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Never happened to me...
Repair junk?
Yep
I would like the repair system if it was actually cheaper to do it yourself
Also one thing - OGSE restores first quest, where you are sent without weapons to find an artifact before
gives you your equipment and Rookies welcome you to their village, making the start harder. Also you don´t get Geiger counter and Anomaly detector until later, so you need to be really careful, as start-game is more harder than in vanilla SOC.
Also OGSE has dynamic anomalies and psi anomalies (normal ones´ positions change during emissions and psi ones during psi-emissions).
Well they are easy to spot
They can catch you with suprise though, if you run somewhere.
Pda running lel
I think you can in SoC
nvm, the wiki says otherwise
Although no alcohol poisoning effect can be found in the Stalker series, in Call of Pripyat, since vodka reduces nourishment, one can effectively drink themselves to death. A real risk if one is hungry, and talking to Zulu to join their team to explore Jupiter Underground.
I hope we see more extreme anomalous fields in S2.
More rewarding, but you can't save inside it to scum your way through, so you might have to be real careful or waste 3 minutes or so.
Yep, drinking with Zulu... Remember that quest... 
so you don't die from alcohol poisoning but from hunger (?) sort of
I personally hope that instead of reloading on death devs will make us respawning somewhere with death penalty instead, so A-Life would be somehow influenced by our death. As this is only one expection, where A-Life isn´t important. (We die, so we reload a save, literally travel back in time.)
Maybe. Or just like Darkwood does it - you respawn in safe area, but you loose your inventory. And you need to pick it up. But Skyrim variant would be better if used right with A-Life. 🤔
Don´t know how Outward does it.
You get text telling you that someone saved you, or that you were left injured and were robbed of your things.
So similar like in Death alternative Skyrim mods.
Right
More immersive, if you can convince yourself that a stranger can save you from a 100m fall with a warm fire and chicken soup
You can be lucky. I think in real life there were sometimes people who survived certain death, like even head shots. 🤔
There is a non-zero probability of surviving skydiving parachute failures

Guys check out the stalker game team on instagram they post cool stuff
too fresh, newborn
Bruh
Finally home
Snacks:check
Energy drink: check
Midnight stalker dinner:check
Anomaly: ohhh baby
Got you a winning combo there, Hei
nice
What would tourist delight be in reality? 🤔
Canned
Tushonka
canned rat!
mystery meat
people meat!
||controller|| meat
Probably canned mix of flesh (mutated sheep), dog and rat meat.
Mutated pig btw
imagine being a stalker farmer
cultivating your own mutant vegetables and owning mutant cattle
no faction wars nosense, just living like a hermit in the Zone
Probs just get robbed and murdered by bandits lmfao

Game crashed during quick saving...
Welcome to The Zone, you know what you signed up for the minute you step foot in there ¯_(ツ)_/¯
me when the

Yes
i am doing yes, yes
not bad, not good, just okay
Sorry I missed the conversation regarding which type of food, was too deep in a lab 🥵
And I have roasted chicken, veggies and rice for a midnight stalker dinner 😉
Is it only me that never eats mutant meats in stalker? I always save up a nice sum for healthy canned foods and bread
i only eat bread
you can pick mushroom and eat them in Stalker A.R.E.A holodilnik edition
Does it break the game if you start warfare during story for anomaly?
how can you play both story and warfare modes in one playthrough?
Dunno, I activated it atleast
did you active it by using console?
I just used settings i think
so latest version allows player to active warfare mode in mid game. i didnt try that
Try it out, I am not entirely sure if it works but worth a try 😊
warfare mode is fun early game but it becomes a laggy mess after 2 weeks ingame time
that is my first merc playthrough with only warfare activated
and it's early build of 1.5 version
Late night mercs, at it again
True
It’s mercs or nothing
The trailer was awesome
Ooohhh, I should actuallly investigate the channels
Duty moment
Thanks! I love the emotes too
yeas
what is the advantage of bandit faction in stalker game?
@toxic vapor i'm asking you bandit boy
i never choose to join them in Clear Sky
they are completely low tier when comparing to other factions
Ok but
Wdym advantage
privyet stalkers
you say it privet
Hi 
hi
Will STALKER 2 have any form of multiplayer? Co-op or whatnot. All g if not, keen af for this to come out
if they use Stalker 2 open world map for some battle royale mode, this will be awesome
instead of using circle, mutants go find and kill any players who dont go to safe zone
more like, players behind the zone slowly get braindead like the effect the brain scorcher gives
then they turn into monolith, but they can't control their character
what if AI can shoot like pro? it will make late game a cake walk for any player who just choose a best place to avoid AI
Will STALKER 2 have any form of multiplayer? Co-op or whatnot. All g if not, keen af for this to come out
@delicate citrus That's what I want. An MMORPG. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. online....
what is the advantage of bandit faction in stalker game?
@toxic vector
Plenty of grenades, easy access towards upgrading the SEVA Suit, exotic weapons like the GP37 and the Bulldog-6
Isn't bulldog freedom's gun? 🤔
Players randomly phasing through other players' worlds like ghosts in dark souls, except they can do stuff in those worlds

