don't depend on a scripted npc the whole game, sometimes you gotta go out alone. Loneliness factor would be ruined as well. Co-op for story mode sounds kinda wack, but i'm all up for freeplay co-op or whatever

finite dragon
#

they could make a few missions where you have to be alone regardless of co-op or not, but idk

wary cove
#

stalker anomaly?
vanilla CoP, you must go with one of the guys of the mutant hunter squad iirc

remote plume
#

Co-op for freeplay would be good or have diffrent story for co-op

wary cove
#

this ^

finite dragon
#

Oh that one, completely forgot about that
there's a similar one in anomaly where you go to the bloodsucker lair in SoC

#

and encounter a bandit there, it doesn't attack you no matter what your faction is though

wary cove
#

I see!

grand pendant
#

I doubt story would be made for co-op dude, it has always been a single player game focused on loneliness and exploration. And doubt a different story for co-op would be made. Most likely just co-op freeplay, if it is even implemented

wary cove
#

haven't play anomaly yet

grand pendant
#

haven't play anomaly yet
Don't play it, it's a wack mod Sure_I_am

wary cove
finite dragon
#

@grand pendant wack isn't a negative term

grand pendant
#

It has many meanings

tired anvil
#

Just like kek

pseudo rivet
#

Wack is sometimes good, sometimes bad

finite dragon
#

ah, my bad then

tired anvil
#

Whak also exists

pseudo rivet
#

Kek is either good or neutral

tired anvil
#

Thumb uses kek in a negative fashion sort of

pseudo rivet
#

Kek - that's nice

tired anvil
#

Which just confuses me

pseudo rivet
#

Kek - I don't care

tired anvil
#

Just like the 🙂 emoji

finite dragon
#

"I DON'T KEK, SORRY KID"

tired anvil
#

Nah not like that

#

More so someone writes smth to you

#

And you reply with just kek

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah, but that emoji is just cringe, bro

grand pendant
#

Kek

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah, that's a kek description

finite dragon
#

anyway though, I don't see why anomaly could be bad

grand pendant
#

Get internet cultured by a latvian, a german and an american

tired anvil
pseudo rivet
#

Lmao

tired anvil
#

This is pretty wack imo

pseudo rivet
#

A "German"

tired anvil
#

Lmao

grand pendant
#

Totally wack and uncool

finite dragon
#

please stop my brain can't handle what to process

pseudo rivet
#

Not at all a "Diggity dawg" move, brochacho

tired anvil
#

Perhaps this can help you

#

Don't b hatin'

pseudo rivet
#

Don't B hatin'.

finite dragon
#

You picked the wrong man, fool

wary cove
#

do you think S2 will introduce new mutants?

pseudo rivet
#

Likely

finite dragon
#

Probably, it must

#

I mean they introduced new anomalies

grand pendant
#

FOR SURE! WE’RE PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT ALL THE NEW STUFF WE ARE ADDING TO THE GAME, AND WE HOPE YOU’LL LOVE IT TOO.```
From the website's FAQ
finite dragon
#

ah yes that

pseudo rivet
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Nice

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Scarlet Flower Moment

tired anvil
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But that's not new

wary cove
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good

I read the other day about the elderly civilians (mostly women) who still lives in the exclusion zone. Random thought but it would be nice to have some characters based on them, idk

tired anvil
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Someone did suggest that

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No idea how it's going to end up though

past shuttle
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lol kek means cake in my language

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what does kek mean anyway?

wary cove
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No idea how it's going to end up though
||the ladies makes their own faction at the end of S2||

grand pendant
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Kek is like lol but light

pseudo rivet
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Lol in either a good or neutral way

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Kek - that's nice
Kek - I don't care

wary cove
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lol>lel>kek
something like that

past shuttle
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bruh

tired anvil
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In warcraft, when you wrote lol

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Others would see kek in the chat

wary cove
pseudo rivet
past shuttle
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kek

finite dragon
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@past shuttle türk?

sinful sky
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Slowmode still active?

grand pendant
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Seems like it

tired anvil
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Think so

sinful sky
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Yeah but isnt the horde of people saying "is stalker comming to pc"over?

grand pendant
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Looks like it

pseudo rivet
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It B

still ridge
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It literally said it was

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I don’t get the confusion

visual cove
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Yeah but isnt the horde of people saying "is stalker comming to pc"over?
@sinful sky I literally bashed my wall in with my head over these guys that evening

still ridge
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I just have missed it

sinful sky
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Yee the chat was going wild

visual cove
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yeah

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where are you all from?