Dark soul style of multiplayer is also a good idea
it will makes singleplay always fun
someone invade other players 's worlds by accepting a assassin contract from faction leader
The main reason why I want an MMO is because in a single-player game, in 100% of cases, you evolve your character, get the best weapons and armors ALWAYS at the end of the game. That is, you spend the whole game as a noob, and FINALLY when you get a decent character the game is over. Isn't that frustrating?
Imagine chilling in rookie village, when suddenly you get fully geared out guy phase into your cordon and he turns out not to be a nice person too
Not to mention the "end game"; what a sad thing... 😢
Dark souls kind of multiplayer would ruin quicksaves 
MMORPG now!
Piles of empty vodka bottles as bonfires?
Or different bonfires for different factions, big roccs for monolith, flesh corpses for freedom
military?
i mean..they're soldiers and they wouldn't use corpses to make a fire right?
In dark souls 3 there was a cut system of making bonfires out of corpses of hollows 
i wonder if in stalker 2 there might be a coop story mode or something
Idk why military wouldn't make use of dead stalkers
just take the armor off the dead ones 🤷♂️
Relive story of strelok and his friends reaching the center of the zone in coop mode where you step into shoes of strelok, fang, doctor and others!
o-o

i wonder if the zone expanded a bit more in the eastern europe
It is quite possible that it takes place in the future or anytime for all we know
I heard Stalker 2 is a Stand alone game
So it’s not going off the story of the previous ones
So most likely in the future then
Yeah or the same time frame
Just a different perspective
Yea
Well we can only wait till it comes out then steam will be sucking on my wallet
Heard the story is going to be like non linear
Well I trust the words of a fellow merc
Perhaps I’ll see you in the zone stalker
It will be in the same universe as the previous games, so don't worry about that
Yeah
Wait you telling me there is more than one universe
Honestly I played a lot of fallout games and it used to be my favorite apocalyptic universe but stalker has taken me away
It makes sense tho can’t wait till it comes out
Love the Eastern European aesthetics
Wait you telling me there is more than one universe
Some games just love to take the name of a franchise, but then let it take place in a universe where the stuff from the previous games never happened
That's not the case here

Thank god
Yay
we never know the name of savior. the guy who saved Strelok in SHoc
Is going off a ending in the previous game or is it going to be like a reboot
Or just a entire different story
Reboot would pretty much be that what I just mentioned
Ah
So no, I doubt it'll be a reboot
or just make it a prequel of clear sky timeline
It does fall under NDA though, so I can't really say anything about it
Not that I know anything, either
I hope you will be able to choose a faction to play for
Ahh all g man
I wanna be a good old merc
Same I love in anomaly just going out and hunting people down

Even tho it’s a mod
Yea
Telling my console friends about stalker
Ahah facts
People on console have been waiting for a game like this
Glad Microsoft actually got a good taste in games lol
Lmao ahaha
Yeah same I heard a trailer came out but I never realised from where
Honestly stalker seems like it has more hype then halo
Just gonna listen to KINO and travel around The Zone
OK, tried to apply 4GB patch to Winds of time, so I´ll see if it makes the game crash less with A-Life filled levels. Because the mod allways crashes after changing level and when entering to level filled with A-Life and also in console it´s saying that the game makes too much parralax queries. So it´s maybe the mentioned memory leak. 🤔
I hope they put Ecologists as a separated faction...
Been hoping for this for over a year now
I think he means in the server as a role
At least that's what I assumed with my reply
Ah, I support this then.
I have watched the launching info at console and I see that Stalker also works with system folder (Win32). 🤔
Fun fact, that guy works at GSC now
😏
Exploration is must
Exploring Cordon 
ponimaniye 
No swearing chief
😦

Yes a playable one. My favorite faction is Ecos. I'd love to play Ecologist in S2
nice
👍
Joining the military option with there own MIL EXO, they are very interesting.
This week the only thing I've been thinking about constantly is stalker 2
The only thing military deserves is death

I see warning in console "Player not logged in.". 🤔
Hey hey
Hellu lovely stalkers
Worst thing about Anonaly modnis that there is no reason not to play as Mercs
@tall pollen true
Every other faction has lesser gear
Isn´t Stalker anyway about starting with bad gear and eventually finding good one from the other faction members, either dead or alive? 🤔
Stalker is about finding a goddamn shelter and recruit 10 groups to actually survive the zone
Yup, finding a new a suit was and still is the main goal for me
Biggest challenge in late-game (at least for me) in any Stalker game - to be able to move. Due having inventory filled with tons of ammo and other useful items. 
@hazy raven kek
They should definitely remove the cap of 50kg
I'll give you a protip
In OGSE I think you can increase it up to 80 or 100 kg and it still wasn´t enough for me. 
Same here bro
Then just create stashes
Carry some kits, food and water and don't pick up too much ammo.
Just set your "throw weapon" to X key and keep switching weapon everywhere you go
I was thinking about having more weight limitation, like 30 kg
And come back when I am in middle of X18...
Haha
Or from any other zone, to give enemies time to respawn.
I survive by taking dead enemy guns and weapons
broken guns may cause issues tho
Especially Military wearhouse
I try to buy weapons from traders
Jamming. And idk if it´s just OGSE or also in vanilla games, but one time in OGSE broken gun exploded in my hands.
exploded???
Yep. It had 0% durability. (Was completely broken.) Thompson I think (OGSE weapon). I shot with it one time and it exploded in my hands.
I had to use it because I was at early-game and had no other guns, nor
to buy better ones.
did anybody else have the same experience?
I always have an extra clean gun in my inventory
If I run out of firepower, or ammo, I'll use it for necessary occasions
If you have enough space... And aren´t at new game (in OGSE I think you start without weapons, then get only knife, forgot if you get also a pistol, like in vanilla game).
I always have an extra clean gun in my inventory
@glacial quartz either pistol shotgun or the worst, but still useful
Due to the above mentioned reasons by the stalkers weight cap should be increased
Problem was... I had no other guns found already.
Usually 2x glocks or a sniper or even a shotgun
At Winds of Time pistol was useful at early-game weapon against some mutants.
Also probably more powerful than shotgun.
but still shotgun is so useful against mutants
But if you meet mutants with rusty guns or a pistol
Say mother maria and run for your life
Not true, at least in case of COP, knife is very useful. Shotgun is useless, does small damage.
At least against snork - 5 and more shots and it still lives. VS 1-2 hits with knife and it´s dead.
S thunder14 is
5???
Yep. The pump one.
bro dont exaggerate that much
Play vanilla COP or Winds of time for yourself... 
Im sure max 3 shots is required for a snork
Or COC.
Not true... Only in OGSE it works that way and even better. Forgot about vanilla SOC.
I play coc and one shotted many snorks with a shotgun
Then maybe Winds of time messed it up? 🤔
its not hard
Or COC did fix it? 🤔
Though knife combat with Snorks are interesting. You need to avoid their jumps and hits when possible, then strike them with knife.
I use StCop tho
@past shuttle take this into account
a weapon addon, adds lots of guns and they are all polished

much much better than AO 3,1
Though knife combat with Snorks are interesting. You need to avoid their jumps and hits when possible, then strike them with knife.
@hazy raven sometimes i rush to dogs with a knife and try to kill them behind while running
its crazy and fun
mutants dont chase me, I chase mutants

So no more channel for vanilla games, right?
Play vanilla COP or Winds of time for yourself...
@hazy raven #🔩┃trilogy_modifications.
There was a stricter moderation on solely vanilla discussion before.
That was way better.
mutants dont chase me, I chase mutants
@past shuttle
Chasing the chasers
@past shuttle
Chasing the chasers
@solid dome thats right
Damn, made a big mistake when I decided to peek into r/stalker
They are constantly crying about the console port and how it will lead to the game being "unrealistic" and "simplified for casuals"
Like, fren, stalker has always been casual idk what you smoking

Like Zone itself is realistic enough... (Aside of realistic locations of course.) 
I think the console port is good for the franchise overall
But I don’t think they should downgrade any of the mechanics for the casual gamer
Who pinged me?
Who the frick pinged me 

@finite dragon hello.
screw mods amirite


the assault carbine
Yess
Watchu talking about stalker 2 would be a perfect home for Xbox players
I think we will see a revolutionary change amongst Xbox players when they learn of how f good stalker series is
And then we can easily dominate the world ez plan
Or they will complain about the game being drastically too hard for them
50/50 honestly
is not dark souls on consoles?
actually I haven't played any shooters on consoles
idk how that stuff is usually done
Not sure, idk the price nor the specs nor the release date nor the platforms it's being sold on
Not sure, idk the price nor the specs nor the release date nor the platforms it's being sold on
@tired anvil nor the fact that devs actually follow the original storyline and not rewrite half of the game instead
it's like crucial for me
then journalists will come out and whine how there aren't enough <insert minority> or for not addressing <social issue>
or how the game is too hard or how there is too much water
It is stated that there's people from several countries working in the zone (mostly mercs and scientists) so they can ••••• off with their ~not enough diversity~ discourse 
are you guys feel ready...
@past shuttle
I feel I missed the season to shake off the peer tree and make myself Kompot
Waste of good kompot this year
Man, what a brilliant waste
whats the best way to travel across SoC
im running around with a crap ton of stuff to sell to sidrovitch but its takes a while to go back and forth
Best way, keep your inventory light
Under 40 kg I think
If not do what I did. Fill it right at 49.9 and take a long walk
25~30 kg is good enough
Should I feel dumb for having it 49.9?
How much are you carrying?

If you're planning on sell things it's OK
I always fill the backwack with pack, say backpack with lots of useless stuff in case I have to go crazy