sinful sky
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I understand why tho i was also worried

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Im from yugoslavia

visual cove
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noice

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which part?

grand pendant
visual cove
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oh yeah right, messed up the place sorry

sinful sky
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Oh yeah try not to make admins job harder by missuing the chat
They are nice guys so worth respecting tge rules

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If you have any questions about thw game feel free people here can help you emensly

visual cove
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yeah, I have the biggest respect for admins because they have to argue with all the stupid neckbeards on the discord

pseudo rivet
sinful sky
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Some admins are neckbeards themselves

visual cove
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whoever has the patience for that really earned my respect

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not here though, you should see the Magic: The Gathering subreddit

sinful sky
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Lets go to offtopic mate

visual cove
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yeah

pseudo rivet
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Well, that's something entirely different

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Magic: The Gathering is just wack

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The community and the current owners, at least

native ibex
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Let's talk about the real game in town

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Yu-Gi-Oh

sinful sky
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There isnt any set date for stalker release or month ( like may 2021)? All i know it should come in 2021

hazy raven
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Nope.

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Unless somebody make Stalker 2 mod... smile_degtyarev

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Then it will come out much much sooner... Not in expected way though. smile_degtyarev

sinful sky
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Someone hacked the devs and took all the files

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Made a mod and released it kek

hazy raven
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Good luck remaking it in X-Ray engine though... smile_degtyarev

grand pendant
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Looking at the evidence it will probably come in 2021, nothing confirmed yet. iirc someone mentioned they had a release date, but wasn't public for obvious reasons, but don't take my word on it

hazy raven
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Of course, because it takes time.

sinful sky
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Yeah i know why they do it so people dont pressure for release

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But i see people saying it will be here in 4 months lmao

hazy raven
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And also when then they would have to postpone game, people would be angry. (Looking at No man´s sky).

pseudo rivet
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Yu-Gi-Oh

That's not B-DAMAN

grand pendant
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But i see people saying it will be here in 4 months lmao
Sergiy mentioned PR campaign would start 4 months before release. So who knows

sinful sky
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Yeah i hope they fill that biggest open world

hazy raven
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Yu-gi-Oh and its Shadow realm censorship, which is probably much creepier than dying itself... Though imagine Shadow realm being in Stalker (isn´t it true in CS with space bubbles?).

pseudo rivet
sinful sky
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Tf?

hazy raven
sinful sky
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Anyway im hyped for duga 2

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I wanna climb thatin the gane and look at tge forest

hazy raven
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I wonder how will gunfight play in Stalker 2 though. If it will be clunky like in first game, or finally much better.

sinful sky
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I saw the devs on instagram they posted some pictures of going into the zone
Maybe they rebuild some locations 1:1

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Gunplay should be improved

hazy raven
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Don´t do they plan to implement all locations of all first games + new ones? 🤔

tired anvil
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Not sure about all

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But old ones got mentioned

pseudo rivet
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Not sure if they'll add ALL old maps

hazy raven
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Though I hope that they will make some creepy ones or some dungeons like X18 or even better.

pseudo rivet
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Who knows, though

sinful sky
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Could be nobody really knows

grand pendant
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Who can tell, in the FAQ it says "old locations + new ones", never say some old, or all of them. Which is pretty nice

pseudo rivet
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Yeah

sinful sky
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But logical thing would be old locations both used and canceled + new ones

tired anvil
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Hoping for Limansk

sinful sky
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Sameeee

grand pendant
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But logical thing would be old locations both used and canceled + new ones
Doubt it honestly

sinful sky
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Why not

grand pendant
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Because bruh

tired anvil
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Why would cut ones make sense

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They got cut for a reason

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I mean some sure, but not all

sinful sky
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True

grand pendant
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Some meaning only Generators

pseudo rivet
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Hoping for the Deserted Hospital

sinful sky
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But if i had to bet id bet they would remake the old locations and make some new ones

grand pendant
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Hoping for darkscape yeah_stalk

sinful sky
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Duga is new
Cardan is old
Thats what we saw

hazy raven
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I remember Darkscape being in OGSE mod and it was bad... Just huge, empty location without A-Life. And in vanilla game it was supposed to only be scripted chase with military anyway.

tired anvil
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Cardan and Cordon are old smile_strelok

sinful sky
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Is ogse a good mod?

hazy raven
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For majority of times, yep. If you look for playing SOC story, but enhanced game a lot.

grand pendant
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Yeah, Darkscape is pretty wack map

tired anvil
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We didn't see Cardan sadly

sinful sky
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Cordon sry***

hazy raven
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Though it also changes story quests, sometimes in stupid ways and adds tons of side quests, where s ome of them are nice, some of them are just about looking for items, which are well hidden.