it always reaching the limit
i carry 4 guns at a time
shotgun, akm, viper 5, fort 15, and noisless pistol
wait thats 5
I.E I'm going to an important mission that doesn't involve looting bodies (mutant hunt and such) then yeah I carry a little more than the usual
When it comes to missions where I can loot bodies then I carry just some more medical items just in case
oohh
i always have a bunch of artifacts on me but i dont use them because they always give me raditation and i dont know what to do :(((
There is an artifact thay reduces radiation per time very rare thi
@timber flame BRUH
Bubble is one of them
combine them to balance the radiation amount they emit 
wake up, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. We've got a Zone to burn.
whats the best way to travel across SoC
@timber flame four moonlights ofc
You can run even overencumbered.
Bubble and wrenched
i got thorn but i still just carry it 2
You know he's talking about SoC right?
Bubble is CS/CoP exclusive artifact.
And Wrenched GIVES rad in SoC instead of removing it.
Oh noooo
Just equip all the radiation and chug antirads evrry 5mins like a proper mutant
I can't walk 5 minutes without a squad of bandits pulling up on me
can anyone help me
What are the default settings for brightness contrast saturation that stuff in anomaly 1.5?
k
SoC has unusual artefacts
im running around with a crap ton of stuff to sell to sidrovitch but its takes a while to go back and forth
It would be nice to have a mutant-drawn wagon, Oregon Trail style
thank you!
No one:
Absolutely none:
GSC GAME WORLD: Stalker 2 Official Trailer
Fans: WHAT ?, HOW, WHY ?, WHAT IS HAPPENING ?!
Meanwhile, somewhere in the north:
Strelok: "You have no idea where I was and what I saw there" hands Grigorovich ready-made discs with stalkers 2, 3, 4, 5.
Grigorovich: what are you doing, beast, how and where from ?!
Tfw fans knew about Stalker 2 back in 2018 
Mfw people think a AAA game is going to get canceled because of development hell
GSC publishing
There will be no development hell, in fact I believe development is almost finished
@shrewd dagger looking at you
I feel like Stalker 2 will be like the Anomaly, and call of Chernobyl mods in terms of sandbox gameplay, but with a lot of story.
not even close in my opinion
What is your opinion?
It won’t be comparable at all to CoC or anomaly
It will far exceed the limits of those mods

in terms of sandbox
That sounds even better
Well think about it, it’s a triple A game with a huge open world
Yeah I know. Just saying the gameplay will be similar
Not a collection of maps put together by someone with a bit of experience
Yeah they will all be one map
It will far exceed the limits of those mods
@still ridge anything can exceed the limits of mods that suck though.
Maybe some new areas. Highly likely
No mod has topped vanilla games for me and none ever will.
I wonder what the gun physics and ballistics will be like.
Really hope they don't get into the whole realism thing and use mirrored models instead.
It wouls suck if they actually waste their money on licenses and we get some LR300 instead of iconic TRs-301.
Do they really need to get a license to use the names of most weapons
They need to alter it somehow. Either the visuals or names. THQ decided to play it safe and went with both.
does it even matter ?
Yeah it does.
original names or not it doesnt for me that much
yeah doesn’t bother me
Immersion purposes it would matter but other than that its fine
I mean, the gun is called one name in one game and another name in another. This kind of inconsistency suck.
thats your concern
It's basically rewriting the universe.
bruh
no it isn’t lmao
Oh, I have a lot of concerns. There are so many details that are so easily skipped in vanilla games. Like Monolith being neutral until 2011.
If nu-GSC writers don't actually read dialogues, then there will be a whole lot of inconsistencies with vanilla games.
They were just busy worshiping
asdsdaasd
Monolith was neutral until 2011 for a reason
kek
Really hope they don't get into the whole realism thing and use mirrored models instead.
@sturdy jolt mirrored models ???
Before they were a regular faction that didn't mess with your if you didn't mess with them
@sturdy jolt mirrored models ???
@past shuttle yeah just like in STALKER 1.
what do you mean by mirrored models ?
Have you played the game?
copied models you mean ?
I think there will be mirrored models. There's those sunrise suits in the trailer
Im not sure what you are talking about
I mean they are mirrored. What should be on the left side is on the right.
oh i get it now
That was THQ's way to avoid licensing issues.
Before they were a regular faction that didn't mess with your if you didn't mess with them
@tired anvil yep. Then the whole zombifying thing, trip to the center and then shooting neutral stalkers.
What I mean is it's so easy that someone accidentally mentions that the faction was hostile from the beginning (bc gamedesigners did not read the lore), and here is another inconsistency in the game.
I thought by mirrored you meant like there are other stalkers who look the same
And that's just one thing. There are hundreds of these!
Oh yeah
well
To end up being 100% consistent and to not ret-con anything is a bit of a challenge
a long time period has passed @sturdy jolt
I wish GSC hired a bunch of purists to check their desdocs for inconsistencies.
maybe we wont see most of them again ?
Why do you think the game will be set in a long time period from CoP?
I meant for real life bruh
Because the anomalies look thiccer
cop was made in 2009, it has been 11 years
Won't see most of WHOM again then?
Yeah so? Game still in the same universe
cant they fix some bugs and errors ?
What errors?
These aren't bugs
These are messages in the lore lol
Orest is saying that GSC needs to be careful with the lore
To not mess up the games universe
Hey gajunas wanna see my boar map.
It's not a suggestion lmao, it's literally telling the company to either be careful and follow the lore of the original games or screw everything up
It's already obvious enough
have fun bois
Cya
Literally every boar on Swamps. There is also one point where a sound is played but no boar spawns.
Nah nah nah. These are random encounters boars.
Like, I did not include the respawn points or stuff like that.
Because, first of all, the mutant type is random, second of all, these boars are in squads.
These are the boars that roar and jumpscare you from the reeds.
Not the ones that just run around the smart terrains.
Do you have several maps like this that are based around anything or just this one
I am making smart terrain maps that show squad movement.
But they're not finished.
And names are in Russian because I made them for Russian wiki.
A map of semi-major characters sounds neat
I love doing maps of things you can only get from analyzing game files.
Semi-major characters are nice but it can be done by anyone.
Yeah fair enough
Smart terrain links maps require you to understand what you're doing and know your way in game files.
I like maps as a whole
I've also started artifact respawn maps for CS but I accidentally deleted them during a clean up.
Rip.
Ok, back to smart terrains. I have to find them.
Hf with that
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/3/38/Marsh_smart_terrain_map.png/revision/latest?cb=20200726032721&path-prefix=ru (Swamps)
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/9/94/Red_forest_smart_terrain_map.png/revision/latest?cb=20200716124926&path-prefix=ru (RF)
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stalker/images/d/d2/Limansk_smart_terrain_map.png/revision/latest?cb=20200717194420&path-prefix=ru (Limansk)
Hopefully Degtyarev's gang
Ah yes Major D
Color represent smart terrain type. Blue links are one way travel, red links are both way travel.
@tired anvil do you play vanilla like a lot? It's rare that I can keep up a vanilla discussion bc most people just rush through vanilla games and go play mods.
what I mean is acting like a supervisor to our main character
I prefer vanilla over mods
kind of like sid in SoC
So does Comrade Crimson
what I mean is acting like a supervisor to our main character
Idc how he appears, even as a mention he would be cool
You two are very cool to talk to, keep it up.
Still hoping the most for Strider though
Idk about protag, but sorta like a major character
considering he already has an established goal and motivations for that goal
Like if he discovered something whilst exploring the Zone with his boys
Wolf protagonist. The ending is burning in a campfire.

Fan fact: Strider's face was in the leaked S2 (2011) models.
Was it
Yeah. Let me link.
I don’t recall
I've heard plenty of things about the old s2 but I've never heard of that
Pavel Streletskiy is Strelok's real name.
Visions is a better word
I remember because of DKUDs fan trailer which was based off the original script
It's 2011 concept. 2010 concept is another (unnamed character) and Strelok is side character.
You mix up the two.
Meh
Lukash is a snake
You get blamed for the death of Strelok and run for a good amount of the game
Also map was different
Proof duty is better 
Proof that Duty is garbage is the fact that you left it
Yeah that’s the one with pavel isn’t it
@still ridge nope.
Pavel IS Strelok in 2010 concept where he's a side character.
So I guess DKUD’s fan trailer was a mix of the two
Then koan came, rewrote everything. Not much is known about 2011 concept apart from the fact that you play as Strelok.
Idk much about the 2nd concept tbh, it's a lot shorter isn't it
Not sure if I would want to play as Strelok again tbh

Yeah. He's too much of a main character even in games where he's an NPC.
True that
Imo he can be shown/return just to be in all 4 games but other than that meh
Strelok as Ecologist leader 
Wasn't he half scientist in the old s2
he was working for the institute I think
@sturdy jolt I believe you’re mistaken
in the script, the main character is NOT strelok
Now find the other script
since you said the only script that was leaked was the first one
When in fact, strelok dies in the first one
He mentioned the concept art not being leaked
2 scripts exist, only 1 is properly leaked though, which is the one where Strelok dies
An anomaly materializes in his office and he gets poop scooped
Wasn’t that one a clone anyway?
Or was that idea scrapped in the script
Idk if it was ever a legitimate plot point that strelok was a clone and the original strelok was a member of ccon
Idk honestly
I hope not
I think it was that strelok is CoP is a clone
but since that script got scrapped and the new one is entirely different, he won’t be
thankfully
twin mutant?
Like one that steals your identity
Would be interesting
would be cool if it lost its appearance once killed
And it would look like some poltergeist controller burer mashup
Maybe cool, but imo that would just mess with me too much if the mutant could legit talk
Well
myes doppelganger, it automatically gets access to your brain 
Yeah but like imagine full on helping an NPC, then in some battle he starts spraying at you because he's the mutant
man that would suck, being self aware that you’re a hideous abomination
Burer's are probably self aware as well tbh
The one in CoP is the only “neutral” controller
I wonder if it was aware of what it was doing and couldn’t stop itself
considering it warned colonel D
Maybe that’s what it is
Recognized that he just killed his homie from a while ago, and was grieving
And regained humanity somewhat
That's nice and all, but pet pseudo-dogs 
Oops
Kek
About that controller at Zaton warning protagonist, I wonder if they can control their psy-aura or not. 🤔
But yep, only case of a controller who doesn´t want to kill player instantly (warns him to stay away). But he has corpse of stalker in his lair.
yeah I think he regained his humanity after realizing what he did
I remember reading rumours that in COP in Pripyat there is friendly blood sucker, but that it´s a bug.
Controllers also eat people by the way, I think in COC one time controller killed me and I didn´t press space instantly, he started eating my corpse.
In SoC a Bloodsucker can have the status of friend
Lol
All mutants can if you loot their corpses.
But that´s a bug and it´s caused if you interacted before with neutral/friendly NPC.
It´s tempting to instead of playing start new game in COC/Anomaly, go into demo mode and just watch what A-Life does, both stalkers and mutants. 🤔
Speaking of Keymanov'd, it was interesting to see them mf's alive in the jar
Gives me the feeling that they will be the annoying screeching type of mutant
They’re definitely not inanimate like in SoC
but idk if they’re hostile and will attack
Pretty sure they are inanimate
Although maybe a scripted thing where one shatters and attacks you
That is basically what I expect just with loads of them
Someone does an oopsie in the lab and they break off
man that would be weak
I hope not
if it was just one, it would increase the sense of fear of what’s to come with the rest of the lab
Probably more than one, though if it was one, that would give more space to lore on that specific one
Perhaps a specific girl that didn't listen to her parents, fell in love with a Moscow lad and somehow turned into a mutant 
OMG RACIST!!!!
Hopefully the 2nd trailer/nearest s2 related thing shows more about the mutants
Kek
Forgot and remembered
Though, in case the poem was put there for PR reasons, that was smart
Well, it’s more so that I’m intoxicated
Since it got on the news
Think so yeah
that would make sense, if it got on russian news people would not be happy
Either Ukrainian or Russian, but I believe someone stated it was Ukrainian
S2 is already making news before it's out, that's how good it is 