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It also adds new anomalies, emissions and other stuff.

sinful sky
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I might install it

hazy raven
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Also makes AI like to spam you with grenades. Though people complain about the combat being bad, but I enjoyed it there. Headshot enemy=enemy dies. Hit enemy with shotgun (even mutant)=śame.

grand pendant
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Better go for OGSR at this point

hazy raven
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OGSR will never be finished. It is dead. There was released only its engine and it´s badly implemented.

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I tried to install it and the Launcher started in cyrillic. I changed it to English, but it had less options than OGSE so I deleted it.

sinful sky
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Yeah i heard people said combat is not balanced
But i like when you just end a mutant with one shot with a shotgun

hazy raven
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Though OGSE adds one bad thing into combat - enemies (especially mutants) can disarm you, which means throw your weapon away from your hands. Which they can spam you. So they can disarm two weapons at once (when you switch between them) and then kill you instantly.

sinful sky
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Lmao

hazy raven
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Well, balance is same as Shadow of CHernobyl. Which means that even on normal or easy difficulty enemies can one shot you suddenly.

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Though there are two changes - enemies won´t show at minimap at all (no red dots) and also grenades show only on minimap if enemies throw them on you.

sinful sky
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I always play on the hardest mode cuz enemues drop faster

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Do they spam nades?

hazy raven
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Of course they do.

sinful sky
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Amazing

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So infinite granade spam?

hazy raven
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Though OGSE is worth a try if you want to have expanded game with original story, but don´t mind the changes.

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I don´t remember it being that extreme. But you need to either be lucky or just keep moving during combat so you won´t get killed by one.

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Also OGSE for me was stable. It crashed for me rarely in Garbage for some reason.

sinful sky
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I heard if you dont play like a maniac you are fine
Meaning no rushing infornt of enemues and acting like its COD

hazy raven
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Well, Stalker isn´t about power fantasy anyway.

sinful sky
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True

hazy raven
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You can though exploit AI. Like in Agroprom research center, I went into a building with shotgun, then waited until one by one enemies entered there and killed them with shotgun.

sinful sky
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They do that in the base game tho

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I just waoted on the main door and they all walked in 1 by 1

hazy raven
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Though OGSE can go very badly at beginning. It adds lots of quest NPCs (mod exclusive quests, some are long quest chains) to Rookie Village. But if these stalkers decide for some reason to attack military base next to the village, you can say goodbye to lots of quests.

sinful sky
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Damn

hazy raven
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Also OGSE adds vehicles, but as for me it was usually destroyed fast either by mutant or by shots, I rather walked by foot.

sinful sky
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Can you kill them on your own ot r they respawn all the time (military)

hazy raven
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I think enemies respawn same as in vanilla game.

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Because otherwise A-Life zone=a-dead zone.

sinful sky
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I hate military the most

hazy raven
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Well, in case of Cordon you can avoid them at the bridge checkpoint (there is hole in fence at railways.).

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And in case of entrance to Garbage, I remember one time having to kill them myself, then some loners took over the checkpoint and kept guarding it forever.

sinful sky
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Nah i murder every military always

hazy raven
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Though I had enabled offline A-life. (You can enable it, mod authors don´t recommend to enable it, but I didn´t find it problematic).

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Also OGSE changes story quest. Sometimes in good way (like in two cases with bandits, where you can reason with them instead of just killing them), but sometimes there are stupid changes, like forcing you suddenly to go back to do something else if you want to progress.

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But I mostly found it fine.

sinful sky
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I might try it out

hazy raven
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Good luck. Remember though to create more saves until you´ll do majority of mod´s quests in Cordon, if you are going to do them all. In case of stalker rookies going nuts suddenly.

sinful sky
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Yeah i always save

hazy raven
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I really wonder though what causes the A-life to go crazy that way. 🤔

sinful sky
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I quick save quite often

hazy raven
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And who from the GSC dev team though that it´s great idea to put two hostile faction bases next to each other. 🤦‍♂️

sinful sky
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Also one of tge main characters died for me
Wolf just walked into a fire and died

hazy raven
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Also one thing which I like about OGSE - it expands mental health.