On the topic of mutants, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plenty of new mutants to come
At the same time I won't be surprised if it's only like 3 new ones
Yeah
Maybe it’s just that in X-ray the mutant models are kinda wack
And on ue4 they’re gonna look so much better
4K Flesh

Seriously though, genuinely curious what they will come up for the mutants and if it's going to be any fun or just annoying
Crows 
man i hope they don't go for the annoying ones
i'd honestly prefer some 1hit stuff rather than the usual annoying mutants

Mf when I tab out, go do smth, miss 1 sentence and Crimson declares chat dead as I'm writing smth to his idea
I’m kinda iffy on the idea of a flying mutant
Same tbh
Man I been here
Thinking of what to say
Acid spitter from l4d2
Hostile flying mutants are the issue. They spit acid or smth
Yikes
nah I’ll pass
Tark probably gonna return 

Yikes
Water mutants?
Honestly what other mutants were made for the competition
Tark is alright, honestly. It would be the same as a boar but bigger, still better than some izlom or w/e
like a catfish
Catfish is a no for me
How are we going to do anything underwater, though?
Catfish hunt close to the shore
re4 Del Lago in Pripyat river
They could leap out at you if you were at the coast
Catfish hunt close to the shore
Spore Moment
we already had a catfish in Metro
maybe amphibious mutants are better
Or just no water-based mutants
mutant frog anyone?
Fallout
Fallout moment
Rad Scorpion 
if its manipulation stuff are actually implemented, it would be quite interesting
it was supposed to have telekinesis?
Nah, if it's well done it will be way better than snork
mm snorks
Yikes
Not if it’s a psychic mutant
Burer
Sounds good
Let's add a 360 No Scope mutant
snorks are honestly wack. Some guys got insane ammounts of radiation underground and now they can jump like cats
^
And all of them look the same somehow
they got gamma’d by the thing that made hulk
Karlito



no just implement them differently
so they don’t look identical 100 percent of the time
And move differently
I doubt they won't be reworked
sadly, we can't erase history, snorks are here to stay 
Also not to mention not sounding like a lion
Tell that to Clear Sky
Sounds like you're sad that they exist
Got erased quite fast
chimeras
Cats
maybe a new mutant with super strength similar to the pseudogiant and chimera
Sounds like you still want Izlom
non-hostile mutants would be nice as well. Not every dog, boar, flesh, has to attack 100% of the times
Definitely
Though I think that is just bias from us not wanting to fight all the time
What about the misery flesh
Chernobyl puppies sometimes are neutral, or jerboas, wouldn't be too crazy
The one that actually looks like a pig
Misery flesh kinda wack
Chernobyl cats straight chillin
Chernobyl puppies were pretty nice before they got shot


In s2 Inquisitor made a zoo in the Zone, absolute madman
in the script, the main character is NOT strelok
@still ridge you're reading 2010 script.
There has been NO LEAKS of 2011 script (authored by koan).
Imo he can be shown/return just to be in all 4 games but other than that meh
@tired anvil nah but Nimble should return. He's like essential for the game.
I'll say it again, i feel like Nimble is gonna get killed
This is why you can see Valerian like 3 times
@tired anvil first, you see him twice. Second, it's an easter egg by Red Forest level designer, Pyotr Dushinsky. He told that in an interview. Not a canonical plot thing, just a neat little detail.
There are also two Boltin corpses in CS Cordon but it's more of an oversight. They were supposed to be used for early upgrade quests.
None of these are twins or anything like that. It's scrapped idea.
Interesting
In SoC a Bloodsucker can have the status of friend
@tired anvil any mutant can have a status of a friend. It's a UI bug. It shows the relationship of the last corpse you checked out.
bloodsuckers are more annoying than that one mosquito buzzing right next to your ear while trying to sleep imo
I disagree personally
any new stalker 2 news since trailer?
Not really no
damn, i hope they release some news pretty soon.
Why is there even ask-gsc.
Like. They don't answer any questions. Even the ones not related to S2.
Ok show me a question they did answer that actually provided new info.
And not someone asking about something that's been stated for a year now.
Is that the channel for questions like 'heya is it true that trailer has been released'
After the trailer they answer more questions than before
Ok show me a question they did answer that actually provided new info.
Scroll around the channel, they answered stuff related to lore from the previous games. Not much from s2, obviously
Has anyone asked them how much of the game they've finished?
See no offense but this is what Slyth means by wack questions
First of all, a lot of have, and second this is just obvious NDA
This was even asked in an interview back in 2019, they mentioned that they don't measure by percentage I believe
^2019 answer
Non-hostile mutants (as mentioned above) would make sense in case that they aren´t hungry and player doesn´t enter their territory or they don´t see player as a threat. Unless of course Zone also uses them as self-defense mechanism, where the mutants just must attack stalkers because Zone commands them to do so.
Also idk if it was just luck and if it´s also in vanilla A-Life, but I remember when I was starting in OGSE, there were some mutated dogs running around, not attacking me. Though as it was first part of the mod where I didn´t have any weapons, it could also be scripted. 🤔
Also from GSC I have seen Tapik talk with people at #504592667716354048 . Otherwise, idk.
Tapik has, Orcher has, Benjamin has
They are occupied on other social medias
I'd say Rock_4 and Fenec are your best bets for here
Though once in a while others speak here even without any questions, just a casual short convo
I'm confused by the NDA thing. I take it the mods here aren't official GSC employees working at the office getting paid etc? Because if you were a community manager/PR team working at the office you could simply be briefed on what you can and cannot reveal about the game, or would just know anyway being an employee. In that case I take it you guys are simply volunteers?