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Now mental attacks of controllers and psi-hallucinations do more mental health damage.

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Though they made it too easy in same time - Vodka instead of healing radioactivity, makes you almost immune to all mental damage.

sinful sky
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How dpes that wprk in the end

hazy raven
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And also if your mental health goes low, instead of dying, you might get zombified. And have three days to cure yourself until you die.

sinful sky
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There are psy pills tho

hazy raven
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I forgot about all items in OGSE, didn´t play it for some time.

sinful sky
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Do they wprk against controllers

hazy raven
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Idk. I allways used Vodka.

sinful sky
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Intresting

hazy raven
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Also one thing which OGSE changes - you can´t just spam mindlessly medkit, as more you use it, less time it heals you, it can even turn into dead-kit (decreasing your HP instead). And you need to drink water to reset the medkit influence on you.

sinful sky
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Ahh nice

hazy raven
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Also one thing - weapons are accurate in OGSE. Though majority of mods do that.

sinful sky
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Well i dont spam it so it should be good

hazy raven
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It also adds slower healing like it´s in COP, but you can turn it off in launcher.

sinful sky
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Thats fine for me

native ibex
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The medkit taketh away

sinful sky
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Thank you for this info čeh bro

hazy raven
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Also read the readme of installation of OGSE, as it´s complicated if you are going to play that. You first need to download and install the mod. Then install the patch. Then launch the launcher to make it create required files.

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Then close it and apply the hotfix.

native ibex
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Then turn two key slots simultaneously

hazy raven
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There is also OGSR patch, but I don´t recommend using that.

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As all it does is makes less options in launcher and changes the engine for 64-bit one, but the 32-bit engine in OGSE ran fine for me.

sinful sky
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Well i can do it or i can ask roman to help me

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Robert*

hazy raven
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Also watch out for one thing - OGSE adds sleep deprivation if you don´t sleep for longer time (as it also adds sleeping bag and sleeping). And you can´t sleep inside dungeon areas (underground labs). Also when you sleep, you either need to sleep in safe place or with some companion guarding you or you never wake up. As you can be killed in sleep by hostiles.

native ibex
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Who could sleep down there? The burers will get you

hazy raven
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Also one thing which I liked the most in OGSE was companions. At least when compared with COC, companion there keeps with you, doesn´t rush to combat when you don´t and one nice thing - if your companions die a lot, then stalkers will refuse to join you and will tell you that everybody dying with you is suspicious for them and that they aren´t crazy enough.

wary cove
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sounds good

hazy raven
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So if you let your companions die a lot, there will be a consenquence for it. (It didn´t last long term for me though.)

sinful sky
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Well i sleep often cuz i only ppay at day i dont like night

hazy raven
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And also funny is that in Agroprom Underground, people critize how instead of one controller, it adds another which attacks you in the same area. In my case, my companion (while I was exploring Strelok´s hideout) went further and killed the controllers for myself. smile_strelok

sinful sky
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Well if they can listen to orders thats good

wary cove
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we play at day like real men This_is_fine

native ibex
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Sleeping at night means dealing with less bloodsuckers

hazy raven
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Unless a bloodsucker pays you a visit while you sleep.

sinful sky
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Can ypu sell theor body parts?

hazy raven
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If you mean mutant ones, I think yes.

sinful sky
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Good

hazy raven
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I think you can even eat them for some effects. Though mostly it just sates hunger and make you glow.

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Unless I confuse it with COC/SGM.

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And in OGSE you can heal radioactive disease only with anti-rad pills. No more Vodka healing for you.

native ibex
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Vodka can heal all wounds.
It even heals heartbreak

hazy raven
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And then makes you die from hunger and in case of Winds of time, thirst. smile_degtyarev

sinful sky
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Can you drink yourself to death

hazy raven
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Idk.

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I remember that you can drink that your screen is literally spinning around, but I think that no mod added drinking yourself to death. (Unless I missed some one.)

native ibex
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Makes you hungry faster, I think

wary cove
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imagine carrying with you a handful of bloodsucker pieces
You're tired, hungry then you find an abandoned campfire so you proceed to sit next to it to cook them

hazy raven
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I wonder if in Anomaly player can cook them. 🤔

native ibex
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Calamari

sinful sky
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Gurme stuff

wary cove
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ye

hazy raven
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I never checked though if food in SOC heals you too or if it´s only COP feature.