Scroll around the channel, they answered stuff related to lore from the previous games. Not much from s2, obviously
@grand pendant man just give me one example.
Confirmation on how the Screen Helmet works
Crimson asking about beanies was one I believe
Animations from the game
Minor/basic things
No swearing
Sure.
So idk if it's your reliable lore source. 👍
Who cares
Also he said that GSC no longer has bildos lol.
Which is a lie as well. Easy to prove.
He said what's out is out, and that they don't have more
Yeah, and that's lies.
GSC recently released pre1.0007 patch on Steam. It's based on patch 1.0006.
The thing is, patch 1.0006 sources have never been leaked. The only stuff you can find for SoC is 1.0007RC1.
Nah that was before.
You can read on Zone Chronicles about it. It's Build 7461.
The main difference is crash fix from eating food from corpses. Launch pre1.0007 and you'll see that the bug is still there.
Which means that GSC still got unleaked engine versions. And it's very unlikely that they just have that one 1.0006 version, they likely have the whole commit history.
So yeah, there sure is some unleaked stuff. The amount of it might depend though.
Also gotta take into consideration that Rock ain't a dev
Probably, who knows
So he might not know 100% everything about the dev process
Especially old stuff
Someone can just give him a basic answer and he could go with it
Rock ain't a dev but he answers most questions, and he answered them wrong at least twice, so what I mean is that he's not your best reliable source in terms of lore - in-game dialogues are.
Him and Fenec, though Rock answers the most here
What did he say about Screen Helmet?
You're going to have to take this one Slyth
Or try your chances with ctrl+f in the channel
He said "Zaslon is a part of closed-cycle system, but this system works only with full set of special equipment."
Meaning it could be used with the Guardian of Freedom, if you upgrade it with the Expanse Anomalous Protection Bodysuit
That sounds pretty logical and I am relatively sure it's just stating the most logical assumptation.
I'll see what's in dialogues.
Indeed, but it is a confirmation
Confirmation by a PR?
Basically
IDK. It weighs too little to come with a whole set of tubes and that system that SEVA has.
4kg? Makes little sense.

So yeah, I'd say it's just stating an opinion and trying to mend plotholes.
Most likely
Only s2 will tell us more I guess
Why GSC created #📜┃s2_suggestions ? Im just thinking that they are out of ideas
So they are asking to community?
It was more so a way for the community to show what they would possibly want
Been there since the start tho
I honestly doubt they were out of ideas, lot of ground to cover
But in community we have kids and old skulls
Something being suggested doesn't mean GSC will add it
It was more so a way for the community to show what they would possibly want
I see

@tired anvil found another example of Rock_4 making up things.
CS-2 suit. No official name in-game. It's just sorta fan made.
It could as well be CS-3b, you know.
Mind sending a screenshot? I remember this topic but I don't remember his exact answer
I think it still ended controversially
I can't send screenshots yet.
Search for 'this is CS-2'. A pic is a render from STALKER Wiki.
In early versions of soc viper used hk-53 icon
Idk he probably mixes up early versions (i.e. unpatched game) with builds but still.
Viper 5 had the same icon from 1.0000 to 1.0006. Its upgraded variation (9x18) always used HK-53 icon.
Ok, crap answer #5:
non stop was only at soc
He clearly did not play SoC with any other localization. Non-Stop texture applies with localization db-file, by default it STALKER in all games.
You can't really post screenshots here, message links should work though
But yeah I'll try
Also yeah, he hasn't played English SoC
I remember asking about C-Con and he thought it was Comic Con
Though I can't blame him
Why would he play it in English
I am Russian. I played it in French and Spanish. I don't even damn know French and Spanish.
So yeah, just out of pure love for the trilogy.
Congrats



It's not STALKER if you understand the idle conversations NPC's are having
@sturdy jolt
Say, you don't have any advice for a foreigner to understand the Russian Grammar cases, do you?
Hey. i'm really new to STALKER, and have only played a little of shadow of chernobyl. i have a loose yet i'd say good grasp of the story. is there anything i should know before entering the masterpiece of STALKER 2 whenever it's released?
We don't know yet
Might be tailored to explain old info to newcomers, might even act as a soft reboot
Hey. i'm really new to STALKER, and have only played a little of shadow of chernobyl. i have a loose yet i'd say good grasp of the story. is there anything i should know before entering the masterpiece of STALKER 2 whenever it's released?
We don't know anything 'bout that. Is that a sequel or whatever.
You should download the thousands of mods in moddb, and play the rest of the two games
If you want
ok, thanks
Clear sky is a must before stalker 2 especially competing in faction wars for good suit and weapons
@sturdy jolt
Say, you don't have any advice for a foreigner to understand the Russian Grammar cases, do you?
@native ibex not really. I had to learn English for years to understand articles since they're missing in my language, and I still do mess that up sometimes.
Guess I just gotta read some books
Does anyone have the strelok smiling emoji as an image
can always get it from the endings @carmine pivot
Got it thanks! @sullen dragon
I'm not completely up to date with everything about this game, but will this follow the story from the previous games, or will it follow it's own timeline?
I'm not completely up to date with everything about this game, but will this follow the story from the previous games, or will it follow it's own timeline?
@jade mural GSC comment:
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 IS A STANDALONE PROJECT THAT CAN BE ENJOYED ON ITS OWN. AT THE SAME TIME, WE RECOMMEND TO COMPLETE THE PREVIOUS GAMES FOR THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF IMMERSION."
the suggestions presented to devs are amazing ideas
I really expect cool stuff to come out
Im sure we will all like Stalker 2
I really want it to be multiplayer
Yes
@shrewd fulcrum thank you, I just read in the suggestions section that people don't wanna play Degtyarev, Strelok and Scar.. And considering it takes place in Pripyat still, I was just curious about how they'd proceed with everything.. Adding new content and all that, and if it would keep up with the lore from the prior games
Sorry if that was terribly structured
What I really want in Stalker 2 is coop, so me and my buddy can walk around, and get our blood sucked
What I really want in Stalker 2 is coop, so me and my buddy can walk around, and get our blood sucked
@jade mural Yes, that'd what I want too..
Yes... And it'd be awesome...
Will stalker 2 have ray tracing? I'm wondering if I should upgrade my graphics card in order to experience it the best way possible.
Man, stalker 2 has been on my mind and there isn't even gameplay yet.
it does
it was confirmd by xbox on their stalker 2 site
ANUUU CHEEKI BREEKI
ok
@jade mural Yes, that'd what I want too..
@shrewd fulcrum
I'd drain my blood first, leave enough to live to see bloodsuckers drinking it then pass out
Sounds like the perfect Ironman coop session
Your buddy goes to shop medkits, comes back and sees bloodsuckers cheering with bottles in hand, all over in blood - your corpse not far away
Will stalker 2 have ray tracing? I'm wondering if I should upgrade my graphics card in order to experience it the best way possible.
Man, stalker 2 has been on my mind and there isn't even gameplay yet.
@mild owl
Ray tracing doesnt make a game.
Scary meme
I hope they have new mutants too... Even more scary than the old ones.
Ya maslinu poimal

Oh boy
Well it wouldn’t make sense to have different mutants
It’s still in the same universe as the previous games just a different time stamp
New mutants and maybe factions would be nice though. Also the zone could change when not controlled by C-Con for longer time.
One boar managed to kill three loners...
I'd be screwed if stalker 2 came out and I still have my old laptop from 2010...
I need to git gud at something and then get some moolah 
Facts
Well I’d imagine if it can run on an x box one x like they claim you wouldn’t need an over the top rig
One can like a game and not know every little detail about it
And as you can see I’m a merc I don’t care about much besides the money I get
it doesnt look like it'll have ray tracing
from the trailer i thought the graphics would be a little something like the telltale graphics but a little better
Yeah well it can run on current consoles so it’s gonna be optimised hopefully
But I feel if it looks to good it makes it feel like it’s not a game anymore

Upgrading of my equipment bled my
dry.
Also at least Ecologic suit one upgrade grants + 10 kg more weight space.
Lmao
Be in misery, and spend 30 minutes walking to get isntantkilled by a random snork
Reminds me SOC experience, but instead being one-shotted by some enemy stalker suddenly.
Im sure we will all like Stalker 2
@past shuttle you know that it's impossible.
There are pure vanilla lovers and anomaly fanboys with absolutely radically different opinion on how the game should look.
I won't like it if they decide to change gun looks and names from the original trilogy.
And some gun nerds won't like if they don't.
There are pure vanilla lovers and anomaly fanboys with absolutely radically different opinion on how the game should look.
We can easily see which one you are from this sentence
wanna see my boar map again
I'd love to

Also at least Ecologic suit one upgrade grants + 10 kg more weight space.
@hazy raven there is no upgrade system in SoC and no ecologic suit in CS/CoP unless you talk about SEVA.
I am talking about COP and yes, there is.
You even need to get it in order to get to Pripyat underground, even when you already have exosuit.
that's seva
Yep.
They are not worn by ecologists.
They are sold by them though.
Ecologists wear SSP-99 and SSP-99M.
You can see them in CoP but inly on NPCs. Sokolov, Serbin and Barchuk.
Also they're seen in Yantar bunker in CS. But anyway, they're not obtainable and thus not upgradeable.
Also the last two guys aren't ecologists. They are mercs
As if Sokolov is an ecologist, yeah.
There is a bandit who wears Sunrise suit. Does that make Sunrise not a stalker suit anymore or what?
a bandit?
Yes.

